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HBLT1 Lit Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter at the beginning of words; used as a memory tool to link important words and ideas within lines |
| Allusion | A casual reference in literature to a person, place, event, or another passage of literature, often without explicit identification |
| Analogy | a comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification |
| Anastrophe | Inverted order of words or events as a rhetorical scheme |
| Apostrophe | the act of addressing some abstraction or personification that is not physically present |
| Archetype | An original model or pattern from which other later copies are made, especially a character, an action, or situation that seems to represent common patterns of human life |
| Art epic | a deliberate creation by the artist-writer about a civilization or a people. It, too, may be based on a long-ago histories or on long-ago literature |
| Assonance | Repeating identical or similar vowels (especially in stressed syllables) in nearby words |
| Ballad | A form of narrative poetry meant to be sung or recited and characterized by its presentation of a dramatic or exciting episode in simple narrative form. |
| Ballad stanza | • four lines rhyming ABCB • first and third lines carrying four accented syllables (tetrameter) • second and fourth lines carrying three accented syllables (trimeter). • Rhyme often approximate, with consonance and assonance frequently appearing |
| Bard | Singer/Poet from Old England who travelled and would spread stories and ballads |
| Caesura | a pause separating phrases within lines of poetry – an important part of poetic rhythm |
| Carpe Diem | “seize the day”; strength of Cavalier poetry and a favorite theme |
| Cavalier poetry | light-hearty, witty, and highly polished verse written by men of the court |
| Characterization | the methods used by the author to acquaint the reader with the inhabitants in the literary work |
| Consonance | poetic device characterized by the repetition of the same consonant sounds |
| Couplet | two rhyming lines that form a unit of similar ideas |
| Domestic realism | category of fiction that centers on the outlook of a certain kind of female; this type of work, common in the Victorian era, responded to specific ideas about that era’s notion of feminine virtue |
| Elegy | A sad or mournful piece that usually has a depressing and quiet tone |
| Epic | A long narrative poem, written in elevated style, recounting the deeds of noble or semi-divine person |
| Essay | A brief prose discussion on a restricted topic, often presenting a personal point of view |
| Excerpt | a short extract from a piece of writing |
| Exemplum | a short narrative or reference that serves to teach by way of example--especially a short story embedded in a longer sermon |
| Fantasy | literature that is removed from reality; especially poems, books, or short narratives set in nonexistent worlds |
| Fatalism | The acceptance or belief that death is inevitable and the struggle is pointless |
| Folk epic | such a story that evolves from the people of a civilization and their lives. It rises above the facts of those lives, although it is grounded in those facts, to the commonality of their human experiences, wisdom, and values |
| Folklore | type of stories belonging to a certain people that have been passed down for generations with minor variation |
| Foreshadowing | Suggesting, hinting, indicating, or showing what will occur later in a narrative |
| Formal essay | serious, dignified, logically organized prose discussion, meant to inform or persuade |
| Frame | A larger story made up of many smaller stories |
| Genre | A type or category of literature or film marked by certain shared features or conventions |
| Gothic romance | Fiction that uses strange, gloomy settings and mysterious violent and sometimes supernatural events to create suspense and terror; emphasize the uncommon, presents extraordinary people in unusual circumstances, stresses the past and nature |
| Historical romance | A genre, which is set in the past, that features strong relational or romantic elements, usually in the form of love or desire to achieve |
| Humours | Four parts of the underlying person that make up the body, defining personality and outwardly appearance |
| Iambic pentameter | five feet, rhyming |
| Iambic tetrameter | four feet, rhyming |
| Iambic trimeter | three feet, rhyming |
| In medias res | “in the middle”; the action of the epic takes place in the middle of the piece |
| Invocation | asking for the intervention of the gods in the beginning of a piece, especially pertaining to an epic (think Beowulf) |
| Irony | saying one thing and meaning another |
| Kenning | compound metaphors used to describes objects or activities -- swan-road, bone-chamber, bow-bolt |
| Legend | Narrative or tradition handed down from the past having more historical truth and less of the supernatural than a myth or an epic |
| Lyric poetry | consists of a poem, such as a sonnet or an ode, that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet |
| Medieval romance | A tale of high adventure. Can be a religious crusade, a conquest for the knight’s liege lord, or the rescue of a captive lady or any combination |
| Metaphor | A comparison or analogy stated in such a way as to imply that one object is another one, figuratively speaking |
| Metaphysical conceit | The poem contains unexpected, even striking or shocking analogies, offering elaborate parallels between apparently dissimilar things. The analogies are drawn from widely varied fields of knowledge, not limited to traditional sources in nature or art. |
| Metaphysical poetry | represents a revolt against the conventions of Elizabethan love poetry and especially the typical Petrarchan conceits |
| Meter | the means by which rhythm is measured and described |
| Metonymy | Using a vaguely suggestive, physical object to embody a more general idea |
| Myth | a traditional tale of deep cultural significance to a people; the actual story |
| Parallelism | When the writer establishes similar patterns of grammatical structure and length |
| Pastoral poetry | a literary work dealing with shepherds and rustic life; it presents an idealized rather than realistic view of rustic life |
| Personification | A trope in which abstractions, animals, ideas, and inanimate objects are given human character, traits, abilities, or reactions |
| Physiognomy | Reading someone through their outward appearance |
| Prologue | An intro or beginning to a story, usually giving a summary on some level, or at the least laying out the full foundation for a more complicated piece |
| Prophecy | A foreboding story or claim that is intended as meant to happen. Something predicted to happen |
| Riddle | A puzzle in the form of words, asking a question by describing something or giving clues towards the answer, but avoiding being obvious. |
| Rhyme scheme | the pattern or sequence in which the rhyme sound occurs in a stanza or a poem, usually presented by giving each similar sound in the stanza the same letter in the alphabet. |
| Rhythm | The pattern in which the poem changes pace or how its structure is laid out to rhyme and match the syllables |
| Rune | In a writing system designed to be scratched or carved on a flat surface such as wood or stone, the individual letters are known as ____. They specifically show up in legends of languages we do not know and cannot translate the letters. |
| Satire | An attack on or criticism of any stupidity or vice in the form of scathing humor, or a critique of what the author sees as dangerous religious, political, moral, or social standards |
| Scop | Poet and entertainer in the Old English setting |
| Symbolism | frequent use of words, places, characters, or objects that mean something beyond what they are on a literal level |
| Synecdoche | a rhetorical trope involving a part of an object representing the whole, or the whole of an object representing a part |
| Theme | The main idea or underlying meaning of the literary work |
| Thread of circumstance | A method of plot structure, which links or connects a group of characters through their life experiences or events. |
| Tone | The means of creating a relationship or conveying an attitude or mood |
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