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9th Set LC Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| metaplasm | The movement of any element in a piece of language from its customary place. |
| metathesis | The interchange of position between sounds in a word. |
| meter | The rhythmical structure of a line or verse, created by a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables, which can be grouped into units called feet. |
| metonymy | A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated (such as "crown" for "royalty"). |
| Middle English Period | The period in English literature between the replacement of French by English as the language of the court and the appearance of modern writings. |
| miltonic sonnet | A variation made by Milton on the Italian sonnet, in which the rhyme scheme is kept but the "turn" between the octave and the sestet is eliminated. |
| mimesis | Greek for imitation, often used specifically to indicate Aristotle's theory of imitation. |
| minimalism | A genre where events are depicted with little detail so a story is boiled down to its essentials. |
| minstrel | A form of Vaudeville very popular in America for the last half of the 19th century in which people would impersonate stereotypical characters in song and dance. |
| miracle play | A nonscriptural drama based upon the legend of a saint or of a miracle performed by a saint or sacred object. |
| mock drama | A term applied to plays whose purpose is to ridicule the theater of their time. |
| mock epic | A work of literature that applies the characteristics and conventions of epic poetry to trivial subject matter for the sake of humor, irony, parody, or satire. |
| Modernist Period | (1914-1945) Began with WWI traditional notions of humanity and society/writers experimented with new, innovative techniques/protested against the nature of society. F. Scott Fitzgerald, T.S. Elliot, Robert Frost, James Joyce. |
| mosaic | Another name for Heteromerous rhyme. |
| motif | A simple element that serves as a basis for expanded narrative. |
| Muckrakers | A group of American writers who between 1902-1911 worked to expose the dishonest methods in big business, and in city, state, and national government. |
| Muses | Nine sisters who give song and inspiration to humanity; daughters of Zeus. |
| myth | An anonymous story that presents supernatural episodes as a means of interpreting natural events. |
| mythopoeia | Myth-making, construed as either an individual function of a single artist or a collective spirit. |
| naïve narrator | An ingenious character who reveals the faults and flaws of the world around him through his inexperience and innocence. |
| narratology | The sophisticated analysis of the relations among a story and all the other elements involved in the telling thereof. |
| naturalism | (Philosophy) The doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms without recourse to spiritual or supernatural explanations. |
| naturalistic | Observing and recording behavior in naturally occurring situations without trying to manipulate and control the situation. |
| Naturalistic and Symbolistic Period | The period in American literary history covering 1900 to 1930 that is known for, in part, the virtual birth of modern American poetry. |
| near rhyme | The repetition in accented syllables of the final consonant sound without the correspondence of the preceding vowel sound, as in "grope" and "cup" or "restored" and "word." |
| nekuia | A work having to do with the land of the dead, especially a visit by a living person. |
| Nemesis | (Greek mythology) The goddess of divine retribution and vengeance. |
| Neoclassic Period | Period in English literature between the return of the Stuarts to the English throne in 1660 and the publication of lyrical ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge in 1798. |
| neologism | A new word introduced into a language, especially for enhancing style. |
| new comedy | Greek comedy of the fourth and third centuries B.C. After the decline of Greece and the rise of Macedonia, the Old Comedy was replaced by a comedy of manners. |
| New York School | A group of American poets who flourished between 1950 and 1970, distinguished by urbanity, wit, learning, spontaneity, and exuberance. |
| nexility | Rare word for compactness of utterance. |
| nihilism | The total rejection of religious or moral beliefs. |
| noble savage | The idea that primitive human beings are naturally good and that whatever evil they develop is the product of the corrupting action of civilization. |
| noh | The most important form of Japanese drama, literally means "highly skilled or accomplished". They are harmonious combinations of dance, poetry, music, mime, and acting. |
| nom de plume | A name adopted by a writer for professional use or to disguise his or her true identity. |
| nonce word | In earlier forms of a language, a word for which there is a single recorded occurrence. |
| nonsense verse | A type of light verse that emphasizes rhythmic and sound effects over meaning. |
| novel of character | A novel that emphasizes character rather than exciting episode, as in the novel of incident or unity of plot. |
| novel of incident | A term for a novel in which episodic action dominates, and plot and character are subordinate. |
| novel of manners | A novel dominated by social customs, manners, conventions, habits of a definite social class. |
| novel of sensibility | A novel in which the characters have a heightened emotional response to events, producing in the reader a similar response. |
| novel of the soil | A special kind of regionalism in the novel, in which the lives of people struggling for existence in remote rural sections are starkly portrayed. This term is usually restricted to portrayals in the manner of realism or naturalism. |
| obelisk | Other names for the symbol usually called the dagger. In some ancient texts, the name applied to other symbols, used in manuscripts to mark dubious readings. |
| objective correlative | The artistic and literary technique of representing or evoking a particular emotion by means of symbols that objectify that emotion and are associated with it. (think The Scream painting) |
| oblique rhyme | Approximate but not true rhyme; oblique rhyme is another term for near rhyme, half rhyme, and slant rhyme. |
| octameter | A line of eight feet. It is fairly rare in English verse. |
| octapla | "Eightfolds" Eight versions of a text in parallel columns, usually applied to scriptural text. |
| octastich | A group of eight lines of verse. |
| octave | An eight lined stanza. the chief use of the term, however, is to denote the first eight-lined division of the Italian sonnet. |
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