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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| 13822998467 | novel | a tale in which a young protagonist experiences an introduction to adulthood. the character may develop understanding via disillusionment, education, doses of reality, or any other experiences that alter his/her emotional/intellectual maturity. e.g. Invisible Man | 0 | |
| 13822998468 | metaphysical conceit | a type of conceit that occurs only in metaphysical poetry | 1 | |
| 13822998471 | mock epic | a parody form that deals with mundane events and ironically treats them as worthy of epic poetry | 2 | |
| 13822998488 | periodic sentence | a sentence not grammatically complete until it has reached its final phrase; sentence that departs from the usual word order of English sentences by expressing its main thought only at the end | 3 | |
| 13822998490 | melodrama | a form of cheesy theater in which the hero is very, very good, the villain mean and rotten, and the heroine oh-so-pure. | 4 | |
| 13822998492 | maxim | a saying or proverb expressing common wisdom or truth | 5 | |
| 13822998493 | metaphor | a figure of speech that compares unlike objects | 6 | |
| 13822998494 | metaphysical poetry | the work of poets, particularly those of 17th c., that uses elaborate conceits, is highly intellectual, and expresses the complexities of love and life | 7 | |
| 13822998495 | meter | the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables found in poetry | 8 | |
| 13822998496 | metonymy | a figure of speech that uses the name of one thing to represent something else with which it is associated. e.g. "The White House says..." | 9 | |
| 13822998497 | mode | the general form, pattern, and manner of expression of a work of literature | 10 | |
| 13822998498 | montage | a quick succession of images/impressions used to express an idea | 11 | |
| 13822998499 | mood | the emotional tone in a work of literature | 12 | |
| 13822998500 | nemesis | the protagonist's archenemy or supreme and persistent difficulty | 13 | |
| 13822998504 | moral | a brief and often simplistic lesson that a reader may infer from a work of literature | 14 | |
| 13822998505 | motif | a phrase, idea, event that through repetition serves to unify or convey a theme in a work of literature. | 15 | |
| 13822998506 | muse | one of the ancient Greek goddesses presiding over the arts. the imaginary source of inspiration for an artist or writer | 16 | |
| 13822998507 | myth | an imaginary story that has become accepted part of the cultural or religious tradition of a group/society. often used to explain natural phenomena. | 17 | |
| 13822998508 | narrative | a form of verse or prose that tells a story | 18 | |
| 13822998509 | naturalism | a term often used as a synonym for "realism"; also a view of experiences that is generally characterized as bleak and pessimistic | 19 | |
| 13822998510 | non sequitur | a statement or idea that fails to follow logically from the one before | 20 | |
| 13822998511 | novel of manners | a novel focusing on and describing the social customs and habits of a particular social group | 21 | |
| 13822998516 | parable | like a fable or an allegory, it's a story that instructs; a story consisting of events from which a moral or spiritual truth may be derived | 22 | |
| 13822998517 | paradox | a statement that seems self-contradictory yet true | 23 | |
| 13822998518 | parallelism | repeated syntactical similarities used for effect | 24 | |
| 13822998519 | parody | an imitation of a work meant to ridicule its style and subject | 25 | |
| 13822998520 | paraphrase | a version of a text put into simpler, everyday, words | 26 | |
| 13822998521 | pastoral | a work of literature dealing with rural life | 27 | |
| 13822998522 | pathetic fallacy | faulty reasoning that inappropriately ascribes human feelings to nature or nonhuman objects | 28 | |
| 13822998523 | pathos | that element in literature that stimulates pity or sorrow | 29 | |
| 13822998524 | pentameter | a verse with five poetic feet per line | 30 | |
| 13822998525 | persona | the role/facade that a character assumes or depicts to a reader, viewer, or the world at large; the narrator in a non-first-person novel | 31 | |
| 13822998526 | personification | giving an inanimate object human like qualities or form | 32 | |
| 13822998527 | plot | the interrelationship among the events in a story, including exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution | 33 | |
| 13822998528 | picaresque novel | an episodic novel about a roguelike wanderer who lives off his wits. e.g. "Don Quixote", "Moll Flanders" | 34 | |
| 13822998529 | point of view | the perspective from which the action of a novel in presented. | 35 | |
| 13822998532 | objective narrator | 3rd person narr. who only reports on what would be visible to a camera, doesn't know what the character is thinking unless the character speaks of it. | 36 | |
| 13822998533 | protagonist | the main character in a work of literature | 37 | |
| 13822998534 | prelude | an introductory poem to a longer work of verse | 38 | |
| 13822998535 | pun | the usually humorous use of a word in such a way to suggest two or more meanings | 39 | |
| 13822998536 | pseudonym | also called "pen name", a false name or alias used by writers. i.e Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) George Orwell (Eric Blair) | 40 | |
| 13822998582 | parenthesis | insertion of some verbal unit in a position that interrupts the normal syntactical flow of the sentence | 41 | |
| 13822998583 | polysyndeton | the deliberate use of many conjunctions. its effect is to slow down the rhythm of the sentence | 42 |
