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Terms for subject Literature (1001 entries)

Charter Party	CP
chiasmus	In rhetioric, this refers to a structure which is otherwise parallel, yet the word order in each part is reversed.
chicana literature	Written by Mexicans in the USA.
chicano literature	Written by Mexicans in the USA.
Chief Judge	CJ
children's literature	Literature targeted at children.
Chinua Achebe	The Nigerian novelist, poet and professor was born on 16 November 1930. He was raised by Christian parents in an Igbo town, and is renowned for his first novel Things Fall Apart (1958)
chivalry	The customs of a knight in medieval times (also see courtly love)
choragos	In a dramatic chorus, the leader.
choric figures	Characters within a play or novel who remark upon the action while contributing to it, e.g. Alfieri in Arthur Miller A view from the bridge.
chorus	A person or group of people which stand outside the action and remark upon it. Most tragedies in ancient Greece had a chorus of citizens or elders who, as representatives of the audience, react to the events. They are however powerless to affect the course of events.
chronicle	Any kind of serial historical account.
chthonic	Relating to spirits or gods dwelling beneath the earth.
cinquain	A stanza of five lines.
clause	In grammatical terminology, a clause is a word-construction containing a nominative and a predicate, i.e. a subject "doing" a verb. The term clause contrasts with the term phrase.
clerihew	A humorous poem or verse of 2 couplets about a person whose name acts as one of the rhymes.
cliffhanger	A suspenseful situation.
climax	Indicates the arrival of any time of crucial intensity in a play or narrative. It is also a word used to show that particular moment when the rising action leads to a peak in the destinies of the hero or heroine.
close reading	The careful focus upon ways that writers' choices of form, structure and language shape meaning.
closed text examination	An examination where the texts studied are not allowed to be taken in or used during the assessment.