Literary Terms - I

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A metrical foot consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable.

The term used to provide an endnote or footnote citation or reference for a source that was cited in the preceding endnote or footnote.

A rhythmical or metrical stress.

The imaginary person who, the writer hopes, will understand completely the experience he is trying to convey

An idea or desire that dominates the mind; an obsession

The speech habits peculiar to a particular person

A group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words

One of the requirements demanded under socialist realism. Literature must embody ideas, especially political and social ideas, of a progressive nature. Censors and critics do not accept literature lacking in ideological content, or literature which is merely intended to divert or entertain

An extremely happy, peaceful, or picturesque period or situation, typically an idealized or unsustainable one

Visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work

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A movement in early 20th-century Anglo-American poetry that favored precision of imagery and clear, sharp language

A series of words said as a magic spell or charm

A speaker's words reported in subordinate clauses governed by a reporting verb, with the required changes of person and tense

A story which initally begins in the middle of the narrative

A first-person voice which directly addresses the reader, and is a device closely associated with the realist novelists of the 19th c. such as George Eliot and Tolstoy

A state of privileged seclusion or separation from the facts and practicalities of the real world

A piece of writing expressing a character's inner thoughts

The interrelationship between texts, especially works of literature; the way that similar or related texts influence, reflect, or differ from each other

The hypothetical reader that a work is addressed to, whose thoughts, attitudes, etc, may differ from another reader's