A form of figurative language in which a word is replaced by something very close to the original meaning

A figure of speech in which a part represents a whole

A person whose name has given rise to the name of a people, place, etc., or a personal name which is used as a common noun

A long, mournful complaint or lamentation; a list of woes.

A part-song for several voices, especially one of the Renaissance period, typically arranged in elaborate counterpoint and without instrumental accompaniment. Originally used of a genre of 14th-century Italian songs, the term now usually refers to English or Italian songs of the late 16th and early 17th c., in a free style strongly influenced by the text is a(n)...

An art movement in the late 19th century which privileged the aesthetic value of literature, music and the arts over their socio-political functions

Both a philosophical and arts movement that arose from broad transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries

A late-20th-century style and concept in the arts, architecture, and criticism that represents a departure from modernism and has at its heart a general distrust of grand theories and ideologies as well as a problematical relationship with any notion of “art.”.

The concurrent project to reclaim and rethink the history and agency of people subordinated under various forms of imperialism. Said and Spivak are major thinkers of this time and literary theorists.

Philosophical and literary forms of theory that both build upon and reject ideas established by structuralism, the intellectual project that preceded it.

A word, phrase, statement, or idea that can be understood in more than one way

Philosophical and literary forms of theory that both build upon and reject ideas established by structuralism, the intellectual project that preceded it.

When the sentence or statement has ambiguous punctuation or syntactic structure.

The original model from which something is developed or made. In literary criticism, those images, figures, character types, settings, and story patterns are universally shared by people across cultures.

What is the prefix used when there is a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable?

What is the prefix used when there is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable?

An artistic style that used exaggerated motion and easily interpreted details to produce drama, sculpture painting. architecture, dance etc.

The principles or style embodied in the literature, art, or architecture of ancient Greece and Rome

The knowledge and beliefs shared by all the members of a particular race, or group of society. Coined by Emile Durkheim in the 19th century.

A style of art that stresses abstract structure at the expense of other pictorial elements, especially by displaying several aspects of the same object simultaneously and by fragmenting the form of depicted objects.

A movement in art and literature based on deliberate irrationality and negation of traditional artistic values. Started during the First World War. Artists showed their disgust at the propaganda being spread and how the public accepted and propagated it. They displayed their disgust through disturbing images that depicted no definite object.

Class of novel that depicts and explores the manner in which the protagonist develops morally and psychologically typically from youth to adulthood.

Being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class

Literary writing by or about working-class people with an anticapitalist or prosocialist theme

A literary term first used by T. S. Eliot in his essay “The Metaphysical Poets” that refers to the way in which intellectual thought was separated from the experience of feeling in 17th century poetry

A form of philosophical inquiry that explores the issue of human existence.