Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
11th Set LC Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| political novel | A novel that deals with significant aspects of political life and in which those aspects are essential ingredients of the work. |
| polyhyphenation | The use of more than a usual number of hyphens. ("your soon-to-be-married sister") |
| polyptoton | Repetition of words derived from the same root. |
| polysyndeton | The use, for rhetorical effect, of more conjunctions than is necessary or natural. |
| portmanteau word | A word formed by combining the sounds and meanings of two different words. |
| Postmodernist Period | Post WWII, characterized by heavy reliance on techniques like fragmentation, paradox, and questionable narrators. Kurt Vonnegut. |
| poulter's measure | A couplet, now rarely used, with a first line in iambic hexameter and a second line in iambic heptameter, an adaptation of short measure. |
| pragmatism | A philosophy which focuses only on the outcomes and effects of processes and situations. |
| Pre-Raphaelitism | A movement against the prevailing conventional methods of painting. Wanting absolute uncompromising truth, by elaborating everything, their poetry included an attention to minute detail. Also called "Fleshly School." |
| preterition | In rhetoric, explicitly passing over something - either to call attention to it or slight it. |
| primitivism | The doctrine that supposedly primitive peoples- because they had remained closer to nature and had been less subject to the influences of society- were nobler than civilized peoples. |
| projective verse | A kind of free verse, which regards meter and form as artificial, and in which the poet "projects" a voice primarily through the content and the propulsive quality of breathing, which alone determines the line; also called "breath verse" |
| prosody | Principles of versification, especially meter, line length, rhyme scheme, and stanza form. |
| prosopopoeia | Another name for personification; the personified abstraction is capable of speech. |
| protagonist | The chief character of a work. |
| provincialism | A word, phrase, or manner of expression peculiar to a special. |
| pseudonym | A fake name used by an author; a pen name. |
| psychological novel | Novel that focuses on the "interior" lives of its characters, their mental states and emotions, and their psychological motivations of their actions than on the actions themselves. |
| pulp magazines | Magazines printed on rough pulp paper, cheaply produced, with lurid illustrations and gaudy covers, and featuring tales of love, crime, and adventure. |
| pun | The use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words. |
| puritanism | Writing style of America's early English-speaking colonists. emphasizes obedience to God and consists mainly of journals, sermons, and poems. |
| purple patch | A piece of notably fine writing; often a colorful passage standing out from the writing around it, suggesting self-conscious literary effort. Although sometimes used in a non evaluative, descriptive sense, the term is more often employed derogatorily. |
| pushkin stanza | The stanza used by Alexander Pushkin: 14 tetrameter lines rhyming abab ccdd effe gg. |
| putative author | The person or character said to be the author of the work when this is different from the actual author. (think Diary of a Wimpy Kid) |
| pyrrhic | Unstressed, unstressed. |
| quibble | A verbal device for evading the point at issue, as when debaters engage in debate over the interpretation of a term. |
| quintain | A five line stanza. |
| Realistic Age | The American Literature period after the Civil War that was impacted by Darwin, Marx, and others advancing a scientific attitude. |
| Realistic Period | The third stage of Ginzberg's theory, which occurs in early adulthood, when people begin to explore specific career options, either through actual experience on the job or through training for a profession, and then narrow their choices and commit to it. |
| rebus | A text in which ordinary verbal symbols are supplemented by pictures and other devices to suggest a total meaning. |
| recension | A text that incorporates the best readings taken by critical editing from several sources. The word means survey. |
| redaction | A revision or editing of a manuscript. Sometimes, the term implies a digest of a longer work or a new version of an older piece of writing. |
| redende name | German, "speaking name"; a name that is significant. |
| reduplication | A syllable structure phonological process that involves the repetition of a syllable of a word. |
| refrain | One or more words, phrases, or lines that are repeated regularly in a poem, usually at end of each stanza. |
| regionalism | Fidelity to a particular geographical area; the representation of its habits, speech, manners, history, folklore, or beliefs. |
| reification | The treatment of abstractions as concrete things. |
| reliteralization | The process of returning a metaphorical expression to a literal meaning. |
| renaissance | Rebirth of art, culture, and intellect started in Italy. |
| repartee | A quick, witty reply. |
| Restoration Age | The Stuarts were restored to the throne of England. The literature was a reaction to Puritanism. A comedy of manners appeared in literature, the heroic drama appeared on the stage, and Dryden was the greatest poet of the period. |
| restraint | A critical term applied to writing which holds in decent check the emotional elements of a given situation. |
| revenge tragedy | A form of tragic drama in which someone rights a wrong. |
| reversal | The change in fortune for a protagonist. |
| revolutionary | A supporter of radical change. |
| rhetorical accent | The accent determined by the meaning or intention of the sentence. |
| rhopalic | A sequence that "thickens" as it moves toward its end, with each word a syllable longer than the preceding one. Also applies to stanzas when each line is a foot longer. |
| riddle | A question requiring thought to answer or understand; a puzzle or conundrum. |
| riding rhyme | The heroic couplet, sometimes with run-on lines but without caesuras. |
| rime riche | Words with identical sounds but different meanings, such as "stair" and "stare" |
| robinsonade | The protagonist is suddenly removed from society and put in isolation where they must survive on their wit. |
Created by:
6am6i
Popular Literature sets