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Literary Terms/MAT
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Written piece on which ideas or morals are represented by individual characters or things | allegory |
| a reference within an artistic work to another artistic work | allusion |
| in a literary work, the character whose actions oppose those of the hero | antagonist |
| a story-poem, often sung aloud | ballad |
| A group of American poets and artists whose expression of alienation in the 1950s became a calling card of the underground. | Beat movement |
| nonrhyming verse consisting of 10-syllable lines | blank verse |
| a subdivision of an epic poem | canto |
| Artistic or literary movement that is aesthetically based on the Ancient Greeks and Romans | Classicism |
| The point in any story at which the action reaches its zenith. | climax |
| Two rhyming lines of poetry in succession, most often of a similar or like meter | couplet |
| the conclusion or resolution following the climax of a story | denouement |
| A poem of remembrance. | elegy |
| French philosophical idea that the individual lives in an indifferent world and must take responsibility for his or her own choices. | Existentialism |
| An allegorical story often employing animals as characters. | fable |
| A category of work within art or letters, usually of a distinctive style. | genre |
| A Japanese poem containing 3 lines and 17 syllable in a structured order. | haiku |
| A literary style in which a situation is shown with the intent of representing its opposite | irony |
| A group of expatriate writers and artists in Paris in the 1920s centered around Gertrude Stein. | lost generation |
| The comparison of two things in which one item represents another | metaphor |
| High intellectual movement whose goal was the examination of pure art. | Modernism |
| A recurring element or theme in an artistic work. | motif |
| a lyric poem of rigidly structured stanzas | ode |
| A story depicting a message of a moral or religious nature. | parable |
| Evoking pity in a literary work. | pathos |
| An artistic and literary style in which society and events are depicted as they appear in real life. | Realism |
| The period of intensely active literary and artistic activity in England 1660-1688 when Charles II returned to the throne. | Restoration |
| Predominately English movement in the 19th century whose basic belief was that passion should supercede logic and whose main opposition was Classicism. | Romantic movement |
| A literary work in which, through the use of irony, sarcasm and wit, the absurd in humanity is brought to light. | satire |
| A verse of 14 lines and written in one of several rhyme schemes. | sonnet |
| One division within a poem, usually of commonly metered verse. | stanza |
| A literary device in which a character's thoughts emerge on the page as they occur. | stream of consciousness |
| American movement in which insight and experience took precedence over logic and reason and that held the belief that all things coexist in nature. | Transcendentalism |
| Nineteenth-century England, considered the height of the British industrial revolution and the apex of the British Empire. Characterized by rigid social manners and conservation. | Victorian Age |
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