Literary Terms #5

Parallelism: In grammar, parallelism, also known as parallel structure or parallel construction, is a balance within one or more sentences of similar phrases or clauses that have the same grammatical structure.

Parody: Parody is an imitation of a particular writer, artist or a genre exaggerating it deliberately to produce a comic effect.

Pathos: a quality that causes people to feel sympathy and sadness.

Pedantry:  excessive concern with minor details and rules.

Personification: the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

Plot: the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.

Poignant: evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret.

Point of view: or narrative mode, the perspective of the narrative voice; 

Postmodernism: literature characterized by experimentation, irony, nontraditional forms, multiple meanings, playfulness and a blurred boundary between real and imaginary

Prose: the ordinary form of spoke and written language; language that does not have a regular rhyme pattern

Protagonist: the central character in a work of fiction; opposed antagonist

Pun: play on words; the humorous use of a word emphasizing different meanings or applications

Purpose: the intended result wished by an author

Realism: writing about the ordinary aspects of life in a straightforward manner to reflect life as it actually is

Refrain: a phrase or verse recurring at internals in a poem or song; chorus

Requiem: any chant, dirge, hymn, or musical service for the dead

Resolution: point in a literary work at which the chief dramatic complication is worked out; denouement 

Restatement: idea repeated for emphasis

Rhetoric: use of language, both written and verbal in order to persuade

Rhetorical question: question suggesting its own answer or not requiring and answer; used in argument or persuasion

Rising action: plot build up, caused by conflict and complications, advancement towards climax

Romanticism: movement in western culture beginning in the eighteenth and peaking in the nineteenth century as a revolt against Classicism; imagination was valued over reason and fact

Ratire: ridicules or condemns the weakness and wrong doings of individuals, groups, institutions, or humanity in general

Rcansion:the analysis of verse in terms of meter

Retting: the time and place in which events in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem occur