Literary Terms

Question 1

Antonomasia

Answer 1

Replace the proper name with an epithet,

Common in epic poetry

Sym. Metomymy: replaces the name or one thing with the name of sth els closely associated with it ,

Question 2

Apology

Answer 2

In literary terms, The defending of some other works, actions beliefs.

Eg. An apology for poetry

Question 3

Apophtgegm

Answer 3

Aphorism or maxim

Question 4

Aporia

Answer 4

A speaker deliberates or purports to be in doubt

Eg. Well, what can one say?

Eg. To be or not to be! (Hamlet)

Eg. هیی چی بگم والا

Question 5

Aposiopesis

Answer 5

Rhetorical device in which the speaker suddenly breaks off in the middle of a sentence, leaving the sense unfinished

It makes a strong emotion that makes the reader unwilling to know the rest.

Eg. Kings Lear

I will have such revenge on you both
That all the world shall—

Syn. Anacoluthon : grammatical term for a change of construction in a sentence that leaves the initial construction unfinished

Question 6

Apostrophe

Answer 6

تشخیص

The poets invocation of a muse in epic poetry is a special form of apostrophe

Question 7

Apparatus

Answer 7

یه ترم کلی واسه

Textual notes, appendices etc.

Question 8

Architectonics

Answer 8

The principle of Structure and governing design in an artistic work as Distinct from its texture and stylistic details

Question 9

Argument

Answer 9

A brief summary of the plot or subject matter of a long poem

Exg: prefixes to milton’s paradise lost

Question 10

Art for art sake

Answer 10

The slogan of aestheticism -19C-
Theophil Gautier’s preface to His novel Mademoiselle de maupin

Walter pater, Oscar wild, Arthur Symons

Question 11

Arte Mayor

Answer 11

Spanish metrical term

Lines of between 8 to 14 syllables with 4 rhythmic stresses in two pairs divided by a caesura at the middle of the line

The moat common form: 12-syllable line with the caesura falling after the sixth syllable,

The rhythm: anapaestic (two unstressed followed by a stressed)

Question 12

Arte Menor

Answer 12

Spanish metrical term

Lines of between 2 and 8 syllables (usually only the penultimate syllable is stressed)

Its is deemed the minor art since it’s easier to compose than arte mayor

Question 13

Asclepiad

Answer 13

A greek poetic metre

Used earlier in in lyrics and tragedies.

Consist of 2 or 3 choriqmbs
Preceded by a spondee and followed by an iamb.

Employed frequently by Horace and adopted by a german poet Hölderlin

Rarely found in English

Question 14

Aside

Answer 14

Soliloquy

با این تفاوت که به یه کاراکتر دیگه هم میشه گفت تو نمایشنامه ولی خب بقیه کاراکترا نمیشنون

Question 15

Asteismus

Answer 15

A rhetorical term for a facetious reply, usually involving a pun or misunderstanding of a word used by previous speakers

A common device of a dramatic dialogue

Question 16

Asyndeton

Answer 16

A form of verbal compression which consists of the omission of connecting words between clauses

Question 17

Attic style

Answer 17

The style of oratory or prose writing associated with speeches of the great Attic orators like Lysias , Demosthenes

Oratory : the art of public speaking

Question 18

Aubade, alba, tagelied

Answer 18

A song or lyric poem lamenting the arrival of dawn to separate two lovers.

Form: no fixed metrical pattern
Flourished : Middle ages France

Adopted germany : Wolfarm von eschenbach

England: Chaucer : Troilus and Criseyde

Later english : Donne’s The Sunne Rising , & Shakespeare’s romeo and juliet

Modern English : w.h. Auden , William Empson, Philip Larkin

Question 19

Autobiografiction

Answer 19

A portmanteau word revived by max saunders

Which provides both a history of the term and a classification of its subtypes .

The most common : autobiographical novel : autofiction

portmanteau word: a word concocted by fusing two different words into one : brunch : breakfast + lunch