Unidad 1 y 2 VOCAB

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