Lit Terms: 31-56

31. DICHOTOMY: Split or break between two opposing things.


32. DICTION: The choice of words use of words and phrases in speech or writing.


33. DIDACTIC: Intended to teach

34. Dogmatic: Rigid in beliefs and principles.


35. ELEGY: A poem or song of serious reflection, typically a mourning for the dead.


36. EPIC: Long narrative poem of a hero and his epic journey through history exploits.


37. EPIGRAM: Witty aphorism


38. EPITAPH: A phrase or statement written in memory of a person, esp. on a tombstone.


39. EPITHET: An adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality regarded as characteristic of the person or thing mentioned


40.EUPHEMISM: A mild or indirect word or expression for one too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.


41. EVOCATIVE: Bringing strong images, memories, or feelings to mind.
 makes you think of what used to be,

42. EXPOSITION: A comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory.


43. EXPRESSIONISM: A style of painting, music, or drama in which the artist or writer seeks to express emotional experience rather than impressions



44. FABLE:

A short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral.

45. FALLACY: A mistaken belief, esp. one based on unsound argument.

46. FARCE: A comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations.

47. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: apt and imaginative language characterized by figures of speech. (such as metaphor and simile)

48. FLASHBACK: A sudden and disturbing vivid memory of an event in the past, typically as the result of psychological trauma or taking LSD.

49. FOIL: A person or thing, that by contrast makes another seem better or more prominent

50. FOLK TALE: Story passed on by word of mouth.

51. FORESHADOWING: A DEICE TO PREPARE THE READER FOR THE OUTCOME OF AN ACTION.

52. FREE VERSE: Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.

53. GENRE: A category or class of artistic endeavor having a particular form, technique, or content.

54. GOTHIC TALE: A style in literature characterized by gloomy settings, violent or grotesque action, and a mood of decay, degeneration, and decadence.

55. HYPERBOLE: An exaggerated statement often used as a figure of speech or to prove a point.

56. IMAGERY: Figures of speech or vivid description, conveying images through any of the senses.