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Terms for subject Literature (1061 entries)

quandary	A state of not knowing what to decide.
quatrain	Also sometimes used interchangeably with "stave," a quatrain is a stanza of four lines, often rhyming in an ABAB pattern.
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quintessential	Having in concentrated form the essential part; purest
quotation	A passage or expression that is quoted or cited.
quote	The exact words of the person being referred too.
rags to riches	rags-to-riches story
rags to riches	rags-to-riches story
realism	Originally the term referred to a literary movement in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in America, Europe, and England. More generally speaking the term signals towards a literary, or artistic, depiction of life in an accurate, straightforward, unidealised manner.
received pronunciation	The pronunciation associated with Standard British English.
refrain	A repeated line, or number of lines, at the close of a stanza.
regional dialect	Variation in pronunciation and speech patterns due to geographical location.
Renaissance	Originally, the term refers to a period of cultural, technological, and artistic vitality during the British economic expansion in the late 1500s and early 1600s. More generally a renaissance is any period in which a people or nation experiences a period of vitality and explosive growth in its art, poetry, education, economy, linguistic development, or scientific knowledge. The term is positive in connotation.
repetition	This term can refer to the duplication of a number of things in literature. It can be the reiteration of words, phrases, sounds, motifs or ideas within a text. The device is often used within poetry for emphasis.
sibilance	repetition, or alliteration, of the letter "s" and the sound it makes. For example, 'the snake slithered soundlessly across the stony ground'.
resolution	Where the "loose" ends of a narrative are brought together and resolved, or the conclusion of the climax.
restoration	The restoration, or the Restoration Period, is the time from 1660, when the Stuart monarch Charles II was re-established as ruler of England, to about 1700.
revenge play	A Renaissance genre of drama, where the plot revolves around the protagonist's attempt to avenge a previous wrong, by killing the perpetrator of the deed. There is usually much bloodshed and violence. Shakespeare's Hamlet has been identified as a revenge play.
Revolutionary Age	A term from time to time employed to refer to American literature written between 1765 and roughly 1790.