21st Century Literature || Midterm

Milieu

writer's background

Affective

relating to the emotions

Mimetic

Imitation from reality

Expressive

writer's milieu

Objective

standards in writing

Foreshadowing

hinting the future

Flashback

starting to a past event

In Media Res

starts in the middle of the story

Stream of Conciousness

uninterrupted thoughts of the author

Deconstruction

changing of text

Local Color

-milieu of the writer

-regionalistic literature

Hyperbole

exaggeration

Oxymoron

contradiction of words

Simile

use like or as

Metaphor

comparison not using like or as

Personification

giving human qualities to an object

Alliteration

repetition of consonant sounds

Irony

contrast between expectation and reality

Euphemism

polite expression

Metonymy

substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it

Apostrophe

address to an absent or imaginary person

Paradox

statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.

Plot

sequence of events in a story

Aristotelian

-literary arrangement

-freytag's triangle

Brechtian

-no arrangement

Poetic License

freedom of the writer to write poems

Zazuela

spanish play about politics

Oral Tradition

oldest form of literature

Principle of Redundancy

strategy until you understand everything

Magic Realism

combination of reality and fantasy

Persona

imaginary talker

Sandra Nichole Roldan

Safe House writer

Merlinda L. Bobis

Banana Heart Summer writer