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| 11891303973 | point of view (1st, 3rd) | the narrator or speaker perspective from which story is told; the perspective from which a narrative is presented. It is analogous to the point from which the camera sees the action in cinema. The third-person (omniscient) stands outside the story itself and always uses third-person pronouns (he, she, they). The first-person narrator participates in the story and uses the first-person "I" | 0 | |
| 11891439174 | point of view (limited) | the narrator tells the story in the third person, but stays inside the confines of what is perceived, thought, remembered, and felt by a single character within the story | 1 | |
| 11891447947 | point of view (omniscient) | "all-knowing"; narrator plays no part in the story but can tell us what all of the characters are thinking/feeling. Also known as third-person point of view | 2 | |
| 11893108005 | protagonist | the main character in a story; more than one character may be important enough to be called "main," or NO character seems to qualify. In those cases, figuring out whether there is a main character and who it is may be an interesting and even difficult interpretive job | 3 | |
| 11893129151 | pun | a play on words wherein a word is used to convey two meanings at the same time Ex. In Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"," Mercutio, who had just been stabbed, knows he is dying and says: "Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man." | 4 | |
| 11893153835 | quatrain | a four-line stanza | 5 | |
| 11893157873 | realism | fidelity to actuality in literature | 6 | |
| 11893161358 | refrain | a phrase or line, usually pertinent to the central topic, which is repeated at regular intervals throughout a poem, usually at the end of a stanza | 7 | |
| 11893173839 | repetition | repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis | 8 | |
| 11893752993 | rhetorical question | a question solely for effect, with no answer expected. By the implication that the answer is obvious, it is a means of achieving an emphasis stronger than a direct statement | 9 | |
| 11893767258 | rhetorical strategy | the way an author organizes words, sentences, and overall argument in order to achieve a particular purpose | 10 | |
| 11893793914 | rhyme scheme | a pattern of rhyming words in a stanza | 11 | |
| 11893797736 | romance | works having extravagant characters, remote or exotic settings, adventure, magic, chivalry, and love | 12 | |
| 11893808412 | round character | a fully developed character; character who is complex, multi-dimensional, and convincing | 13 | |
| 11893819201 | satire | a piece of literature designed to ridicule the subject of the work. While it can be funny, its aim is not to amuse, but to arouse contempt. It arouses laughter or scorn as a means of ridicule and derision, with the avowed intention of correcting human faults Ex. Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travel | 14 | |
| 11893845147 | sestet | a six-line stanza | 15 | |
| 11893853253 | sestina | 6 six-line stanzas ending with tercet; last words of each line in 1st stanza are repeated as last words in next stanza | 16 | |
| 11893875877 | Shakespearen sonnet | a fixed form consisting of fourteen lines of iambic pentameter. The lines are grouped in three quatrains with alternating rhymes (ababcdcdefef) followed by a heroic couplet (gg) that is usually epigrammatic | 17 | |
| 11893895022 | simile | a figure of speech which takes the form of a comparison between two unlike quantities for which a basis for comparison can be found, and which uses the words "like" or "as" in the comparison Ex. "clear as frost on the grass blade" | 18 | |
| 11893930207 | situational irony | occurs when the outcome of a work is unexpected, or events turn out to be the opposite from what one had expected | 19 | |
| 11893947195 | soliloquy | a long speech made by a character who is alone on the stage in which he reveals his innermost thoughts and feelings | 20 | |
| 11893963349 | Spenserian sonnet | a nine-line stanza, with the first eight lines in iambic pentameter and the last line in iambic hexameter | 21 | |
| 11893970548 | stanza | a related group of lines in a poem, equivalent to a paragraph in prose | 22 | |
| 11893981720 | static character | a character who is the same sort of person at the end of a story as he or she was at the beginning | 23 | |
| 11893990001 | stock character | stereotyped character: one whose nature is familiar from prototypes in previous fiction | 24 | |
| 11893998533 | stream of consciousness | narrative technique which presents thoughts as if they were coming directly from a character's mind | 25 | |
| 11894007801 | subplot | a subordinate or minor collection of events in a novel or play, usually connected to the main plot | 26 | |
| 11894034554 | suspense | a feeling of anticipation that something risky or dangerous is about to happen. Authors use it to keep readers' interest alive and for readers to form sympathetic associations with the characters | 27 | |
| 11894079001 | symbolism | using an image to represent an idea Ex. storms often symbolize impending disaster. Red rose = love. Dove = peace. Black cat = bad luck | 28 | |
| 11894092697 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part of something stands for the whole or the whole for a part Ex. wheels for automobile or society for high society | 29 | |
| 11894105141 | syntax | the arrangement of words in a sentence, the grammar of a sentence | 30 | |
| 11894112612 | tercet | a three-line stanza in poetry | 31 | |
| 11894118402 | theme | an ingredient of a literary work which gives the work unity. It provides an answer to the question, "What is the work about?" Each literary work carries its own __________. Unlike plot, which deals with the action of a work, this concerns itself with a work's message or contains the general idea of a work and is worded in a complete sentence | 32 | |
| 11894147942 | tone | expresses the author's attitude toward his or her subject. May be one of anger or approval, pride or piety; the entire gamut of attitudes toward life's phenomena | 33 | |
| 11894160558 | tragedy | depicts the downfall or destruction of a character | 34 | |
| 11894167115 | tragic flaw | an error in judgement | 35 | |
| 11894174962 | trochaic foot | poetic line created with 1 accented, 1 unaccented syllable | 36 | |
| 11894180412 | utopia | an ideal society | 37 | |
| 11894195673 | verbal irony | a kind of irony in which words are used to suggest the opposite of their actual meaning | 38 | |
| 11894204898 | vernacular | everyday language | 39 | |
| 11894209663 | verse | writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme | 40 | |
| 11894212432 | villanelle | a poem with five triplets and a final quatrain; only two rhyme sounds are permitted in the entire poem, and the first and third lines of the first stanza are repeated, alternately, as the third line of subsequent stanzas until the last, when they appear as the last two lines of the poem | 41 | |
| 11894212433 | volta | the shift or point of dramatic change in a poem | 42 |
