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| 4893748540 | Teological | To have an end purpose. | 0 | |
| 4893748541 | Zeitgeist | General cultural, religious, artistic, and philosophical climate of an era. | 1 | |
| 4893748542 | Dialectical Clash | History is a series of clashes in ideas. | 2 | |
| 4893748543 | Five Branches of Philosophy | 1) Metaphysics 2) Epistemology 3) Ethics 4) Politics 5) Aesthetics | 3 | |
| 4893748544 | Human Condition | The state of being human. | 4 | |
| 4893748545 | Connotation | The feelings and emotions associated with a word. | 5 | |
| 4893748546 | Denotation | The dictionary definition of a word. | 6 | |
| 4893748547 | Myth | A traditional story typically concerning supernatural events and gods. | 7 | |
| 4893748548 | Dualism | The philosophical believe that humans are made up of two essences: 1) physical being 2) spiritual being | 8 | |
| 4893748549 | Metaphor | A figure of speech in which a word is applied to an object of action to which it is not literally applicable. | 9 | |
| 4893748550 | Simile | Figure of speech comparing one thing to another thing of a differing kind. | 10 | |
| 4893748551 | Metonym | When one thing replaces another thing through association. | 11 | |
| 4893748552 | Hyperbole | An over exaggeration. | 12 | |
| 4893748553 | Personification | Using human qualities to describe a nonliving thing. | 13 | |
| 4893748554 | Synesthesia | Mingling of sensations. | 14 | |
| 4893748555 | Metaphysical Conceit | An original and usually complex comparison between two highly dissimilar things. | 15 | |
| 4893748556 | Symbolism | The use of symbols so represent ideas or qualities. | 16 | |
| 4893748557 | Archetupe | A symbol that transcends time and culture. | 17 | |
| 4893748558 | Aside | A remark made to the audience revealing a characters inner thoughts, it is clearly understood but the other characters on stage cannot hear. | 18 | |
| 4893748559 | Soliloquy | A long speech given by a single character, usually alone on stage. | 19 | |
| 4893748560 | Theme | The central idea or dominating thought, which results from the other elements contained in fiction. | 20 | |
| 4893748561 | Major Themes | Human nature, the nature of society, faith and freedom, ethics | 21 | |
| 4893748562 | Sign | An object, picture, word, that signifies something other than itself; no deeper significance band to represent. | 22 | |
| 4893748563 | Symbol | An object, place, character or event that represents something more or something other than itself. | 23 | |
| 4893748564 | Definition of Poetry | Condensed language | 24 | |
| 4893748565 | Two ways to Classify Poems | 1) Content/purpose 2) Structure | 25 | |
| 4893748566 | Narrative Poem | Tell a story in verse. | 26 | |
| 4893748567 | Ballad | Song like poem that tells a story. | 27 | |
| 4893748568 | Epic | The hero of a poem embodies the values and aspirations of the poet's culture. | 28 | |
| 4893748569 | Dramatic Poem | Makes use of the conventions of drama | 29 | |
| 4893748570 | Dramatic Monolgue | A poem or speech in which an imaginary character speaks to a listener. | 30 | |
| 4893748571 | Dramatic Dialogue | A poem in which two speakers converse with one another. | 31 | |
| 4893748572 | Anagnorsis | Tragic recognition or insight | 32 | |
| 4893748573 | Hamartia | Tragic error | 33 | |
| 4893748574 | Hubris | Violent transgression | 34 | |
| 4893748575 | Nemesis | Retribution | 35 | |
| 4893748576 | Peripateia | Plot reversal | 36 | |
| 4893748577 | Direct Characterization | The author directly tells the reader about the character. | 37 | |
| 4893748578 | Indirect Characterization | The author shows rather than tells about the character. | 38 | |
| 4893748579 | Character Types | Round Flat Static Dynamic | 39 | |
| 4893748580 | Round | A complex character. | 40 | |
| 4893748581 | Flat | A stereotypical character. | 41 | |
| 4893748582 | Static | Character who does not change during the course of a story. | 42 | |
| 4893748583 | Dynamic | A character who changes because of the events in a story. | 43 | |
| 4893748584 | Lyric Poem | A melodic poem that expresses the observations and the feelings of a single speaker. | 44 | |
| 4893748585 | The Elegy | Reflective poem that limits the loss of someone or something. | 45 | |
| 4893748586 | The Ode | A long, formal lyric poem, usually meditative, that treats and noble or otherwise elevated subject in a dignified manner. | 46 | |
| 4893748587 | The Sonnet | "Little Song" A lyric poem that consists of 14 lines and that follows one of several traditional rhyme schemes. | 47 | |
| 4893748588 | Stanza | Grouping of lines in a poem of that "normally" have a central idea. | 48 | |
| 4893748589 | Poetic Shift | When a poem moves from one town to another or from an idea to a counter idea. | 49 | |
| 4893748590 | Concrete Poetry | With the poet uses the physical shape of the poem to emphasize the meaning of the poem. | 50 | |
| 4893748591 | Enjambment | When the physical end of a line of poetry does not match the grammatical end of the line of poetry. | 51 | |
| 4893748592 | End-Stopped Line | When the physical end of a line of poetry matches the grammatical end. | 52 | |
