Terms : Hide Images
| 7605812555 | Theme | The central idea or dominating thought, which results from the elements contained in fiction. This summarizes the author's purpose in writing the narrative. | 0 | |
| 7605812556 | Major Themes in Literature | • Human Nature • The Nature of Society • Fate and Freedom • Ethics | 1 | |
| 7605812557 | Dualism | Theme The belief that humans have two natures. | 2 | |
| 7605812558 | Synesthesia | Trope The mingling of senses. | 3 | |
| 7605812559 | Conceit | Trope A controlling piece of figurative language. | 4 | |
| 7605812560 | Metonym | Trope When you replace one word with another word through association. Ex.) The White House gave a press conference. | 5 | |
| 7605812561 | Synecdoche | Trope When you replace a word for another from whole to part or part to whole. Ex.) nice wheels! | 6 | |
| 7605812562 | Understatement | Trope When you undervalue the intensity of something. | 7 | |
| 7605812563 | Parallelism | Syntax A balance of structure. Uses a same general structure for multiple parts of a sentence or for multiple sentences. | 8 | |
| 7605812564 | Antithesis | Syntax Built by contrasting any of the different parts of a statement. Ex.) Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country. | 9 | |
| 7605812565 | Periodic Sentence | Syntax A sentence that is not grammatically correct until the physical end of the sentence. Ex.) Over the river, through the woods | 10 | |
| 7605812566 | Loose Sentence | Syntax A sentence in which it is grammatically correct before it is physically complete. | 11 | |
| 7605812567 | Apothegmatic | Syntax A short simple sentence that follows a series of longer more complex sentences. | 12 | |
| 7605812568 | Polysyndeton | Syntax Adding coordinators after ever member in a list. Ex.) We went to the beach and sang and laughed and played and had a fun time. | 13 | |
| 7605812569 | Asyndeton | Syntax Leaves out conjunctions in a non-standard way. Ex.) He was tall, dark, handsome. | 14 | |
| 7605812570 | Anadiplosis | Syntax Takes the last word of a sentence or phrase and repeats it as the next sentence or phrase. Ex.) Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. | 15 | |
| 7605812571 | Chiasmus | Syntax A special form of parallelism that flips the original form around. Ex.) You have seen how a man was made a slave, you shall see how a slave was made a man. | 16 | |
| 7605812572 | Litotes | Syntax Emphasizes a point by using a word opposite to the condition. Ex.) The trip was no easy journey. | 17 | |
| 7605812573 | Zeugma | Syntax Greek for "yoking"- to link together A structure in which two elements of a sentence are linked by a governing third element in a suggestive way. Ex.) I drank of the wine and her beauty. | 18 | |
| 7605812574 | Romantic Irony | Irony When the audience has been mislead by the story teller. | 19 | |
| 7605812575 | Cosmic Irony | Irony When a character falsely believes they have free will. | 20 | |
| 7605812576 | Structural Irony | Irony When the structure of something does not match its purpose. | 21 | |
| 7605812577 | Situational Irony | Irony When something is expected to happen, but something else happens instead. | 22 | |
| 7605812578 | Dramatic Irony | Irony The reader knows something the character doesn't. | 23 | |
| 7605812579 | Verbal Irony | Irony When words express something contrary to truth. | 24 | |
| 7605812580 | Diction | An author's word choice | 25 | |
| 7605812581 | Denotation | Diction The dictionary definition of a word. | 26 | |
| 7605812582 | Connotation | Diction The emotional and cultural attachments of a word. | 27 | |
| 7605812583 | Semantics | Diction The study of words or study of language. | 28 | |
| 7605812584 | Cliché | Diction A phrase or expression that had been used so much that it is no longer original. Ex.) Get off your high horse | 29 | |
| 7605812585 | Euphemism | Diction Taking an unpleasant idea and making it sound better. Ex.) Friendly Fire | 30 | |
| 7605812586 | Sign | Literary Device An object, picture, or word which signifies something other than itself. | 31 | |
