literature items

موضوع: literature items الخميس مارس 26, 2009 1:42 pm

Literature items

Organicism: the idea that literary works are like plants, in that content and the form are one and the same because the content determines the form .

Psychobiography: it refers to the act of reading and understanding a literary text in the light of events in the life of the author

Secularism: it is the belief that religion should not dominate or thoughts , acts or deeds.

Flashback: a narrative technique which enables the reader to go into the past of a character or a past moment in the narrative

Modernism: a movement in literature which began after the First World War.
It rebelled against traditional modes of expression

Blank verse : poetry which has meter but not rhyme

Prosody : the science of versification

Metonymy: it is when one thing is used to mean another with which it has become closely associated

Synecdoche : the use of the part to mean the whole

Catharsis : it is the experience of elevation and purgation the spectators have when they watch tragedy; it stems from the feelings of pity and fear. The term is coined by Aristotle.

Closet drama: plays written in verse with the intention of being read rather than acted

Comedy of manners: deals with intrigues and relations of men and women in refined society .

Comic relief : the moment when the playwright includes a comic scene in a tragedy to relieve the audience of the powerful emotions which the tragic action evokes in them

Romantic comedy: a play about two or more lovers and the obstacles they encounter before they finally unite.

Satiric comedy : a play ridiculing social ideals, phenomena, and subversive individuals, with the purpose of effecting positive change or reform.

Soliloquy: it is when the character speaks to himself, revealing what he feels and thinks deep down.

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