English Week Eight
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- jeremiad
- a prophecy that evildoing will brind on destruction; a lament
- Juvenalian satire
- harsh, biting satire, full of moral indignation and bitter contempt
- Kunstlerroman
- "artist novel", a type of bildungsroman, or development novel, that tells the story of an artist's development
- lai
- a poem of adventure or romance intended to be sung
- leitmotif
- the repetition of a significant word, phrase, theme, or image throughout a novel or play, which functions as a unifying element; "guiding motif"
- libretto
- the text or words of the dialogue and songs of an opera, oratorio, cantata, musical comedy, or other similar musical work; also called the book
- linguistics
- the study of languages as systems
- literary criticism
- the practice of describing, interpreting, and evaluating literature
- litotes
- a figure of speech, a form of ironical understatement that affirms something by stating the negative of its opposite
- local color
- the use in writing of the physical setting, dialect, customs, and attitudes that typify a particular region