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| 9731094050 | allegory | an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances | 0 | |
| 9731094051 | alliteration | the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words | 1 | |
| 9731094052 | allusion | a reference to something literary, mythological, or historical that the author assumes the reader will recognize | 2 | |
| 9731094053 | antagonist | the character who works against the protagonist in the story | 3 | |
| 9731094054 | apostrophe | a figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply | 4 | |
| 9731094055 | archetype | A detail, image, or character type that occurs frequently in literature and myth and is thought to appeal in a universal way to the unconscious and to evoke a response | 5 | |
| 9731094056 | aside | a line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage | 6 | |
| 9731094057 | assonance | the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words | 7 | |
| 9731094058 | ballad | A type of poem that is meant to be sung and is both lyric and narrative in nature | 8 | |
| 9731094059 | blank verse | unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter) | 9 | |
| 9731094060 | caesura | a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line | 10 | |
| 9731094061 | theme | a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work | 11 | |
| 9731094062 | characterization | the process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character | 12 | |
| 9731094063 | stream of consiousness | the continuous flow of sense perceptions, thoughts, feelings, and memories in the human mind; a literary method of representating such a blending of mental processes in fictional characters, usually in an unpunctuated or disjointed form of interior monologue | 13 | |
| 9731094064 | climax | the point of highest interest in a literary work | 14 | |
| 9731094065 | comedy | light and humorous drama with a happy ending | 15 | |
| 9731094066 | conceit | extended metaphor | 16 | |
| 9731094067 | couplet | a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse | 17 | |
| 9731094068 | deus ex machina | "An unrealistic or unexpected intervention to rescue the protagonists or resolve the conflict. The term means ""The god out of the machine"" and refers to stage machinery." | 18 | |
| 9731094069 | detail | the use of carefully selected images, phrases, descriptions, to help create tone or mood in a literary work. | 19 | |
| 9731094070 | diction | a writer's or speaker's choice of words | 20 | |
| 9731094071 | epiphany | a moment of sudden revelation or insight | 21 | |
| 9731094072 | exposition | introduces the characters, setting, and basic situation | 22 | |
| 9731094073 | figurative language | Writing or speech that is not intended to carry literal meaning and is usually meant to be imaginative and vivid. | 23 | |
| 9731094074 | first person point of view | Told from the viewpoint of one of the characters using the pronouns "I" and We" | 24 | |
| 9731094075 | flashback | a transition (in literary works) to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story | 25 | |
| 9731094076 | flashforward | Plot presentation moves forward to future events, then returns to the present. | 26 | |
| 9731094077 | foreshadowing | the use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot | 27 | |
| 9731094078 | iambic pentameter | meter in poetry consisting of a line with five feet or accents, each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable | 28 | |
| 9731094079 | lyric | of or relating to a category of poetry that expresses emotion (often in a songlike way) | 29 | |
| 9731094080 | meter | measures the number and type of feet in a line of poetry | 30 | |
| 9731094081 | narrator | someone who tells a story | 31 | |
| 9731094082 | octet | eight line stanza | 32 | |
| 9731094083 | omniscient | The narrator is an all-knowing outsider who can enter the minds of more than one of the characters. | 33 | |
| 9731094084 | parody | a humorous imitation of a serious work | 34 | |
| 9731094085 | persona | the speaker, voice, or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing | 35 | |
| 9731094086 | plot | The sequence of events in a story | 36 | |
| 9731094087 | point of view | the perspective from which a story is told | 37 | |
| 9731094088 | porsody | the rhythm, stress, and intonation of speech | 38 | |
| 9731094089 | protagonist | the principal character in a work of fiction | 39 | |
| 9731094090 | quatrain | a stanza of four lines | 40 | |
| 9731094091 | resolution | the final unraveling or solution of the plot | 41 | |
| 9731094092 | rhyme | a pattern of words that contain similar sounds; the matching of similar sounds in two or more words | 42 | |
| 9731094093 | Romantic | a soulful or amorous idealist, originally connected with the Romantic tradition of the 1700s and 1800s | 43 | |
| 9731094094 | satire | form of literature in which irony, sarcasm, and ridicule are employed to attack human vice and folly | 44 | |
| 9731094095 | scan | the marking of metrical feet in lines of poetry | 45 | |
| 9731094096 | sestet | a six line stanza | 46 | |
| 9731094097 | soliloquy | in drama, a character speaks alone on stage to allow his/her thoughts and ideas to be conveyed to the audience | 47 | |
| 9731094098 | speaker | the "narrator" of a poem | 48 | |
| 9731094099 | stock character | a character in literature quickly recognized and accepted by the reader because it often relies on stereotypes, and thus requires no development by the writer | 49 | |
| 9731094100 | tragedy | A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character | 50 | |
| 9731094101 | unreliable narrator | a narrator whose account of events appears to be faulty, misleadingly biased, or otherwise distorted perhaps due to youth, mental capacity, or outside motivations | 51 | |
| 9731094102 | rhythm | the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry | 52 | |
| 9731094103 | consonance | repetition of identical consonant sounds within two or more words in close proximity | 53 | |
| 9731094104 | elegy | a mournful poem, esp. one lamenting the dead | 54 | |
| 9731094105 | epic | a long narrative poem written in elevated style which present the adventures of characters of high position and episodes that are important to the history of a race or nation | 55 | |
| 9731094106 | free verse | unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern | 56 | |
| 9731094107 | hyperbole | a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor | 57 | |
| 9731094108 | litotes | understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary): she's not unattractive; I was not a little upset | 58 | |
| 9731094109 | metaphor | a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity | 59 | |
| 9731094110 | ode | a lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject | 60 | |
| 9731094111 | paradox | a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. | 61 | |
| 9731094112 | oxymoron | a figure of speech consisting of two apparently contradictory terms: deafening silence; bitter sweet | 62 | |
| 9731094113 | personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes | 63 | |
| 9731094114 | simile | a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as') | 64 | |
| 9731094115 | sonnet | a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme, usually iambic pentameter | 65 | |
| 9731094116 | understatement | the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis | 66 | |
| 9731094117 | ambiguity | the multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage | 67 | |
| 9731094118 | connotation | refers to the implied or suggested meanings associated with a word beyond its dictionary definition | 68 | |
| 9731094119 | denotation | the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression | 69 | |
| 9731094120 | foil | A character who is in most ways opposite to the main character (protagonist) or one who is nearly the same as the protagonist. The purpose of the foil character is to emphasize the traits of the main character by contrast only | 70 | |
| 9731094121 | imagery | words or phrases that use a collection of images to appeal to one or more of the five senses in order to create a mental picture | 71 | |
| 9731094122 | in medias res | beginning in the middle of the action (in the middle of things) | 72 | |
| 9731094123 | irony | incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs | 73 | |
| 9731094124 | symbol | something that stands for itself at a literal level but which also suggests something (or several things) at the same time; frequently a concrete object or animal that represents a quality or abstract idea | 74 | |
| 9731094125 | syntax | The rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language | 75 | |
| 9731094126 | tone | The attitude of the author towards the subject matter, audience, or speaker. | 76 |