| 4893748593 | Couplet | Two lines that rhyme | 53 | |
| 4893748594 | Tercet | Three lines that rhyme | 54 | |
| 4893748595 | Sestet | Six lines that rhyme | 55 | |
| 4893748596 | Octave | Eight lines that have a rhyme scheme | 56 | |
| 4893748597 | Quatrain | Four lines that rhyme | 57 | |
| 4893748598 | Act | A major division of poem, usually encompassing a predetermined segment of the story. | 58 | |
| 4893748599 | Scene | To change setting or time, change the characters, change of idea or change of topic. | 59 | |
| 4893748600 | Characterization | The creation and development of a character. | 60 | |
| 4893748601 | Scansion | Looking at a line of poetry for its rhythm. | 61 | |
| 4893748602 | Unstressed Syllable | When your voice goes down | 62 | |
| 4893748603 | Stressed Syllable | When your voice goes up | 63 | |
| 4893748604 | Foot | A series of unstressed and stressed syllables. | 64 | |
| 4893748605 | Meter | The number of feet in a line of poetry. | 65 | |
| 4893748606 | Iambic Parameter | Five iambs in a line of poetry. | 66 | |
| 4893748607 | Iamb | A pattern that consists of unstressed and stressed syllables. | 67 | |
| 4893748608 | Rhyme | The repetition of identical vowel sounds in the stressed syllables of two or more words as well as all subsequent sounds. | 68 | |
| 4893748609 | Rhyme Scheme | The pattern of rhymes in a poem. | 69 | |
| 4911009561 | Cerements | Clothes that you are buried in. | 70 | |
| 4911009562 | Sepulcher | Stone tomb above ground. | 71 | |
| 4929513121 | Transfix | To pierce or to stab. | 72 | |
| 5005408257 | Apostrophe | When a character or a narrator breaks from the flow of a story, usually overcome with emotion and addresses an inanimate object or an absent presence. | 73 | |
| 5005408258 | Setting | The background against which the story takes place. | 74 | |
| 5005408259 | Sensuous World | The description of the physical place through any of the five senses. | 75 | |
| 5005408260 | Time Period | When historically the events take place. | 76 | |
| 5005408261 | Time of the Narrative | When historically the story is being told from. | 77 | |
| 5005408262 | The Social Environment | The manners, customs, culture and moral values that govern the historic time. | 78 | |
| 5005408263 | Atmosphere | Normally created by the sensuous world of the piece of fiction. | 79 | |
| 5005408264 | Emotional Environment | The emotional reaction the reader and the characters have to the setting. | 80 | |
| 5005408265 | Plot | The pattern that results from the events in the story and the order in which they are presented. | 81 | |
| 5005408266 | Expostuon | Introduction to characters and setting the status quo | 82 | |
| 5005467598 | Conflict | Can be internal or external as the characters participate in a series of actions. | 83 | |
| 5005467599 | Rising Action | The increase in tension in a story. | 84 | |
| 5005467600 | Climax | Epiphany, the highest point of tension in a story. A decision is made. | 85 | |
| 5005467601 | Falling Action | The release of tension in a story. | 86 | |
| 5005467602 | Dénouement | How the story turns out. | 87 | |
| 5005467603 | Point of View | The vantage point from which the author chooses to tell the story | 88 | |
| 5005467604 | First Person Subjective | Told from the POV of a single character. Pronouns: I, me, we, us | 89 | |
| 5005467605 | Second Person Perspective | Rare form of literature which places the reader into the narrative. Pronoun: You | 90 | |
| 5005467606 | Third Person Omniscient | Story narrated by a God like being who can shift from character to character. | 91 | |
| 5005467607 | Third Person Limited | Story is portrayed through the eyes of a single character. | 92 | |
| 5005467608 | Irony | A literary device in which there is an incongruity or discordance between what is spoken, thought, or believed and reality. | 93 | |
| 5005467609 | Types of Irony | 1) Verbal Irony 2) Situational Irony 3) Dramatic Irony 4) Cosmic Irony 5) Structural Irony | 94 | |
| 5005467610 | Verbal Irony | 95 | ||
| 5012030869 | Human Agency | The free will of a human to make decisions in life. | 96 | |
| 5034639681 | Sublime | The highest form of beauty. | 97 | |
| 5054684242 | Allusion | An indirect reference to a person, event, statement, or them found in literature. | 98 | |
| 5054684243 | Motif | A unifying element in an artistic work, especially any recurrent image, symbol, theme, character type, subject or narrative detail. | 99 | |
| 5054684244 | Foreshadowing | The technique of introducing into a narrative material that prepares the reader or audience for future events, actions, or revelations. | 100 | |
| 5054684245 | Imagery | A term used to refer to the actual language used to convey a picture or the figures of speech to express abstract ideas in a vivid and innovative way. | 101 | |
| 5166510272 | Deus Ex Machina | "God of the machine" Sloppy writing (using events that don't really make sense) to effect the plot. | 102 | |
| 5348906558 | Epistolary | A novel written in a series of letters. | 103 | |
| 5348906559 | Frame Story | When a narrative is enclosed by a second narrative. | 104 |