| 7605812587 | Symbol | Literary Device An object, place, character, or event that represents something more or something other than itself. | 32 | |
| 7605812588 | Archetype | Literary Device A symbol that transcends time and culture. | 33 | |
| 7605812589 | Soliloquy | Literary Device When a character, normally alone on the stage, delivers a speech, which is normally a collection of his own thoughts. | 34 | |
| 7605812590 | Aside | Literary Device Just like a soliloquy, except there are other people on stage. Usually it is just for the audience to hear. | 35 | |
| 7605812591 | Apostrophe | Literary Device A rhetorical device in which the writer breaks out of the flow of writing to directly address a person or personified object. | 36 | |
| 7605812592 | Allusion | Literary Device Reference to a famous work. | 37 | |
| 7605812593 | Paradox | Literary Device An idea that seems false but there is truth to it. Ex.) No fashion is fashion. | 38 | |
| 7605812594 | Figurative Imagery | Literary Device To use objects, patterns, and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our physical senses. Ex.) The tall, menacing dog snarled at the fluffy cat. | 39 | |
| 7605812595 | Motif | Literary Device Repeated element in a work of art. | 40 | |
| 7605812596 | Oxymoron | Literary Device Contradictory terms. Ex.) Jumbo shrimp | 41 | |
| 7605812597 | Poetry | Literary expression characterized by particular attention to rhythm, sound, and the concentrated concrete use of language. | 42 | |
| 7605812598 | Narrative Poem | Poetry Types Tells a story in verse. | 43 | |
| 7605812599 | Ballad | Poetry Types Songlike poem that tells a story. | 44 | |
| 7605812600 | Epic | Poetry Types The hero of the poem embodies the values and aspirations of the poet's culture. | 45 | |
| 7605812601 | Dramatic Poem | Poetry Types Makes use of the conventions of drama. | 46 | |
| 7605812602 | Dramatic Monologue | Poetry Types A poem or speech in which an imaginary character speaks to a listener. Ex.) Soliloquy | 47 | |
| 7605812603 | Dramatic Dialogue | Poetry Types A poem in which two speakers converse with one another. | 48 | |
| 7605812604 | Lyric Poem | Poetry Types A melodic poem that expresses the observations and the feelings of a single speaker. | 49 | |
| 7605812605 | The Elegy | Poetry Types A reflective poem that laments the loss of someone or something. | 50 | |
| 7605812606 | The Ode | Poetry Types A long, formal lyric poem, usually meditative, that treats a noble or otherwise elevated subject in a dignified manner. These poems often commemorate people, events, or consider the aspect of the human condition. | 51 | |
| 7605812607 | The Sonnet | Poetry Types A lyric poem that consists of fourteen lines and that follows one of several traditional rhyme schemes. Love is among one of the most common themes. | 52 | |
| 7605812608 | Metaphysical Conceit | Poetry Types A conceit which draws a shocking or unconventional comparison. | 53 | |
| 7605812609 | Carpe Diem | Poetry Types A poem that expresses the value of "seize the day" | 54 | |
| 7605812610 | Stanza | Poetry Structure A group of lines that work together to present an idea. | 55 | |
| 7605812611 | Concrete Poetry | Poetry Structure When the shape of the poem enhances the meaning of the poem. | 56 | |
| 7605812612 | Enjambment | Poetry Structure The physical end of a line of poetry does not match the grammatical end of a line of poetry. | 57 | |
| 7605812613 | End Stopped Line | Poetry Structure The physical end of a line of poetry matches the grammatical end of a line of poetry. | 58 | |
| 7605812614 | Poetic Shift | Poetry Structure When a poem moves from one tone or tones to a new tone. You are also usually able to find the meaning. | 59 | |
| 7605812615 | Couplet | Poetry Structure 2 lines | 60 | |
| 7605812616 | Quatrain | Poetry Structure 4 lines | 61 | |
| 7605812617 | Sestet | Poetry Structure 6 lines | 62 | |
| 7605812618 | Octave | Poetry Structure 8 lines | 63 | |
| 7605812619 | Tercet | Poetry Structure 3 lines | 64 | |
