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Terms for subject Literature (1061 entries)

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.
rhetoric	The art of persuasive argument or eloquent and charismatic language through writing or speech.
rhetorical question	A question, which does not expect an answer, usually asked for effect or comment. On occasion the speaker or author offers the answer to the question.
rhyme	Rhyme is the matching similarity of sounds in two or more words, especially when their accented vowels and all succeeding consonants are identical. For instance, the word-pairs listed here are all rhymes: mating/dating, feast/beast, emotion/demotion and fascinate/deracinate. Rhyme is often used in poetry.
rhyme scheme	The pattern of rhyme. The traditional way to mark these patterns of rhyme is to assign a letter of the alphabet to each rhyming sound at the end of each line. For instance, ABABCDCD.
rhyming couplets	Pairs of lines that rhyme, for instance aabbcc. Examples of rhyming couplets can be found throughout Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, for instance in The Merchant’s Tale. it for hoolynesse or for dotage Hadde this knyght to been a wedded man That day and nyght he dooth al that he kanrhythm -> The varying speed, movement, intensity, loudness, pitch, and expressiveness of speech, especially in poetry.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan	An Irish playwright during the 18th Century, he was born on 30 October 1751 and died 7 July 1816. He was well known for his satirical comedy of manners. He is known for his works The School for Scandal and The Rivals.
riddle	A word puzzle where something is described and then a question is asked. An audience would then have to decipher and guess what the speaker is referring to. The answer to the question is usually an object, person or idea. Riddles have been popular in all cultures, during all ages.
rising action	The action or events in a story or plot building up to the climax.
Roll Your Banner	RYB
romance	Traditionally, a long fictional prose narrative about unlikely events involving characters that are very different from ordinary people, e.g knights. Nowadays the modern romance novel is a prescribed love story, where boy meets girl, obstacles get in the way, they are then overcome and the couple live happily ever after.
Romantic Period	Usually this term refers to literature written in Europe during the early 1800s, however it can also gesture towards the American Romantic period, which was between1828 and 1865.
Romantic poets	Poets associated with the Romantic Period, ( from 1789 - 1824) when much poetry was written as a reaction to the Industrial revolution and the French Revolution. Examples of Romantic poets include Byron,Keats, Shelley,Blake and Wordsworth.
romanticism	The term refers to a movement around 1780-1840. Romanticism rejected the philosophy of the enlightenment, and instead turned to the gothic, the notion of carpe diem and above all placed importance on nature and the wilderness. Romantic poets included William Blake, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Lord Gordon Byron.
Round Robin Evaluation	RRE
rubric	The information and instructions given on the front of a question paper. These must be read carefully before you start writing to avoid mistakes
saga	Lengthy Scandinavian and Icelandic prose narratives about famous historical heroes, notable families, or the adventures of kings and warriors.
Salman Rushdie	Born on 19 June 1947, Rushdie is a British-Indian writer who is renowned for his novels that incorporate magic realism. His work is often set partly in the India, Pakistan or Kashmir. Notable works by Rushdie include The Satanic Verses and Midnight’s Children. See post-colonialism.