Paradise Lost: Literary Modes, Genres, and Structure

Mrs Leach's class.... wish you luck... LMK if there's any mistakes, some there wasn't a exact def so I put the closest thing lol.

Aubade

Aubade

a poem or piece of music appropriate to the dawn or early morning.

Epithalamion

a song or poem celebrating a marriage.

Monodic & choric hymn

an ode sung by a single actor in a Greek tragedy/an elegy or dirge performed by one person

Prayer

an address (such as a petition) to God or a god in word or thought

Evening song

(Evensong) a church service traditionally held near sunset focused singing psalms and other biblical canticles

Orison

a prayer

Elegy (apobaterion)

1. a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.

2. (in Greek and Roman poetry) a poem written in elegiac couplets, as notably by Catullus and Propertius.

3. (apobaterion) a farewell speech. offerings made to the gods upon a safe landing

Ode

1. a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter.

   • a poem meant to be sung.

Proem

a preface or preamble to a book or speech.

Invocation

the action of invoking something or someone for assistance or as an authority.

• the summoning of a deity or the supernatural.

• an incantation used to invoke a deity or the supernatural.

  plural noun: invocations

Love sonnet

(sonnet) a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line

Creation songs/hymns

(hymn) a religious song or poem of praise to God or a god.

Dialogue

conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie.

Dialectic

1. the art of investigating or discussing the truth of opinions.

2. inquiry into metaphysical contradictions and their solutions.

Debate

a formal discussion on a particular topic in a public meeting or legislative assembly, in which opposing arguments are put forward.

Soliloquy

Apostrophe (NOT the punctuation lol)

an exclamatory passage in a speech or poem addressed to a person (typically one who is dead or absent) or thing (typically one that is personified).

Autobiography

an account of a person's life written by that person.

Chronicle

a factual written account of important or historical events in the order of their occurrence.

Apocalyptic

describing or prophesying the complete destruction of the world.

• resembling the end of the world; momentous or catastrophic.

• of or resembling the biblical Apocalypse.

Prophetic

accurately describing or predicting what will happen in the future.

Typological

the study of types, or a system of dividing things into types.

Heroic

(adj.) having the characteristics of a hero or heroine; very brave.

(noun)

1. behavior or talk that is bold or dramatic, especially excessively or unexpectedly so.

2. short for heroic verse.

Romantic

(adj.)

1. conducive to or characterized by the expression of love.

2. of, characterized by, or suggestive of an idealized view of reality.

Pastoral

1. (especially of land or a farm) used for or related to the keeping or grazing of sheep or cattle.

2. (in the Christian Church) concerning or appropriate to the giving of spiritual guidance.

Encyclopedic (hexaemeral)

comprehensive in terms of information.

• relating to or containing names of famous people and places and information about words that is not simply linguistic.

• (hexaemeral) the six days of the Biblical Creation, or a written account of them. a treatise on the six days of the Biblical Creation.

Forensic (judicial)

1. relating to or denoting the application of scientific methods and techniques to the investigation of crime.

2. relating to courts of law.

   (noun) scientific tests or techniques used in connection with the detection of crime.

Deliberative (advisory)

relating to or intended for consideration or discussion/the act of thinking about or discussing something and deciding carefully

having or consisting in the power to make recommendations but not to take action enforcing them.

Epideictic (ceremonial)

ceremonial discourse: speech or writing that praises or blames (someone or something).

• epideictic def: characterized by or designed to display rhetorical or oratorical skill.

Allegory

a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one

Tragedy

a play dealing with tragic events and having an unhappy ending, especially one concerning the downfall of the main character

• the dramatic genre represented by tragedy. Compare with comedy.

Comedy

professional entertainment consisting of jokes and satirical sketches, intended to make an audience laugh.

• a play characterized by its humorous or satirical tone and its depiction of amusing people or incidents, in which the characters ultimately triumph over adversity:

Satire

the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues:

• (in Latin literature) a literary miscellany, especially a poem ridiculing prevalent vices or follies.

Parody

an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect

Georgic

a poem or book dealing with agriculture or rural topics.

Romance

1. a feeling of excitement and mystery associated with love

2. a quality or feeling of mystery, excitement, and remoteness from everyday life

Enjambment

(in verse) the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza