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Terms for subject Literature (1001 entries)

act	A section or a major division within a play. Frequently, individual acts are separated into smaller units called scenes.
Acting Communicating And Thinking	ACT
action	the unfolding of a sequence of events in a narrative or play. Or 2. the plot as a whole.
adaptation	The reworking of one medium into another. For example the translation of the novel Bridget Jones's Diary into a film.
adjective	A word that is used to modify a noun or pronoun, usually to give a descriptive meaning. For example "shiny" and 'scary'.
Administrative Lieutenant Governor	ALG
Administrative Vice President	AVP
Advanced Articulators Toastmasters Club	AA
Advanced Articulators Toastmasters Club	A2
adverb	Words that modify verbs, clauses, sentences and adjectives. For example, "quickly" and "fortunately".
aestheticism	Stemming from France, this European movement countered materialism and utilitarianism during the late 19th century.
aesthetics	The appreciation and analysis of beauty.
affectation	A pretentious style of writing which is deemed unsuited to the form or subject matter.
African-American English	Sometimes also known as African-American Vernacular or Black English. It is a dialect of American English, containing items of grammar, pronunciation and vocabulary particular to that language community.
Age of Sensibility (or Age of Johnson)	Considered to cover literature produced in England between 1745 and 1780.
Agrarians	An early 20th century movement of American writers who privileged the idea of "back to nature" or 'back to grass roots'.
alba	A poem from the troubadour tradition in France, usually about lovers parting at dawn.
aleatory writing	Where words and punctuation have seemingly been constructed arbitrarily. There is, however, almost always some method behind such apparent randomness. In art Jackson Pollock (1912-56) is considered as having used aleatory techniques.
alexandrine	Another name for iambic hexameter.
Alfred Lord Tennyson	Nineteenth Century English poet.