Lit. Terms #2

Circumlocution - noun an indirect way of expressing something

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Classicism - noun a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms

Cliché - a phrase or situation overused within society

Climax - noun the decisive moment in a novel or play; the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding

Colloquialism - noun  characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech

 

Comedy - noun light and humorous drama with a happy ending; a comic incident or series of incidents
Conflict - noun an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals); struggle or problem in a story causing tension

Connotation - noun an idea that is implied or suggested

Contrast - noun the act of distinguishing by comparing differences; the opposition or dissimilarity of things that are compared; verb put in opposition to show or emphasize differences

Denotation - noun the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression
Denouement - noun the final resolution of the main complication of a literary or dramatic work; the outcome of a complex sequence of events
Dialect - noun the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
Dialectics - formal debates usually over the nature of truth

Dichotomy - noun split or break between two opposing things

Diction - noun the manner in which something is expressed in words; the articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience
Didactic - adj. instructive (especially excessively)
Dogmatic - adj. rigid in beliefs and principles
Elegy - noun a mournful poem; a lament for the dead

Epic - adj. constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic; noun a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds

Epigram - noun a witty aphorism