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| 4318934104 | In medias res | To be put in the middle, places reader immediatly into the action | 0 | |
| 4318934105 | Subplot | Secondary plot that explores ideas that are different from the main story line | 1 | |
| 4318934106 | Foil | A character who provides an opportunity for comparison and contrast | 2 | |
| 4318934107 | Aristotelian tragic hero | Of noble birth, larger than life, basically good, exhibits fatal flaw, makes an error in judgement, possesses excessive arrogance or pride, brings about own downfall, has moment of realization, suffers | 3 | |
| 4318934108 | Romantic hero | Larger than life, charismatic, possesses air of mystery, "saves the day" or heroine, embodies freedom, adventure, and idealism, often outside the law | 4 | |
| 4318934109 | Modern hero | May be everyman, has human weaknesses, caught in the ironies of human condition, struggles for insight | 5 | |
| 4318934110 | Hemingway hero | Brave, endures, maintains sense of humor, grace under pressure | 6 | |
| 4318934111 | Antihero | Protagonist lacking heroic qualities | 7 | |
| 4318934112 | Stream of consciousness | Places the reader in the mind and thought of the narrator, no matter how random and spontaneous that may be | 8 | |
| 4318934113 | Epistolary | Novel that utilizes the convention of letter writing | 9 | |
| 4318934114 | Picaresque | Novel that for uses on the misadventures of a young rogue | 10 | |
| 4318934115 | Gothic | Novel concerned with the supernatural and exotic | 11 | |
| 4318934116 | Allegorical | Never that is representative and symbolic. Can be understood on two levels | 12 | |
| 4318934117 | Denotation | The literal meaning of a word or phrase | 13 | |
| 4318934118 | Sardonic | Mocking/cynical | 14 | |
| 4318934119 | Vituperative | Bitter and abusive | 15 | |
| 4318934120 | Facetious | Treating a serious issue with humor | 16 | |
| 4318934121 | Pedantic | Intending to match or compliment another | 17 | |
| 4318934122 | Didactic | Intending to teach a moral lesson | 18 | |
| 4318934123 | Laudatory | Expressing praise or commendation | 19 | |
| 4318934124 | Idyllic | Happy/peaceful | 20 | |
| 4318934125 | Lugubrious | Sad/dismal | 21 | |
| 4318934126 | Elegiac | Mournful quality | 22 | |
| 4318934127 | Macabre | Disturbing/horrifying | 23 | |
| 4318934128 | Jingoistic | Extreme patriotism | 24 | |
| 4320044332 | Scansion | Analysis of a poem's form and meter | 25 | |
| 4320044333 | Iamb | Unstressed, stressed | 26 | |
| 4320044334 | Trochee | Stressed, unstressed | 27 | |
| 4320044335 | Anapest | Unstressed, unstressed, stressed | 28 | |
| 4320044336 | Dactyl | Stressed, unstressed, unstressed | 29 | |
| 4320044337 | Spondee | Stressed, stressed | 30 | |
| 4320044338 | Monometer | 1 foot | 31 | |
| 4320044339 | Dimeter | 2 feet | 32 | |
| 4320044340 | Trimeter | 3 feet | 33 | |
| 4320044341 | Tetrameter | 4 feet | 34 | |
| 4320044342 | Couplet | 2 lines | 35 | |
| 4320044343 | Tercet | 3 lines | 36 | |
| 4320044344 | Ode | Formal lyric poem that addresses subjects of elevated stature | 37 | |
| 4320044345 | Ballad | Narrative, originally sung, simple, employs dialogue-religion-minor characters, written in quatrains, basic rhyme, has a refrain, two lines of iambic tetrameter which alternate with two lines of iambic trimeter | 38 | |
| 4320044346 | Lyric | Highly personal, emotional, melodious | 39 | |
| 4320044347 | Elegy | Formal lyric poem written in honor of one who had died | 40 | |
| 4320044348 | Dramatic monologue | Relates an episode in a speakers life through a controversial format that reveals the character of the speaker | 41 | |
| 4320044349 | Sonnet | Usually written in iambic pentameter, always 14 lines | 42 | |
| 4320044350 | Italian Sonnet | Divided into an octave and a sestet with a rhyme scheme of abbaabba cdecde. Usually arranged as general to specific, compare and contrast, question and answer, cause and effect, or before and after | 43 | |
| 4320044351 | Shakespearean Sonnet | Divided into 3 quatrains and then a couplet. Follows rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg. The couplet is either a summery, conclusion, or universal statement | 44 | |
| 4320044352 | Villanelle | 6 stanza, 5 ter cents, and a final quatrain p. Has two refrains. The 1st and last lines of the first stanza alternate as the last line of the next four stanzas a then form a coup,et in the quatrain | 45 | |
| 4320044353 | Anapest | A metrical pattern of two unaccented syllables followed by an accented | 46 | |
| 4320044354 | Apostrophe | Direct address in poetry | 47 | |
| 4320044355 | Aubade | A love poem set at dawn which bids farewell to the beloved | 48 | |
| 4320044356 | Caesura | A break or pause within a line of poetry indicated by punctuation and used to emphasize meaning | 49 | |
| 4320044357 | Dues ex machina | "The god from the machine" meaning someone who appears at last moment and resolves the loose ends of the play . Today refers who someone who resolves the key to the plot | 50 | |
| 4320044358 | Epigram | A brief witty poem | 51 | |
| 4320044359 | Magical realism | Type of literature that explores narratives by and about characters who inhabit and experience their reality differently from what we term the objective world | 52 | |
| 4320044360 | Metaphysical poetry | Work of poets who explore highly complex, philosophical ideas through extended metaphors and paradox | 53 | |
| 4320044361 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which a representative term is used for a larger idea ("the pen is mightier than the sword") | 54 | |
| 4320044362 | Romanticism | A style or movement of literature that has its foundation and interest in freedom, adventure, idealism, and escape | 55 | |
| 4320044363 | Soliloquy | A speech in a play which is used to reveal the character's inner thoughts o the audience | 56 | |
| 4320044364 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech that utilizes a part as representative of the whole | 57 | |
| 4320044365 | Anaphora | Replacing a word to avoid repetition or religion of the first part of a sentence | 58 | |
| 4320044366 | Asyndeton | Omission of absence of conjunctions between sentences | 59 |
