Vocabulary the Literature

1. Bucolic: genre of poetry That deals with issues

related to rural life and love affairs and usually has
pastors as protagonists and usually dialogue.
2. Allegory: Representation in which things have a
symbolic meaning.
3. Anecdote: Short story of a strange, curious or funny
event, usually happened to the person who tells it.
4. Cliché: The term cliché refers to a phrase, expression,
action or idea that has been used in excess.
5. Cadence: Distribution or proportional combination of
accents and pauses in a text in verse or of words and
topics in a prose text.
6. Colophon: Note or image printed at the end of a book
that indicates the name of the printer and the place
and date of printing, or some other circumstance.
7. Compendium: Brief, concise and substantial summary
of a broad subject.
8. Dramatist, playwright: Person who writes plays.
9. Drama: Drama is a literary genre characterized by the
representation of conflicting human actions and
situations
10. Elegy: Poetic composition of the lyric genre in
which the death of a person or other misfortune is
lamented and which does not have a fixed metric
form.
11. Diatribe: Written or oral speech in which
someone is insulted or censured or something.
12. Detective: person who has the job to investigate
matters on behalf of a client.
13. Essay: The essay is a type of prose text that
analyzes, interprets or evaluates a topic.
14. Epic: The epic is a narrative genre in which
legendary or fictitious facts are presented concerning
the exploits of one or more heroes and the real or
imagined fights in which they have participated.
15. Epigram: The epigram, is a brief poetic
composition that expresses a single main festive or
satirical thought in an ingenious way.
16. Epilogue: Final part of a speech or a literary work
in which a general summary of its content is offered.
17. Epistle: Letter formal letter addressed to a group
of people; especially, those sent by the apostles to
the various Christian communities.
18. Epitaph: An epitaph, is the text that honors the
deceased, usually inscribed on a gravestone or
plaque on his grave.
19. Epithet: Epithet is the qualifying adjective that
highlights the characteristics and qualities of a noun,
without distinguishing it from the others of its group.
20. Stage: The Stage is all that space destined to the
representation of the diverse scenic arts or used for
public events.
21. Euphemism: A euphemism is a less offensive
word that replaces another word of bad taste that may
offend.
22. Fictitious: That only exists in someone's fiction or
imagination.
23. Gloss: A gloss is a note written on the margins
or between the lines of a book, in which the meaning
of the text is explained in its original language,
sometimes in another language.
24. Hero: Person who is distinguished for having
performed an extraordinary feat, especially if it
requires a lot of value
25. Hyperbole: Hyperbole is a literary resource that
consists in exaggerating the qualities, characteristics,
customs, etc., of people, places, animals and objects.
26. Idyll: Loving relationship between two people that
is usually lived with a lot of intensity and is of short
duration.
27. Intrigue: An intrigue is an action that is executed
with an intelligence and cunning, and hiddenly, to
achieve a certain end; in an argument of a story or
narrative, a series of events that constitute the knot,
especially if this is how interest arises and tension is
created.
28. Irony: The irony is a literary figure by means of
which it is made to understand something very
different, or even the opposite of what is said or
written
29. Lyric: The lyric is a literary genre in which the
author transmits feelings, emotions or subjective
feelings about a person or object of inspiration.
30. Metaphor: A rhetorical figure of thought by means
of which a reality or concept is expressed through a
different reality or concept with which the represented
has a certain relationship of similarity.
31. Myth: A myth is a traditional story that refers to
some prodigious events, carried out by supernatural
or extraordinary beings, such as gods, demigods,
which seek to explain an event or a phenomenon
32. Mystery: Mystery is defined as something very
difficult to understand, something strange and
inexplicable to understand or discover by the occult.
33. Ode: The ode is a lyrical subgenre and a poetic
composition of high tone or sung, that deals with
diverse subjects among which a reflection of the poet
is collected.
34. Onomatopoeia: Word that has sounds that
resemble what it means.
35. Oxymoron: Rhetorical figure of thought that
consists in complementing a word with another that
has a contradictory or opposite meaning.
36. Parable: The parable designates a literary form
that consists of a figurative story of which, by analogy
or similarity, a teaching is derived relative to a subject
that is not the explicit one
37. Parody: The parody is a satirical work that
humorously characterizes or interprets another work
of art, an author or a theme, through emulation or
ironic allusion.
38. Redundancy: redundancy is a property of
messages, consisting of having predictable parts from
the rest of the message and, therefore, in itself do not
provide new information.
39. Rhetoric: Rhetoric is the transversal discipline to
different fields of knowledge that deals with studying
and systematizing procedures and techniques of
language use.
40. Semantics: semantics Part of the linguistics that
studies the meaning of linguistic expressions.
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