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Terms for subject
Literature
(1001 entries)
pathos
The effort to inspire an emotional response in an audience, typically a deep feeling of anguish, but sometimes pleasure, pride, or anger.
patronage
The dated practice of giving financial or political support to an artist or writer.
Pauline Shirley
PS
peer-reviewed journal
A journal which contains articles of a scholarly nature. The articles have been reviewed by others who are experts in their field. This therefore creates a higher degree of reliability for the articles in such a publication.
pejoration
A process of language change where, over time, the meaning of a word changes to take on a more negative meaning than the original meaning.
pen name
A pseudonym or nom de plume used by a writer in order to give the author a different identity.
penance
A form of punishment whereby one who has confessed his sins to a priest can obtain absolution.
penny dreadful
A cheap novel, usually with a sensational plot. These were popular during Victorian times.
pentameter
When a poem has five feet in each line, it is said to be written in pentameter. Each foot has a set number of syllables. Iambs, spondees, and trochees consist of two syllables. Thus, iambic pentameter, spondaic pentameter, and trochaic pentameter lines would have a total of ten syllables. Anapests and dactyls are feet consisting of three syllables.
pentateuch
This refers to the first five books of the Old Testament.
performance
A play, a musical show or any type of production undertaken for an audience.
period
A term that categorises the time in which literature, or any art, was produced. A period could be a span of time, such Renaissance period, it could refer to the reign of a monarch, for example the Elizabethan Period, or it could be a movement, for instance the Romantic Period.
periodical
A regularly published, for example weekly or monthly, magazine or journal.
peripetea
An unexpected reversal in fortune or a sudden change commonly used when describing the situation of a tragic hero.
persona
Either a narrator, or an external portrayal of oneself which might or might not accurately reveal one's self.
Personal Communications Workshop
PCW
personification
A literary device where abstractions, animals, ideas, and inanimate objects are given human character traits, abilities, or reactions. Personification is common in poetry, but also appears in other writing.
petrarchan sonnet
A sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd.
Petro-Canada Central Toastmasters Club
PCC
phallic
A phallic symbol, or phallus, is a sexualized representation of male potency, power, or domination - particularly through some object vaguely reminiscent of the penis. Customary phallic symbols include sticks, staves, swords, clubs, towers, trees, missiles, and rockets.
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