A brief dictionary of literary terms. Dictionary of literary terms

Dictionary of literary terms

Autology – an artistic technique of figuratively expressing a poetic idea not in poetic words and expressions, but in simple everyday ones.

And everyone looks with respect,

How again without panic

I slowly put on my pants

And almost new

From the sergeant's point of view,

Canvas boots...

Acmeism – a movement in Russian poetry in the first two decades of the 20th century, the center of which was the “Workshop of Poets” circle, and the main platform was the magazine “Apollo”. Acmeists contrasted the social content of art with the realism of material mother nature and sensual plastic-material clarity artistic language, abandoning the poetics of vague hints and the mysticism of symbolism in the name of “return to the earth,” to the subject, to the exact meaning of the word (A. Akhmatova, S. Gorodetsky, N. Gumilyov, M. Zenkevich, O. Mandelstam).

Allegory- allegorical image of an abstract concept or phenomenon through a concrete image; personification of human properties or qualities. The allegory consists of two elements:
1. semantic - this is any concept or phenomenon (wisdom, cunning, kindness, childhood, nature, etc.) that the author seeks to depict without naming it;
2. figurative-objective - this is specific item, a creature depicted in a work of fiction that represents a named concept or phenomenon.

Alliteration- repetition in poetic speech (less often in prose) of the same consonant sounds in order to enhance the expressiveness of artistic speech; one of the types of sound recording.

Evening. Seaside. Sighs of the wind.

The majestic cry of the waves.

A storm is coming. It hits the shore

A black boat alien to enchantment.

K.D.Balmont

Alogism – artistic device, emphasizing with contradictory phrases internal inconsistency certain dramatic or comic situations - to prove, as if by contradiction, a certain logic and, therefore, the truth of the position of the author (and after him the reader), who understands an illogical phrase as a figurative expression (the title of the novel by Yu. Bondarev “Hot Snow”).

Amphibrachium- trisyllabic poetic meter, in which the stress falls on the second syllable - stressed among unstressed ones - in the foot. Scheme: U-U| U-U...

The midnight blizzard was noisy

In the forest and remote side.

Anapaest- a three-syllable poetic meter, in which the stress falls on the last, third, syllable in the foot. Scheme: UU- | UU-…
People's houses are clean, bright,
But in our house it’s cramped, stuffy...

N.A. Nekrasov.

Anaphora- unity of command; repetition of a word or group of words at the beginning of several phrases or stanzas.
I love you, Petra's creation,
I love your strict, slender appearance...

A.S. Pushkin.

Antithesis - stylistic device, based on a sharp contrast of concepts and images, is most often based on the use of antonyms:
I am a king - I am a slave, I am a worm - I am a god!

G.R.Derzhavin

Antiphrase(s) – using words or expressions in a clearly contrary sense. "Well done!" - as a reproach.

Assonance- repeated repetition in poetic speech (less often in prose) of homogeneous vowel sounds. Sometimes assonance refers to an imprecise rhyme in which the vowels coincide, but the consonants do not coincide (hugeness - I’ll come to my senses; thirst - it’s a pity). Enhances the expressiveness of speech.
The room became dark.
The window obscures the slope.
Or is this a dream?
Ding dong. Ding dong.

I.P. Tokmakova.

Aphorism – clear, easy to remember, accurate short expression a certain completeness of thought. Aphorisms often become individual lines of poetry or phrases of prose: “Poetry is everything! - a ride into the unknown." (V. Mayakovsky)

Ballad- a narrative song with a dramatic development of the plot, the basis of which is an unusual incident, one of the types of lyric-epic poetry. At the heart of the ballad - extraordinary story, reflecting the essential aspects of the relationship between a person and society, people among themselves, the most important features of a person.

Bard – a poet-singer, usually a performer of his own poems, often set to his own music.

Fable – a short poetic story-allegory of a moralizing nature.

Blank verse - unrhymed verses with metric organization (i.e., organized through a system of rhythmically repeating accents). Widely distributed in oral folk art and was actively used in the 18th century.
Forgive me, maiden beauty!
I will part with you forever,
Young girl, I’ll cry.
I'll let you go, beauty,
I'll let you go with ribbons...

Folk song.

Epics - Old Russian epic songs and tales, glorifying the exploits of heroes, reflecting historical events of the 11th - 16th centuries.

Barbarism – a word or figure of speech borrowed from a foreign language. The unjustified use of barbarisms pollutes the native language.

Vers libre - modern system versification, which is a kind of boundary between verse and prose (it lacks rhyme, meter, traditional rhythmic ordering; the number of syllables in a line and lines in a stanza can be different; there is also no equality of emphasis characteristic of blank verse. Their features of poetic speech are divided into lines with a pause at the end of each line and weakened symmetry of speech (emphasis falls on the last word of the line).
She came in from the cold
Flushed,
Filled the room
The aroma of air and perfume,
In a ringing voice
And completely disrespectful to classes
Chatting.

Eternal image - an image from a work of classic world literature, expressing certain features of human psychology, which has become a common name of one type or another: Faust, Plyushkin, Oblomov, Don Quixote, Mitrofanushka, etc.

Inner monologue - the announcement of thoughts and feelings that reveal the character’s inner experiences, not intended for the hearing of others, when the character speaks as if to himself, “to the side.”

Vulgarism – simple, even seemingly rude, seemingly unacceptable expressions in poetic speech, used by the author to reflect the specific nature of the phenomenon being described, to characterize a character, sometimes similar to vernacular.

Hero lyrical- the image of the poet (his lyrical “I”), whose experiences, thoughts and feelings are reflected in the lyrical work. The lyrical hero is not identical to the biographical personality. The idea of a lyrical hero is of a summary nature and is formed in the process of familiarization with the inner world that is revealed in lyrical works not through actions, but through experiences, states of mind, manner of speech expression.

Literary hero - character, protagonist of a literary work.

Hyperbola- remedy artistic image, based on excessive exaggeration; figurative expression, which consists in an exorbitant exaggeration of events, feelings, strength, meaning, size of the depicted phenomenon; an outwardly effective form of presenting what is depicted. Can be idealizing and humiliating.

Gradation- stylistic device, arrangement of words and expressions, as well as means of artistic representation in increasing or decreasing importance. Types of gradation: increasing (climax) and decreasing (anti-climax).
Increasing gradation:
Orata's bipod is maple,
The damask boots on the bipod,
The bipod's snout is silver,
And the horn of the bipod is red and gold.

Epic about Volga and Mikula
Descending gradation:
Fly! less fly! disintegrated into a grain of sand.

N.V.Gogol

Grotesque – a bizarre mixture in the image of the real and the fantastic, the beautiful and the ugly, the tragic and the comic - for a more impressive expression of creative intent.

Dactyl- a three-syllable poetic meter, in which the stress falls on the first syllable in the foot. Scheme: -UU| -UU...
Heavenly clouds, eternal wanderers!
The azure steppe, the pearl chain
You rush as if, like me, you are exiles,
From the lovely north to the south.

M.Yu.Lermontov

Decadence – a phenomenon in literature (and art in general) of the late 19th – early 20th centuries, reflecting the crisis of the transition stage social relations in the minds of some spokesmen for the sentiments of social groups whose ideological foundations are being destroyed by the turning points of history.

Artistic detail – detail that emphasizes the semantic authenticity of the work with material, eventual authenticity - concretizing this or that image.

Dialectisms – words borrowed literary language or by a specific author in his work from local dialects: “Well, go - and okay, you have to climb the hill, the house is nearby” (F. Abramov).

Dialogue - exchange of remarks, messages, live speech between two or more persons.

Drama – 1. One of three types of literature, defining works intended for stage execution. It differs from the epic in that it has not a narrative, but a dialogic form; from the lyrics - in that it reproduces the world external to the author. Divided into genres: tragedy, comedy, and also drama itself. 2. Drama is also called dramatic work, without clear genre characteristics, combining techniques from different genres; sometimes such a work is simply called a play.

Unity of people – the technique of repeating similar sounds, words, linguistic structures at the beginning of adjacent lines or stanzas.

Wait for the snow to blow

Wait for it to be hot

Wait when others are not waiting...

K. Simonov

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Literary genre - a historically developing type of literary work, the main features of which, constantly changing along with the development of the diversity of forms and content of literature, are sometimes identified with the concept of “type”; but more often the term genre defines the type of literature based on content and emotional characteristics: satirical genre, detective genre, historical essay genre.

Jargon, Also argo - words and expressions borrowed from the language of internal communication of certain social groups of people. The use of jargon in literature allows us to more clearly define the social or professional characteristics of the characters and their environment.

Lives of the saints - a description of the lives of people canonized by the church (“The Life of Alexander Nevsky”, “The Life of Alexy the Man of God”, etc.).

