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| Interpretation of texts according to the psychological responses of readers |
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| Concrete presentation of an abstract idea (typically in a narrative) with at least two levels of meaning (surface story line + moral, political or religious). |
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| Indirect reference to a person, event, statement, theme or work. They enrich meaning through the connotations they carry. |
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| Original model from which something is developed |
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| A dark, disturbing, and often morbid or grotesque mode of comedy found in certain (mostly postmodern) texts. Often concerns death and suffering and goes hand in hand with a pessimistic worldview. |
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| Any unrhymed verse, usually refers to unrhymed iambic pentameter |
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| A body of written works accepted as authoritative or authentic. |
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| Latin for "seize the day," refers to the literary theme that we should enjoy the present while we can |
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| The emotional effect a tragic drama has on its audience |
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| Condition of finality and wholeness established at the end of a literary work; the process by which a work is brought to a fitting conclusion |
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| Any amusing and entertaining work/drama. Ancient Greek comedy has 3 categories: old, middle, and new |
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| A figure of speech involving an elaborate and often surprising comparison between two apparently highly dissimilar things, often in the form of an extended metaphor. Two major types: metaphysical and petrarchan |
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| Associations evoked by a word beyond its literal meaning |
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| Two successive lines of rhyming verse, often of the same meter |
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1. Propriety of conduct in accordance with societal conventions
2. In rhetoric, propriety in argument matching subject and words
3. In literature, propriety of the elements in a literary work so that all elements are compatible and fitting. |
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| Lyric poem in which the speaker addresses a silent listener, revealing himself in the context of a dramatic situation. Speaker provides information about the time, setting, key events as well as his own personality. |
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| In Greek and Roman times, any poem composed in elegiac meter. In Elizabethan times, it referred to love poems. Now it refers to reflective poems that lament the loss of something. |
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| Long and formal narrative poem written in an elevated style that recounts the adventures of a hero |
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| From the Greek for "inscription" originally an inscription on a monument, then a short poem, now either a short poem with short humorous ending or a witty prose statement. |
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1. An inscription on a coin, stone, statue, or building
2. A passage printed on the title page or first page of a literary work or at the beginning of a section of such a work |
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| A character whose contract with the main character serves to accentuate the latter's distinctive qualities or characteristics. |
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| Either the general type or the unique structure of a literary work |
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| Classification of literary works on the basis of their content, form, or technique |
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| A trope employing deliberate, emphatic exaggeration, usually for comic or ironic effect (an overstatement). |
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| Representation of biblical figures in painting and sculpture with an eye to symbolic significance |
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1. Corpus of images
2. In a text, the language used to convey a visual picture
2. The use of figurative language used to express abstract ideas |
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| An Anglo-American movement in poetry from 1909-17 that emphasized concise direct expression and presentation of clear, precise images |
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| Term coined by New Critics, basing interpretations on the author's implied intentions |
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| An incongruity between expectation and reality |
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| German for "leading motive," an image or phrase that recurs throughout a work, evoking past associations in such a way as to serve as a unifying element of the work |
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| Originally, any poem designed to be sung with a lyre. Now, a brief imaginitive and melodic poem characterized by structured yet fervent first person voice of the speaker |
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| In Greek mythology, Zeus' nine daughters who each hold a sway over the arts and sciences |
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| Lengthy fictional prose narrative |
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| Fictional prose narrative, typically tightly structured and focused on a single serious event |
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| A relatively long, serious, and usually meditative lyric poem that treats a noble subject in a dignified and calm manner |
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| Wording that seems to signify meaning through sound effects |
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| A rhetorical figure that juxtaposes two opposites or contradictory words in order to present a dramatic paradox |
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Synonym for episteme: a word used to refer to: 1. a network of discursive practices dominant during a given historical period
2. the rules governing the transformation of those practices |
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| A statement that seems self-contradictory or nonsensical on the surface but that, upon closer examination, may express an underlying truth. (Paradox formed by the juxtaposition of two opposite words in an oxymoron) |
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| A form of high burlesque that comically imitates a specific, generally serious work or the style of an author of genre |
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| Term that describes any work with a rural setting; the literary mode associated with country living |
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| A quality in a work that makes the reader experience pity, sorrow, or tenderness. Victims are usually helpless, whereas in a tragedy the victims are usually in some way responsible for their own fate |
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| Speaker in a literary work, often a first person narrator, but not necessarily the author's voice |
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| "Many-voiced" term used to refer to dialogic texts in which several viewpoints are discussed in dialogue. |
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| term used to describe fictional works that usually include some of the following: high adventure, thwarted love, mysterious circumstances, arduous quests, and improbable triumphs |
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| Literary genre that uses irony, wit, and sometimes sarcasm to expose humanity's vices and foibles |
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| The analysis of poetic meter, typically using visual symbols, of stressed and unstressed beats |
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| In a play, a monologue delivered by a character alone on the stage that reveals inner thoughts and emotion |
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| lyric poem that typically consists of 14 lines that follows a conventional rhyme scheme |
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| Arrangement of material in a work; the design devised by the author to convey content and meaning |
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| The quality of greatness in a literary work that elevates the reader to a higher plane. |
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| A literary and artistic movement whose proponents view the unconscious as the source of imaginative expression |
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| SOmething that stands for or suggests something larger and more complex |
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| A figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent the whole or, occasionally, the whole is used to represent a part |
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| The attitude of the author toward the reader, audience, or subject matter of a literary work |
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| A serious and often somber drama written in prose or verse, that typically ends in disaster and that focuses on a character who undergoes unexpected person reversals |
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| "Figure of thought," one of the two major divisions of figures of speech. To trope is to turn or twist some word or phrase to make it mean something else |
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1. An ideal place that does not exist in reality
2. A work describing such a place |
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| A rhetorical figure in which one word or phrase governs or modifies two or more words or phrases. Usually involves a single verb that governs multiple nouns or prepositional phrases |
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