Lit Terms #5

Parallelism

Repetition in syntactic construction in successive sentences for rhetoric affect.

Parody

 A funny imitation of a serious piece.

Pathos

Evoking feeling.

Pedantry

Undue display of learning.

Poignant

Strong feeling.

Prose

Ordinary, everyday speech.

Requiem

For he repose of the dead.

Scansion

The marks used to analyze a piece of literature.

What's the story?

I believe Dickens wrote Great Expectations as an extreme illustration of how we all come to a crossroads in our life where we question our character and who we really are or hat were meant to be. Pip is in a constant internal struggle  trying to determine his own character and who he will grow up to be. He is faced with he little devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other. Joe being the angel, guess who the devil may be. He faces temptations and struggles between what is right and wrong, though he has a strong conscience. I believe this was written because it can relate to virtually anyone and everyone; we all had to grow up and make decisions to shape ourselves to who we are today-- or who we are becoming today.

Noise

When dickens wrote, his neighbors called the cops. He made a lot of noise creating stories. 

"I'm taking notes at this great concert inside my head" Jim Morrison. 

Lit Terms #2

circumlocution
 a roundabout way of speaking!


classicism
styles of the literature and art of ancient Rome and Greece!

Cliché

an overused sentence or phrase; even a thought or action!

 

Climax

   the most exciting or eventful part of the plot!

 

Colloquialism

Casual conversation!

 

Comedy

A play or work of literature with humor and happiness; dramatic.

 

Conflict

Internal or external. A rising problem.

 

Connotation

a second notation in addition to the primary one.

 

Contrast

    Opposites of each other creating different views or thinking.

 

Denotation

a word specifying another.

 

Denouement

 the outcome or resolution of a plot!

 

Dialect

Conversation between two people.

 

Dialectics

Logical argumentation.

 

Dichotomy

 division into two equal parts, subdivision!

 

Diction

 Speaking or writing style.

 

Didactic

instruction.

 

Dogmatic

 faith and morals.

 

Elegy

 a melancholy poem.

 

Epic

 Heroic, adventurous, achieving piece of literature!

 

Epigram

witty, pointed, satirical poem.