Who straight, Your suit is granted, said, and died.Ĭanon. In relation to literature, this term is half-seriously applied to those works generally accepted as the great ones. Of theeves and murderers: there I him espied, An example from George Herbert’s “Redemption”:Īt length I heard a ragged noise and mirth The pause may or may not be typographically indicated (usually with a comma). Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock (1711-14), burlesques the eighteenth century upper crust social mores by treating them with the machinery of epic poetryĬaesura. A pause, metrical or rhetorical, occurring somewhere in a line of poetry.Henry Fielding, Tom Thumb the Great (1730), burlesques heroic drama by trivializing it.John Gay, The Beggar’s Opera (1728), burlesques Italian opera by trivializing it.Literary genres (like the tragic drama) can be burlesqued, as can styles of sculpture, philosophical movements, schools of art, and so forth. Burlesque concentrates on derisive imitation, usually in exaggerated terms. –Edward Young, Night Thoughts, Night the First, 67-70, 73-74īurlesque. A work designed to ridicule a style, literary form, or subject matter either by treating the exalted in a trivial way or by discussing the trivial in exalted terms (that is, with mock dignity). Who centred in our make such strange extremes?ĭistinguish’d link in being’s endless chain! How passing wonder He, who made him such! How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, –James Thomson, The Seasons, Spring, 1152-1156 The generouis purpose in the glowing breast. To breathe the enlivening spirit, and to fix To pour the fresh instruction o’er the mind, –James Thomson, The Seasons, Spring, 172-176ĭelightful task! to rear the tender thought, In large effusion o’er the freshened world. Prelusive drops, let all their moisture flow The clouds consign their treasures to the fields, Here are some examples you likely won’t see elsewhere: Blank verse was the most popular in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in England. Shakespeare’s plays are largely blank verse, as are other Renaissance plays. James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Manīlank Verse. Unrhymed iambic pentameter.Nothing beats writing from experience, because remembrance is easier than creation from scratch and all the details fit together. Many novelists include in their books people and events from their own lives, often slightly or even dramatically altered. More common that a thoroughly autobiographical novel is the incluision of autobiographical elements among other elements. Examples:Īutobiographical novel. A novel based on the author’s life experience. Some critics have called Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas an apologue rather than a novel because it is more concerned with moral philosophy than with character or plot. The beast fable, and the fables of Aesop are examples. Often, the apologue highlights the irrationality of mankind. George Orwell, Animal Farm (allegorical novel)Īpologue. A moral fable, usually featuring personified animals or inanimate objects which act like people to allow the author to comment on the human condition.Herman Melville, Moby Dick (allegorical novel).William Golding, Lord of the Flies (allegorical novel).Some examples of allegorical works include Many works contain allegories or are allegorical in part, but not many are entirely allegorical. In The Faerie Queene, for example, Red Cross Knight is a heroic knight in the literal narrative, but also a figure representing Everyman in the Christian journey. Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte CristoĪllegory. A figurative work in which a surface narrative carries a secondary, symbolic or metaphorical meaning.Adventure novels are sometimes described as “fiction” rather than “literature” in order to distinguish books designed for mere entertainment rather than thematic importance. Note: Terms already in the Handbook of Rhetorical Devices have been deleted from this file.Īdventure novel. A novel where exciting events are more important than character development and sometimes theme. To find a particular term, use your browser’s Find command.
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