Terms : Hide Images
| 4861609754 | allegory | story or poem that can be used to reveal a hidden meaning | 0 | |
| 4861623216 | alliteration | beginning of same letter or sound in closely connected words | 1 | |
| 4861624714 | allusion | indirect of passing reference | 2 | |
| 4861625660 | anaphora | repetition in first part of a sentence, to have an artistic meaning | 3 | |
| 4861627656 | antagonist | a hostile person who is opposed to another character | 4 | |
| 4861629477 | apostrophe | figure of speech used to address an imaginary character | 5 | |
| 4861631294 | approximate rhyme | words in rhyming pattern that sound alike | 6 | |
| 4861632715 | aside | when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by other actors on the stage | 7 | |
| 4861634717 | assonance | repetition of vowel sounds | 8 | |
| 4861635822 | blank verse | poetry written in meter without an ending rhyme | 9 | |
| 4861636954 | cacophony | blend of unharmonious sounds | 10 | |
| 4861638033 | caesura | pause in the middle of a line | 11 | |
| 4861638034 | catharsis | the release of emotions through art (emotional cleanse) | 12 | |
| 4861645539 | characterization | process of revealing characters personality | 13 | |
| 4861647568 | climax | point where conflict hits its highest point | 14 | |
| 4861649204 | comedy | drama that is amusing or funny | 15 | |
| 4861650682 | conflict | struggle between opposing forces | 16 | |
| 4861652268 | connotation | secondary meaning to a word | 17 | |
| 4861654761 | consonance | repetition of same consonant in words close together | 18 | |
| 4861656716 | couplet | two rhyming lines in a verse | 19 | |
| 4976857403 | denotation | the literal meaning of a word | 20 | |
| 4976863100 | denouement | final outcome of the story | 21 | |
| 4976865524 | deus ex machina | resolution of a plot by chance or coincidence | 22 | |
| 4976869304 | didactic writing | writing with a primary purpose to teach or preach | 23 | |
| 4976874118 | direct presentation of character | author telling the reader how a character is and what actions it will do further in the story | 24 | |
| 4976878365 | double rhyme | rhyme where the repeated vowel is in the second last syllable of words involved (EX: born scorn) | 25 | |
| 4976885143 | dramatic exposition | prose commentaries, to provide background information about the characters and their world` | 26 | |
| 4976891339 | end rhyme | rhymes occurring at the end of line | 27 | |
| 4976893302 | end stopped line | line ending in regular punctuation | 28 | |
| 4976895716 | english sonnet | a sonnet rhyming ababcdcdededgg | 29 | |
| 4976901432 | epiphany | when a character receives a spiritual insight into their life | 30 | |
| 4976907300 | euphony | smooth choice and arrangement of sounds | 31 | |
| 4976909863 | extended figure | a figure of speech sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem | 32 | |
| 5092449201 | falling action | events after the climax, leading to the resolution | 33 | |
| 5092450177 | feminine rhyme | lines rhymed by their final two syllables | 34 | |
| 5092451042 | figurative language | language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling | 35 | |
| 5092452716 | figure of speech | a way of saying something other than the ordinary way | 36 | |
| 5092453677 | foot | basic unit in the scansion or measurement of verse, stressed and unstressed syllables | 37 | |
| 5092455346 | form | external pattern or shape of a poem | 38 | |
| 5092456187 | free verse | poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme | 39 | |
| 5223168891 | hamartia | tragic flaw which causes a character's downfall | 40 | |
| 5223175435 | hyperbole | a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor | 41 | |
| 5223180888 | imagery | description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) | 42 | |
| 5223185153 | indirect presentation of character | the personality of a character is revealed by what he or she does or says | 43 | |
| 5223188303 | internal rhyme | a word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line | 44 | |
| 5223190849 | irony | a contrast between expectation and reality | 45 | |
| 5223198320 | irony of situation | refers to an occurrence that is contrary to what is expected or intended | 46 | |
| 5223202984 | italian sonnet | a sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd | 47 | |
| 5355217042 | masculine rhyme | a rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable | 48 | |
| 5355217043 | melodrama | a play based upon a dramatic plot and developed sensationally | 49 | |
| 5355217044 | metaphor | a comparison without using like or as | 50 | |
| 5355217045 | meter | a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry | 51 | |
| 5355217046 | metonymy | a figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it | 52 | |
| 5355217047 | motivation | a need or desire that energizes and directs behavior | 53 | |
| 5910664995 | narrator | person telling the story | 54 | |
| 5910664996 | objective point of view | a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story, with no comment on any characters or events | 55 | |
| 5910664997 | octave | 8 line stanza | 56 | |
| 5910664998 | omniscient point of view | the point of view where the narrator knows everything about the characters and their problems - told in the 3rd person | 57 | |
| 5910664999 | onomatopoeia | a word that imitates the sound it represents | 58 | |
| 5910665000 | oxymoron | a figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase | 59 | |
| 5910665001 | paradox | a contradiction or dilemma | 60 | |
| 5910665002 | paraphrase | a restatement of a text or passage in your own words | 61 | |
| 5910665003 | personification | a figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes | 62 | |
| 5910665004 | plot | sequence of events in a story | 63 | |
| 5910665005 | point of view | the perspective from which a story is told | 64 | |
| 5910665006 | protagonist | main character | 65 | |
| 5910665007 | quatrain | 4 line stanza | 66 | |
| 5910665008 | rhyme scheme | a regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem | 67 | |
| 5910665009 | rhythm | a regularly recurring sequence of events or actions | 68 | |
| 5910665010 | rising action | events leading up to the climax | 69 | |
| 5910665011 | round character | character who has complex personality: contradicted person | 70 | |
| 6032823487 | sarcasm | the use of irony to mock or convey contempt | 71 | |
| 6032823488 | satire | a literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies | 72 | |
| 6032823489 | scansion | analysis of verse into metrical patterns | 73 | |
| 6032823490 | sestet | 6 line stanza | 74 | |
| 6032823491 | setting | the context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs | 75 | |
| 6032823492 | simile | a comparison using "like" or "as" | 76 | |
| 6032823493 | soliloquy | a long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage | 77 | |
| 6032823494 | sonnet | 14 line poem | 78 | |
| 6032823495 | stanza | a group of lines in a poem | 79 | |
| 6032823496 | static character | person who doesn't change throughout the story; keeps same personality | 80 | |
| 6032823497 | stream of consciousness | private thoughts of a character without commentary | 81 | |
| 6032823498 | syllabic verse | verse measured by the number of syllables rather than the number of feet per line | 82 | |
| 6032823499 | symbol | a thing that represents or stands for something else | 83 | |
| 6032823500 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 84 | |
| 6032823501 | synesthesia | describing one kind of sensation in terms of another | 85 | |
| 6032823502 | tercet | 3 line stanza | 86 | |
| 6032823503 | terza rima | a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc. | 87 | |
| 6032823504 | theme | central idea of a work of literature | 88 | |
| 6032823505 | third person limited point of view | narrator tells the story from only one character's POV | 89 | |
| 6032823506 | tone | attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character | 90 | |
| 6032823507 | tragedy | a serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character | 91 | |
| 6032823508 | truncation | utilizing a melody with part of the end omitted | 92 | |
| 6032823509 | understandment | the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude that it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis | 93 | |
| 6032823510 | verbal irony | a figure of soeech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant | 94 | |
| 6032823511 | verse | a single line of petry writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having rhyme | 95 | |
| 6032823512 | vilanelle | a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening terct recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain | 96 |
