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| 2813025225 | abstract | a term that is applied to ideas that are philosophical and emotional, not concrete or tangible, yet the idea comes from experience. | 0 | |
| 2813033640 | allegory | a story in which the characters and their actions represent general truths about human conduct. The characters in an allegory often represent abstract concepts, such as faith, innocence, or evil. | 1 | |
| 2813034205 | alliteration | the repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words in a sentence or a line of poetry. | 2 | |
| 2813035266 | allusion | a reference to a well-known fictional, mythological, or historical person, place, or event, outside the story. Allusions enrich a story by suggesting similarities to comparable circumstances in another time or place; complex ideas are brought to the readers' minds simply and easily. | 3 | |
| 2813037567 | analogy | exploring a topic by explaining it in terms of another seemingly unlike but more commonplace and less complicated object, or experience. Analogy extends a metaphor. | 4 | |
| 2813040118 | anaphora | the repetition of a certain word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines of writing or speech. | 5 | |
| 2813040119 | apostrophe | the speaker is addressing an absent person or the dead, or an inanimate object, as if present. | 6 | |
| 2813040618 | assonance | the repetition of similar stressed vowel sounds within words in nearby sentences or words. | 7 | |
| 2813041058 | bildungsroman | a special kind of novel that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of its main character from his or her youth to adulthood. | 8 | |
| 2813041758 | stock character | a fictional character based on a common literary or social stereotype | 9 | |
| 2813041759 | chorus | A group of characters in Greek tragedy (and in later forms of drama), who comment on the action of a play without participation in it. | 10 | |
| 2813042336 | denouement | derived from a French word called "denoue" that means "to untie". The denouement is a literary device which can be defined as the resolution of the issue of a complicated plot in fiction. | 11 | |
| 2813042337 | epigraph | is a literary device in the form of a poem, quotation or sentence usually placed at the beginning of a document or a simple piece having a few sentences but which belongs to another writer. | 12 | |
| 2813042338 | epiphany | that moment in the story where a character achieves realization, awareness or a feeling of knowledge after which events are seen through the prism of this new light in the story. | 13 | |
| 2813042928 | exposition | a literary device used to introduce background information about events, settings, characters etc. to the audience or readers. | 14 | |
| 2813042929 | farce | a literary genre and the type of a comedy that makes the use of highly exaggerated and funny situations aimed at entertaining the audience. It uses elements like physical humor, deliberate absurdity, bawdy jokes and drunkenness just to make people laugh and we often see one-dimensional characters in ludicrous situations in farces. | 15 | |
| 2813042930 | figurative language | language that uses nonliteral figures of speech (such as simile, hyperbole, and metaphor) to convey an idea in an imaginative way. | 16 | |
| 2813043248 | foil | a character with good qualities that contrasts the qualities of another character. | 17 | |
| 2813043249 | hubris | extreme pride and arrogance shown by a character that ultimately brings about his downfall | 18 | |
| 2813043250 | in media res | Latin for "into the middle of things." It usually describes a narrative that begins, not at the beginning of a story, but somewhere in the middle — usually at some crucial point in the action. | 19 | |
| 2813044200 | irony, dramatic | 1) a situation in which a character, or narrator, unconsciously reveals to the characters and to the audience or reader some knowledge contrary to the impression he or she wishes to make. 2) a situation in which the character, or narrator, acts and reacts in ignorance of some vital, external, contrary knowledge held by one or more of the other characters and by the audience or reader. | 20 | |
| 2813044201 | irony, situational | situations in which there is a discrepancy (an incongruity, an opposition) between what the reader expects or presumes to be appropriate and what actually occurs. | 21 | |
| 2813050400 | irony, verbal | when the speaker means the opposite of what he or she literally says | 22 | |
| 2813050401 | juxtaposition | side by side placement of sentences or ideas to bring about a desired effect | 23 | |
