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| 2485561630 | Antagonist | a person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary; the bad guy | 0 | |
| 2485561631 | Caricature | a picture, description, or imitation of a person or thing in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic or grotesque effect. | 1 | |
| 2485564579 | Indirect Characterization | when the narrator shows the reader something about the character through the character's actions, things the character says, or things other characters say. An example is when the narrator specifically tells us what a character is like. | 2 | |
| 2485577430 | Direct Characterization | when the author specifically reveals traits about the character in a direct, straightforward manner. | 3 | |
| 2485580155 | Dynamic/Round Character | someone who undergoes an important, internal change because of the action in the plot. | 4 | |
| 2485580156 | Foil | another character in a story who contrasts with the main character, usually to highlight one of their attributes. | 5 | |
| 2485581755 | Motivation | the reasons for a characters behavior | 6 | |
| 2485582726 | Narrator/Persona/Speaker | the voice behind the text of a piece of literature | 7 | |
| 2485582727 | Protagonist | the central character in a story, the one who initiates or drives the action; usually the hero or anti-hero; the good guy | 8 | |
| 2485584211 | Static/Flat Character | a character who is the same sort of person at the end of a story as s/he was at the beginning | 9 | |
| 2485584212 | Stereotype | a characterization based on conscious or unconscious assumptions that one aspect (such as gender, age, ethnicity, religion, race) determines what humans are like and so is accompanied by certain traits, actions, and even value. | 10 | |
| 2485585436 | Stock Character | stereotyped character: one whose nature is familiar from prototypes in previous | 11 | |
| 2485587183 | Atmosphere | the pervading tone or mood of a place, situation, or work of art | 12 | |
| 2485587185 | Mood | inducing or suggestive of a particular feeling or state of mind. | 13 | |
| 2485588152 | Occasional Poetry | poetry written for a particular event or happening, the event being usually ceremonial or honorific. | 14 | |
| 2485588153 | Setting | the place(s) and time(s) of the story, including the historical period, social milieu of the characters, geographical location, descriptions of indoor and outdoor locales, etc. | 15 | |
| 2485590477 | Stream of Consciousness | a person's thoughts and conscious reactions to events, perceived as a continuous flow; the term was introduced by William James | 16 | |
| 2485597577 | Abstract Language | refer to ideas or concepts; they have no physical referents | 17 | |
| 2485598519 | Ambiguity | the expression of a idea in language which gives more than one meaning and leave uncertainty as to the meaning | 18 | |
| 2485601692 | Cliche | a phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought | 19 | |
| 2485603069 | Concrete Language | help us describe things | 20 | |
| 2485603070 | Connotation | figurative language or figurative definition | 21 | |
| 2485604868 | Denotation | "dictionary definition"; strict; literal | 22 | |
| 2485604869 | Dialect | speech peculiar to a region; exhibits distinctions between two groups or even two persons. | 23 | |
| 2485606238 | Epithet | nickname or appellation | 24 | |
| 2485606239 | Euphemism | the use of inoffensive or neutral words to describe a harsher, more serious concept | 25 | |
| 2485607300 | Literal Language | means exactly what it says | 26 | |
| 2485607301 | Usage | the way in which a word or phrase is normally and correctly used | 27 | |
| 2485607302 | Aside | a statement delivered by a actor in such a way that the other characters on stage are presumed not to have heard him | 28 | |
| 2485608277 | Dialogue | conversation between two or more characters, usually set off with quotation marks | 29 | |
| 2485608278 | Soliloquy | a long speech made by a character who is alone on the stage in which he reveals his innermost thoughts & feelings | 30 | |
| 2485618790 | Stage Directions | tell you where to go on stage; where to come on, where to go off and where to stand during | 31 | |
| 2485618791 | Subtext | a term denoting what a character means by what (s)he says when there is a disparity between diction and intended meaning | 32 | |
