Lit. Term Remixes 1-138

I have remixed all these terms with everything Disney.

1.Allegory: a tale is a prose or verse in which characters,actions, or settings represent abstract ideas or moral qualities; a story that uses symbols to make a point

In the movie Lady and the Tramp shows a moral that is taught between two animals, two dogs, they are all from different social classes but they are still able to fall in love. The moral is the love is blind.

 

2.Alliteration:  the repetition of similar initial sounds, usually consonants, in a group of words

 An example is the Hollywood Tower of Terror Hotel.

3.Allusion:  a reference to a person, a place, an event or a literary work that a writer expects reader to recognize

Here is in the movie Enchanted she is cleaning with animals to a Happy Working Song

The original scene was from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs  Whistle While You Work

 

4.Ambiguity: something uncertain as to interpretation

 In this clip it challenges the idea of who are the savages? The native Americans? The English? Or both?

5.Anachronism: something that shows up in the wrong place or the wrong time

In the movie Hercules Pegasus is made by Zeus using clouds. When in Greek Mythology Pegasus never came in to contact with Hercules. Poseidon was his owner.

 

6.Analogy: a comparison made between two things to show similarities between them

Mickey Mouse is to Minnie Mouse as Donald Duck is to Daisy Duck.

7.Analysis: a method in which a work or idea is separated into it parts, and those parts given detailed scrutiny

 My analysis on this song and clip is that a girl has a lot of pressure put on her. Which leads to the stereotype of this century that all Asians and their parents push on their children to be perfect and bring honor to their family.

8.Anaphora: a device or repetition in which a word or words are repeated at the beginning of two or more lines

 

 

" Up where they walk, Up where they run, Up where they stay all day in the sun"

 

9.Anecdote: a very short story to illustrate a point. 

Disney Pixar " Day and Night"

10.Antagonist: a person or force opposing the protagonist in a story or narrative

 Scar is the opposing force when Simba tries to return to be king.
Protagonist: the central character in a work of fiction; opposes antagonist.
Simba in the protagonist.

11.Antithesis: a balancing of one term against another for emphasis or stylistic effectiveness

In many Disney movies they use emotional response from the audience to capture them into the story. Here they show a husband and wife in their journey that does not end up so well.

12.Aphorism: pointed statement that expresses some wise or clever observation about life

Here Simba is being told some very wise words that help him cope with his father's death.

13.Apologia: A defense or justification for some doctrine, piece of writing, cause, or action.

14.Apostrophe: A figure of speech in which an absent or dead person, an abstract quality, or something inanimate or nonhuman is addressed directly.

Here Bambi is trying to speak to his mother, which is the absent or dead person being addressed directly.

15.Argument(ation): The process of convincing a reader by proving the truth or the falsity of an idea or proposition.

Here they are trying to prove that the glass slipper does not fit when in fact it does.

16.Assumption: The act of supposing, or taking for granted that a thing is true.

Here they assume that Hercules will never return home and that he will defeat Hades but *spoiler alert* he does in the end.

17.Audience: The intended listener(s)

Here at the end Pocahontas' audience are the British and the Native Americans she wants them to listen.

18.Characterization: The means in which the writer reveals a character's personality

In this scene they talk about Pocahontas is a free spirit like her mother. She goes where the wind takes her.

19.Chisamus: A reversal in the order off word so that the second half of the statement balances the first half in an inverted word order.

Here Yoda say "suffer your father's fate, you will"
P.S Disney bought Lucas films
20.Circumlocution: A roundabout or evasive speech or writing, in which many words are used but few would have served.

Captain Jack Sparrow give a roundabout answer the key they are in search for.

21.Classicism: art, literature, and music reflecting the principles of ancient Greece and Rome.

Here show art, music, and somewhat form of literature of ancient Greece.

22.Cliche: a phrase of situation overused within society

Famous cliche from Bambi.

23.Climax: the decisive point in narrative or drama; the pint of greatest intensity or interest at which plot question is answered or resolved.



Here Andy finally decides what he gonna do with his toys and his favorite Woody.

24.Colloquialism: folksy speech, slang words, phrases usually used informal conversation
The above clip also demostrates the simple words used to speak to a little girl.
 
