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| 96770464 | Pedantry | a display of narrow-minded and trivial scholarship or arbitrary adherence to rules and form | |
| 96770465 | Pentameter | verse written in five-foot lines | |
| 96770466 | Periodic Sentence Structure | a sentence written so that the full meaning cannot be understood until the end. Example - Across the stream, beyond the clearing, from behind a fallen tree, the lion emerged. | |
| 96770467 | Peraphrasis | an elaborate and roundabout manner of speech that uses more words than necessary | |
| 96770468 | Persona | an assumed identity, taken from the Greek word for "mask," often applied to an author who is writing as another character. May also refer to an assumed identity that is different from one's true nature. | |
| 96770469 | Personification | a type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics | |
| 96770470 | Picaresque | a novel with a (percieved) scoundrel or rogue as the main character | |
| 96770471 | Plot | the sequence of events in a literary work. Types include - chronological, achronological, climactic, episodic, non sequitar. | |
| 96770472 | Poetic Diction | the use of specific types of words, phrases, or literary devices that are not common in contemporary speech or prose | |
| 96770473 | Poetic License | the liberty that authors occasionally take with ordinary rules of syntax and grammar, employing unusual vocabulary, metrical devices, or figures of speech in order to strengthen a passage | |
| 96770474 | Poetry | one of the three major types, or genres, of literature. It defies simple definition because there is not a single characteristic that is found in all. They make use of highly concise, musical, and emotionally charged language. | |
| 96770475 | Point of View | the perspective, or vantage point, from which a story is told. First person - when a character whithin the story tells the story. Third person - when a voice from outside the story tells the story. Third Person Limited - when the knowledge of the storyteller is limited to the internal states of the character. Omniscient - when the storyteller's knowledge extends to the internal states of all the characters. Second Person - when the person spoken to is the narrator. ("You are...") | |
| 96770476 | Post Hoc Fallacy | This fallacy of logic occurs when the writer assumes that an incident that precedes another is the cause of the second incident; however, the chronological order of events does not establish a cause-effect relationship. | |
| 96770477 | Postmodernism | Since modern means "up-to-date" this term would seem impossible. It refers to the movement, started around 1914, that sought to go beyond what was acceptable at the time into new realms. | |
| 96770478 | Prose | the ordinary form of written language. Two major forms - fiction, nonfiction. | |
| 96770479 | Protagonist | the main character of a literary work | |
| 96770480 | Psalm | A song or hymn of praise, like those in the bible. | |
| 96770481 | Pun | a play on words. May involve using a word or phrase that has two different meanings, or it may involve using two different words or phrases with the same sound. (sun and son) | |
| 96770482 | Pyrrhic | a foot with two unstressed syllables. (unspeak/ably) | |
| 96770483 | Qualifier | a claim restriction that limits the claim by stating the claim may not always be true as stated | |
| 96770484 | Quatrain | a poetic stanza consisting of four lines | |
| 96770485 | Realism | the artistic presentation of details from actual life | |
| 96770486 | Reductionism | the oversimplification of a complex literary work. (Moby Dick is about a guy who tries to kill a whale and fails) |
