Achieved through humor and chaos, can often be seen through the reversal of power, chaos: lots of different events going on simultaneously, marked by excess, to question societal standards

Ex: the purge

Fiction that has senseless, incoherent, and far-fetched themes, when an author writes in absurdity they are exploring and questioning things we do not understand

Ex: Aristotle, Sophists, Plato, etc.

Any person, figure, or animal represented in a literary work

Ex: John in S-Town

The construction of the identity, how the text creates a character, tools and strategies we use to create a character, using different terms to paint a person in a specific light

Ex: using specific language and image tactics to paint Trump in a bad light

What makes us laugh, has a happy ending, chaos to harmony, a spectacle of what is ridiculous but laughable, seen as a lower-brow genre of writing

Ex: cat in the hat

The genre of experience making a sad and unhappy ending, often seen as superior to comedy, unhappy ending, progression from harmony to chaos, a spectacle which arouses pity and fear

Ex: Lion King

Genre in which shepherds are represented as simple and innocent far away from city lift, going back to nature implying a sense of organic nature and belonging, being down to earth vs going back to your place, representative of a simple life

Ex: Christmas in the Country

What the text does not or cannot say, forms of incompleteness in texts, places where the text keeps silent or makes no mention of certain groups or topics

Ex: Drawing the conclusion that two crimes are linked even when not outright mentioned

An individual who is perceived by a group as not belonging as they have been culturally constructed as being fundamentally different in some way

Ex: Lennie in Of Mice and Men

The process of making a group or class of people less important or relegated to a secondary position

Ex: The movie The Help

Way of understanding the world in its social and psychological aspects that holds that there is no single way to read an event, or institution, or text

Ex: Differences in interpreting the meaning of things between people

Variety of language unique to an individual

Ex: Sherlock Holmes in Elementary talks different than everyone else

The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition

Ex: JK Rowling

The power to enforce rules or give orders

Ex: The President

Complex character that undergoes development

Ex: Olivia Pope in Scandal

Uncomplicated character that does not change over the course of a text

Ex: Harry Potter

When we use language to connect literature and culture, communicating ideas from a text that is culturally or historically motivated, fact based analysis (political discourse on Twitter), all of the conversation surrounding a topic

Ex: Talking about politics

Conversation between two or more people, can be made up and/or crafted

Ex: Any character interaction in a movie

Absence: refers to the period of time that someone or something is away or not present

Presence: the state of being somewhere

Ex: ?

The social and historical context of a text, can be background information or characters, a set of events invented for a plot, presented as preceding and leading up to that plot, background information means all information that a reader requires to increase his awareness of the topic an essay is going to explain

Ex: Knowing the life Harry Potter grew up in helps us better understand his character

Something that stands out from the surrounding words or images, immediate information being presented

Ex: An explosion occurs

The vantage point through which a story is constructed, how something is perceived, a reader's point of view is different from the authors, the angle of considering things, which shows us the opinion or feelings of the individuals involved in a situation, lets the readers “hear” and “see” what takes place in a story, poem, or essay

Ex: Movies in first person point of view, The Terminator

Any vivid or picturesque phrase that evokes a particular sensation in the reader's mind, appeals directly to the reader's taste, touch, hearing, sight, or smell, the actual visual or textual description

Ex: Close up on food

How we create pictures (images) using descriptive language such as similes, metaphors, personification, etc.

Ex: The Great Gatsby

A figure of speech that makes an implicit, implied, or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated, but which share some common characteristics, done through the use of imagery

Ex: America is a melting pot

Giving human traits to non-human objects

Ex: The Giving Tree

Comparison made using like or as

Ex: Quick as a Cricket

Circumstances forming a background of an event, idea or statement, in such a way as to enable readers to understand the narrative or a literary piece, the deeper meaning of what is going on in a text

Ex: Knowing the childhood of Harry Potter

The shaping of a text's meaning by another text, it is the interconnection between similar or related works of literature that reflect and influence an audience's interpretation of the text, how one text speaks to another text

Ex: Greek mythology and Percy Jackson

A style of writing, art, or film that shows things as they are in life, representation of the middle-class, always fiction

Ex: Modern family, reality tv

The coexistence of distinct varieties within a single "language", a diversity of voices, styles of discourse, or points of view in a literary work and especially a novel.

