Literary Terms - G

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A field of study which attempts to categorize literature as exemplified by Aristotle in his Poetics

A term coined by Richard Wagner to denote a work of art which combines music, drama, poetry, mime, painting in décor, etc. to create a whole. Ideally, all should proceed from a single creative mind and hand

A term used in film and media theory which refers to the hierarchical and ideaological ways in which spectators view images of people

A strict verse form, used in Arabic, Persian and Turkish. It denotes a love poem of up to thirty couplets, with the rhyme scheme aa, ba, ca, da, etc. each couplet expressing a complete an isolated thought

A fictional narrative in which the spirit of a person, no longer bound by natural laws, manifests itself and 'haunts' a place, person or thing as a kind of 'presence'

An alphabetical list of unfamiliar or difficult words or phrases

An onomatopoeic word which derives from the sound poultry make, denoting unintelligible language, gibberish and thus nonsense

An era when things were at their best, e.g English literature - especially drama - c.1580 - c.1630

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A type of romance very popular from 1760s until the 1820s. It had much importance in the evolution of the horror story

Any theory of intellectual system which attempts to provide a comprehensive explanation of human experience and knowledge. Religion and science especially try to create these

The smallest unit of a written language, thus, a letter of the alphabet

This dramatical style had this structure: Prologue, Parados, Episodes, Exodus

A branch of feminist literary theory which focuses on women as writers

A book designed to help travellers

Classy comic book