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Terms for subject Literature (1061 entries)

catchword	A slogan or memorable phrase.
catharsis	An emotional release felt by an audience or reader as they observe the fate of a tragic hero. It is often a welcome relief from tension and anxiety.
caudate rhyme	A type of rhyme scheme where the lines which rhyme, using a couplet or triplet, are followed by a shorter tail line with a different rhyme.
Celtic	Of or relating to the Celts and their language.
chapter	A division or segment found within any prose text.
character	A created person in a play or a narrative whose particular qualities are revealed by the action, description and conversation. Not to be mixed up with the "actor" in a play, who represents the character.
characterisation	The method by which characters are established in a story, using description, dialogue, dialect, and action.
Charles Dickens	Nineteenth century English novelist whose works were published in serial form. Dickens had a particular sympathy of the poor and often wrote about them. He is famous for works including Oliver Twist, Great Expectations and A tale of two cities.
Charter Party	CP
chiasmus	In rhetioric, this refers to a structure which is otherwise parallel, yet the word order in each part is reversed.
chicana literature	Written by Mexicans in the USA.
chicano literature	Written by Mexicans in the USA.
Chief Judge	CJ
children's literature	Literature targeted at children.
Chinua Achebe	The Nigerian novelist, poet and professor was born on 16 November 1930. He was raised by Christian parents in an Igbo town, and is renowned for his first novel Things Fall Apart (1958)
chivalry	The customs of a knight in medieval times (also see courtly love)
choragos	In a dramatic chorus, the leader.
choric figures	Characters within a play or novel who remark upon the action while contributing to it, e.g. Alfieri in Arthur Miller A view from the bridge.
chorus	A person or group of people which stand outside the action and remark upon it. Most tragedies in ancient Greece had a chorus of citizens or elders who, as representatives of the audience, react to the events. They are however powerless to affect the course of events.
chronicle	Any kind of serial historical account.