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Terms for subject Literature (1061 entries)

a licence to print money	if a company or activity is a licence to print money, it causes people to become very rich without having to make any effort	nouray
autobiography	a narrative of a person 's life written by her or himself.
sub-plot	a second plot in a play or narrative that adds to or parallels the main plot.
aphorism	a short, condensed, sometimes witty saying, close in meaning to maxim or proverb
burlesque	a term applied to writing which sets out to satirise a subject, work or literary style by making a deliberate mismatch between the manner and the matter.
Orientalism	a term that refers to a fascination with the East, by the West. Orientalism grew out of the Renaissance and increased during the18th century. Romantics such as Coleridge often used orientalist imagery. The rise of orientalism naturally coincided with the escalation of the British Empire. Now the term often has pejorative connotations.
abolitionist literature	Texts such as Literature, poetry, pamphlets, or propaganda which had been written with the purpose of criticising those who owned slaves and encouraged slave owners to give freedom to their slaves. The main aim of this type of writing was to canvas support for the abolition of slavery. The writing may be in the form of autobiographical writings (in the case of many slave narratives) or fictional accounts such as Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. These texts often rely heavily on pathos for rhetorica ltechnique.
abridged	A shortened version of an original text, created by removing passages or sections of the text.
numb-weary	absence of emotion or feeling due to emotional fatigue or stress	Precis­ian
abstract	A piece of writing summarized, sometimes at the beginning of an essay. Alternatively the word can refer to language that describes unusual imagery.
abstract diction	Language that describes qualities that cannot be perceived with the five senses.
abstract imagery	Imagery that describes qualities that cannot be perceived with the five senses.
abstract language	Words that represent concepts rather than physical things.
abstract poem	A poem which contains stanzas that make little sense grammatically. The poem relies on the effect of the abstract imagery or diction.
absurd (Theatre and Literature)	The notion that human existence is basically absurd and meaningless. Absurd theatre became particularly significant in the 1950s, where it combined both existentialism with farce. Noteworthy absurd dramas include Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead by Tom Stoppard.
acatalectic	A poetic term used to refer to a verse having the expected number of syllables in the final foot.
accent	Another word for stress, particularly in a line of verse, or a recognizable way of pronouncing words, often relating to class, caste, ethnic group, or geographic region.
Achieve Speaking Confidence	ASC
acronym	A word formed from the initial letters in a phrase. For instance AIDS stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.
acronymy	The act of using or creating acronyms.