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| 5928036217 | Allegory | A story that acts as an extended metaphor. Characters, objects, and actions in the story have additional meanings separate from and outside the story itself. | 0 | |
| 5928036218 | Alliteration | the repetition of the same consonant or vowel sound at the beginning of several closely placed words. | 1 | |
| 5928036219 | Allusion | A brief reference to a historical or literary figure, event or object. (refers to bible, greek mythology, shakespeare) | 2 | |
| 5928038116 | Assonance | The use of the same or similar vowel sounds in the stressed syllables of several closely placed words that end with different consonant sounds. | 3 | |
| 5928038117 | Caesura | A pause or break in a line of poetry | 4 | |
| 5928039811 | Characterization | The way an author creates and develops the characters in the story. This includes appearance, personality behavior, beliefs, and relationships with other characters. | 5 | |
| 5928039812 | Direct Characterization | The narrator explains the character to the reader | 6 | |
| 5928041920 | Indirect Characterization | The reader infers what the character is like through his actions and the reactions of other characters. | 7 | |
| 5928041921 | Conflict | A struggle between a character and another opposing force. | 8 | |
| 5928043946 | Person v. Self | The character struggles within herself to make a decision, reach a conclusion, or overcome a part of herself | 9 | |
| 5928043947 | Person vs. Person | The character struggles against the will or actions of another character | 10 | |
| 5928045966 | Person vs. Society | The character struggles against a group or society | 11 | |
| 5928047256 | Person vs. Nature | The character struggles against natural forces or elements outside of human creation or control | 12 | |
| 5928049020 | Comedy | Drama that is meant to amuse the audience through wit, humour, subtlety, and character. | 13 | |
| 5928049021 | Connotation | Any meaning a word conveys, emotional or social that is in addition to its official meaning. The additional meaning may be personal, limited to a group, or universal. | 14 | |
| 5928049022 | Diction | The author's choice and use of words in a text. Word choice. | 15 | |
| 5928049023 | Denotation | The formal or official meaning of a word, separate from any other associations or acquired meanings. Dictionary definition. | 16 | |
| 5928051412 | Dramatic Monologue | A poem in which a single character gives a speech, usually to an known but silent listener, that reveals something about himself as he is in a dramatic or significant situation. | 17 | |
| 5928052752 | In Medias Rez | Starting a story in the middle and giving necessary exposition as the story unfolds (through dialogue, flashback, narration, etc.) | 18 | |
| 5928055257 | Enjambment | The continuation of a thought or clause from one line of poetry to another | 19 | |
| 5928055258 | Epic Poem | A long narrative written in a formal style that involves important characters whose actions highlight the deeds of the protagonist and form the framework for culturally and historically significant events. | 20 | |
| 5928057719 | Figurative Language | The use of language in a non-literal, non-normative way. It includes metaphors, similes, hyperboles, and synecdoches, among others. | 21 | |
| 5928057720 | Foil | A character in a story who contrasts with another character, making the latter's attributes clearer and more distinctive. | 22 | |
| 5928057721 | Foreshadowing | Information given in a text that prepares the reader for future parts of the test. The information may be subtle or overt. | 23 | |
| 5928059316 | Hyperbole | An exaggeration to amuse or to reinforce or heighten effect. | 24 | |
| 5928059317 | Image | A description of an experience, object, or person using sensory details, usually more than one. (5 senses) | 25 | |
| 5928059318 | Irony | When reality is different from what it appears to be or what is anticipated. | 26 | |
| 5928061005 | Verbal Irony | Much like sarcasm, when what is said differs from what is actually meant, but usually not as harsh or abrasive. | 27 | |
| 5928061006 | Dramatic Irony | When the reader or viewer or a text or performance knows something that the characters themselves do not. | 28 | |
| 5928062508 | Metaphor | A comparison between two things in which the similarity between the two is implied and not directly stated. | 29 | |
| 5928062509 | Metonymy | Substitution a thing closely related to a word with the word itself. | 30 | |
| 5928062510 | Meter | The rhythm of a piece of poetry. The rhythm is determined by the number of syllables in a line and the number and placement of accents in the line. | 31 | |
| 5928064522 | Motif | A recurring word, phrase, image, object, or action that creates unity throughout a text and may also reinforce its theme. | 32 | |
| 5928064523 | Onomatopoeia | words that sound the same as the things they mean | 33 | |
| 5928065796 | Personification | giving human characteristics to animals, ideas, feelings, or inanimate objects | 34 | |
| 5928066834 | Plot | pattern of events in a story | 35 | |
| 5928066835 | Poetry | Literature that is written with a regular rhythm and is usually expressive, imaginative, and relevant to the life and experience of the reader or listener. | 36 | |
| 5928068120 | Point of View | perspective from which a narrative is told | 37 | |
| 5928072751 | Prose | literature that is not written with a regular rhythm. Although it is sometimes difficult to distinguish between prose and poetry, prose usually includes novels, novellas, short stories, plays and essays | 38 | |
