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| 14794660219 | Allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one | 0 | |
| 14794660220 | Allusion | an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference | 1 | |
| 14794660221 | Antagonist | a person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary | 2 | |
| 14794660222 | Artistic Unity | condition of a successful literary work whereby all its elements work together for the achievement of its central purpose | 3 | |
| 14794660223 | Bildungsroman | a novel dealing with one person's formative years or spiritual education | 4 | |
| 14794660224 | Chance | unknown and unpredictable element in happenings that seems to have no assignable cause | 5 | |
| 14794660225 | Character | in literature undergoes an important inner change, as a change in personality or attitude | 6 | |
| 14794660226 | Dynamic Character | a character who changes throughout the course of a story as a result of the conflicts they encounter on their journey | 7 | |
| 14794660227 | Static Character | a character who undergoes little or no inner change; who does not grow or develop | 8 | |
| 14794660228 | Flat Character | they are relatively uncomplicated and do not change throughout the course of the work | 9 | |
| 14794660229 | Round Character | they are complex and undergo development, sometimes sufficiently to surprise the reader | 10 | |
| 14794660230 | Stock Character | a stereotypical person whom audiences readily recognize from frequent recurrences in a particular literary tradition | 11 | |
| 14794660231 | Foil Character | a character who contrasts with another character in order to highlight particular qualities of the other character | 12 | |
| 14794660232 | Climax | that particular point in a narrative at which the conflict or tension hits the highest point | 13 | |
| 14794660233 | Coincidence | a sequence of events that although accidental seems to have been planned or arranged | 14 | |
| 14794660234 | Commercial Fiction | a story that is primarily read for entertain, has a wide variety of auidences, has a distinct plot and characters actively pursue a goal or overcome a challenge | 15 | |
| 14794660235 | Conflict | any struggle between opposing forces | 16 | |
| 14794660236 | Deus Ex Machina | an unexpected power or event saving a seemingly hopeless situation, especially as a contrived plot device in a play or novel | 17 | |
| 14794660237 | Dilemma | a problem which has no desirable solution | 18 | |
| 14794660238 | Direct Characterization | the process by which the personality of a fictious character is revealed by the use of descriptive adjectives, phrases, or epithets | 19 | |
| 14794660239 | Indirect Characterizations | the process by which the personality of a fictious character is revealed through the character's speech, actions, appearance, etc. | 20 | |
| 14794660240 | Escape Literature | fiction designed to take the reader away from real life and provide pleasure, usually with a story that is easy to follow and pleasant to read | 21 | |
| 14794660241 | Falling Action | parts of a story after the climax and before the end | 22 | |
| 14794660242 | Imagery | visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work | 23 | |
| 14794660243 | Indeterminate Ending | the writer presents the character in action, allowing the reader to draw his or her own conclusions about the personality of that character | 24 | |
| 14794660244 | Literary Fiction | works that hold literary merit; offer deliberate social commentary, political criticism, or focus on the individual to explore some part of the human condition | 25 | |
| 14794660245 | Irony | the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect | 26 | |
| 14794660246 | Verbal Irony | when a person says or writes one thing and means another, or uses words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning | 27 | |
| 14794660247 | Dramatic Irony | when the full signifcance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character | 28 | |
| 14794660248 | Situational Irony | when actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intende, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected | 29 | |
| 14794660249 | Metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable | 30 | |
| 14794660250 | Moral | a lesson, one concernign what is right, that can be derived from a story | 31 | |
| 14794660251 | Motivation | the reason someone acts or behaves in a certain way | 32 | |
| 14794660252 | Narrator | a character who recounts the events of a story; someone who delivers commentary | 33 | |
| 14794660253 | Hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally | 34 | |
| 14794660254 | Paradox | a statement or proposition that, despite the sound reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems sensless logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory | 35 | |
| 14794660255 | Personification | when personal nature or human characteristics is applied to something non-human | 36 | |
| 14794660256 | Plot | the events that make up a story, particulary: as they relate to one another in a pattern or in a sequence; as they relate to each other through cause and effect | 37 | |
| 14794660257 | Point Of View | the narrator's position in relation to the story being told | 38 | |
| 14794660258 | Ominscient Point Of View | knows all things taking place internal and external | 39 | |
| 14794660259 | Limited Point Of View | the narrator only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character | 40 | |
| 14794660260 | First Person Point Of View | narrator is telling their story | 41 | |
