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Terms for subject Literature (1061 entries)

Karl Marx	Karl Heinrich Marx was born on the 5 May 1818. He was a philosopher and revolutionary who is renowned for his communist ideology. He believed that capitalism would, after a revolution, be replaced by a classless communist society. Alongside Engels, Marx wrote The Communist Manifesto in 1848. Marx died on 14 March 1883.
katharsis	An alternative, less known, spelling of catharsis.
kenning	A phrase used poetically instead of the regular word for a noun.
knight	In medieval Europe and England a knight was a military aristocrat who swore allegiance to a lord in exchange for control over land.
lai	Also spelt "lay", this is a brief narrative or lyrical poem that is meant to be sung.
lament	A poem or song for expressing grief
lampoon	A crude and sometimes bitter satire that ridicules the appearance or personality of a person.
language	A specific system of signs used by members of a group to communicate with each other. These signs can be verbal sounds, sign language gestures, or written markings like letters.
late modern English	The English language as it is used from 1800 to the present day.
Latina writing	Writing by Hispanic immigrants and their descendents.
Latino writing	Writing by Hispanic immigrants and their descendents.
legend	A story which has been passed down through the generations and is believed to have some historical truth (although legends are fictions)
lexicon	Traditionally this term refers to a dictionary of some form, however, the word is now used to refer to the distinctive words applied by a particular writer in their work.
licence to print money	if a company or activity is a licence to print money, it causes people to become very rich without having to make any effort	nouray
liet-motif	A recurring theme in a text. Originally, this referred to opera and the association of a theme with a particular character or situaion.
Lieutenant Governor Education and Training	LGET
Lieutenant Governor Marketing	LGM
limerick	A comic or bawdy poem that has a AABBA rhyme scheme.
limited point of view	In a third person narrative, where thoughts and information are revealed from a single character's point of view.
line	In poetry, a line is a single row of words.