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Galliambus
In classic poetry, a lyric meter consisting of four iambic dipodies, the
last of which is catalectic, dropping the final accent, or a line of four
lesser Ionic feet catalectic, varied by anaclasis.
Gender Criticism
An approach to literature that explores how ideas about men and
women—what is masculine and feminine—can be regarded as socially
constructed by particular cultures. Gender criticism expands categories
and definitions of what is masculine or feminine and tends to regard
sexuality as more complex than merely masculine or feminine,
heterosexual or homosexual.
Genre
A French word meaning kind or type. The major genres in literature are
poetry, fiction, drama, and essays. Genre can also refer to more specific
types of literature such as comedy, tragedy, epic poetry, or science
fiction.
Georgian
When characterizing poetry, work written in the reigns of the four
Georges (1714-1830) or in the reign of George V (1910-36).
Georgic Poems
Characterizing the life of the farmer.
Ghazal
An Eastern verse form consisting of successive couplets whose lines all
end with the same refrain phrase (the qafia), just before which is placed
the couplet's rhyming word (radif). The last couplet includes the name
of the poet.
Gleeman
An old English minstrel. Gleemen sometimes composed their own
verses, but often recited poetry written by a scop.
Glyconic
A Greek and Roman metre that consists of a spondee, a choriamb, and
an iamb / ' ' / ' ~ ~ ' / ~ ' / .
Gnome
An aphorism, a short statement of proverbial truth. Composers of such
verse are known as gnomic poets.
Gnomic Verse
Poems laced with proverbs, aphorisms, or maxims.
Goliardic Poetry
Satiric verse which flourished in the 12th and 13th centuries, usually
consisting of a stanza of four 13-syllable lines in feminine rhyme,
sometimes with a concluding hexameter. The satire was
characteristically a defiance of authority, most particularly directed
against the Church.
Gongorism
Named for the 17th century Spanish poet, Luis de Gongora y Argote, a
literary style characterized by stilted obscurity and the use of affected
devices of embellishment.
Grave
In poetry, a mark ( ` ) indicating that the e in the English ending ed is
to be pronounced for the sake of meter.
Graveyard School
18th-century poets such as Thomas Gray, Robert Blair, and Edward
Young who penned gloomy poems on death.
Grook
This Danish aphoristic poem was created by the Danish poet and
scientist Piet Hein. They were published in the daily paper during the
Nazi Occupation in the spring of 1940. They were meant to inspire the
people to passive resistance against Nazi Occupation in WWII. They are
brief and precise with sophisticated rhythms and rhymes. However, the
lengths, rhythms, and rhyme scheme are entirely up to the poet.
Grotesque
Characterized by distortions or incongruities. The fiction of Poe or
Flannery O'Connor is often described as grotesque.
Grue
Slangy nickname for "gruesome" verse. Cf. sick verse.
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