Literary Terms - T

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A form of literary biography which consists of a person's sayings, opinions, obiter dicta, apercus, etc. These are recorded by the person to whom they are addressed.

A story which is extravagant, outlandish or highly improbable

A line of four metrical feet. In English verse usually iambic or trochaic, especially enjoyed by the likes of Milton, Scott and Byron

The central idea of a work, such as jealousy in Othello

A novel which treats a social, political or relgious problem didactically, with an aim the call people's attention to the shortcomings of a society: Dickens's Hard Times (1854), The Grapes of Wrath (1939), Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)

A tense, exciting, tautly plotted and sometimes sensational type of novel. Guns, sex and violence often play a part in this genre

Novels which employ the stream of consciousness technique in which the use of time, and time as a theme is of pre-eminent importance: Proust's In Search of Lost Time and Joyce's Ulysses

A sentence (composed of subject and predicate) in which the predicate merely repeats the content of the subject: 'The man is a man'; 'The child is young'; 'The great is stellar';

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The separation of the parts of a word by the insertion of another word or words. Not unusual in abusive speech. For example: 'Neverthebloodyless, I won't accept that'

A narrative, barely distinguishable from a short story which can be written or spoken

A newspaper whose pages are half the size of a broadsheet

A defect in a tragic hero or heroine which leads to their downfall

A figurative device, expression or epithet which belittles by exaggeration

A New England movement which placed value on intuition in matters of moral guidance and inspiration

A metrical foot containing a stressed followed by an unstressed syllable: / u. The reverse of an iamb