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| 5261338055 | allegory | story or poem that can be used to reveal a hidden meaning |  | 0 |
| 5261338056 | alliteration | beginning of same letter or sound in closely connected words |  | 1 |
| 5261338057 | allusion | indirect of passing reference |  | 2 |
| 5261338058 | anaphora | repetition in first part of a sentence , to have an artistic meaning |  | 3 |
| 5261338059 | antagonist | a hostile person who is opposed to another character |  | 4 |
| 5261338060 | apostrophe | figure of speech used to adresss an imaginary character |  | 5 |
| 5261338061 | approximate rhyme | words in rhyming pattern that sound alike |  | 6 |
| 5261338062 | aside | when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by other actors on the stage |  | 7 |
| 5261338063 | assonance | repetition of vowel sounds |  | 8 |
| 5261338064 | blank verse | poetry written in meter without an ending rhyme |  | 9 |
| 5261338065 | cacophony | blend of unharmonious sounds |  | 10 |
| 5261338066 | caesura | pause in the middle of a line |  | 11 |
| 5261338067 | catharsis | the release of emotions through art (emotional cleanse) |  | 12 |
| 5261338068 | flat character | story character who have no depth, usually has one personality or characteristic |  | 13 |
| 5261338069 | round character | character who has complex personality: contradicted person |  | 14 |
| 5261338070 | dynamic character | changes throughout the story, through major conflict |  | 15 |
| 5261338071 | static character | person who doesn't change throughout story keeps same personality |  | 16 |
| 5261338072 | characterization | process of revealing characters personality |  | 17 |
| 5261338073 | climax | point where conflict hits its highest point |  | 18 |
| 5261338074 | comedy | drama that is amusing or funny |  | 19 |
| 5261338075 | conflict | struggle between opposing forces |  | 20 |
| 5261338076 | connotation | secondary meaning to a word |  | 21 |
| 5261338077 | consonance | repetition of same consonant in words close together |  | 22 |
| 5261338078 | couplet | two rhyming lines in a verse |  | 23 |
| 5261338079 | denotation | the literal meaning of a word |  | 24 |
| 5261338080 | denouement | final outcome of the story |  | 25 |
| 5261338081 | deus ex machina | resolution of a plot by chance or coincidence |  | 26 |
| 5261338082 | didactic writing | writing with a primary purpose to teach or preach |  | 27 |
| 5261338083 | direct presentation of character | author telling the reader how a character is and what actions it will do further in the story |  | 28 |
| 5261338084 | double rhyme | rhyme where the repeated vowel is in the second last syllable of words involved (ex; born scorn) | 29 | |
| 5261338085 | dramatic exposition | prose commentaries, to provide background information about the characters and their world |  | 30 |
| 5261338086 | end rhyme | rhymes occurring at the end of line |  | 31 |
| 5261338087 | end stopped line | line ending in regular punctuation |  | 32 |
| 5261338088 | English sonnet | a sonnet rhyming ababcdcdededgg |  | 33 |
| 5261338089 | epiphany | when a character receives a spiritual insight into they life |  | 34 |
| 5261338090 | euphony | smooth choice and arrangement of sounds |  | 35 |
| 5261338091 | extended figure | A figure of speech sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem. |  | 36 |
| 5261338092 | falling action | Events after the climax, leading to the resolution |  | 37 |
| 5261338093 | feminine rhyme | lines rhymed by their final two syllables |  | 38 |
| 5261338094 | figurative language | Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling. |  | 39 |
| 5261338095 | figure of speech | a way of saying something other than the ordinary way |  | 40 |
| 5261338096 | foot | basic unit in the scansion or measurement of verse , stressed and un stressed syllables |  | 41 |
| 5261338097 | form | external pattern or shape of a poem |  | 42 |
| 5261338098 | free verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme |  | 43 |
| 5261338099 | hamartia | tragic flaw which causes a character's downfall |  | 44 |
| 5261338100 | imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) |  | 45 |
| 5261338101 | indirect presentation of character | the personality of a character is revealed by what he or she does or says |  | 46 |
| 5261338102 | internal rhyme | A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line |  | 47 |
| 5261338103 | irony | A contrast between expectation and reality |  | 48 |
| 5261338104 | verbal irony | A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant |  | 49 |
| 5261338105 | dramatic irony | Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play. |  | 50 |
| 5261338106 | irony of situation | refers to an occurrence that is contrary to what is expected or intended |  | 51 |
| 5261338107 | italian sonnet | A sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd |  | 52 |
| 5261338108 | masculine rhyme | A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable |  | 53 |
| 5261338109 | melodrama | a play based upon a dramatic plot and developed sensationally |  | 54 |
| 5261338110 | metaphor | A comparison without using like or as |  | 55 |
| 5261338111 | meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry |  | 56 |
| 5261338112 | metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it |  | 57 |
| 5261338113 | motivation | A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior |  | 58 |
| 5261338114 | narrator | Person telling the story |  | 59 |
| 5261338115 | octave | 8 line stanza |  | 60 |
| 5261338116 | onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. |  | 61 |
