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| 13698104219 | end rhyme | A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line | 0 | |
| 13698104220 | masc/single rhyme | the rhyme is only in the final syllable; the final syllable is stressed. ex: keep and sleep | 1 | |
| 13698104221 | feminine/ double rhyme | last two syllables rhyme; final syllable is unstressed ex: backing and hacking | 2 | |
| 13698104222 | sight rhyme | words that look like they should rhyme but don't | 3 | |
| 13698104223 | near rhyme | rhyming in which the words sound the same but do not rhyme perfectly | 4 | |
| 13698104224 | internal rhyme | a rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next. | 5 | |
| 13698104225 | Beat Movement | a social and artistic movement of the 1950's stressing unrestrained literary self expression and nonconformity with the mainstream culture | 6 | |
| 13698104226 | Colonialism | Aims to purify and simplify; writing often in diaries | 7 | |
| 13698104227 | Feminist Literature | Writing that seeks to understand the portrayals and representations of women in literature | 8 | |
| 13698104228 | Harlem Renaissance | A period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished | 9 | |
| 13698104229 | Impressionism Literature | a literary or artistic style that seeks to capture a feeling or experience rather than to achieve accurate depiction. | 10 | |
| 13698104231 | Minimalism | An economy of words and unadorned writing. | 11 | |
| 13698104236 | Transcendentalism | A philosophy pioneered by Ralph Waldo Emerson in the 1830's and 1840's, in which each person has direct communication with God and Nature, and there is no need for organized churches. It incorporated the ideas that mind goes beyond matter, intuition is valuable, that each soul is part of the Great Spirit, and each person is part of a reality where only the invisible is truly real. Promoted individualism, self-reliance, and freedom from social constraints, and emphasized emotions. | 12 | |
| 13698104237 | Anapest | unstressed, unstressed, stressed | 13 | |
| 13698104238 | Couplet | Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme | 14 | |
| 13698104239 | Dactyl | Stressed, unstressed, unstressed | 15 | |
| 13698104240 | Foot | A metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables. | 16 | |
| 13698104244 | Octet/Octave | An octave is a verse form consisting of eight lines of iambic pentameter. The most common rhyme scheme for an octave is abba abba. An octave is the first part of a Petrarchan sonnet, which ends with a contrasting sestet. | 17 | |
| 13698104245 | Quatrain | A four line stanza | 18 | |
| 13698104246 | Sestet | six line stanza | 19 | |
| 13698104247 | Spondee | stressed, stressed | 20 | |
| 13698104248 | Tercet | three line stanza | 21 | |
| 13698104249 | Trochee | stressed, unstressed | 22 | |
| 13698104250 | Ars Poetica | The Art of Poetry -- describes the qualities a poem should have if it is to stand as a work of art. | 23 | |
| 13698104251 | Ballad | A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas | 24 | |
| 13698104252 | Ekphrastic Poetry | a form of poetry that comments on a work of art in another genre, such as a painting or a piece of music | 25 | |
| 13698104253 | Elegy | a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead. | 26 | |
| 13698104254 | English Sonnet | a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg | 27 | |
| 13698104255 | Italian sonnet (Petrarchan sonnet) | a sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd | 28 | |
| 13698104256 | Metaphysical Conceit | sets up an analogy between one entity's spiritual qualities and an object in the physical world and sometimes controls the whole structure of the poem | 29 | |
| 13698104257 | Lyric | a short poem of songlike quality | 30 | |
| 13698104258 | Ode | a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter. | 31 | |
| 13698104259 | Pastoral | A work of literature dealing with rural life | 32 | |
| 13698104260 | Villanelle | A 19 line form using only two rhymes and repeating two of the lines according to a set pattern | 33 | |
| 13698104261 | Iamb | unstressed, stressed | 34 | |
| 13698104262 | trochee | stressed, unstressed | 35 | |
| 13698104263 | dactyl | stressed, unstressed, unstressed | 36 | |
| 13698104264 | anapest | unstressed, unstressed, stressed | 37 | |
| 13698104265 | spondee | stressed, stressed | 38 | |
| 13698104266 | allusion | A reference to another work of literature, person, or event | 39 | |
| 13698104269 | connotation | All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests | 40 | |
| 13698104272 | stream of consciousness | a style of writing that portrays the inner (often chaotic) workings of a character's mind. | 41 | |
| 13698104276 | eulogy | (n.) a formal statement of commendation; high praise (usually after death) | 42 | |
| 13698104277 | hook | The first sentence or question in an essay that is designed to grab the reader's attention | 43 | |
| 13698104278 | hubris | excessive pride | 44 | |
| 13698104281 | reversal | The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist. | 45 | |
| 13698104282 | sarcasm | the use of irony to mock or convey contempt | 46 | |
| 13698104283 | slang | a type of language that consists of words and phrases that are regarded as very informal, are more common in speech than writing, and are typically restricted to a particular context or group of people. | 47 | |
