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| the detachment between receptor and a work of art -- the "distance" we maintain between ourselves and art |
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| a narrative with abstractions made concrete; a presentation of something by someone else |
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| repetition of initial sounds of words; baby buggy, my mom, tiny tot, birdbrain |
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| reference to something, real or fictitious, outside of the work |
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| something out of its proper time or time frame |
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| a short account of an episode of life, usually biographical |
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| opposing character to the protagonist or hero |
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| a sudden drop in the emotions of the story, sometimes deliberately comic or inept |
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| one of 2 patterns of a chorus-performance; an alternate or other division of chorus dance/song, retracing a strophe, in ancient Greek drama |
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| the opposite of a thesis (main organizing idea of a work) |
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| an addressing of a thing as if it were a listening person |
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| the original pattern or model from which all other things of the same kind are made; the original or first form or model |
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| a character's speech addressed away from others on stage but meant for the audience's ears |
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| identical vowel sounds followed by differing consonant sounds, like "tide" and "mine" |
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| the "air" breathed by the reader as s/he enters a work -- the mood of the work -- setting contributes to atmosphere |
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| unrhymed iambic pentameter |
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| rant, inflated speech, exaggerated speech |
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| country-theme poetry (shepherds, mountains, fields and meadows, rural life) |
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| any imitation of a person or literature which, by distortion, aims to amuse. The subject matter is usually faults rather than vices, and the tone is not savage |
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| a slight pause within a line of poetry |
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| the undoubted works of a particular author (the doubtful works are called the apocrypha) |
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| the purgation or purification of the distressing emotions of pity and fear -- the draining and/or refining of these emotions in and by a tragedy |
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| a personage in a literary work -- a short sketch not of an individual but of a type |
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| in Greek drama, 12 or 15 performers who sang and danced during parts of plays and served various functions such as characters, advisors, foils, witnesses etc. |
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| a history or register of facts of an event or era |
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| a stale, overly used phrase, not fresh or original |
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| a rhyming couplet in iambic pentameter -- same as "heroic couplet" |
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| descriptive, referential, factual meaning which does not express a writer's attitude or emotion |
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| a literary work which is amusing and which moves from trouble to resolution, from quandary attitude or emotion |
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| humorous episodes in tragedy, to relieve or heighten (by contrast) the tragic effect |
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