Tie – an event that determines the occurrence of a conflict in a literary work. Sometimes it coincides with the beginning of the work.

Beginning – the beginning of a work of Russian folk literature - epics, fairy tales, etc. (“Once upon a time...”, “In the distant kingdom, in the thirtieth state...”).

Sound organization of speech- purposeful use of elements of the sound composition of the language: vowels and consonants, stressed and unstressed syllables, pauses, intonation, repetitions, etc. It is used to enhance the artistic expressiveness of speech. The sound organization of speech includes: sound repetitions, sound writing, onomatopoeia.

Sound recording- a technique for enhancing the imagery of a text by constructing phrases and lines of poetry in a sound manner that would correspond to the reproduced scene, picture, or expressed mood. In sound writing, alliteration, assonance, and sound repetitions are used. Sound recording enhances the image of a certain phenomenon, action, state.

Onomatopoeia- a type of sound recording; the use of sound combinations that can reflect the sound of the described phenomena, similar in sound to those depicted in artistic speech(“thunder rumbles”, “horns roar”, “cuckoos cuckoo”, “echoes of laughter”).

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The idea of a work of art - the main idea that summarizes the semantic, figurative, emotional content of a work of art.

Imagism – a literary movement that appeared in Russia after the October Revolution of 1917, proclaiming the image to be an end in itself of a work, and not a means of expressing the essence of the content and reflecting reality. It broke up on its own in 1927. At one time, S. Yesenin joined this trend.

Impressionism- a direction in art of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which asserted that the main task of artistic creativity is the expression of the artist’s subjective impressions of the phenomena of reality.

Improvisation – direct creation of a work in the process of performance.

Inversion- violation of the generally accepted grammatical sequence of speech; rearrangement of parts of a phrase, giving it special expressiveness; an unusual sequence of words in a sentence.
And the maiden's song is barely audible

Valleys in deep silence.

A.S. Pushkin

Interpretation – interpretation, explanation of ideas, themes, figurative systems and other components of a work of art in literature and criticism.

Intrigue – system, and sometimes the mystery, complexity, mystery of events, on the unraveling of which the plot of the work is built.

Irony – a kind of comic, bitter or, on the contrary, kind ridicule, by ridiculing this or that phenomenon, exposing its negative features and thereby confirming the positive aspects foreseen by the author in the phenomenon.

Historical songs – a genre of folk poetry that reflects the folk idea of authentic historical events in Rus'.

Literary canon - a symbol, image, plot, born of centuries-old folklore and literary traditions and which has become, to a certain extent, normative: light is good, darkness is evil, etc.

Classicism – an artistic movement that developed in European literature of the 17th century, which is based on the recognition of ancient art as the highest example, ideal, and works of antiquity as the artistic norm. Aesthetics are based on the principle of rationalism and “imitation of nature.” Cult of the mind. A work of art is organized as an artificial, logically constructed whole. Strict plot and compositional organization, schematism. Human characters are depicted in a straightforward manner; positive and negative heroes are opposed. Actively addressing social and civil issues. Emphasized objectivity of the narrative. Strict hierarchy of genres. High: tragedy, epic, ode. Low: comedy, satire, fable. Mixing high and low genres is not allowed. The leading genre is tragedy.

Collision – generating a conflict that underlies the action of a literary work, a contradiction between the characters of the heroes of this work, or between characters and circumstances, the collisions of which constitute the plot of the work.

Comedy – a dramatic work that uses satire and humor to ridicule the vices of society and man.

Composition – arrangement, alternation, correlation and interrelation of parts of a literary work, serving the most complete embodiment of the artist’s plan.

Context – the general meaning (theme, idea) of the work, expressed in its entire text or in a sufficiently meaningful passage, cohesion, connection with which the quotation, and indeed any passage in general, should not lose.

Artistic conflict - figurative reflection in a work of art of the actions of the forces of struggle of interests, passions, ideas, characters, political aspirations, both personal and social. Conflict adds spice to the plot.

Climax – in a literary work, a scene, event, episode where the conflict reaches its highest tension and a decisive clash occurs between the characters and aspirations of the heroes, after which the transition to the denouement begins in the plot.

Legend – narratives that initially told about the lives of saints, then - religious-didactic, and sometimes fantastic biographies of historical, and even fairy-tale heroes, whose actions express the national character.

Leitmotif- an expressive detail, a specific artistic image, repeated many times, mentioned, passing through a separate work or the entire work of the writer.

Chronicles – handwritten Russian historical narratives telling about events in the life of the country by year; each story began with the word: “Summer... (year...)”, hence the name - chronicle.

Lyrics- one of the main types of literature, reflecting life through the depiction of individual (single) states, thoughts, feelings, impressions and experiences of a person caused by certain circumstances. Feelings and experiences are not described, but expressed. The center of artistic attention is the image-experience. Characteristics lyrics - poetic form, rhythm, lack of plot, small size, clear reflection of the experiences of the lyrical hero. The most subjective type of literature.

Lyrical digression - deviation from descriptions of events, characters in an epic or lyric-epic work, where the author (or lyrical hero, on whose behalf the story is being told) expresses his thoughts and feelings about what is being described, his attitude towards it, addressing directly the reader.

Litota – 1. The technique of downplaying a phenomenon or its details is a reverse hyperbole (the fabulous “boy as big as a finger” or “a little man... in big mittens, and himself as big as a fingernail” by N. Nekrasov).

2. Reception of the characterization of a particular phenomenon not by a direct definition, but by the negation of the opposite definition:

The key to nature is not lost,

Proud work is not in vain...

V. Shalamov

Metaphor- figurative meaning of a word, based on the use of one object or phenomenon to another by similarity or contrast; a hidden comparison based on the similarity or contrast of phenomena, in which the words “as”, “as if”, “as if” are absent, but implied.
Bee for field tribute
Flies from a wax cell.

A.S. Pushkin

Metaphor increases the accuracy of poetic speech and its emotional expressiveness. A type of metaphor is personification.
Types of metaphor:
1. lexical metaphor, or erased, in which the direct meaning is completely destroyed; “it’s raining”, “time is running”, “clock hand”, “doorknob”;
2. a simple metaphor - built on the convergence of objects or on one of their common features: “hail of bullets”, “talk of waves”, “dawn of life”, “table leg”, “dawn is blazing”;
3. realized metaphor - literal understanding of the meanings of the words that make up the metaphor, emphasizing the direct meanings of the words: “But you don’t have a face - you’re only wearing a shirt and trousers” (S. Sokolov).
4. expanded metaphor - the spread of a metaphorical image over several phrases or the entire work (for example, A.S. Pushkin’s poem “The Cart of Life” or “He couldn’t sleep for a long time: the remaining husk of words clogged and tormented the brain, stabbed in the temples, there’s no way was to get rid of it" (V. Nabokov)
A metaphor is usually expressed by a noun, a verb, and then other parts of speech.

Metonymy- rapprochement, comparison of concepts by contiguity, when a phenomenon or object is designated using other words and concepts: “a steel speaker is dozing in a holster” - a revolver; “led swords at a plentiful pace” - led warriors into battle; “The little owl began to sing” - the violinist began to play his instrument.

Myths – works of folk fantasy that personify reality in the form of gods, demons, and spirits. They were born in ancient times, preceding the religious and, especially, scientific understanding and explanation of the world.

Modernism – designation of many trends, trends in art that determine the desire of artists to reflect modernity with new means, improving, modernizing - in their opinion - traditional means in accordance with historical progress.

Monologue – the speech of one of the literary heroes, addressed either to himself, or to others, or to the public, isolated from the remarks of other heroes, and having independent meaning.

Motive- 1. The smallest element of the plot; the simplest, indivisible element of a narrative (a stable and endlessly repeating phenomenon). Various plots are formed from numerous motifs (for example, the motif of the road, the motif of the search for the missing bride, etc.). This meaning of the term is more often used in relation to works of oral folk art.

2. “Stable semantic unit” (B.N. Putilov); “a semantically rich component of the work, related to the theme, idea, but not identical to them” (V.E. Khalizev); a semantic (substantive) element essential for understanding the author’s concept (for example, the motive of death in “The Tale of the Dead Princess...” by A.S. Pushkin, the motive of cold in “ easy breathing" - “Easy Breathing” by I.A. Bunin, the motif of the full moon in “The Master and Margarita” by M.A. Bulgakov).

Naturalism – direction in literature of the last third of the 19th century, which asserted an extremely accurate and objective reproduction of reality, sometimes leading to the suppression of the author’s individuality.

Neologisms – newly formed words or expressions.

Novella – small prose work, comparable to the story. The novella is more eventful, the plot is clearer, the plot twist leading to the denouement is clearer.

