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Literary Terms D-G
Literary Terms Beginning with the Letters D-G
Term | Meaning |
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denouement | Literally, the “unknotting”: the final unraveling of the plot following the climax. |
diction | The choice and arrangement of words in a literary work. |
doggerel | Crudely written poetry. |
elegy | A poetic lament. |
epic | An extended narrative poem, exalted in style and heroic in theme. |
epistolary novel | A novel written in the form of correspondence. |
essay | A short written work of nonfiction, usually on one topic. |
euphony | Harmonious sounds, often used in poetry for effect. |
fable | A prose or poetic story that illustrates a novel. |
fiction | Narrative writing drawn from the imagination of the author rather than from history or fact. |
foot | a group of syllables forming a metrical unit, containing one stressed syllable. |
free verse | A poem without regular meter or line length. |
genre | A literary type or class. |