pathos: the ability in literature to call forth feelings of pity, compassion, and/or sadness.
pedantry: a display of learning for its own sake.
personification: a figure of speech attributing human qualities to inanimate objects or abstract ideas.
poignant: eliciting sorrow or sentiment.
point of view: the attitude unifying any oral or written argumentation; in description, the physical point from which the observer views what he is describing.
postmodernism: literature characterized by experimentation, irony, nontraditional forms, multiple meanings, playfulness and a blurred boundary between real and imaginary
prose: the ordinary form of spoken and written language; language that does not have a regular rhyme pattern.
protagonist: the central character in a work of fiction; opposes antagonist
pun: play on words; the humorous use of a word emphasizing different meanings or applications.
realism: writing about the ordinary aspects of life in a straightforward manner to reflect life as it actually is.
refrain: a phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a poem or song; chorus.
requiem: any chant, dirge, hymn, or musical service for the dead.
resolution: point in a literary work at which the chief dramatic complication is worked out; denouement.
restatement: idea repeated for emphasis.
rhetoric: use of language, both written and verbal in order to persuade.
rising action: plot build up, caused by conflict and complications, advancement towards climax.
romanticism: movement in western culture beginning in the eighteenth and peaking in the nineteenth century as a revolt against Classicism; imagination was valued over reason and fact.
satire: ridicules or condemns the weakness and wrong doings of individuals, groups, institutions, or humanity in general.
scansion: the analysis of verse in terms of meter.
setting: the time and place in which events in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem occur.
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