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Artistic image - 1. Main in artistic creativity a way of perceiving and reflecting reality, a form of knowledge of life and expression of this knowledge specific to art; the purpose and result of the search, and then identifying, highlighting, underlining artistic techniques those features of a phenomenon that most fully reveal its aesthetic, moral, socially significant essence. 2. The term “image” sometimes denotes one or another trope in a work (the image of freedom - “the star of captivating happiness” by A.S. Pushkin), as well as one or another literary hero(the image of the wives of the Decembrists E. Trubetskoy and M. Volkonskaya by N. Nekrasov).

Oh yeah- a poem of an enthusiastic nature (solemn, glorifying) in honor of some
either persons or events.

Oxymoron, or oxymoron- a figure based on a combination of words with opposite meanings for the purpose of an unusual, impressive expression of some new concept, representation: hot snow, a stingy knight, lush nature withering.

Personification- the depiction of inanimate objects as animate, in which they are endowed with the properties of living beings: the gift of speech, the ability to think and feel.
What are you howling about, night wind,
Why are you complaining so madly?

F.I.Tyutchev

Onegin stanza - stanza created by A.S. Pushkin in the novel “Eugene Onegin”: 14 lines (but not a sonnet) of iambic tetrameter with the rhyme ababvvggdeejj (3 quatrains alternately - with a cross, paired and sweeping rhyme and a final couplet: designation of the theme, its development, culmination , ending).

Feature article- a type of small form of epic literature, different from its other form, story, the absence of a single, quickly resolved conflict and the great development of descriptive images. Both differences depend on the specifics of the essay's problems. It touches not so much on the problems of developing the character of an individual in its conflicts with the established social environment, but on the problems of the civil and moral state of the “environment”. The essay can relate to both literature and journalism.

Paradox - in literature - the technique of a statement that clearly contradicts generally accepted concepts, either to expose those of them that, in the opinion of the author, are false, or to express one’s disagreement with the so-called “common sense”, due to inertia, dogmatism, and ignorance.

Parallelism- one of the types of repetition (syntactic, lexical, rhythmic); a compositional technique that emphasizes the connection between several elements of a work of art; analogy, bringing together phenomena by similarity (for example, natural phenomena and human life).
In bad weather the wind
Howls - howls;
Violent head
Evil sadness torments.

V.A.Koltsov

Parcellation- division of a single meaning statement into several independent ones, separate offers(in writing - using punctuation marks, in speech - intonation, using pauses):
Well? Don't you see that he's gone crazy?
Say it seriously:
Insane! What kind of nonsense is he talking about here!
The sycophant! father-in-law! and so menacing about Moscow!

A.S.Griboyedov

Pamphlet(English pamphlet) - a journalistic work, usually small in volume, with a sharply expressed accusatory nature, often a polemical orientation and a well-defined socio-political “address”.

Pathos – the highest point of inspiration, emotional feeling, delight, achieved in a literary work and in its perception by the reader, reflecting significant events in society and the spiritual upsurges of the heroes.

Scenery - in literature - the depiction of pictures of nature in a literary work as a means of figurative expression of the author’s intention.

Periphrase- using a description instead of your own name or title; descriptive expression, figure of speech, substitute word. Used to decorate speech, replace repetition, or carry the meaning of allegory.

Pyrrhic - an auxiliary foot of two short or unstressed syllables, replacing an iambic or trochee foot; lack of stress in iambic or trochee: “I am writing to you...” by A.S. Pushkin, “Sail” by M.Yu. Lermontov.

Pleonasm- unjustified verbosity, the use of words that are unnecessary to express thoughts. In normative stylistics, Pleonasm is considered as speech error. In the language of fiction - as a stylistic figure of addition, serving to enhance the expressive qualities of speech.
“Elisha had no appetite for food”; “some boring guy... lay down... among the dead and personally died”; “Kozlov continued to lie silent, having been killed” (A. Platonov).

Tale – a work of epic prose, gravitating towards a sequential presentation of the plot, limited to a minimum of plot lines.

Repetition- a figure consisting of the repetition of words, expressions, song or poetic lines in order to attract special attention to them.
Every house is alien to me, every temple is not empty,
And everything is the same and everything is one...

M. Tsvetaeva

Subtext – the meaning hidden “under” the text, i.e. not expressed directly and openly, but arising from the narrative or dialogue of the text.

Permanent epithet- a colorful definition, inextricably combined with the word being defined and forming a stable figurative and poetic expression (“blue sea”, “white stone chambers”, “red maiden”, “clear falcon”, “sugar lips”).

Poetry- a special organization of artistic speech, which is distinguished by rhythm and rhyme - poetic form; lyrical form of reflection of reality. The term poetry is often used to mean “works of different genres in verse.” Conveys the subjective attitude of the individual to the world. In the foreground is the image-experience. It does not set the task of conveying the development of events and characters.

Poem- a large poetic work with a plot and narrative organization; a story or novel in verse; a multi-part work in which the epic and lyrical principles merge together. The poem can be classified as a lyric-epic genre of literature, since the narration of historical events and events in the lives of the heroes is revealed in it through the perception and assessment of the narrator. In the poem we're talking about about events of universal significance. Most poems glorify some human acts, events and characters.

Tradition – oral narration about real persons and reliable events, one of the varieties of folk art.

Preface – an article preceding a literary work, written either by the author himself or by a critic or literary scholar. The preface may include brief information about the writer, and some explanations about the history of the creation of the work, an interpretation of the author’s intention is proposed.

Prototype – a real person who served as a model for the author to create the image of a literary hero.

Play – a general designation for a literary work intended for stage performance - tragedy, drama, comedy, etc.

Interchange – the final part of the development of a conflict or intrigue, where the conflict of the work is resolved and comes to a logical figurative conclusion.

Poetic meter- a consistently expressed form of poetic rhythm (determined by the number of syllables, stresses or feet - depending on the system of versification); diagram of the construction of a poetic line. In Russian (syllabic-tonic) versification, there are five main poetic meters: two-syllable (iamb, trochee) and three-syllable (dactyl, amphibrach, anapest). In addition, each size can vary in the number of feet (4-foot iambic; 5-foot iambic, etc.).

Story - a small prose work of a mainly narrative nature, compositionally grouped around a separate episode or character.

Realism – an artistic method of figuratively reflecting reality in accordance with objective accuracy.

Reminiscence – the use in a literary work of expressions from other works, or even folklore, that evoke some other interpretation from the author; sometimes the borrowed expression is slightly changed (M. Lermontov - “Lush city, poor city” (about St. Petersburg) - from F. Glinka “Wonderful city, ancient city” (about Moscow).

Refrain- repetition of a verse or a series of verses at the end of a stanza (in songs - chorus).

We are ordered to go into battle:

"Long live freedom!"

Freedom! Whose? Not said.

But not the people.

We are ordered to go into battle -

"Allied for the sake of nations"

But the main thing is not said:

Whose for the sake of banknotes?

Rhythm- constant, measured repetition in the text of the same type of segments, including minimal ones, - stressed and unstressed syllables.

Rhyme- sound repetition in two or more verses, mainly at the end. Unlike other sound repetitions, rhyme always emphasizes the rhythm and division of speech into verses.

A rhetorical question- a question that does not require an answer (either the answer is fundamentally impossible, or is clear in itself, or the question is addressed to a conditional “interlocutor”). A rhetorical question activates the reader’s attention and enhances his emotional reaction.
"Rus! Where are you rushing to?"

"Dead Souls" by N.V. Gogol
Or is it new for us to argue with Europe?
Or is the Russian unaccustomed to victories?

"To the slanderers of Russia" A.S. Pushkin

Genus - one of the main sections in the taxonomy of literary works, defining three different shapes: epic, lyric, drama.

Novel - an epic narrative with elements of dialogue, sometimes including drama or literary digressions, focusing on the history of an individual in a social environment.

Romanticism – a literary movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, which opposed itself to classicism as a search for forms of reflection that were more in line with modern reality.

Romantic hero– a complex, passionate personality, whose inner world is unusually deep and endless; it is a whole universe full of contradictions.

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Sarcasm – caustic, sarcastic ridicule of someone or something. Widely used in satirical literary works.

Satire – a type of literature that exposes and ridicules the vices of people and society in specific forms. These forms can be very diverse - paradox and hyperbole, grotesque and parody, etc.

Sentimentalism – literary movement of the late 18th – early 19th centuries. It arose as a protest against the canons of classicism in art that had turned into dogma, reflecting the already turned into a brake social development canonization of feudal social relations.

