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| error in chronology, placing an event, person, item, or language expression in the wrong period |
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| an avant-garde style in which structure plot and characterization are disregarded or garbled in order to stress their lack of logic in nature and the man’s isolation in a universe which has no meaning or value |
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| contrary ideas expressed in a balanced sentence. It is the juxtaposition of two words, phrases, clauses, or sentences contrasted or opposed in meaning in such a way as to give emphasis to their contrasting ideas and give the effect of balance. |
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| a brief, pithy, usually concise statement or observation of a doctrine, principle, truth, or sentiment |
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| a drop, often sudden and unexpected, from a dignified or important idea or situation to a trivial one or a descent from something sublime to something ridiculous, in fiction or drama, this refers to action which is disappointing to contrast to the previous moment of intense interest or anything which follows the climax. |
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| Verse form typically consisting of 3 8-line stanzas, each with a constant meter and a particular rhyme scheme |
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| coming of age novel, author represents the psychological, moral and social shaping of the personality of a character, usually the protagonist |
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| Pompous or overly wordy, high sounding, but with little meaning, inflated, overfilled |
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| discordant sounds in the jarring juxtaposition of harsh letters or syllables which are grating to the ear, usually inadvertent, but sometimes deliberately used in poetry for effect. |
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| a break or a pause in a metrical line of poetry, often marked by punctuation |
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| occurs when the order of words is reversed in parallel expressions |
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| literally “God from the machine” is a plot device whereby a previous intractable problem is suddenly and abruptly solved with a contrived introduction of a new character, ability, or object. |
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| A litereaty technique by which a character is duplicated (usually in the form of an alter ego, though sometimes as a ghostly counterpart) or devided into two distinct, usually opposite personalities. The use of this character device is widespread in nineteenth and twentieth century literature and indicates a growing awareness among authors that self is really a composite of many selves |
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| Ekphrastic: a literary commentary or description of any work of art, often dramatic in nature |
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| An ambition and effort to equal, excel or surpass another, to complete or rical with some degree of success, especially through imitation. |
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| a rhetorical term for an adjective or adjective phrase used to characterize a person or a thing. “epithetic” |
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| the substitution of an inoffensive term (such as passed away) for one considered offensivelu explicit (dead) |
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| in literary criticism, works characterized by a taste for the medieval or morbidly attractive |
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| used disruption or inversion of customary word order to produce a distinctive effect: also, a figure in which language takes a sudden turn usually an interruption |
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| the literary and artistic narrative technique wherein the relation of a story begins either at the mid-point or at the conclusion, rather than at the beginning, establishing setting, character, and conflict via the flashback and expository conversations relating the pertinent past. |
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| absurd or humorous misuse of a word especially by confusion with one of similar sound |
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| a figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted with one that it is closely associated with. |
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| a type of literature that attempts to apply scientific principles of objectivity and attachment to the study of human beings. Unlike realism, which focuses on literary techniwue, naturalism implies a philosophical position. |
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| a theory of the poet John Keats describing the capacity for accepting uncertainty and the unresolved. |
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