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| 5904327169 | allegory | story or poem that can be used to reveal a hidden meaning |  | 0 |
| 5904327170 | alliteration | beginning of same letter or sound in closely connected words |  | 1 |
| 5904327171 | allusion | indirect of passing reference |  | 2 |
| 5904327172 | anaphora | repetition in first part of a sentence , to have an artistic meaning |  | 3 |
| 5904327173 | antagonist | a hostile person who is opposed to another character |  | 4 |
| 5904327174 | apostrophe | figure of speech used to adresss an imaginary character |  | 5 |
| 5904327175 | approximate rhyme | words in rhyming pattern that sound alike |  | 6 |
| 5904327176 | aside | when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by other actors on the stage |  | 7 |
| 5904327177 | assonance | repetition of vowel sounds |  | 8 |
| 5904327178 | blank verse | poetry written in meter without an ending rhyme |  | 9 |
| 5904327179 | cacophony | blend of unharmonious sounds |  | 10 |
| 5904327180 | caesura | pause in the middle of a line |  | 11 |
| 5904327181 | catharsis | the release of emotions through art (emotional cleanse) |  | 12 |
| 5904327182 | flat character | story character who have no depth, usually has one personality or characteristic |  | 13 |
| 5904327183 | round character | character who has complex personality: contradicted person |  | 14 |
| 5904327184 | dynamic character | changes throughout the story, through major conflict |  | 15 |
| 5904327185 | static character | person who doesn't change throughout story keeps same personality |  | 16 |
| 5904327186 | characterization | process of revealing characters personality |  | 17 |
| 5904327187 | climax | point where conflict hits its highest point |  | 18 |
| 5904327188 | comedy | drama that is amusing or funny |  | 19 |
| 5904327189 | conflict | struggle between opposing forces |  | 20 |
| 5904327190 | connotation | secondary meaning to a word |  | 21 |
| 5904327192 | couplet | two rhyming lines in a verse |  | 22 |
| 5904327193 | denotation | the literal meaning of a word |  | 23 |
| 5904327194 | denouement | final outcome of the story |  | 24 |
| 5904327195 | deus ex machina | resolution of a plot by chance or coincidence |  | 25 |
| 5904327196 | didactic writing | writing with a primary purpose to teach or preach |  | 26 |
| 5904327197 | direct presentation of character | author telling the reader how a character is and what actions it will do further in the story |  | 27 |
| 5904327200 | end rhyme | rhymes occurring at the end of line |  | 28 |
| 5904327201 | end stopped line | line ending in regular punctuation |  | 29 |
| 5962299713 | enjambment | when a thought or line in poetry continues past one line to the next, connected in thought |  | 30 |
| 5904327202 | English sonnet | a sonnet rhyming ababcdcdededgg |  | 31 |
| 5904327203 | epiphany | when a character receives a spiritual insight into they life |  | 32 |
| 5904327204 | euphony | smooth choice and arrangement of sounds |  | 33 |
| 5904327206 | falling action | Events after the climax, leading to the resolution |  | 34 |
| 5904327207 | feminine rhyme | lines that have a two-syllable word rhyming at the end, with the first syllable stressed and the second syllable unstressed |  | 35 |
| 5904327208 | figurative language | Language that is not literal, often written to create a special effect or feeling. |  | 36 |
| 5904327209 | figure of speech | a way of saying something other than the literal way (figurative language) |  | 37 |
| 5904327210 | foot | a measuring unit in poetry, which is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables |  | 38 |
| 5904327211 | form | external pattern or shape of a poem |  | 39 |
| 5904327212 | free verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme |  | 40 |
| 5904327213 | hamartia | tragic flaw, usually pride, which causes a character's downfall |  | 41 |
| 5904327214 | imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) |  | 42 |
| 5904327215 | indirect presentation of character | the personality of a character is revealed by what he or she does or says |  | 43 |
| 5904327216 | internal rhyme | A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line |  | 44 |
| 5904327217 | irony | A contrast between expectation and reality |  | 45 |
| 5904327218 | verbal irony | A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant |  | 46 |
