- Anaphora - repetition. Repeating words at the beginnings of neighboring clauses.
- Antistrophe - repetition. Repeating the same words or words at the end of successive phrases/clauses/sentences.
- Anadiplosis - repetition. Repeating a word or phrase at then end of one clause and the beginning of the next.
- Diacope -repetition. Repeating words with a phrase or word in between.
- Epizeuxis - repetition. Repeating words in immediate succession.
- Polysyndeton - repetition. Repeating conjunctions in a series of clauses.
- Alliteration - repetition. Repeating of initial sounds, usually consonants.
- Assonance - repetition. Repeating vowel sounds repeated in successive or proximate words containing different consonants.
- Consonance - repetition. Repeating of consonants or consonant patters.
- Antithesis - parallelism. Establishing a clear, contrasting relationship between two ideas by joining them together or juxtaposing them in parallel structure.
- Anastrophe - inversion. a figure of speech involving the inversion of the ordinary Western order of words.
- Chiasmus - inversion. two or more clauses are related to each other through a reversal of structures in order to make a larger point - do not repeat the same words but inverts sentence's grammatical structure or idea.
- Antimetabole - inversion. the repetition of words in successive clauses but in transposed grammatical order.
Novel and Novella
- Novella - a work of prose fiction that is longer than a short story, but shorter than a novel. Your standard novella is prolly about 12,000-30,000 words. So Heart of Darkness..
- Novel - Fiction. Lots of different styles of structure but must contain a narrative. And obviously they're longer than novellas.
Dante
- Dante's Divine Comedy is written in terza rima. Dante travels through hell, purgatory to reach heaven. Vergil guides him through hell and purgatory but, being a pagan is not allowed into heaven. There are different circles for different types of sins. Purgatory consists of seven for the seven deadly sins.
- We read and annotated it (to the best of our abilities....)
- It's a frame narrative, allusion's to circles of hell, and we'll discuss more in class
Once again, great detailed concise notes! PASS.
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