Literary Terms - O

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The artistic and literary technique of representing or evoking a particular emotion by means of symbols which become indicative of that emotion and are associated with it

A line of eight feet

Term used to describe pompous, abstract, euphemistic, polysyllabic and circumlocutory language used by officials, bureaucrats, politicians and sociologists

A stanza of fourteen imabic tetrameters rhyming ababccddeffegg

The formation and use of words to imitate sounds

A term which refers to the Orient as defined and, in a sense, 'invented' by Europe and the West

A group founded in 1960 which specialized in playful language games to generate their works - novels which lack a certain letter of the alphabet, for example

A figure of speech which combines contradictory or incongruous words for a special effect; Milton's 'darkness visible' or Lamb's 'honest thief'.

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A word or line of verse with the accent on the last syllable

A term coined by Umberto Eco (1932-2016) to describe a text which invites a variety of readings

A play of only one act

An edition of an entire author's works in one volume

A lyric poem, typically one in the form of an address to a particular subject, written in varied or irregular metre

A concept which might signify any act or statement deemed offensive or derogatory to the dominant culture, especially in terms of moral, sexual or religious taboos

Verse written for a particular occasion