Adv Lit Terms & Satire

Anachronism - Something out of its natural order in time

Archetype - Universal pattern

Buldongsroman - coming of age story

Catharsis - Feeling of emptiness edging on bliss fom being so invested in a story that when tragedy strikes, you are relieved

Dynamic Character - Character who changes

Static Character - Character doesnt change

Epistolar - story told through written correspondences

Exposition - explaining setting/background

Hubris - Excessive pride

Juxtaposition - comparing and contrasting

Local Color - things that tell about the setting

Malapropism - Author purposes makes a character use a similar sounding, but still wrongly used word for humor/to tell about the character

Mock Epic - taking a silly thing and telling it as if has more importance than it should

Pathetic Fallacy - Weather is imitative of emtion

Stream of Consciousness - Character’s live thoughts, un paused

Satire - to critize society through humor, anger, etc

Sarcasm - inner rage, (venting)

Horation - Satire throug humor

Juvenilian - More pointed, angry, sad, etc

Formal/Direct Satire

Informal/Non-Direct Satire: Use of characters

Utopian- One person paradise

Dystopian - One person paradise imposed onto others which makes them miserable

Tragicomedy - comedy but also tragic simultaneously

Theme - Question/opinion author has

Motif - reoccuring thing