GREETINGS!
Here are your 18 Additional Literary Terms as promised...although it is, I do believe, a day late. This brings our LT up to an even 100 words. Thank you. CIAO!!!
Mr. A
ADDITIONAL LITERARY TERMS
OXYMORON (plural oxymora)
Using contradiction in a manner that oddly makes sense on a deeper level.
(Simple examples include such oxymora as jumbo shrimp, sophisticated rednecks, and military intelligence. The richest literary oxymora seem to reveal a deeper truth through their contradictions. These oxymora are sometimes called paradoxes. For instance, "without laws, we can have no freedom.")
PARADOX
Statement or situation that seems to be a contradiction but reveals a truth.
COMIC RELIEF
Comic scene or event that breaks up a serious play or narrative.
ARGUMENT
Form of persuasion that uses reason to try to lead a reader or listener to think or act in a certain way.
HAIKU
Japanese verse form consisting of three lines, usually seventeen syllables, lines of 5-7-5.
COUPLET
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme.
EPIC
Long story told in elevated language which relates the great deeds of a larger-than-life hero who embodies the values of a particular society.
SOLILOQUY
An unusually long speech in which a character who is onstage alone expresses his or her thoughts aloud.
ACRONYM
A word formed from the initial letters in a phrase.
RESOLUTION (Denouncement)
Rounds out and concludes the action.
ANTAGONIST
The principal character in opposition to the main character of a narrative or drama; an antagonist is not always a character, it can come in the form of a force of nature, an aspect of society, or even an internal force within the main character.
EUPHEMISM
The substitution of a mild or less negative word or phrase for a harsh or blunt one, as in the use of "pass away" instead of "die." The basic psychology of euphemistic language is the desire to put something bad or embarrassing in a positive (or at least neutral light).
SARCASM
A form of sneering criticism in which disapproval is often expressed as ironic praise.
ALLEGORY
Figurative work in which a surface narrative carries a secondary, symbolic, or metaphorical meaning.
PARODY
Satiric imitation of a work or of an author with the idea of ridiculing the author, his ideas, or work. The parodist exploits the peculiarities of an author's expression in his literary work.
SEQUEL
A novel incorporating the same characters and often the same setting as a previous novel. Sometimes the events and situations involve a continuation of the previous novel and sometimes only the characters are the same and the events are entirely unrelated to the previous novel.
TRAVESTY
Any work that treats a serious subject frivolously-- ridiculing the dignified. Often the tone is mock serious and heavy handed.
GENRE (ZHAHN-ruh)
A type of literature. We say a poem, novel, story, or other literary work belongs to a particular genre if it shares at least a few conventions, or standard characteristics, with other works in that genre.
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OXYMORON (plural oxymora)
Using contradiction in a manner that oddly makes sense on a deeper level.
(Simple examples include such oxymora as jumbo shrimp, sophisticated rednecks, and military intelligence. The richest literary oxymora seem to reveal a deeper truth through their contradictions. These oxymora are sometimes called paradoxes. For instance, "without laws, we can have no freedom.")
PARADOX
Statement or situation that seems to be a contradiction but reveals a truth.
COMIC RELIEF
Comic scene or event that breaks up a serious play or narrative.
ARGUMENT
Form of persuasion that uses reason to try to lead a reader or listener to think or act in a certain way.
HAIKU
Japanese verse form consisting of three lines, usually seventeen syllables, lines of 5-7-5.
COUPLET
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme.
EPIC
Long story told in elevated language which relates the great deeds of a larger-than-life hero who embodies the values of a particular society.
SOLILOQUY
An unusually long speech in which a character who is onstage alone expresses his or her thoughts aloud.
ACRONYM
A word formed from the initial letters in a phrase.
RESOLUTION (Denouncement)
Rounds out and concludes the action.
ANTAGONIST
The principal character in opposition to the main character of a narrative or drama; an antagonist is not always a character, it can come in the form of a force of nature, an aspect of society, or even an internal force within the main character.
EUPHEMISM
The substitution of a mild or less negative word or phrase for a harsh or blunt one, as in the use of "pass away" instead of "die." The basic psychology of euphemistic language is the desire to put something bad or embarrassing in a positive (or at least neutral light).
SARCASM
A form of sneering criticism in which disapproval is often expressed as ironic praise.
ALLEGORY
Figurative work in which a surface narrative carries a secondary, symbolic, or metaphorical meaning.
PARODY
Satiric imitation of a work or of an author with the idea of ridiculing the author, his ideas, or work. The parodist exploits the peculiarities of an author's expression in his literary work.
SEQUEL
A novel incorporating the same characters and often the same setting as a previous novel. Sometimes the events and situations involve a continuation of the previous novel and sometimes only the characters are the same and the events are entirely unrelated to the previous novel.
TRAVESTY
Any work that treats a serious subject frivolously-- ridiculing the dignified. Often the tone is mock serious and heavy handed.
GENRE (ZHAHN-ruh)
A type of literature. We say a poem, novel, story, or other literary work belongs to a particular genre if it shares at least a few conventions, or standard characteristics, with other works in that genre.
http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/lit_terms_A.html
