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| 7338396346 | alliteration | beginning of same letter or sound in closely connected words | 0 | |
| 7338396348 | anaphora | repetition in first part of several sentences, meant to have an artistic meaning | 1 | |
| 7338396349 | antagonist | a hostile person who is opposed to another character | 2 | |
| 7338396358 | flat character | story character who have no depth, usually has one personality or characteristic | 3 | |
| 7338396359 | round character | character who has a complex personality: contradicted person | 4 | |
| 7338396360 | dynamic character | type of character who changes throughout the story, through major conflict | 5 | |
| 7338396361 | static character | person who doesn't change throughout story; keeps same personality | 6 | |
| 7338396362 | characterization | process of revealing characters personality | 7 | |
| 7338396363 | climax | point where conflict and tension hits its highest point | 8 | |
| 7338396364 | comedy | drama that is amusing or funny | 9 | |
| 7338396365 | hegelian tragedy | a tragedy where there is a struggle between opposing forces | 10 | |
| 7338396368 | couplet | two rhyming lines in a verse | 11 | |
| 7338396373 | direct characterization | author directly tells the reader about the character | 12 | |
| 7338396378 | English sonnet | a sonnet rhyming ababcdcdefefgg | 13 | |
| 7338396382 | falling action | the release of tension in a story | 14 | |
| 7338396389 | hamartia | tragic flaw which causes a character's downfall | 15 | |
| 7338396391 | indirect characterization | the author shows rather than tells about the character through external and internal descriptions | 16 | |
| 7338396395 | dramatic irony | Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play. | 17 | |
| 7338396397 | italian sonnet | A sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd | 18 | |
| 7338396400 | metaphor | A comparison without using like or as | 19 | |
| 7338396401 | meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry | 20 | |
| 7338396402 | metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it | 21 | |
| 7338396405 | octave | 8 line stanza | 22 | |
| 7338396407 | hyperbole | extreme exaggerated | 23 | |
| 7338396410 | paraphrase | A restatement of a text or passage in your own words. | 24 | |
| 7338396411 | personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes | 25 | |
| 7338396412 | plot | Sequence of events in a story | 26 | |
| 7338396418 | protagonist | Main character | 27 | |
| 7338396419 | quatrain | A four line stanza | 28 | |
| 7338396420 | rhythm | A regularly recurring sequence of events or actions. | 29 | |
| 7338396421 | rhyme scheme | A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem | 30 | |
| 7338396422 | rising action | Events leading up to the climax; increase in tension | 31 | |
| 7338396426 | sestet | 6 line stanza | 32 | |
| 7338396430 | sonnet | 14 line poem | 33 | |
| 7338396431 | stanza | A group of lines in a poem | 34 | |
| 7338396434 | symbol | An object, place, or character that represents something more or something other than itself | 35 | |
| 7338396435 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 36 | |
| 7338396436 | synesthesia | mingling of sensations; one sense replaces another | 37 | |
| 7338396437 | tercet | 3 line stanza | 38 | |
| 7338396439 | theme | Central idea or dominating thought of a work of literature | 39 | |
| 7338396440 | tone | Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character | 40 | |
| 7338396441 | tragedy | A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character | 41 | |
| 7338396444 | verse | A single line of poetry writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme | 42 | |
| 7397061463 | metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, politics, aesthetics | 5 branches of philosophy | 43 | |
| 7397067852 | metaphysics | ideas that are beyond scientific study (ex. religion) | 44 | |
| 7576150848 | epistemology | the study of knowledge (how do we know?) | 45 | |
| 7576162495 | ethics | What should I do? | 46 | |
| 7576167111 | politics | the study of force (ethics applied to groups) | 47 | |
| 7576177543 | aesthetics | the study of art (what makes this beautiful?) | 48 | |
| 7576261809 | sign | an object, picture or word which signifies something else | 49 | |
| 7576271809 | archetype | a symbol that transcends through time and culture | 50 | |
| 7576276534 | human nature, the nature of society, fate and freedom, ethics | 4 major themes | 51 | |
| 7576300270 | metonym | a word used as a substitute for something else with which it is closely related | 52 | |
| 7576319917 | aside (poetry) | one character speaks, only audience knows whats said | 53 | |
| 7576335758 | soliloquy | one character alone delivers a speech; if another person is present, they aren't hearing | 54 | |
| 7576416284 | simile | comparing two things using like or as | 55 | |
| 7576421173 | metaphysical conceit | a far-stretched comparison between a spiritual aspect of a person and a physical thing in the world | 56 | |
| 7576495309 | narrative poem | a poem that tells a story | 57 | |
| 7576499054 | ballad narrative poem | songlike poem that tells a story | 58 | |
| 7576504038 | epic narrative poem | the hero of the story embodies the values and aspirations of the poets culture | 59 | |
| 7576515439 | dramatic poem | makes use of the conventions of drama | 60 | |
| 7576529222 | dramatic monologue | a poem or a speech in which an imaginary character speaks to a listener (soliloquy) | 61 | |
