Literary Terms 35-46

The truthful treatment of material.

A quality in literature which is the product of its fidelity to a particular geographical section, accurately reoresenting its habits, speech, manners, history folklore, or beliefs.

A form of verbal irony. It is personal, jeering, and intended to hurt.

A literary manner which blends a critical attitude with humor and wit to the end that human isntitutions or humanity may be improved.

A vernacle speech ,not accepted as suitible for formal usage, though much used in conversation and colloquial expression. The aptness of slang is usally based on its humor or exaggeration.

The arrangment of words in a manner which at once best expresses the individuality of the aurthur and th eidea and intent in his mind, It is a combination of two elements: The idea to be expressed and the individuality of the aurthor.

A major device for the securing and maintqaning of interest in all forms of fiction. It resides in the audience's frightened anticipation, in the question of when.

Something which is itself and yet stands for or suggests or means something else.

The central or dominating idea in a literary work. In non-fiction, the general tipic of discussion. In fiction, the absrtact concept which is made concrete through its represenation in person, and image in the work.

AN attitude or position on a problem taken by a writer or speaker with the purpose of proving or supporting it. Theses is sued both for th eproblem to be established and for the essay which, presumable, establishes it.

A term designating the attitudes toward the subjest and toward the audience implied in a literary work. In such a usage, a work may have a tone that is forma, Informal, intimate, solemn, somber, playful, serious, ironic, condescending, or any of many other possible attitudes. It contributes in a major way to the effect and the effectiveness of a literary work.

Wit is primarily intellectual, the perception of similarites in seemingly dissimilar things - the "swift" play and flash of mind," - and is expressed in skillful phraseologu, plays upon words, surpirsing contrasts, paradoxes, comparisons, etc., while humor implies a sympathetic recognition of human values and deals with foibles and incongruities of human nature, good-naturedly exibited. Wit is intensive, incisive, sharp and subjective; while humor is expansive, slow, gentle, and objective, and we always laugh.