Begreppsjävlar Litteratur

Free indirect discourse Characters' "inner voices" temporarily belong to the narrator

Comedy "Lower" form of entertainment.

Bourgeois Borgare

Catharsis "Spiritual cleansing". Used i.e.in dramas and tragedies.

The three unities Rules for drama derived from a passage in Aristotle's Poetics.

Unity of time Duration: 24h

Unity of place Where the action unfolds.

Unity of action Should be consistent, with a linear plot

Levels of a play Text, Transformation, Performance

Exposition Setting the background/Telling us things

Dramatic characteration Characters revealed

Dramatic monologue Extended speech by one character to another

Soliloquy monologue Character directly addresses the audience

Genre term to classify traditional literature forms, i.e. Ecip, Drama, Poetry

Heterodiegetic narrator Narrator not a part of the story world. Has unlimited knowledge and authority

Plot How the story is told.

Narration Who tells the story?

Characterisation Are the caracters ´round´or ´flat´?

Setting Where and when does the story take place?

Protagonist The main character

Antagonist The villain

Mimesis Imitation (avbild)

Mimetic Realism

Transparency We see "through" the language into a real world

Stock character recurring flat character in drama, i.e. The show-off

First-person character The narrator uses his/her point of view

Homodiegetic narrator A narrator that is a part of the story world

Denouement The complication of the action is resolved after the climax

Climax Crisis or turning point in a story(when the British kill Braveheart's (William Wallice) wife

Sonnet A poem with strict rhyme scheme (abab, cdcd, efef, gg)

Alliteration A rhyme where the first consonant is repeated within the same line (Peter pipper)

Assonance repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences

The Western Canon the body of books, music, and art that scholars generally accept as the most important and influential in shaping Western culture.

Intertextuality shaping of a text's meaning by another text. It is the interconnection between similar or related works of literature

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