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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