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Terms for subject Literature (1001 entries)

fourth wall	This refers to an imaginary wall, as if separating the actors on stage from the audience.
frame narrative	This is a narrative technique where there is a principal story, around which there are other narratives to set the scene or interest the audience/reader. This is also known as a frame story. See sub-plot, story within a story and play within a play.
Frederick Douglass	Born a slave in the USA, he became a fighter for freedom of all kinds, supporting the abolition of slavery and women's rights. He wrote three versions of his autobiography.
free indirect discourse	A type of speech or voice in a narrative which includes a mixture of the narrator's and protagonist's voices.
free verse	Poetry that is based on the natural rhythms of phrases and normal pauses rather, than the artificial and fixed constraints of rhyme or metrical feet.
Freudian criticism	A psychoanalytical approach to literature that understands the elements of a story or a character through the theories of the late nineteenth-century psychologist Sigmund Freud.
Freytag's pyramid	A method used to analyse the structure of a drama.
Friedrich Engels	Engel was born on 28 November 1820 and died on 5 August 1895. The German was a social scientist and philosopher who wrote The Communist Manifesto in 1848 alongside Marx. See Marxism and Marx.
metanoia	from the Greek μ	glassm­an
Fu poetry	A form popular in ancient China, it combines prose and poetry.
gallery	The seating area that is raised above the main seating area. It is usually at the back and sides of a theater.
Galloping Governors Toastmasters Club	GG
gemel	The concluding couplet of a sonnet.
General Evaluator	GE
Generally Able Orators Toastmasters Club	GAO
genre	A category of literature or film marked by defined shared features or conventions. The three broadest categories of genre are poetry, drama, and fiction. These general genres are often subdivided, for example murder mysteries, westerns, sonnets, lyric poetry, epics and tragedies.
Geoffrey Chaucer	Born around 1343, Chaucer died on 25 October 1400. He was an eminent author, poet and politician whose works most notably included the unfinished The Canterbury Tales. The tales are a compilation of stories written in the 14th century. Whilst two of them are in prose, the remaining twenty-two are in verse. Written in Middle English, the tales are told by a group of pilgrims on a pilgrimage from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral.
George Orwell	Originally named Eric Arthur Blair, George Orwell used a pseudonym for his published work. The English author and journalist was born in 1903 and died in 1950. His most renowned works include Nineteen Eighty-four and Animal Farm, both of which comment upon dictatorships.
Georgian Period	In literature the period in which George V reigned in England: 1910-36. In historical terms the period covers a broader era, encompassing the consecutive reigns of the first four Georges (1714-1830)
Germanic	A branch of Indo-European languages.