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| 6703343244 | allegory | story or poem that can be used to reveal a hidden meaning Could represent youth and age,prosperity and time of hardship, struggles of a person to live a Christian Life |  | 0 |
| 6703343245 | alliteration | beginning of same letter or sound in closely connected words |  | 1 |
| 6703343246 | allusion | indirect of passing reference Brave New World --> Shakespeare Ragtime --> topical (current events) |  | 2 |
| 6703343247 | anaphora | repetition in first part of a sentence , to have an artistic meaning |  | 3 |
| 6703343248 | antagonist | a hostile person who is opposed to another character |  | 4 |
| 6703343249 | apostrophe | figure of speech used to adresss an imaginary character |  | 5 |
| 6703343250 | approximate rhyme | words in rhyming pattern that sound alike |  | 6 |
| 6703343251 | aside | when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by other actors on the stage |  | 7 |
| 6703343253 | blank verse | poetry written in meter without an ending rhyme |  | 8 |
| 6703343254 | cacophony | blend of unharmonious sounds in poety |  | 9 |
| 6703343255 | caesura | pause in the middle of a line |  | 10 |
| 6703343258 | round character | character who has complex personality: contradicted person |  | 11 |
| 6703343259 | dynamic character | changes throughout the story, through major conflict |  | 12 |
| 6703343260 | static character | person who doesn't change throughout story keeps same personality |  | 13 |
| 6703343261 | characterization | process of revealing characters personality |  | 14 |
| 6703343262 | climax | point where conflict hits its highest point |  | 15 |
| 6703343263 | comedy | drama that is amusing or funny |  | 16 |
| 6703343264 | conflict | struggle between opposing forces |  | 17 |
| 6703343265 | connotation | secondary meaning to a word * |  | 18 |
| 6703343266 | consonance | repetition of same consonant in words close together " A flock or sick, black checkered" |  | 19 |
| 6703343267 | couplet | two rhyming lines in a verse * |  | 20 |
| 6703343268 | denotation | the literal meaning of a word |  | 21 |
| 6703343269 | denouement | final outcome of the story |  | 22 |
| 6703343270 | deus ex machina | resolution of a plot by chance or coincidence |  | 23 |
| 6703343271 | didactic writing | writing with a primary purpose to teach or preach |  | 24 |
| 6703343272 | direct presentation of character | author telling the reader how a character is and what actions it will do further in the story |  | 25 |
| 6703343273 | double rhyme | rhyme where the repeated vowel is in the second last syllable of words involved (ex; born scorn) | 26 | |
| 6703343274 | dramatic exposition | prose commentaries, to provide background information about the characters and their world |  | 27 |
| 6703343275 | end rhyme | rhymes occurring at the end of line |  | 28 |
| 6703343276 | end stopped line | line ending in regular punctuation |  | 29 |
| 6703343277 | English sonnet | a sonnet rhyming ababcdcdededgg |  | 30 |
| 6703343278 | epiphany | when a character receives a spiritual insight into they life |  | 31 |
| 6703343279 | euphony | smooth choice and arrangement of sounds * when sounds harmoniously |  | 32 |
| 6703343280 | extended figure | A figure of speech sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem. |  | 33 |
| 6703343281 | falling action | Events after the climax, leading to the resolution |  | 34 |
| 6703343283 | figurative language | Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling. |  | 35 |
| 6703343284 | figure of speech | a way of saying something other than the ordinary way |  | 36 |
| 6703343285 | foot | basic unit in the scansion or measurement of verse , stressed and un stressed syllables |  | 37 |
| 6703343286 | form | external pattern or shape of a poem |  | 38 |
| 6703343287 | free verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme |  | 39 |
| 6703343288 | hamartia | tragic flaw which causes a character's downfall |  | 40 |
| 6703343289 | imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) |  | 41 |
| 6703343290 | indirect presentation of character | the personality of a character is revealed by what he or she does or says |  | 42 |
| 6703343291 | internal rhyme | A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line |  | 43 |
| 6703343292 | irony | A contrast between expectation and reality * |  | 44 |
| 6703343293 | verbal irony | A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant |  | 45 |
| 6703343294 | dramatic irony | Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play. --> Romeo Kills himself to go with Juliet but Juliet just takes a sleeping pill |  | 46 |
| 6703343295 | irony of situation | refers to an occurrence that is contrary to what is expected or intended |  | 47 |
| 6703343296 | italian sonnet | A sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd |  | 48 |
| 6703343297 | masculine rhyme | A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable |  | 49 |
| 6703343298 | melodrama | a play based upon a dramatic plot and developed sensationally |  | 50 |
| 6703343299 | metaphor | A comparison without using like or as |  | 51 |
| 6703343300 | meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry |  | 52 |
| 6703343301 | metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it |  | 53 |
