Rhythm and scale of consonant sounds - Schema

Rhythm and scale of consonant sounds

Words

A single unit of language which has meaning and can be spoken or written.

Patterns

Continuous and sometimes funny speech or talk, especially used by someone trying to sell things or by an entertainer.

Rhythm and subject matter

Like other aspects of a poem, rhythm helps give form to its meaning. The quality of rhythm is usually linked to the subject matter and emotional content of a poem.

Blank verse

A type of poetry that does not rhyme, usually with ten syllables in each line.

Novel story

Plot

The sequence of imagined incidents or events in a narrative.

Story

A description, either true or imagined, of a connected series of events.

Setting

The place and time in which the action of a narrative takes place.

The features of a narrative text

Narrative modes

The author chooses the way to tell his story using dialogue, description, or narration.

Usually these modes are interwoven according to the writer’s aim.

Point of view

Is the vantage point from which a story is told.

First-person narrator

The narrator is a participant in the story.

Third-person narrator

A story told by a narrator who is not one of the story's participants.

Characters

Caricatures

A caricature is a description of a person using exaggeration of some characteristics and oversimplification of others.

Flat

Is a minor character in a work of fiction who does not undergo substantial change or growth in the course of a story.

Round

Is a major character in a work of fiction who encounters conflict and is changed by it.

The features of a narrative text

Theme

A theme is the central idea or ideas explored by a literary work.

Satire

A text or performance that uses irony, derision, or wit to expose or attack human vice, foolishness, or stupidity.

Irony

The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning; a statement or situation where the meaning is contradicted by the appearance or presentation of the idea.

Humour

Is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement.

Verbal irony

Verbal irony involves an intended meaning of a statement that differs from the meaning that the words appear to express.

Situational irony

Situational irony is a trope in which there is an incongruity between what is expected or intended and what actually occurs.

Dramatic irony

Dramatic irony is an effect produced by a narrative in which the audience knows more about present or future circumstances than a character in the story.