Literature

 

1. Doggerel: silly or bad poetry
2. Epilogue: concluding segment after the main body
3. Euphony: pleasantness of sounds in poetry
4. Exegesis : critical interpretation of text
5. Genre: category of composition with a specific style
6. Gloss: continuous commentary appearing in a text
7. Imagery : language used to evoke mental picture
8. Irony: words expressing other than literal meanings
9. Leitmotif : dominant theme
10. Mimesis: imitation of person’s style/grammar
11. Motif: recurring theme
12. Passus: division of story
13. Plagiarism: literary theft
14. Sarcasm : ironic/caustic language against an individual
15. Simile: speech comparing two similar things
16. Almanac: book with information on various fields
17. Compendium: concise but comprehensive work
18. Canon: work ascribed to author and accepted as genuine
19. Concordance : alphabetical index of topics
20. Hornbook : child’s primer
21. Magnum opus : one author’s classical masterpiece
22. Omnibus: book containing the works of a single author
23. Tome : very large or scholarly work

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