| 5904327219 | dramatic irony | Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play. |  | 47 |
| 5904327220 | irony of situation | refers to an occurrence that is contrary to what is expected or intended |  | 48 |
| 5904327221 | italian sonnet | A sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd |  | 49 |
| 5904327222 | masculine rhyme | A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable |  | 50 |
| 5904327223 | melodrama | a play based upon a dramatic plot and developed sensationally |  | 51 |
| 5904327224 | metaphor | A comparison without using like or as |  | 52 |
| 5904327225 | meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry |  | 53 |
| 5904327226 | metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it |  | 54 |
| 5904327227 | motivation | A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior |  | 55 |
| 5904327228 | narrator | Person telling the story |  | 56 |
| 5904327229 | octave | 8 line stanza |  | 57 |
| 5904327230 | onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. |  | 58 |
| 5904327231 | hyperbole | A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor |  | 59 |
| 5904327232 | oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. |  | 60 |
| 5904327233 | paradox | A contradiction or dilemma, usually situational |  | 61 |
| 5904327234 | paraphrase | A restatement of a text or passage in your own words. |  | 62 |
| 5904327235 | personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes |  | 63 |
| 5904327236 | plot | Sequence of events in a story | | 64 |
| 5904327237 | point of view | The perspective from which a story is told |  | 65 |
| 5904327238 | omniscient point of view | The point of view where the narrator knows everything about the characters and their problems - told in the 3rd person. |  | 66 |
| 5904327239 | third person limited point of view | narrator tells the story from only one character's pov |  | 67 |
| 5904327240 | first person point of view | a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself |  | 68 |
| 5904327241 | objective point of view | a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story, with no comment on any characters or events. |  | 69 |
| 5904327242 | protagonist | Main character |  | 70 |
| 5904327243 | quatrain | A four line stanza |  | 71 |
| 5904327244 | rhythm | A regularly recurring sequence of events or actions. |  | 72 |
| 5904327245 | rhyme scheme | A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem |  | 73 |
| 5904327246 | rising action | Events leading up to the climax |  | 74 |
| 5904327247 | sarcasm | the use of irony to mock or convey contempt |  | 75 |
| 5904327248 | satire | A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies. |  | 76 |
| 5904327249 | scansion | Analysis of verse into metrical patterns |  | 77 |
| 5904327250 | sestet | 6 line stanza |  | 78 |
| 5904327251 | setting | The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs. |  | 79 |
| 5904327252 | simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" |  | 80 |
| 5904327253 | soliloquy | A long monologue expressing the thoughts of one character alone on stage |  | 81 |
| 5904327254 | sonnet | 14-line poem |  | 82 |
| 5904327255 | stanza | A chunk of lines in a poem, a "paragraph" within a poem | | 83 |
| 5904327256 | stream of consciousness | private thoughts of a character within the text, usually disobeying rules of grammar and not interfering with plot action |  | 84 |
| 5904327258 | symbol | A physical item that represents or stands for something more meaningful |  | 85 |
| 5904327259 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa |  | 86 |
| 5904327260 | synesthesia | describing one kind of sensation in terms of another sense, mixing two or more of the five senses ("a silent color", "a delicious sound") |  | 87 |
| 5904327261 | tercet | 3 line stanza | | 88 |
| 5904327262 | terza rima | an arrangement of triplets, especially in iambs, that rhyme aba bcb cdc, etc. |  | 89 |
| 5904327263 | theme | Central idea of a work of literature |  | 90 |
| 5904327264 | tone | Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character |  | 91 |
| 5904327265 | tragedy | A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character |  | 92 |
| 5904327266 | truncation | Utilizing a melody with part of the end omitted. |  | 93 |
| 5904327267 | understatement | the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis |  | 94 |
| 5904327269 | vilanelle | a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain. |  | 95 |