| 7605812620 | Scantion | Rhythm When you read through a poem to analyze its rhythm. | 65 | |
| 7605812621 | Foot | Rhythm A pattern of unstressed stressed syllables | 66 | |
| 7605812622 | Meter | Rhythm The number of feet in a line of poetry. | 67 | |
| 7605812623 | Iambic Pentameter | Rhythm A line of poetry that has five feet and one Iamb. | 68 | |
| 7605812624 | Rhyme | Sound Made when the last vowel sounds and following consonant sounds of a word at the end of a line of poetry match another word that has the same sound. | 69 | |
| 7605812625 | Half-Rhyme | Sound A rhyme in which the vowel or consonants done quite match, but it's obvious that the poet means for them to rhyme. | 70 | |
| 7605812626 | Rhyme Scheme | Sound The pattern of rhyme in a section or a full poem. | 71 | |
| 7605812627 | Act | Plot Structure A major division in a play. Allows us to jump scenes and show time progression. A unified set of actions. Also used to change characters. | 72 | |
| 7605812628 | 1st Act- Exposition | Plot Structure Introduces characters, setting, and context. Introduction of the conflict takes place. | 73 | |
| 7605812629 | 2nd Act- "The Tying of Knots" | Plot Structure More complications are added. | 74 | |
| 7605812630 | 3rd Act- Climax | Plot Structure Where a crucial decision is made. | 75 | |
| 7605812631 | 4th Act- The Reversal | Plot Structure "The untying of knots" | 76 | |
| 7605812632 | 5th Act- Resolution | Plot Structure However, there is some sort of hope | 77 | |
| 7605812633 | Scenes | Plot Structure Moving time, moving place, moving character. | 78 | |
| 7605812634 | Setting | The background against which a story takes place. | 79 | |
| 7605812635 | Collective Unconscious | The common connection humans unconsciously have through archetypes. | 80 | |
| 7605812636 | Characterization | The creation and development of a character. | 81 | |
| 7605812637 | Direct Characterization | Characterization The author directly tells the reader about the character. | 82 | |
| 7605812638 | Indirect Characterization | Characterization The author shows rather than tells about the character through external descriptions, internal descriptions, and other character's descriptions. | 83 | |
| 7605812639 | Round Character | Characterization A complex character. | 84 | |
| 7605812640 | Flat Character | Characterization A stereotypical character. | 85 | |
| 7605812641 | Static Character | Characterization A character who does not change through the course of the story. | 86 | |
| 7605812642 | Dynamic Character | Characterization A character who changes because of the events of the story. | 87 | |
| 7605812643 | Protagonist | Characterization The main character who is trying to fill some desire. | 88 | |
| 7605812644 | Antagonist | Characterization The character that acts against the desires of the protagonist. | 89 | |
| 7605812645 | Foil | Characterization A character with similar attributes to the main character but one primary difference that highlights an aspect of the main character. | 90 | |
| 7605812646 | Aristotelian Tragedy | Tragedy Tragedy that depicts the downfall of a basically good person through some fatal error or misjudgment, producing suffering and insight on the part of the protagonist and arousing pity and fear on the part of the audience. | 91 | |
| 7605812647 | Anagnorisis | Tragedy A moment of clairvoyant insight or understanding in the mind of the tragic hero as he suddenly comprehends the web of fate that he has entangled himself in. | 92 | |
| 7605812648 | Hamartia | Tragedy A fatal error or simple mistake on the part of the protagonist that eventually leads to the final catastrophe. | 93 | |
| 7605812649 | Hubris | Tragedy The sin par excellence of the tragic or over aspiring hero. Though it is usually translated as pride, it is better understood as a sort of insolent daring, a haughty overstepping of cultural codes or ethical boundaries. | 94 | |
| 7605812650 | Nemesis | Tragedy The inevitable punishment or cosmic payback for acts of hubris. | 95 | |
