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| 6667814829 | allegory | story or poem that can be used to reveal a hidden meaning |  | 0 |
| 6667814830 | alliteration | beginning of same letter or sound in closely connected words |  | 1 |
| 6667814831 | allusion | indirect of passing reference |  | 2 |
| 6667814832 | anaphora | repetition in first part of a sentence , to have an artistic meaning |  | 3 |
| 6667814833 | antagonist | a hostile person who is opposed to another character |  | 4 |
| 6667814834 | apostrophe | figure of speech used to adresss an imaginary character |  | 5 |
| 6667814835 | aside | when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by other actors on the stage |  | 6 |
| 6667814836 | assonance | repetition of vowel sounds |  | 7 |
| 6667814837 | blank verse | poetry written in meter without an ending rhyme |  | 8 |
| 6667814838 | cacophony | blend of unharmonious sounds |  | 9 |
| 6667814839 | catharsis | the release of emotions through art (emotional cleanse) |  | 10 |
| 6667814840 | flat character | story character who have no depth, usually has one personality or characteristic |  | 11 |
| 6667814841 | round character | character who has complex personality: contradicted person |  | 12 |
| 6667814842 | dynamic character | changes throughout the story, through major conflict |  | 13 |
| 6667814843 | static character | person who doesn't change throughout story keeps same personality |  | 14 |
| 6667814844 | characterization | process of revealing characters personality |  | 15 |
| 6667814845 | climax | point where conflict hits its highest point |  | 16 |
| 6667814846 | comedy | drama that is amusing or funny |  | 17 |
| 6667814847 | conflict | struggle between opposing forces |  | 18 |
| 6667814848 | connotation | secondary meaning to a word |  | 19 |
| 6667814849 | consonance | repetition of same consonant in words close together |  | 20 |
| 6667814850 | couplet | two rhyming lines in a verse |  | 21 |
| 6667814851 | denotation | the literal meaning of a word |  | 22 |
| 6667814852 | denouement | final outcome of the story |  | 23 |
| 6667814853 | deus ex machina | resolution of a plot by chance or coincidence |  | 24 |
| 6667814854 | didactic writing | writing with a primary purpose to teach or preach |  | 25 |
| 6667814855 | dramatic exposition | prose commentaries, to provide background information about the characters and their world |  | 26 |
| 6667814856 | end rhyme | rhymes occurring at the end of line |  | 27 |
| 6667814857 | English sonnet | a sonnet rhyming ababcdcdededgg |  | 28 |
| 6667814858 | epiphany | when a character receives a spiritual insight into they life |  | 29 |
| 6667814859 | euphony | smooth choice and arrangement of sounds |  | 30 |
| 6667814860 | falling action | Events after the climax, leading to the resolution |  | 31 |
| 6667814861 | figurative language | Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling. |  | 32 |
| 6667814862 | figure of speech | a way of saying something other than the ordinary way |  | 33 |
| 6667814863 | foot | basic unit in the scansion or measurement of verse , stressed and un stressed syllables |  | 34 |
| 6667814864 | free verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme |  | 35 |
| 6667814865 | hamartia | tragic flaw which causes a character's downfall |  | 36 |
| 6667814866 | imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) |  | 37 |
| 6667814867 | irony | A contrast between expectation and reality |  | 38 |
| 6667814868 | verbal irony | A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant |  | 39 |
| 6667814869 | dramatic irony | Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play. |  | 40 |
| 6667814870 | irony of situation | refers to an occurrence that is contrary to what is expected or intended |  | 41 |
| 6667814871 | metaphor | A comparison without using like or as |  | 42 |
| 6667814872 | meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry |  | 43 |
| 6667814873 | metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it |  | 44 |
| 6667814874 | motivation | A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior |  | 45 |
| 6667814875 | narrator | Person telling the story |  | 46 |
| 6667814876 | octave | 8 line stanza |  | 47 |
| 6667814877 | onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. |  | 48 |
| 6667814878 | hyperbole | A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor |  | 49 |
| 6667814879 | oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. |  | 50 |
| 6667814880 | paradox | A contradiction or dilemma |  | 51 |
| 6667814881 | paraphrase | A restatement of a text or passage in your own words. |  | 52 |
| 6667814882 | personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes |  | 53 |
| 6667814883 | plot | Sequence of events in a story | | 54 |
| 6667814884 | point of view | The perspective from which a story is told |  | 55 |
| 6667814885 | omniscient point of view | The point of view where the narrator knows everything about the characters and their problems - told in the 3rd person. |  | 56 |
| 6667814886 | third person limited point of view | narrator tells the story from only one character's pov |  | 57 |
| 6667814887 | first person point of view | a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself |  | 58 |
| 6667814888 | objective point of view | a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story, with no comment on any characters or events. |  | 59 |
| 6667814889 | protagonist | Main character |  | 60 |
| 6667814890 | quatrain | A four line stanza |  | 61 |
| 6667814891 | rhythm | A regularly recurring sequence of events or actions. |  | 62 |
| 6667814892 | rhyme scheme | A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem |  | 63 |
| 6667814893 | rising action | Events leading up to the climax |  | 64 |
| 6667814894 | sarcasm | the use of irony to mock or convey contempt |  | 65 |
| 6667814895 | satire | A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies. |  | 66 |
| 6667814896 | scansion | Analysis of verse into metrical patterns |  | 67 |
| 6667814897 | sestet | 6 line stanza |  | 68 |
| 6667814898 | setting | The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs. |  | 69 |
| 6667814899 | simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" |  | 70 |
| 6667814900 | soliloquy | A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage |  | 71 |
| 6667814901 | sonnet | 14 line poem |  | 72 |
| 6667814902 | stanza | A group of lines in a poem | | 73 |
| 6667814903 | stream of consciousness | private thoughts of a character without commentary |  | 74 |
| 6667814904 | symbol | A thing that represents or stands for something else |  | 75 |
| 6667814905 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa |  | 76 |
| 6667814906 | synesthesia | describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound") |  | 77 |
| 6667814907 | tercet | 3 line stanza | | 78 |
| 6667814908 | terza rima | a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc. |  | 79 |
| 6667814909 | theme | Central idea of a work of literature |  | 80 |
| 6667814910 | tone | Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character |  | 81 |
| 6667814911 | tragedy | A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character |  | 82 |
| 6667814912 | understatement | the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis |  | 83 |
| 6667814913 | verse | A single line of poetry writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme | | 84 |
| 6667814914 | 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. |  | 85 |
