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2nd Set LC Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| ananym | (Pseudonym) A word fabricated by spelling another word backwards. |
| anapest | A metrical foot consisting of "unstressed, unstressed, stressed" |
| anaphora | A rhetorical figure of repetition in which the same word or phrase is repeated in (and usually at the beginning of) successive lines, clauses, or sentences. |
| anaphors | Words like "herself" "himself" that must refer to things inside of sentences (ex: my cousin HERSELF said SHE was going to come visit soon) |
| anecdote | A short narrative detailing particulars of an interesting episode or event. The term most frequently refers to an incident in the life of a person. |
| Anglo-Irish literature | Literature produced in English by Irish writers especially by those living in Ireland. It usually includes a conscious effort to include Celtic material and a style flavored by Irish idioms |
| Anglo-Italian sonnet | A sonnet combining the rhyme-schemes of the English sonnet (ababcdcdefefgg) and the Italian sonnet (abbaabbacdecde), most often with an octave from the former and a sestet from the latter. |
| Anglo-Norman Period | The period in English literature between 1100 and 1350, which is also often called the Early Middle English Period and is frequently dated from the Conquest in 1066. |
| Angry Young Men | A group of British writers in the 1950s and 1960s who demonstrated a particular bitterness in their attacks on outmoded, bourgeois values. |
| anthology | A collection of various writings, such as songs, stories, or poems. |
| anthropomorphism | The ascription of human characteristics to nonhuman objects. |
| antibacchius | A metrical foot of three syllables, of which the first two are stressed and the third unstressed, or the first two are long and the third short. (stressed, stressed, unstressed) |
| antithesis | A figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas. |
| aphaeresis | (Linguistics) Omission at the beginning of a word as in 'coon' for 'raccoon' or 'till' for 'until' |
| aphorism | A concise statement of a truth or principle. |
| Apocalyptics | A movement of English Poetry flourishing between 1935 and 1950 led by Henry Treece and J.R. Hendey. |
| apocope | The omission of one or more sounds from a word, as "even" for "evening" or "bod" for "body" |
| apostrophe | A figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply |
| apron stage | Any part of the stage that extends past the proscenium arch and into the audience or seating area |
| arabesque | A style of decorative design favored by the Moors as a means of giving play to their aesthetic creativity without violating the Islamic prohibition against reproducing natural forms. |
| archaism | A word, expression, spelling, or phrase that is out of date in the common speech of an era, but still deliberately used by a writer, poet, or playwright for artistic purposes |
| aside | A dramatic convention by which an actor directly addresses the audience but it is not supposed to be heard by the other actors on the stage. |
| assonance | Repetition of similar vowel sounds |
| assonant rhyme | Rhyming with similar vowels, different consonants: dip/limp, man/prank. |
| asterism | Urbane humor, marked by subtle irony and polite mockery. |
| asyndenton | The omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence. ("I came, I saw, I conquered.") |
| aubade | A lyric about dawn or a morning serenade, a song of lovers parting at dawn. |
| auditory | Having to do with the sense of hearing. |
| auditory imagery | The use of language to represent an experience pertaining to sound. |
| Augustan Age | A style of English literature produced during the reigns of Queen Anne, King George I, and George II in the first half of the 18th century, ending in the 1740s with the deaths of Pope and Swift (1744 and 1745, respectively) |
| avant-garde | A military metaphor drawn from the French "vanguard" and applies to new writing that shows striking (and usually self-conscious) innovations in style, form, and subject matter. |
| backstage | An area behind and around the outer stage of a theater, with spaces for storage of props and costumes, dressing rooms, offices, and so forth. |
| bad quartos | A.W. Pollard's term for certain notable corrupt, garbled, and nearly incoherent early editions of Shakespeare's plays. |
| balance | Balance characterises a structure in which parts of the whole are set against each other as to emphasize a contrast |
| ballad | A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas, characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style. |
| ballad stanza | Consists of four lines with a rhyme scheme of a-b-c-b. The first and third lines are tetrameter and the second and fourth are trimeter. |
| ballade | A French form, it consists of three seven or eight-line stanzas using no more than three recurrent rhymes, with an identical refrain after each stanza and a closing envoi repeating the rhymes of the last four lines of the stanza |
| barbarism | A mistake in the form of a word or a word that results from such a mistake. (goodest/best) |
| bard | Historically, the term refers to poets who recited verses glorifying the deeds of heroes and leaders. |
| baring the device | The opposite of Verisimilitude: the concept that much art deliberately "bares its device(s)" and admits its artificiality and incommensurateness with life itself. |
| baroque | An artistic style of the seventeenth century characterized by complex forms, bold ornamentation, and contrasting elements |
| bathos | Insincere or overly sentimental quality of writing/speech intended to evoke pity |
| beast fable | A short tale, usually including a moral, in which animals assume human characteristics |
| Beat Generation | Group highlighted by writers and artist who stressed spontaneity and spirituality instead of apathy and conformity. |
| beginning rhyme | A rhyme that occurs in the first syllable or syllables of lines |
| biblical allusion | A reference from the Bible, ex: eyes like heaven, the crowd parted like the red sea. |
| Bildungsroman | A novel or story whose theme is the moral or psychological growth of the main character. |
| black humor | The use of disturbing themes in comedy. (e.g. two tramps comically debating over which should commit suicide first, and whether the branches of a tree will support their weight) |
| Black Mountain School | The school was a experiment in aesthetic education, which included architecture, the graphic arts, and literature. Resembled Brook Farm enterprise. Members included Josef Albers and Jonathan Williams. |
| blank verse | A verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter. |
| blood and thunder | A class of work specializing in bloodshed and violence. Many of these have to do with crime and high emotion. Sometimes abbr. to "blood," "blood books," or "penny bloods." |
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