En otra entrada, "
Learning Grammar", nos referimos a los principales
términos gramaticales en inglés. Ahora vamos a hacer lo mismo con los principales
términos literarios.
literature
LGBT literature (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender literature), Gay literature
Feminist literature
Revolutionary literature
author
writer
reader
teacher
student
lecturer
editor (editor literario)
publisher (editor comercial, la casa que publica la obra)
collector (coleccionista)
critics
marxist criticism
post-structuralism
psychoanalitical criticism
feminist criticism
New criticism
structuralism
reception
recognition
reference
allusion
abstract (resumen)
article (artículo)
catalog (catálogo)
barcode number (código de barras)
bibliography (bibliografía)
bound periodicals (periódicos encuadernados y clasificados)
Journal (revista de enfoque académico)
magazine (revista de actualidades)
cultural background
book
paperback book (libro encuadernado en rústica, de bolsillo)
hardback book (encuadernación en tapa dura, edición de lujo)
best-seller
bookseller (vendedor de libros)
customer (cliente)
bookshop (librería)
library (biblioteca)
librarian (bibliotecario, -a)
interlibrary loan (préstamo interbibliotecario)
collection
booklover (amante de los libros)
book shelf (estantería), stacks (estantes)
antiquarian bookshop (librería de viejo)
book cover (portada de un libro)
wholesaler (mayorista, distribuidor)
realism
surrealism
artificiality
index
sources
plagiarism (plagio)
ideas
message
principles
theories
order and disorder
the text
speech acts (actos de habla)
feedback (retroalimentación, retroacción)
flashback (salto atrás, analepsis)
flashforward (salto adelante, prolepsis, anticipación)
stream of conciousness (flujo de conciencia)
literary tradition
guidance, guides
convention
definition
diction
anotation
topic
a cliché
a theme
quotation (cita)
response, answer
emotion
mood, atmosphere
evidence
knowledge
process
comprehension
understanding
explanation
interpretation
intertextuality
information
discussion
specifications
characterisation
polemic
assessment, evaluation
format
section
a link
differencies / similarities
humour
irony
sarcasm
mockery
trickery
mistake
error
technique
the use
the scheme
the area
the plan
the time and the places
the play's settings (el marco espacial de la obra teatral)
the effect
the result
the purpose
the intention
the efectiviness
the framing of the action
the framework
censorship (la censura)
to censure
to write
to read
to develop
to comment
to contrast
to analyse
to categorise
to discuss
to debate
to refer
to highlight
to illustrate
to compare
to evaluate
to check
to specify
to connect
to differ
to determine
to exam
to test
to establish
to look back
to react
to reflect
to choose
to illuminate
to illustrate
to present
to edit (corregir)
to publish (publicar, editar)
to print (imprimir)
to correct
extracts, passages
details
the result
the relationship
the writer's attitudes
headings
personal reflections
requirements
an example
terminology
literary terms
literary genres
fiction
non-fiction
prose / verse
letters
core text (texto principal, nuclear)
structure
form
text
paragraphs
pharaphrasing (parafrasear)
pattern (modelo)
literary period/school/movement
essay
pathetic fallacy
critical work
an approach
reviews
narrative
narrator
omniscient narrator
unreliable narrator (narrador indigno de confianza)
novelist
chapter
episode
story
storyline
short story
detective story
stories within a story (historias intercaladas)
fairy tales
novel
picaresque novel
futuristic novel
historical novel
humorous novel
social novel
victorian novel
Restoration novel
gothic novel
a thriller
novella (novela corta)
biography
autobiography
bildungsroman (novela de aprendizaje, en este caso se usa un vocablo de origen alemán)
gothic novel
travel writing
diaries
narrative voice
characters (personajes)
the role
the function
protagonist
antagonist, antagonism
rival, rivalry
enemy
allied (aliado)
hero, heroine
anti-hero
point of view
narrative perspective, narrative viewpoint
argument, plot
sub-plot
incident (peripecia)
introduction
the beginings of a text
exposition
preface
complication
turning point (punto de inflexión)
climax
dramatic incitement
tension
crisis
confusion
complexity
the coda (desenlace)
conclusion
resolution
denouement (solución, final)
the end
the endings of a text
poetry
poet
ode
satire
elegy
stanzas (estrofas)
enjambment (encabalgamiento)
sound
tone
rhyme
rhythm, pace
caesura
verse
blank verse
meter
decameter
iambic pentameter
emphatic stress
syllable stress (acento silábico)
assonance
consonance
sonnet
quatrain (cuarteto)
triplet (terceto)
couplet (pareado)
sestet
romances
the Augustan (Alexander Pope, Dryden)
the Romantics (Byron, Shelley...)
the Modernists
pastoral poetry
theatre, drama
playwright (dramaturgo)
a dramatist
a play (una obra de teatro)
a historic play
a peformance (una representación)
a rehearsal (un ensayo)
to perform (representar)
to cast
to act
on the stage
tragedy
comedy
drama
absurd drama
tragicomedy
romantic comedy
the audience
the spectator
the director
the actors
asides (los apartes)
an act
a scene
dialogue
solilloquy
monologue
style
word
lines
meaning
sign
text
context
concept
conception
element
a unit
colloquialism
colloquial language
figurative language
ambiguity
antithesis
direct / reported or indirect speech
metaphor
onomatopoeia
personification
alliteration
connotation / denotation
association
symbol
symbolism
figurative / literal sense
image
imagery
elision
hyperbole
litotes
oxymoron
paradox
rhetorical question
sibilance (aliteración de sibilantes)
simile
synonims / antonyms
idioms (giros, frases hechas)
handwriting
coursework
vocabulary
glossary
linguistic /stylistic features
dialect
syntax