Literary Terms 7 Flashcards
Elegy
A dignified Keshan poem mourning the death of an individual
Anticlimax
The sinking affect created when the reader full of lofty expectations fines only something trivial
Picaresque
A narrative depicting the life of a condo or rogue
Canto
A subdivision of a long poem corresponding to a chapter in a book
Restoration Comedy/comedy of manners
Elaborate, where the comedy set in the aristocratic restoration world
Mock
I work in what your travel trivial subject is made ridiculous by being treated with the elaborate and dignified devices of an epic
Pastoral
Literature which concerns country life
Epigram
A short usually what are you statement, graceful and style and ingenious in thought.
Periodical essay
Thoughtful, often satiric, journalism essays originally introduced by Anderson and Steel in their Tatler inspector
Antithesis
A pointed juxtaposition of opposite or country elements