25.Comedy: originally nondramatic literary piece of work the was marked by a happy ending; now a term to describe a ludicrous faricial, or amusing event designed to provide enjoyment or produce smiles and laughter

Top comedy moments in Disney.

26.Conflict: struggle or problem causing the story

When Aurora touches the spindle is the main conflict because it causes not only herself to enter a deep sleep but also the entire country.

27.Connotation: Implicit meaning, going beyond dictionary definition

This goes beyond the basic definition of a man. Here they are all made to become strong and "real"men.

28.Contrast: a rhetorical device by which one element is thrown into a opposition to another for sake of emphasis or clarity

Here the contrast is in order for him to learn a listen he must be changed into a bear. This emphasis that he needs to learn about what he has done wrong.

29.Denotation: plain dictionary definition

Definition of a Disney Princess is a heroine or damsel in distress who overcomes a hardship.

30.Denouement: loose ends tied up in a story after the climax, closure, conclusion

After Jafar is defeated you find out that Genie is let free to live his life and the of course live happily ever after.

31.Dialect: the language of a particular district, class or group of persons; the sounds, grammar, and diction employed by people distinguished from others.

You can see that the dialect has a southern accent to show where they lived and grew up.

 

32.Dialectics: formal debates usually over the nature of truth.

 Pocahontas believes that nature is connected to everyone and the every living thing has a life. John Smith only see as the animals as monsters and everything he walks on he can claim.

33.Dichotomy: split or break between two opposing things.

 Here is a split between cartoon and real life fairy tales.  Cartoons and real life are opposing things.  If you have seen this move you seen them come together are hard for them to figure out what is real until they finally see the difference.

34.Diction: the style of speaking or writing as reflected in the choice and use of words.

 Here the author uses English and Spanish to show the tone of the movie.

35.Didactic: having to do with the transmission of information; education.

Here she is trying to teach Tarzan what he does not know about since living in the wild.

 

36.Dogmatic: rigid in beliefs and principles.

Here he thinks that all Gypsy's are monsters and he thinks he needs to kill the baby.

 

37.Elegy: a mournful, melancholy poem, especially a funeral song or lament for the dead, sometimes contains general reflections on death, often with a rural or pastoral setting.

 Here she is not mournful about death but about her life and her people. It is also in a pastoral setting.

38.Epic: a long narrative poem unified by a hero who reflects the customs, mores, and aspirations of his nation of race as he makes his way through legendary and historic exploits, usually over a long period of time (definition bordering on circumlocution).

 Hercules is an epic movie that is from an epic poem which is his journey of becoming a god while facing mythical creatures.

39.Epigram: witty aphorism.

 

Here Rafiki is not only telling him but showing him.

40.Epitaph: any brief inscription in prose or verse on a tombstone; a short formal poem of commemoration often a credo written by the person who wishes it to be on his tombstone.

 This is Madame Leota's tombstone from Disneyland.

41.Epithet: a short, descriptive name or phrase that  may insult someone’s character, characteristics

 

Should not have called him pig. You can use this for the next term as well.

42.Euphemism: the use of an indirect, mild or vague word or expression for one thought to be coarse, offensive, or blunt.

43.Evocative (evocation): a calling forth of memories and sensations; the suggestion or production through artistry and imagination of a sense of reality.

 This is how they remember the scene. This is from Lion King 1 1/2.

44.Exposition: beginning of a story that sets forth facts, ideas, and/or characters, in a detailed

 Here the muses talk about the plot and the characters which is the exposition.

45.Expressionism: movement in art, literature, and music consisting of unrealistic   representation of an inner idea or feeling(s).

 Here she is using song and the things that she has found to express how much she wants to live outside of the water.

46.Fable: a short, simple story, usually with animals as characters, designed to teach a moral truth.

 Don't be mean to people who are different.

47.Fallacy: from Latin word “to deceive”, a false or misleading notion, belief, or argument; any kind of erroneous reasoning that makes arguments unsound.

 Here is a song that talks about a story and the act of one that seems to in power who takes in a monster. But in reality who is the monster and who is the man?

48.Falling Action: part of the narrative or drama after the climax.

After Andy decides what to do with Woody and his toys is the falling action. The climax was when he made his decision.

