Lexicon, Part 5? 6? Episode 1: The Super League of Frighteningly Happy and Odd Looking Animals’ Adventure!
The vantage point or perspective from which a story is told Includes an awareness of speaker’s tone or attitude. Head of the Terrible Belligerent Robot Band
Definition Tells the story with the first person pronoun, “I,” and is a character in the story. This narrator can be the protagonist, a secondary character, or an observing character. I knew that the leader of the Terrible BRB hated the Super LoL, so I thought, if I could just destroy the Super LoL, I might get promoted to Terribot!
Definition Relates the events with the third person pronouns, “he,” “she,” and “it.” third person omniscient - the narrator, with godlike knowledge, presents the thoughts and actions of any or all characters third person limited omniscient, in which the narrator presents the feelings and thoughts of only one character, presenting only the actions of all the remaining characters. And so, though they were unaware, the Super LoL were at great risk, for Hover, and that strange worm droid thing of his, and some other belligerent robots were planning a horrible attack…
Definition A terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle. Can be a memorable summation of the author’s point. Examples “To be great is to be misunderstood.” Ralph Waldo Emerson “A penny saved is a penny earned.” - Benjamin Franklin Hey Hart, “Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.” Hmmm… Maybe I SHOULD get ice cream…
Definition Brief, pointed statement, with elevated style that often uses rhetorical devices, such as parallelism. Distinction: aphorism is closer to a proverb (moral); epigram is a brief jewel of words Examples What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole; Its body brevity, and wit its soul. —Samuel Taylor Coleridge “Always forgive your enemies: nothing annoys them so much.” Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Definition The use of a quotation at the beginning of a work that hints at its theme. Example Peter uses an epigraph at the beginning of his article: “ We pressed a thought into the wayside, planted an impression along the verge. - from "Marginalia" by Billy Collins Hmmm… I want ice cream
Definition A short, simple narrative of an incident Often used for humorous effect or to make a point Appeals to Pathos Example In “On the Decay of the Art of Lying,” Twain uses an anecdote about the woman who silently lies about her nurse by not filling in negative information. This one time, when I was a young member of the Terrible BRB, I destroyed the ROFL League real good. I just left the room. They thought it was for a second, but it wasn’t… Mwahaha
Definition A short tale that teaches a moral Example The prodigal son and other parables in the Bible! I know you want ice cream now. But remember the story about the impatient gazelle… You know what the belligerent robotic lion did to it…
Noooooo! Hehehe…
Definition A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. It is an address to someone or something that cannot answer. May add familiarity or emotional intensity. Examples “Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon…” – Romeo Ice cream! Where are you when I need you?
Definition Interrupts chronological work to tell of earlier time. Breaks from chronology for plot, theme, or stylistic reasons. Example Wait a second…
Definition The central idea or message of a work, the insight it offers into life. Usually theme is unstated in fictional works, but in nonfiction, the theme may be directly stated, especially in expository or argumentative writing. Ice cream makes everything better.