Title: Literary Terms
1Literary Terms
- paradox
- parallelism
- anaphora
- parody
- pedantic
By Hannah Faulstick
2PARODOX
- A paradox is a a statement that contains two
parts that contradict each other, but when looked
at with more thought and depth have an
underlining meaning to why they are together.
3Examples
- "Some day you will be old enough to start reading
fairy tales again."(C.S. Lewis to his godchild,
Lucy Barfield, to whom he dedicated The Lion, the
Witch and the Wardrobe) - "Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox
here in America--that we are fixed and certain
only when we are in movement."(Thomas Wolfe, You
Can't Go Home Again, 1940) - "The swiftest traveler is he that goes
afoot."(Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854)
4Paradox
5DEFINITION A structure used in writing that has
similar form throughout the place in which it is
used Examples You can fool all the people some
of the time, and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
-Abraham Lincoln Ask not what your country can
do for you ask what you can do for your country.
-John F. Kennedy We are not satisfied, and we
will not be satisfied until justice rolls down
like waters and righteousness like a mighty
stream.- Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
6Parallelism
7Anaphora
- This is a sub-type of Parallelism
- This is when a word or phrase is repeated exactly
and placed at the beginning of sentences that
follow each other
8Examples
-
- "But one hundred years later, the Negro still is
not free. One hundred years later, the life of
the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles
of segregation and the chains of discrimination.
One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a
lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast
ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years
later, the Negro is still languishing in the
corners of American society and finds himself an
exile in his own land. And so we've come here
today to dramatize a shameful condition."(Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr., "I Have a Dream," 1963) - "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all
the world, she walks into mine."(Rick Blaine in
Casablanca) - "We saw the bruised children of these fathers
clump onto our school bus, we saw the abandoned
children huddle in the pews at church, we saw the
stunned and battered mothers begging for help at
our doors."(Scott Russell Sanders, "Under the
Influence," 1989)
9Anaphora
10Parody
A parody is a mockery of a former piece that is
meant to be humorous
11Examples
- The work is a satirical polemic upon Roundheads,
Puritans, Presbyterians and many of the other
factions involved in the English Civil War. The
work was begun, according to the title page,
during the civil war and published in three parts
in 1663, 1664 and 1678, with the first edition
encompassing all three parts in 1684 (see 1684 in
poetry).1 The Mercurius Aulicus (an early
newspaper of the time) reported an unauthorized
edition of the first part was already in print in
early 1662.2 -
- The Dunciad /'d?nsi.æd/ is a landmark literary
satire by Alexander Pope published in three
different versions at different times. The first
version (the "three book" Dunciad) was published
in 1728 anonymously. The second version, the
Dunciad Variorum was published anonymously in
1729. The New Dunciad, in four books and with a
different hero, appeared in 1743. The poem
celebrates the goddess Dulness and the progress
of her chosen agents as they bring decay,
imbecility, and tastelessness to the Kingdom of
Great Britain. - The Knight of the Burning Pestle is a play by
Francis Beaumont, first performed in 1607 and
first published in a quarto in 1613. It is
notable as the first whole parody (or pastiche)
play in English. The play is a satire on
chivalric romances in general, similar to Don
Quixote, and a parody of Thomas Heywood's The
Four Prentices of London and Thomas Dekker's The
Shoemaker's Holiday. The play is notable for
breaking the fourth wall from its outset.
12Parody
13Pedantic
- DEFINITION The use of big words in unnecessary
places in order to sound smarter - EX "The pedant is he who finds it impossible to
read criticism of himself without immediately
reaching for his pen and replying to the effect
that the accusation is a gross insult to his
person. He is, in effect, a man unable to laugh
at himself." from Sigmund Freud's The Ego and the
Id. - EXThe intellectual boy scurried home to ponder
his knowledge. - EXThe book was juxtapose the backpack.
14Pedantic
15Works Cited Slide
Nordquist, Richard Paradox About.com. 2011. New
York Times Company. September 29,2011lthttp//gra
mmer.about.comgt Nordquist, Richard Anaphora
About.com. 2011. New York Times Company.
September 29,2011lthttp//grammer.about.comgt
Writing Tips Parallelism. Writing Center
UNLV. 2006. University of Necada, Las Vagas. 29
September 2011lthttp// writingcenter.unlv.edugt Wh
at is an example of pedantic in literature? Cha
Cha.com. 2011. Cha Cha. 29 September 2011.
lthttp//www.chacha.comgt