WR115: Vocabulary #1

Remember to give an example and explain why it's a good example in the sentence for each term.

• Allusion: a historical or cultural reference to something outside the piece of literature 
• Analogy: a comparison of two things
• Anti-hero: Never overcomes inner demons and is, instead, destroyed by them; can be an outlaw or villain to society, but is sympathetic to the audience; cynical or wounded
• Archetypes: (in Jungian psychology) a collectively inherited unconscious idea, pattern of thought, image, etc., universally present in individual psyches.
• Breath: the center of being alive; its rhythm indicates mood
• Canon of Literature: a list of works, compiled by experts that represent an author, time period, or society
• Characterization: creating and establishing specific individuals (characters) in a story, poem, or film
• Comedy: meant to amuse; all problems work out perfectly in the end
• Connotation: secondary or associated meanings for a word
• Criticism: term for works concerned with defining, analyzing, classifying, and evaluating words of literature.