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| 7062126 | Allegory | story which has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself; i.e. fables | |
| 7062127 | alliteration | the repetition of initial consonant sounds | |
| 7062128 | allusion | reference to another work or famous figure | |
| 7062129 | anachronism | derived from Greek meaning "misplaced in time"; e.g. actor w/a Rolex playing Caesar | |
| 7062130 | anthropomorphism | inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena have human characteristics, behavior, or motivation | |
| 7062131 | anticlimax | occurs when an action produces far smaller results than one had been led to expect | |
| 7062132 | antihero | protagonist who is markedly unheroic | |
| 7062133 | aphorism | short and usually witty saying; e.g. "Classic? A book which people praise and don't read." --Mark Twain | |
| 7062134 | Apostrophe | figure of speech where the speaker talks directly to something that is nonhuman | |
| 7062135 | archaism | use of deliberately old-fashioned language | |
| 7062136 | aside | a speech made by an actor to the audience as though momentarily stepping outside of the action on stage | |
| 7062137 | assonance | repeated use of vowel sounds; e.g. Old king Cole was a merry old soul. | |
| 7062138 | Atmosphere | the emotional tone or background that surrounds a scence | |
| 7062139 | Bathos, Pathos | when the writing of a scene evokes feelings of dignified pity & sympathy, pathos is at work;when writing strains for grandeur it can't support and tries to elicit tears from every little hiccup=bathos | |
| 7062140 | black humor | the use of disturbing themes in comedy | |
| 7062141 | bombast | this is pretentious, exaggeratedly learned language | |
| 7062142 | burlesque | a borad parody, one that takes a style or a form, and exaggerates it into ridiculousness | |
| 7062143 | cacophony | in poetry, using deliberately harsh, awkward sounds | |
| 7062144 | cadence | beat or rhythm of poetry | |
| 7062145 | canto | name for a section division in a long poetry work | |
| 7062146 | catharsis | cleansing of emotion an audience experiences, having lived vicariously through the experiences presented on stage | |
| 7062147 | neologism/coinage | new work, invented on the spot | |
| 7062148 | colloquialism | word or phrase used in everyday conversational English | |
| 7062149 | conceit, controlling image | refers to a startling or unusual metaphor, or to a metaphor developed & expanded upon over several lines; when the image dominates & shapes the entire work, it's called a controlling image | |
| 7062150 | denotation | literal meaning of a word; e.g. dark forest = little light | |
| 7062151 | connotation | implications of a word; e.g. dark forest = danger | |
| 7062152 | consonance | repetition of consonant sounds within words | |
| 7062153 | couplet | pair of lines that end in rhyme | |
| 7062154 | diction | author's choice of words; wept vs. cried for example | |
| 7062155 | syntax | refers to the structuring of words; greedily i devoured the cheese pizza vs. the pizza was cheese; I devoured it greedily. | |
| 7062156 | dirge | song for the dead | |
| 7062157 | dissonance | grating of incompatible sounds | |
| 7062158 | dramatic irony | when the audience know something that the characters in the drama do not. | |
| 7062159 | dramatic monologue | when a single speaker in literature says something to a silent audience | |
| 7062160 | elegy | poem meditating on death or mortality seriously | |
| 7062161 | enjambment | continuation of a syntactic unit from one line or couplet of a poem to the next with no pause | |
| 7062162 | euphemism | word or phrase tha takes the place of a harsh, unpleasant reality; ex. "passed away"=died | |
| 7062163 | euphony | sounds blend harmoniously | |
| 7062164 | feminine rhyme | lines rhymed by their final two syllables; running and gunning | |
| 7062165 | foil | secondary character whose purpose is to highlight the characteristics of a main character usually by contrast | |
| 7062166 | foreshadowing | event or statement in a narrative that suggests a larger event that comes later | |
| 7062167 | hyperbole | exaggeration or deliberate overstatement | |
| 7062168 | interior monologue | recording the mental talking inside a character's head; novels and poetry | |
| 7062169 | inversion | switching the customary order of elements in a sentence or phrase | |
| 7062170 | irony | statement that means the opposite of what it seems to mean | |
| 7062171 | masculine rhyme | rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable; regular old rhyme | |
| 7062172 | metaphor | comparison or analogy that states one thing IS another | |
| 7062173 | simile | comparison or analogy using LIKE or AS | |
| 7062174 | nemesis | protagonist's archenemy | |
| 7062175 | onomatopoeia | words that sound like what they mean | |
| 7062176 | opposition | a pair of elements that contrast sharply | |
| 7062177 | oxymoron | phrase composed of opposites | |
| 7062178 | paradox | situation or statement that seems to contradict itself but does not | |
| 7062179 | parallelism | repeated syntactical similarities used for effect | |
| 7062180 | parenthetical phrase | phrase set off by commas that adds commentary or detail | |
| 7062181 | personification | giving an inanimate object human qualities or form | |
| 7062182 | limited omniscient narrator | narrator reports only what one chara. sees and thinks | |
| 7062183 | omniscient narrator | narrator who sees into each chara's mind and understands all | |
| 7062184 | objective/camera-eye narrator | narrator only reports on surface events; no insight to thoughts | |
| 7062185 | first person narrator | narrator is a chara and tells his/her point of view | |
| 7062186 | satire | attempts to improve things by pointing out mistakes | |
| 7062187 | soliloquy | speech spoken by a character alone on stage; character's thoughts; unlike an aside, does not imply the actor acknowledges the audience | |
| 7062188 | stanza | group of lines in a verse | |
| 7062189 | symbolism | literary device where an object represents an idea | |
| 7062190 | technique | the methods, the tools of the author | |
| 7062191 | theme | main idea of the work | |
| 7062192 | travesty | grotesque parody |
