Lit. Terms 31-56

Lit Terms: 31-56

• Dialect: the language of a particular district, class or group of persons; the sounds, grammar, and diction employed by people distinguished from others
• Dialectics: formal debates usually over the nature of truth
• Dichotomy: split or break between two opposing things
• Diction: the style of speaking or writing as reflected in the choice and use of words
• Didactic: having to do with the transmission of information; education
• Dogmatic: rigid in beliefs and principles
• 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
• Epic: a long narrative poem unified by a hero who reflects the customs, morals, and aspirations of his nation of race as he makes his way through legendary and historic exploits, usually over a long period of time
• Epigram: witty aphorism
• 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
• Epithet: a short, descriptive name or phrase that may insult someone's character, characteristics
• Euphemism: the use of an indirect, mild, or vague word or expression for one thought to be coarse, offensive, or blunt
• Evocative: a calling forth of memories and sensations; the suggestion or production through artistry and imagination of a sense of reality
• Exposition: beginning of a story that sets forth facts, ideas, and/or characters, in a detailed explanation
• Expressionism: movement in art, literature, and music consisting of unrealistic representation of an inner idea or feeling(s).
• Fable:  a short simple story, usuall with animals as characters, designed to teach a moral truth
• Fallacy: from Latin word "to deceive", a false or misleading notion, belief or argument; any kind of erroneous reasoning that makes arguments unsound
• Falling Action: part of the narrative or drama after the climax
• Farce: a boisterous comedy involving ludicrous action and dialogue
• Figurative Language: apt and imaginative language characterized by figures of speech (such as metaphor and simile)
• Flashback: a narrative device that flashes back to prior events
• Foil: a person or thing that, by contrast, makes another seem better or more promient
• Folk Tale: a story passed on by word of mouth
• Foreshadowing: in fiction and drama, a device to prepare the reader for the outcome of the action; "planing" to make the outcome convincing, though not to give it away
• Free Verse: verse without conventional metrical pattern, with irregular pattern or no rhyme

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Lit. Terms 6-30

• Analogy : a comparison made between two things to show the similarities between them
• Analysis: a method in which a work or idea is separated into its parts, and those parts given rigorous and detailed scrutiny
• Anaphora: a device or repetition in which a word or words are repeated at the begining of two or more lines, phrases, clauses, or sentences
• Anecdote: a very short story used to illustrate a point
• Antagonists: a person or force opposing the protagonist in a drama or narrative
• Antithesis: a balancing of one term against another for emphasis or stylistic effectiveness
• Aphorism: a terse, pointed statement expressing some wise or clever observation about life
• Apologia: a defense or justification of some doctrine, piece of writing, cause, or action; also apology
• Apostrophe: a figure of speech in which an absent or dead person, an abstract quality, or something inanimate or nonhuman is addressed directly
• Argument(ation): the process of convincing a reader by proving either the truth or falsity of an idea in proposition; also, the thesis or proposition itself
• Assumption: the act of supposing, or taking for granted that a thing is true
• Audience: the intended listener or listeners
• Characterization: the means by which a writer reveals a character's personality
• Chiasmus: a reversal in the order of words so that the second half of a statement balances the first half in inverted word order
• Circumlocution: a roundabout or evasive speech or writing, in which many words are used but a few would have served
• Classicism: art, literature, and music reflecting the principles of ancient Greece and Roe
• Cliche: a phrase or situation overused within society
• Climax: the decisive point in a narrative or drama; the pint of greatest intensity or interest at which plot question is answered or resolved
• Colloquialism: folksy speech, slang words or phrases usually used in informal conversation
• Comedy: originally a nondramatic literary piece of work that was marked by a happy ending; now a term to describe a ludicrous, farcical, or amusing event designed to provide enjoyment or produce smiles and laughter
• Conflict: struggle or problem in a story causing tension
• Connotation: implicit meaning, going beyond dictionary definition
• Contrast: a rhetorical device by which one element (idea or object) is thrown into opposition to another for the sake of emphasis or clarity
• Denotation: plain dictionary definition
• Denouement: loose ends tied up in a story after the climax, closure, conclusion