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Terms for subject Literature (1001 entries)

Every Communication Has Opportunity	ECHO
excursus	A detailed discussion appended, such as in an afterword or an appendix.
exegesis	An analysis or explanation, particularly of a portion of the Bible.
existentialism	A twentieth-century literary and philosophical movement, which highlights the fact that people are entirely free. They are thus responsible for what they make of themselves and their social condition. This brings a sense of anguish or dread. Albert Camus is a well known author of existentialist literary texts.
exodos	The final piece of a Greek tragedy, occurring after the last choral ode and ended by the ceremonial exit of all the actors.
exposition	Where the scene is outlined through setting, in a play or story. Sometimes the exposition deals with crucial events or information, prior to the opening of the narrative.
fable	A brief narrative illustrating human tendencies through the depiction of animal characters. Unlike the parables, fables often feature talking animals or animated objects as the principal characters. The interaction of these animals or objects exposes truths about human nature.
fabliau (plural, fabliaux)	A humorous or "dirty" narrative popular with French poets, who traditionally wrote the story in couplets. Fabliaux often revolve around trickery, practical jokes, sexual mishaps, mistaken identity, and bodily humor. Chaucer included several fabliaux in The Canterbury Tales (the Shipman, the Friar, the Miller, the Reeve, and the Cook)
fairy tale	A story, generally for children about magical beings or the supernatural, often with a moral or message.
false cognate	Words which appear in two languages, looking like the same word, but with different meanings.
fame/shame culture	A culture which embraces the notion of 'death before dishonour', glorifying warriors.
fantasy	Fiction with a large amount of imagination in it.
farce	A form of low comedy designed to provoke laughter through highly exaggerated caricatures of people in improbable or silly situations.
Faustian bargain	To agree to a sacrifice in exchange for knowledge. From the legend of Faust. He exchanged his soul for knowledge.
feminine ending	An extra syllable at the end of a line of verse.
feminine rhyme	An extra syllable at the end of a line of verse.
feminism	The intellectual, philosophical and political discourse aimed at equal rights and legal protection for women
feminist criticism	A discourse which addresses what it considers to be the patriarchal nature of society and literature, and attempts to think about equality of men and women.
fiction	This term refers to a story devised by a writer, using their imagination. Fiction usually contains little or no truth.
fictional character	An imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story)