| 5261338117 | hyperbole | A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor |  | 62 |
| 5261338118 | oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. |  | 63 |
| 5261338119 | paradox | A contradiction or dilemma |  | 64 |
| 5261338120 | paraphrase | A restatement of a text or passage in your own words. |  | 65 |
| 5261338121 | personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes |  | 66 |
| 5261338122 | plot | Sequence of events in a story | | 67 |
| 5261338123 | point of view | The perspective from which a story is told |  | 68 |
| 5261338124 | omniscient point of view | The point of view where the narrator knows everything about the characters and their problems - told in the 3rd person. |  | 69 |
| 5261338125 | third person limited point of view | narrator tells the story from only one character's pov |  | 70 |
| 5261338126 | first person point of view | a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself |  | 71 |
| 5261338127 | objective point of view | a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story, with no comment on any characters or events. |  | 72 |
| 5261338128 | protagonist | Main character |  | 73 |
| 5261338129 | quatrain | A four line stanza |  | 74 |
| 5261338130 | rhythm | A regularly recurring sequence of events or actions. |  | 75 |
| 5261338131 | rhyme scheme | A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem |  | 76 |
| 5261338132 | rising action | Events leading up to the climax |  | 77 |
| 5261338133 | sarcasm | the use of irony to mock or convey contempt |  | 78 |
| 5261338134 | satire | A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies. |  | 79 |
| 5261338135 | scansion | Analysis of verse into metrical patterns |  | 80 |
| 5261338136 | sestet | 6 line stanza |  | 81 |
| 5261338137 | setting | The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs. |  | 82 |
| 5261338138 | simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" |  | 83 |
| 5261338139 | soliloquy | A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage |  | 84 |
| 5261338140 | sonnet | 14 line poem |  | 85 |
| 5261338141 | stanza | A group of lines in a poem | | 86 |
| 5261338142 | stream of consciousness | private thoughts of a character without commentary |  | 87 |
| 5261338143 | syllabic verse | Verse measured by the number of syllables rather than the number of feet per line. |  | 88 |
| 5261338144 | symbol | A thing that represents or stands for something else |  | 89 |
| 5261338145 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa |  | 90 |
| 5261338146 | synesthesia | describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound") |  | 91 |
| 5261338147 | tercet | 3 line stanza | | 92 |
| 5261338148 | terza rima | a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc. |  | 93 |
| 5261338149 | theme | Central idea of a work of literature |  | 94 |
| 5261338150 | tone | Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character |  | 95 |
| 5261338151 | tragedy | A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character |  | 96 |
| 5261338152 | truncation | Utilizing a melody with part of the end omitted. |  | 97 |
| 5261338153 | understandment | the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis |  | 98 |
| 5261338154 | verse | A single line of poetry writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme | | 99 |
| 5261338155 | 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 tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain. |  | 100 |
| 5261338156 | anaphora | the regular repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of two or more successive phrases or clauses. |  | 101 |
| 5261338157 | chiasmus | a reversal in the word order of words in two otherwise parallel sentences |  | 102 |
| 5261338158 | apostrophe | the direct address to an absent or dead person, or to an object, quality, or idea. | | 103 |
| 5261338159 | hyperbole | a rhetorical figure in which emphasis is achieved through exaggeration | | 104 |
| 5261338160 | metaphor | figurative language that describes something as though it actually were something else |  | 105 |
| 5261338161 | metonymy | the substitution of one term for another that is generally associated with it. (ex. the crown declared that the man would be executed.) |  | 106 |
| 5261338162 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole (ex. all hands on deck) |  | 107 |
| 5261338163 | onomatopoeia | the use of words that sound like a noise |  | 108 |
| 5261338164 | paradox | a statement or expression so surprisingly self-contradictory but ends up being true on some level |  | 109 |
| 5261338165 | parallelism | the use of similar grammatical structures or word order. |  | 110 |
| 5261338166 | personification | the use of human characteristics to describe animals, things, or ideas. |  | 111 |
| 5261338167 | point of view | the perspective that a narrator takes toward the events it describes |  | 112 |
| 5261338168 | protagonist | the central character in a story | 113 | |
| 5261338169 | pun | a witty word-play which reveals that words with different meanings have similar or even identical sounds |  | 114 |
| 5261338170 | satire | writing that ridicules or holds up to contempt the faults of individuals or groups |  | 115 |
| 5261338171 | polysyndeton | the repetition of conjunctions in a sentence |  | 116 |
| 5261338172 | asyndeton | the omission of conjunctions in a sentence |  | 117 |
| 5261338173 | archetype | a symbol found in many cultures |  | 118 |
| 5261338174 | dramatic irony | a situation where the audience knows something that the characters on stage are not aware of |  | 119 |