Ex: Jane the virgin

Describes the rhythm, or meter, established by the words in that line; rhythm is measured in small groups of syllables

Ex: Shakespeare

A line with a period making each line its own unit

Ex: Romeo and Juliet

The continuance of a sentence without punctuation

Ex: Romeo and Juliet

Appreciation of beauty rather than the meaning behind it

Ex: Art for arts purpose

A poetic form in which two characters chant back and forth in competition or debate

Ex: Presidential debate

Apollonian: logical, dreamy, pleasurable

Dionysian: Painful, chaotic, irrational

Ex: Prince Hans (bad guy) vs Anna in Frozen

Gaudy, expressive, eccentric, tacky

Ex: Rocky Horror Picture Show, drag

The use of ancient greek or roman styles, forms, subject matter, period between 1660 and 1780 is the necoclassical period, recreate greek society and culture in art

Ex: Comedy and tragedy in theater

A metaphor that compares two very unlike things in a surprising and clever way, a parallel between two things that you would not always think was there

Ex: The Flea by John Donne

We know what something is by what it is not

Ex: The word lion vs the animal lion

Static characters do not go through any changes while a dynamic character does. This can be in character, personality, or perspective.

Ex: Olivia Pope in Scandal is dynamic

Physical or intellectual pleasure, delight, or ecstasy

Ex: Eating a good meal, sex

Recurring theme associated with a person, idea, or situation

Ex: Jaws sound when the shark is approaching

The feature that makes a given work a literary work versus a non-literary work

Ex: A text that you are able to read and understand vs one that you cannot

A body of stories about gods and heroes that try to explain how the world works

Ex: The Odyssey

A group of things or events which systematically represent emotions

Ex: Sun=happy

The Anglo-Saxon language spoken from approximately 450 to 1150 A.D. in what is now Great Britain

Ex: Romeo and Juliet

Speaking one's thoughts aloud, like a monologue but more dramatic

Ex: Juliet in Romeo and Juliet speaks aloud about Romeo

The arrangement of words or phrases

Ex: Every book ever

The shift or point of dramatic change in a poem

Ex: End of the 12th line in Shakespearean poems

Removing sexual or political passages from a text (Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, Baldick)

Ex: Fifty Shades of Grey censored version

A term applied to a certain kind of detective character, detective story in which these characters are prominent, sometimes also known as "tough guy" (Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, Baldick)

Ex: Gibbs in NCIS

A document that is handwritten rather than typed (Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, Baldick)

Ex: Ernest Hemingway's manuscript for “The Battler”

A play or drama that is known for its provocative uses of language, nudity, violence, and taboo subjects and themes (Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, Baldick)

Ex: Cleansed by Sarah Kane

An attack upon a person involving caricature and ridicule and sarcasm (Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, Baldick)

Ex: Saturday Night Live

A written composition that deliberately avoids using a particular letter of the alphabet (Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, Baldick)

Ex: The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog

A public self-justification or proclamation of intention, usually issued by a political authority or party (Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, Baldick)

Ex: Trump

A rapid and witty response in conversation (Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, Baldick)

Ex: Frankie in Grace and Frankie

Style of architecture and furnishing characterized by playful decoration (Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, Baldick)

Ex: The Swing by Fragonard

A blusteringly boastful speech or any arrogantly inflated manner of speaking or writing (Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, Baldick)

Ex: Top Gun pilots 

A short satirical attack upon a person, work, or institution (Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, Baldick)

Ex: Money by Pink Floyd

A form of dramatic dialogue in which two characters answer each other rapidly in alternating lines (Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, Baldick)

Ex: MacBeth

Continuous flow of sense-perceptions, thoughts, feelings, and memories in the human mind (Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, Baldick)

Ex: Ulysses by James Joyce

A humorously exaggerated story of impossible feats (Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, Baldick)

Ex: Davy Crockett

A group of four connected plays or novels (Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, Baldick)

Ex: Divergent series

A kind of disturbing strangeness evoked in some kinds of horror story and related fiction (Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, Baldick)

Ex: Get Out

An imagined form of ideal or superior human society (Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, Baldick)

Ex: Meet the Robinsons

A type of theatre entertainment featuring multiple songs, dances, acrobats, comedy (Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, Baldick)

Ex: Cirque du Soleil

The semblance of truth or reality in literary works (Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, Baldick)

Ex: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

A kind of theatre offering cheap entertainment, usually in the form of melodrama (Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, Baldick)

Ex: Children's Theatre

A character whose qualities or actions serve to emphasize those of another character by providing strong contrast (Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, Baldick)

Ex: Zeeva and Tony in NCIS

Composed on the spur of the moment, without preparation (Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, Baldick)

Ex: Will Smith's character in the Pursuit of Happyness

A traditional folktale adapted and written down for the entertainment of children (Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, Baldick)

Ex: Jack and the Beanstalk

A mode of fiction in which the possible and the impossible are confounded so as to leave the reader with no consistent explanation for the story's strange events (Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, Baldick)

Ex: Stranger Things

Revealing secrets of the future through prophecy (Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, Baldick)

Ex: The Walking Dead

A kind of tv documentary that incorporates semi-fictional or imagined sequences played by actors (Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, Baldick)

Ex: Apollo 13