Literary
Terms
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By: Hannah Faulstick
paradox
parallelism
anaphora
parody
pedantic
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A paradox is a a statement that
contains two parts that contradict
each other, but when looked at with
more thought and depth have an
underlining meaning to why they are
together.
Examples:
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"Some day you will be old enough to start reading
fairy tales again."
(C.S. Lewis to his godchild, Lucy Barfield, to whom
he dedicated The Lion, the Witch and the
Wardrobe)
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"Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox
here in America--that we are fixed and certain
only when we are in movement."
(Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again, 1940)
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"The swiftest traveler is he that goes afoot."
(Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854)
Paradox
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o DEFINITION A structure used in writing that
has similar form throughout the place in
which it is used
Examples:
You can fool all the people some of the
time, and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all the
time. -Abraham Lincoln
Ask not what your country can do for you;
ask what you can do for your country. -John
F. Kennedy
We are not satisfied, and we will not be
satisfied until justice rolls down like waters
and righteousness like a mighty stream.- Rev.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Parallelism
Visual
Anaphora
• This is a sub-type of Parallelism
• This is when a word or phrase is repeated exactly and
placed at the beginning of sentences that follow
each other
Examples
"But
one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later,
the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the
chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely
island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred
years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and
finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to
dramatize a shameful condition."
(Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., "I Have a Dream," 1963)
"Of
all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."
(Rick Blaine in Casablanca)
"We
saw the bruised children of these fathers clump onto our school bus, we
saw the abandoned children huddle in the pews at church, we saw the stunned
and battered mothers begging for help at our doors."
(Scott Russell Sanders, "Under the Influence," 1989)
Anaphora
Visual
Parody
A parody is a mockery of a former
piece that is meant to be humorous
The work is a satirical polemic upon Roundheads, Puritans, Presbyterians
and many of the other factions involved in the English Civil War. The work
was begun, according to the title page, during the civil war and published
in three parts in 1663, 1664 and 1678, with the first edition encompassing all
three parts in 1684 (see 1684 in poetry).[1] The Mercurius Aulicus (an early
newspaper of the time) reported an unauthorized edition of the first part
was already in print in early 1662.[2]
The Dunciad /ˈdʌnsi.æd/ is a landmark literary satire by Alexander Pope
published in three different versions at different times. The first version (the
"three book" Dunciad) was published in 1728 anonymously. The second
version, the Dunciad Variorum was published anonymously in 1729. The
New Dunciad, in four books and with a different hero, appeared in 1743.
The poem celebrates the goddess Dulness and the progress of her chosen
agents as they bring decay, imbecility, and tastelessness to the Kingdom of
Great Britain.
The Knight of the Burning Pestle is a play by Francis Beaumont, first
performed in 1607 and first published in a quarto in 1613. It is notable as the
first whole parody (or pastiche) play in English. The play is a satire on
chivalric romances in general, similar to Don Quixote, and a parody of
Thomas Heywood's The Four Prentices of London and Thomas Dekker's The
Shoemaker's Holiday. The play is notable for breaking the fourth wall from
its outset.
Examples
Parody
Visual
Pedantic
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DEFINITION: The use of big words in unnecessary places in
order to sound smarter
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EX: "The pedant is he who finds it impossible to read
criticism of himself without immediately reaching for his pen
and replying to the effect that the accusation is a gross
insult to his person. He is, in effect, a man unable to laugh
at himself." from Sigmund Freud's The Ego and the Id.
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EX:The intellectual boy scurried home to ponder his
knowledge.
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EX:The book was juxtapose the backpack.
Pedantic
Visual
Works Cited Slide
Nordquist, Richard “Paradox” About.com. 2011. New
York Times Company. September
29,2011<http://grammer.about.com>
Nordquist, Richard “Anaphora” About.com. 2011.
New York Times Company. September
29,2011<http://grammer.about.com>
“Writing Tips: Parallelism.” Writing Center UNLV.
2006. University of Necada, Las Vagas. 29 September
2011<http:// writingcenter.unlv.edu>
“What is an example of pedantic in literature?” Cha
Cha.com. 2011. Cha Cha. 29 September 2011.
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