Literay Terms to know 文学术语.doc

Literay Terms analogy: an extended comparison based on certain resemblances between things that are otherwise unlike. antagonist: a neutral term for a character who opposes the leading character. anticlimax: a continuation of the plot after the story’s climax. Its intent is to relieve from the tension of the climax, or to present further complications of the plot. apostrophe: the addressing of a discourse to a real or imagined person who is not present; a speech to an animal, object or a personified abstraction. atmosphere: the mood prevailing in a literary work. It often relates to the writer’s tone, and also to whatever sets up certain expectations in the reader. audience: the people attending a theatrical production; the intended group of readers for whom a writer writes. autobiography: an account of a person’s life written by himself or herself. ballad stanza (also called ballad measure): a common stanza form, consisting of a quatrain in which lines of iambic tetrameter alternates with iambic trimester, rhyming xaxa. blank verse: the verse form that consists of unrhymed lines in iambic pentameter. Many of Shakespeare’s plays are in blank verse. carpe diem poetry: poetry concerned with the shortness of life and the need to act now and enjoy classicism: a form of literature that emphasizes the classic qualities of form, reason, restraint, and is based on distinguished artistic models of the past. climax: the point at which the conflict reaches the highest top and the action stops rising and begins falling or reversing. It is the third part of plot structure and is also called the turning point of the plot. comedy: a broad category of dramatic works that are intended primarily to entertain and amuse the audience through exaggeration and incongruity. conflict: a struggle between opposing forces, such as between two people, between a person and something in nature or society, or even between two parts of the self. connotation: what is suggested by a word, apart f