| 6703343302 | motivation | A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior |  | 54 |
| 6703343303 | narrator | Person telling the story |  | 55 |
| 6703343304 | octave | 8 line stanza |  | 56 |
| 6703343307 | oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. * Calm frenzy,dark light |  | 57 |
| 6703343308 | paradox | A contradiction or dilemma |  | 58 |
| 6703343309 | paraphrase | A restatement of a text or passage in your own words. |  | 59 |
| 6703343310 | personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes "Wisdom has built her house; she has set up its seven pillars. -Proverbs, 9:1." The abstract concept wisdom is personified by the use of the feminine pronouns. |  | 60 |
| 6703343311 | plot | Sequence of events in a story | | 61 |
| 6703343312 | point of view | The perspective from which a story is told |  | 62 |
| 6703343313 | omniscient point of view | The point of view where the narrator knows everything about the characters and their problems - told in the 3rd person. |  | 63 |
| 6703343314 | third person limited point of view | narrator tells the story from only one character's pov |  | 64 |
| 6703343315 | first person point of view | a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself |  | 65 |
| 6703343316 | objective point of view | a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story, with no comment on any characters or events. |  | 66 |
| 6703343317 | protagonist | Main character |  | 67 |
| 6703343318 | quatrain | A four line stanza |  | 68 |
| 6703343319 | rhythm | A regularly recurring sequence of events or actions. |  | 69 |
| 6703343320 | rhyme scheme | A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem |  | 70 |
| 6703343321 | rising action | Events leading up to the climax |  | 71 |
| 6703343322 | sarcasm | the use of irony to mock or convey contempt |  | 72 |
| 6703343323 | satire | A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies. *exposes common human flaws and attempts to improve things by pointing out people's mistakes in the hope that once exposed such behavior will be less common |  | 73 |
| 6703343324 | scansion | Analysis of verse into metrical patterns |  | 74 |
| 6703343325 | sestet | 6 line stanza |  | 75 |
| 6703343326 | setting | The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs. |  | 76 |
| 6703343327 | simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" |  | 77 |
| 6703343328 | soliloquy | A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage |  | 78 |
| 6703343329 | sonnet | 14 line poem |  | 79 |
| 6703343330 | stanza | A group of lines in a poem | | 80 |
| 6703343331 | stream of consciousness | private thoughts of a character without commentary |  | 81 |
| 6703343332 | syllabic verse | Verse measured by the number of syllables rather than the number of feet per line. |  | 82 |
| 6703343333 | symbol | A thing that represents or stands for something else |  | 83 |
| 6703343334 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa |  | 84 |
| 6703343335 | synesthesia | describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound") |  | 85 |
| 6703343336 | tercet | 3 line stanza | | 86 |
| 6703343337 | terza rima | a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc. |  | 87 |
| 6703343338 | theme | Central idea of a work of literature |  | 88 |
| 6703343339 | tone | Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character |  | 89 |
| 6703343340 | tragedy | A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character |  | 90 |
| 6703343341 | truncation | Utilizing a melody with part of the end omitted. |  | 91 |
| 6703343342 | understandment | the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis |  | 92 |
| 6703343343 | verse | A single line of poetry writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme | | 93 |
| 6703343344 | 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. |  | 94 |
| 6703347178 | syllogism | similar to circular reasoning; Logical reasoning from inarguable premises; the conclusion is unarguable if the syllogism is structured correctly A+ B doesnt equal C Because Socrates is human, he is mortal. | 95 | |
| 6703367959 | enthymeme | Logical reasoning with one premise left unstated; instead of having irrefutable general truth for major premise, it is an assumption, statement, or proposition that the writer presumes and the audience accepts. Because John is a man, he is strong. | 96 | |
| 6703371802 | pathos | appeal to emotion, and is a way of convincing an audience of an argument by creating an emotional response : : it says the pool is contaminated because of those kids that got sick and had to go to hospital for a few weeks. | 97 | |
| 6703377345 | Logos | appeal to logic, and is a way of persuading an audience by reason. : it's the assertion that the pool is contaminated because there are five confirmed elevated concentrations of strychnine and seven mosquito nests. | 98 | |
| 6703379490 | ethos | is an appeal to ethics, and it is a means of convincing someone of the character or credibility of the persuader. : it's saying that the pool is contaminated because I'm an expert on water quality and I should know. | 99 | |
| 6703403637 | abstract | typically complex, discusses intagible qualities like good and evil, and seldom uses examples to support its points | 100 | |
