Lit Terms 5

1. parallelism - Parallelism is the use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or similar in their construction, sound, meaning or meter
2. parody - imitation of a writer, artist, or a genre for a comical effect
3. pathos - stirs up emotions of pity, sympathy and sorrow
4. pedantry - describes words, phrases, or tone that is overly scholarly or academic
5. personification - figure of speech in which the author presents/describes concepts, animals, or inanimate objects by endowing them with human qualities
6. plot - the sequence of events in a story
7. poignant - arousing deep emotion, touching
8. point of view - the perspective at which a story is told
9. postmodernism - a late 20th-century movement characterized by broad skepticism, subjectivism, or relativism;
10. prose - a form of language that has no formal metrical structure
11. protagonist - the main or of the main characters in a story
12. pun - a play on words
13. purpose - the reason an author creates a piece of work, intends to persuade/inform/entertain/explain his or her ides
14. realism - attempts to represent familiar things as they are
15. refrain - a verse, a line, a set, or a group of some lines that appears at the end of stanza, or appears where a poem divides into different sections
16. requiem - chant, hymn, dirge or musical service for the dead
17. resolution - the part of a story where the problem or climax is resolved
18. restatement - to state again in a new form for emphasis
19. rhetoric - the art of using language effectively
20. rhetorical question - asked just for effect or to lay emphasis on some point discussed when no real answer is expected
21. rising action - the part of the story leading up to the climax
22. romanticism - emphasized emotion over reason
23. satire - exposes and criticizes foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society by using humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule; it is meant
24. scansion -  is the act of determining and (usually) graphically representing the metrical character of a line of verse.
25. setting - the place and time the story takes place in