| 14794660261 | Objective Point Of View | the author tells what happens without stating more than can be inferred from the story's action and dialogue; the author never discloses anything about what the charaters think or feel, remaining a detachted observer | 42 | |
| 14794660262 | Prose | written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure | 43 | |
| 14794660263 | Protagonist | the leading character or one of the major characters in drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text | 44 | |
| 14794660264 | Rising Action | the escalation leads to the climax, the part of the plot where it will ultimately be determined whether the hero will overcome all the conflict | 45 | |
| 14794660265 | Sarcasm | the use of irony to mock or convey contempt | 46 | |
| 14794660266 | Satire | the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridiclue to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particulary in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues | 47 | |
| 14794660267 | Setting | the place or type of surroundings where something is positioned or where an event takes place | 48 | |
| 14794660268 | Simile | a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, compares using "like" or "as" | 49 | |
| 14794660269 | Stream Of Consciousness | a narrative mode, or device, that seeks "to depict the multitudinous thoughts and feelings which pass through the mind; another term for interior monologue | 50 | |
| 14794660270 | Symbol | a figure of speech where an object, person, or situation has another meaning other than its literal meaning | 51 | |
| 14794660271 | Theme | the subject of a piece of writing; a topic | 52 | |
| 14794660272 | Tone | the general character or attitude of a piece of writing | 53 | |
| 14794660273 | Understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is | 54 | |
| 14794660274 | Exposition | The opening portion of a narrative or drama. In the __________ the scene is set, the protagonist is introduced, and the author discloses any other background information necessary to allow the reader to understand and relate to the events that are to follow. | 55 | |
| 14794660275 | Dénouement/(Resolution) | The final part of a narrative, the concluding action or actions that follow the climax. | 56 | |
| 14794660276 | In Medias Res | A Latin phrase meaning "in the midst of things" that refers to a narrative device of beginning a story midway in the events it depicts (usually at an exciting or significant moment) before explaining the context or proceeding actions. Epic poems such as Virgil's Aeneid or John Milton's Paradise Lost commonly begin _____________, but the technique is also found in modern fiction. | 57 | |
| 14794660277 | Flashback | A scene relived in a character's memory. ____________may be related by the narrator in a summary or they may be experienced by the characters themselves. _____________allow the author to include events that occurred before the opening of the story, which may show the reader something significant that happened in the character's past or give an indication of what kind of person the character used to be. | 58 | |
| 14794660278 | Epiphany | A moment of insight, discover, or revelation by which a character's life is greatly altered. An _____________generally occurs near the end of a story. The term, which means "showing forth" in Greek, was first used in Christian theology to signify the manifestation of God's presence in the world. This theological idea was first borrowed by James Joyce to refer to a heightened moment of secular revelation. | 59 | |
| 14794660279 | Antihero | A protagonist who is lacking in one or more of the conventional qualities attributed to a hero. Instead of being dignified, brave, idealistic, or purposeful, for instance, the ______________may be buffoonish, cowardly, self-interested, or weak. The _____________is often considered an essentially modern form of characterization, a satiric or frankly realistic commentary on traditional portrays of idealized heroes or heroines. Modern examples range from Kafka's many protagonists to Beckett's tramps in Waiting for Godot. | 60 | |
| 14794660280 | Style | All the distinctive ways in which an author, genre, movement, or historical period uses language to create a literary work. An author's ____________depends on his or her characteristic use of diction, imagery, tone, syntax, and figurative language. Even sentence structure and punctuation can play a role in an author's ______________. | 61 | |
| 14794660281 | Diction | Word choice or vocabulary; refers to the class of words that an author decides is appropriate to use in a particular work; can be concrete or abstract. | 62 | |
| 14794660282 | Motif | An element that recurs significantly throughout a narrative. A ____________can be an image, idea, theme, situation, or action (and was first commonly used as a musical term for recurring melody or melodic fragment). A ____________can also refer to an element that recurs across many literary works, like a beautiful lady in medieval romances who turns out to be an evil fairy or three questions that are asked a protagonist to test his or her wisdom. | 63 | |
| 14794660283 | Allegory | A narrative in verse or prose in which the literal events consistently point to a parallel sequence of symbolic ideas; narrative strategy often used to dramatize abstract ideas, historical events, religious system, or political issues; has two levels of meaning: a literal level that tells a surface story, and symbolic level in which the abstract ideas unfold. | 64 | |
| 14794660285 | mood | Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader | 65 | |
