Philosophical investigation into the nature of beauty and the perception of beauty especially in the arts; the theory of art or artistic taste.
What are Aesthetics?
100
Describes the release of the emotions of pity and fear by the audience at the end of a tragedy.
What is Catharsis?
100
a fictional character that relies heavily on cultural types or stereotypes for its personality manner of speech and other characteristics.
What is a Stock Character?
100
controversial argument especially one refuting or attacking a specific opinion or doctrine.
What is polemic?
100
reversal of the normal order of words for dramatic effect
What is inversion?
200
A story or visual image with a second distinct meaning partially hidden behind its literal or visible meaning.
What is Allegory?
200
classical rhetoric that describes a situation in which you introduce subjects in the order A B and C and then talk about them in the order C B and A
What is Chiasmus?
200
theories regarding symbolism and how people glean meaning from words sounds and pictures.
What are semiotics?
200
Of relating to or being a literary or other artistic work that portrays or evokes rural life usually in an idealized way.
What is Pastoral?
200
Combination of two seemingly contradictory or opposite words in short phrase.
What is Oxymoron?
300
Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases clauses or sentences.
What is Anaphora?
300
An unrealistic or unexpected intervention to rescue the protagonists or resolve the conflict.
What is Deus Ex Machina?
300
the study of the meaning of language as opposed to its form
What are Semantics?
300
The attribution of human emotions or characteristics to inanimate objects or to nature
What is pathetic fallacy?
300
harsh, non-melodic, unpleasant sounding arrangement of words
What is Cacophony?
400
A brief statement which expresses an observation on life usually intended as a wise observation
What is Aphorism?
400
A figure of speech by which an affirmation is made indirectly by denying its opposite, usually with an effect of understatement
What are Litotes?
400
The analysis of a poem's meter
What is Scansion?
400
incorrect usage of a word usually with comic effect
What is malapropism?
400
poem which expresses sorrow over a death of someone for whom the poet cared, or on another solemn theme
What is Elegy?
500
The omission of a conjunction from a list
What is Asyndeton?
500
The intentional use of a word or expression figuratively
What is trope?
500
a novel in which actual persons and events are disguised as fictional characters
What is Roman a Clef?
500
a literary technique where the disbelief of the reader and writer produces a momentary shift in the real world wherein an element of the surreal enters and leaves with ease
What is magical realism?
500
latter two syllables of first word rhyme with latter two syllables of second word