Lit Vocab

Method/form of literary work; manner in which literature is written

A poem about idealized rural life, or shepherds, or both; also called an idyll

A long lyric poem, usually serious and elevated tone; often written to praise someone/thing

Movement portraying humans as having no free will/driven by natural forces of heredity/environm

The attribution of human qualities to a non human or inanimate object

A contradictory statement that has rational meaning

Repetition of a regular rhythmic unit

A figure of speech composed of contradictory words or phrases (wise fool)

A work that ridicules the style of another work by imitating and exaggerating it's elements

Story set in a complete imaginary world served to explain lifes origin/religion/natures forces

The use of words that sound like what they mean (hiss, boom, etc)

Uses the name of an object/person/idea to represent something it's associated with

The telling of a story in fiction, nonfiction, poetry or drama; one of the 4 modes of discourse

The arrangement of words, phrases, clauses, or larger structures by placing them side to side

Primary emotional attitude of a work (similar to tone)

An impersonal presentation of events and characters

A figure of speech in which one thing is referred to as another; "my love is a fragile flower"

A short tale that reaches a moral; similar to but shorter than an allegory

A contradictory statement that has rational meaning

A sentence not grammatically complete into its last phrase