| 5928072752 | Setting | place in which a piece of literature is set, the time in which it occurs, the special circumstances that make it unique or different from our own world, and the culture in which it takes place | 39 | |
| 5928072753 | Simile | a comparison between two things in which the similarity between the two is directly stated usually using words "as" or "like" | 40 | |
| 5928072754 | Soliloquy | speech given when a character is alone, and meant to share with the reader or viewer what is happening in that character's thoughts and feelings | 41 | |
| 5928075489 | Stanza | a set of two or more lines in a poem, grouped by their arrangement on the page or the subject that they express | 42 | |
| 5928076919 | Symbol | something that is itself but also represents or stands for something else | 43 | |
| 5928076920 | Synecdoche | substituting a part of the whole for the whole itself | 44 | |
| 5928076929 | Syntax | the way an author arranges words and phrases to create sentences. This is roughly analogous to sentence fluency | 45 | |
| 5928078665 | Theme | the author's message about or commentary on life that applies to everyone, is based on events in the text, and is expressed as a statement. | 46 | |
| 5928078666 | Tone | the author's attitude towards his/her subject as expressed to the reader. The author creates tone through the use of diction, syntax, imagery and the information given through expostition | 47 | |
| 5928078667 | Tragedy | drama that is meant to show the darker aspects of human existence that occur through nature or their own flaws. | 48 | |
| 5928081493 | Unreliable Narrator | a narrator in a first-person narrative who cannot be completely trusted to relay information accurately or to understand what is going on. | 49 | |
| 5928090992 | Ambiguity | when an author leaves out details/information or is unclear about an event so the reader will use his/her imagination to fill in the blanks | 50 | |
| 5928090993 | Anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines in a poem | 51 | |
| 5928090994 | Anecdote | a short story or joke told at the beginning of a speech to gain the audience's attention | 52 | |
| 5928092177 | Antagonist | protagonist's adversary | 53 | |
| 5928092178 | Anti-Climatic | when the ending of the plot in poetry or prose is unfulfilling or lackluster | 54 | |
| 5928092179 | Apostrophe | when a character speaks to a character or object that is not present or is unable to respond | 55 | |
| 5928093564 | Blank Verse | name for unrhymed iambic pentameter. An iamb is a metrical foot in which an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable. In iambic pentameter there are five iambs per line making ten syllables | 56 | |
| 5928093565 | Climax | turning point in the plot or the highpoint of action | 57 | |
| 5928094922 | Colloquial language | informal, conversational language (phrases or sayings indicative of a specific region) | 58 | |
| 5928095875 | Convention | an understanding between a reader and a writer about certain details of a story that does not need to be explained | 59 | |
| 5928100275 | Consonance | repetition of constant sounds in a phrase or line of poetry | 60 | |
| 5928100276 | Couplet | two rhyming lines in poetry | 61 | |
| 5928112924 | Deus ex machina | term that refers to a character or force that appears at the end of a story or play to help resolve conflict. Word means "god from a machine". In greek drama, gods were lowered onto a stage by a mechanism to extricate characters from a seemingly hopeless situation. The phrase has come to mean any turn of events that solve the characters' problems through an unexpected and unlikely intervention | 62 | |
| 5928112925 | Denouement | the final resolution or clarification of a dramatic or narrative plot | 63 | |
| 5928112926 | Doppelganger | alter ego of a character - the suppressed side of one's personality that is usually unaccepted by society | 64 | |
| 5928120333 | Elegy | a poem or song composed especially as a lament for a deceased person | 65 | |
| 5928122129 | Emotive Language | deliberate use of language by a writer to instill a feeling or visual | 66 | |
| 5928122130 | Epilogue | a short poem or speech spoken directly to the audience following the conclusion of a play, or in a novel the epilogue is a short explanation at the end of the book which indicates what happens after the plot ends | 67 | |
| 5928126040 | Epiphany | sudden enlightenment or realization, a profound new outlook or understanding about the world usually attained while doing everyday mundane activities | 68 | |
| 5928126041 | Epistolary | used to describe a novel that tells its story through letters written from one character to another | 69 | |
| 5928126042 | Euphemism | act of substituting a harsh, blunt, or offensive comment for a more politically accepted or positive one (short = vertically challenged) | 70 | |
| 5928126048 | Euphony | succession of words which are pleasing to the ear. These words may be alliterative, utilize consonance, assonance, and are often used in poetry but also seen in prose | 71 | |
| 5928127234 | Expansion | adds an unstressed syllable | 72 | |
| 5928127235 | Fable | usually short narrative making an edifying or cautionary point and often employing as characters animals that speak and act like humans | 73 | |
| 5928127236 | Feminine ending | term that refers to an unstressed extra syllable at the end of a line of iambic pentameter | 74 | |
| 5928128559 | Flashback | when a character remembers a past event that is relevant to the current action of the story | 75 | |
| 5928128560 | Flat character | a literary character whose personality can be defined by one or two traits and does not change over the course of the story. Flat characters are usually minor or insignificant characters | 76 | |
