Core Concept Notes (1/31- 2/04)

The Novel
-comes from the Italian word novella, meaning little new thing
-usually 30,000-100,000 words
-it has plot complexity, using characters
-Three early british writers

• Daniel Dafoe
• Samuel Richarson
• Henry Fielding

-novels soon became so poular becuase of four things

1. a larger educated middle class with a little extra money
2. cheaper production and circulation
3. publication of novels in serial form
4. a system of circulating libraries

Terms
-Repetition

• anaphora: emphasizing words with repetition at the begining of the clauses
• antipostrophe: the repetition of words at the end of successive clauses
• anadiplosis: the repetition of a word from the en of a clause to the beginning of the next
• epizeuxis: repetition of words in amediate succession
• polysyndeton: the repetition of a conjunction
• alliteration: the repetition of initial sounds
• assonance: the repetition of vowal souns in close proximity, with different consonants
• consonance: the repetition of consonant sounds, usually at the end

-Parallelism

• antithesis: juxtaposing two ideas by joining them together

-Inversion

• anastrophe: inversion of common western word order ie: yoda
• chiasmus: two or more clauses are related by inverte parallelism
• antimetabole: the repetition of words in successive clauses with transposed order