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10th Set LC Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| octometer | A line of eight feet. |
| ode | A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject. |
| old comedy | Greek comedy of the fifth century B.C. performed at festivals of Dionysus. It blended religious ceremony, satire, wit, and buffoonery. |
| Old English Period | The period between the invasion of England by the Teutonic tribes of Angles, Saxons, and Jutes, beginning around 428, and the establishment of Norman rule around 1100, following the triumphant Conquest by the Norman French under William the Conqueror. |
| olfactory imagery | Descriptive language that appeals to the sense of smell. |
| omnibus | A volume of selected works, usually by one author but sometimes by several on one subject. Usually reprinted from earlier volumes. |
| onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. |
| op-ed pages | The page opposite the editorial page in a newspaper, usually set aside for opinion columns and other features besides strict news. |
| open couplet | A couplet in which the second line is not complete but depends on succeeding material for completion. |
| orphism | The idea of poetic speech as the ground of all signification-as an expressive movement which 'objectifies' as world for man.. or which establishes the world with the horizon of human knowing and so makes signification possible. |
| ottava rima | A stanza consisting of eight iambic pentameter lines rhyming abababcc. |
| Oxford Movement | The movement within the Church of England to reintroduce many Roman Catholic practices. |
| oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. |
| paean | A song of praise or joy. Originally restricted to odes or deities. |
| palimpsest | A writing surface, that has been used more than once for manuscript purposes. |
| palindrome | A word or an expression that is spelled the same backward and forward (civic). |
| panegyric | A formal composition lauding a person for an achievement; a eulogy. |
| panoramic | A term for that point of view in which an author presents material by exposition rather than scenes, giving actions and conversations in summary rather than in detail. |
| pantoum | A series of quatrains with a rhyme scheme of ABAB BCBC CDCD and repeated lines. |
| parable | An illustrative story teaching a lesson. |
| paradox | A statement that although seemingly contradictory or absurd may actually be well-founded or true. |
| paragoge | The addition of an extra letter, syllable, or sound at the end of a word, as in "dearie for "dear." |
| parallelism | Such an arrangement that one element of equal importance with another is similarly developed and phrased. |
| parataxis | An arrangement of sentences, clauses, phrases, or words in coordinate rather than subordinate constructions, often without connectives. |
| parenthesis | An explanatory remark inside a statement and frequently separated from it by parenthesis. |
| Parnassians | 19th century French poets. Influenced by Gautier's doctrine Art for Art's Sake, they reacted against romanticism. They wrote impersonal poetry with great objective clarity and precision of detail. |
| parody | A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule. |
| pastiche | A french word for a parody or literary imitation. |
| pastoral | A type of poem that depicts rustic life in idyllic, idealized terms. |
| pathetic fallacy | The attribution of human emotions or characteristics to inanimate objects or to nature; for example angry clouds; a cruel wind. |
| pathos | From the greek root for feeling, pathos is the quality in art and literature that stimulates pity, tenderness, and sorrow. |
| patronage | When a person gives money to an author to write—a benevolent benefactor of sorts. |
| penny dreadful | Cheap sensational novel, 19th cent. Issued in instalments. |
| pentameter | A line of verse consisting of five metrical feet. |
| pentastich | A poem or stanza having five lines; a quintet; a cinquain. |
| perfect rhyme | Rhymes involving sound that are exactly the same (ex: love, dove) |
| peripety | Reversal in the hero's fortunes, a sudden and unexpected change of fortune or reverse of circumstances (especially in a literary work) |
| persona | The term is widely used to refer to a "second self" created by an author and through whom the narrative is told. |
| personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes. |
| petrarchan sonnet | The italian sonnet. |
| philippic | Any bitter speech or harangue. |
| philistinism | The worship of material and mechanical prosperity and the disregard of culture, beauty, and spirit. |
| philology | The scientific study of both language and literature. |
| phonocentrism | An old attitude that regards speech as superior to writing. |
| picaresque novel | A chronicle, usually autobiographical, presenting the life story of a rascal of low degree engaged in menial tasks and making his living more through his wits than his industry. |
| Pindarism | Following the practice of Pindar; specifically, lapsing into exaggerated enthusiasm, in a manner associated with Pindar. |
| pleonasm | Use of superfluous or redundant words, often enriching the thought. |
| ploce | A repetition of a word or phrase in the same line of poetry for emphasis; both words often used in different senses ("I feel that the time is always right to do what is right.") |
| poikilomorphism | "Variable form". Applied to rare cases of verse form that preserves rhythm, meter, and stanza length but varies rhyme scheme from stanza to stanza. |
| polemic | Controversy; argument; verbal attack |
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