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| 3565185231 | Blank Verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter, _____ is the most commonly used verse form in English because it is the verse form that comes closest to natural patterns of speaking in English. | 0 | |
| 3565185232 | Caesura | A pause within a line of poetry, sometimes punctuated, sometimes not, often mirroring natural speech. | 1 | |
| 3565185233 | End Rhyme | when a poem has lines ending with words that sound the same. | 2 | |
| 3565185234 | Enjambment | A poetic technique in which one line ends without a pause and must continue on to the next line to complete its meaning; also referred to as a "run-on line." | 3 | |
| 3565185235 | Eye Rhyme | a similarity between words in spelling but not in pronunciation | 4 | |
| 3565185236 | Foot | refers to the most basic unit of a poem's meter. _____ is a combination of stressed and unstressed syllables. | 5 | |
| 3565185237 | Free Verse | A form of poetry that does not have a regular rhythm or rhyme scheme. | 6 | |
| 3565185238 | Iambic | a foot containing unaccented and short syllables followed by a long and accented syllable in a single line of a poem (unstressed/stressed syllables). | 7 | |
| 3565185239 | 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. | 8 | |
| 3565185240 | Meter | a unit of rhythm in poetry, the pattern of the beats. | 9 | |
| 3565185241 | Near Rhyme | rhyming in which the words sound the same but do not rhyme perfectly. | 10 | |
| 3565185242 | Rhythm | The general pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. | 11 | |
| 3565185243 | Stanza | Lines in a poem that the poet has chosen to group together, usually separated from other lines by a space. Stanzas within a poem usually have repetitive forms, often sharing rhyme schemes or rhythmic structures. | 12 | |
| 3565185244 | Complex Sentence | a sentence containing a subordinate clause or clauses. | 13 | |
| 3565185245 | Compound Sentence | a sentence with more than one subject or predicate. | 14 | |
| 3565185246 | Cumulative Sentence | a type of sentence in which the main idea (independent clause) is elaborated by the successive addition of modifying clauses or phrases. | 15 | |
| 3565185247 | Sonnet | A poetic form composed of fourteen lines in iambic pentameter that adheres to a particular rhyme scheme. The two most common types are: Petrarchan and Shakespearean | 16 | |
| 3565185248 | Imperative Sentence | An imperative sentence is a type of sentence that gives advice or instructions or that expresses a request or command. | 17 | |
| 3565185249 | Interrupted Sentence | A sentence of any pattern modifi ed by interruptions that add descriptive details, state conditions, suggest uncertainty, voice possible alternative views, or present qualifi cations. | 18 | |
| 3565185250 | Periodic Sentence | A sentence that begins with details, qualifi cations, or modifications, building toward the main clause. | 19 | |
| 3565185251 | Simple Sentence | A sentence composed of one main clause without any subordinate clause | 20 | |
| 3565185252 | Bildungsroman | A novel that explores the maturation of the protagonist, with the narrative usually moving the main character from childhood into adulthood. Also called a coming-of-age story. | 21 | |
| 3565185253 | First Person Narrator | Told by a narrator who is a character in the story and who refers to him- or herself as "I." First-person narrators are sometimes unreliable narrators. | 22 | |
| 3565185254 | Flat Character | A character embodying only one or two traits and who lacks character development; for this reason, a fl at character is also called a static character. Often such characters exist only to provide background or adequate motivation for a protagonist's actions. | 23 | |
| 3565185255 | Monologue | In a play, a speech given by one person. | 24 | |
| 3565185256 | Objective Narrator | A narrator who recounts only what characters say and do, offering no insight into their thinking or analysis of events. All interpretation is left to the reader. | 25 | |
| 3565185257 | Passive Voice | A sentence employs passive voice when the subject doesn't act but is acted on. | 26 | |
| 3565185258 | Persona | A character or figurative mask that an actor, writer, or singer takes on in order to perform. | 27 | |
| 3565185259 | Round Character | A character exhibiting a range of emotions and who evolves over the course of the story. | 28 | |
| 3565185260 | Second Person Narrator | Though rare, some stories are told using second-person pronouns (you). This casts the reader as a character in the story. | 29 | |
| 3565185261 | Secondary Character | A supporting character; while not as prominent or central as a main character, he or she is still important to the events of a story or play. | 30 | |
| 3565185262 | Stock Character | A type of flat character based on a stereotype; one who falls into an immediately recognizable category or type — such as the absentminded professor or the town drunk — and thus resists unique characterization. Stock characters can be artfully used for humor or satire. | 31 | |
| 3565185263 | Third Person Limited | In third person limited the narrator only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character. | 32 | |
| 3565185264 | Third Person Omniscient | Told by a narrator using third-person pronouns. This narrator is privy to the thoughts and actions of all of the characters in the story. | 33 | |
| 3565185265 | Unreliable narrator | a narrator who can't be trusted; either from ignorance or self-interest, this narrator speaks with a bias, makes mistakes, or even lies | 34 | |
| 3565185266 | Antagonist | Character in a story or play who opposes the protagonist; while not necessarily an enemy, the antagonist creates or intensifies a conflict for the protagonist. An evil antagonist is a villain. | 35 | |
