Belief or conduct different from that contained in a prevailing religion; not Christian.
Paganism
100
A retort or satirical jest.
Quip
100
A medieval Icelandic or Norse prose narrative of achievements and events in the history of a personage, family; any narrative or legend of heroic exploits.
Saga
100
Of or pertaining to Queen Victoria or the period of her reign.
Victorian
100
A bookbinding having soft edges that project beyond and fold over the edges of the pages to protect them.
Yapp
200
A play or entertainment in which the performers express themselves mutely by gestures, expression, and costume design.
Pantomime
200
One or more words repeated at intervals in a poem, usually at the end of a stanza.
Refrain
200
The form of dramatic irony in which a character uses words that mean one thing to the speaker and another to those better acquainted with the real situation; especially when the character is about to become a tragic victim.
Tragic Irony
200
A theory of ethics formed in England in the 18th century by Jeremy Bentham, who believed that the test of ethical concerns was their usefulness to society and defined happiness as " the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people".
Utilitarianism
200
The major text of Jewish Kabbalism, in the form of an allegorical interpretation of the Pentateuch.
The Zohar
300
Frankness of speech.
Parrhesia
300
A stanza of five lines.
Quintain
300
A speech delivered by a speaker when they are alone.
Soliloquy
300
The immediate subject as opposed to the ultimate or interior intentional subject of a metaphor.
Vehicle
300
A classification of literature, especially fiction, designed for readers between the ages of 18 to 25.
"Young Adult" Genre
400
A Utopian community in which all are equal and all rule.
Pantisocracy
400
A term sometimes used to characterize writing that is fanciful or fabulous.
Romanesque
400
A last will testament or a piece of literature that "bears witness” or "makes a covenant with" in a biblical sense.
Testament
400
Space in a graphic work designed to have the effect of isolating or emphasizing a word or line.
Whitespace
400
Criticism like that of Zoilus; petty, carping and mean.
Zoilism
500
The scientific study of both language and literature.
Philology
500
A set French verse pattern; consists characteristically of fifteen lines, the ninth and fifteenth being a short refrain.
Rondeau
500
conventional character types
Stock Character
500
Up through the early 17th century, a set of words, sentences, or passages in a vernacular to be translated into Latin as an exercise.
Vulgaria
500
The intelligible use of foreign language that one does not know.