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14th Set LC Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| tribach | A foot of three short or unstressed syllables. |
| Tribe of Ben | A nickname for young poets and dramatists of the seventeenth century who acknowledged Ben Jonson as their master. Major members: Robert Herrick |
| triolet | A poem or stanza of eight lines in which the first line is repeated as the fourth and seventh, and the second line repeated as the eighth. |
| triple rhyme | A feminine rhyme involving one stressed and two unstressed syllables in each rhyming line. |
| triplet | A sequence of three rhyming lines. |
| trochee (trochaic) | Stressed, unstressed ("PEter PIper picked a peck of PICKled PEPPers") |
| trope | The generic name for a figure of speech such as image, symbol, simile, and metaphor. |
| troubadour | A medieval poet and musician who traveled from place to place, entertaining people with songs of courtly love. |
| true rhyme | The last syllable rhyme sounds (and is usually spelled) exactly the same. |
| truncate | To shorten by cutting off. |
| truncation | The omission of an unaccented syllable at either end of a line. |
| typology | The study and interpretation of types and symbols, originally especially in the Bible. |
| ubi sunt | Questioning formula "where are they?" |
| underground press | Alternative newspapers of the 1960s and 1970s that passionately criticized cultural and political norms. |
| understatement | A statement that says less than what is meant. |
| unicial | Capital letter forms in Greek or Latin. |
| unreliable narrator | A narrator whose account of events appears to be faulty, misleadingly biased, or otherwise distorted. |
| upstaging | Drawing the audience's attention to yourself when it should be focused on another character. |
| utopian literature | Literature describing an ideally perfect place or ideal society. |
| vade mecum | An article that one keeps constantly on them. |
| Vehicle/Tenor | In a metaphor, the tenor is the subject. In other words, the tenor is what's getting reimagined by the other part of the metaphor (the vehicle). |
| verbum infans | A conventional paradoxical topos, meaning "the unspeaking word", applied to the infant (infans = not speaking) Christ, who incarnates the Word (verbum). |
| verbum infans formula | A conventional paradoxical topos, meaning "the unspeaking word," applied to the infant Christ, who incarnates the Word. |
| Verisimilitude | The appearance of being true or real. |
| versification | The structural form of a line of verse as revealed by the number of feet it contains. |
| Victorian | Of or pertaining to the reign of Queen Victoria; also someone who shares the values of that period. |
| Victorian Age | Reign of Queen Victoria of Great Britain (1837-1901). The term is also used to describe late-nineteenth-century society, with its rigid moral standards and sharply differentiated roles for men and women and for middle-class and working-class people. |
| Victorian literature | Literature written in England during the reign of Queen Victoria, or roughly from 1837 -1901. It is largely characterized by the struggle of working people and the triumph of right over wrong. |
| villanelle | A 19 line form using only two rhymes and repeating two of the lines according to a set pattern. |
| virelay (virelai) | A form of medieval French verse used often in poetry and music. Its stanzas and lines are unlimited and made of indefinite tercets. |
| visual imagery | Descriptive language that appeals to the sense of sight. |
| Volta | (1694-1778) French philosopher. He believed that freedom of speech was the best weapon against bad government. He also spoke out against the corruption of the French government, and the intolerance of the Catholic Church. |
| vorticism | A movement in modern poetry related to the manifestation of certain abstract developments and methods in painting and sculpture. |
| vox nihili | A worthless or meaningless word. |
| well-made play | A category of drama in which a meticulous and involved plot takes precedence over all other elements. |
| wellerism | A type of expression with a three-part structure: (1) an utterance, usually conventional, metaphorical or proverbial, (2) a speaker, and (3) a situation. |
| Welsh Literature | Includes Arthurian folktales and legends as well as the MABINOGION, a collection of early Welsh stories. |
| wiki | A website that allows collaborative editing of its content and structure by its users. |
| wisdom literature | A style of Hebrew literature that meditates on important truths. Wisdom literature utilizes poems, teachings, and other means of communicating these truths. |
| wrenched accent | Alteration of normal pronunciation of word to accommodate rhythm. |
| xenoglossia | The intelligible use of a foreign language that one does not know. |
| yellow journalism | Journalism that exploits, distorts, or exaggerates the news to create sensations and attract readers. |
| zeugma | A general term describing when one part of speech (most often the main verb, but sometimes a noun) governs two or more other parts of a sentence (often in a series). |
| zoomorphism | Applying animal characteristics to humans or gods. |
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