| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Trope | A figure of speech involving the addition of a non-literal meaning to a word or phrase. |
| Trochee | A metrical foot consisting of two syllables, with the accent falling on the first (one strongly stressed syllable followed by one lightly stressed syllable. |
| Verisimilitude | The appearance of truth or reality in a fictional work of literature. |
| Voice | The sense of a specific personality, often imagined as an actual speaking voice, conveyed by the tone and style of a particular author, narrator, or speaker. |
| Tetrameter | Describes a line of metrical verse consisting of four feet. |
| Tone | The attitude an author conveys to the reader of a text; this may include the author's attitude toward the reader, the subject, or both. |
| Truncation | The omission of one or more syllables from a foot or line of metrical verse, resulting in a unit that is metrically incomplete. |
| Unities | The effects conveyed by a literary work (especially a play) in which the author adheres to one or more of the classical principles of dramatic structure (action, place and time) |
| Travesty | A work of literature that presents a serious or important subject in a trivial or ridiculous manner for the sake of humor, irony, parody, or satire |
| Terza Rima | A stanza form consisting of tercets, rhymed ABA BCB CDC DED etc. |
| Symbol | A concrete image that also suggests an abstract idea. |
| Litote | A figure of speech in which, a certain statement is expressed by denying its opposite |
| Thesis | A statement that presents an author's attitude or position regarding a given question; a proposition that an author plans to defend. |
| Theme | A key idea in a work of literature. typically some general or abstract idea that is made specific and concrete through the characters, plot, action, or imagery of the work. |
| Tercets | Any stanza of three lines, whether rhymed or unrhymed. |
| Villanelle | A complex verse form consisting of five tercets and a final quatrain. |
| Vernacular | The informal, common language spoken by a particular group of people, often in a specific geographical region (as opposed to the formal written language) |
| Syntax | The particular arrangement of words, phrases,and clauses in a sentence. |
| Tragedy | A narrative (especially a play) that portrays the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine in a serious and dignified manner. |
| Syncope | The contradiction of a single word through the omission of one or more letters. |
| Synaesthesia | The blending or confusion of multiple senses (hearing, sight, smell, taste, touch), used in the description of a single sense experiance. |
| Utopian Literature | Literature set in an ideal world. |
| Zeugma | The use of a single verb or preposition having two different objects, each of which requires the word to have a different degree of literal meaning. OR the use of a conjunction linking together a number of terms, not all of which are grammatically correct in relation to other elements of the sentence. |
Combine with other sets
Share on Facebook
Share on MySpace