English Literary Studies (Fach) / Glossary (Lektion)
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- Act A discrete section of a drama, which is distinguished by a total change of character configuration, a long pause, a change of scene action
- Action (Handlung) term that refers in the broadest sense to -> events enacted by -> characters as a result of their abilities, needs, motivations and intentions; a corollary of -> character perspective; term used to describe the overall movement of -> events, espacially in drama. In the analysis of drama, the analysis of drama, the action is subvided into individual units, for example -> act and scene
- Analepsis flashback
- Antagonist the opponent of the protagonist in narrative and dramatic texts
- Blank verse Consists of unrhymed iambic pentameters; used in drama (Shakespear) and epic (Milton) as well as in poetry
- Chronological narration the narrated events occur in the same sequence as in their 'natural' temporal chronology
- Autodiegestic narrator Homodiegetic narrator, who is also the main character and nartates his or her own life story
- Covert narrator Narrator who recounts the action in a detached and factual manner, who is not presented as an individualised speaker, and whose role is restricted to the basic narrative functions (recounting the action and supplying deictic information concerning place/space, time and characters); common in the figural narrative situation.
- Aesthetic illusion the impressio conveyed to the reader by means of the imitation of perceptual structures and information that he or she is personally experiencing the fictional world of a dramatic or narrative text as though the characters really existed and the action really happened
- Epilogue concluding part of a literary text; in drama, concluding speech which is addressed to the audience by one of the characters. Counterpart to the prologue
- Event Smallest unit of the action
- Heterodigetic narrator narrator who is located outside the world he or she describes, and does not appear as a character; conventionally accredited with omniscence; the speech situation is frequently deictically (i.e. temporally and spatially) undetermined.
- Homodiegetic narrator Narrator who participates him- or herself as a character in the fictional action of the narrated world; is by law of convention subject to the epistemological boundaries of real agents of the plot, and is therefore not 'omniscient'
- Line in poetry analysis: line of a poem which is offset typographically from the others. Often has a metrical structure
- Verse poetic composition written in metre
- Plot Term that refers to the structure of the action. i.e. the causal and logical sequence of the events that occur in the narrated world; complementary term to 'story'.
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- Primary text In tandem with the secondary text,comprises a constitutive element of dramatic texts; consists of the characters' uttetances.
- Prolepsis flashforward
- Protagonist In a narrative or dramatic text, main character, whose plans and intention are often thwarted by an antagonist
- Absolute nature of dramatic texts In contrast to narrative texts, dramatic texts do not comprise a mediating communication system; intratextual communication is restricted to the diegetic level of the characters