Syllabic versification e - syllabic system of versification, based on the equality of the number of syllables in each verse with obligatory stress on the penultimate syllable; equipoise. The length of a verse is determined by the number of syllables.
It's hard not to love
And love is hard
And the hardest thing
Loving love cannot be obtained.

A.D. Kantemir

Syllabic-tonic versification- syllabic stress system of versification, which is determined by the number of syllables, the number of stresses and their location in the poetic line. It is based on the equality of the number of syllables in a verse and the orderly change of stressed and unstressed syllables. Depending on the system of alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables, two-syllable and three-syllable sizes are distinguished.

Symbol- an image that expresses the meaning of a phenomenon in objective form. An object, an animal, a sign becomes a symbol when they are endowed with additional, extremely important meaning.

Symbolism – literary and artistic movement of the late 19th – early 20th centuries. Symbolism sought through symbols in a tangible form to embody the idea of the unity of the world, expressed in accordance with its most diverse parts, allowing colors, sounds, smells to represent one through the other (D. Merezhkovsky, A. Bely, A. Blok, Z. Gippius, K. Balmont , V. Bryusov).

Synecdoche – artistic technique of substitution for the sake of expressiveness - one phenomenon, subject, object, etc. – correlated with it by other phenomena, objects, objects.

Oh, you are heavy, Monomakh’s hat!

A.S. Pushkin.

Sonnet – a fourteen-line poem composed according to certain rules: the first quatrain (quatrain) presents an exposition of the theme of the poem, the second quatrain develops the provisions outlined in the first, in the subsequent terzetto (three-line verse) the denouement of the theme is outlined, in the final terzetto, especially in its final line, the denouement is completed , expressing the essence of the work.

Comparison- a pictorial technique based on comparing a phenomenon or concept (object of comparison) with another phenomenon or concept (means of comparison), with the goal of highlighting something particularly important in artistically attribute of the comparison object:
Full of goodness before the end of the year,
Days are like Antonov apples.

A.T. Tvardovsky

Versification- the principle of rhythmic organization of poetic speech. Versification can be syllabic, tonic, syllabic-tonic.

Poem- a small work created according to the laws of poetic speech; usually a lyrical work.

Poetic speech- a special organization of artistic speech, differing from prose in its strict rhythmic organization; measured, rhythmically organized speech. A means of conveying expressive emotions.

Foot- a stable (ordered) combination of a stressed syllable with one or two unstressed syllables, which are repeated in each verse. The foot can be two-syllable (iambic U-, trochee -U) and three-syllable (dactyl -UU, amphibrachium U-U, anapest UU-).

Stanza- a group of verses repeated in poetic speech, related in meaning, as well as in the arrangement of rhymes; a combination of verses that forms a rhythmic and syntactic whole, united by a certain rhyme system; additional rhythmic element of verse. Often has complete content and syntactic structure. The stanza is separated from one another by an increased interval.

Plot- a system of events in a work of art, presented in a certain connection, revealing characters characters and the writer’s attitude towards those depicted life phenomena; subsequence. The course of events that constitutes the content of a work of art; dynamic aspect of a work of art.

Tautology- repetition of the same words that are close in meaning and sound.
Everything is mine, said gold,
Damask steel said everything mine.

A.S. Pushkin.

Subject- a circle of phenomena and events that form the basis of the work; object of artistic depiction; what the author is talking about and what he wants to attract the main attention of readers.

Type - a literary hero who embodies certain features of a particular time, social phenomenon, social order or social environment (“extra people” - Evgeny Onegin, Pechorin, etc.).

Tonic versification- a system of versification based on the equality of stressed syllables in poetry. The length of the line is determined by the number of stressed syllables. The number of unstressed syllables is arbitrary.

The girl sang in the church choir

About all those who are tired in a foreign land,

About all the ships that went to sea,

About everyone who has forgotten their joy.

Tragedy - a type of drama that arose from the ancient Greek ritual dithyramb in honor of the patron of viticulture and wine, the god Dionysus, who was represented in the form of a goat, then in the likeness of a satyr with horns and a beard.

Tragicomedy – a drama that combines features of both tragedy and comedy, reflecting the relativity of our definitions of the phenomena of reality.

Trails- words and expressions used in figuratively in order to achieve artistic expressiveness of speech. The basis of any trope is a comparison of objects and phenomena.

Default- a figure that gives the listener or reader the opportunity to guess and reflect on what could be discussed in a suddenly interrupted utterance.
But is it me, is it me, the sovereign’s favorite...
But death... but power... but the people's disasters....

A.S. Pushkin

Fable – a series of events that serve as the basis of a literary work. Often, the plot means the same thing as the plot; the differences between them are so arbitrary that a number of literary scholars consider the plot to be what others consider to be the plot, and vice versa.

Feuilleton(French feuilleton, from feuille - sheet, sheet) - a genre of artistic and journalistic literature, which is characterized by a critical, often comic, including satirical, beginning, and certainly relevance.

The final - part of the composition of a work that ends it. It may sometimes coincide with the denouement. Sometimes the ending is an epilogue.

Futurism – artistic movement in the art of the first two decades of the 20th century. The birth of futurism is considered to be the “Futurist Manifesto” published in 1909 in the Parisian magazine Le Figaro. The theorist and leader of the first group of futurists was the Italian F. Marienetti. The main content of futurism was the extremist revolutionary overthrow of the old world, its aesthetics in particular, down to linguistic norms. Russian futurism opened with the “Prologue of Egofuturism” by I. Severyanin and the collection “A Slap in the Face of Public Taste,” in which V. Mayakovsky took part.

Literary character - a set of features of the image of a character, a literary hero, in which individual characteristics serve as a reflection of the typical, determined both by the phenomenon that makes up the content of the work and by the ideological and aesthetic intention of the author who created this hero. Character is one of the main components of a literary work.

Trochee- two-syllable poetic meter with stress on the first syllable.
The storm covers the sky with darkness,

U|-U|-U|-U|
Whirling snow whirlwinds;

U|-U|-U|-
Then, like a beast, she will howl, -U|-U|-U|-U|
Then he will cry like a child...

A.S. Pushkin

Quote - a statement by another author quoted verbatim in the work of one author - as confirmation of one’s thoughts with an authoritative, indisputable statement, or even vice versa - as a formulation requiring refutation, criticism.

Aesopian language - various ways to figuratively express this or that thought that cannot be expressed directly, for example, due to censorship.

Exposition – the part of the plot immediately preceding the plot that provides the reader with background information about the circumstances in which the conflict of the literary work arose.

Expression- emphasized expressiveness of something. To achieve expression, unusual artistic media.

Elegy- a lyrical poem that conveys deeply personal, intimate experiences of a person, imbued with a mood of sadness.

Ellipsis- stylistic figure, the omission of a word whose meaning can be easily reconstructed from the context. The meaningful function of ellipsis is to create the effect of lyrical “understatement,” deliberate negligence, and emphasized dynamism of speech.
The beast has a den,
The way for the wanderer,
For the dead - drogues,
To each his own.

M. Tsvetaeva

Epigram- short poem ridiculing a person.

Epigraph – an expression prefixed by the author to his work or part of it. The epigraph usually expresses the essence of the creative intent of the author of the work.

Episode – a fragment of the plot of a literary work that describes a certain integral moment of action that makes up the content of the work.

Epistrophe – repetition of the same word or expression in a long phrase or period, focusing the reader’s attention, in poetry - at the beginning and end of stanzas, as if surrounding them.

I won't tell you anything

I won't alarm you at all...

Epithet- an artistic and figurative definition emphasizing the most essential in in this context sign of an object or phenomenon; used to evoke in the reader a visible image of a person, thing, nature, etc.

I sent you a black rose in a glass

Golden as the sky, Ai...

An epithet can be expressed by an adjective, adverb, participle, or numeral. Often the epithet has a metaphorical character. Metaphorical epithets highlight the properties of an object in a special way: they transfer one of the meanings of a word to another word based on what these words have common feature: sable eyebrows, warm heart, cheerful wind, i.e. a metaphorical epithet uses the figurative meaning of a word.

Epiphora- a figure opposite to anaphora, repetition of the same elements at the end of adjacent segments of speech (words, lines, stanzas, phrases):
Baby,
We are all a little bit of a horse,
Each of us is a horse in our own way.

V.V. Mayakovsky

Epic – 1. One of three types of literature, the defining feature of which is the description of certain events, phenomena, characters. 2. This term is often used to describe heroic tales, epics, and fairy tales in folk art.

Essay(French essai - attempt, test, essay) - a literary work of small volume, usually prosaic, of free composition, conveying the author’s individual impressions, judgments, thoughts about a particular problem, topic, particular event or phenomenon. It differs from an essay in that in an essay the facts are only a reason for the author’s thoughts.

