Lit Terms 5

Parallelism: using elements in sentences that are grammatically similar or identical in structure, sound, meaning, or meter. This technique adds symmetry, effectiveness and balance to the written piece.

Parody: The definition of a parody is an imitation of something, particularly literature or a film, that is meant to make fun of it.

Pathos: Pathos is defined as a feeling of sympathy or sorrow.

Pedantry: is an excessive attention to the rules or paying strong attention to the minor points of learning.

Personification: is giving human characteristics to non-living things or ideas.

Plot: a marked off area that is intended for a specific use.

Poignant: is something that has a strong effect on emotions or the senses, especially smell.

point of view: is a way in which a person looks at the world or the angle from which a specific situation should be viewed.

Postmodernism: is a movement that focuses on the reality of the individual, denies statements that claim to be true for all people and is often expressed in a pared-down style in arts, literature and culture.

Prose: regular written or spoken language that is not poetry.

Protagonist: is defined as the main character of a story.

Pun: a pun is a joke making a play on words.

Purpose: a purpose is a goal or intention

Realism: a representation of how things really are, or being practical and facing facts

Refrain: a refrain is the part of a song or poem that is repeated.

Requiem: a song, chant or poem for someone who died.

Resolution: resolution is a plan for something to be done

Restatement: to state or affirm again or in a new way

Rhetoric: the undue use of exaggeration or display; bombast.

rhetorical question: a question asked solely to produce an effect or to make an assertion and not to elicit a reply,

rising action: a related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest.

Romanticism: the Romantic style or in literature and adherence to its principles.

Satire: the use of sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding, folly, etc.

Scansion: the metrical analysis of verse. The usual marks for scansion are ˘ for a short or unaccented ¯ or · for a long or accented syllable, ^ for a rest, | for a foot division, and ‖ for a caesura or pause.

Setting: the locale or period in which the action of a novel, play, film, etc., takes place: