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Terms for subject Literature (1001 entries)

Assistant Sergeant At Arms	ASAA
assonance	The rhyming or repetition of vowels within words. It is used to create a melodious effect (often in poetry) e.g. "wide" and 'time'. The device only occasionally results in the rhyming of words.
ATM	Advanced Toastmaster
ATM-B	Advanced Toastmaster - Bronze
ATM-G	Advanced Toastmaster-Gold
ATM-S	Advanced Toastmaster - Silver
atmosphere	The emotion or mood induced by a part or whole of a work of art. See ambience, mood, tone.
audience	The persons watching a play or performance.
auditory imagery	Descriptive language that refers to noise, music, or other sounds.
Augmentative Alternative Communication	AAC
Augustan Period (or The Age of Pope)	This period is considered to include literature written in England between about 1700 and 1745. This period saw the rapid development of the novel as a popular form of literature. Satire was often utilised.
author	The composer or writer of any literary work, be it a novel, essay or poem. It is more appropriate, however, to identify a poem's author as a poet.
author's craft	Similar to writer's craft, this term refers to the style and devices used by an author.
authorial attitude	see authorial intention.
authorial intention	The phrase indicates what the author meant when s/ he wrote a text. Many modern critics suppose that what the author may or may not have intended is immaterial, that there is no fixed meaning in a text, and that an individual reader's interpretation is all-important.
auto-da-fe	From the Portuguese, meaning "act of faith", the term refers to the late medieval church's ceremonial execution en masse of accused witches, Jews, heretics, or Muslims. The execution was frequently achieved by burning at the stake.
autobiographical memoir	a book concerned with events in the author's life, but not a comprehensive autobiography.
autobiographical novel	In contrast with the autobiography, an autobiographical novel is a semi-fictional account established in part on the author's life experience, but these experiences are often transposed onto a fictional character or intermixed with fictional events.
autobiography	a narrative of a person 's life written by her or himself.
avant-garde	This phrase is used to describe modern work that is at the cutting edge or 'ahead of its time'. Avant-garde literature deliberately sets out to be innovative, and even to shock. Writers often experiment with form and technique in this type of writing.