Humor - a type of comic in which vices are not ridiculed mercilessly, as in satire, but the shortcomings and weaknesses of a person or phenomenon are kindly emphasized, recalling that they are often only a continuation or the reverse side of our merits.

Iambic- two-syllable poetic meter with stress on the second syllable.
The abyss has opened and is full of stars

U-|U-|U-|U-|
The stars have no number, the bottom of the abyss. U-|U-|U-|U-|

>>A brief dictionary of literary terms

Allegory- an allegorical description of an object or phenomenon for the purpose of its specific, visual representation.

Amphibrachium- three-syllable size of a verse, in a line of which groups of three syllables are repeated - unstressed, stressed, unstressed (-).

Anapaest- three-syllable verse size, in the lines of which groups of three syllables are repeated - two unstressed and stressed (-).

Ballad- a poetic story on a legendary, historical or everyday theme; The real in a ballad is often combined with the fantastic.

Fable- a short allegorical story of an instructive nature. The characters in the fable are often animals, objects, and which appear human qualities. Most often, fables are written in verse.

Hero (literary)- character, actor, artistic image person in a literary work.

Hyperbola- excessive exaggeration of the properties of the depicted object.

Dactyl- a three-syllable verse, in a line of which groups of three syllables are repeated - stressed and two unstressed.

Detail (artistic)- expressive detail with the help of which an artistic image is created. A detail can clarify and clarify the writer’s intention.

Dialogue- a conversation between two or more people.

Dramatic work or drama- a work intended to be staged.

Genre literary- manifestation in a more or less extensive group of works of common features of the image of reality.

Idea- the main idea of a work of art.

Intonation- basic means of expression sounding speech, which allows you to convey the speaker’s attitude to the subject of speech and to the interlocutor.

Irony- subtle, hidden mockery. The negative meaning of irony is hidden behind the external positive form of the statement.

Comedy- a dramatic work based on humor, funny.

Comic- funny in life and literature. The main types of comics: humor, irony, satire.

Composition- construction, arrangement and interrelation of all parts of a work of art.

Legend- a work created by folk fantasy, which combines the real (events, personalities) and the fantastic.

Lyrical work- a work that expresses the author’s thoughts and feelings caused by various life phenomena.

Metaphor- transferring the properties and actions of some objects to others, similar to them but based on the principle of similarity.

Monologue- the speech of one person in a work.

Novella - narrative genre, close in volume to a story. The short story differs from the short story in the sharpness and dynamics of the plot.

Personification- transferring the characteristics and properties of living beings to non-living ones.

Description- a verbal image of something (landscape, portrait of a hero, interior view of a home, etc.).

Parody- a funny, distorted likeness of something; comic or satirical imitation of someone (something).

Pathos- in fiction: sublime feeling, passionate inspiration, elevated, solemn tone of the narrative.

Scenery- depiction of nature in a work of art.

Tale- one of the types of epic works. In terms of the scope of events and characters, the story is more than a short story, but less than a novel.

Portrait- an image of the hero’s appearance (his face, figure, clothes) in the work.

Poetry- poetic works (lyrical, epic and dramatic).

Poem- one of the types of lyric-epic works: the poem has a plot, events (as in an epic work) and an open expression by the author of his feelings (as in lyrics).

Parable - short story, containing in an allegorical form a religious or moral teaching.

Prose- non-poetic works of art (stories, novellas, novels).

Prototype- a real person who served the writer as the basis for creating a literary image.

Story- small epic work, telling about one or more events from the life of a person or animal.

Narrator- the image of a person in a work of art, on whose behalf the story is told.

Rhythm- repetition of homogeneous elements (speech units) at regular intervals.

Rhyme- consonance of the endings of poetic lines.

Satire- ridiculing, exposing the negative aspects of life by depicting them in an absurd, caricatured form.

Comparison- comparison of one phenomenon or object with another.

Poem- a poetic line, the smallest unit of rhythmically organized speech. The word "verse" is also often used to mean "poem".

Poem- a short poetic work in verse.

Poetic speech- unlike prose, speech is rhythmically ordered, consisting of similar sounding segments - lines, stanzas. Poems often have rhyme.

Stanza- in a poetic work, a group of lines (verses) that constitute a unity, with a certain rhythm, as well as a repeating arrangement of rhymes.

Plot- the development of action, the course of events in narrative and dramatic works, sometimes lyrical ones.

Subject- the range of life phenomena depicted in the work; what is said in the works.

Fantastic- works of art in which a world of incredible, wonderful ideas and images is created, born of the writer’s imagination.

Literary character- an image of a person in a literary work, created with a certain completeness and endowed with individual characteristics.

Trochee- two-syllable verse with stress on the first syllable.

Fiction- one of the types of art is the art of words. The word in fiction is a means of creating an image, depicting a phenomenon, expressing feelings and thoughts.

Artistic image- a person, object, phenomenon, picture of life, creatively recreated in a work of art.

Aesopian language- forced allegory, artistic speech, full of omissions and ironic hints. The expression goes back to the legendary image ancient Greek poet Aesop, creator of the fable genre.

Epigram- a short satirical poem.

Epigraph- a short saying (proverb, quote) that the author places before the work or part of it to help the reader understand the main idea.

Episode- an excerpt of a work of art that is relatively complete.

Epithet- an artistic definition of an object or phenomenon, helping to vividly imagine the object and feel the author’s attitude towards it.

Epic work- a work of art in which the author tells about people, the world around us, and various events. Types of epic works: novel, story, short story, fable, fairy tale, parable, etc.

Humor- in a work of art: depiction of heroes in a funny, comic form; cheerful, good-natured laughter that helps a person get rid of shortcomings.

Iambic- two-syllable verse with stress on the second syllable

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Autobiography(gr. autos - myself, bios - life, grapho - writing) - a literary prose genre, a description by the author of his own life. A literary autobiography is an attempt to return to one’s own childhood and youth, to resurrect and comprehend the most significant periods of life and life as a single whole.

Allegory(Gr. allegoria - allegory) - an allegorical image of an object, phenomenon in order to most clearly show its essential features.

Amphibrachium(Gr. amphi - around, brachys - short) - three-syllable verse with emphasis on the second syllable (- / -).

Analysis of a work in literary criticism(gr. analysis - decomposition, dismemberment) - research reading of a literary text.

Anapaest(Gr. anapaistos - reflected back, reverse dactyl) - three-syllable meter of verse with emphasis on the third syllable (- - /).

annotation - summary books, manuscripts, articles.

Antithesis(gr. antithesis - opposition) - opposition of images, pictures, words, concepts.

Archaism(Greek archaios - ancient) - an obsolete word or phrase, grammatical or syntactic form.

Aphorism(gr. aphorismos - saying) - a generalized deep thought expressed in a laconic, brief, artistically sharpened form. An aphorism is akin to a proverb, but unlike it, it belongs to a specific person (writer, scientist, etc.).

Ballad(Provence ballar - to dance) - a poem, which is most often based on a historical event, a legend with a sharp, intense plot.

Fable- a short moralizing poetic or prose story that contains allegory and allegory. The characters in the fable are most often animals, plants, things in which human qualities and relationships are manifested and guessed. (Fables of Aesop, Lafontaine, A. Sumarokov, I. Dmitriev, I. Krylov, parodic fables of Kozma Prutkov, S. Mikhalkov, etc.)

Best-seller(English best - the best and sell - to be sold) - a book that has a particular commercial success and is in demand among readers.

"Poet's Library"- book series, dedicated to creativity major poets, individual poetic genres (“Russian ballad”, “Russian epics”, etc.). Founded by M. Gorky in 1931.

Bible(Gr. biblia - lit.: “books”) - a collection of ancient texts of religious content.

Bylina- a genre of Russian folklore, a heroic-patriotic song about heroes and historical events.

Screamers(mourners) - performers of lamentations (I. Fedosova, M. Kryukova, etc.).

Hero of a literary work, literary hero- an actor, a character in a literary work.

Hyperbola(gr. huperbole - exaggeration) - excessive exaggeration of the properties of the depicted object. It is introduced into the fabric of the work for greater expressiveness; it is characteristic of folklore and the genre of satire (N. Gogol, M. Saltykov-Shchedrin, V. Mayakovsky).

Grotesque(French grotesque, urn. grottesco - whimsical, from grotta - grotto) - an extreme exaggeration based on fantasy, on a bizarre combination of the fantastic and the real.

Dactyl(Greek dactylos - finger) - three-syllable verse with stress on the first syllable (/ - -).

Two-syllable sizes- iambic (/ -), trochee (- /).

Detail(French detail - detail) - expressive detail in a work. The detail helps the reader, the viewer to more acutely and deeply imagine the time, place of action, the appearance of the character, the nature of his thoughts, to feel and understand author's attitude to what is depicted.