| 2485620627 | Apostrophe | addressing someone or something, usually not present, as though present. | 33 | |
| 2485620628 | Conceit | an extended metaphor - two unlike things are compared in several different ways | 34 | |
| 2485622553 | Metaphor | comparison not using the words "like" or "as" | 35 | |
| 2485622554 | Grounds Metaphor | relationship between the tenor and the vehicle | 36 | |
| 2485623730 | Tenor Metaphor | subject of the metaphor | 37 | |
| 2485625903 | Vehicle Metaphor | term used metaphorically | 38 | |
| 2485628258 | Metonymy | substituting a word naming an object for another word closely associated with it | 39 | |
| 2485628259 | Personification | giving human characteristics to inanimate objects | 40 | |
| 2485631602 | Simile | comparison using "like" or "as" | 41 | |
| 2485631603 | Symbol | anything that stands for or represents anything else | 42 | |
| 2485633555 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part of something stands for the whole or the whole for a part, as wheels for automobile or society for high society | 43 | |
| 2485633556 | Synesthesia | the perception or description of one kind of sense impression in words normally used to describe a different sense, like a "sweet voice" or a "velvety smile." | 44 | |
| 2485635539 | Ballad | a form of verse to be sung or recited and characterized by a dramatic or exciting episode in fairly short narrative; poem written in a song-like stanza form. | 45 | |
| 2485635540 | Cinquain | five-line stanza. | 46 | |
| 2485638098 | Epic | a long narrative, usually written in elevated language, which related the adventures of a hero upon whom rests the fate of a nation | 47 | |
| 2485638099 | Sestina | a poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet, all stanzas having the same six words at the line-ends in six different sequences that follow a fixed pattern, and with all six words appearing in the closing three-line envoi. | 48 | |
| 2485639048 | Sonnet | 14 lines of poetry | 49 | |
| 2485640643 | Shakespearean/Elizabethan Sonnet | divided into three quatrains (four-line groupings) and a final couplet (14 lines). The rhyme scheme is. The meter is iambic pentameter, with a set rhyme scheme-- abab cdcdefef gg | 50 | |
| 2485640644 | Couplet | the last two lines of a Shakespearean sonnet; a pair of rhyming lines written in the same meter; may be a separate stanza | 51 | |
| 2485640645 | Quatrain | 4 lines of poetry | 52 | |
| 2485644564 | Petrarchan/Italian Sonnet | a sonnet consisting of an octave rhyming abba abba and a sestet rhyming in any of various patterns | 53 | |
| 2485644565 | Octave | first stanza of a Italian sonnet; 8 lines | 54 | |
| 2485644566 | Sestet | second stanza of a Italian sonnet; 6 lines | 55 | |
| 2485646104 | Turn | the high point of the story; when a change occurs | 56 | |
| 2485646105 | 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 | 57 | |
| 2485651041 | Auditory | word choices that appeal to the ear, that help you "hear" the words | 58 | |
| 2485651042 | Gustatory | words or imagery appealing to the sense of taste | 59 | |
| 2485651043 | Olfactory | appeals to the sense of smell | 60 | |
| 2485651999 | Tactile | type of imagery pertaining to the sense of touch | 61 | |
| 2485652000 | Visual | appealing to the sense of sight | 62 | |
| 2485652811 | Archetype | an original that has been imitated. | 63 | |
| 2485652812 | Epiphany | an awakening; a sudden understanding or burst of insight | 64 | |
| 2485652813 | Motif | a recurring concept or story element in literature | 65 | |
| 2485654571 | Poetic Justice | the fact of experiencing a fitting or deserved retribution for one's actions. | 66 | |
| 2485654572 | Theme | an ingredient of a literary work which gives the work unity; provides an answer to the question, "What is the work about?" | 67 | |
| 2485658620 | Title | the name of any piece of literary work | 68 | |
| 2485658621 | Carpe Diem | a Latin phrase which translated means "Seize (Catch) the day," meaning "Make the most of today." | 69 | |
| 2485659845 | Comedy/Comedy of Manners | a work which strives to provoke smiles and laughter | 70 | |
| 2485659846 | Complaint | a statement that a situation is unsatisfactory or unacceptable. | 71 | |