| 3565185267 | Climax | The point in a story when the conflict reaches its highest intensity. The point of no return. | 36 | |
| 3565185268 | Conflict | The tension, opposition, or struggle that drives a plot. External conflict is the opposition or tension between two characters or forces. Internal conflict occurs within a character. Conflict usually arises between the protagonist and the antagonist in a story. | 37 | |
| 3565185269 | Denouement | Pronounced day-noo-moh, this literally means "untying the knot"; in this phase of a story's plot, the confl ict has been resolved and balance is restored to the world of the story. | 38 | |
| 3565185270 | Exposition | In a literary work, contextual and background information told to readers (rather than shown through action) about the characters, plot, setting, and situation. | 39 | |
| 3565185271 | Flashback | A scene in a narrative that is set in an earlier time than the main action. | 40 | |
| 3565185272 | Foil | A contrasting character who allows the protagonist to stand out more distinctly. | 41 | |
| 3565185273 | Foreshadow | A plot device in which future events are hinted at. | 42 | |
| 3565185274 | Mood | Synonymous with atmosphere, mood is the feeling created for the reader by a work of literature. Many things can generate mood — especially style, tone, and setting. | 43 | |
| 3565185275 | Motif | A recurring pattern of images, words, or symbols that reveals a theme in a work of literature. | 44 | |
| 3565185276 | Protagonist | The main character in a work; often a hero or heroine, but not always | 45 | |
| 3565185277 | Rising Action | The events, marked by increasing tension and confl ict, that build up to a story's climax. | 46 | |
| 3565185278 | Symbol | A setting, object, or event in a story that carries more than literal meaning and therefore represents something signifi cant to understanding the meaning of a work of literature. | 47 | |
| 3565185279 | Theme | Underlying issues or ideas of a work. | 48 | |
| 3565185280 | Tone | A speaker's attitude as exposed through stylistic choices. (Tone is often confused with another element of style, mood, which describes the feeling created by the work.) Along with mood, tone provides the emotional coloring of a work and is created by some combination of the other elements of style | 49 | |
| 3565185281 | Personification | A figure of speech in which an animal or an inanimate object is imbued with human qualities | 50 | |
| 3565286350 | Paradox | A statement that seems contradictory but actually is not. | 51 | |
| 3565286351 | Hyperbole | Deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis or to produce a comic or ironic effect; an overstatement to make a point. | 52 | |
| 3565286352 | Understatement | The presentation or framing of something as less important, urgent, awful, good, powerful, and so on, than it actually is, often for satiric or comical effect; the opposite of hyperbole, it is often used along with this technique, and for similar effect. | 53 | |
| 3565286353 | Irony | is a figure of speech in which words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words. It may also be a situation that may end up in quite a different way than what is generally anticipated. | 54 | |
| 3565286354 | Simile | A figure of speech used to explain or clarify an idea by comparing it explicitly to something else, using the words like, as, or as though to do so. | 55 | |
| 3565286355 | Metaphor | A figure of speech that compares or equates two things without using like or as. | 56 | |
| 3565286356 | Connotation | Meanings or associations readers have with a word or item beyond its dictionary definition, or denotation. Connotations may reveal another layer of meaning of a piece, affect the tone, or suggest symbolic resonance. | 57 | |
| 3565286357 | Oxymoron | A paradox made up of two seemingly contradictory words. | 58 | |
| 3565286358 | Denotation | The literal definition of a word, often referred to as the "dictionary definition." | 59 | |
| 3565286359 | Abstract | An abstract term is a general term, referring to a broad concept, as opposed to a term that refers to a specific, particular thing (e.g., personhood as opposed to Seamus Heaney); opposite of concrete. | 60 | |
| 3565286360 | Concrete | A concrete term is one that refers to a specific, particular thing, as opposed to a term that refers to a broad concept (e.g., Seamus Heaney as opposed to person-hood); opposite of abstract. | 61 | |
| 3565286361 | Colloquialism | An expression or language construction appropriate only for casual, informal speaking or writing. | 62 | |
| 3565286362 | Dialect | Dialogue or narration written to simulate regional or cultural speech patterns. | 63 | |
| 3565323934 | Dialogue | The written depiction of conversation between characters. | 64 | |
| 3565323935 | Formal | is a broad term for speech or writing marked by an impersonal, objective, and precise use of language. | 65 | |
| 3565323936 | Informal | A broad term for speech or writing marked by a casual, familiar, and generally colloquial use of language. An informal writing style is often more direct than a formal style and may rely more heavily on contractions, abbreviations, short sentences, and ellipses. | 66 | |
| 3565323937 | Literal | in accordance with, involving, or being the primary or strict meaning of the word or words; not figurative or metaphorical: the literal meaning of a word. | 67 | |
| 3565323938 | Figurative | Language that uses figures of speech; nonliteral language usually evoking strong images. Sometimes referred to as metaphorical language, most of its forms explain, clarify, or enhance an idea by comparing it to something else; the comparison can be explicit (simile) or implied (metaphor). Other forms of figurative language include personification, paradox, overstatement (hyperbole), understatement, and irony. | 68 |
