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4th Set LC Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| colliteration | A name suggested for the effect, similar to alliteration, of beginning accented syllables with similar consonants. |
| colonial | The styles of the British colonies in America in the 17th and 18th centuries, mainly adapted to local materials and demands from prevailing English styles. |
| comedy | A literary work which ends happily because the hero or heroine is able to overcome obstacles and get what he or she wants. |
| comic relief | The inclusion of a humorous character or scene to contrast with the tragic elements of a work, thereby intensifying the next tragic event. |
| commedia dell'arte | An improvised kind of popular comedy in Italian theaters in the 16th-18th centuries, based on stock characters. Actors adapted their comic dialogue and action according to a few basic plots (commonly love intrigues) and to topical issues. |
| Commonwealth Interregnum | The period between Charles I's execution and the restoration of the monarchy under Charles II, during which England was ruled by Parliament under the control of the Puritan leader Oliver Cromwell. |
| compound rhyme | Rhyme between primary and secondary stressed syllables as in such pairs as "childhood" and "wildwood" or castigate and masticate. |
| conceit | A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects. |
| concordance | An alphabetical list of the most pertinent works in a given text and a notation of where the words might be found within that text. |
| concrete poetry | Poetry that is visually arranged to represent a topic. |
| connation | The emotion or association that a word or phrase may arouse. |
| connotation | All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests. |
| consonance | Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity. |
| consonant rhyme | Rhyming with similar consonants, different vowels: limp/lump, bit/bet. |
| Contemporary Period | 1900-present; characterized by avoided major and minor tonalities, quartal harmony, bitonality, polytonality, atonality, irregular and changing meters, polyphonic texture, Neo-Classic writing, serial or Twelve-Tone music, etc. |
| controlling image | An image or metaphor that runs throughout and determines the form or nature of a literary work. |
| cosmic irony | The idea that fate, destiny, or a god controls and toys with human hopes and expectations. |
| coup de théâtre | A surprising and usually unmotivated stroke in a drama that produces a sensational effect; by extension, anything designed solely for effect. |
| couplet | A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem. |
| cross cutting | A cut into action that is happening simultaneously (also called parallel editing). Can create tension or suspense and can form a connection between scenes. |
| Cubism | An early 20th-century style and movement in art, especially painting, in which perspective with a single viewpoint was abandoned and use was made of simple geometric shapes, interlocking planes, and, later, collage. |
| curtal sonnet | Gerard Manley Hopkins's name for a sonnet that has been curtailed, or shortened, to parts consisting of six lines and four and a half lines. |
| cynicism | Doubt of the generally accepted standards or of the innate goodness of human action. |
| dactyl | Stressed, unstressed, unstressed (hickory dickory; "HIC-kor-ee DIC-kor-ee") |
| Dadaism | An artistic movement that had a purposely nonsensical name, expressing its total rejection of previous modern art. |
| Dandyism | Marked by excessively refined emotion and perciosity of language. |
| dead metaphor | A figure of speech used so long that it is now taken in its denotative sense only, without the conscious comparison or analogy to a physical object once conveyed. |
| Dead Sea Scrolls | A collection of written scrolls (containing nearly all of the Old Testament) found in a cave near the Dead Sea in the late 1940s. |
| débat | A type of composition in verse in which two contestants debate a topic and refer it to a judge. |
| decadence | A term denoting the decline that commonly marks the end of a great period. |
| Decadents | Late 19th & early 20th C. France, England, America. Writers who believed that art was superior to nature and that the finest beauty was that of dying or decaying things. They attacked the moral and social standards of their times. |
| deconstruction | A type of critical postmodern analysis that involves taking apart or disassembling old ways of thinking. |
| definition | A statement that gives the meaning of a term. |
| deictic | A word - usually a pronoun, adjective, or adverb - that refers to another part of the discourse and not outwards to a world or context. |
| Deism | A popular Enlightenment era belief that there is a God, but that God isn't involved in people's lives or in revealing truths to prophets. |
| Della Cruscans | Group of poets, founded by Robert Merry, that produced a series of rhetorically ornate and emotional poems of sensibility which may have influenced the young romantics. |
| demotion | The reduction of stress on a syllable caused by the rhythmic environment. |
| denotation | The literal meaning of a word. |
| dénouement | In a plot, the tying up of loose ends. In a tragedy, sometimes called the catastrophe. |
| determinism | The belief that all ostensible acts of the will are actually the result of causes that determine them. |
| deus ex machina | An unexpected power or event saving a seemingly hopeless situation, especially as a contrived plot device in a play or novel. |
| dialect | A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation. |
| diasporic literature | Writing having to do with any scattering of a population from a homeland to one or more alien environments. |
| didactic work | A: designed or intended to teach (a moral or lesson). B: intended to convey instruction and information as well as pleasure and entertainment. |
| didacticism | instructiveness in a work, one purpose of which is to give guidance, particularly in moral, ethical, or religious matters |
| digression | insertion of material not closely related to the work or subject |
| diminishing metaphor | A type of metaphor that utilizes a deliberate discrepancy of connotation between tenor and vehicle. |
| dirge | A wailing song sung at a funeral or in commemoration of death. |
| discordia concors | A term used by Samuel Johnson for "a combination of dissimilar images or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike" in metaphysical poetry. |
| dissonance | Unpleasant or inharmonious sound. |
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