English ⇄ thesaurus

B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y   <<  >>

Terms for subject Literature (1001 entries)

pathos	The effort to inspire an emotional response in an audience, typically a deep feeling of anguish, but sometimes pleasure, pride, or anger.
patronage	The dated practice of giving financial or political support to an artist or writer.
Pauline Shirley	PS
peer-reviewed journal	A journal which contains articles of a scholarly nature. The articles have been reviewed by others who are experts in their field. This therefore creates a higher degree of reliability for the articles in such a publication.
pejoration	A process of language change where, over time, the meaning of a word changes to take on a more negative meaning than the original meaning.
pen name	A pseudonym or nom de plume used by a writer in order to give the author a different identity.
penance	A form of punishment whereby one who has confessed his sins to a priest can obtain absolution.
penny dreadful	A cheap novel, usually with a sensational plot. These were popular during Victorian times.
pentameter	When a poem has five feet in each line, it is said to be written in pentameter. Each foot has a set number of syllables. Iambs, spondees, and trochees consist of two syllables. Thus, iambic pentameter, spondaic pentameter, and trochaic pentameter lines would have a total of ten syllables. Anapests and dactyls are feet consisting of three syllables.
pentateuch	This refers to the first five books of the Old Testament.
performance	A play, a musical show or any type of production undertaken for an audience.
period	A term that categorises the time in which literature, or any art, was produced. A period could be a span of time, such Renaissance period, it could refer to the reign of a monarch, for example the Elizabethan Period, or it could be a movement, for instance the Romantic Period.
periodical	A regularly published, for example weekly or monthly, magazine or journal.
peripetea	An unexpected reversal in fortune or a sudden change commonly used when describing the situation of a tragic hero.
persona	Either a narrator, or an external portrayal of oneself which might or might not accurately reveal one's self.
Personal Communications Workshop	PCW
personification	A literary device where abstractions, animals, ideas, and inanimate objects are given human character traits, abilities, or reactions. Personification is common in poetry, but also appears in other writing.
petrarchan sonnet	A sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd.
Petro-Canada Central Toastmasters Club	PCC
phallic	A phallic symbol, or phallus, is a sexualized representation of male potency, power, or domination - particularly through some object vaguely reminiscent of the penis. Customary phallic symbols include sticks, staves, swords, clubs, towers, trees, missiles, and rockets.