English Week Six
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- humanism
- any system of thought or action devoted to human interests rather than to religious ideals or to the animal world
- idyll
- a short descriptive and narrative piece, usually a poem, about pituresque country life, an didealized sotry of a happy innocence
- image
- language referring to something that can be perseived through one of more of the senses
- imagery
- the making of "pictures in words", the pictorial quality of a literary work achieved through a collection of images
- Imagists
- a group of early 20th century English and American poets who, in revolting against the excesses of romanticism, sought to restore the precise use of visual images to poetry
- implied author
- not the author directly, but a persona created by the author to present a literary work to the reader, an assumed voice through which the author speaks
- impressionism
- the theory and practice of emphasizing the subject impression a writer or character has of reality, rather than attempting to re-creat reality objectively
- incident
- an even or episode in a work of fiction that moves the plot forward or reveals character
- incongruity
- the quality of being incongruous; being inharmonious or incompatible or inconsistant, lacking agreement or suitability
- indirect satire
- a type of satire in which the author does not address the reader directly