| 7576544222 | dramatic dialogue | a poem in which two speakers converse with one another | 62 | |
| 7576550566 | lyric poem | a poem that expresses the observations and the feelings of a single speaker | 63 | |
| 7576562475 | lyric elegy | a reflective poem that laments the loss of someone or something | 64 | |
| 7576570221 | lyric ode | a long, formal lyric poem, usually meditative, that treats a noble or otherwise elevated subject in a dignified manner. | 65 | |
| 7576586008 | lyric sonnet | a lyric poem that consists of fourteen lines and follows a traditional rhyme scheme. Love is the most common theme | 66 | |
| 7576604370 | scansion | study of rhyme and meter | 67 | |
| 7576626314 | unstressed syllable | the part of the word that you don't emphasize or accent. Marked with a (ᵕ) | 68 | |
| 7576640357 | stressed syllable | the part of the word that you emphasize or accent. Marked with a (') | 69 | |
| 7576659909 | foot | a combination of stressed and unstressed syllables | 70 | |
| 7576672309 | iambic pentameter | a line or verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one unstressed syllable followed by one long stressed syllable | 71 | |
| 7576706912 | scene | changing of setting or characters in a play | 72 | |
| 7576710993 | act | major divisions in a play | 73 | |
| 7576737432 | enjambment | a line of poetry that does not coincide with the end of the line poetry | 74 | |
| 7576751225 | concrete poetry | where the poem's meaning changes or is conveyed through patterns of words or visual effects | 75 | |
| 7576761071 | poetic shift | a dramatic shift in a poem; usually through tone | 76 | |
| 7576791276 | end-stop-line | pause at the end of the poem. emphasizes last word | 77 | |
| 7576799145 | rhyme | similarity of sound between words or the endings of words | 78 | |
| 7576830201 | half-rhyme | a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of ending consonants match, however the preceding vowel sounds do not match. | 79 | |
| 7576839699 | internal rhyme | a rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next. | 80 | |
| 7576849978 | exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, denouement | traditional plot structure | 81 | |
| 7576873660 | exposition | introduction of characters and setting | 82 | |
| 7576883779 | conflict | in the plot, a struggle between two opposing characters or forces | 83 | |
| 7576889787 | person vs. person, person vs. environment, person vs. society, person vs. the supernatural | 4 types of external conflict | 84 | |
| 7576904475 | internal conflict | type of conflict; person vs. self | 85 | |
| 7576906989 | denouement | how the story turns out | 86 | |
| 7576937659 | myth | a legendary or traditional story | 87 | |
| 7576955983 | point of view | the vantage point from which the author chooses to tell the story | 88 | |
| 7576963455 | 1st person pov | told from the point of view of a single character | 89 | |
| 7576993666 | 2nd person pov | rare form of literature which places the reader into the narrative | 90 | |
| 7577005056 | 3rd person omniscient pov | story narrated by a godlike being who can shift from character to character | 91 | |
| 7577013849 | 3rd person limited | story where the narrator can see through the eyes and mind of a single character | 92 | |
| 7577024760 | unobtrusive narrator | there is no commentary from the narrator; the narrator is the objective and detached from the story | 93 | |
| 7577031474 | unreliable narrator | a narrator who seems trustworthy at first, but the reader starts questioning the validity of the story being told | 94 | |
| 7577048976 | setting | the background against which the action takes place | 95 | |
| 7577145162 | sensuous world, chronology, societal, emotional | 4 elements to setting | 96 | |
| 7577055147 | sensuous world (setting) | the description of the physical place through any of the five senses | 97 | |
| 7577068564 | time period, time of the narrative, chronology arrangement | 3 elements of time and chronology (setting) | 98 | |
| 7577088517 | social environment (setting) | the manners, customs, culture, and moral values that govern the historic time | 99 | |
| 7577139156 | atmosphere and mood | 2 elements of emotional setting | 100 | |
| 7577190978 | atmosphere | the emotional reaction the reader and the characters have to the setting | 101 | |
| 7577196085 | mood | the atmosphere of a literary piece | 102 | |
| 7577207287 | foil | a character with qualities that are in contrast with the qualities of another character | 103 | |
| 7577268306 | character arc | the transformation or inner journey of a character over the course of a story | 104 | |
| 7967878491 | anachronism | a thing existing in a period other than that in which it exists | 105 | |
| 7967913945 | apostrophe | calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, place, or thing | 106 | |
| 7967918939 | consonance | repetition of similar consonant sounds | 107 | |
| 7967923630 | assonance | repetition of similar vowel sounds | 108 | |
| 7967927593 | canto | one of the sections into which certain long poems are divided | 109 | |
| 7967933014 | free verse | an open form of poetry; has no consistent rhyme | 110 | |
| 7967939526 | blank verse | poetry written in regular metrics but unrhymed lines | 111 | |
| 7967943098 | refrain | a repeated line that is repeated over and over again | 112 | |
| 7967953202 | dues ex machina | where a seemingly unsolvable problem is suddenly and abruptly resolved by an unexpected intervention of a new event | 113 |
