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| 7978817892 | Resolution | final stage in the plot of a drama or fiction | 0 | |
| 7978822415 | Rhetoric | organization, strategy, and development of literary works, guided by an eye to how such elements will further the writer's intended effect | 1 | |
| 7978833785 | Rhyme | repetition of concluding sounds in different words, often intentionally used at end of lines | 2 | |
| 7978878146 | Masculine rhyme | single syllables correspond - also called rising rhyme | 3 | |
| 7978883402 | Feminine rhyme | two syllables correspond, second of which is stressed - also called falling rhyme or double rhyme | 4 | |
| 7978893859 | Triple rhyme | three syllables correspond | 5 | |
| 7978897328 | Eye rhyme | occurs when words look as if they would rhyme but don't -ex: "cough, tough" | 6 | |
| 7978906714 | Perfect rhyme | corresponding vowel and consonant sounds of accented syllables must be preceded by different consonants -ex: "born, horn" | 7 | |
| 7978918231 | Imperfect rhyme | occurs when consonants in two words are the same but intervening vowels are different -ex: "pick/pack," "lids/lads" -also called near rhyme, slant rhyme, and off rhyme | 8 | |
| 7978942074 | End rhyme | most common rhyme; rhyming syllables are at the ends of lines | 9 | |
| 7978948135 | Internal rhyme | consists of rhyming words found within a line of poetry | 10 | |
| 7978952285 | Beginning rhyme | occurs in first syllable(s) of the line | 11 | |
| 7978958231 | Rhyme royal | seven-line stanza (ababbcc) in iambic pentameter | 12 | |
| 7978968871 | Rhythm | regular recurrence of sounds within a poem. Determined by arrangement of metrical feet in a line | 13 | |
| 7978984954 | Sprung rhythm | introduced by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Number of strong stresses in a line determines rhythm, regardless of any weak syllables | 14 | |
| 7978998523 | Rising action | stage in a play's plot during which the action builds in intensity | 15 | |
| 7979004260 | Romance | type of narrative that deals with love and adventure in a non-realistic way, most popular in Middle Ages -used by Hawthorne | 16 | |
| 7979019102 | Romantic comedy | comedy in which love is the main subject and idealized heroines and lovers endure great difficulties until the inevitable happy ending is reached -ex: Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" | 17 | |
| 7979034975 | Romanticism | 18th and 19th century movement that valued subjectivity, individuality, imagination, nature, excess, the exotic, and the mysterious | 18 | |
| 7979047227 | Round character | well developed character who is closely involved in action and responsive to it | 19 | |
| 7979059074 | Run-on line | line of poetry that ends with no punctuation or natural pause and consequently runs over into next line -also called enjambment | 20 | |
| 7979071597 | Sarcasm | form of irony in which apparent praise is used to convey strong, bitter criticism | 21 | |
| 7979079469 | Satire | literary attack in folly or vanity by means of ridicule; usually intended to improve society | 22 | |
| 7979089492 | Scansion | process of determining the meter of a poem by analyzing the strong and weak stresses in a line to find the unit of meter and the number of feet in each line | 23 | |
| 7979105184 | Scrim | curtain that when illuminated from the front appears solid but when lit from the back becomes transparent | 24 | |
| 7979113307 | Sentimental comedy | reaction against comedy of manners. This comedy relies on sentimental emotion rather than on wit or humor to move an audience and dwells on virtues of life | 25 | |
| 7979125728 | Sestet | six-line stanza rhyming cdc/cdc in a Petrarchan sonnet | 26 | |
| 7979134634 | Sestina | poem composed of 6 six-line stanzas and a three-line stanza conclusion. Each line ends with one of six key words. The alternation of these six words creates rhythmic verbal pattern | 27 | |
| 7979152562 | Setting | background against which the action of a piece of literature takes place: the historical time, locale, season, time of day, interior decoration, etc. | 28 | |
| 7979169049 | Shakespearean Sonnet | 3 quatrains rhymed abab/cdcd/efef with a couplet rhymed gg -also called English sonnet | 29 | |
| 7979178116 | Short story | fictional narrative centered on one climatic event and usually developing only a single character in depth; its scope is narrower than a novel's, and often uses setting and characterization more directly to make the theme clear | 30 | |
| 7979200571 | Simile | comparison of 2 seemingly unlike things using words like or as -ex: "My love is like an arrow through my heart" | 31 | |
| 7979210999 | Situational irony | when what happens is at odds with what the story's situation leads readers to expect what will happen -ex: Browning's "Porphyria's Lover" | 32 | |
| 7979240169 | Soliloquy | convention of drama in which a character speaks directly to audience, revealing thoughts and feelings which other characters present on stage are not assumed to hear. This is taken to reflect a character's sincere feelings and beliefs | 33 | |
| 7979256754 | Sonnet | fourteen-line poem, usually a lyric in iambic pentameter -ex: Yeats's "Leda and the Swan" is Petrarchan | 34 | |
| 7979285162 | Speaker | narrator of a poem or story; in Greek tragedy, it was a mask worn by an actor | 35 | |
| 7979304096 | Spenserian stanza | nine-line form (ababbcbcc) with first 8 lines in iambic pentameter and last line in iambic hexameter | 36 | |
| 7979319054 | Static character | character that remains unchanged | 37 | |
| 7979322455 | Spondee | 2 stressed syllables | 38 | |
| 7979330615 | Stage business | actions or movement of an actor onstage -ex: lighting a cigarette, leaning on a mantel, straightening a picture | 39 | |
| 7979340706 | Stage directions | words in a play that describe an actor's role apart from the dialogue, dealing with movements, attitudes, and so on | 40 | |
| 7979350210 | Stage setting | scenery and props | 41 | |
| 7979375585 | Expressionist setting | scenery and props are exaggerated and distorted to reflect the workings of a troubled, abnormal mind | 42 | |
| 7979381859 | Surrealistic setting | designed to mirror the uncontrolled images of dreams and nightmares | 43 |