Dialogue(gr. dialogos - conversation, conversation) - a conversation between two or more persons. Dialogue is the main form of revealing human characters in dramatic works(plays, film scripts).

Genre(French genre - genus, type) - a type of work of art, for example a fable, a lyric poem, a story.

The beginning- an event that marks the beginning of the development of action in epic and dramatic works.

Idea(gr. idea - idea) - the main idea of a work of art.

Inversion(Latin inversio - rearrangement) - unusual word order. Inversion gives the phrase special expressiveness.

Interpretation(Latin interpretatio - explanation) - interpretation of a literary work, comprehension of its meaning, ideas.

Intonation(lat. intonare - pronounce loudly) - an expressive means of sounding speech. Intonation makes it possible to convey the speaker’s attitude to what he is saying.

Irony(gr. eironeia - pretense, mockery) - an expression of ridicule.

Composition(Latin compositio - composition, connection) - arrangement of parts, i.e. construction of a work.

Winged words- widely used apt words, figurative expressions, famous sayings of historical figures.

Climax(Latin culmen (culminis) - peak) - the moment of highest tension in a work of art.

A culture of speech- level of speech development, degree of proficiency in language norms.

Legend(Latin legenda - lit.: “what should be read”) - a work created by folk fantasy, which combines the real and the fantastic.

Chronicle- monuments historical prose Ancient Rus', one of the main genres of ancient Russian literature.

Literary critic- a specialist who studies the patterns of the historical and literary process, analyzing the work of one or more writers.

Literary criticism- the science of the essence and specificity of fiction, of the laws of the literary process.

Metaphor(gr. metaphora - transfer) - a figurative meaning of a word based on the similarity or opposition of one object or phenomenon to another.

Monologue(gr. monos - one and logos - speech, word) - the speech of one person in a work of art.

Neologisms(gr. neos - new and logos - word) - words or phrases created to designate a new object or phenomenon, or individual new formations of words.

Oh yeah(Greek ode - song) - a solemn poem dedicated to some historical event or hero.

Personification- transferring human traits to inanimate objects and phenomena.

Description- the type of narrative in which the picture is depicted (portrait of a hero, landscape, view of a room - interior, etc.).

Scenery(French paysage, from pays - area) - a picture of nature in a work of art.

Tale- one of the types of epic work. A story is larger in volume and in coverage of life phenomena than a short story, and smaller than a novel.

Subtext- hidden, implicit meaning that does not coincide with the direct meaning of the text.

Portrait(French portrait - image) - an image of the hero’s appearance in a work.

Proverb- a short, winged, figurative folk saying that has an instructive meaning.

Poem(Greek poiema - creation) - one of the types of lyric-epic works, which are characterized by plot, eventfulness and expression by the author or lyrical hero of his feelings.

Tradition- a genre of folklore, an oral story that contains information passed down from generation to generation about historical figures, events of past years.

Parable- a short story, allegory, which contains a religious or moral teaching.

Prose(Latin proza) - a literary non-poetic work.

Nickname(gr. pseudos - fiction, lie and onyma - name) - a signature with which the author replaces his real name. Some pseudonyms quickly disappeared (V. Alov - N.V. Gogol), others supplanted the real name (Maxim Gorky instead of A.M. Peshkov), and were even passed on to the heirs (T. Gaidar - son of A.P. Gaidar); sometimes a pseudonym is added to the real surname (M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin).

Denouement- one of the elements of the plot, the final moment in the development of action in a work of art.

Story- a short epic work telling about one or more events in a person’s life.

Review- one of the genres of criticism, a review of a work of art for the purpose of evaluating and analyzing it. The review contains some information about the author of the work, a formulation of the theme and main idea of the book, a story about its characters with discussions about their actions, characters, and relationships with other persons. The review also highlights the most interesting pages of the book. It is important to reveal the position of the author of the book, his attitude towards the characters and their actions.

Rhythm(gr. rhythmos - tact, proportionality) - repetition of any unambiguous phenomena at equal intervals of time (for example, alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables in a verse).

Rhetoric(gr. rhitorike) - the science of oratory.

Rhyme(gr. rhythmos - proportionality) - consonance of the endings of poetic lines.

Satire(Latin satira - lit.: “mixture, all sorts of things”) - merciless, destructive ridicule, criticism of reality, person, phenomenon.

Fairy tale- one of the genres of oral folk art, an entertaining story about unusual, often fantastic events and adventures. Fairy tales happen three types. These are magical, everyday and animal tales. The most ancient are tales about animals and magic ones. They appeared much later everyday tales, in which human vices were often ridiculed and amusing, sometimes incredible life situations were described.

Comparison- depiction of one phenomenon by comparing it with another.

Means of artistic expression- artistic means (for example, allegory, metaphor, hyperbole, grotesque, comparison, epithet, etc.) that help to draw a person, event or object vividly, specifically, visually.

Poem- a work written in verse, mostly of small volume, often lyrical, expressing emotional experiences.

Stanza(gr. strophe - turn) - a group of verses (lines) that make up the unity. The verses in a stanza are connected by a certain arrangement of rhymes.

Plot(French sujet - subject, content, event) - a series of events described in a work of art, which form its basis.

Subject(gr. theme - what is put [as the basis]) - the circle of life phenomena depicted in the work; the circle of events that form the life basis of the work.

Tragedy(gr. tragodia - lit., “goat song”) - a type of drama, the opposite of comedy, a work depicting a struggle, personal or social catastrophe, usually ending in the death of the hero.

Trisyllabic poetic meters- dactyl (/ - -), amphibrachium (- / -), anapest (- - /).

Oral folk art, or folklore, is the art of the spoken word, created by the people and existing among the broad masses. The most common types of folklore are proverbs, sayings, fairy tales, songs, riddles, and epics.

Fantastic(Greek phantastike - ability to imagine) - a type of fiction in which the author’s imagination extends to the creation of a fictional, unreal, “wonderful” world.

Trochee(Gr. choreios from choros - chorus) - two-syllable meter of verse with stress on the first syllable (/ -). A work of art is a work of art that depicts events and phenomena, people, their feelings in a vivid figurative form.

Quote- a verbatim excerpt from a text or someone’s words quoted verbatim.

Epigraph(gr. epigraphe - inscription) - short text, placed by the author before the text of the essay and expressing the theme, idea, mood of the work.

Epithet(gr. epitheton - letters, “attached”) - a figurative definition of an object, expressed mainly by an adjective.

Humor(English humor - disposition, mood) - depiction of heroes in a funny way. Humor is cheerful and friendly laughter.

Iambic(Gr. iambos) - two-syllable meter with stress on the second syllable (- /).

Acmeism – a movement in Russian poetry in the first two decades of the 20th century, the center of which was the “Workshop of Poets” circle, and the main platform was the magazine “Apollo”. The Acmeists contrasted the realism of material mother nature and the sensual, plastic-material clarity of artistic language with the social content of art, abandoning the poetics of vague hints and the mysticism of symbolism in the name of a “return to the earth,” to the subject, to the exact meaning of the word (A. Akhmatova, S. Gorodetsky , N. Gumilev, M. Zenkevich, O. Mandelstam).

Allegory- allegorical image of an abstract concept or phenomenon through a concrete image; personification of human properties or qualities. The allegory consists of two elements:

1. semantic - this is any concept or phenomenon (wisdom, cunning, kindness, childhood, nature, etc.) that the author seeks to depict without naming it;

2. figurative-objective - this is a specific object, a creature depicted in a work of art and representing a named concept or phenomenon.

Alliteration- repetition in poetic speech (less often in prose) of the same consonant sounds in order to enhance the expressiveness of artistic speech; one type of sound recording:

Evening. Seaside. Sighs of the wind.
The majestic cry of the waves.
A storm is coming. It hits the shore
A black boat alien to enchantment.
K.D.Balmont

Alogism – an artistic device that uses phrases that contradict logic to emphasize the internal inconsistency of certain dramatic or comic situations - to prove, as if by contradiction, a certain logic and, therefore, the truth of the position of the author (and then the reader), who understands the illogical phrase as a figurative expression (the title of the novel by Yu. Bondarev "Hot Snow").

Amphibrachium- a three-syllable poetic meter, in which the stress falls on the second syllable - stressed among unstressed ones - in the foot. Scheme: U-U| U-U:

The midnight blizzard was noisy
In the forest and remote side.
A.A.Fet

Anapaest- a three-syllable poetic meter, in which the stress falls on the last, third, syllable in the foot. Scheme: UU- | UU-:

People's houses are clean, bright,
But in our house it’s cramped, stuffy...
N.A. Nekrasov.

