World Lit Metacognition (Weeks 1 - 7)

Literary Terms

1. Allegory: characters/plot/setting symbolize real life events

   1. Concrete things represent abstract ideas

2. Metacognition: thinking about thinking

3. Diction: pronunciation, word choice

4. Rashomon effect: multiple perspectives on one event

5. Ambiguity: more than one interpretation, openness

6. Myth: story that explains natural phenomena (the unexplainable)

7. Archetypes: patterns reoccurring in literature, such as types of characters, settings, or plots

   1. Similar to a trope

   2. Sometimes used to create irony

8. The hero’s journey: archetype of a story; monomyth

9. Legend: a story about a real person/place

   1. Evolving over time

   2. Told orally

   3. Can’t be verified

Grammar

1. Commas

   1. Use a comma before a FANBOYS conjunction joining 2 independent clauses

      1. Example: I saw the movie, and I enjoyed it.

   2. Use a comma between all items in a series

      1. Example: For dinner, I had pasta, chicken, and salad.

2. Appositive

   1. A noun phrase that renames or provides extra information to the noun phrase that precedes it.

      1. Example: The cat, a tabby with small speckles down its back, sat on the window sill.

3. Phrases

   1. Group of words working as a single part of speech

      1. Example: On the table

4. Clauses

   1. Group of words that contain a subject and verb

      1. Example: The cat sat on the table.