9941609 | Antithesis | - 2 contrasting ideas placed 2gether | 0 | |
9941610 | Ambivalent | - contrasting feelings | 1 | |
9941611 | Ambiguity | - meaning is unclear | 2 | |
9941612 | Controlling metaphor | - metaphor that dominate the peace | 3 | |
9941613 | Fallacy | - flaw in reasoning | 4 | |
9941614 | Persona | - narrator in a non person 1st novel | 5 | |
9941615 | Simile | - comparison using like or as | 6 | |
9941616 | Prelude | - intro to a larger work | 7 | |
9941617 | Refrain | - line that repeats over and over | 8 | |
9941618 | Requiem | - song or prayer for the dead | 9 | |
9941619 | Plaint | - poem expressing sorrow | 10 | |
9941620 | Femine rhyme | - last 2 syllables rhyme | 11 | |
9941621 | Free verse | no rhyme or meter | 12 | |
9941622 | Euphemism | - word or phrase that takes the place of a harsh meaning | 13 | |
9941623 | Epitaph | - lines commemorating the dead | 14 | |
9941624 | Epic | - long narrative poem on something serious | 15 | |
9941625 | Foot | - basic rhythmic unit in poetry | 16 | |
9941626 | Dramatic monologue | - 1. Play: long speech with feelings 2. poem: narrator speaks to a silent audience | 17 | |
9941627 | Mock epic | - parity on an epic; takes simple and raises it | 18 | |
9941628 | Lament | - grief, sadness | 19 | |
9941629 | Syntax | - word order | 20 | |
9941630 | Couplet | - 2 lines 2gether that rhyme | 21 | |
9941631 | Pastoral | - something that idolizes nature as a perfect place | 22 | |
9941632 | Diction | - word choice | 23 | |
9941633 | Doggerel | - crude, simplistic verse | 24 | |
9941634 | Dirge | - sad song | 25 | |
9941635 | Foreshadowing | - hints of whats to come | 26 | |
9943101 | Enjambment | - line continues over section w/no connection | 27 | |
9943102 | Juxtaposition | - linking things that you normally wouldn't to make a point | 28 | |
9943103 | Aesthetic | - appealing to the senses | 29 | |
9943104 | Zeugma | - use of a word to modify 2 or more words but used for diff. meanings | 30 | |
9943105 | Utopia | - "nowhere", generally an ideal place | 31 | |
9943106 | Truism | - way to obvious truth | 32 | |
9943107 | Travesty | - grotesque parody | 33 | |
9943108 | Thesis | - the main point | 34 | |
9943109 | Symbolism | - having something represent something else | 35 | |
9943110 | Suspension | - agreement of theater audience to accept the limitations of the stage | 36 | |
9943111 | Satire | - make fun of a part of society in order to fix it | 37 | |
9943112 | Pun | - play on words | 38 | |
9943113 | Rhetorical question | - question that suggests an answer | 39 | |
9943114 | Rhapsody | - intensely strong passionate verse | 40 | |
9943115 | Parody | - exaggerates a specific work | 41 | |
9943116 | Lampoon | - satire | 42 | |
9943117 | Decorum | - styled according to social standing of person | 43 | |
9943118 | Denotation | - dictionary meaning of the word | 44 | |
9943119 | Corrotation | feeling and meaning put behind a word | 45 | |
9943120 | Onomatopoeia | - sounds like the sound it makes | 46 | |
9943121 | Euphony | - harmonious sounds | 47 | |
9943122 | Dissonance | - grading of incompatible sounds | 48 | |
9943123 | Cacophony | - deliberately using harsh awkward sounds | 49 | |
9943124 | Mixed metaphor | - 1 metaphor mixed w/ another | 50 | |
9943125 | Elegiac | - when author meditates on death, dying and mortality | 51 | |
9943126 | Farce | - stupid humor, funny poem | 52 | |
9943894 | Gothic | literature movement that spread throughout the arts scaring, depressing | 53 | |
9943895 | Anecdotal | - use a story to explain things | 54 | |
9943896 | Archaism | - how author deliberately uses old dialect | 55 | |
9943897 | Subjectivity | - personal views or subject | 56 | |
9943898 | Objectivity | - treat subject as object w/o feeling | 57 | |
9943899 | Lyric | sweet and bloatious in sound, also a type of poem that explores the owners personal thoughts about the world | 58 | |
9943900 | Academic | - dry and theoretical writing | 59 | |
9943901 | Abstract | - complex; discussing intangible qualities | 60 | |
9943902 | Metaphor | - compare w/o using like or as | 61 | |
9943903 | Metaphysical conceit | -type of conceit comparing a physical and a spiritual thing | 62 | |
9943904 | Conceit | - extended metaphor comparing 2 very different things 2gether | 63 | |
