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| 10753511078 | prose | written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure. | 0 | |
| 10753511690 | novel | extended work of prose fiction, an attempt to represent the world. | 1 | |
| 10753523418 | piqaresque | episodic satire (in case of don quixote), goes through series of adventures, the picar is the jaunty character who travels from area to area and has the misadventures | 2 | |
| 10753530282 | bildungsroman | A novel or story whose theme is the moral or psychological growth of the main character- a novel of education | 3 | |
| 10753532597 | symbol | A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract. | 4 | |
| 10753533585 | allegory | A literary work in which characters, objects, or actions represent abstractions; a related set of symbols intended to work together to provide additional meaning | 5 | |
| 10753539878 | stanza | group of lines in a poem | 6 | |
| 10753539879 | canto | group of stanzas in a poem | 7 | |
| 10753540780 | elegy | a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead. | 8 | |
| 10753542589 | antiquity | the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe (pre-435) | 9 | |
| 10753542590 | classical | typically Greek or Roman works that are commonly categorized as noteworthy | 10 | |
| 10753544002 | lyric | A short poem that expresses a moment of insight, a poem that expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker, poem of song-like quality | 11 | |
| 10753544003 | free verse | poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme | 12 | |
| 10753546488 | fixed form | A poem that may be categorized by the pattern of its lines, meter, rhythm, or stanzas. | 13 | |
| 10753547697 | end rhyme | A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line | 14 | |
| 10753548454 | alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds | 15 | |
| 10753549773 | Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds | 16 | |
| 10753549774 | diction | word choice | 17 | |
| 10753550906 | voice | The real or assumed personality used by a writer or speaker. | 18 | |
| 10753551518 | tone | A writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization on the sentence and global levels. | 19 | |
| 10753552200 | style | the choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work | 20 | |
| 10753553732 | rhetorical | relationship between writer/speaker and reader/audience | 21 | |
| 10753557797 | pathos | Appeal to emotion | 22 | |
| 10753557798 | logos | Appeal to logic | 23 | |
| 10753558500 | ethos | appeal to authority | 24 | |
| 10753559336 | parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 25 | |
| 10753561958 | hyperbole | exaggeration, overstatement for effect | 26 | |
| 10753563503 | expressionism | 20th century movement in art and literature where one explicitly says and names what's going on | 27 | |
| 10753565552 | impressionism | A set of seemingly unrelated images is given in order to create an impression of what's going on. This term is much more commonly used in literature than Expressionism. | 28 | |
| 10753566679 | periodic sentance | A sentence that holds the thought/reader in suspense until the end of the sentence. The main clause/predicate isn't revealed until the end of the sentence. | 29 | |
| 10753566680 | loose sentance | The main clause is at the start of the sentence and the phrases/clauses that modify the main clause follow | 30 | |
| 10753568079 | imagery | visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work. | 31 | |
| 10753568703 | compare | Similarity between things | 32 | |
| 10753568704 | contrast | Difference between things | 33 | |
| 10753571451 | utopia | an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect | 34 | |
| 10753572595 | dystopia | a failed attempt at an utopia which is often worse than things currently are | 35 | |
| 10753574563 | science fiction | Speculative extrapolation in narrative form | 36 | |
| 10753575517 | irony | A contrast between expectation and reality, tension between opposites | 37 | |
| 10753579428 | verbal irony | sarcasm | 38 | |
| 10753580174 | dramatic irony | irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play. | 39 | |
| 10753580862 | irony of situation | refers to an occurrence that is contrary to what is expected or intended | 40 | |
| 10753581873 | paradox | A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. | 41 | |
| 10753582837 | moral | A practical lesson about right and wrong | 42 | |
| 10753583676 | comedy | A humorous work of drama that traditionally ends in marriage | 43 | |
| 10753587295 | tragedy | a play dealing with tragic events and having an unhappy ending, especially one concerning the downfall of the main character, typically ends in death | 44 | |
| 10753589088 | exposition | A narrative device, often used at the beginning of a work that provides necessary background information about the characters and their circumstances. | 45 | |
| 10753589931 | charecterization | the process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character | 46 | |
| 10753591075 | chorus | A group of characters in Greek tragedy (and in later forms of drama), who comment on the action of a play without participation in it. | 47 | |
| 10753592002 | protagonist | main character | 48 | |
| 10753592003 | antagonist | A character or force in conflict with the main character | 49 | |
| 10753593190 | foil | A character who contrasts and parallels the main character in a play or story, sometimes serves to provoke action in protag. | 50 | |
| 10753595726 | flat character | A character who embodies a single quality and who does not develop in the course of a story | 51 | |
| 10753598561 | dynamic character | A character who grows, learns, or changes as a result of the story's action | 52 | |
| 10753600330 | tragic hero | a protagonist with a fatal flaw which eventually leads to their demise | 53 | |
| 10753602613 | hamartia | Quality/strength of a character that, when applied in the wrong situation, leads to that character's downfall | 54 | |
| 10753604678 | classical tragic structure | the way that a typical greek tragedy is structured, including complication, climax, and then unraveling. | 55 | |
| 10753612892 | personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes | 56 | |
| 10753612893 | metaphor | A comparison without using like or as | 57 | |
| 10753613579 | mixed metaphor | a combination of two or more incompatible metaphors, which produces a ridiculous effect | 58 | |
| 10753615086 | simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" | 59 | |
| 10753615708 | Metonomy | A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated (such as "crown" for "royalty"). | 60 | |
| 10753616524 | satire | A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies often through mocking and humor | 61 | |
| 10783739071 | line break | Where a line of poetry ends | 62 |
