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Lit Terms 101-136
101. Realism: writing about ordinary aspects of life to reflect life as it actually is.

102. Refrain: a phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a poem or song.

103. Requiem: any chant, dirge, hymn, or musical service for the dead.

104. Resolution: point in a literary work where the chief dramatic complication is worked out; denouement.

105. Restatement: idea repeated for emphasis.

106. Rhetoric: use of language,

107. Rhetorical Question: question suggesting its own answer or not requiring an answer.

108. Rising Action: plot build up.

109. Romanticism: movement in western culture beginning in the eighteenth and peaking in the nineteenth century as a revolt.

110. Satire: ridicules or condemns the weakness and wrong doings of others.

111. Scansion: the analysis of verse in terms of meter.

112. Setting: the time and place.

113. Simile: a figure of speech comparing two essentially unlike things through the use of a specific word of compariso.

114. Soliloquy: an extended speech,

115. Spiritual: a folk song, usually on a religious theme.

116. Speaker: a narrator.

117. Stereotype: cliché.

118. Stream of Consciousness: the style of writing that attempts to imitate the natural flow of a character’s thoughts

119. Structure: the planned framework of a literary selection;

120. Style: the manner of putting thoughts into words.

121. Subordination: the couching of less important ideas in less important structures of language.

122. Surrealism: a style in literature and painting that stresses the subconscious or the nonrational aspects of man.

123. Suspension of Disbelief: suspend not believing in order to enjoy it.

124. Symbol: something which stands for something else, yet has a meaning of its own.

125. Synesthesia: the use of one sense to convey the experience of another sense.

126. Synecdoche: another form of name changing, in which a part stands for the whole.

127. Syntax: the arrangement and grammatical relations of words in a sentence.

128. Theme: its message(s).

129. Thesis: a proposition for consideration.

130. Tone: the devices used to create the mood and atmosphere of a literary work.

131. Tongue in Cheek: a type of humor in which the speaker feigns seriousness; a.k.a. “dry” or “dead pan”

132. Tragedy: in literature: any composition with a somber theme carried to a disastrous conclusion; a fatal event; protagonist usually is heroic but tragically (fatally) flawed

133. Understatement: opposite of hyperbole; saying less than you mean for emphasis

134. Vernacular: everyday speech

135. Voice: The textual features, such as diction and sentence structures, that convey a writer’s or speaker’s pesona.

136. Zeitgeist: the feeling of a particular era in history
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