| 6703409760 | academic | an adj. describing style, this word means dry and theoretical writing ---> sucks all the life out of it | 101 | |
| 6703414797 | accent | stressed portion of a word example: be and not, in " To be or not to be" "That is the question" | 102 | |
| 6703424119 | aesthetic | adj meaning appealing to the senses, aesthetic judgement = phrase synonymous with artistic judgement noun = coherent sense of taste | 103 | |
| 6703478654 | analogy | comparison; "just as" involve two or symbolic parts and are employed to clarify an action or relationship "Just as the ____ the ____ does this" | 104 | |
| 6703490118 | anachronism | "misplaced time" - wearing a watch in a Shakespeare play | 105 | |
| 6703495647 | anecdote | short narrative | 106 | |
| 6703501232 | anthropomorphism | when inanimate objects, animals, or phenomena are given human characteristics, behavior, or motivation "the darkness waited for me, i could hear its patient breath" aims to make an animal or object behave and appear like they are human beings. NOT PERSONIFICATION | 107 | |
| 6704034463 | anticlimax | occurs when an action produces far smaller results than one had been led to expect --> frequently comic --> "Sir I challenge you to a game of badminton" | 108 | |
| 6704044157 | antihero | - protagonist who is markedly unheroic: morally weak, cowardly, dishonest --> Hamelt, Raskolnikov | 109 | |
| 6704074471 | aphorism | a short and usually witty saying Classic? A book people praise and don't read | 110 | |
| 6704082368 | archaism | old-fashioned language. to create a feeling of antiquity | 111 | |
| 6704087257 | assonance | repeated us of vowel sounds "Old King Cole was a merry Old Sole" | 112 | |
| 6704095394 | ballad | a long narrative poem usually in very regular meter and rhyme. Typically have a naive folksy quality , a characteristic that distinguishes it from epic poety | 113 | |
| 6704103455 | bathos | effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous. it's the argument that apparently more kids got sick and/or died from swimming in that one pool than live in the county. | 114 | |
| 6704145952 | black humor | --> disturbing themes in comedy --> comically debate over which should commit suicide first and whether branches of the tree will support their weight | 115 | |
| 6704167071 | bombast | pretentious, exaggeratedly learned language | 116 | |
| 6704172878 | cadence | --> the beat or rhythm of poetry in general sense --> example: iambic pentameter | 117 | |
| 6704207788 | canto | the name for a section division in a long work of poetry, similar to the way chapters divide a novel | 118 | |
| 6704213730 | caricature | exaggerate a facet of personality | 119 | |
| 6704263881 | catharsis | refers to the "cleansing" of emotion an audience member experiences having lived through the experiences lived on stage | 120 | |
| 6704394580 | coinage | people's names often become grist for coinage - neologism "Oh man you just pulled a major Wilson" | 121 | |
| 6704409578 | colloquialism | phrase used in everday English that isn't a part of accepted English "now I've got this wicked headache" | 122 | |
| 6704550328 | conceit, controlling image | * startling or unusual metaphor or one developed and expanded upon several lines * when the image dominates and shape the entire work= controlling image | 123 | |
| 6704558221 | couplet | * a pair of lines that end in rhyme | 124 | |
| 6704596931 | Decorum | * a character's speech must be stayed according to her social station and in accordance with the occasion * A victorian author will always write the same | 125 | |
| 6745918429 | syntax | * author's choice of words * ordering and structuring of the words | 126 | |
| 6745924493 | dirge | * a song for the dead Its tone is typically slow and heavy and melancholy | 127 | |
| 6745928872 | dissonance | * the grating of incompatible | 128 | |
| 6745929667 | doggerel | * crude, simplistic verse often in sing-song rhyme * limericks, Hickory Dickory Dock | 129 | |
| 6745941495 | elegy | * a type of poem that meditates on death or mortality in a serious, thoughtful manner * lament, to the person, to a rest | 130 | |
| 6745951908 | enjambment | * the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line or couplet of a poem to the next with no pause * It is a running on of a thought from one line to another without final punctuation. It is used in poetry to trick a reader. Poets lead their readers to think of an idea then, on the next line, give an idea that conflicts it. | 131 | |
| 6745966066 | epic | * simply long narrative poem on a serious theme and in dignified style * deal with glorious or profound subject matters; a great war, a heroic journet | 132 | |
| 6745972979 | epitaph | * lines the commemorate the dead at their burial place * line or handful of lines often serious or religious but sometimes witty and even irreverent | 133 | |
| 6745984127 | euphemism | * a word or phrase that takes the place of a harsh, unpleasant, or impolite reality * the used of passed away for died and let go for fired are two examples of euphemism | 134 | |
| 6746001092 | farce | * extremely broad humor * could mean funny play a comedy | 135 | |
| 6746019713 | feminine rhyme | * final two syllables * a pair of lines ending with running and gunning would be example * | 136 | |