| 2485661733 | Dramatic Monologue | a poem that reveals a "soul in action" through the speech of one character in a dramaticsituation | 72 | |
| 2485664119 | Elegy/Elegiac Verse | lyrical poem about death; a serious poem, usually meant to express grief or sorrow. The theme is serious, usually death. | 73 | |
| 2485665365 | Mock/Heroic Epic | a long, humorous poem | 74 | |
| 2485667470 | Lyric Verse | one of the main groups of poetry, the others being narrative, dramatic and didactic poetry. In modern usage the term lyric includes all brief poems in which the author's ardent expression of a (usually single) emotional element predominates | 75 | |
| 2485667471 | Ode | a long, formal lyric poem with a serious theme; a form of lyric poetry using elaborate, sophisticated vocabulary in iambic pentameter. | 76 | |
| 2485669075 | Parody | ludicrous imitation, usually for comic effect but sometimes for ridicule, of the style and content of another work. | 77 | |
| 2485669076 | Romance | dealing with love | 78 | |
| 2485669077 | Satire | a piece of literature designed to ridicule the subject of the work. While satire can be funny, its aim is not to amuse, but to arouse contempt | 79 | |
| 2485675710 | Horatian Satire | satire in which the voice is indulgent, tolerant, amused, and witty | 80 | |
| 2485676934 | Juvenlian Satire | addresses social evil through scorn, outrage, and savage ridicule; often pessimistic, characterized by irony, sarcasm, moral indignation and personal invective, with less emphasis on humor. | 81 | |
| 2485680042 | Tragedy | depicts the downfall or destruction of a character | 82 | |
| 2485680043 | Duple Meters | iambic and trochaic | 83 | |
| 2485682784 | Iambic (rising) | 1 unaccented, 1 accented foot | 84 | |
| 2485682785 | Trochaic (falling) | poetic line created with 1 accented, 1 unaccented syllable | 85 | |
| 2485684425 | Falling Meter | stressed to unstressed syllables | 86 | |
| 2485684426 | Foot/Feet | a unit of meter; a metrical foot can have two or three syllables; the basic unit of measurement in a line of poetry | 87 | |
| 2485685772 | Monometer | one foot in a poetic line | 88 | |
| 2485686966 | Dimeter | two feet in a poetic line | 89 | |
| 2485686967 | Trimeter | three feet in a poetic line | 90 | |
| 2485688125 | Tetrameter | four feet in a poetic line | 91 | |
| 2485688126 | Pentameter | five feet in a poetic line | 92 | |
| 2485689887 | Hexameter | six feet in a poetic line | 93 | |
| 2485689888 | Septameter | seven feet in a poetic line | 94 | |
| 2485691323 | Octameter | eight feet in a poetic line | 95 | |
| 2485702147 | Metrical Substitutions | the use of an alien metric foot in a line of otherwise regular metrical pattern; an iambic line of "da DUM", a trochaic substitution would introduce a foot of "DUM da". | 96 | |
| 2485702148 | Pyrrhic | A metrical foot consisting of two unaccented syllables. | 97 | |
| 2485702149 | Rest | an instance or period of relaxing or ceasing to engage in strenuous or stressful activity. | 98 | |
| 2485703256 | Spondee | A metrical foot consisting of two syllables equally or almost equally accented | 99 | |
| 2485703257 | Trochee | A metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by one unaccented syllable | 100 | |
| 2485703258 | Rising Meter | unstressed to stressed syllables | 101 | |
| 2485705842 | Scansion/Scanning | read closely through lines of poetry and mark its metric feet (stressed, unstressed) | 102 | |
| 2485707319 | Stress/Accent | saying certain syllables or words in a line with more emphasis or volume | 103 | |
| 2485707320 | Triple Meters | anapestic and dactylic | 104 | |
| 2485709123 | Anapestic (rising) | meter having two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable ( - - / ) | 105 | |
| 2485730333 | Dactylic (falling) | three syllable foot consisting of an accented syllable followed by the unaccented syllables. | 106 | |
| 2485731407 | Antecedent Action | a literary term that refers to an element of the plot in a work of fiction. | 107 | |
| 2485731408 | Climax | the turning point, or crisis, in a play or other piece of literature | 108 | |
| 2485731409 | Conflict | a struggle between opposing forces | 109 | |
| 2485733240 | Denouement | the resolution of a plot after the climax | 110 | |