| 5261338175 | allusion | a reference to a piece of literature, character, historical figure that the author assumes the reader will recognize |  | 120 |
| 5261338176 | dramatic climax | the turning point in a Shakespearean tragedy where the action turns against the protagonist |  | 121 |
| 5261338177 | diction | the word choices made by a writer |  | 122 |
| 5261338178 | didactic | having the primary purpose of teaching or instructing |  | 123 |
| 5261338179 | flat (static) character | a character who embodies a single quality and who does not develop in the course of a story |  | 124 |
| 5261338180 | dynamic (round) character | a character who undergoes a change or transformation in the course of a story | 125 | |
| 5261338181 | exposition | the beginning portion of Freytag's pyramid where the background information, characters and setting are introduced |  | 126 |
| 5261338182 | exciting force | the spark or complication that "gets the action going" in the play the event that sets the plot into motion |  | 127 |
| 5261338183 | rising action | Events leading up to the climax |  | 128 |
| 5261338184 | denouement (catastrophe) | The final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work or the outcome of a complicated sequence of events |  | 129 |
| 5261338185 | omniscient narrator | a narrator who is able to know, see, and tell all, including the inner thoughts and feelings of the characters |  | 130 |
| 5261338186 | theme | Central idea of a work of literature |  | 131 |
| 5261338187 | tone | A writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization on the sentence and global levels. |  | 132 |
| 5261338188 | deus ex machina | an unexpected power or event saving a seemingly hopeless situation, especially as a contrived plot device in a play or novel | | 133 |
| 5261338189 | anaphora | the regular repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of two or more successive phrases or clauses. | | 134 |
| 5261338190 | chiasmus | a reversal in the word order of words in two otherwise parallel sentences | | 135 |
| 5261338191 | apostrophe | the direct address to an absent or dead person, or to an object, quality, or idea. | | 136 |
| 5261338192 | hyperbole | a rhetorical figure in which emphasis is achieved through exaggeration | | 137 |
| 5261338193 | metaphor | figurative language that describes something as though it actually were something else | | 138 |
| 5261338194 | metonymy | the substitution of one term for another that is generally associated with it. (ex. the crown declared that the man would be executed.) | | 139 |
| 5261338195 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole (ex. all hands on deck) | | 140 |
| 5261338196 | onomatopoeia | the use of words that sound like a noise | | 141 |
| 5261338197 | paradox | a statement or expression so surprisingly self-contradictory but ends up being true on some level | | 142 |
| 5261338198 | parallelism | the use of similar grammatical structures or word order. | | 143 |
| 5261338199 | personification | the use of human characteristics to describe animals, things, or ideas. | | 144 |
| 5261338200 | point of view | the perspective that a narrator takes toward the events it describes | | 145 |
| 5261338201 | protagonist | the central character in a story | 146 | |
| 5261338202 | pun | a witty word-play which reveals that words with different meanings have similar or even identical sounds | | 147 |
| 5261338203 | satire | writing that ridicules or holds up to contempt the faults of individuals or groups | | 148 |
| 5261338204 | polysyndeton | the repetition of conjunctions in a sentence | | 149 |
| 5261338205 | asyndeton | the omission of conjunctions in a sentence | | 150 |
| 5261338206 | archetype | a symbol found in many cultures | | 151 |
| 5261338207 | dramatic irony | a situation where the audience knows something that the characters on stage are not aware of | | 152 |
| 5261338208 | allusion | a reference to a piece of literature, character, historical figure that the author assumes the reader will recognize | | 153 |
| 5261338209 | dramatic climax | the turning point in a Shakespearean tragedy where the action turns against the protagonist | | 154 |
| 5261338210 | diction | the word choices made by a writer | | 155 |
| 5261338211 | didactic | having the primary purpose of teaching or instructing | | 156 |
| 5261338212 | flat (static) character | a character who embodies a single quality and who does not develop in the course of a story | | 157 |
| 5261338213 | dynamic (round) character | a character who undergoes a change or transformation in the course of a story | 158 | |
| 5261338214 | exposition | the beginning portion of Freytag's pyramid where the background information, characters and setting are introduced | | 159 |
| 5261338215 | exciting force | the spark or complication that "gets the action going" in the play the event that sets the plot into motion | | 160 |
| 5261338216 | rising action | Events leading up to the climax | | 161 |
| 5261338217 | denouement (catastrophe) | The final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work or the outcome of a complicated sequence of events | | 162 |
| 5261338218 | omniscient narrator | a narrator who is able to know, see, and tell all, including the inner thoughts and feelings of the characters | | 163 |
| 5261338219 | theme | Central idea of a work of literature | | 164 |
| 5261338220 | tone | A writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization on the sentence and global levels. | | 165 |
| 5261338221 | deus ex machina | an unexpected power or event saving a seemingly hopeless situation, especially as a contrived plot device in a play or novel | | 166 |
