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An abbreviated synopsis of a longer work of scholarship or research.
What is abstract?
100
A vagueness of meaning; a conscious lack of clarity meant to evoke multiple meanings and interpretation.
What is Ambiguity?
100
a simple narrative verse that tells a story that is sung or recited.
What is a Ballad?
100
Grating, inharmonious sounds.
What is Cacophomy?
100
Deriving from the orderly qualities of ancient Greek and Roman culture; implies formality objectivity, simplicity, and restraint.
What is Classical, Classicism?
200
A saying or proverb containing a truth based on experience and often couched in metaphorical language.
What is adage?
200
a comparison that points out similarities between two dissimilar things.
What is analogy?
200
A poet; in olden times, a performer who told heroic stories to musical accompaniment.
What is a bard?
200
The works considered most important in a national literature or period; works widely read and studied.
What is Canon?
200
The high point or turning point of a story or play.
What is Climax?
300
A story in which the narrative or characters carry an underlying symbolic, metaphorical, or possibly an ethical meaning. In works such as Spenser's The Faerie Queen and Bunyon's Pilgrim's Progress, the story and characters represent values beyond themselves.
What is allegory?
300
A brief explanation, summary, or evaluation of atext or work of literature.
What is Annotation?
300
French term for the world of books, criticism, and literature in general.
What is belle-lettres?
300
A grotesque likeness of striking qualities in persons and things.
What is Caricature?
300
A tale in which a young protagonist experiences an introduction to adulthood. The character may develop understanding via disillusionment, education, doses of reality, or any other experiences that alter his or her emotional or intellectual maturity. Examples include: Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward Angel, and Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses.
What is Coming-of-age-novel?
400
The reptititon of one or more initial consonants in a group of words or lines of poetry or prose. Writers use alliteration for ornament or for emphasis as in words such as film-flam and tittle-tattle. Also used in epithets (fickle fortune, sunless sea), phrases (bed and board), and slogans (Look before you leap). Alliteration generally enhances the aesthetic quality of a prose passage or poem, as in these lines form Coleridge's "rime of the Ancient Mariner": The white foam flew/ The furrow follows free.
What is alliteration?
400
The quickness of intellect and the power and talent fro saying brilliant things that surprise and delight by their unexpectedness; the power to comment subtly and pointedly on the foibles of the passing scene.
What is wit?
400
Poetry written in iambic pentameter, the primary meter used in English poetry and the works of Shakespeare and Milton. It is "blank" b/c the lines generally do not rhyme. (free verse)
What is Blank Verse
400
A cleansing of the spirit brought about by the pity and terror of a dramatic tragedy.
What is Catharsis?
400
A witty or ingenious thought; a diverting or highly fanciful idea, often stated in figurative language.
What is Conceit?
500
A person, scene, event, or other element in literature that fails to correspond with the time or era in which the work is set.
What is anachronism?
500
A character or force in a work of literature that, by opposing the protagonist produces tension or conflict.
What is antagonist?
500
A list of works cited or otherwise relevant to a subject or other work.
What is Bibliography?
500
A highly regarded work of literature or other art form that has withstood the test of time.
What is Classic?
500
The suggested or implied meaning of a word or phrase. Contrast or a line of poetry.
What is Connotation?
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