| 2485733241 | Exposition | the introductory material which sets the tone, gives the setting, introduces the characters, and supplies necessary facts | 111 | |
| 2485733242 | Falling Action | actions occurring after the climax | 112 | |
| 2485734175 | Flashback | looking back or remembering a past event | 113 | |
| 2485734176 | Foreshadowing | something predicting or leading up to a future event | 114 | |
| 2485735419 | Frame/Frame Story | a narrative constructed so that one or more stories are embedded within another story | 115 | |
| 2485735420 | Resolution | the part of a story or drama which occurs after the climax and which establishes a new norm, a new state of affairs - the way things are going to be from then on | 116 | |
| 2485735421 | Rising Action | action leading up to the climax | 117 | |
| 2485736417 | Subplot | a subordinate plot in a play, novel, or similar work. | 118 | |
| 2485736418 | Blank Verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter; metrical verse with no ending rhyme (Shakespeare) | 119 | |
| 2485738718 | Common Meter/Hymn Meter/Ballad Stanza | a metrical pattern for hymns in which the stanzas have four lines containing eight and six syllables alternately rhyming abcb or abab. | 120 | |
| 2485738719 | Continuous Form | the form of a poem in which the lines follow each other without formal grouping, the only breaks being dictated by units of meaning. | 121 | |
| 2485740952 | Closed Couplet | a rhyming couplet with end-stopped lines | 122 | |
| 2485740953 | Open Couplet | a rhyming couplet with enjambed lines | 123 | |
| 2485742222 | Heroic Couplet | two successive lines of rhymed poetry in iambic pentameter | 124 | |
| 2485742223 | Epigram | a witty saying, usually at the end of a poem, about 2 lines long; a brief, witty observation about a person, institution, or experience | 125 | |
| 2485742224 | Free Verse | unrhymed poetry with lines of varying lengths, containing no specific metrical pattern. | 126 | |
| 2485743334 | Nonce Form | generally created by a poet for a specific poem but which may, over time, and with repeated usage by subsequent poets, become a "received form" | 127 | |
| 2485743335 | Verse Paragraph | stanzas with no regular number of lines or groups of lines that make up units of sense; usually separated by blank lines | 128 | |
| 2485744557 | Caesura | a pause for effect in the middle of a line of poetry; (period, dash, semicolon, etc.) it may or may not affect the meter. | 129 | |
| 2485744558 | End-stop | when a line in poetry ends with some sort of puncuation | 130 | |
| 2485744559 | Enjambment | when a line of poetry does not end with any puncuation; it's a continuous thought | 131 | |
| 2485745982 | Interior Monologue | a piece of writing expressing a character's inner thoughts. | 132 | |
| 2485745983 | Narrator | a person who narrates something, especially a character who recounts the events of a novel or narrative poem. | 133 | |
| 2485751003 | First Person | speaking using pronouns such as I, me, and we | 134 | |
| 2485751004 | Second Person | speaking using pronouns like you, he, she, and they | 135 | |
| 2485752516 | Limited Omniscient | whose knowledge is limited to one character, either major or minor | 136 | |
| 2485752517 | Naïve Narrator | usually a character who fails to understand all the implications of the story. | 137 | |
| 2485753802 | Objective Narrator | narrator is a character in the story, but also knows the thoughts and feelings of all the other characters | 138 | |
| 2485753803 | Omniscient | all-knowing | 139 | |
| 2485757444 | Unreliable Narrator | may not know all the relevant information; may be intoxicated or mentally ill; may lie to the audience | 140 | |
| 2485757445 | Double Rhyme | a feminine rhyme involving one stressed and one unstressed syllable in each rhyming line. | 141 | |
| 2485758523 | End Rhyme | when the rhyme occurs at the end of the line | 142 | |
| 2485759757 | Full/Perfect/True Rhyme | stressed vowel sound in both words must be identical, as well as any subsequent sounds. | 143 | |
| 2485761095 | Internal Rhyme | when the rhyme is incorporated inside the line | 144 | |
| 2485761096 | Rhyme Scheme | pattern of rhyming words in a stanza | 145 | |
| 2485763521 | Slant/Near/Partial/Imperfect/Half Rhyme | occurs when the final consonants rhyme, but the vowel sounds do not | 146 | |
