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7th Set LC Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| hagiography | Writing about saints. by extension, a biography that praises the virtues of its subjects. |
| haiku | A japanese form of poetry, consisting of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables - light tone. |
| half rhyme | Imperfect rhyme, usually the result of consonance. |
| hamartia | The error, frailty, mistaken judgment, or misstep through which the fortunes of the hero of a tragedy are reversed. |
| hapax legomenon | Literally, from the Greek, "something said once." A word or grammatical structure form that occurs only once-either because of genuine uniqueness or because all other occurrences have been lost. |
| harangue | A vehement speech designed to arouse emotions. |
| Harlem Renaissance | A period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished. |
| Hartford Wits | A group of Connecticut writers, active around the period of the American Revolution. |
| heaping figure | The heaping up of epithets; ex: "a broadshouldered deepchested stronglimbed frankeyed redhaired freely freckled shaggybearded widemouthed largenosed longheaded deepvoiced barekneed brawnyhanded hairylegged ruddyfaced sineqy-armed hero" |
| hedonism | A doctrine that pleasure is the chief good of human beings. |
| hendiadys | Figure of speech in which an idea is expressed by giving two components as though they were independent and connecting them with a coordinating conjunction rather than subordinating one to the other. |
| heptameter | A line consisting of seven feet. |
| heroic quatrain | Four lines of iambic pentameter; abab. |
| heroic verse | Poetry composed of heroic couplets. |
| heteroglossia | A diversity of voices, styles of discourse, or points of view in a literary work and especially a novel. |
| heteromerous rhyme | Also called mosaic, multiple rhyme in which one word is forced into a rhyme with two or more words. These are usually outlandish and comic, as in "But - Oh! Ye lords of ladies intellectual, / Inform us truly, have they not hen-pecked you all?" |
| heteronym | A word spelled the same as another, but pronounced and defined differently. |
| hexameter | A line of six feet. |
| hiatus | A pause or break between two vowel sounds not separated by a consonant. It is the opposite of an elision. |
| hieronymy | The idea of sacred names and naming, more recently applied to any special name for persons, places, gods, days, months, and so forth. |
| high comedy | Pure or serious comedy—appeals to the intellect and arouses thoughtful laughter by exhibiting the inconsistencies and incongruities of human nature and by displaying the follies of social manners. |
| historical allusion | When a work of literature refers to a historical event. |
| historicism | A set of concepts about works of literature & their relationships to the social & cultural contexts in which they were produced. |
| hoax | An act intended to fool or deceive others. |
| homeoarchy | The occurrence of the same or similar unstressed syllables preceding rhyming stressed syllables, as in "indeed" rhymed with "in need." |
| homeoteleuton | Sameness or similarity of endings of consecutive words or words near each other: "relatively easily" |
| hubris | Overweening pride or insolence that results in the misfortune of the protagonist of a tragedy. |
| humanism | Broadly, any attitude that tends to exalt the human element, as opposed to the supernatural, divine elements- or as opposed to the grosser, animal elements. |
| hymnal stanza | Ballad stanza of four iambic lines and strict rhymes aka common measure. |
| hypallage | A figure of speech in which an epithet is moved from the proximate to the less proximate of a group of nouns. |
| hyperbole | Exaggeration for effect. |
| iamb | Foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stress |
| iambic pentameter | A metrical pattern in poetry which consists of five iambic feet per line. (an iamb, or iambic foot, consists of one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.) |
| icon | Icon has come to mean a sign that goes beyond arbitrary reference. |
| idyll | A term describing one or another of the poetic genres that are short and possess marked descriptive, narrative, and pastoral qualities. |
| imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) |
| Imagists | The name applies to a group of poets active in England and America between 1909-1918 |
| implied action | Phrases that require the listener to make assumptions about what probably happened. |
| impressionism | A highly personal manner of writing in which the author presents materials as they appear to an individual temperament at a precise moment and from a particular Vantage Point rather than they as they are presumed to be an actuality. |
| in media res | Action on the stage begins "in the middle" |
| in memento mori | Latin language a reminder of human mortality sometimes signified by a skull "remember that you must die" |
| Industrial Revolution | A series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods. |
| Inkhornists | A group of Renaissance period writers who introduced heavy Latin and Greek words into the English vocabulary. |
| intentional fallacy | The judging of the meaning of success or a work of art by the author's expressed or ostensible intention in producing it. |
| internal rhyme | Rhyme that occurs at some place before the last syllable in a line. |
| interpolation | In editing, we can sometimes interpolate an item in a series by some process of deduction or induction. |
| intertextuality | Every text builds itself as a mosaic of quotations, every text is absorption and transformation of another text. |
| inversion | The reversal of the normal word order in a sentence or phrase. |
| invocation | An address to deity for aid. Epics particularly, were likely to begin this way. |
| Irish Literary Revival | The literary movement immediately associated with the Abbey Theater and William Butler Yeats. |
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