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Literary Terms Homework

1. Solovenue – Third person narrative that always follows one character, so that while it is third person the viewpoints the readers are aware of are largely or only those of one main character.

e.g.
1984 by George Orwell

2. Vielo Fuentes – A form of poetry with a different number of syllables in each line. Named for Ricardo Fuentes of Venezuela.

e.g.

The Hawk
By Randolph Davis

Quiet it flies
Strong, silent, smooth
Calm, cool
Searching the fields for mice and rats in the grass
Now
It drops suddenly
Spreads its talons
And kills!

3. Minemocí – The use of a whole group to represent one.

e.g.

“The U.S. Government said the aggression would not stand” in reference to a statement by the President.

4. Radactony – An arrogant speech implying that the listener is naïve and the speaker more enlightened.

e.g. Randall Marsh’s “Farmers in a University” speech is considered by many to be a radactony against those not scientifically inclined.

5. Vestizient – One supporting the school of thought that claims all writing is, on a deeper level, about sex.

e.g. Dr. Stephen Kloc, a student of Sigmund Freud

6. mer abris – A moment in a story in which a character recalls a lesson learned earlier in the story.

e.g. in Nabakov’s Roshkla, when Sergei remembers what his uncle told him about the insecurity of genius to defeat the chess grandmaster.

7. Ente marso – A paragraph beginning with many declarative sentences and finishing with two or more interrogative sentences.

e.g.

He walked down the street, fumbling in his pocket for something. He withdrew the pipe and held it in his teeth, his hands fumbling with the cheap lighter, a BIC, evidently. As the rain increased, he had to lean so his wide brimmed hat prevented the pipe from being extinguished. What was he smoking? Where was he going?

Posted by icejew at March 3, 2005 10:09 PM