| 5928141431 | Folklore | traditional beliefs, myths, tales, and practices of a people, transmitted orally | 77 | |
| 5928149419 | Free Verse | type of verse that contains a variety of line lengths, is unrhymed, and lacks traditional meter | 78 | |
| 5928149420 | Genre | a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, marked by a distinctive style form or content | 79 | |
| 5928149421 | Gothic novel | a genre of fiction characterized by mystery and supernatural horror, often set in a dark castle or other medieval setting | 80 | |
| 5928150935 | Heroine | a woman noted for courage and daring action or the female protagonist | 81 | |
| 5928150936 | Hubris | used in greek tragedies, refers to excessive pride that usually leads to a hero's downfall | 82 | |
| 5928152230 | Illocution | language that avoids the meaning of the words | 83 | |
| 5928152231 | Inversion | in poetry is an intentional digression from ordinary word order which is used to maintain regular meters. | 84 | |
| 6004204852 | Cosmic Irony | when a higher power toys with human expectations | 85 | |
| 6004204853 | Masculine ending | stressed extra syllable at the end of a line | 86 | |
| 6004204854 | Memoir | account of the personal experiences of an author | 87 | |
| 6004208720 | Narrator | someone who tells the story | 88 | |
| 6004210938 | First person Narrator | narrator is a character in the story | 89 | |
| 6004213982 | Third Person Objective Narrator | narrator does not tell what anyone is thinking | 90 | |
| 6004216638 | Third person limited narrator | narrator is able to tell the thoughts of one character | 91 | |
| 6004216639 | Third person omniscient narrator | narrator is able to tell the thoughts of any character | 92 | |
| 6004220952 | novella | a short novel usually under 100 pages | 93 | |
| 6004220953 | neutral language | language opposite from emotive language as it is literal or even objective in nature | 94 | |
| 6004223340 | oblique rhyme | imperfect rhyme scheme | 95 | |
| 6004223341 | ode | lyric poem of some length, usually of a serious or meditative nature and having an elevated style and formal stanzaic structure. | 96 | |
| 6004225735 | paradox | Statement which seems to contradict itseft | 97 | |
| 6004225736 | parody | a literary or artistic work that imitates the characteristic style of an author or a work for comic effect or ridicule. | 98 | |
| 6004225737 | poetic justice | the rewarding of virtue and the punishment of vice in the resolution of a plot. The character, as they say, gets what he/she deserves. | 99 | |
| 6004227796 | prequel | a literary, dramatic, or cinematic work whose narrative takes place before that of a preexisting work or a sequel. | 100 | |
| 6004227797 | prologue | an introduction or preface, especially a poem recited to introduce a play | 101 | |
| 6004230368 | prose | ordinary speech or writing without metrical structure, written in paragraph form. Novels and short stories are referred to as prose. | 102 | |
| 6004230369 | protagonist | main character in a drama or literary work | 103 | |
| 6004230370 | pun | play on words, when two words have multiple meanings and spellings and are used in a humorous manner | 104 | |
| 6004230431 | rhyme | the repetition of sounds in a word | 105 | |
| 6004233861 | rhyme scheme | the act of assigning letters in the alphabet to demonstrate the rhyming lines in a poem. | 106 | |
| 6004233862 | rising action | the events of a dramatic or narrative plot preceding the climax | 107 | |
| 6004233863 | rites of passage | an incident which creates tremendous growth signifying a transition from adolescence to adulthood. | 108 | |
| 6004235996 | round character | a character who is developed over the course of the book, round characters are usually major characters in a novel | 109 | |
| 6004237951 | resolution | Solution to the conflict in literature | 110 | |
| 6004237952 | satire | A literary work in which human vice or folly is attacked through irony, derision, or wit; the goal is to change the behavior/issue. Authors known for satires are Jonathan Swift and George Orwell. | 111 | |
| 6004237953 | slang | A kind of language occurring chiefly in casual and playful speech, made up typically of short-lived coinages and figures of speech that are deliberately used in place of standard terms for added raciness, humor, irreverence, or other effect. | 112 | |
| 6004239783 | sonnet | a poem with fourteen lines. An Italian sonnet subdivides into two quatrains and two tercets; while an English sonnet subdivides into three quatrains and one couple. | 113 | |
| 6004239784 | style | The combination of distinctive features of literary or artistic expression, execution or performance characterizing a particular person, group, school, or era | 114 | |
| 6004410313 | Volta | sudden change of thought which is common in sonnets | 115 | |
| 6004414817 | Contraction/elision | removes an unstressed syllable in order to maintain the rhythmic meter of a line. (th' , o'er, 'tis, or 'twas) | 116 | |
| 6004806656 | foot | metrical length of a line is determined by the number of feet it contains: Monometer - one foot Dimeter - 2 feet Trimeter - 3 feet Tetrameter - 4 fet Pentameter - five feet Hexameter - 6 feet Heptameter - 7 feet (most common feet have 2 to 3 syllables, with one stressed) | 117 | |
| 6004812649 | Iamb | The iambic foot is most common in english poetry | 118 | |
| 6056978770 | Trochee | 2 syllables, the first is stressed and the second is unstressed | 119 | |
| 6056978771 | Dactyl | 3 syllables, the first is stressed, other 2 are unstressed | 120 | |
| 6056980508 | Anapest | 3 syllables, first two are unstressed, third is stressed | 121 |
