Unit 7: Analyze Literature

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  1. characterization
    the act of describing essential features
    Characterization is the act of creating or describing a character.
  2. dialect
    the usage or vocabulary characteristic of a group of people
    A dialect is a version of a language spoken by the people of a particular place, time, or social group.
  3. motivation
    psychological feature arousing action toward a desired goal
    A motivation is a force that moves a character to think, feel, or behave in a certain way.
  4. antihero
    a protagonist who does not act brave or morally good
    An antihero is a central character who lacks all the qualities traditionally associated with heroes.
  5. allusion
    passing reference or indirect mention
    An allusion is a reference to a well-known person, event, object, or work from history or literature.
  6. mood
    a characteristic state of feeling
    Mood, or atmosphere, is the emotion created in the reader by part or all of the work.
  7. theme
    a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary work
    A theme is a central message or perception about life revealed through a literary work.
  8. tone
    a quality that reveals the attitudes of the author
    Tone is the emotional attitude toward the reader or toward the subject implied by a literary work—for instance, playful or ironic, sarcastic or sincere, hopeful or pessimistic.
  9. rhythm
    alternation of stressed and unstressed elements in speech
    Rhythm is the pattern of beats or stresses in a line of verse or prose.
  10. meter
    a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in verse
    A regular rhythmic pattern in a poem is called a meter, which is determined by the number of stresses in each line.
  11. narrator
    someone who tells a story
    A narrator is a character or speaker who tells a story.
  12. diction
    the manner in which something is expressed in words
    Diction, when applied to writing, refers to the author’s choice of words.
  13. free verse
    poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter
    Free verse is poetry that does not use regular rhyme, meter, or stanza division.
Created on Wed Mar 03 09:42:57 EST 2021 (updated Fri Mar 12 12:22:39 EST 2021)

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