| 2813050934 | metonymy | literally means "name change." A figure of speech in which a word referring to one attribute of something is used to signify the whole of the thing. | 24 | |
| 2813050935 | mood | the emotional atmosphere experienced by the reader of a literary work. Mood is often suggested by the writer's choice of words, by the events in the work, or by the physical setting. | 25 | |
| 2813050936 | motif | a recurring idea that is woven like a design into a fabric of a literary work. It differs from a theme in that it is a concrete example of a theme. | 26 | |
| 2813051364 | narrative frame | A story within a story, within sometimes yet another story | 27 | |
| 2813051365 | objective narrator | presents the action and the characters' thoughts, without comment or emotion. The reader has to interpret them and uncover their meaning. | 28 | |
| 2813051724 | unreliable narrator | can be first or third person, but presents the story at least partially incorrectly. | 29 | |
| 2813051725 | novella | An extended fictional prose narrative that is longer than a short story, but not quite as long as a novel. | 30 | |
| 2813051726 | onomatopoeia | use of words that imitate the sound they describe. | 31 | |
| 2813051727 | parable | a figure of speech, which presents a short story typically with a moral lesson at the end. | 32 | |
| 2813052415 | paradox | a self-contradictory statement that may state a truth. | 33 | |
| 2813052416 | parallel structure | the expression of sequential or related thoughts using the same syntactical (grammatical) form. The principles of parallelism may be applied to words, phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs, and still larger units. | 34 | |
| 2813052417 | parody | an imitation of a particular writer, artist or a genre, exaggerating it deliberately to produce a comic effect. | 35 | |
| 2813052809 | pastoral | set in beautiful rural landscapes | 36 | |
| 2813052810 | third-person limited point of view | narrator knows only one character's internal state | 37 | |
| 2813053641 | third-person omniscient point of view | narrator knows all the characters' internal states | 38 | |
| 2813053642 | pun | a play on words that are similar in sound but have different meanings, usually providing a humorous effect. | 39 | |
| 2813053643 | realism | it refers generally to any artistic or literary portrayal of life in a faithful, accurate manner, unclouded by false ideals, literary conventions, or misplaced aesthetic glorification and beautification of the world | 40 | |
| 2813054604 | reversal | the sudden downturn of events that occurs, and discovery is the revelation to the hero of an important fact | 41 | |
| 2813054605 | romanticism | An artistic and intellectual movement originating in Europe in the late 1700s and characterized by a heightened interest in nature, emphasis on the individual's expression of emotion and imagination, departure from the attitudes and forms of classicism, and rebellion against established social rules and conventions. | 42 | |
| 2813054606 | satire | a humorous or witty method of criticizing characteristics and institutions of human society. Its purpose is to correct as well as to expose and ridicule; therefore, it is not purely destructive. | 43 | |
| 2813054943 | setting | the time & place of a literary work. This can include the social, political, economic, and cultural environment as well. | 44 | |
| 2813054944 | social setting | 45 | ||
| 2813055463 | soliloquy | a popular literary device often used in drama to reveal the innermost thoughts of a character. | 46 | |
| 2813055464 | stream of consciousness | a method of narration that describes in words the flow of thoughts in the minds of the characters. | 47 | |
| 2813055777 | structure | framework of a work of literature; the organization or over-all design of a work. | 48 | |
| 2813055778 | symbol | a specific object, incident, or person intended to represent some abstract idea. | 49 | |
| 2813055779 | synecdoche | a form of metonymy in which a part is made to stand for the whole or a whole for the part. | 50 | |
| 2813056443 | theme | the major underlying idea in a specific literary work. | 51 | |
| 2813056444 | tone | the emotional attitude (usually of the author, speaker, or narrator) expressed toward his readers and his subject; his mood or moral view. | 52 | |
| 2813058179 | tragedy | a form of literature that depicts the downfall of the leading character whose life, despite its tragic end, represents something significant. | 53 | |
| 2813059399 | tragic hero | The leading character (known as the tragic hero), suffers from what Aristotle called "hamartia," a mistake in judgement on the part of the hero, frequently translated as "tragic flaw. | 54 |