| 13698104284 | vignette | (n.) a short description or sketch; a picture or illustration with edges that gradually shade off; a decorative design on the title page of a book or at the beginning or end of a chapter | 48 | |
| 13698104285 | colloquial language | informal language; language that is "conversational" | 49 | |
| 13698104286 | Kafkaesque | surreal; bizarre | 50 | |
| 13698104292 | hyperbole | exaggeration | 51 | |
| 13698104294 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 52 | |
| 13698104295 | litotes | A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite | 53 | |
| 13698104296 | form | refers to the defining structural characteristics of a work, especially a poem. (factors include meter and rhyme scheme). Poets often work within set forms, such as the sonnet or sestina, which require adherence to fixed conventions | 54 | |
| 13698104297 | Mood/Atmosphere | the feeling created for the reader by a literary work or passage | 55 | |
| 13698104298 | Oxymoron | an expression in which two words that contradict each other are joined | 56 | |
| 13698104299 | tone | Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character | 57 | |
| 13698104300 | Overstatement | hyperbole | 58 | |
| 13698104301 | Understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. | 59 | |
| 13698104302 | Complex Sentence | A sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause | 60 | |
| 13698104303 | Compound Sentence | a sentence with two or more coordinate independent clauses, often joined by one or more conjunctions | 61 | |
| 13698131702 | Flat Character | A character who is not very well developed; has few identifiable characteristics | 62 | |
| 13698131703 | Round Character | A character who demonstrates some complexity and who develops or changes in the course of a work | 63 | |
| 13698137293 | secondary character | Characters which support the leading characters | 64 | |
| 13698140908 | stock character | the stereotyped character in which he is immediately known from typical characters in history | 65 | |
| 13698146183 | cumulative sentence | a sentence in which the main independent clause is elaborated by the successive addition of modifying clauses or phrases | 66 | |
| 13698149087 | denouement | the final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved. | 67 | |
| 13698155390 | direct characterization | The author directly states a character's traits | 68 | |
| 13698158221 | exposition | A narrative device, often used at the beginning of a work that provides necessary background information about the characters and their circumstances. | 69 | |
| 13698161035 | falling action | the part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved | 70 | |
| 13698166280 | figurative language | Writing or speech that is not intended to carry literal meaning and is usually meant to be imaginative and vivid. | 71 | |
| 13698176884 | imperative sentence | A sentence that requests or commands. | 72 | |
| 13698181641 | indirect characterization | Author subtly reveals the character through actions and interactions. | 73 | |
| 13698181642 | first person | the narrator is a character in the story | 74 | |
| 13698185212 | second person POV | The narrator tells the story using the pronouns "You", "Your," and "Yours" to address a reader or listener directly | 75 | |
| 13698189229 | third person limited omniscient | This type of point of view presents the feelings and thoughts of only one character, presenting only the actions of all remaining characters | 76 | |
| 13698195111 | third person omniscient | the narrator knows all of the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in a work | 77 | |
| 13698195112 | motif | A recurring theme, subject or idea | 78 | |
| 13698202695 | objective narrator | a third person narrator who only reports what would be visible to a camera; thoughts and feelings are only revealed if a character speaks of them | 79 | |
| 13698202696 | unreliable narrator | a narrator whose account of events appears to be faulty, misleadingly biased, or otherwise distorted | 80 | |
| 13698211220 | complex sentence | A sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause | 81 | |
| 13698214915 | compound sentence | two or more independent clauses | 82 | |
| 13698218806 | compound-complex sentence | at least one dependent clause and two or more independent clauses | 83 | |
| 13698222195 | interrupted sentence | dashes set off non-essential information | 84 | |
| 13698228770 | periodic sentence | sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end | 85 | |
| 13698236712 | simple sentence | A sentence consisting of one independent clause and no dependent clause | 86 | |
| 13698240236 | oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. | 87 | |
| 13698250237 | tragedy | A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character | 88 | |
| 13698255456 | Shakespearean Sonnet | a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg | 89 | |
| 13698258328 | Petrarchan sonnet (italian sonnet) | A poem of 14 lines with an octave rhyming abbaabba and a sestet rhyming cdecde. It avoids couplets in the sestet and limits rhymes to five. | 90 | |
| 13698264443 | iambic pentameter | a poetic meter that is made up of 5 stressed syllables each followed by an unstressed syllable | 91 | |
