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8th Set LC Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Irish literature | The diverse body of national literature whose early representation is greater in bulk, earlier in date, and more striking in character than any other preserved vernacular Western European literature. |
| Italian sonnet | A sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd. |
| Jacobean | The period 1603-25 when King James I ruled England. A high point of English drama, including the later plays of Shakespeare, the major plays of Ben Jonson, and Webster's Duchess of Malfi. King James Bible also published during this period. |
| Jacobean Age | The portion of the Renaissance during the reign of James I (1603-1625). The literature was a rich flowering of the Elizabethan Age and showed attitudes of the Caroline Age. |
| jeremiad | A literary work or speech expressing a bitter lament or a righteous prophecy of doom. |
| Jewish American literature | Post WWII sympathy = rise to fame, Saul Bellows,Erica Jong, Norman Mailer, Bernhard Malamud, Elie Wiesel. |
| jongleur | A French term for a professional musical entertainer of medieval times, analogous to the Anglo-Saxon Gleeman and the later minstrel. |
| kabuki | A popular form of theater in Japan since the mid 17th century. |
| Kailyard School | A group of Scottish writers whose work dealt idealistically with village life in Scotland. |
| kenning | A figurative phrase used in old germanic languages as a synonym for a simple noun. |
| kenosis | Greek for "self-emptying," a reference to how the Son of God "emptied himself" in order to take on human nature and redeem the world. |
| kitsch | From the German for "gaudy trash" shallow, flashy art designed to have popular appeal and commercial success. |
| Knickerbocker | The group of 19th century writers from New York who finally gained international acclaim for their literary works. |
| Koine | A common dialect of the Greek language that influenced the speech of all Greeks. |
| La femme inspiratice | A person who when you are near them make you feel as though you want to create. |
| lai | A song or short narrative poem. |
| Lake School | Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Southey - three poets living in the Lake District of northwest England at the beginning of the nineteenth century. |
| lament | A poem expressing grief-usually more intense and more personal than a complaint. |
| lampoon | Writing that ridicules and satirizes a person in a bitter, scurrilous manner in verse or prose. |
| Language Poets | (1980) A group of American poets whose work shows radical suspicion, skepticism, or cynicism about the efficacy of written language to record, register, represent, communicate, or express anything much beyond its own intramural apparatus. |
| Late Victorian Age | (1870-1901) The period between 1870 and the death of Queen Victoria saw the rise of realism, realistic novels, and critical questions. |
| legend | A narrative or tradition handed down from the past; distinguished from a myth by having more of historical truth and perhaps less of the supernatural. also serve as partial expressions of national spirit. |
| leonine rhyme | The rhyming of two or more words in the same line of poetry, usually in the middle and at the end of the line. |
| limerick | a form of light verse that follows a definite pattern: five anapestic lines in which the 1st, 2nd, and 5th consist of three feet and rhyme, while the 3rd and 4th consist of two feet and rhyme |
| liminality | A period during which participant has left one place but not yet entered the next. |
| litotes | A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite |
| locus classicus | That place or passage invariably cited as the "classic example" of a principle or type. |
| Lollards | The name for the followers of John Wycliffe, an aid in translating the Bible from the Latin Vulgate into English. |
| long measure | A stanza of four lines of iambic tetrameter rhyming either abab or abcb. |
| Lost Generation | A group of American writers that rebelled against America's lack of cosmopolitan culture in the early 20th century. Many moved to cultural centers such as London in Paris in search for literary freedom. |
| low comedy | Crude, boisterous comedy; slapstick and crude jokes; physical comedy. |
| macabre | Originally, in danse macabre or Dance of Death, the obscure word relates to both subject and style-a gruesome combination of farce and tragedy. |
| macaronic verse | A type of verse that mingles two or more languages. More especially it refers to poems incorporating modern words (given Latin or Greek endings) with Latin or Greek. |
| madrigal | A short lyric, usually dealing with love or a pastoral theme and designed for a musical setting. |
| maggot | A fanciful piece of whimsy-sometimes perverse or morbid. |
| malaphor | The mistaken substitution of one word for another word that sounds similar (The doctor wrote a subscription.) |
| malapropism | An inappropriateness of speech resulting from the use of one word for another which resembles it. |
| Martian School | Craig Raines second book of poems. He labeled a school of British poets born in the 1940s-poets who struggle to see the world afresh, as might a visitor from Mars. |
| masculine rhyme | Rhyme that falls on the stressed and concluding syllables of the rhyme-words. |
| masque | In medieval Europe, there existed species of games or spectacles characterized by a progression of masked figures. |
| medievalism | A spirit of sympathy for the Middle Ages along with a desire to preserve or revive certain qualities of medieval life. |
| meliorism | Widely held in the 19th century that society has an innate tendency towards improvement and that that tendency can be furthered by conscious human effort. |
| melopoeia | A Greek term renovated by Ezra Pound, who used it for the whole articulatory-acoustic-auditory range of poetry. |
| memento mori | Latin language a reminder of human mortality sometimes signified by a skull. |
| menippean satire | Form of satire originally developed by Greek cynic Menippus and transmitted by his disciples deals more with mental attitudes than with fully realized characters. |
| merism | Type of synecdoche which uses the word "and" to join together contrasting parts to express totality (when it is said that God made "heaven AND earth," this is meant to be understood as God made EVERYTHING) |
| metafiction | A work of fiction, a major concern of which is the nature of fiction itself. |
| metalepsis | The compounding of multiple figures of speech. |
| metaphor | Figure of speech comparing two different things. |
| metaphysical conceit | An ingenious kind of conceit widely used by the metaphysical conceit poets, who explored all areas of knowledge to find telling and unusual analogies for their ideas. |
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