Lit Terms List 2 • The Remix

Creativity will be shown later, authentic remix to be done in a little while.

Circumlocution - an indirect way of expressing something; a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things

Classicism - a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms

Cliché - expression, idea, or element of an artistic work which has become overused to the point of losing its original meaning or effect, even to the point of being trite or irritating, especially when at some earlier time it was considered meaningful or novel.

Climax - the decisive moment in a novel or play

Colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech

Comedy - light and humorous drama with a happy ending; a comic incident or series of incidents

Conflict - an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals); an incompatibility of dates or events; opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings; opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot)

Connotation - an idea that is implied or suggested; what you must know in order to determine the reference of an expression

Contrast - the act of distinguishing by comparing differences

Denotation - the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to; the act of indicating or pointing out by name

Denouement - the final resolution of the main complication of a literary or dramatic work; the outcome of a complex sequence of events

Dialect - the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people

Dialectics - a rationale for dialectical materialism based on change through the conflict of opposing forces

Dichotomy - being twofold; a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses

Diction - the manner in which something is expressed in words; the articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience

Didactic -  instructive (especially excessively)

Dogmatic -  characterized by assertion of unproved or unprovable principles; relating to or involving dogma; of or pertaining to or characteristic of a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative

Elegy - a mournful poem; a lament for the dead

Epic -  very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary (especially in size or scale); constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic; noun a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds

Epigram - a witty saying