VOCAB for Text Analysis

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accumulation

Akkumulation, Worthäufung

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Act

Akt

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Action

Handlung

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Ad /advert

Anzeige, Werbung

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Allusion

Anspielung

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Alternate rhyme

Kreuzreim,Wechselreim

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Analogy

Extended comparison in which something is compared to something else that is quite different from it

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Anaphora

Anapher

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Anticipation

Vorwegnahme,Vorrausdeutung

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Antithesis

Antithese

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Article

Artikel

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Assonance

Repetition of the same vowel sound in neighbouring words

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Blurb

Umschlagtext, Klappentext

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Byline

Verfasserangabe

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Animated cartoon

Zeichentrickfilm

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Characterization

Figurencharakterisierung

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Cliffhanger

Offene sEnde

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Column

Kolumne

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Climax

Klimax, Höhepunkt

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Comedy

Komödie, Lustspiel

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Coming-of-age story

Bildungsroman, Entwicklungsgeschichte, Initiationsgeschichte

—> depicts protagonists development from being a child or adolescent to becoming an adult

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Commercial

—> commercial television

Werbespot

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Concrete poem

Konkrete Poesie

—> poetry in which the printed words form a shape or picture, often related to theme/topic

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(To) resolve a conflict

Einen Streit lösen/schlichten

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Connotation

Nebenbedeutung eines Wortes bzw. Assoziationen

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Contrast

Gegensatz

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V contrast

Kontrastieren

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Couplet

Paarreim, Reimpaar

—> two successive lines that rhyme

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Denotation

Sachbedeutung eines Wortes

—> literal meaning

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Denouement / solution

Auflösung eines Plots, Konflikts

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Diction

Ausdruck, Wortwahl

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Direct address

Direkte Anrede

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Direct characterization, explicit characterization

Method of character development in which the author reveals traits about a character in a direct and straightforward manner

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Dramatic irony

When the reader or spectator knows more than the characters of the plot

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Dramatist / playwright

Dramatist

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Dystopia

Fictional text dealing with an unpleasant imaginary society or world

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Editorial

Leitartikel

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Emotive language

Gefühlsbetonte Sprache

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Emphasis

Betonung

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Enjambement

Übergreifen des Satzes in den nächsten Vers, Zeilensprung

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Enumeration

Aufzählung

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Epilogue

Epilog, Nachwort, Nachspiel

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Exaggeration

Übertreibung

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Exposition

Introduction of the characters, theme, setting etc. in a literary text

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External action

Äußere Handlung

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Fable

Short narrative with a distinct moral lesson, often involves animal or objects as protagonists

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Falling Action

Fallende Handlung

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Feature Film, full length motion picture

Spielfilm

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Feature story

Zeitungsreportage

—> concentrates on a person or group of people one can identify with

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First-person-narrator

Ich-Erzähler

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Flashback

Rückblick, Rückblende

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Flash fiction / microfiction

Kürzestgeschichte(n)

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Flat charactes

Flacher, zweidimensionaler und sich wenig entwickelnder Charakter

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Foot

Versfuss (Poesie)

—> unit of rhyme in a line of poetry containing one stressed syllable and one or more syllables without stress

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Foreshadowing

Vorahnung, Andeutung

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Features of formal writing

Longer sentences, complex vocabulary, lack of contradictions, consistently serious tone, substantial subject matter

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Frame story

Rahmenhandlung

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Free verse

Freier vers

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Genre

Gattung

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Humor/Humour

Humoristischer text

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Hyperbole

Hyperbel, Übertreibung

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Iambic pentameter

Jambischem Fünfheber

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Image

Bild, Vorstellung

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Imagery

Bildhafte Sprache, Metaphorik

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Indirect/implicit characterization

Indirekte Charakterisierung basieren auf Handlung oder Sprache

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Interior monologue

Innerer Monolog

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Internal action

Innere Handlung

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Juxtaposition

Gegenüberstellung

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Layout

Visueller Aufbau

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Letter to the editor

Leserbrief

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Limited point of view

Eingeschränkte Erzählperspektive

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Metaphor

Bildliche Wendung

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Metre (BE) meter (AE)

Metrum

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Mode of presentation

Darstellungsart

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Motif

Leitgedanke

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Narrative (prose)

Erzähl- / Prosatext

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Narrator

Erzähler

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News item

(Zeitungs-)nachricht

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News report / news story

Zeitungsbericht

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Non fictional texts

Sachtexte

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Novel

Roman

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Omniscient narrator

Allwissender Erzähler

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Onomatopoeia

Lautmalerei

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Panomaric presentation

Überblicksartige / zusammenfassende Darstellung

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Play

Stück, Schauspiel

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Plot

Handlung

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Point of view

Standpunkt, Erzählperspektive

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Props

Requisiten

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Pun

Wortspiel

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Quatrain

Vierzeiler

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Register

Stilebene

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Reliable narrator

Zuverlässiger/glaubwürdiger Erzähler

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Reportet thought

Erlebte Rede

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Resolution

Auflösung

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Rhetorical device

Rhetorisches Mittel, Stilmittel

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Rhetorical question

Rhetorische Frage

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Rhyme scheme

Reimschema

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Rising action

Steigende Handlung

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Round character

Runder, sich verändernder Character

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Run-on line

Enjabement, Zeilensprung

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