 

49.Farce: a boisterous comedy involving ludicrous action and dialogue.

 Mr. Whiskers did not leave you a message in the liter box.

50.Figurative Language: apt and imaginative language characterized by figures of speech (such as metaphor and simile).

 Lips as red as rose, hair black as ebony, skin as white as snow

51.Flashback: a narrative device that flashes back to prior events.

Here Simba gets a flashback of his father Mufasa.

 

52.Foil: a person or thing that, by contrast, makes another seem better or more prominent.

Here the mirror reveals that even if Snow White is in rags she will still be more fairer than her.

 

53.Folk Tale: story passed on by word of mouth.

Here in this scene from Pocahontas is an example because he is telling a story to the younger ones. 

54.Foreshadowing: in fiction and drama, a device to prepare the reader for the outcome of the action; “planning” to make the outcome convincing, though not to give it away.

In the song Belle is speaking about a book the foreshadows the rest of the movie. "Her name means beauty" " A story about far out places, daring sword fights, magic spells, and a prince in disguise."

 

55.Free Verse: verse without conventional metrical pattern, with irregular pattern or no rhyme.

This is just a repetition of the same phrase without actual pattern.

 

56.Genre: a category or class of artistic endeavor having a particular form, technique, or content.

 Many Disney movies are considered fairy tales which fall into the fiction genre.

57.Gothic Tale: a style in literature characterized by gloomy settings, violent or grotesque action, and a mood of decay, degeneration, and decadence.

 Here is a Gothic setting and has a sacrifice in.

58.Hyperbole: an exaggerated statement often used as a figure of speech or to prove a point.

 Simba says that together they are one and part of each other. He does not mean this in a literal sense but he is trying to prove a point to Kiera.

59.Imagery: figures of speech or vivid description, conveying images through any of the senses.

 Lips as red as rose, hair black as ebony, skin as white as snow. Through just this description she is able to figure out that it is Snow White who he is speaking of.

60.Implication: a meaning or understanding that is to be arrive at by the reader but that is not fully and explicitly stated by the author.

In the movie Brother Bear Keni is turned into a bear in order for him to learn a lesson and at the end he decides to stay a a bear. But he doe not say why and as a watcher you have to watch the movie and see why he decides to stay like that. *spoiler alert* He begins to love the bear inside of him. And begins to love Koda.

 

61.Incongruity: the deliberate joining of opposites or of elements that are not appropriate to each other.

Even though they are both animals one is a trained pet while the other lives in the wild by himself. They are complete opposites when they meet in the way that they grow up.

 

62.Inference: a judgement or conclusion based on evidence presented; the forming of an opinion which possesses some degree of probability according to facts already available.

Here the watcher has to decide after watching the whole movie who is truly the savage. After watching this clip who do you think is the savage?

 

63.Irony: a contrast or incongruity between what is said and what is meant, or what is expected to happen and what actually happens, or what is thought to be happening and what is actually happening.





 Here the are celebrating an Unbirthday as if it were a birthday.

64.Interior Monologue: a form of writing which represents the inner thoughts of a character; the recording of the internal, emotional experience(s) of an individual; generally the reader is given the impression of overhearing the interior monologue.

Alice is talking about the world of her own and what it would be like. You are able to hear her emotional thoughts and feelings.

 

65.Inversion: words out of order for emphasis.

 "Size matters not...."

P.S Disney bought Lucas Films

66.Juxtaposition: the intentional placement of a word, phrase, sentences of paragraph to contrast with another nearby.

 Yoda places his words in different places in order to talk about the force in contrast and for emphasis.

P.S Disney bought Lucas Films

67.Lyric: a poem having musical form and quality; a short outburst of the author’s innermost thoughts and feelings.

 Mulan began to sing about her thoughts and feelings on how her reflection is someone she does not know.

68.Magic(al) Realism:  a genre developed in Latin America which juxtaposes the everyday  with the marvelous or magical.

During a random day a prince was suddenly exposed to live with magic everyday of his life until he learned to love.

 

69.Metaphor(extended, controlling, and mixed): an analogy that compare two different

things imaginatively.  see different examples below

70.Extended: a metaphor that is extended or developed as far as the writer
wants to take it.

