Literary Terms 226-250

Front 1

pattern of happenings in a narrative; sequence of events

Back 1

Plot

Front 2

beginning of narrative that introduces setting/characters

Back 2

exposition

Front 3

inciting incident that starts the plot moving (beginning of rising action)

Back 3

generating circumstances

Front 4

first part of the narrative during which tension between opposing characters builds toward the climax

Back 4

rising action

Front 5

interplay between opposing forces

Back 5

conflict

Front 6

list the conflicts

Back 6

man vs man
man vs nature
man vs self
man vs society
man vs fate, destiny, supernatural

Front 7

entanglement of affairs by conflict

Back 7

complications

Front 8

point of most intense excitement in a narrative

Back 8

dramatic climax

Front 9

point at which opposing forces that create the conflict interlock in the decisive action on which the plot will turn

Back 9

crisis

Front 10

turning point of the whole story

Back 10

climax

Front 11

action of a narrative which follows the climax; represents the working out of the decisive action of the climax

Back 11

falling action

Front 12

end of falling action; final unraveling

Back 12

denouement

Front 13

communication of thought and feeling through careful arrangement of words

Back 13

poetry

Front 14

pair of successive lines of verse that rhyme

Back 14

couplet

Front 15

verse stanza of four lines

Back 15

quatrain

Front 16

second, six-line division of Petrarchan sonnet

Back 16

sestet

Front 17

first eight lines of Petrarchan sonnet

Back 17

octave

Front 18

vantage point

Back 18

point of view

Front 19

erroneously concluding that one event caused another

Back 19

post hoc fallacy

Front 20

the doctrine that people claimed made them nobler because they were closer to nature

Back 20

primitivism

Front 21

material issued for the purpose of advocating a political position

Back 21

propaganda

Front 22

ordinary language of speaking and writing

Back 22

prose

Front 23

chief character of the work

Back 23

protagonist

Front 24

false name sometimes assumed by writers

Back 24

pseudonym

Front 25

prose fiction that places unusual emphasis on interior characterizations and motives

Back 25

psychological novel

Front 26

play on words based on the similarity of sounds between two words with different meanings

Back 26

pun

Front 27

fictional author of work

Back 27

putative author

Front 28

type of literature that employs logical processes to solve some sort of enigma

Back 28

ratiocination

Front 29

depiction of people, things and experiences as it is believed they really are without exaggeration

Back 29

realism

Front 30

one or more words repeated at intervals

Back 30

refrain

Front 31

emphasis on fiction on the specific region

Back 31

regionalism

Front 32

device used by the writer to emphasize an important character trait

Back 32

repetition

Front 33

tragedy characterized by senecan technique, a plot line in which the father avenges the son at direction of the son's ghost

Back 33

revenge tragedy

Front 34

the art of persuasion

Back 34

rhetoric

Front 35

ethos: the character or quality of the speaker
pathos: the quality that stimulates pity

Back 35

rhetorical appeals

Front 36

literary device in which a question i asked that actually requires no answer

Back 36

rhetorical question

Front 37

repetition of similar sounds at regular intervals

Back 37

rhyme

Front 38

seven-line iambic pentameter stanza rhyming ababbc

Back 38

rime royal

Front 39

movement of 18th and 19th century that marked the reaction from the neoclassicism
elements: sensiblity, primitivism, love of nature

Back 39

romanticism

Front 40

caustic and bitter expression of strong disapproval

Back 40

sarcasm