| 2485763522 | Triple Rhyme | masculine rhyme | 147 | |
| 2485764460 | Alliteration | sound device; repetition of initial (beginning) consonant sounds | 148 | |
| 2485764461 | Assonance | similarity or repetition of a vowel sound in two or more words, especially in a line of verse. | 149 | |
| 2485765581 | Cacophony | hard language; harsh; hard k, etc. | 150 | |
| 2485765582 | Consonance | the repetition of consonant sounds with differing vowel sounds in words near each other in a line or lines of poetry. | 151 | |
| 2485766457 | Euphony | pleasant language; double o sound like moon, etc. | 152 | |
| 2485767622 | Onomatopoeia | sound device; when the word is spelled like it sounds; you can read the word aloud and it sounds like the actual sound | 153 | |
| 2485773028 | Sibilance | a manner of articulation of fricative and affricate consonants, made by directing a stream of air with the tongue towards the sharp edge of the teeth, which are held close together | 154 | |
| 2485774459 | Envoy | a messenger or representative, especially one on a diplomatic mission | 155 | |
| 2485776224 | Ottava Rima | a form of poetry consisting of stanzas of eight lines of ten or eleven syllables, rhyming abababcc. | 156 | |
| 2485778190 | 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. | 157 | |
| 2485778191 | Rime Royal | a stanza of seven lines in iambic pentameter with a rhyme scheme of ababbcc. | 158 | |
| 2485779942 | Septet | 7 lines of poetry | 159 | |
| 2485779943 | Sestet | 6 lines of poetry | 160 | |
| 2485781912 | Spenserian Stanza | nine-line stanza, with the first eight lines in iambic pentameter and the last line in iambic hexameter | 161 | |
| 2485781913 | Tercet | 3 lines of poetry | 162 | |
| 2485782850 | Emphasis | stress laid on a word or words to indicate special meaning or particular importance. | 163 | |
| 2485782851 | Inversion of Word Order | reversing the normal subject - verb - complement order | 164 | |
| 2485784278 | Juxtaposition | the positioning of ideas or images side by side for emphasis or to show contrast | 165 | |
| 2485785483 | Subordinate Position | submissive to or controlled by authority | 166 | |
| 2485785484 | Emphatic Position | tending to express oneself in forceful speech or to take decisive action | 167 | |
| 2485789769 | Complexity | the state or quality of being intricate or complicated. | 168 | |
| 2485790916 | Variety | the quality or state of being different or diverse | 169 | |
| 2485793307 | Loose Sentence | the main idea (independent clause) is elaborated by the successive addition of modifying clauses or phrases | 170 | |
| 2485793308 | Periodic Sentence | saves the subject and verb of the independent clause until the end of the sentence | 171 | |
| 2485793309 | Active Voice | the subject is doing the acting | 172 | |
| 2485794367 | Passive Voice | noun or noun phrase that would be the object of an active sentence appears as the subject of the sentence | 173 | |
| 2485794857 | Authorial Voice | individual writing style of an author, a combination of their common usage of syntax, diction, punctuation, character development, dialogue, etc., within a given body of text | 174 | |
| 2485797256 | Humor | writing whose purpose it is to evoke some kind of laughter | 175 | |
| 2485797257 | Hyperbole | extreme exaggeration | 176 | |
| 2485797258 | Irony | surprising, amusing, or interesting contrast between reality and expectation | 177 | |
| 2485798478 | Dramatic Irony | irony in which the character use words which mean one thing to them but another to those who understand the situation better | 178 | |
| 2485798479 | Irony of Situation | actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected | 179 | |
| 2485799838 | Verbal Irony | a kind of irony in which words are used to suggest the opposite of their actual meaning | 180 | |
| 2485799839 | Sarcasm | the caustic and heavy use of apparent praise | 181 | |
| 2485799912 | Sentimentalism | the excessive expression of feelings of tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia in behavior, writing, or speech. | 182 | |
| 2485801687 | Understatement | statement in which the literal sense of what is said falls short of the magnitude of what is being talked about | 183 | |
| 2485812382 | Wit | a natural aptitude for using words and ideas in a quick and inventive way to | 184 |
