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tone
topic
the attitude a literary work takes toward its subject
and theme.
(1) the concrete and literal description of what a
story is about; (2) a poem’s general or specific area
of concern. Also called subject.
tradition an inherited, established, or customary practice. NA
traditional symbols
tragedy
symbols that, through years of usage, have acquired
an agreed-upon significance, an accepted meaning.
See archetype.
a drama in which a character (usually a good and
noble person of high rank) is brought to a disastrous
end in his or her confrontation with a superior force
(fortune, the gods, social forces, universal values),
but also comes to understand the meaning of his or
her deeds and to accept an appropriate punishment.
Often the protagonist’s downfall is a direct result of
a fatal flaw in his or her character.
trochaic a metrical form in which the basic foot is a trochee. NA
trochee
turning point
underplot
understatement
unity of time
a metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable
followed by an unstressed one (“Homer”).
the third part of plot structure, the point at which the
action stops rising and begins falling or reversing.
Also called climax.
a subordinate plot in fiction or drama. Also called a
subplot.
language that avoids obvious emphasis or
embellishment; litotes is one form of it.
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one of the three unities of drama as described by
Aristotle in his Poetics. Unity of time refers to the
limitation of a play’s action to a short period— NA