Lit Terms:
- Circumlocution: the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea to avoid getting to the point.
- Classicism: a traditional style of art, literature, music, architecture, etc., that is usually graceful and simple with parts that are organized in a pleasing way and are common of ancient Greece and Rome
- Cliche: A hackneyed or trite phrase that has become overused.
- Climax: The moment in a play, novel, short story, or narrative poem at which the crisis reaches its point of greatest intensity and is thereafter resolved
- Colloquialism: A word or phrase used everyday in plain and relaxed speech, but rarely found in formal writing
- Comedy: any play or narrative poem in which the main characters manage to avert an impending disaster and have a happy ending (humor is now associated with comedy as well)
- Conflict: The opposition between two forces (such as a protagonist and an antagonist) that can be internal or external
- Connotation: The extra tinge or taint of meaning each word carries beyond the minimal, strict definition found in a dictionary.
- Contrast: describes the difference(s) between two or more entities
- Denotation: The minimal, strict definition of a word as found in a dictionary, disregarding any historical or emotional connotation.
- Denouement: refers to the outcome or result of a complex situation or sequence of events, an aftermath or resolution that usually occurs near the final stages of the plot. It is the unraveling of the main dramatic complications in a play, novel or other work of literature.
- Dialect: The language of a particular district, class, or group of persons (spelling, grammar, and diction.)
- Dialectics: discourse between two or more people holding different points of view about a subject, who wish to establish the truth of the matter guided by reasoned arguments
- Dichotomy: A division into two opposing parts
- Diction: The choice of a particular word as opposed to others that contributes to the author's style and tone
- Didactic: writing that seeks overtly to convince a reader of a particular point or lesson
- Dogmatic: Characterized by an authoritative, arrogant assertion of unproved or unprovable principles
- Elegy: any poem written in elegiac meter (alternating hexameter and pentameter lines) or any poem dealing with the subject-matter of complaints about love, sustained formal lamentation, or somber meditations
- Epic: genre of classical poetry that includes a long narrative about a serious subject that is told told in an elevated style of language and focused on the exploits of a hero or demi-god who represents the cultural values of a race, nation, or religious group in which the hero's success or failure will determine the fate of that people or nation. .
- Epigram: a short verse or motto appearing at the beginning of a longer poem or the title page of a novel, at the heading of a new section or paragraph of an essay or other literary work to establish mood or raise thematic concerns
- Epitaph: final statement spoken by a character before his death
- Epithet: A short, poetic nickname--often in the form of an adjective or adjectival phrase--attached to the normal name
- Euphemism: Using a mild or gentle phrase instead of a blunt, embarrassing, or painful one
- Evocative: tending to evoke
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