LITERARY AND GRAMMAR TERMSMRS. TURNBULL

5TH, 6TH, 7TH PERIOD

ANACHRONISM

• ANACHRONISM IS AN ERROR IN CHRONOLOGY, OR PLACING AN EVENT, PERSON, ITEM, OR LANGUAGE EXPRESSION IN THE WRONG PERIOD.

• EXAMPLE IN LITERATURE: BRUTUS: PEACE! COUNT THE CLOCK.CASSIUS: THE CLOCK HAS STRICKEN THREE.ACT II, SCENE I : LINES 193 – 194• THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF ANACHRONISM BECAUSE THERE WERE NO CLOCKS

DURING ROMAN TIMES, AND THE STRIKING CLOCK WAS NOT INVENTED UNTIL 1,400 YEARS AFTER CAESAR’S DEATH.

PARODY

• A PARODY IS A TEXT THAT IMITATES ANOTHER WORK OR GENRE IN ORDER TO ENTERTAIN AN AUDIENCE.• EXAMPLE: WEIRD AL YANKOVICH CREATES MANY PARODIES SUCH AS

AMISH PARADISE FOR GANGSTA PARADISE• HERE IS AN EXAMPLE OF A PARODY OF TAYLOR SWIFT’S

“I KNEW YOU WERE TROUBLE.”

MALAPROPISM

WHEN SOMEONE USES THE WRONG WORD WHILE TRYING TO GET THEIR POINT ACROSS. OFTEN THE WORD WILL HAVE A SIMILAR SOUND.