Anaphora- unity of command; repetition of a word or group of words at the beginning of several phrases or stanzas:

I love you, Petra's creation,
I love your strict, slender appearance...
A.S. Pushkin.

Antithesis- a stylistic device based on a sharp contrast of concepts and images, most often based on the use of antonyms:

I am a king - I am a slave, I am a worm - I am a god!
G.R.Derzhavin

The room became dark.
The window obscures the slope.
Or is this a dream?
Ding dong. Ding dong.
I.P. Tokmakova.

Aphorism – a clear, easy-to-remember, precise, brief expression of a certain completeness of thought. Aphorisms often become individual lines of poetry or phrases of prose: “Poetry is everything! - a ride into the unknown." (V. Mayakovsky)

Ballad- a narrative song with a dramatic development of the plot, the basis of which is an unusual incident, one of the types of lyric-epic poetry. The ballad is based on an extraordinary story, reflecting the essential aspects of the relationship between a person and society, people among themselves, the most important features of a person.

Bard – a poet-singer, usually a performer of his own poems, often set to his own music.

Forgive me, maiden beauty!
I will part with you forever,
Young girl, I’ll cry.
I'll let you go, beauty,
I'll let you go with ribbons...
Folk song.

Vers libre- a modern system of versification, which represents a kind of border between verse and prose (it lacks rhyme, meter, traditional rhythmic ordering; the number of syllables in a line and lines in a stanza can be different; there is also no equality of emphasis characteristic of blank verse. Their poetic features speech remains divided into lines with a pause at the end of each line and weakened symmetry of speech (the emphasis falls on the last word of the line).

She came in from the cold
Flushed,
Filled the room
The aroma of air and perfume,
In a ringing voice
And completely disrespectful to classes
Chatting.
A.Blok

Literary hero - character, protagonist of a literary work.

Hyperbola- a means of artistic representation based on excessive exaggeration; figurative expression, which consists in an exorbitant exaggeration of events, feelings, strength, meaning, size of the depicted phenomenon; an outwardly effective form of presenting what is depicted. Can be idealizing and humiliating.

Orata's bipod is maple,
The damask boots on the bipod,
The bipod's snout is silver,
And the horn of the bipod is red and gold.
Epic about Volga and Mikula

Descending gradation:

Fly! less fly! disintegrated into a grain of sand.
N.V.Gogol

Grotesque – a bizarre mixture in the image of the real and the fantastic, the beautiful and the ugly, the tragic and the comic - for a more impressive expression of creative intent.

Dactyl- a three-syllable poetic meter, in which the stress falls on the first syllable in the foot. Scheme: -UU| -UU:

Heavenly clouds, eternal wanderers!
The azure steppe, the pearl chain
You rush as if, like me, you are exiles,
From the lovely north to the south.
M.Yu.Lermontov

Decadence – a phenomenon in literature (and art in general) of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, reflecting the crisis of the transitional stage of social relations in the minds of some spokesmen for the sentiments of social groups whose ideological foundations were being destroyed by the turning points of history.

Artistic detail – detail that emphasizes the semantic authenticity of the work with material, eventual authenticity - concretizing this or that image.

Dialogue - exchange of remarks, messages, live speech between two or more persons.

Drama – 1. One of three types of literature, defining works intended for stage execution. It differs from the epic in that it has not a narrative, but a dialogic form; from the lyrics - in that it reproduces the world external to the author. It is divided into genres: tragedy, comedy, and drama itself. 2. Drama is also called a dramatic work that does not have clear genre characteristics, combining techniques of different genres; sometimes such a work is simply called a play.

Unity of people – the technique of repeating similar sounds, words, linguistic structures at the beginning of adjacent lines or stanzas.

Wait for the snow to blow

Wait for it to be hot

Wait when others are not waiting...

K. Simonov

Literary genre - a historically developing type of literary work, the main features of which, constantly changing along with the development of the diversity of forms and content of literature, are sometimes identified with the concept of “type”; but more often the term genre defines a type of literature based on content and emotional characteristics: satirical genre, detective genre, historical essay genre.

Tie – an event that determines the occurrence of a conflict in a literary work. Sometimes it coincides with the beginning of the work.

Beginning – the beginning of a Russian folk piece literary creativity- epics, fairy tales, etc. (“Once upon a time...”, “In the distant kingdom, in the thirtieth state...”).

Onomatopoeia- a type of sound recording; the use of sound combinations that can reflect the sound of the described phenomena, similar in sound to those depicted in artistic speech (“thunder rumbles,” “horns roar,” “cuckoos crow,” “echoed laughter”).

The idea of a work of art - the main idea that summarizes the semantic, figurative, emotional content of a work of art.

Improvisation – direct creation of a work in the process of performance.

Inversion- violation of the generally accepted grammatical sequence of speech; rearrangement of parts of a phrase, giving it special expressiveness; an unusual sequence of words in a sentence.

And the maiden's song is barely audible

Valleys in deep silence.

A.S. Pushkin

Interpretation – interpretation, explanation of ideas, themes, figurative systems and other components of a work of art in literature and criticism.

Intrigue – system, and sometimes the mystery, complexity, mystery of events, on the unraveling of which the plot of the work is built.

Classicism – artistic movement that developed in European literature 17th century, which is based on the recognition of ancient art as the highest example, ideal, and the works of antiquity as the artistic norm. Aesthetics are based on the principle of rationalism and “imitation of nature.” Cult of the mind. A work of art is organized as an artificial, logically constructed whole. Strict plot and compositional organization, schematism. Human characters are depicted in a straightforward manner; positive and negative heroes are contrasted. Actively addressing social and civil issues. Emphasized objectivity of the narrative. Strict hierarchy of genres. High: tragedy, epic, ode. Low: comedy, satire, fable. Mixing high and low genres is not allowed. The leading genre is tragedy.

Comedy – a dramatic work that uses satire and humor to ridicule the vices of society and man.

Composition – arrangement, alternation, correlation and interrelation of parts of a literary work, serving the most complete embodiment of the artist’s plan.

Artistic conflict - figurative reflection in a work of art of the actions of the forces of struggle of interests, passions, ideas, characters, political aspirations both personal and social. Conflict adds spice to the plot.

Leitmotif- an expressive detail, a specific artistic image, repeated many times, mentioned, passing through a separate work or the entire work of the writer.

Lyrics- one of the main types of literature, reflecting life through the depiction of individual (single) states, thoughts, feelings, impressions and experiences of a person caused by certain circumstances. Feelings and experiences are not described, but expressed. The center of artistic attention is the image-experience. The characteristic features of the lyrics are poetic form, rhythm, lack of plot, small size, a clear reflection of the experiences of the lyrical hero. The most subjective type of literature.

Lyrical digression - deviation from descriptions of events, characters in an epic or lyric-epic work, where the author (or the lyrical hero on whose behalf the story is told) expresses his thoughts and feelings about what is being described, his attitude towards it, addressing directly the reader.

2. Reception of the characterization of a particular phenomenon not by a direct definition, but by the negation of the opposite definition:

The key to nature is not lost,

Proud work is not in vain...

V. Shalamov

Bee for field tribute
Flies from a wax cell.
A.S. Pushkin

Metaphor increases the accuracy of poetic speech and its emotional expressiveness. A type of metaphor is personification. Types of metaphor:

1. lexical metaphor, or erased, in which the direct meaning is completely destroyed; “it’s raining”, “time is running”, “clock hand”, “doorknob”;

2. simple metaphor - built on the convergence of objects or on one of their common features: “hail of bullets”, “talk of waves”, “dawn of life”, “table leg”, “dawn is blazing”;

3. realized metaphor - literal understanding of the meanings of the words that make up the metaphor, emphasizing the direct meanings of the words: “But you don’t have a face - you’re only wearing a shirt and trousers” (S. Sokolov).

4. expanded metaphor - the spread of a metaphorical image over several phrases or the entire work (for example, A.S. Pushkin’s poem “The Cart of Life” or “He could not sleep for a long time: the remaining husk of words clogged and tormented the brain, stabbed in the temples, it’s impossible I had to get rid of it” (V. Nabokov)

A metaphor is usually expressed by a noun, a verb, and then other parts of speech.

Metonymy- rapprochement, comparison of concepts by contiguity, when a phenomenon or object is designated using other words and concepts: “a steel speaker is dozing in a holster” - a revolver; “led swords on abundant” - led warriors into battle; “The little owl began to sing” - the violinist began to play his instrument.

Monologue – the speech of one of the literary heroes, addressed either to himself, or to others, or to the public, isolated from the remarks of other heroes, and having independent meaning.

