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Acotación
In text stage direction
Aliteración
Repetition of the same sound (claros clarines)
Ambiente
Escena como naturaleza o atmósfera emocional
Ambigüedad
Two interpretations of the same story
Anafora
Repetition of words (me quieres…,me quieres…)
Antihéroe
Main character but doesn’t have hero qualities
Antítesis
Juxtaposition
Aparte
When a character talks to the audience or to themselves, other characters don’t hear
Apóstrofe
Speaker addresses a present/ absent person/ object/ being
Arquetipo
Pattern or plot that isn’t original, very popular kind of like orphan boy Harry Potter plot
Arte Mayor
More than 8 metric syllables in a verse
Arte Menor
8 or less metric syllables in a verse
Asíndeton
Basically a list (live, laugh, love)
Asonancia
Rhyme
Atmósfera
Emotional atmosphere
Barroco
Cultural Spanish movement 1600s - 1700s complexity, ornamentation, bizzarre
Boom
Increase in latin American literature of which become bestsellers, realismo mágico
Cacofonía
Combination of sounds that results in no rhythm (tres tristes tigres)
Catarsis
Release/ purification of emotion
Comedia del siglo de oro
During this time, comedy was any kind of play
Consonancia
Rhyme
Chromatismo
Use of color symbolism
Culteranismo
Literary style, metaphors, cultisms, complexity
Desdoblamiento
Two personalities in one person
Desenlace
Resolution/ ending
Didáctico
Educational, there’s a moral
Edad Media
Siglos V to XV (5-15?)
Encabalgamiento
Run- on sentence to make it flow more poetically
Épico/ Epopeya
Epic poem, recounts historical or legendary tales
Exposición
presentation of situation, setting scene of story
Guión
Script
Hiperbaton
Inversion of normal sentences think Yoda
In Medias Res
Starts storyline in the middle of story
Licencia poética
Freedom to depart from facts to create effect
Métrica
Poem structure using syllables
Naturalismo
3rd person, bad parts of life, human existence controlled by outside forces
Oximoron
Type of juxtaposition
Parlamento
Speech
Pathos
Allows reader to identify with character
Pleonasmo
Add unnecessary words to emphasize
Polisindeton
Opposite of asindeton, repetition of words like and
Postmodernismo
Questions philosophy - second half of XX
Prolepsis
Flash forward/ foreshadowing
Prosa
Everything that is literature, except for poems
Realismo
Daily life, no sugar coating
Realismo Mágico
Dreams, magic, superstition, myths
Redondilla
Stanza of 4 lines, alternate rhyming (ABBA)
Retruecano
Play of words, reorganizing them to change meaning
Romanticismo
Themes of love, nature, and emotion
Siglo de oro
Perfect language, many masterpieces created
Sátira
Ridicules, criticizes
Sinalefa
When it counts as a syllable between two parts of words with vowels (ex: en frente el)
Sinestesia
Using senses to describe objects
Soliloquio
One character speaking but towards the audience, sharing their thoughts
Vanguardismo
Breaking literary traditions, liberty of expression
Monólogo
Long speech given by a character, can be directed towards another character
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