Literary Terms and Concepts Glossary

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Literary Terms and Concepts

Poetry

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  • Meter: Systematic arrangement of stressed/unstressed syllables.
  • Foot: One stressed and one or more unstressed syllables.

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  • Exact Rhyme: Two or more words with identical sounds.
  • Slant Rhyme: Two or more words with similar sounds.
  • Paradox: A statement that seems contradictory but actually presents the truth.

Literary Devices

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  • Parable: A story that teaches a moral lesson.
  • Ambiguity: Uncertain meaning in a story created by using a symbol with different interpretations.

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  • Figures of Speech: Language used imaginatively, but not literally.
  • Synecdoche: The use of a part of something to stand for the whole.

Literary Movements and Schools

Gothic Literature (TB page 291)

Five Elements of Gothic Literature:

  • Bleak/remote settings
  • Macabre/violent incidents
  • Characters in psychological/physical torment
  • Supernatural elements
  • Strong language/dangerous meanings

American Romanticism

Five Features of American Romanticism:

  • Individualism
  • Imagination
  • Emotion
  • Nature
  • Distant settings

Four Characteristics of American Romanticism:

  • People were naturally benevolent.
  • The mind was a tabula rasa at birth.
  • Individuals are corrupted by institutions that seek to dehumanize them.
  • People worth highlighting are those closest to nature.

Noble Savage: A man born in an "uncivilized" context, yet pure at heart and faithful to the true and honest cause of his people.

Realism

Realism: "The faithful representation of reality" or "verisimilitude." Realism is a literary technique practiced by many schools of writing.

Naturalism

Naturalism: Constituted a variation of the realism themes, although authors aligned their creativity with scientific and rational views of the world.

Modernism

Modernism: The artistic movement in which the artist's self-consciousness about questions of form and structure is prominent.

Four Aspects of Modernism:

  • Dramatization of the plight of women
  • Creation of a literature of the urban experience
  • Continuation of the pastoral or rural spirit
  • Continuation of regionalism and local color

Vocabulary

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  • Efface: If I could efface all of my sad memories, I would be a very happy person.
  • Eloquence: His sermons were not remarkable for eloquence, but a certain solidity and balance of judgment.
  • Pensive: We were pensive as we tried to figure out what was occurring.

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  • Pathos: His fervor and dramatic action held them spellbound, and his homely pathos soon broke down all barriers of resistance.
  • Obstinacy: The heroic obstinacy of the defense was equal to the perseverance of the attack.

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  • Munificent: Akbar was a munificent patron of literature. (TB page 376: Dilapidated: Preserved)
  • Specious: This argument is rather specious than logical. (TB page 376: Expedient: Reluctant)
  • Sentience: Without one, she had existed in a state of sentience without feeling, a world of permanent grey. (TB page 376: Magnanimity: Cruelty)

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  • Inarticulate: Speechless (TB page 407: Surmised: Always knew)
  • Inscrutable: Incomprehensible (TB page 407: Interposed: Removed)
  • Prescient: Visionary

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  • Dictum: Informal rule
  • Aversion: Preference (TB page 407: Apprised: Misinformed)
  • Absolve: Condemn

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  • Maledictions: Damnation (TB page 506: Deference: Disrespect)

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  • Decorum: Shame (TB page 506: Aggregation: Separation)
  • Disdainfully: Respectfully

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