9943905 | Coinage | - make up a new word | 64 | |
9943906 | Colloquialism | - conversational English | 65 | |
9943907 | Classic | - 1. Typical 2. Masterpiece 3. Ancient Greece or Rome | 66 | |
9943908 | Bombastic | - stuck up, snooty | 67 | |
9943909 | Parenthetical phrase | -when you set it off w/ commas for detail | 68 | |
9943910 | Anaphora | -when being phrase is exact ally the same | 69 | |
9943911 | Parallelisim | - grammatically equal | 70 | |
9943912 | Paradox | -statement that contradicts itself but makes sense when you think about it | 71 | |
9943913 | Parable | story that teaches a lesson | 72 | |
9943914 | Metonym/ synecdoche | - world where a part represents' a whole | 73 | |
9943915 | 0xymoron | - 2 contradictory words 2 make a pt. | 74 | |
9943916 | Inversion | - not normal word order | 75 | |
9943917 | Interior monologue | -inner thinking by a chara. for 1 long patch, don't confuse w/ stream of consciousness | 76 | |
9943918 | In medias res | -when poem story begins in middle of something | 77 | |
9943919 | Hyperbole | - exaggeration | 78 | |
9944383 | Genre | - types of literature | 79 | |
9944384 | Caricature | - portrait whether verbal or visual it exaggerates a certain quality | 80 | |
9944385 | Cadence | - the beat or rhythm of poetry that gives off a feeling | 81 | |
9944386 | Bathos | - tried to invoke sympathy but missed | 82 | |
9944387 | Pathos | - where a scene invokes a feeling of deep sympathy or pity | 83 | |
9944388 | Ballad | - long narrative poem dealing w/ folksy topics and generally tells a light story | 84 | |
9944389 | Apostrophe | - inanimate are spoken to by animate objects | 85 | |
9944390 | Chorus | -group that commits an action and a plot | 86 | |
9944391 | Melodrama | - cheesy theater | 87 | |
9944392 | Tragedy | - play or work on a darker subject | 88 | |
9944393 | Comedy | - play or work on lighter subject meant 2 teach nothing | 89 | |
9944394 | Soliloquy | - a long speech made by 1 chara. by himself on stage | 90 | |
9944395 | Monologue | - long speech made by 1 chara. | 91 | |
9944396 | Aside | - speech or line said to the audience that actors pretend not to hear | 92 | |
9944397 | Aphorism | - short witty saying about life | 93 | |
9944398 | Stock characters | - 1 dimensional chara. that represents a stereo type | 94 | |
9944399 | Hamartia | - movement in the play that calls their flaw which causes the fall | 95 | |
9944400 | Tragic flaw | - part of their chara. that causes their fall | 96 | |
9944401 | Catharsis | - emotional cleansing | 97 | |
9944402 | Hubris | - ego, excessive pride | 98 | |
9944403 | Tragic hero | - chara. in drama that we learn from | 99 | |
9944404 | Nemesis | - protagonists arch enemy | 100 | |
9944405 | Foil | - secondary chara. whose purpose is to highlight a characteristic of hero | 101 | |
9944406 | Antihero | - chara. that has all heroic characteristics but Is decidedly bad | 102 | |
9944407 | Protagonist | - main chara. | 103 | |
9944408 | Antagonist | - force against main chara. | 104 | |
9944409 | Anticlimactic | - when it builds and builds to something big but doesn't happen | 105 | |
9944410 | Canto | - section division of long poetry | 106 | |
9944606 | Point of view | - a) first person b) 3rd person limited c) 3rd person omniscient d) 3rd person objective e) stream of consciousness f) unreliable narration g) second person pt. of view | 107 | |
9944607 | Personification | - inanimate objects given human shape | 108 | |
9944608 | Anthropomorphist | inanimate objects given human characteristics | 109 | |
9944609 | Analogy | - comparison at 2 parts to compare a pt. | 110 | |
9944610 | Anachronism | - misplaced in time | 111 | |
9944611 | Illusion | - reference to something author expects you to get: bible, myth, literal, and history | 112 | |
9944612 | Consonance | - repetition of consonant sounds | 113 | |
9944613 | Assonance | - repetition of vowel sounds | 114 | |
9944614 | Alliteration | - repetition of consonant sounds @ beginning of words | 115 | |
9944615 | Allegory | - all aspects of story have symbolic meaning | 116 | |
9944616 | Irony | - a) verbal b) dramatic c) situational | 117 | |
9944834 | burlesque | style of writing that takes a serious form and exaggerates it | 118 |
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