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Terms for subject Literature (1061 entries)

vehicle	In literature, the term vehicle refers to the technique by which an author achieves her purpose. For example, chilling diction could be identified as a vehicle to depict a murder scene.
vellum	Animal skin, usually calf or kid, used for manuscripts in the Middle Ages.
verb	A verb "does" the subject's action in a sentence. For example, "She ate the apple" - ate is the verb. In English language verbs can take various tenses – for instance, past, present, or future.
vernacular	From the Latin vernaculus, meaning 'native, indigenous', vernacular refers to the common or everyday language of a geographic area. It can also be described as the native language of the common people in a region or country, rather than an esteemed dead language (eg. Latin) which is preserved artificially in schools or through literary texts.
verse	Verse is a line of metrical text, a stanza, or any text written in meter.
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Victorian Period	The period during the late nineteenth century, specifically from 1837-1901 - the years Queen Victoria ruled the growing British Empire.
vignette	A short incident in a book or movie, usually descriptive.
villain	the bad person in a work of fiction, often the main antagonist of the hero
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visual imagery	Imagery that appeals to anything that can be seen, e.g colours and shapes.
vocabulary	The collection of words available in a given language, or a speaker of that language.
volta	This term refers to an abrupt change in emotion or thought near the conclusion of a sonnet.
vowel	The letters a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes w and y.
war literature	Works - mainly poetry - written about, or as a result of, the First World War. Sometimes this literature can be patriotic, but usually expresses a sense of revulsion and disgust.
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