Literary Elements & Other Definitions for Literature --> C:
1. Caesura --> a pause usually in the middle of a line of verse
2. Camera View --> objective, seeing and recording action -- unemotional
3. Carpe Diem --> seize the day
4. Catastrophe --> (denouement) the final actions that unravel the plot of a tragedy
5. Catharsis --> purifying or cleansing
6. Central Dramatic Episode --> most important action
7. Chants --> simple songs with limited voice inflections
8. Character --> a person or animal who takes part in the action of a literary work
9. Characterization --> the act of creating and developing a character
10. Chorus --> a group of people used to tell a part of the story who actually do not have individual roles in the play
11. Cinquain --> a five-line stanza in poetry
12. Cliche --> a trite, overused saying
13. Cliffhanger --> a term borrowed from serialized films in which a moment of suspense or tension ends an episode
14. Climax --> the high point of interest or suspense in a story
15. Colloquialism --> expression used for informal speech
16. Comic Relief --> the intrusion of humor interrupting or immediately following a scene of great excitement
17. Coming of Age --> (Bildungsroman) (Rite of Passage) a novel in which the main character grows, matures, or understands the world in adult terms
18. Complication -- > (rising action) events leading to the climax
19. Conceit --> the metaphor extends throughout the entire poem (elaborate and strained)
20. Concrete Poetry --> a poem with a shape that suggests its topic
21. Conflict --> the struggle that moves the action forward (the problem the main character faces)
22. Connotation --> a meaning of a word that carries a suggested meaning from the actual definition, not the literal dictionary meaning
23. Couplet --> a pair of rhyming lines of the same length and meter, expresses a single idea; a two-line stanza
1. Caesura --> a pause usually in the middle of a line of verse
2. Camera View --> objective, seeing and recording action -- unemotional
3. Carpe Diem --> seize the day
4. Catastrophe --> (denouement) the final actions that unravel the plot of a tragedy
5. Catharsis --> purifying or cleansing
6. Central Dramatic Episode --> most important action
7. Chants --> simple songs with limited voice inflections
8. Character --> a person or animal who takes part in the action of a literary work
9. Characterization --> the act of creating and developing a character
10. Chorus --> a group of people used to tell a part of the story who actually do not have individual roles in the play
11. Cinquain --> a five-line stanza in poetry
12. Cliche --> a trite, overused saying
13. Cliffhanger --> a term borrowed from serialized films in which a moment of suspense or tension ends an episode
14. Climax --> the high point of interest or suspense in a story
15. Colloquialism --> expression used for informal speech
16. Comic Relief --> the intrusion of humor interrupting or immediately following a scene of great excitement
17. Coming of Age --> (Bildungsroman) (Rite of Passage) a novel in which the main character grows, matures, or understands the world in adult terms
18. Complication -- > (rising action) events leading to the climax
19. Conceit --> the metaphor extends throughout the entire poem (elaborate and strained)
20. Concrete Poetry --> a poem with a shape that suggests its topic
21. Conflict --> the struggle that moves the action forward (the problem the main character faces)
22. Connotation --> a meaning of a word that carries a suggested meaning from the actual definition, not the literal dictionary meaning
23. Couplet --> a pair of rhyming lines of the same length and meter, expresses a single idea; a two-line stanza