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5th Set LC Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| documentary novel | A form of fiction in which there is an elaborate piling up of factual data, frequently including newspaper articles, popular songs, legal reports, and trial transcripts. Used by authors such as Theodore Dreiser, John Dos Passos, and Norman Mailer. |
| dolce stil nuovo | The "sweet new style" (from Dante's Purgatory) of thirteenth century lyrics poets; the precursor of modern rhymed verse in Indo-European languages. |
| double entendre | A statement that is deliberately ambiguous, one of whose possible meanings is risqué or suggestive of some impropriety. |
| dramady | A work combining drama and comedy, specifically a comedy that relies on dramatic means rather than stock characters and situations, farce, and slapstick |
| dramatic irony | The words or acts of a character may carry a meaning unperceived by the character but understood by the audience. |
| dramatis personae | The characters in a drama, novel, poem. Term applied to listing of characters in program of a play, at the beginning of the printed version of the play or sometimes the beginning of a novel. List contains brief characterizations. |
| dumb show | A pantomimed performance used in play; in Elizabethan/ Jacobean drama generally a prologue. |
| dynamic character | A character who develops or changes as a result of the actions of the plot. |
| dysphemism | The opposite of euphemism. For example, a euphemism for "die" is "pass away." A () would be "croak." |
| dystopian literature | A genre of fictional writing used to explore social and political structures in 'a dark, nightmare world.' |
| Early Tudor Age | Time: 1500 - 1558 (Britain) The Early Tudor period is the first phase of the Renaissance period. This period is known for its poetry and nonfiction prose. English literature's first dramatic comedy, Ralph Roister Doister, was first performed in 1553. |
| Early Tudor Period | War of the Roses ends in English with Henry VII claiming the throne - Martin Luther's split with roman Catholic church marks emergence of Protestantism - first Protestant church in England - Edmund Spenser (poet) |
| Early Victorian Period | 1832-1870 ~ This period was a time of the gradual tempering of the romantic impulse and the steady growth of realism. |
| echo verse | Poetry in which the closing syllables of one line are repeated as by an echo, in the following line- and usually making up that line- with a different meaning and thus forming a reply or comment. |
| ecocriticism | An emergent interdisciplinary field that approaches literature form viewpoints related to environmental responsibility. |
| education novel | A form of novel developed in the late eighteenth century, presenting in fictional form a plan for the education of a young person into a desirable citizen and a morally and intellectually self-reliant individual. |
| Edwardian Age | The period between Queen Victoria's death and WWI and named in honor of King Edward VII. The attitude of the people was critical and questioning. There was a growing distrust and there was a deep-felt need to examine institutions. |
| Edwardian Literature | The period between the death of Victoria in 1901 and the beginning of World War 1 in 1914. Growing distrust of authority in religion, morality, and art. a growing doubt of old virtues. |
| Eiron | A basic comic character - a swindler or trickster who pretends to be ignorant to trick people. |
| elegy | A sad or mournful poem. |
| elision | Refers to the leaving out of an unstressed syllable or vowel, usually in order to keep a regular meter in a line of poetry for example "o'er" for "over" |
| Elizabethan Age | The segment of the Renaissance during the reign of Elizabeth 1. This age saw the development of English drama to tis highest level, a great outburst of lyric poetry and a new interest of criticism. |
| ellipsis | The omission of one or more words that, while essential to a grammatical structure, are easily supplied. |
| emblem | A graphic device of some sort that stands for a special meaning. |
| enantiosis | An utterance which says the opposite of what is meant. |
| enclosed rhyme | A term applied to the rhyme pattern of the In Memoriam stanza: abba. |
| encomium | In Greek literature, a composition in praise of a living person, object, or event - but not a god- delivered before a special audience. |
| end-stop line | Lines in which both the grammatical structure and the sense reach completion at the end. |
| English sonnet | 3 Quatrains and an ending couplet. Rhyme scheme of abab, cdcd, efef, gg. |
| englyn | A venerable Welsh verse, usually a quatrain with complex rules governing alliteration and rhyme. |
| enjambment | A line having no pause or end punctuation but having uninterrupted grammatical meaning continuing into the next line. |
| Enlightenment | 18th century movement led by French intellectuals who advocated reason as the universal source of knowledge and truth. |
| envoy | A conventionalized stanza appearing at the close of certain kinds of poems, particularly associated with the French ballade. |
| epanalepsis | Starting and ending a phrase, clause, sentence, or passage with the same word or phrase. ("MANKIND must put an end to war -- or war will put an end to MANKIND") |
| epic | A long narrative poem in elevated style presenting characters of high position in adventures, forming an organic whole through their relation to a central heroic figure through the development of episodes important to the history of a nation or race. |
| epigram | A pithy (witty) saying expressing a single thought or observation. |
| epigraph | An inscription on stone or on a statue or coin. In literature, a () is a quotation on the title page of a book or a motto heading a section of a work. |
| epiphany | A manifestation or showing-forth, usually of some divine being. |
| episodic structure | A term applied to writing that consists of little more than a series of incidents, with the episodes succeeding each other. The term is also applied to long narratives that may contain complicated plots. |
| epistolary literature | Literature, usually prose fiction, entirely or partly written as letters. |
| epitaph | An inscription used to mark burial places. |
| epithet | An adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned. ("Thou MAD MUSTACHIO PURPLE-HUED maltworm!") |
| eponym | A person after whom a discovery, invention, place, etc., is named or thought to be named. (Walt Disney and Disneyland) |
| eponymy | Derivation of a name of a place or a thing from that of a person. In Katherine Mansfield's "The Daughters of the Late Colonel," the character Constantia is derived from Ida Constance Baker, who was her companion. |
| equivoque | Special type of pun that makes use of a single word or phrase which has two disparate meanings, in a context which makes both meanings equally relevant. |
| euhemerism | An approach to the interpretation of mythology in which mythological accounts are presumed to have originated from real historical events or personages. |
| eulogy | A dignified, formal speech or form of writing that praises a person or thing. Most seen in services for the dead. |
| euphemism | An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant. |
| euphony | Pleasing sounds, opposite of cacophony. |
| euphuism | An affected style that flourished in the sixteenth century; chief characteristics: balanced construction, excessive use of the rhetorical question, and a heaping up of similes, illustrations, and examples. |
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