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| 7192399959 | Abstract | Abstract style. Complex, discusses intangible qualities (Absolute goods and evils), rarely uses examples to support its points. | 0 | |
| 7192404298 | Academic | Dry and theoretical writing. When a piece of writing seems to be sucking all the life out of its subject with analysis. | 1 | |
| 7192411692 | Accent | The stressed portion of a word Ex: "To BE or NOT to be... THAT is the question" (Accents can be interpreted any way... Where you accent is based on your own opinion) | 2 | |
| 7192424175 | Aesthetic / Aesthetics | Appealing to the senses. A coherent sense of taste. | 3 | |
| 7192471574 | Allegory | A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself. | 4 | |
| 7192474148 | Alliteration | The repetition of initial consonant sounds. Consonant clusters coming closely cramped and compressed ExDee | 5 | |
| 7192522759 | Anachronism | Misplaced in time for, most of the time, comedic values Ex: Julius Caesar forgetting to take off his wristwatch. | 6 | |
| 7192530594 | Analogy | A comparison between two or more symbolic parts. Used to clarify an action or a relationship. | 7 | |
| 7195699830 | Anecdote | A short narrative | 8 | |
| 7195701662 | Anteceden | A word, phrase, or clause that a pronoun refers to or replaces. Ex: "The principal asked the children where they were going." Pronoun: They Antecedent: Children | 9 | |
| 7195704306 | Anthropomorphism | Inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena are given human characteristics. | 10 | |
| 7195706040 | Anticlimax | When an action produces far smaller results than one had been led to expect. Anticlimactic. | 11 | |
| 7195712643 | Antihero | A protagonist who is marked unheroic: morally weak, cowardly. dishonest, or any number of other unsavory qualities. | 12 | |
| 7195714802 | Aphorism | A short and usually witty saying. Ex: "NorCal? More like DumbCal! xdxdxdxd" | 13 | |
| 7195717168 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech wherein the speaker talks directly to something that is nonhuman | 14 | |
| 7195719341 | Archaism | The use of deliberately old-fashioned language. Ex: "Ye Ole Candle Shoppe" | 15 | |
| 7195721423 | Aside | A short comment made by an actor to the audience, as though momentarily stepping outside of the action on stage. Breaking the fourth wall per se. | 16 | |
| 7195740159 | Assonance | The repeated use of vowel sounds. Ex: "Old king Cole was a merry old soul" | 17 | |
| 7195741190 | Atmosphere | The emotional tone or background that surrounds a scene. | 18 | |
| 7195752018 | Ballad | A long, narrative poem, usually in very regular meter and rhyme. | 19 | |
| 7195756592 | Bathos / Pathos | When the writing of a scene evokes feelings of dignified pity and sympathy. | 20 | |
| 7195757645 | Black Humor | The use of disturbing themes in comedy. xdxdxd | 21 | |
| 7195758345 | Bombast | This is pretentious, exaggeratedly learned language. Using the most eloquent, largest, uncommon words. | 22 | |
| 7195761221 | Burlesque | A broad parody. Takes a style or a form, such as tragic drama, and exaggerates it into ridiculousness. VERY similar definition to parody. Practically the same thing. | 23 | |
| 7195763889 | Cacophony | Using deliberately harsh, awkward sounds. | 24 | |
| 7195770548 | Cadence | The beat or rhythm of poetry in a general sense. Ex: Gentle, conversational, vigorous, matching, etc. | 25 | |
| 7195779063 | Canto | The Divides a long poem into parts the way chapters divide a novel. | 26 | |
| 7195779774 | Caricature | A portrait that exaggerates a facet of personality. | 27 | |
| 7195781558 | Catharsis | The "cleansing" of emotion an audience member experiences, having lived through the experiences presented on stage. Ex: Your favorite character dies and you're breathless for a few seconds. When you snap back into reality and realize that this was just a play and that character is not real, the sigh releasing all of your emotions is the catharsis. | 28 | |
| 7195787686 | Chorus | A group of citizens who stand outside the main action on stage and comment on it. | 29 | |
| 7195788361 | Classic | Accepted masterpiece Ex: Star Wars | 30 | |
