Literary 3

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Literary 3
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• Grotesque Literature that is characterized by
  distortions or incongruities implies a mutation
  of the characters, plants and/or animals that
  transforms the normal features and/or
  behaviors into extremes that are meant to be
  frightening and/or disturbingly comic. Also
  defines a work in which two separate modes,
  comedy and tragedy, are mixed.  The result is a
  disturbing fiction wherein comic circumstances
  prelude horrific tragedy and vice versa.
• The fiction of Poe is often described as being
  grotesque

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• Motif The repetition or variations of an image
  or idea in a work which is used to develop theme
  or characters.
• Reliability A quality of some fictional
  narrators whose word the reader can trust.

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• Homily Literally means sermon, but more
  informally, includes any serious talk, speech, or
  lecture involving moral or spiritually advice
• Hyperbole A figure of speech utilizing extreme
  exaggeration or overstatement

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• Dialect A type of informational diction.
  Dialects are spoken by definable groups of people
  from a particular geographic region, economic
  group, or social class. Writers use dialect to
  contrast and express differences in educational,
  class, social, and regional backgrounds of their
  characters.

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• Aphorism A terse statement of known authorship
  which expresses a general truth or moral
  principle. Can be a memorable summation of the
  authors point.
• Analogy A similarity or comparison between two
  different things or the relationship between
  them. An analogy can explain something unfamiliar
  by associating it with or pointing out its
  similarity to something more familiar.

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Diction Word Choice

• Formal Diction Consists of a dignified,
  impersonal, and elevated use of language it
  follows the rules of syntax exactly and is often
  characterized by complex words and lofty tone
• Middle Diction Maintains correct language usage,
  but is less elevated than formal diction it
  reflects the way most educated people speak

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• Informal Diction Represents the plain language
  of everyday use, and often includes idiomatic
  expressions, slang, contractions, and many
  simple, common words
• Poetic Diction Refers to the way poets sometimes
  employ an elevated diction that deviates
  significantly from the common speech and writing
  of their time, choosing words for their
  supposedly inherent poetic qualities

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• FORM The structure and style of a text can also
  refer to genre.
• ORGANIC FORM The structure of a work that has
  grown naturally from the author's subject and
  materials as opposed to that of a work shaped by
  and conforming to artificial rules.

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• DENOTATION the literal definition of a word
• CONNOTATION the suggesting of a meaning by a
  word apart from the thing it explicitly names or
  describes.

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• SENTIMENTALITY A literary device that is used to
  induce an emotional response disproportionate to
  the situation, and thus to substitute heightened
  and generally uncritical feeling for normal
  ethical and intellectual judgment applies
  feelings in inappropriate situations

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• STOCK RESPONSE a routinely insensitive reaction
  to a literary work or to some element of it. A
  stock response perceives in a work only those
  meanings that are already familiar from a
  reader's or audience's previous experience,
  failing to recognize fresh or unfamiliar
  meanings.

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• Writers may deliberately exploit stock responses
  (e.g. our sympathy for the hero or heroine), but
  often fall victim to them when attempting to
  reach beyond readers' habitual expectations.