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3rd Set LC Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Blues | An African American folk music that appeared around 1900 and exerted influence on jazz and various forms of U.S. popular music. |
| Bluestockings | A term applied to women of pronounced intellectual interests. developed after 1750. informal groups; focused on encouraging and interest in literature and fostering a recognition of literary genius. |
| bob and wheel | A group of typically five rhymed lines following a section of unrhymed lines, often at the end of a strophe. |
| boulevard drama | Term applied to sophisticated comedy and melodrama popular in French theater in the 19th century. |
| boustrophedon | An ancient method of writing in which the lines run alternately from right to left and from left to right. |
| bowdlerize | (v.) to remove material considered offensive (from a book, play, film, etc.) |
| braggadocio | A noisy braggart who is actually a coward. |
| broken rhyme | The breaking of a word at the end of a line for the sake of a rhyme. |
| bucolic verse | A term used for pastoral writing that deals with rural life in a manner rather formal and fanciful. |
| Burlesque | A work of literature meant to ridicule a subject; a grotesque, exaggerated imitation. |
| cacophony | A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds. |
| cadence | The rhythmic flow of a sequence of sounds or words. |
| caesura | A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line. |
| calligraphy | The art of beautiful handwriting using special pens or brushes. |
| calypso | A type of music that originated in the West indies, particularly in Trinidad, that is a ballad-like improvisation in African rhythms. |
| campus novel | A work, usually comic, set at a university. |
| canticle | Originally a prose chant or hymn from a Biblical text; now any chant. |
| canticles | Poetic passages from parts of the Bible other than the Book of Psalms. |
| carmen figuratum | Figure poem written so form of printed words suggest subject matter. |
| Caroline Age | Applied to the period of Charles I reign and to the spirit of the court, which was defined by its melancholy literature, decadent drama, and emphasis on classicism. It was in the Caroline times that Puritan migration was heaviest. |
| carpe diem | Seize the day; a Latin phrase implying that one must live for the present moment, for tomorrow may be too late. |
| catalexis | Incompleteness of the last foot of a line; truncation by omission of one or two final syllables; the opposite of Anacrusis. |
| catechism | An exercise arranged as questions and answers, especially in used for religious instruction |
| catharsis | The process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions. |
| caudate sonnet | A standard fourteen-line sonnet is augmented by the addition of other lines, including "tails". |
| Cavalier Lyricists | The followers of Charles I who composed light-hearted poems. Included Thomas Carew, Richard Lovelace, and Sir John Suckling. |
| Celtic Literature | Literature produced by people speaking Celtic dialects |
| chain rhyme | The linking together of stanzas by carrying a rhyme over from one stanza to the next. |
| chain verse | Poetry in which stanzas are connected together via rhyme scheme, word choice, or another type of repetition. |
| chanson de geste | An epic poem of the 11th and 14th century, written in Old French, which details the exploits of a historical or legendary figure, especially Charlemagne. |
| chant royal | One of the most complex French verse forms, calling for a dignified, heroic subject, and consisting of sixty lines arranged in five stanzas of eleven lines each and an envoy of five lines. |
| chantey | A sailor's song marked by strong rhythm and, in the days of sail, used to accompany certain forms of repetitious hard labor, performed by seamen working in a group. |
| charm | A primordial formulaic utterance designed to have magical influence in the conduct of life. |
| chiaroscuro | An Italian word designating the contrast of dark and light in a painting, drawing, or print. |
| chiasmus | A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed ("Susan walked in, and out rushed Mary.") |
| choree | Obsolete equivalent of Trochee; now preserved only in Choriambus. |
| chrestomathy | A collection of choice passages to be used in the study of a language or a literature and, thus a kind of anthology. |
| chronicle | A factual written account of important or historical events in the order of their occurrence. |
| chronicle play | A drama based on historical material, usually consisting of a series of short episodes or scenes arranged chronologically. |
| chronological primitivism | The belief that, on the whole, the lives and actions of human beings were more admirable and desirable at an earlier stage of history than at present. |
| Ciceronians | A group of Latin stylists in the Renaissance who would not use any word that could not be found in Cicero's writings. |
| circumlocution | The use of many words where fewer would do, especially in a deliberate attempt to be vague or evasive. (brush = "follicle redistribution mechanism") |
| classical allusion | A reference to a particular event or character in classical works of literature, such as ancient Roman or Greek works. |
| Classicism | Deriving from the orderly qualities of ancient Greek and Roman culture; implies formality, objectivity, simplicity, and restraint. |
| clerihew | A form of light verse invented by and named for Edmund Clerihew Bentley. In its proper form, it concerns an actual person, whose name makes up the first line of a quatrain with a strict aabb rhyme scheme but no regularity of rhythm or meter. |
| climax | A rhetorical term for a rising order in the ideas expressed. The item of greatest importance is called the climax. |
| closed couplet | Two successive lines rhyming aa and containing a grammatically complete, independent statement. |
| Cockney School | Applied by Blackwood Magazine to a group of 19th century writers including Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, and Keats, because of their alleged poor taste in diction and rhyme. The offending rhymes include name-time and vista-sister only rhyme to cockney ear. |
| coda | A concluding section that wraps up a story or work. |
| collaboration | The working together of two or more people in the composition of a literary work. |
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