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June 7, 2017
BIOGRAPHICAL CONTEXT
where personal experiences about the author make their way into their writing
BLOG
a regularly updated website or web page, typically one run by an individual or small group,
that is written in an informal or conversational style.
CHICK LIT
literature that appeals mainly to women.
CLOSE ANALYSIS
In literary criticism, close reading is the careful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage
of a text. a thoughtful, disciplined reading of a text. Also called close
analysis and explication de texte.
CONTEXT
the circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of
which it can be fully understood and assessed.
CREATIVE NONFICTION
(also known as literary nonfiction or narrative nonfiction) is a genre of writing that uses
literary styles and techniques to create factually accurate narratives.
CRITICAL INTERPRETATION
critical interpretation is one of the two most common types of research papers in literature,
the arts, and the other humanities.
CRITICAL PAPER
critical paper is an analysis of a text such as a book, film, article, or painting. The goal of
this type of paper is to offer a text or an interpretation of some aspect of a text or to situate
the text in a broader context.
FLASH FICTION
fiction that is extremely brief, typically only a few hundred words or fewer in its entirety.
HYPER POETRY
poetry that has had hyperlinks embedded into it by the reader. I have the scholars select
a poem and then they add hyperlinks to the poem to help explain their interpretation of
the poem.
LINGUISTIC CONTEXT
21ST CENTURY LITERATURE
how meaning is understood without relying on intent and assumptions. In applied
pragmatics, for example, meaning is formed through sensory experiences, even though
sensory stimulus cannot be easily articulated in language or signs.
LITERARY ELEMENTS
plot, theme, character and tone are literary elements, whereas figurative language, irony,
or foreshadowing would be considered literary techniques.
LITERARY GENRE
category of literary composition. Genres may be determined by literary technique, tone,
content, or even (as in the case of fiction) length. The distinctions between genres and
categories are flexible and loosely defined, often with subgroups.
LITERARY HISTORY
As a critical tool, then, genre is itself the product of innumerable reading encounters and
discussions of texts: it is an artifact of literary history, like the texts themselves.'
LITERARY TECHNIQUES
narrative technique, also known, more narrowly for literary fictional narratives, as
a literary technique, literary device, or fictional device, is any of several specific
methods the creator of a narrative uses to convey what they wantin other words, a
strategy used in the making of a narrative to relay information ...
NATIONAL LITERATURE
help define a national identity or provide a common reference point for that country's
culture.
SPECULATIVE FICTION
FIGURES OF SPEECH
a word or phrase used in a non-literal sense for rhetorical or vivid effect.