Understanding Language and Literary Techniques
Meta-Meaning of All Words
Reference: Giving information on the context.
Phatic: Start conversation.
Appellate: Requires a response.
Estetica: Graces the tongue.
Emotive: It expresses something.
Levels of Language: Vulgar, colloquial, formal, academic, religious, CENTIF – technical.
Description: Written technique allows us to express what we observe.
Objective: Information – plenty of adjectives.
Subjective: Beauty – little use of verbs.
Description Describes:
- Pictorial: Static.
- Panoramic: Static – movement.
- Perspective: Movement – static.
Cinematography in Movement: Movement.
Topography: The place and space.
Chronography: Long time.
Prosopographic: Individual (physical).
Etopéyica: Individual (moral).
Portrait: Prosopografica and etopeyica.
Caricature: Exaggerated features.
Narrate: Tell a story, real or fake.
Elements: Narrator, characters, context, and structure.
Narrator: The voice that tells the story, can be:
- Homodiegetic: (protagonist) same story.
- Second Person.
- Extradiegetic = Heterodiegetic: Control (objective).
- Intradiegetic: Witness.
- Metadiegetic: Narrative within the narrative.
- Polyphonic: Multiple narrative voices.
- Homniciente: The protagonist knows.
- Equisciente: It knows what the protagonist knows.
- Poorly-Known: The protagonist knows.
Elements of Time: Pre, past, future.
Time: Real or imaginary.
It Can Be:
- Linear: From time to time.
- Retrospective: Starts at the end and continues.
- Chronological: By date.
- With Jumps: No logic, several stories.
- Circular Logic: Has.
You Can Be: The protagonist + antagonist.
Plantamiento, Knot, Climax, and Denouement:
Epic:
Epic of Gilgamesh: Bardos – singing and rhyming poems.
Themes: Conquer, courage, pride, friendship, ambition, cunning.
Kleos: Glory.
Arete: Excellence.
Time: Recognition.
Lyrical:
EmOC: Express their personal ideas.
Senti: Max express poem.
POV Connotations:
Lyrical Subject: Poet’s sensation of feeling.
L: Speaker who expresses feelings.
Reason L: Topic which is covered.
Attitude L: How the speaker expresses.
It May Be: In verse (free).
Declarative Facts: Speaker = L.
Apostrof: The speaker addresses the other person.
Carmina: Reflection of their feelings, understanding difficult.
Appellate: Addresses the other person.
Dramatic: Centered in conflicts.
Verso: A metric unit of the poem, rhythm: musicality.
Stanza: A set of verses.
Tragedy:
534 Isistrato asked to do something to entertain.
Tragedy: Horns and drinks, masks.
Hypocrites: Poem actors, masks.
12 Men Singing: Perfect tragedy.
Mimesis: Imitation.
Catarsis: Purification.
Clean Touch: Great calamity on the protagonist.
Dramatic:
Farsa: Head reality, things droll, Aristophanes.
Satire: Mockery of what happens (spectator as critic).
Comedy: Reach their goal, common characters with obvious errors, comes from how-to (villa) ode (song).
Melodrama: Evade time, meets goal, illogical and incoherent.
Tragicomedy: Things happen, has goal, and the goal fails.
Tragedy Modern: Something terrible, prose written in the end.
Metaplasia:
Calembur: And my voice burns, etc…
Pleonasm: Repetition of words unnecessarily.
Alliteration: It is the clarion call.
Onomatopoeia: Imitating sounds of animals and nature.
Paronomasias: The priest prays, the farmer prays.
Metataxa:
Hyperbaton: These, Fabio! Must hurt! You see now.
Epithets: The white lily (backward).
Ellipsis: Ignore grammatical expressions.
Anaphora: Here was Troy, here my cowardice, my funeral here.
Asyndeton: Sum prime links: The car, mustard, honey.
Pun: Read written by q, xq is written is read.
Polysyndeton: + links and leave them and stopped and he died and he left.
Metasememe:
Comparison: Enhancing object using (such as which tantoq, etc…).
Metaphor: Comparison without comparative term.
Synecdoche: Everything – hand to hand – all spring has fifteen.
Prosopopeya: Encourage an entity – Light said – I love you.
Metonymy: The two rivers of great fall of snow in the wheat.
Euphemism: Saying nice things so black – Afro-American.
Metalogisms:
Hyperbole: Exaggeration of the way – we tread on amenisima.
Antithesis: Opposition between two words or phrases – Do not talk of graves for living bodies.
Antiphrasis or Irony: Mockery suggests otherwise.
Poem:
Verso: Series of words, order, accents into one line.
Metrica: Measurement of verse – 8 syllables minor art + more.
Rhythm: Created by division of accents apart.
Rima: Consonant assonance – unrhymed blank verse.
Mayusculas: Major and minor art lowercase.
Assonance: Rhyming consonants and vowels 1 and 2, 3 and 4.
Consonants: Single consonants 1 with 3 and 2 with 4.
Verso Level: Paroxytone – is serious and nothing is added.
Verso Acute: Acute and is required to add 1 more.
Verso Esdrújulo: Esdrújulo and if it takes is one.
Sinalefa: Co-mo-en-ta-us-ing co-moes-taus-ted.
Sinieresis: Union of strong vocal: poe-ta po-e-ta.
Dieresis: Separated diphthong vowel-accent: SU-A-ve, ru-i-do.
Hiatus: Pronounce vowels separately: mu-si-tion-of-a-las.
Caesura: “The princess is sad. What will the princess?”
Enjambment: No pause.
9 – Eneasilabas:
14 Alexandrians:
15 Fifteen Syllables: etc…