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A humorous, mocking imitation of a literary work, sometimes sarcastic, but often playful and even respectful in its playful imitation
Industry:Literature
The endowment of inanimate objects or abstract concepts with animate or living qualities. An example: The yellow leaves flaunted their color gaily in the breeze. Wordsworth's "I wandered lonely as a cloud" includes personification.
Industry:Literature
A brief story that teaches a lesson often ethical or spiritual. See Fable.
Industry:Literature
The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. The climax represents the point of greatest tension in the work.
Industry:Literature
An intensification of the conflict in a story or play. Complication builds up, accumulates, and develops the primary or central conflict in a literary work."
Industry:Literature
A struggle between opposing forces in a story or play, usually resolved by the end of the work. The conflict may occur within a character as well as between characters.
Industry:Literature
The associations called up by a word that goes beyond its dictionary meaning. Poets, especially, tend to use words rich in connotation.
Industry:Literature
A customary feature of a literary work, such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy, the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable, or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle. Literary conventions are defining features of particular literary genres, such as novel, short story, ballad, sonnet, and play.
Industry:Literature
The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe. Words such as buzz and crack are onomatopoetic. The following line from Pope's "Sound and Sense" onomatopoetically imitates in sound what it describes
When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labors, and the words move slow.
Most often, however, onomatopoeia refers to words and groups of words, such as Tennyson's description of the "murmur of innumerable bees," which attempts to capture the sound of a swarm of bees buzzing.
Industry:Literature
The voice and implied speaker of a fictional work, to be distinguished from the actual living author. See Point of view.
Industry:Literature
