POA - 21st
Cards (26)
- Conversant - familiar with or knowledgeable about something
- Red-handed - (of a person) having been discovered in or just after the act of doing something wrong or illegal.
- Quixotic - exceedingly idealistic; unrealistic and impractical.
- Soporific - tending to induce drowsiness or sleep.
- Simile - Comparison of two things using “like” or “as.”
- Metaphor - Two things are compared without using “like” or “as.”
- Personification - Giving human traits to objects or ideas.
- Hyperbole - Exaggerating to show a strong feeling or effect.
- Understatement - Expression with less strength than expected. The opposite of hyperbole.
- Onomatopoeia - A word that “makes” a sound
- Paradox - a statement appears to contradict itself
- Anaphora - repetition of a word or sequence of words at the beginning of successive clauses, phrases, or sentences.
- Mimetic Theory - Literature imitates or reflects the real world
- Authorial Theory - the author is the sole source of meaning
- Literary Tradition Theory - relates the work to its literary history by identifying the tradition to which it belongs
- Reader-response theory - permits varied and numerous interpretations of the literary texts from as many readers, guided in practical practice and observation rather than theory
- Text analysis theory - based on what is given. The whole text itself will serve as the source of meaning.
- Psychoanalytic Criticism - Applies psychological theories to literary analysis
- Feminist Theory - about the masculine and feminine representations in literature and the social culture implications of them.
- Marxist theory - class differences, economic and otherwise.
- Archetypal criticism - focuses on the use of archetypes in literature and how they help a reader interpret and connect to what they are reading
- Northrop Frye criticism - dream world aspects and realistic aspects
- Rig Veda - Anthology of 1028 hymns to various gods
- Sama Veda (Book of Chants) - consists of liturgies
- Yajur Veda (Prayer book) - repetition of Rig-Veda but it contains a prose formula
- Atharva Veda (Book of Spells) - consists of spells, incantations, and notions