Literary Critisism and Analysis Terms (Texas, HS UIL)

NOT one of Kenneth Burke's four major tropes that Burke aligns with perspective, reduction, representation, or dialectic is...

• Hyperbole

• Irony

• Metaphor

• Metonymy

• synecodoche

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CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

A form of figurative language in which a word is replaced by something very close to the original meaning

• Paronomasia

• Synecdoche

• Metonymy

• Hieronymy

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

A figure of speech in which a part represents a whole

• Eponymy

• Synecdoche

• Paronomasia

• Portmanteau

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

A person whose name has given rise to the name of a people, place, etc., or a personal name which is used as a common noun

• Portmanteau

• Syzygy

• Litotes

• Eponymy

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CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

A long, mournful complaint or lamentation; a list of woes.

• Pastoral

• Hobson-jobson

• Jeremiad

• Madrigal

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

A part-song for several voices, especially one of the Renaissance period, typically arranged in elaborate counterpoint and without instrumental accompaniment. Originally used of a genre of 14th-century Italian songs, the term now usually refers to English or Italian songs of the late 16th and early 17th c., in a free style strongly influenced by the text is a(n)...

• Chanson de geste

• Vision

• Ballad

• Madrigal

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CCSS.RL.11-12.12

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

An art movement in the late 19th century which privileged the aesthetic value of literature, music and the arts over their socio-political functions

• Aestheticism

• Modernism

• Baroque

• Dadaism

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Both a philosophical and arts movement that arose from broad transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries

• Post-modernism

• Post-structuralism

• Existentialism

• Modernism

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A late-20th-century style and concept in the arts, architecture, and criticism that represents a departure from modernism and has at its heart a general distrust of grand theories and ideologies as well as a problematical relationship with any notion of “art.”.

• Modernism

• Post-modernism

• Structuralism

• Classicism

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The concurrent project to reclaim and rethink the history and agency of people subordinated under various forms of imperialism. Said and Spivak are major thinkers of this time and literary theorists.

• Reconstruction Era

• Revolutionary War Era

• Colonialism/Post-colonialism

• Civil War Era