A Level English Literature Exam Questions (98 Terms) With Verified Definitions Updated 2024

Reification {Ans: Abstract ideas treated as a material thing}Metonymy {Ans: Part to describe the whole}Macrocosm {Ans: Whole of a complex structure contrasted with a small/ representative part of it}The abject {Ans: Human reaction to a threatened breakdown in meaning caused by loss of distinction between subject and object}Anastrophe {Ans: Hyperbaton with adjectives}Ballad {Ans: A narrative poem that tells a story about love}Transcendence {Ans: Experience beyond norm and reality: nature, reality}Ambiguity {Ans: The quality of being open to more than one interpretation}Subversion {Ans: Changing things around: concepts, gender, roles}Hendiadys {Ans: 2 nound rather than adj+ noun}Ekphrasis {Ans: Art brought to life in literature}Dichotomy {Ans: Division into two parts; subdivision}Ad hominem {Ans: To counteract someones argument based on emotion rather than case}Pragmatographia {Ans: Strong visual image}Parataxis {Ans: Equal, normally unlinked clauses}Noumenal {Ans: Kants philosophy of the thing in itself}Hyperkulturemia {Ans: Psychosomatic disorder that causes rapid heart beat, dizziness, fainting, confusion and hallucinations when exposed to great personal significance in art}Antithesis/ antithetical parallelism {Ans: Direct opposition}Unheimlich {Ans: Weird, uncanny and strangely familiar}Parrhesia {Ans: Harsh blunt language}