Lit Terms #2

Lit Terms #2

Examples in RED

Circumlocution: a roundabout or evasive speech or writing, in which many words are used but a few would have served "Or lose your heart, or your chaste treasure open To his unmast"red importunity." William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Classicism: art, literature, and music reflecting the principles of ancient Greece and Rome tradition, reason, clarity, order, and balance The "Iliad" and the "Odyssey"-Homer  
Cliché: a phrase or situation overused within society "A diamond in the rough"
Climax: the decisive point in a narrative or drama; the pint of greatest intensity or interest at which plot question is answered or resolved In "1984" where Winston and Julia are discovered and the ploy against BIG BROTHER is proven to be a fake.
Colloquialism: folksy speech, slang words or phrases usually used in informal conversation
Comedy: originally a nondramatic literary piece of work that was marked by a happy ending; now a term to describe a ludicrous, farcical, or amusing event designed provide enjoyment or produce smiles and laughter "Waiting for Godot"
Conflict: struggle or problem in a story causing tension
Connotation: implicit meaning, going beyond dictionary definition
Contrast: a rhetorical device by which one element (idea or object) is thrown into opposition to another for the sake of emphasis or clarity
Denotation: plain dictionary definition 
Denouement: loose ends tied up in a story after the climax, closure, conclusion
Dialect: the language of a particular district, class or group of persons; the sounds, grammar, and diction employed by people distinguished from others.
Dialectics: formal debates usually over the nature of truth.
Dichotomy: split or break between two opposing things.
Diction: the style of speaking or writing as reflected in the choice and use of words.
Didactic:having to do with the transmission of information; education.
Dogmatic:rigid in beliefs and principles.
Elegy:a mournful, melancholy poem, especially a fimeral song or lament for the dead, sometimes contains general reflections on death, often with a rural or pastoral setting. 
Epic:a long narrative poem unified by a hero who reflects the customs, mores, and aspirations of his nation or race as he makes his way through legendary and historic exploits, usually over a long period of time· (definition bordering on circumlocution).  Beowulf
Epigram:witty aphorism
Epitaph:any brief inscription in prose or verse on a tombstone; a short formal poem of commemoration often a credo written by the person who wishes it to be on his tombstone. "No fate, but what we make." (Sarah Connor-The Terminator)
Epithet:a short, descriptive name or phrase that insults someone's character, characteristics or a person or a thing. 
Euphemism:the use of an indirect, mild or vague word or expression for one thought to be coarse, offensive, or blunt. 
Evocative (evocation):a calling forth of memories and sensations; the suggestion or production through artistry and imagination of a sense of reality.