| 6751738395 | foil | * a secondary character whose purpose is to highlight the characteristics of a main character, usually by contrast | 137 | |
| 6752047026 | foot | *basic rhythm unit of a line of poetry * combination of two or three yllables either stressed or unstressed | 138 | |
| 6752051941 | foreshadowing | * an event or statement that suggests a larger event that comes later | 139 | |
| 6752055250 | free verse | poetry written without a regular rhyme scheme or metrical pattern | 140 | |
| 6752061460 | GOTHIC | *mysterious gloomy, castles, weird screams, supernatural, | 141 | |
| 6752065517 | hubris | * excessibe pride or ambition that leads to the main characters downfall * | 142 | |
| 6752073467 | hyperbole | * exaggeration or deliberate overstatement | 143 | |
| 6752080122 | implicit | to say or write something that suggest and implies but never says | 144 | |
| 6752083822 | in media res | * in the midst of things, like starting a story at the middle of the story | 145 | |
| 6752088345 | interior monologue | * a term for novels and poetry not dramatic literature * records the mental talking that goes on inside of a character's head like STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS but doesn't focus on the mental things | 146 | |
| 6752117157 | inversion | * switching customary order of elements in a sentence or phrase * A pizza large I'll have, one with the fixins in all | 147 | |
| 6752131278 | lampoon | * a satire | 148 | |
| 6752167313 | lyric | used to describe a poem that is sweet, emotional, melodious | 149 | |
| 6752170271 | Metaphor | * comparison or analogy that states one thing is another His eyes were burning coal | 150 | |
| 6752177382 | SIMILE | uses like or as, softens the meaning | 151 | |
| 6752182027 | metonym | * a word used to stand for something else that is has attributes of or is associated with | 152 | |
| 6752193869 | onomatopoeia | * words that sounds like what they means : BOOM, SPLAT, BABBLE, GARGLE | 153 | |
| 6752201388 | parable | fable or an allegory | 154 | |
| 6752239517 | parallelism | * repeated syntactical similarities used for effect *This technique adds symmetry, effectiveness and balance to the written piece. Read more at http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-parallelism.html#Hs1YGHf1D0UWciMZ.99 | 155 | |
| 6752250403 | pastoral | * a poem set in tranquil nature, or even more specifically one about sheperds | 156 | |
| 6752257741 | plaint | a poem on sorrow | 157 | |
| 6752262583 | omniscient narrator | * third-person narrator who sees like God, into each character;s mind and understands all the action going on | 158 | |
| 6752272499 | limited omniscient narrator | * third-person narator who generally reports only what one characters (usually the main character) sees, and who only reports the thoughts of the one character | 159 | |
| 6752281901 | objective or camera-eye narrator | third-person narrator who only reports on what would be visible to the cameria * doesn't know what the characters think unless they mention it | 160 | |
| 6752289360 | first person | * characters in the story tells the story * usually unreliable | 161 | |
| 6752314506 | stream on consciousness | * the author places the reader inside of the character telling the story, the author places makes the reader privy to all of the character;s thoughts as they scroll through her consciousness | 162 | |
| 6752323114 | refrain | a set of lines repeated several times over the course of the poem | 163 | |
| 6752358824 | subjunctive mood | If I were you, I'd learn this once | 164 | |
| 6752438782 | suspension of disbelief | * demand made of a theater audience to accept the limitations of staging and supply the details with imagination | 165 | |
| 6752458254 | tragic flaw | * this is weakness of character in an otherwude good (or even great) individual that ultimately leads to his demine | 166 | |
| 6752472641 | travesty | * a grotesque parody | 167 | |
| 6752477136 | utopia | idealized lace | 168 | |
| 6752477137 | zeugma | * the use of a word to modify two or more words but used for different meanings * He closed the door and his heart on his lost love | 169 | |
| 6752514797 | bildungsroman | * novel structured as a series of events that take place s the hero travels in quest of a goal * like the Jame Joyce's Portrait of the artist struggles to find a place and purpose in life | 170 | |
| 6752531684 | carpe diem | * pause seize the day; enjoy life while you can a common theme in literature | 171 | |
| 6752546829 | classic | * objectivity, simplicity, and restraint | 172 | |
| 6752554887 | Dionysian | pleasure seeking | 173 | |
| 6752560742 | elliptical constrution | a sentence containing a deliberate omission of words. IN the sentence a word will be taken away | 174 | |
| 6752574554 | expose | a piece of writing that reveals weaknesses, faults, frailities, or other shortcomings | 175 | |
| 6752599786 | harangue | powerful sermon | 176 | |
| 6752649748 | idyll | * a lyric poem or passage that describes a kind of ideal life or place | 177 | |
| 6752656193 | litotes | * a form of understanding in which the negative of the contrar | 178 | |
| 6752677045 | naturalism | used as synonymous for realism, bleak and pessimistic | 179 |
