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| what takes place during the course of a novel, drama, or narrative poem. |
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| A literary movement in the latter half of the nineteenth century, which revered beauty above all things and whose motto was " Art for Art's sake" |
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| The Repetition of a consonant sound |
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| a reference to some person, place, or event with literary, historical, or geographical significance. |
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| a comparison of ideas or objects which are essentially different, but which are alike in one significant way. for example the anaology of the grasshopper and the man that only lives for the moment. |
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| The force ( usually a person) that opposes the main character. |
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| an outcome of a situation or series of events that, by contrast with which anticipated is ludicrous or disappointing. |
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a brief statement of a general truth.
E.g " The devil finds work for idle hands" |
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A figure of speech in which words are addressed to a person or thing absent or present.
e.g " Hail, holy, lights" |
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| a word or phrase no longer used in actual speech |
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The repetition in lines of verses of the same vowel sound accompanied by unlike consonants sounds, sometimes used in place of rhyme.
e.g. " or sinking as the light wind lives or dies" John keats |
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| The general overall feeling of a literary work conveyed in large parts by setting the mood. |
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a narrative that has sprung from unknown sources, has been transmitted by word or mouth ( often altered in the process) and was intended to be sung
Ballad folk: a ballad that originated with the folk or common people
Ballad Literary: a ballad composed by a known other |
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| unrhymed verses that is generally written in iambic pentameter |
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| The effect created by the rise and fall of the voices and by the emphasis and pause required by the meaning. in other words the rhythm is not determined by a carefully planned combination of accented and unaccented syllables, as in traditional verse |
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The main pause within a line of verse to indicate both the rhythm and the sense
e.g. "To be or not to be: that is the question.." William Shakespear |
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| A person in a poem, play or work of fiction. Sometimes an animal or object |
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| The portrayal in a literary work of an imaginary person by what he says or does, by what others say about him or how they react to him, or by what the author reveals directly or through a narrator. |
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| An expression used so often that its lost its freshness and effectivness |
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| The point of the highest interest or dramatic intensity. usually it marks a turning point in the action, |
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| A fanciful image, especially an elaborate or startling anaology |
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| The struggle between two opposing forces. |
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| The implied or suggester meaning. |
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| The bringing together or ideas, images or characters to show how they differ. |
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| two consecutive lines of a verse |
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| the precise literal definition |
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| The unraveling of the plot, following the climax |
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| The speech that is characteristic of a particular region |
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| The printed conversation between two or more characters |
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| morally instructive or intended to be so |
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| inharmonious or harsh sound |
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| a poem in which a single character reveals his own nature as well as the details ( time, place, other characters etc) |
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| a poem of subjective or mediative nature, especially one of grief |
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| any witty or pointed saying concisely expressed. |
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| a related group of incidents, or a major event that comprises all or part of the main plot, in a long work |
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| a fairly short nonfiction piece in which the author expresses his thoughts and feeling on any subject he chooses to discuss. |
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| an essay in which the primary purpose of the author is to reveal himself through his reaction to and treatment of , his subject. |
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| a mild, inoffensive word or expression used in place of one that is harsh or unpleasant. |
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| The background information that reveals what occurred prior to the time covered in the story, play, or narrative poem. |
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| The general term for a number of literary and poetic devices |
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a combination of accented and unaccented syllables which make up a metrical unit.
A Foot my incoperate syllbes from different words, and the foot division may cut across words thus " The cur/tains drawn/ upon/ unfriend/ly night." |
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| two unaccented syllables followed by one accented syllble |
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| one accented syllable followed by one accented syllable |
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| two accented syllables followed by two accented syllables |
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| one accented syllable followed by one unaccented syllable |
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| the dropping of important hints by the author. |
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| a fixed metrical arrangment |
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| verse which does not conform to any fixed pattern |
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| a figure of speech employing obvious exaggeration e.g " His mind was a million miles away" |
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| The language or manner of speaking that typical of a particular region or group of people. |
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| a poem or prose piece describing the simple pleasures of rural life |
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| a quality if belief evoked by a narrative or drama |
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| a general term for any representation of a particular thing. |
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| a mode of expression in which the author says one thing and means the opposite. |
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| a story that has come down from the past and that may has some basis in history. |
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| the particular place in which the action in a work of fiction occurs |
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| any short poem that seems to be especially musical and expresses in most instances, the poets clearly revealed thoughts and feelings. |
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| two things compared with like or as |
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| the pattern of rhythm determined between the relationship between accented and unaccented syllabes. |
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| a figure of speech in which one word is used in place of another word that it suggests. |
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| a line of verse composed of one or more feet. |
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monometer: one foot
dimeter: two feet
trimeter: three feet
tetrameter: three feet
pentameter: five feet
hexameter: six feet
heptameter: seven feet
octameter: eight feet |
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| a poem, or a passage in a drama in which a single character or actor speaks alone, and usually at some length |
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| The frame of mind or state of feeling created by a piece of writing. |
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| The lesson taught by literary work |
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| The cause or reason that compels a character to act as he does |
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| a literary trend or development |
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| an account or story of an event, or series of events, true or imaginary. Also the act of narrating such an account or story. |
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| a story told in verse form. |
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| an eight line poem or stanza |
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| a lengthy dignifies lyric poem expressing exalted or enthusiastic emotion, often about some person or occasion. |
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The use of a word in which the sound suggests what the word designates
e.g. splash, buzz, murmer, |
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a statement which on the surface seems contradictory yet if interpreted figurativly involves an element of the truth
e.g. " The child is father of the man" |
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| a humorous imitation or burlesque of a series piece of literature or writing |
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| The ascribing of human traits to nature or to inanimate objects, for example " a stubborn door" |
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| that quality in prose or poetry that evokes in the reader a feeling of pity and compassion |
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| a figure of speech in which places, things, animals or ideas are endowed with human qualities |
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| The faithful portrayal of people, scenes, and events as they are not as the writer or artists would like them to be |
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| The events following the climax of a work of fiction |
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| a question that is asked for its dramatic effect to which no answer is expected |
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| The identity of sound is accented syllables and of all vowel and consonants sounds following. |
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| The appearance, in close proximity, of two words which, because of their similar spelling look alike but when pronounced do not sound alike. |
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| a rhyming of matching lines of poetry |
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| The rhyming of a word in the middle of a line of poetry with another word or words in the line, usually at the end. |
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| an approximate or imperfect or rhyme |
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| a fixed pattern of rhymes and also |
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| the reoccurence of accented and unaccented syllbles |
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| The basic movement of a line, stanza, or poem resulting from the choice and arrangements of the metrical units (feet). The rhythm pattern of a line containing five iambic pentameter. |
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| The portrayal of people, scenes and events as they impress the writer or artist or as he imagines them to be. |
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| any piece of writing which criticizes manners, individuals or political and social institutions by holding them up t o ridicule. |
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| The time and place in which the events in a narrative ( prose or poetry) take place |
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| The figure of speech in which a comparison is made between two objects essentially unlike but resembling each other |
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| a poem consisting of fourteen lines, usually written in iambic |
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| a group of sonnets by a single author, generally having a common purpose or thematic link |
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| a group of lines of verses treated as a unit and separated from other units by a space. |
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