Week 12 (4/2-4/8)

            This week I decided that I would post my terms online.  I figured this would help my fellow classmates, along with changing things up from the everyweek blog that I have been writing.

AMBIGUITY:  Doubtfulness or uncertainty of meaning or intention.
AMBIVALENCE:  Uncertainty or fluctuation which is caused by inability to choose or by a simultaneous desire to say or do two opposite or conflicting things.
CONNOTATIVE:  Implying a secondary meaning to a word in addition to the primary meaning.
SUBJECTIVE:  Existing in the mind, also the characteristics of an individual.
OBJECTIVE:  Ones actions of efforts towards accomplishing a goal or target.
HYPERBOLE:  Intentional exaggeration of a statement.  Not to be taken literally.
IRONY:  Using words to convey a meaning that is opposite of its actual meaning. 
SYNTAX:  The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.
SIGNIFIED:  Concept or thing denoted by a sign.
SIGNIFIER:  configuration of sound elements or other linguistic symbols representing a word or other unit in a language.
METAPHOR:  Figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a similarity.
SIMILE:  Comparing two things that are normally not alike by using the words like or as.
OBJECTIVE CORRELATIVE:  A depicted situation or chain of events that objectifies a particular emotion in a way to produce emotion in the reader.
METONOMY:  Figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for relating it to another.
MEMESIS:  Imitation or reproduction of the supposed words of another.
PERFORMATIVE:  Performing an act by the very fact of uttering.  I play, performs the act of playing.
PARADOX:  A statement that seems self-contradicting or absurd, but in reality, represent a truth.
JUXTAPOSITION:  Placing close together or side by side in order to compare or contrast.
COLLAGE:  The art form of pasting together random things that are normally not associated with each other.  Can be used for presentations or other things.
MONTAGE:  Technique of making a composition of pictorial elements from various sources, as either to give the illusion that the elements belonged together originally.
FRAGMENTATION:  The collapse or breakdown of norms of thoughts or behavior.
SATIRE:  Literary composition, in verse in which human folly and vice are held up to ridicule.
PARODY:  A humorous or funny imitation of a serious form of literature or writing.
FARCE:  A foolish show, mockery, or ridiculous sham.
CONSTRAINT:  Limitation or restriction, also the suppression of impulses.
FORM:  External appearance, or shape of thing or person.
GENRE:  The class or category of an artistic endeavor, having a specific form, shape or technique.
NEW GENRE: Recent forms of genre to immerge in society.
SUB-GENRE:  A class or category within a genre.
HYBRID-GENRE:  A mix of numerous genre’s or numerous types of genre’s.
STYLE:  A particular kind, sort, or type with reference to form appearance and character.
AVANT-GARDE:  Advance group in the visual, literary, or musical arts fields, whose works are characterized by weird and experimental methods.
POSTMODERNISM:  Number of trends or movements in the arts and literature developing in the 1970s in reaction to or rejection of practices of modernism.
SURREALISM:  Style of art and literature developed principally in the 20th century, stressing the subconscious or non-rational significance of imagery.
REALISM:  Interest or concern for real things, actual things, and just the real in general.
METAFICTION:  Fiction that analyzes or describes a work of fiction or the conventions of fiction.
PLOT:  The storyline, scheme, main story, or plan in a piece of literary work.
NARRATIVE:  Story or account of events or experiences, whether true or fictitious.
STORY:  A narrative, either true or fictitious, designed to entertain and please the reader.

NONNARRATIVE:  A reading that isn’t a story or account of events.

ANTI-NARRATIVE:  The opposite of a narrative in all ways.

POINT OF VIEW:  An opinion, attitude or judgment, also the way a book is written.

PERSONA:  A person's perceived or evident personality.

LYRIC:  Having the form and musical quality of a song.  One word within a song.

RHYTHM:  movement with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat, accent, or the like.

FOOT:  Bottom part of the leg that we stand on when walking.

METER:  Unit of measurement that is equal to about three feet.

RHYME:  A word agreeing with another in terms of its sound.
STANZA:  Arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, that form a division of a poem.

Other Related Terms you may wish to include (OPTIONAL)

APORIA:  The expression of doubt, as about where to begin or what to do or say.
ARS POETICA:  A treatise on the art of poetry or poetics.
BILDUNGSROMAN:  A type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist.
CONCEPTUAL ART:  Art that emphasis is placed on the means and processes of producing art objects rather than on the objects themselves and in which the various tools and techniques, as photographs, photocopies, video records, and the construction of environments and earthworks, are used to convey the message to the spectator.
CONCEPTUAL WRITING:  Writing that emphasizes the process of creating literature rather than the objects themselves.
DISCOURSE:  Communication of thoughts through words, talk and conversation.
DEFAMILIARIZATION:  Forgetting what you already are familiar with.
FORMALISM:  Strict staying to, or observance of, traditional forms in music, poetry, and art.
IMPROVISATION:  Doing a performance off the top of one’s head.  To have to practice before performing.
STRUCTURED IMPROVISATION:  Performing with no practice and on the spot, while still having some guidelines to the performance.
INTERTEXTUALITY:  The network of relations, conventions, and expectations by which the text is defined; relationship between texts.
MODERNISM:  A modern usage or characteristic.
REFERENT:  The object or event to which a term or symbol refers.
REPRESENTATION:  Action or speech on behalf of a person, group or representative.
RHETORIC:  The use of exaggeration or display; bombast.
SIMULTANEITY:  Existing, occurring, or operating at the same time.
SYNECDOCHE:  Figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part.  Ex. Ten sails for ten ships.