"Where they cut off your ear if they don't like your face, it's barbaric, but hey, it's home." Is a metaphor for how ancient Arabic people lived. If you stole a piece of bread you would be killed.

71.Controlling: a metaphor that runs throughout the piece of work.

Throughout the movie Aladdin is considered the diamond in the rough. The phrase is carried out with him throughout the whole movie.

72.Mixed: a metaphor that ineffectively blends two or more analogies.

 " I know that your powers of redemption are as wet as a warthogs backside" "its clear by your expression that the lights are not on inside" Scar is trying to not only get them to pay attention but he is also saying that they are stupid. He is trying to make them feel as if they will benefit.

73.Metonymy:  literally “name changing” a device of figurative language in which the name of an attribute or associated thing is substituted for the usual name of a thing.

 "Where they cut off your ear if they don't like your face, it's barbaric, but hey, it's home."  this metaphor is taken out in this video in most Aladdin movies.

74.Mode of Discourse:  argument (persuasion), narration, description, and exposition.

The Muses argue with the narrator then they begin to narrate while the give a description of the main character and plot .

75.Modernism:  literary movement characterized by stylistic experimentation, rejection of tradition, interest in symbolism and psychology

In Tarzan they put the main character in the hands of gorillas who end up raising and taking care of him. But they first get rid of Tarzan's parents then the gorilla's baby. They are able to find each other and fill that void which would not be traditional in many stories.

 

76.Monologue:  an extended speech by a character in a play, short story, novel, or narrative poem.

 Meg's speech is all about how she does not want to fall in love and that she should have learned her lesson.

77.Mood:  the predominating atmosphere evoked by a literary piece.

 This song sets the mood with the diction that is used. Sense it is bilingual in English and Spanish it shows that it will have culture in it. The different colors and the tone of the song show that it will be a funny movie.

78.Motif:  a recurring feature (name, image, or phrase) in a piece of literature.

 The White Rabbit is the reason for Alice going into Wonderland and her adventure in it.

79.Myth:  a story, often about immortals, and sometimes connected with religious rituals, that attempts to give meaning to the mysteries of the world.

Here is the myth in Peter Man. It explains what makes the red man red.  "Lets go back a million years when the first Indian Prince kissed a maid he began to blush and we have all been blushing since."

 

80.Narrative:  a story or description of events.

This is a description of the events that happen in Lilo and Stitch

 In a place far, far away, illegal genetic experiment #626 is detected: Ruthless scientist Dr. Jumba Jookiba has created a strong, intelligent, nearly indestructible and aggressive being with only one known weakness: The high density of his body makes it impossible for the experiment to swim in water. The scientist is sentenced to jail by the Grand Council of the Galactic Federation. The experiment is supposed to be transported to a prison asteroid, yet manages to escape Captain Gantu, who was supposed to deliver him there. With a stolen police cruiser (the red one), the destructive being races towards a little and already doomed planet: Earth. Stranded on Hawaii, experiment #626 can't actually do much harm: water all around, no big cities and two well-equipped representatives of the Galactic Federation already following close behind to catch him again. But Dr. Jookiba and the Earth expert Pleakley never could have guessed that earth girl Lilo adopts the experiment as dog, gives him the name Stitch and actually causes an emotional development in the little beast. Her dysfunctional family, consisting only of Lilo and her sister Nani, is about to be ripped apart by social worker Cobra Bubbles. Stitch as the new family member brings quite some action into all their lifes, and after a while, not even Pleakley and Dr. Jookiba can recognize their former target. But how shall they bring the news of failure to the Grand Councilwoman without being punished?

81.Narrator:  one who narrates, or tells, a story.

 Here there is a man with a deep voice who is narrating the story of Wall.E.

82.Naturalism: extreme form of realism.

This is an extreme form of realism because it comes out and plainly tells you that even if you come from two different worlds or grown up two different ways we are still all the same no matter what. That is what life is, simple with many aspects.

 

83.Novelette/Novella: short story; short prose narrative, often satirical.

Here is short story about a little lamb who gets taken and shaved. It is satirical because it shows how society will take what it wants from someone and then leave them. It also shows that if you do not look a certain way than the gives reason for someone to laugh.

