English Paper 1 Words
glossary
- Created by: Joshua Rathbone
- Created on: 03-05-11 03:32
Affective Fallacy
the error of making subjective responses the criteria for interpretive, critical or aesthetic judgements
Allegory
a narrative which -through allusion, metaphor, symbolism etc.- can be read not simply on its own terms but also as telling another, quite different story simultaneously
Allusion
a reference, direct or indirect, to another work of art, event etc.
Ambiguity
when a word/phrase may be taken in more than one way
Animism
rhetorical figure whereby something inanimate is given attributes of life or spirit
Anthropocentrism
refers to everything within a culture that asserts or assumes that the human is at the centre, be it of the universe, world or meaning of text
Anthropomorphism
rhetorical figure whereby non-human is described in human terms
Aporia
rhetorical figure for doubt
may arise when two or more contradictory messages may be found within a text
an impasse’ or site of undecideability
Bathos
abrupt descent from elevated to commonplace
anti-climax
often a cause of humour reducing the elevated to the trivial
Cataphresis
malapropism
misuse of language
Catharsis
Aristotle
end of tragedy
release of emotional tension arising from an experience of a paradoxical mixture of pity and terror, often leading to healing
Chiasmus
rhetorical figure involving repetition and reversal
if you fail to plan, you plan to fail
where each of the two sides of a conceptual opposition (man/woman) (text/world) is shown to be reversible and paradoxically functioning and present in its opposite
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Close Reading
words on the page rather than ideological/historical context, author biography or intent
New Criticism
ignores questions of the readers’ role in reading
Cultural Materialism
concerned to expose ideological and political dimensions of texts
material conditions of production and reception
Defamiliarisation
Shlovsky
denoting a perceived primary function of literary texts to make the familiar unfamiliar, renew the old etc.
Deixis
use of words concerning place and time and time of utterance
this, here
Double Bind
a double or contradictory statement
this sentence is not true
Epistemophilia
desire for knowledge which literary texts produce in readers
dynamic of curiosity basis of all intellectual activity
Equivocality
similar to ambiguity, however the meaning cannot be resolved
Essentialism
reference to ways of perceiving people, culture etc. as having innate, natural or universal characteristics (as separate from environment)
Fabula
the story
events of a narrative
Feminist criticism
exploring oft-marginalised tradition of female writing
challenge conventional notions of masculinity and femininity
Formalism
stresses importance of form: as distinct from content, meaning, social history etc.
style, rhyme, narrative structure, verse-form
Hermeneutic
the theory of bible study
lately, the theory of interpretation
Heteroglossia
the variety of voices or languages within a text
In media res
starting the story in the middle of the action
Ab ovo
starting the story from the beginning
Intentional fallacy
the error of attempting to interpret literary texts by appealing to supposed authorial intention
Intertextuality
theory that texts are ‘tissues of citations’, that every word refers to another text
Logocentrism
a western attribute which puts meaning or words at the centre
Metonymy
basic trope where the name of an attribute of an object is given instead of the object itself
the pen is mightier than the sword
pen=writing
sword=conflict
Paradox
apparently contradictory statement, apparently illogical or absurd but may be understood to be meaningful or true
Paronomasia
word play
puns etc.
Phallocentrism
everything in a culture which asserts or assumes the phallus and associated patriarchy is at the centre
Phallogocentrism
referring to everything in language or meaning which is phallocentric
Polysemia
quality of having several or many meanings
Self-reflexivity
where a piece of writing refers to itself
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