Literary Terms - B

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An ancient poetic form which, in Europe, flourished from the late Middle Ages treating topics from legend and folklore as well as from local and national history

Excessive praise or veneration of Shakespeare

Meaning literary an 'unbringing' or 'education' novel

Humour treatment of the shocking, horrific and macabre

A tendency towards escapist daydreaming in which the dreamer imagines himself or herself to be a hero or heroine in a romance, e.g: Flaubert's Emma.

A swaggering, lazy man who is usually a coward.

Six line stanza rhyming aabab, the first, second, third and fifth lines are tetrameters and the others dimeters.

Inflated and extravagant language

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A descriptive or anecdotal treatise on various kinds of animal, especially a medieval work with a moralizing tone.

A metrical foot consisting of one unstressed metrical foot followed by two stressed ones. Rare in English verse.

Literary movement which emphasised being down-and-out, down-beat or a drop-out.

An effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous.

A word or expression which is badly formed according to traditional philological rules, e.g. a word formed from elements of different languages, such as breathalyser

Poetry written with regular metrical but unrhymed lines, almost always in iambic pentameter.

An often allegorical tale in which animals are characters and embark on a psuedo-epic journey.