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Lit Terms

Terms in this set (10)

Anaphora
the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses, verses, or paragraphs
Apostrophe
figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses an absent person, personified object
ex. Hamlet speaks to the ghost of his dead father
Catharsis
the purging of emotions or relieving of emotional tensions, related to a tragedy
Denouement
any events that occur after the resolution (end of the central conflict
Dialect
a form of language by people in a particular region or group
Enjambment
the continuation of a sintactic unit from one line or couplet of a poem to the next with no pause
Invective
harsh or abusive language
Nostalgia
a longing for things, persons, or situations of the past
Prose
the ordinary form of written language (not a poetry or song)
Transcendentalism
literary or philosophical movement, associated w Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller, asserting the existence of an ideal spiritual reality that transcends the empirical and scientific and is knowable through intuition
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