sources of definitions are The Princeton Review (TPR) and Barron's AP study guides. and class notes that Mr. Enns distributed :)
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| 4528080125 | allegory | a story in which the narrative/characters carry an underlying symbolic, metaphorical or possibly an ethical meaning | 0 | |
| 4528080126 | alliteration | the repetition of one or more initial consonant in a group of words or lines of poetry or prose. writers use this for ornament or for emphasis | 1 | |
| 4528080129 | anachronism | a person, scene, event, or other element in literature that fails to correspond with the time/era in which the work is set | 2 | |
| 4528080130 | analogy | a comparison that points out similarities between two dissimilar things | 3 | |
| 4528080132 | antagonist | a character or force in a work of literature that, by opposing the protagonist produces tension or conflict | 4 | |
| 4528080168 | colloquialism | this is a word or phrase used in everyday conversational English that isn't a part of accepted "schoolbook" English | 5 | |
| 4528080171 | connotation | the suggest or implied meaning of a word/phrase | 6 | |
| 4528080173 | couplet | a pair of lines that end in rhyme | 7 | |
| 4528080175 | denotation | the literal, dictionary definition of a word | 8 | |
| 4528080176 | denouement | the resolution that occurs at the end of a play or work or fiction | 9 | |
| 4528080177 | deus ex machina | in literature, the use of an artificial device or gimmick to solve a problem | 10 | |
| 4528080179 | diction | the choice of words in oral and written discourse | 11 | |
| 4528080184 | dramatic irony | when the audience knows something that the characters in the drama do not | 12 | |
| 4528080194 | epitaph | lines that commemorate the dead at their burial place. usually a line or handful of lines, often serious or religious, but sometimes witty and even irreverent | 13 | |
| 4528080206 | falling action | the action in a play or story that occurs after the climax and that leads to the conclusion and often to the resolution of the conflict | 14 | |
| 4528080210 | foil | a secondary character whose purpose is to highlight the characteristics of a main character, usually by contrast | 15 | |
| 4528080211 | first person narrative | a narrative told by a character involved in the story, using first-person pronouns such as "I" and "we" | 16 | |
| 4528080213 | foreshadowing | an event or statement in a narrative that suggests, in miniature, a larger event that comes later | 17 | |
| 4528080221 | hyperbole | exaggeration/deliberate overstatement | 18 | |
| 4528080228 | irony | a mode of expression in which the intended meaning is the opposite of what is stated, often implying ridicule or light sarcasm | 19 | |
| 4528080240 | metaphor | a figure of speech that compares unlike objects | 20 | |
| 4528080250 | onomatopoeia | words that sound like what they mean | 21 | |
| 4528080260 | omniscient narrator | a narrator with unlimited awareness, understanding, and insight of characters, setting, background, and all other elements of the story | 22 | |
| 4528080261 | oxymoron | a phrase composed of opposites; a contradiction. juxtaposition of contradictory element to create a paradoxical effect | 23 | |
| 4528080265 | paradox | a statement that seems self-contradictory yet true | 24 | |
| 4528080274 | personification | giving an inanimate object human like qualities or form | 25 | |
| 4528080275 | plot | the interrelationship among the events in a story, including exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution | 26 | |
| 4528080278 | point of view | the perspective from which the action of a novel in presented. | 27 | |
| 4528080301 | simile | figurative comparison using the words "like" or "as" | 28 | |
| 4528080306 | sonnet | a popular form of verse consisting of fourteen lines and a prescribed rhyme scheme. two types: Shakespearean and Petrarchan | 29 | |
| 4528080318 | theme | the main idea or meaning, often an abstract idea upon which a work of literature is built | 30 | |
| 4528080319 | thesis | the main position of an argument. the central contention that will be supported | 31 | |
| 4528080322 | tragedy | a form of literature in which the hero is destroyed by some character flaw and a set of forces that cause the hero considerable anguish, or even death | 32 | |
| 4528080354 | dialect | a way of speaking that is characteristic of a particular region/group of people | 33 |
