Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Glossary and Summary
of English Vocab and
Literary Terms
- Bildungsroman
- A novel that deals with one
person's growing up, formative
years and moral or spiritual
development
- Free Indirect Thought
- A narrative's technique where a
character's thought processes form
part of the narrative.
- Counter-cultural
- One who beliefs and
behaviour differ
from the
mainstream views
held at the time
- Magic Realism
- A genre of writing where
magic or unreal events
create a representation
of an otherwise realistic
world (e.g. Harry Potter)
- Imagery Patterns
- Antagonist
- Protagonist
- Anti-hero
- Demotic
- This refers to ordinary people
- Dystopian
- The opposite of Utopian - a society in
which people are disjointed and unhappy
- Confessional
- Confessional writing
is deeply personal
and intimate in its
details
- Free Indirect Speech
- Speech that is embedded in a
narrative, so it is unattributed
and a report of the speech
rather than the actualy words
- Modernist/Modernism
- Motif (Theme)
- Panthestic/Pantheism
- The belief in many
Gods (e.g. Leo's belief
in the zodiacs)
- Patriarchy/Patriarchal
- A system of society
or government
controlled by men
- Pre-lapsarian
- Before the loss of innocence
- Dysphemism
- The opposite of euphemism -
where the grim reality is
foregrounded, or exaggerated,
rather than politelty avoided. (May
war novels use this)