5772794045 | 4 major themes | Human nature, nature of soceity, human freedom,and ethics | 0 | |
5772794046 | Metaphysics | The study of existence | 1 | |
5772794047 | Epistemology | How we know about the world | 2 | |
5772794048 | Ethics | How you should act | 3 | |
5772794049 | Politics | How a group of people should act | 4 | |
5772794050 | Aesthetics | What is beauty? | 5 | |
5772794051 | The human condition | The state of being | 6 | |
5772794052 | Dialectical clash | Thesis-antithesis-synthesis | 7 | |
5772794053 | Dualism | The belief that a person is made up of two things, spiritual/physical | 8 | |
5772794054 | Platonism | 9 | ||
5772794055 | Paradigm | 10 | ||
5772794056 | Exientialism | The stress on concrete individual existence and consequently, on subjectivity, individual freedom, and choice -moral individualism -subjectivity -choice and commitment -dread and anxiety | 11 | |
5772794057 | Id | Pleasure principle,basic desires, no good or evil | 12 | |
5772794058 | Ego | Reality principle controls your id in society | 13 | |
5772794059 | Superego | The morality principle | 14 | |
5772794060 | Jung | The hero cycle (monomyth) | 15 | |
5772794061 | Zeitgeist | The general cultural, religious, artistic, and philosophic climate of an era | 16 | |
5772794062 | Metonym | When you replace one thing for another through association | 17 | |
5772794063 | Synecdoche | A part is represented as a whole | 18 | |
5772794064 | Synesthesia | One sense is described with terms of another | 19 | |
5772794065 | Metaphysical conceit | An original and usually complex comparison between two highly dissimilar things | 20 | |
5772794066 | Situational irony | What happens is not expected | 21 | |
5772794067 | Dramatic irony | When the audience knows something the characters don't. | 22 | |
5772794068 | Verbal irony | When you say something but mean the opposite(sarcasm) | 23 | |
5772794069 | Structural irony | When there is an unreliable narrator | 24 | |
5772794070 | Narrative poem | Tells a story in verse, ballad and epic | 25 | |
5772794071 | Ballad | Song like poem that tells an story | 26 | |
5772794072 | Epic poem | Hero of the poem embodies the values and aspirations of the poets culture | 27 | |
5772794073 | Dramatic poem | Makes use of the conventions of drama | 28 | |
5772794074 | Lyric poem | A melodic poem that expresses the observations and the feelings at a single speaker | 29 | |
5772794075 | Elegy | A reflective poem that laments the loss of someone or something | 30 | |
5772794076 | Ode | Long formal usually meditative poem that treats a noble or otherwise elevated subject in a dignified manner | 31 | |
5772794077 | Sonnet | A lyric poem that consists of 14 lines and that follows one of several traditional rhyme schemes | 32 | |
5772794078 | Refrain | Exact wording repeated | 33 | |
5772794079 | Foot | A serious of unstressed and stressed syllables | 34 | |
5772794080 | Denoucement | Final outcome of a story | 35 | |
5772794081 | Deus ex machina | Sloppy writing to change or fix a problem (pirates) | 36 | |
5772794082 | Epistolary | A novel written in a serious of letters | 37 | |
5772794083 | Allegory | A story in which elements are symbolic | 38 | |
5772794084 | Sensuous world | The description of the physical place through any of the five senses | 39 | |
5772794085 | Time and chronology | Time period, time of narrative. Chronological arrangement | 40 | |
5772794086 | The social environment | The manners customs, culture, and moral values that govern the historical time | 41 | |
5772794087 | Emotional environment | Atmosphere, mood-tone | 42 |
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