| 13698269254 | soliloquy | A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage | 92 | |
| 13698272976 | tragic hero | A literary character who makes an error of judgment or has a fatal flaw that, combined with fate and external forces, brings on a tragedy | 93 | |
| 13698272977 | tragic flaw | A weakness or limitation of character, resulting in the fall of the tragic hero. | 94 | |
| 13698277258 | anadiplosis | repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause | 95 | |
| 13698281592 | anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | 96 | |
| 13698281593 | assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds | 97 | |
| 13698284297 | asyndeton | omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words | 98 | |
| 13698288185 | catharsis | a release of emotional tension | 99 | |
| 13698328609 | situational irony | An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected | 100 | |
| 13698331373 | verbal irony | A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant | 101 | |
| 13698331374 | apostrophe | a figure of speech in which one directly addresses an absent or imaginary person, or some abstraction | 102 | |
| 13698336528 | archaic language | Old-fashioned, out-of-date language and expressions. | 103 | |
| 13698340585 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | 104 | |
| 13698340586 | couplet | Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme | 105 | |
| 13698343365 | foil | A character who contrasts and parallels the main character in a play or story. | 106 | |
| 13698350944 | foot | A metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables. | 107 | |
| 13698353737 | inversion | inverted order of words in a sentence (variation of the subject-verb-object order) | 108 | |
| 13698353738 | meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry | 109 | |
| 13698357508 | monologue | A long speech made by one performer or by one person in a group. | 110 | |
| 13698357509 | abstract | existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence. | 111 | |
| 13698362338 | concrete | existing in a material or physical form; real or solid; not abstract. | 112 | |
| 13698362339 | caricature | a picture, description, or imitation of a person or thing in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic or grotesque effect. | 113 | |
| 13698367112 | allegory | A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself. | 114 | |
| 13698376800 | extended metaphor | A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work. | 115 | |
| 13698376801 | kafkaesque | surreal; bizarre | 116 | |
| 13698380533 | minimalism | Literary minimalism is characterized by an economy with words and a focus on surface description. Minimalist writers eschew adverbs and prefer allowing context to dictate meaning. | 117 | |
| 13698424426 | novella | a short novel | 118 | |
| 13698427282 | denotation | The dictionary definition of a word | 119 | |
| 13698430161 | epigraph | a quotation or aphorism at the beginning of a literary work suggestive of the theme. | 120 | |
| 13698430162 | epiphany | A moment of sudden revelation or insight | 121 | |
| 13698460063 | iconography | the images and symbolic representations that are traditionally associated with a person or a subject | 122 | |
| 13698472068 | in medias res | in or into the middle of a plot; into the middle of things | 123 | |
| 13698472070 | metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it | 124 | |
| 13698478959 | non-sequitur | A statement that does not follow logically from evidence | 125 | |
| 13698478960 | propaganda | Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause. | 126 | |
| 13698495406 | colonialism | literature written during a time of colonization, usually from the point of view of colonizers. | 127 | |
| 13698506493 | feminist literature | literary works that explore women's identity and role in society | 128 | |
| 13698510708 | harlem renaissance | A literary and artistic movement celebrating African-American culture. (1920-1930's) | 129 | |
| 13698520758 | impressionism | An artistic movement that sought to capture a momentary feel, or impression, of the piece they were drawing | 130 | |
| 13698523089 | modernism | A cultural movement embracing human empowerment and rejecting traditionalism as outdated. Rationality, industry, and technology were cornerstones of progress and human achievement. | 131 | |
| 13698529565 | postmodernism | the belief that society is no longer governed by history or progress | 132 | |
| 13698532262 | realism | A 19th century artistic movement in which writers and painters sought to show life as it is rather than life as it should be | 133 | |
| 13698534822 | romanticism | 19th century artistic movement that appealed to emotion rather than reason | 134 | |
| 13698537888 | transcendentalism | A philosophy pioneered by Ralph Waldo Emerson in the 1830's and 1840's, in which each person has direct communication with God and Nature, and there is no need for organized churches. It incorporated the ideas that mind goes beyond matter, intuition is valuable, that each soul is part of the Great Spirit, and each person is part of a reality where only the invisible is truly real. Promoted individualism, self-reliance, and freedom from social constraints, and emphasized emotions. | 135 |
