Analyzing and Interpreting Literature Vocabulary 2023/2024

Prose --What we write and speak most of the time. It is not poetry, it is unmetered, unrhymed language. Phonic --Pertaining to sound from speech. Mode --A broad literacy method not tied to one specific form or genre. Examples: irony, satire Satire --A literary form that ridicules human vices or shortcomings. Truth --Fact or reality. It is not tied to any one genre. Novel --An extended fictional narrative written in prose that includes characters, plot, and setting. In most of Europe, it is called a roman, short for romance. Realism --Delivering subject from third-person objective point of view with no added interpretation or elaboration. Romanticism --An artistic and literary movement originating in the second half of the eighteenth century in Europe, emphasizing emotions, idealism, adventure, and chivalry. Impressionism --Subjective or personal literary style that relies on associations; style adapted to writing from nineteenth-century school of painters, including Money and Renoir. Expressionism --Subjective depiction of the real world through imagination, the abstract, and symbols. Naturalism --A literary movement that depicts life as accurately as possible, illustrating transformation in society through environment and hereditary. Neo-classicism --A style of prose and poetry from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, reviving a classical style from Greek and Roman cultures. Monometer --A line with one metrical foot. Dimeter --A line with two metrical feet. Trimeter --A line with three metrical feet. Tetrameter --A line with four metrical feet. Pentameter --A line with five metrical feet. Hexameter --A line with six metrical feet. Heptameter --A line with seven metrical feet. Octameter --A line with eight metrical feet. Iamb --unstressed (u), stressed (/) Anapest --unstressed (u), unstressed (u), stressed (/) Trochee --stressed (/), unstressed (u) Dactyl --stressed (/), unstressed (u), unstressed (u) Personification --The giving of human qualities to something that is not human