Parallelism: the principle in sentence structure that states elements of equal function should have equal form
Parody: an imitation of mimicking of a composition or of the style of a well-known artist
Pathos: the ability in literature to call forth feelings of pity, compassion, and/or sadness
Pedantry: a display of learning for its own sake
Personification: a figure of speech attributing human qualities to inanimate objects or abstract ideas
Plot: a plan or scheme to accomplish a purpose
Poignant: eliciting sorrow or sentiment
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
Postmodernism: literature characterized by experimentation, irony, nontraditional forms, multiple meanings, playfulness and a blurred boundary between real and imaginary
Prose: the ordinary form of spoken and written language; language that does not have a regular rhyme pattern
Protagonist: the central character in a work of fiction;
opposes antagonist.
Pun: play
on words; the humorous use of a word emphasizing different meanings or
applications
Purpose: the intended result wished by an author.
Realism:
writing about the ordinary aspects of life in a straightfoward manner to
reflect life as it actually is
Refrain: a phrase or
verse recurring at intervals in a poem or song; chorus.
Requiem: any chant,
dirge, hymn, or musical service for the dead.
Resolution: point in a literary work at which
the chief dramatic complication is worked out; denouement
Restatement: idea repeated for emphasis.
Rhetoric: use of language, both written and verbal in order
to persuade.
Rhetorical Question: question suggesting its own
answer or not requiring an answer; used in argument or persuasion
Rising Action: plot build up, caused by conflict
and complications, advancement towards climax.
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
Satire: ridicules or
condemns the weakness and wrong doings of individuals, groups, institutions, or
humanity in general.
Scansion: the analysis of verse in terms of
meter
Setting: the time and place in which events in a
short story, novel, play, or narrative poem occur
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