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Terms for subject Literature (1061 entries)

document	A written record giving information or evidence.
Don't Time Me	DTM
double entendre	A word with a double meaning, one of which might be sexual.
double negative	When two negative words are used to express a single negative. Common in English used during Chaucer's time, up until the time of Shakespeare
double plot	Where a play has both a main and a sub-plot. Some plays may have triple or multiple plots.
DownTown ToastMasters Club	DTTM
drama	Any kind of performance intended for an audience in a theatre.
dramatic effect	This exam term requires candidates to think about the dramatic effectiveness of a specific passage or aspect of a play. Candidates must be aware of all factors such as situation, stage directions, significance in plot development, characterisation, dramatic irony, poetic effects, and anything else that may add to the impact upon an audience.
dramatic effectiveness	This exam term requires candidates to think about the dramatic effectiveness of a specific passage or aspect of a play. Candidates must be aware of all factors such as situation, stage directions, significance in plot development, characterisation, dramatic irony, poetic effects, and anything else that may add to the impact upon an audience.
dramatic irony	Where a character is unaware of the ironyof his or her words, or situation, and other characters on stage or, more especially, the audience is conscious of this.
dramatic point of view	A device where the readers of a narrative are placed as an audience as if in a play or movie. The author does not explain the character's thoughts or emotions.
dramatic tension	Techniques used within drama to create tension and suspense, such as stichomythica. see dramatic effect.
dramatis personae	A list of the characters of a play.
dramatisation	When a text from any other medium is converted into a drama.
dramatist	An alternative word for 'playwright'. It can also cover those who write drama. for media other than the stage, e.g. film, radio, television.
DTM	Distinguished Toastmaster
dynamic character	A character who experiences a change in personality or outlook.
dystopia	The representation of an unpleasant fictional world, which is the opposite of a utopia. Dystopias often project a writer's vision of an ominous future. Notable examples include Huxley's Brave new world and Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four.
early modern English	The English language from 1475 to 1700.Chaucer is before this period.
Earnest Hemingway	American writer and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.