 

84.Omniscient Point of View:  knowing all things, usually the third person.

 Here the narrator has an omniscient point of view. He knows the story of Walle before he knows himself. He also knows about what happened to mankind.

85.Onomatopoeia: use of a word whose sound in some degree imitates or suggests itsmeaning.

 RAWR

86.Oxymoron: a figure of speech in which two contradicting words or phrases are combined to produce a rhetorical effect by means of a concise paradox.

I consider this is an oxymoron because you cannot just not grow up. It is impossible.   
87.Pacing:  rate of movement; tempo.

 This is all about pacing. Here in racing you have to be fast and move at lightening speed.

88.Parable:  a story designed to convey some religious principle, moral lesson, or general truth.

 Here is the Disney remixed version of Dickens A Christmas Carol. This teaches a moral lesson or a truth about life.

89.Paradox:  a statement apparently self-contradictory or absurd but really containing a possible truth; an opinion contrary to generally accepted ideas.

 

90.Parallelism: the principle in sentence structure that states elements of equal function should have equal form.

 Mickey likes to sing, dance, and play.
not parallel
Mickey likes to sing, dance, and playing with Pluto.

91.Parody:  an imitation of mimicking of a composition or of the style of a well-known artist.

 Here is a Disney parody of Mean Girls.

92.Pathos:  the ability in literature to call forth feelings of pity, compassion, and/or sadness.

 

Here they use a song to bring out pity from the audience for Kovu.

93.Pedantry: a display of learning for its own sake.

 The boys who got changed to donkeys needed to learn for their own sake. If you act a certain way you will be/ become that way.

94.Personification: a figure of speech attributing human qualities to inanimate objects or  abstract ideas.

 Here the author is using the inanimate objects cars in order to bring about the moral of the story.

95.Plot: a plan or scheme to accomplish a purpose.

This is not the entire plot but it is a plot when the need to accomplish being a distraction to the hyenas.

 
96.Poignant:  eliciting sorrow or sentiment.

 Here Aladdin is showing sorrow because people only see him as a street rat.

97.Point of View: the attitude unifying any oral or written argumentation; in description, the physical point from which the observer views what he is describing.

 

98.Postmodernism: literature characterized by experimentation, irony, nontraditional forms, multiple meanings, playfulness and a blurred boundary between real and imaginary.

 Here the characters are torn between what is real and imaginary. There is plenty of irony, playfulness, and multiple meanings in this movie.

99.Prose:  the ordinary form of spoken and written language; language that does not have a regular rhyme pattern.

 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney

100.Protagonist: the central character in a work of fiction; opposes antagonist.

SEE ABOVE ANTAGONIST

 

101.Pun:  play on words; the humorous use of a word emphasizing different meanings or applications.

 "If it’s not baroque, don’t fix it." Cogsworth tells Lumiere

102.Purpose: the intended result wished by an author.

Disney's purpose through all his movies is that dreams do come true. Through all his movies he wants to show that in the toughest of times good thing do come out of it. 

103.Realism:  writing about the ordinary aspects of life in a straightforward manner to reflect life as it actually is.

 

 

104.Refrain:  a phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a poem or song; chorus.

 "kiss the girl"

105.Requiem:  any chant, dirge, hymn, or musical service for the dead.

 At the beginning of this song there is a chant and throughout there is a hymn.

106.Resolution: point in a literary work at which the chief dramatic complication is worked out; denouement.

 After Facilier is defeated they are able to get married, but that is not they end. They also end up changing back to being human which brings about the resolution.

107.Restatement: idea repeated for emphasis.

The totems behind repeat "hes got friends on the other side" to emphasis his special friends.

 

108.Rhetoric: use of language, both written and verbal in order to persuade.

 Here Genie is trying to persuade that he really is a genie. His use of language helps the persuasion.

109.Rhetorical Question: question suggesting its own answer or not requiring an answer; used in argument or persuasion.

110.Rising Action: plot build up, caused by conflict and complications, advancement towards climax.

 This scene leads up to the conflict of Woody getting stolen.

111.Romanticism:  movement in western culture beginning in the eighteenth and peaking in the nineteenth century as a revolt against Classicism; imagination was valued over reason and fact.

