Lit Terms 5

Parallelism: the principle in sentence structure that states elements of equal function should have equal form.
Parody:  an imitation of mimicking of a composition or of the style of a well-known artist.
Pathos:  the ability in literature to call forth feelings of pity, compassion, and/or sadness.
Pedantry: a display of learning for its own sake.
Personification: a figure of speech attributing human qualities to inanimate objects or  abstract ideas.
Plot: a plan or scheme to accomplish a purpose.
Poignant:  eliciting sorrow or sentiment.
Point of View: the view that the person is seeing it from or experienced .
Postmodernism: literature characterized by experimentation, different, breaking the fourth wall. Blurring the boundary between imaginary and real things
Prose:  the ordinary form of spoken and written language or language with out rhyme
Protagonist: opposes the antagonist, main character in a fiction
Pun:  play on words; the humorous use of a word emphasizing different meanings or applications.
Purpose: what the author intends you to get from it
Realism:  writing about the ordinary aspects of life and showing it as it is.
Refrain:  a phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a poem or song
Requiem:  any chant, dirge, hymn, or musical service for the dead.
Resolution: point in a literary work where an answer is found or a problem had been solved
Restatement: idea repeated for emphasis.
Rhetoric: use of language, used to persuade
Rhetorical Question: question suggesting its own answer or not requiring an answer; used in argument or persuasion.
Rising Action: building the plot making way towards the climax
Romanticism:  movement in western culture  in the eighteenth and continuing to the  nineteenth century as a revolt against Classicism.
Satire:  use of humor and exaggeration to criticize people's stupidity
Scansion: the analysis of verse in terms of meter.
Setting: the time and place in which events in a story, novel, play or narrative occur.