Lit Terms: Rhythm - Tragedy

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Rhythm

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The arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables into a pattern.

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Romanticism

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A complex artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Western Europe, and gained strength during the Industrial Revolution.

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Satire

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A kind of writing that holds up to ridicule or contempt the weaknesses and wrongdoings of individuals, groups, institutions, or humanity in general.

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Simile

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Another common form of figurative language. A simile is straightforward.

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Soliloquy

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An extended speech, usually in a drama, delivered by a character alone on stage.

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Sonnet

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A lyric poem of fourteen lines, usually written in iambic pentameter.

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Stanza

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A unit of a poem that is longer than a single line. Many stanzas have a fixed pattern-that is, the same number of lines and the same rhyme scheme.

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Steam of Consciousness

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The style of writing that attempts to imitate that natural flow of a character's thoughts, feelings, reflections, memories, and mental images, as the character experiences them.

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Symbol

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Something that is used to stand for itself and for something more than itself as well.

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Theme

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Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work.

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Tone

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The attitude a writer takes toward his or her subject, characters, and readers.

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Tragedy

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In general, a literary work in which the protagonist meets an unhappy or disastrous end.