| 14794660286 | Internal conflict | A struggle between opposing needs, desires, or emotions within a single character | 66 | |
| 14794660287 | External conflict | a problem or struggle between a character and someone or something outside of the character | 67 | |
| 14794660288 | Narrator Bias | Authors words influenced by personal opinion; that which compromises the narrator's reliability | 68 | |
| 14794660289 | narrator reliability | The idea that the story may be distorted by the narrator | 69 | |
| 14794660290 | Atmosphere | The mood or feeling created in a piece of writing | 70 | |
| 14794660291 | shift | change in direction, speaker, setting... | 71 | |
| 14794660292 | Figurative language | Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling. | 72 | |
| 14794660293 | Foreshadowing | A narrative device that hints at coming events; often builds suspense or anxiety in the reader. | 73 | |
| 14794660294 | Syntax | The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. | 74 | |
| 14794660295 | Conceit | A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects. | 75 | |
| 14794660296 | extended metaphor | A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work. | 76 | |
| 14794660297 | adjective | A word that describes a noun | 77 | |
| 14794660298 | Adverbs | Tells more about a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. Tells how, how many, when. | 78 | |
| 14794660299 | Ambiguity | The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage. | 79 | |
| 14794660300 | Analogy | A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them. | 80 | |
| 14794660301 | analysis | The process or result of identifying the parts of a whole and their relationships to one another. | 81 | |
| 14794660302 | antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. | 82 | |
| 14794660303 | Antithesis | the direct opposite, a sharp contrast | 83 | |
| 14794660304 | Catharsis | the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions. | 84 | |
| 14794660305 | chronology | arrangement of events in time | 85 | |
| 14794660306 | Claim/Thesis | Answer to a prompt/what you're going to prove | 86 | |
| 14794660307 | comparison | Examination of two or more objects with reference to their likeness or unlikeness. | 87 | |
| 14794660308 | drama | a work of literature designed to be performed in front of an audience | 88 | |
| 14794660309 | dramatic monologue | a poem in which a speaker addresses a silent listener | 89 | |
| 14794660310 | dramatic situation | a person is involved in some conflict | 90 | |
| 14794660311 | evidence | the available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid. | 91 | |
| 14794660312 | Genre | a major category or type of literature | 92 | |
| 14794660313 | infer | to find out by reasoning; to arrive at a conclusion on the basis of thought; to hint, suggest, imply | 93 | |
| 14794660314 | Inconsistencies of Character | The unexpected on the part of the individual; the surprise action or speech contrary to appearance or nature | 94 | |
| 14794660315 | interpretation | the action of explaining the meaning of something | 95 | |
| 14794660316 | Juxtaposition | placing two elements side by side to present a comparison or contrast | 96 | |
| 14794660317 | line of reasoning | arrangement of claims and evidence that leads to a conclusion | 97 | |
| 14794660318 | literal vs figurative meaning | Literal meaning is limited to the simplest, ordinary, most obvious meaning of a word or group of words. In contrast, figurative meaning refers to words not meant to be taken literally. To determine figurative meaning, the reader uses a combination of knowledge about the world and his/her imagination to infer symbolic or metaphorical meaning of a word or group of words. | 98 | |
| 14794660319 | literary argument | an idea or opinion about literature that is clearly explained and supported with evidence | 99 | |
| 14794660320 | Narrative | The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events. | 100 | |
| 14794660321 | nuance | a slight or subtle degree of difference | 101 | |
| 14794660322 | parallel structure (parallelism) | the repetition of a series of words, phrases, or sentences that have similar grammatical structure | 102 | |
| 14794660323 | pronoun reference | relates a pronoun to its antecedent, the phrase to which the pronoun refers | 103 | |
| 14794660324 | Soliloquy | an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play. | 104 | |
| 14794660325 | synonym | A word that means the same as another word | 105 | |
| 14794660326 | Tempo | The speed or rhythm of the poem or sentence. | 106 | |
| 14794660327 | Tenses | a grammatical category which is used to indicate the time at which an action happens by changing the form of the finite verb. English has two: past and present, e.g. he walked and he walks | 107 | |
| 14794660328 | structure | the arrangement or framework of a sentence, paragraph, or entire work | 108 | |
| 14794660329 | Stanza | a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse. | 109 | |
| 14794660330 | Repetition | Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis | 110 | |
| 14794660331 | Referent | thing that a symbol represents | 111 | |
| 14794660332 | Reasoning | the mental activity of transforming information to reach conclusions | 112 | |
| 14794660333 | Poetry (Verse) | Highly compressed language, typically written in lines, which may be metrical or non-metrical and characteristically uses imagery as its main medium of expression. | 113 | |
| 14794660334 | Poetry Closed form | Poetry that follow a certain predetermined pattern or conventions. | 114 | |
| 14794660335 | Poetry Open-form | Poetry that does not follow any typical conventions. | 115 |