| 7605812651 | Peripeteia | A pivotal or crucial action on the part of the protagonist that changes his situation from seemingly secure to vulnerable. | 96 | |
| 7605812652 | Hegelian Tragedy | Tragedy A situation in which two rights or values are in fatal conflict. | 97 | |
| 7606022212 | Plot | The pattern that results from the events in a story and the order in which they are presented. | 98 | |
| 7606022213 | Expostition | Plot Introduction of characters and setting (The status quo) | 99 | |
| 7606022214 | Conflict | Plot Most plots involve this, either external or internal as the characters participate in a series of actions. | 100 | |
| 7606022215 | Rising Action | Plot The increase in tension in a story. | 101 | |
| 7606022216 | Climax | Plot The highest point of tension in a story. This is when the protagonist makes a decision for better or worse. | 102 | |
| 7606022217 | Falling Action | Plot The release of tension in a story. | 103 | |
| 7606022218 | Dénouement | Plot How the story turns out. | 104 | |
| 7606022219 | Point of View | The vantage point from which the author chooses to tell the story. | 105 | |
| 7606022220 | 1st Person Subjective | Point of View Told from the point of view of a single character, normally the protagonist. | 106 | |
| 7606022221 | 2nd Person Perspective | Point of View Rare form of literature which places the reader into the narrative. | 107 | |
| 7606022222 | 3rd Person Omniscient | Point of View Story narrated by a god like being who can shift from character to character. | 108 | |
| 7606022223 | 3rd Person Limited | Point of View Story is portrayed through the eyes of a single character. | 109 | |
| 7606022224 | Unobtrusive Narrator | Types of Narrator There is no commentary from the Narrator. | 110 | |
| 7606022225 | Unreliable Narrator | Types of Narrator A Narrator who seems trustworthy at first, but the reader starts to question the validity of the story being told. | 111 | |
| 7699984626 | The 5 Branches Of Philosophy | • Metaphysics • Epistemology • Ethics • Politics • Aesthetics | 112 | |
| 7699984627 | Philosophy | A love of knowledge. | 113 | |
| 7699984628 | Metaphysics | Type of Philosophy Rising above or beyond existence. The study of existence. | 114 | |
| 7699984629 | Epistemology | Type of Philosophy A study of how we know about the universe | 115 | |
| 7699984630 | Ethics | Type of Philosophy How do we act in the world? The study of morality | 116 | |
| 7699984631 | Politics | Type of Philosophy Ethics applied to a group of people | 117 | |
| 7699984632 | Aesthetics | Type of Philosophy The study of beauty | 118 | |
| 7699984633 | Zeitgeist | Type of Ism The spirit of the times. The general philosophic, cultural, and artistic climate of an era | 119 | |
| 7895335289 | Blank Verse | Rhythm An Unrhymed iambic pentameter | 120 | |
| 7895335290 | Internal Rhyme | Type of Sound Happens in the middle of a line of poetry. | 121 | |
| 8492218442 | Fundamentalists | A literal belief in religious text. | 122 | |
| 8492218443 | Liberal Believers | Believe that religious texts contain metaphors, might not believe it was a true story | 123 | |
| 8492218444 | Scholars and Non- Believers | Believe that religious texts are cultural relics, not necessarily true, but something to be studied. | 124 | |
| 8492218445 | Political Nihilism | Anarchy, a desire to destroy all forms of government | 125 | |
| 8492218446 | Philosophical Nihilism | There is no god, no afterlife, there is nothing after death ; Atheism | 126 | |
| 8492218447 | Nietzche- Will To Power | You are able to exert your own power into the world. | 127 | |
| 8492218448 | The three periods of Civilization Development | • Pre-Moral Stage: the master morality • Moral Stage: slave morality • The Supra-Moral Stage: the rise of the Ubermensch | 128 | |
| 8492218449 | Ubermensch | A figure that throws aside societal morality and decides to alter the world around them under their influence | 129 | |
| 8492218450 | 4 Major Themes of Existentialism | • Moral Individualism • Subjectivity • Choice and Commitment • Dread and Anxiety | 130 | |
