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lit terms bank1
Letter D
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Dactyl | a foot of three syllables, one long followed by two short in quantitative meter, or one stressed followed by two unstressed in accentual meter, as in gently and humanly |
| Dangling Participle | a participle or participial phrase, often found at the beginning of a sentence, that appears from its position to modify an element of the sentence other than the one it was intended to modify, as plunging in Plunging hundreds of feet into the gorge, we s |
| Declarative sentence | the kind of sentence that makes a statement or “declares” something: He eats yogurt |
| Denotation | the explicit or direct meaning or set of meanings of a word or expression |
| Denouement | The events following the climax of a drama or novel in which such a resolution or clarification takes place |
| Dialect | A regional or social variety of a language distinguished by pronunciation, grammar, or vocabulary, especially a variety of speech differing from the standard literary language or speech pattern of the culture in which it exists |
| Diction | refers chiefly to the choice of words, their arrangement, and the force, accuracy, and distinction with which they are used: The speaker was distinguished for his excellent diction; poetic diction: Phraseology refers more to the manner of combining the wo |
| Didactic literature | The term "didactic" also refers to texts that are overburdened with instructive, factual, and/or otherwise "educational" information, sometimes to the detriment of a reader's enjoyment |
| Dirge | A dirge is a somber song expressing mourning or grief, such as would be appropriate for performance at a funeral |
| Doggerel | a low, or trivial, form of verse, loosely constructed and often irregular, but effective because of its simple mnemonic rhyme and loping metre: It appears in most literatures and societies as a useful form for comedy and satire: It is characteristic of ch |
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