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Tapestry of Grace
Literature vocabulary for Tapestry of Grace
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Prose | Language which is relatively uncompressed, does not follow any metrical rules, and is measured in the basic units of sentences and paragraphs. |
| Novel | A fictional story that is long, written in prose, and uses special techniques, of which the most essential is its tendency to give a detailed revelation of the beliefs, feelings, thoughts, and affairs of human beings in everyday life. |
| Allegory | A story, poem, or play in the allegorical mode. |
| Apology | An author's explanation and justification for the ideas expressed in a literary work, or for the form through which he expresses them, usually written in a preface to that work. |
| Conceit | 1)Any literary device or means of expressing an idea 2) A complex or extended metaphor figure. |
| Dark Conceit | A term invented by Edmund Spenser to describe the literary device of allegory, whereby an invisible reality is figuratively expressed through a concrete story. |
| Descriptive Style | The characteristic manner in which a storyteller describes everything in a given story, including characters, objects, ideas, and places. |
| Sentence Structure | the characteristic length of sentences, the way they are usually constructed, and the characteristic elements included in them, in the style of a given author. |
| Style | The unique rhythm, techniques, and qualities that characterize a particular author's craftsmanship. |
| Symbolic character | A character who, in addition to his role in the story, stands for another idea or meaning outside the story. |
| Symbolic Event | In a story, a symbolic event or act may either point to another event in the story or to a greater reality outside the story. |
| Symbolic Place | A symbolic place is at once a setting in the story and a representation of something else, often an ideal or great reality. |
| Tone | The emotional color ro disposition of a story. Tone includes the author's attitudes and emotions as expressed in the story, and the consistent emotional mood of characters in the story. |
| Carpe De Poem | A poem that emphasizes the shortness of life and the need to seize pleasure while living. |
| Confessional Mode | A mode in which the purpose is to confess feelings, thoughts, and actions , often personal but sometimes those of a community. The confessional mood varies bu tis often one of longing and desperation. |
| Elegy | A lyric poem about, often addressed to, and usually exalting a particular person with whom the speaker in the poem shares a close relationship. |
| Expressive Mode | A mode in which the main purpose is simply to express personal thoughts and feelings. |
| Laudatory Mode | A mood or attitude of celebration, usually with the purpose of praising something or someone. |
| Metaphysical Conceit | An extended comparison that may govern part or all of a poem and is more notable for the intellectual ingeniousness or audacity of the connection drawn between two things than for the natural strength of the connection itself. |
| Meditative Mode | A mode in which the purpose is to trun over a number of thoughts in a sequence, often in a mood of quiet personal contemplation. |
| Meter | A measurable pattern of sounds in one or more line of verse. |
| Ode | An exalted lyric poem that celebrates a dignified subject in a lofty style. |
| Self-examination Mode | A mode in which the poet or speaker's purpose is to examine and often to evaluate his own thoughts, beliefs, feelings, and (or) the condition of his soul. |
| Stanza | A group of lines which can be recognized as a separate unit in the overall pattern of a poem. |
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