Literary Terms - L

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Term applied to Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southy. Derives from the name of an area of natural beuaty in northern England

An expression of deep regret or sorrow for the loss of a person or position

A word, phrase or grammatical construction based on a Latin form or model

A religious poem or song adapted from the liturgy

A short narrative or lyrical poem intended to be sung

A traditional story sometimes popularly regarded as historical but not authenticated

A musical term which first used in a literary context by Thomas Mann and used it to denote a recurrent theme or unit. For example, the hunted man and betrayal in the novels of Graham Greene

The term for the actual vocabulary of the author

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When the stress falls evenly on two syllables in the same word e.g. buckwheat; gang plank

The text of an opera or operetta

A loose term for plays which are airy, graceful, amusing and light-hearted

Stress on a word which is not normally accented in speech. Extensively used in Poe's The Raven

The scientific study of language

A formal structural division in a poem, normally classified according to the number of feet it contains

A figure of speech that uses understatement to emphasize a point by stating a negative to further affirm a positive, often incorporating double negatives for effect

A word imported from another language