 

112.Satire:  ridicules or condemns the weakness and wrong doings of individuals, groups, institutions, or humanity in general.

 *Hitler reference

113.Scansion: the analysis of verse in terms of meter.

 

Sing Sweet Nightingale is dactyl
    1     1                3

114.Setting: the time and place in which events in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem occur.

 Long ago in a far away land of ancient Greece

115.Simile:  a figure of speech comparing two essentially unlike things through the use of a specific word of comparison.

 Aladdin a street rat is like a diamond.

116.Soliloquy: an extended speech, usually in a drama, delivered by a character alone on stage.

 

Gaston is not my himself but at the beginning is an example of a short soliloquy.

 

117.Spiritual: a folk song, usually on a religious theme.

 

118.Speaker: a narrator, the one speaking.

There are two speakers first the man, then the muses.

 

119.Stereotype: cliché; a simplified, standardized conception with a special meaning and appeal for members of a group; a formula story.

The first stereotype that people come to that if you look like a beast you are a beast. In some cases it can be true and in others it is not. 

120.Stream of Consciousness: the style of writing that attempts to imitate the natural flow of a character’s thoughts, feelings, reflections, memories, and mental images, as the character experiences them.

 At the end of the movie you realize that it is all her thoughts and feelings and it did not really happen.

121.Structure: the planned framework of a literary selection; its apparent organization.

 Alice is bored with her sister's reading and want to go to a world of her own---she follows a white rabbit to Wonderland---She meets so many interesting things while trying to follow the rabbit---she ends up getting herself into trouble with many people---her final enemy the Queen---she tries to get back home

122.Style:  the manner of putting thoughts into words; a characteristic way of writing or speaking.

 

123.Subordination: the couching of less important ideas in less important  structures of language.

 The Chesire Cat has no important ideas and his structure of language just confuses Alice even more.

124.Surrealism: a style in literature and painting that stresses the subconscious or the non rational aspects of man’s existence characterized by the juxtaposition of the bizarre and the banal.

 

125.Suspension of Disbelief: suspend not believing in order to enjoy it.

 

Lilo and everyone else suspends their belief for Stitch not being a real dog. They take him as his is.

 

126.Symbol: something which stands for something else, yet has a meaning of its own.

 

 The Beast is a symbol for beauty within.

127.Synesthesia: the use of one sense to convey the experience of another sense.

 In order to get the sense for the Hollywood Tower of Terror Hotel you need to get a sense of the background. This is why they put a video of the Twilight Zone so you can experience a sense of it.

128.Synecdoche: another form of name changing, in which a part stands for the whole.

 This movie is a general idea of a "bug's life" not the ants and random butterfly's life.  It stands for the whole.

129.Syntax: the arrangement and grammatical relations of words in a sentence.

 The grammar relation is weird but it works.

130.Theme:  main idea of the story; its message(s).

The theme of Lion King is to remember who you are, everyone makes mistakes.

 

131.Thesis: a proposition for consideration, especially one to be discussed and proved

or disproved; the main idea.

 The thesis of Disney is not only to prove that dreams do come true but happiness. Many people can atest that all Disney wants to do if provide happiness.

132.Tone: the devices used to create the mood and atmosphere of a literary work; the        

author’s perceived point of view.

 This scene sets the tone for the rest of the movie.

133.Tongue in Cheek: a type of humor in which the speaker feigns seriousness; a.k.a. “dry” or “dead pan”

He is serious about his jar of dirt.

 

134.Tragedy: in literature: any composition with a somber theme carried to a disastrous conclusion; a fatal event; protagonist usually is heroic but tragically (fatally) flawed

 The tragedy in this story is that the villains finally come to power.

135.Understatement: opposite of hyperbole; saying less than you mean for emphasis

 I love Disney.

136.Vernacular: everyday speech

 Here is an everyday proposal.

137.Voice:  The textual features, such as diction and sentence structures, that convey a writer’s or speaker’s persona.

The structure of this scene conveys the writer as how he would view himself if he were an animal.

 

138.Zeitgeist: the feeling of a particular era in history

You can get a feeling of ancient Greece with the gods present.