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| 10603572020 | The Human Condition | State of being; -Self awareness -Complex reasoning -Ethics/morality/justice -Creativity/beauty -Questioning Existance | 0 | |
| 10603578130 | Zeitgeist | Theorized by Hegel; "Spirit of the times"; "the general cultural, artistic, religious, and philosphical climate of an era" | 1 | |
| 10603585075 | Dialectical Clash | The clash of two ideas | 2 | |
| 10603589336 | Thesis | idea | 3 | |
| 10603590558 | Antithesis | The opposing idea to the thesis that sparks a new zeitgeist | 4 | |
| 10603593861 | Renaissance | Rebirth | 5 | |
| 10603594917 | Great Chain of Being | the idea that every existing thing in the universe has its place in a divinely planned hierarchical order | 6 | |
| 10603601105 | Humanism | Enforced possibility within human life (rather than afterlife) through sociability | 7 | |
| 10603610917 | Fortuna | Goddess of fate; symbol of luck | 8 | |
| 10603607282 | Wheel of fortune | Symbol of fate; random wheel spun by Fortuna to randomly change fate | 9 | |
| 10603615635 | Theme | The central idea or dominating thought, which results from the other elements contained in fiction | 10 | |
| 10603619586 | Common themes | -Human Nature -Nature of Society -Human Freedom -Ethics | 11 | |
| 10603623873 | Synesthasia | a mingling of sensation. When one sense is use to describe another sense | 12 | |
| 10603626855 | Sign | an object, picture, or word which signifies something other than itself | 13 | |
| 10604569038 | Symbol | an object, place, character, or event that represents something more or something other than itself | 14 | |
| 10604574208 | Archetype | a symbol that transcends time and culture | 15 | |
| 10604576679 | Collective subconscious | a reservoir os the experience of our species | 16 | |
| 10604581667 | Common Archetypal Settings | Paths, crossroads, ocean, maze, threshold, underworld, fog, bridge, forest, tower | 17 | |
| 10604585955 | Common Archetypal Objects | Fire, ice, talisman, water | 18 | |
| 10604586756 | Common Archetypal Characters | Hero, Anti-hero, scapegoat, gothic hero, unbalanced hero, the "other", mentor, the shadow, the outcast, damsel in distress | 19 | |
| 10604593434 | Common Archetypal Journeys | Quest for: Identity, promised land, vengeance, protection for ones people, love, knowledge; fools errand; grail quest | 20 | |
| 10604596474 | Motif | repeated elements in a work of art | 21 | |
| 10604597932 | Monomyth | Hero's journey I) Departure II) Initiation III) Return | 22 | |
| 10604601283 | Poetry types | Narrative Ballad Epic Dramatic Monologue Dialogue Lyric Elegy Ode Sonnet | 23 | |
| 10604607911 | Narrative Poem | tells a story in verse | 24 | |
| 10604608880 | Ballad | songlike poem that tells a story | 25 | |
| 10604610523 | Epic | hero embodies the values and aspirations of the poets culture | 26 | |
| 10604617858 | Dramatic Poem | makes use of the conventions of drama | 27 | |
| 10604619157 | Dramatic Monologue | a poem or speech in which an imaginary character speaks to a listener (soliloquy) | 28 | |
| 10604622314 | Dramatic Dialogue | a poem in which two speakers converse with one another | 29 | |
| 10604624867 | Lyric poem | a melodic poem that expresses observations and the feelings of a single speaker; focuses on a single unified effect | 30 | |
| 10604631766 | The Elegy | a reflective lament of the loss of something | 31 | |
| 10604634673 | The Ode | a long, formal lyric poem, usually meditative, that treats a noble or otherwise elevated subject in a dignified manner; often honor people, commemorate events, respond to nature, or consider aspects of the human condition | 32 | |
| 10604644430 | The Sonnet | "little song"; consists of 14 lines and follows one of several traditional rhyme schemes. may address a range of themes, love is most common | 33 | |
| 10604651565 | Stanza | a grouping of lines in a poem; may be significant or arbitrary | 34 | |
| 10604654007 | Poetic shift (PS) | most, but not all, poems have a PS. PS normally occurs with a shift in tone. THere can be multiple PSs in a poem. The PS is normally where the meaning of the poem is. | 35 | |
| 10604658807 | Enjambment | when the physical end of a line does not coincide with the grammatical end of a line. Can sometimes add to the meaning and sometimes be arbitrary. Emphasizes words before and after it. Can operate for 2 different parts of a poem | 36 | |
| 10604665097 | End Stopped Line | when the physical end of a line of poetry matches the grammatical end of a line | 37 | |
| 10604667302 | Concrete Poetry | when the physical shape of the poem enhances the meaning | 38 | |
| 10604671961 | Elements of Freytag's Pyramid | exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, denoument | 39 | |
| 10604675330 | Characterization | the creation and development of a character | 40 | |
| 10604676920 | Ways to characterize | Direct Indirect | 41 | |
| 10604678111 | direct characterization | the author directly tells the reader about the character | 42 | |
| 10604680404 | Indirect Characterization | the author shows rather than than tells the character | 43 | |
| 10604682409 | Character types | Round, Flat Static, Dynamic | 44 | |
| 10604685845 | Round / Flat Characters | round: complex Flat: Stereotypical | 45 | |
| 10604687195 | Static / Dynamic | Static: does not change in the story Dynamic: changes because of events in the story | 46 | |
| 10604691791 | Foil | a secondary character who shares many aspects with a major character but who is different in some significant way which sheds light on a major character | 47 | |
| 10604696842 | Protagonist | main character trying to achieve a goal | 48 | |
| 10604699245 | Antagonist | character trying to stop the Protags. goal | 49 | |
| 10604707202 | Aristotelian Tragedy | 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 | 50 | |
| 10604708278 | Anagnorisis | a moment of clairvoyant insight or understanding in the mind of the hero as he suddenly comprehends the web of fate that he has entangled himself in | 51 | |
| 10604714150 | Hamartia | a fatal error or simple mistake on the part of the hero that eventually leads to the final catastrophe | 52 | |
| 10604717066 | Hubris | sin par excellence of the tragic or over-aspiring hero | 53 | |
| 10604718643 | Nemeis | the inevitable punishment or cosmic payback for acts of hubris | 54 | |
| 10604721260 | Peripateria | a pivotal or crucial action on the part of the protagonist that changes his situation from seemingly secure to vulnerable | 55 | |
| 10604725636 | Hegelian Tragedy | Good is up against good and the contest is to the death | 56 | |
| 10604727380 | Revenge Tragedy | dramatizes the predicament of a wronged hero | 57 |