2. “Stable semantic unit” (B.N. Putilov); “a semantically rich component of the work, related to the theme, idea, but not identical to them” (V.E. Khalizev); a semantic (content) element essential for understanding the author’s concept (for example, the motive of death in “The Tale of the Dead Princess...” by A.S. Pushkin, the motive of cold in “light breathing” - “Easy Breathing” by I. A. Bunin, motive full moon in “The Master and Margarita” by M.A. Bulgakov).

Neologisms – newly formed words or expressions.

Novella – a short piece of prose comparable to a short story. The novella is more eventful, the plot is clearer, the plot twist leading to the denouement is clearer.

Artistic image - 1. The main way of perceiving and reflecting reality in artistic creativity, a form of knowledge of life and expression of this knowledge specific to art; the goal and result of the search, and then identifying, highlighting, emphasizing with artistic techniques those features of a phenomenon that most fully reveal its aesthetic, moral, socially significant essence. 2. The term “image” sometimes denotes one or another trope in a work (the image of freedom - “the star of captivating happiness” by A.S. Pushkin), as well as one or another literary hero (the image of the wives of the Decembrists E. Trubetskoy and M. Volkonskaya N. Nekrasova).

Oh yeah- a poem of an enthusiastic nature (solemn, glorifying) in honor of a person or event.

Personification- the depiction of inanimate objects as animate, in which they are endowed with the properties of living beings: the gift of speech, the ability to think and feel.

What are you howling about, night wind,
Why are you complaining so madly?
F.I.Tyutchev

Feature article - a literary work based on facts, documents, and observations of the author.

Paradox - in literature - the technique of a statement that clearly contradicts generally accepted concepts, either to expose those of them that, in the opinion of the author, are false, or to express one’s disagreement with the so-called “ common sense", caused by inertia, dogmatism, ignorance.

In bad weather the wind
Howls - howls;
Violent head
Evil sadness torments.
V.A.Koltsov

Scenery - in literature - the depiction of pictures of nature in a literary work as a means of figurative expression of the author’s intention.

Tale – a work of epic prose, gravitating towards a sequential presentation of the plot, limited to a minimum of plot lines.

Repetition- a figure consisting of the repetition of words, expressions, song or poetic lines in order to attract special attention to them.

Every house is alien to me, every temple is not empty,
And everything is the same and everything is one...
M. Tsvetaeva

Subtext – the meaning hidden “under” the text, i.e. not expressed directly and openly, but arising from the narrative or dialogue of the text.

Poem- a large poetic work with a plot and narrative organization; a story or novel in verse; a multi-part work in which the epic and lyrical principles merge together. The poem can be classified as a lyric-epic genre of literature, since the narration of historical events and events in the lives of the heroes is revealed in it through the perception and assessment of the narrator. The poem deals with events of universal significance. Most poems glorify some human acts, events and characters.

Prototype – a real person who served as a model for the author to create the image of a literary hero.

Play – a general designation for a literary work intended for stage performance - tragedy, drama, comedy, etc.

Interchange – the final part of the development of a conflict or intrigue, where the conflict of the work is resolved and comes to a logical figurative conclusion.

Story - a small prose work of a mainly narrative nature, compositionally grouped around a separate episode or character.

Realism – an artistic method of figuratively reflecting reality in accordance with objective accuracy.

Refrain- repetition of a verse or a series of verses at the end of a stanza (in songs - chorus).

We are ordered to go into battle:

"Long live freedom!"

Freedom! Whose? Not said.

But not the people.

We are ordered to go into battle -

"Allied for the sake of nations"

But the main thing is not said:

Whose for the sake of banknotes?

Rhythm- constant, measured repetition in the text of the same type of segments, including minimal ones, - stressed and unstressed syllables.

Rhyme- sound repetition in two or more verses, mainly at the end. Unlike other sound repetitions, rhyme always emphasizes the rhythm and division of speech into verses.

A rhetorical question is a question that does not require an answer (either the answer is fundamentally impossible, or is clear in itself, or the question is addressed to a conditional interlocutor). A rhetorical question activates the reader’s attention and enhances his emotional reaction.

"Rus! where are you going?”
« Dead Souls» N.V.Gogol
Or is it new for us to argue with Europe?
Or is the Russian unaccustomed to victories?
“To the slanderers of Russia” A.S. Pushkin

Genus - one of the main sections in the taxonomy of literary works, defining three different forms: epic, lyric, drama.

Novel - an epic narrative with elements of dialogue, sometimes including drama or literary digressions, focusing on the history of an individual in a social environment.

Romanticism – a literary movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, which opposed itself to classicism as a search for forms of reflection that were more in line with modern reality.

Romantic hero– a complex, passionate personality, inner world which is unusually deep, endless; it is a whole universe full of contradictions.

Sarcasm – caustic, sarcastic ridicule of someone or something. Widely used in satirical literary works.

Satire – a type of literature that exposes and ridicules the vices of people and society in specific forms. These forms can be very diverse - paradox and hyperbole, grotesque and parody, etc.

Sentimentalism – literary movement of the late 18th – early 19th centuries. It arose as a protest against the canons of classicism in art that had turned into dogma, reflecting the canonization of feudal social relations that had already turned into a hindrance to social development.

It's hard not to love
And love is hard
And the hardest thing
Loving love cannot be obtained.
A.D. Kantemir

Symbol- an image that expresses the meaning of a phenomenon in objective form. An object, an animal, a sign becomes a symbol when they are endowed with additional, extremely important meaning.

Synecdoche – artistic technique of substitution for the sake of expressiveness - one phenomenon, subject, object, etc. – correlated with it by other phenomena, objects, objects.

Oh, you are heavy, Monomakh’s hat!

A.S. Pushkin.

Comparison- a pictorial technique based on a comparison of a phenomenon or concept (object of comparison) with another phenomenon or concept (means of comparison), with the goal of highlighting any particularly important artistic feature of the object of comparison:

Full of goodness before the end of the year,
Days are like Antonov apples.
A.T. Tvardovsky

Poem- a small work created according to the laws of poetic speech; usually a lyrical work.

Plot- a system of events in a work of art, presented in a certain connection, revealing the characters of the characters and the writer’s attitude to the depicted life phenomena; subsequence. The course of events that constitutes the content of a work of art; dynamic aspect of a work of art.

The girl sang in the church choir

About all those who are tired in a foreign land,

About all the ships that went to sea,

About everyone who has forgotten their joy.

Tragicomedy – a drama that combines features of both tragedy and comedy, reflecting the relativity of our definitions of the phenomena of reality.

Trails- words and expressions used in a figurative sense in order to achieve artistic expressiveness of speech. The basis of any trope is a comparison of objects and phenomena.

Default- a figure that gives the listener or reader the opportunity to guess and reflect on what could be discussed in a suddenly interrupted utterance.

But is it me, is it me, the sovereign’s favorite...
But death... but power... but the people's disasters....
A.S. Pushkin

The final - part of the composition of a work that ends it. It may sometimes coincide with the denouement. Sometimes the ending is an epilogue.

Trochee- two-syllable poetic meter with stress on the first syllable: -U|-U|-U|-U|:

The storm covers the sky with darkness,
Whirling snow whirlwinds;
Then, like a beast, she will howl,
Then he will cry like a child...
A.S. Pushkin

Exposition – the part of the plot immediately preceding the plot that provides the reader with background information about the circumstances in which the conflict of the literary work arose.

Expression- emphasized expressiveness of something. Unusual artistic means are used to achieve expression.

Elegy- a lyrical poem that conveys deeply personal, intimate experiences of a person, imbued with a mood of sadness.

Epigram- a short poem ridiculing a person.

Epigraph – an expression prefixed by the author to his work or part of it. The epigraph usually expresses the essence of the creative intent of the author of the work.

Episode – a fragment of the plot of a literary work that describes a certain integral moment of action that makes up the content of the work.

Epithet- an artistic and figurative definition that emphasizes the most significant feature of an object or phenomenon in a given context; used to evoke in the reader a visible image of a person, thing, nature, etc.

I sent you a black rose in a glass

Golden as the sky, Ai...

An epithet can be expressed by an adjective, adverb, participle, or numeral. Often the epithet has a metaphorical character. Metaphorical epithets highlight the properties of an object in a special way: they transfer one of the meanings of a word to another word based on the fact that these words have a common feature: sable eyebrows, a warm heart, a cheerful wind, i.e. a metaphorical epithet uses the figurative meaning of a word.

Essay - a literary work of small volume, usually prosaic, of free composition, conveying the author’s individual impressions, judgments, and thoughts about a particular problem, topic, particular event or phenomenon. It differs from an essay in that in an essay the facts are only a reason for the author’s thoughts.

Iambic- two-syllable poetic meter with stress on the second syllable: U-|U-|U-|U-|:

The abyss has opened and is full of stars

The stars have no number, the bottom of the abyss.