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| 7836885982 | Naturalism | literary movement whose followers believed that life should not be idealized when depicted in literature; it should show is a continual struggle -ex: Émile Zola, Jack London, and Stephen Crane | 0 | |
| 7836986531 | New comedy | Greek comedies of 4th and 3rd centuries BC that followed Old Centuries; comedies of romance w/ stock characters and conventional settings; lacked satire, invective, and bawdiness; originated in works of Meander and developed by Plautus and Terence | 1 | |
| 7837101445 | Novel | fictional narrative, traditionally realistic, relating a series of events of following the history of a character or group through a time period | 2 | |
| 7841299400 | Novella | extended short story, usually concentrated in episode and action but involving greater character development -ex: "The Metamorphosis" | 3 | |
| 7841310359 | Octave | rhymed abba/abba in Petrarchan sonnet | 4 | |
| 7841333655 | Ode | long lyric poem, common in antiquity and adapted by the Romantic poets, often addressed to some significant object that has stimulated poet's imagination -ex: objects such as nightingale or west wind | 5 | |
| 7841347695 | Old comedy | the 1st comedies, which heavily satirized the religious and social issues of the day; chief practitioner was Aristophanes | 6 | |
| 7841388426 | Onomatopoeia | word whose sound resembles what it describes -ex: "snap, crackle, pop" and Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky" | 7 | |
| 7841396796 | Open form | poetry that makes use of varying line lengths, no stanzaic form, unexpected breaks in lines, and abandoning formal structure | 8 | |
| 7841407685 | Ottava rima | 8 line stanza of iambic pentameter | 9 | |
| 7841412852 | Oxymoron | phrase combining 2 seemingly incompatible elements -ex: "crashing silence" | 10 | |
| 7841420836 | Parable | story that uses analogy to make a moral point -ex: prodigal son in New Testament | 11 | |
| 7841427339 | Paradox | seemingly contradictory situation -ex: Adrienne Rich's "A Woman Mourned by Daughters" | 12 | |
| 7841435258 | Parody | exaggerated imitation of a serious piece of literature for humorous effect -ex: In The Colored Museum by George C Wolfe, "The Last Mama-on-the-Couch Play" is parody of A Raisin in the Sun | 13 | |
| 7841457903 | Pastoral | literary work that deals with nostalgically and usually unrealistically with a simple, preindustrial rural life; comes from the fact that pastorals featured shepherds -ex: Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" | 14 | |
| 7841482842 | Pastoral romance | prose tale set in an idealized rural world; popular in Renaissance England | 15 | |
| 7841359537 | Perfect rhyme | rhyme in which corresponding vowel and consonant sounds of accented syllables must be preceded by different consonant -ex: "born" and "horn" | 16 | |
| 7841501170 | Persona | narrator or speaker of a poem or story; in Greek tragedy, it was a mask worn by an actor | 17 | |
| 7841508456 | Personification | attributing of human qualities to things that are not human -ex: "the river wept" | 18 | |
| 7841516118 | Petrarchan sonnet | 14-line poem in iambic pentameter with an octave rhymed abba/abba and sestet rhymed cdc/cdc | 19 | |
| 7841533425 | Picaresque | episodic, often satirical work about a rogue or rascal; form emerged in 16th century Spain -ex: Cervante's "Don Quixote" | 20 | |
| 7841547838 | Picture-frame stage | stage that looks like a room with a missing wall through which the audience views the play | 21 | |
| 7841554623 | Proscenium arch | the divider of a picture-frame stage that separates the audience from play | 22 | |
| 7841561729 | Plot | way in which events of story are arranged; follows a pattern of action in drama, rising to a climax, then falling to a resolution | 23 | |
| 7841567140 | Double plot | when there are 2 stories of more or less equal significance | 24 | |
| 7841574543 | Subplot | when there is more than one story but one is clearly more significant | 25 | |
| 7841590691 | Poetic rhythm | regular occurrence of sounds in a poem; determined by arrangement of metrical feet in a line | 26 | |
| 7841603363 | Sprung rhythm | introduced by George Manley Hopkins, this term describes rhythm that is determined by strong stresses only | 27 | |
| 7841618742 | Point of view | perspective from which the story is told | 28 | |
| 7841628851 | First person | when the story is told is told by a character in a story | 29 | |
| 7841632831 | Third person | when story is told by one who is not in the action | 30 | |
| 7841641080 | Omniscient | 3rd person narrator who knows the actions and internal thoughts of everyone in the story | 31 | |
| 7841650813 | Limited omniscient | 3rd person narrator who only knows some of the characters' thoughts and actions | 32 | |
| 7841656820 | Second person | point of view that uses imperative mood throughout the story; uses "you" | 33 | |
| 7841670756 | Unreliable narrator | narrator that is untrustworthy, whether they are stupid or bad | 34 | |
| 7841676968 | Naive narrator | narrator that does not understand what they are reporting -ex: children | 35 | |
| 7841688442 | dramatic point of view | point of view that tells the story the same way it would be told on stage - also called objective | 36 | |
| 7841694746 | Popular fiction | works aimed at a mass audience | 37 | |
| 7841698953 | Prologue | 1st part of play in which the actor gives the background that the audience needs - originated from Greek tragedies | 38 | |
| 7841718095 | Props | pictures, furnishings, and so on, that decorate the stage of a play | 39 | |
| 7841722080 | Prose poem | open form poem whose long lines appear to be prose set in paragraphs -ex: Walt Whitman's "Cavalry Crossing a Ford" | 40 | |
| 7841731955 | Protagonist | principal character of a drama or fiction; the hero. The tragic hero is the notable protagonist in a Greek drama who falls because of a tragic flaw | 41 | |
| 7841745394 | Pyrrhic | two unstressed syllables | 42 | |
| 7841750620 | Quatrain | stanza of 4 lines | 43 | |
| 7841756353 | Realism | writing that stresses careful description of setting and the trappings of daily life, psychological probability, and the lives of ordinary people. Its practitioners believe they are presenting life "as it really is" -ex: Ibsen's "A Doll House" | 44 |
