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6th Set LC Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| exegesis | An explanation and interpretation of a text. It is applied to the detailed study of the Bible. |
| existentialism | A philosophy based on the idea that people give meaning to their lives through their choices and actions. |
| exordium | The beginning or introductory part, especially of a discourse or treatise. |
| expletive | An interjection to lend emphasis; sometimes, a profanity. |
| explication de texte | A method, which originated in the teaching of literature in France, involving the painstaking analysis of the meanings, relationships, and ambiguities of the words, images, and other small units that make up a literary work. |
| exposition | One of the four chief types of composition, purpose is to explain something. |
| eye rhyme | Depends on spelling rather than sound; words that look like they should rhyme, but do not. |
| fabliau | A short comic tale with a bawdy element, akin to the "dirty story." Chaucer's The Miller's Tale contains elements of the fabliau. |
| fairy tale | A narrative that is made up of fantastic characters and creatures, such as witches, goblins, and fairies, and usually begins with the phrase "Once upon a time..." |
| falling rhyme | A two-syllable rhyme; formerly called a "feminine rhyme" in which the final syllable or syllables are unstressed. |
| fatalism | Belief that all events are predetermined and therefore inevitable and beyond our control. |
| Federalist Age | Period between formation of National government and the 2nd revolution. "Of Jacksonian Democracy (because of dominance in Red Party") "Era of Good Feeling" |
| Federalist Period | A time period in American history from roughly 1789-1801 when the Federalist Party was dominant in American politics. This period saw the adoption of the United States Constitution and the expansion of the federal government. |
| feminine rhyme | Lines rhymed by their final two syllables. |
| figurative language | A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words. |
| figure poem | A poem written so that its printed shape suggests its subject matter. |
| fin de siècle | Referring to the last years of the nineteenth century; decadent. |
| Fireside Poets | The introduction of free public education at the beginning of the 19th century. |
| flashback | A method of narration in which present action is temporarily interrupted so that the reader can witness past events. |
| flat character | A character who embodies a single quality and who does not develop in the course of a story. |
| Fleshly School | Name given by Robert Buchanan to a realistic, sensual school of poets, to which Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, and Algernon Charles Swinburne belong. He accused them of immorality in an article entitled "The Fleshly School of Poetry" |
| flyting (or fliting) | A contest consisting of the exchange of insults, often conducted in verse, between two parties. |
| foil | To any person who through contrast underscores the distinctive characteristics of the other. |
| foot | A unit of rhythm or meter; the division in the verse of a group of syllables, one of which is long or accented. |
| foreshadowing | The presentation of material in such a way that the reader is prepared for what is to come later in the work. |
| formulaic | A term applied to work that relies excessively on set patterns if plot. Character, sentiment, and language- as though written by a formula. |
| Four Ages | A scheme of great antiquity - dividing history into a line or cycle of ages - conventionally associated with gold, silver, brass and iron. |
| fourteener | Used by Dickinson. A variant of common meter. Each stanza is made up of 2 7-beat lines that rhyme. Each 7-beat line is divided into one 4-beat line and one 3-beat line. Hymns and nursery rhymes follow this pattern. |
| framework-story | A story within a story. |
| free verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme. |
| Freytag's Pyramid | A diagram of the structure of a five-act tragedy developed by Gustav Freytag in 1863. The pyramid has been widely accepted as a heuristic means of understanding the structures of drama as well as fiction. |
| Frontier Literature | Writing about the American frontier and frontier life. Up to 1890, when all the free lands had generally been claimed, one aspect of American history was the steady westward movement of the frontier. |
| fused rhyme | A curious phenomenon, scarcely found anywhere in English outside a few poems by Gerald Manley Hokins, in which a rhyme sound is begun at the end of a line but not completed until the beginning of the next. |
| gasconade | Bravado or boastful talk. |
| gazebo | Notably boring material that takes up time and space without advancing a plot, exp. character, or even affording entertainment. |
| Geneva School | Critics who began to see literary work as a series of existential expressions of the author's conscience. Major writers: Georges Poulet, Marcel Raymond, and J. Hillis Miller. |
| genre | Used to designate the types or categories into which literary works are grouped according to form, technique, or sometimes, subjects matter. |
| Georgian Age | A period in English literary history that begins with the First World War and whose literary voices include poets Yeats, Eliot, and Hardy and whose experimental fiction includes works by Woolf, Joyce, and to some degree, Conrad |
| gift book | Miscellaneous collections of literary materials published annually in book form for purchase as gifts. |
| glee | A poem written as though to be sung by a group. A musical composition for unaccompanied solo male voices, usually a setting of a light or patriotic poem. |
| gleeman | A musical entertainer among the Anglo-Saxons; usually traveling professions who recited poetry composed by others. |
| Gnosticism | The beliefs of various cults in the late pre-Christian and early Christian times. The Gnostics thought that human beings had an immediate knowledge of spiritual truth that was available to them alone.. |
| gongorism | A highly affected style taking its name from the Spanish poet Luis de Gongóra y Argote, whose writings exhibited stylistic extravagances, such as Neologism, innovations in grammar, Bombast, Puns, Paradoxes, Conceits, and obscurity. |
| gothic | Relating to a style of church architecture that developed in medieval Europe, featuring ribbed vaults, stained glass windows, flying buttresses, pointed arches, and tall spires. |
| Graveyard School | Eighteenth century poets who wrote poems about death and immorality. Wrote with a tone of gloom. Major writers: Thomas Parnell, Edward Young, Philip Freneaus, and William Cullen Bryant. |
| Great Awakening | (1730s and 1740s) Religious movement characterized by emotional preaching (Jonathan Edwards & George Whitefield). The first cultural movement to unite the Thirteen Colonies. Associated with the democratization of religion. |
| Great Chain of Being | European idea that every species was a link on a chain extending from lowest forms to humans and on to spiritual beings. All links and been designed at the same time during creation and would never change. |
| Grimm's Law | The law was a systematic and coherent formulation, well supported by examples, of patterns recognized as early as 1814; separates Latin from Old English and Germanic, so we can tell which words were introduced before and after. |
| grotesque | A term applied to any decorative art characterized by fantastic representations of human and animal forms often combined into formal distortions of the natural to the point of absurdity, ugliness, or caricature. |
| Grub Street | An area in London during the restoration that was associated with "hack writers" and low end publishing houses. Produced low quality literature for the masses. |
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