| 8492218451 | Moral Individualism | The individual must decide which situations are to count as moral situations | 131 | |
| 8492218452 | Subjevtivity | The understanding of a situation by someone involved in that situation is superior to that of a detached, objective observer | 132 | |
| 8492218453 | Choice and Commitment | Choice is inescapable, freedom of choice entails commitment and responsibility | 133 | |
| 8492218454 | Dread and Anxiety | Because you have no guide, you should be conscious of the power you hold through the freedom to make choices | 134 | |
| 8492218455 | Existentialism | Philosophical movement or tendency, emphasizing individual existence, freedom, and choice, that influenced many diverse writers during the 19th and 20th centuries. | 135 | |
| 8492218456 | 4 Parts of a Dialectical Clash | • Dialectical • Thesis • antithesis • synthesis | 136 | |
| 8492218457 | Ideological | A philosophic belief that there is a purpose to time and the universe | 137 | |
| 8492218458 | Predestination | Derived from Puritanism; What you are going to do or be has already been determined | 138 | |
| 8492218459 | Temporal Time | Existing in the present. The past is gone and the future has not occurred yet. | 139 | |
| 8492218460 | Unconditional Election | Humans are not able to save themselves. No amount of food deeds will save you. | 140 | |
| 8492218461 | Total Depravity | Derived from Calvinism; you are born with original sin | 141 | |
| 8492218462 | Limited Atonement | Jesus only died on the cross for those who are already saved, not for everybody | 142 | |
| 8492218463 | Irresistible Grace | The grace of god is only given to the saved. | 143 | |
| 8492218464 | Perseverance of the Saints | Those elected by god have full power to interpret the will of god | 144 | |
| 8492218465 | Renaissance | Refers to the rebirth of learning that spread through Italy and the north in the 14th century and ended in mid 17th century | 145 | |
| 8492218466 | The Great Chain of Being | Every existing thing has its "place" in a hierarchal order. | 146 | |
| 8492218467 | Humanism | Gave renewed emphasis to life in this world instead of to the otherworldly life in the Middle Ages. A shift from "contemplation life" to "active life" | 147 | |
| 8492218468 | Protestantism | Wanted the medieval church to conform within, most important was the rejection of the pope as a spiritual leader. | 148 | |
| 8492218469 | Wheel of Fortune | The goddess Fortunate spins the wheel of fate. Some suffer misfortune, others gain windfalls | 149 | |
| 8492218470 | Dualism | The belief that human beings have 2 natures. | 150 | |
| 8492218471 | Onomatopoeia | When a word means what it sounds like | 151 | |
| 8492218472 | Kenning | A noun that takes the place of another noun | 152 | |
| 8492218473 | Poetic Diction | A word used to refer to the linguistic style, the vocabulary, and the metaphors used in the writing of poetry. | 153 | |
| 8492218474 | Inverted Syntax | When the normal order of words are reversed to produce a certain effect | 154 | |
| 8492218475 | Anachronism | an act of attributing a custom, event, or object to a period to which it does not belong. | 155 | |
| 8492218476 | Tone | Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character. | 156 | |
| 8492218477 | Stream of Consciousness | A literary technique that presents the thoughts and feelings of a character as they occur. | 157 | |
| 8492218478 | Monomyth- The Hero Cycle | • I. Departure • II. Initiation • III. Return | 158 | |
| 8492218479 | The Hero Cycle | A. The call to adventure B. Circumstance of the call C. Threshold D. Beyond threshold E. Return threshold F. Apperance of helper | 159 | |
| 8492218480 | 3 Major Types of Poetry | • Narrative -ballad -epic • Dramatic -dialogue -monologue • lyric -the elegy -the ode -the sonnet | 160 | |
| 8492837726 | Assonance | The repetition of vowel sounds between dissimilar consonant sounds. Ex.) two turtles burning | 161 | |
| 8492837727 | Consonance | Repetition of consonant sounds by dissimilar vowel sounds. Ex.) rattle the kettle | 162 |
