Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Vocabulary Lit Terms #5

1) Parallelism: The state of being parallel or of corresponding in someway.

2) Parody: An imitation of style of a particular writer artist or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.

3) Pathos: A quality that evokes pity or sadness.

4) Pedantry: Excessive concern with minor details and rules.


5) Personification: Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects.

6) Plot: The main events of a play, novel, movie as an interrelated sequence.

7) Poignant: Evoking a keen sense of sadness and regret.

8) Point of view: A particular attitude or way of considering a matter.

9) Postmodernism: A style that breaks the fourth wall and isn't in chronological order.

10) Prose: Written or spoken language it's ordinary form without metrical structure.

11) Protagonist: The leading character or one of the major characters in the drama.

12) Pun: A joke exploiting the different meanings of words that sound alike.

13) Purpose: The reason for which something is done or created.

14) Realism: The attitude or practice of excepting a situation as it is and prepared to deal with it accordingly.

15) Refrain: stop oneself from doing something.

16) Requiem: A mass for the repose of the souls of the dead.

17) Resolution: A firm decision to do or not to do something.

18) Restatement: State again or differently in order to correct or make clear.

19) Rhetoric: The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing.

20) Rhetorical question: A question stated not for the purpose of being answered.

21) Rising action: Makings of the beginning of the story before the climax.

22) Romanticism: A movement emphasizing inspiration, and the primacy of the individual.

23) Satire: The use of humor, irony to expose and criticize people's stupidity and vices.

24) Scansion: The action of scanning a line of verse to determine it's rhythm.

25) Setting: Where an event takes place.

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