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1st Set LC Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abbey Theatre | Theatre associated with the Irish Literary Revival, an outgrowth of the earlier Irish Literary Theatre, which later became the Irish National Theatre Society. Produced plays with a markedly national emphasis, until it burned in 1951. |
| ABC | Book, Abcee-Book, Absey-Book-A PRIMER or Horn-Book that introduces a subject, sometimes in the form of a CATECHISM or DIALOGUE. |
| ABC, A B C, A.B.C. | An alphabetical ACROSTIC; a poem in which stanzas or lines begin with the letters of the alphabet. |
| Abecedarian | An acrostic so arranged that the initial letters of successive lines form an alphabet. |
| abridge | A shortened version of a work but one that attempts to preserve essential elements. |
| absolute | A term applied to anything totally independent of conditions, limitations, controls, or modifiers. |
| accentual-syllabic verse | Verse whose meter is determined by the number and alternation of its stressed and unstressed syllables, organized into feet. |
| accentualism | Recognizes that English is like German in having syllables of widely varying length and strength |
| accismus | A form of irony in which a person feigns indifference to or pretends to refuse something he or she desires. |
| acknowledgements | A conventional component of the front matter of some printed documents wherein authors acknowledge help received from individuals and institutions. |
| acronym | A word formed from the initial letters of words and pronounced as a separate word. |
| acrostic | A verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message. |
| adage | A familiar proverb or wise saying speaking a general truth. |
| addendum | Matter to be added to a piece of writing. Are usually items inadvertently omitted or received too late for inclusion. |
| adventure story | A literary work in which action is the main element. |
| aesthetic distance | Physical or psychological separation or detachment of audience from dramatic action, usually considered necessary for artistic illusion. |
| aestheticism | A 19th century literary movement that rested on the credo of "art for art's sake" |
| affective fallacy | The judging of a work of art in terms of its results, especially its emotional effect. |
| African-American Literature | Harlem Renaissance, began with slave poetry of Jupiter Hammon and Phillis Wheatley and developed later with SLAVE NARRATIVES, especially by Frederick Douglass. |
| Age of Johnson | (1750-1790) This period marks the transition toward the upcoming Romanticism through the period is still largely neoclassical. Samuel Johnson. Colonial period in America- Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Paine. |
| Age of Reason | A term generally used for the Enlightenment in the late 17th and 18th century- emphasized self-knowledge, self-control, rationalism, and order. |
| Age of Sensibility | (1744 - 1785) This age anticipates the Romantic period. In contrast to the Augustan era, it is focused upon instinct, feeling, imagination, and sometimes the sublime. New cultural attitudes and new theories of literature emerged at this time. |
| Agrarianism | The philosophy that agriculture and land ownership are the backbone of the economy. |
| Agrarians | A person who favors an agricultural way of life and government policies that support agricultural interests. |
| agroikos | Rustic, straight-talking, unsophisticated, not anxious about his image, unfazed by others' joking. |
| alazon | The braggart in Greek comedy; he is the opposite or the Eiron because he pretends to know more than he does. |
| allegory | A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself. |
| allelograph | A variant form of a word used in the vicinity of the basic form itself. (I am/I'm) |
| alliteration | The repetition of initial consonant sounds. |
| alliterative verse | A term applied to verse forms, usually Germanic or Celtic in origin, in which the metrical structure is based on patterned repetition of initial sounds within the lines. |
| allonym | The name of another person taken by an author as a pen name. |
| allusion | A reference to another work of literature, person, or event. |
| altar poem | Another term for a Carmen Figuratum, a poem in which the lines are so arranged that they form a design of the page, taking the shape of the subject, frequently an altar or a cross. |
| alterity | The state of being other or different; otherness. |
| ambiguity | An event or situation that may be interpreted in more than one way. |
| ambiguous | The state of having more than one meaning, with resultant uncertainty as to the intended significance of the statement. |
| ambivalence | Mutually conflicting feelings or attitudes. The term is often used to describe the contradictory attitudes an author takes towards characters or societies. |
| American Colonial Period | (1607-1765): from Jamestown founding to the Stamp Act. Edward Taylor, Jonathan Edwards, and Benjamin Franklin |
| amphiboly | The fallacy of ambiguous construction. It occurs whenever the whole meaning of a statement can be taken in more than one way, and is usually the fault of careless grammar. |
| amphibrach | unstressed, stressed, unstressed ("the WAters are FLASHing / The WHITE bail is DASHing"; "da DUM da") |
| amphigory | A meaningless or nonsensical piece of writing, especially one intended as a parody. |
| amphisbaenic rhyme | The term used to describe backward rhyme. |
| anachronism | A thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, especially a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned. |
| anacrusis | An extra unaccented syllable at the beginning of a line before the regular meter begins. |
| anadiplosis | The repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause. |
| analogue | Similar or comparable in certain respects. |
| analogy | A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way. |
| analyzed rhyme | A complex form of rhyme that involves breaking down or analyzing components. It is an interlocked combination of two or more types of rhyme- usually consonance and assonance- although true rhyme sometimes appears. |
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