| 7195789602 | Coinage / Neologism | Coining a new word. Ex: "Please, no Johns." | 31 | |
| 7195792424 | Colloquialism | A word or phrase used in everyday conversational English that isn't a part of accepted "schoolbook" English. Ex: "Bro! I'm hella toasted dude!!! xdxdxd". | 32 | |
| 7195798296 | Complex / Dense | There is more than one possible meaning to an image, idea, opposition, word, dialogue, etc. | 33 | |
| 7195808908 | Conceit / Controlling Image | Startling or unusual metaphor, or a metaphor developed and expanded upon over several lines. | 34 | |
| 7195810451 | Connotation | Everything that the word suggests or implies. Not literal meaning. | 35 | |
| 7195812919 | Denotation | The word's literal meaning. | 36 | |
| 7195814567 | Consonance | The repetition of consonant sounds within words. NOT THE REPETITION OF CONSONANT BEGINNINGS. Ex: "A flock of sick, black-checkered ducks." | 37 | |
| 7195991855 | Couplet | A pair of lines that end in rhyme. Ex: I am cow hear me MOO I weight eight times more as YOU | 38 | |
| 7195996416 | Decorum | Rhetoric based on identity. A bum will talk like a bum and about bumly things. A princess should speak like a princess and about highly things. | 39 | |
| 7196000400 | Diction | The author's choice of words. Ex: Author using frugal instead of stingy to label a character. | 40 | |
| 7196271615 | Dirge | A song for the dead. Slow, heavy, melancholy. | 41 | |
| 7196272841 | Dissonance | The granting of incompatible sounds. | 42 | |
| 7196273210 | Doggerel | Crude, simplistic verse, often in sing-song rhyme . | 43 | |
| 7196274910 | Dramatic Irony | When the audience knows something that the characters in the drama do not. | 44 | |
| 7196279448 | Dramatic Monologue | When a single speaker in literature says something to a silent audience. | 45 | |
| 7196281186 | Elegy | A poem that meditates on death or mortality in a serious, thoughtful manner. | 46 | |
| 7306056845 | Elements | The basic techniques of each genre of literature. | 47 | |
| 7196429981 | Elements: Short Story | Characters, Irony, Theme, Symbolism, Plot, Setting. | 48 | |
| 7196431098 | Elements: Poetry | Figurative Language, Symbol, Imagery, Rhythm, Rhyme. | 49 | |
| 7196432723 | Elements: Drama | Conflict, Characters, Climax, Conclusion, Exposition, Rising Action, Falling Action, Sets, Props. | 50 | |
| 7196434649 | Elements: Nonfiction | Argument, Evidence, Reason, Appeals, Fallacies, Thesis. | 51 | |
| 7196436217 | Enjambment | The continuation of a syntactic unit from one line or couplet of a poem to the next with no pause. There is no sort of punctuation from one line to another in a poem. | 52 | |
| 7196439413 | Epic | A very long and grand narrative poem on a serious theme in a dignified style. Ex: Wars, fallacy, heroic journey. | 53 | |
| 7196447279 | Epitaph | Lines that commemorate the dead at their burial place. | 54 | |
| 7196447871 | Euphemism | A word or a phrase that takes the place of a harsh, unpleasant, or impolite reality. Ex: "Passed away" vs "died" & "let go" vs "fired". | 55 | |
| 7196451216 | Euphony | When sounds blend harmoniously. | 56 | |
| 7196451990 | Explicit | To say or write something directly and clearly. Similar to Denote. | 57 | |
| 7196453782 | Farce | A funny play or comedy. Not always implying humor xD. | 58 | |
| 7196469214 | Feminine Rhyme | Kines rhymed by their final two syllables. Ex: "Running and gunning." | 59 | |
| 7196512590 | First Person Narrator | xD | 60 | |
| 7196513870 | Foil | A secondary character whose purpose is to highlight the characteristics of a main character, usually by contrast. Ex: Creating a super happy side character to your depressing main character. | 61 | |
| 7198635455 | Foot | The basic rhythmic unit of a line of poetry. Formed by the combination of two or three syllables, either stressed or unstressed. | 62 | |
| 7198638195 | Foreshadowing | An event or statement in a narrative that suggests,in miniature, a larger even that comes later. | 63 | |
| 7198641016 | Free Verse | Poetry written without a regular rhyme scheme or metrical pattern. | 64 | |
| 7198641017 | Genre | A subcategory of literature. | 65 | |
| 7198642558 | Gothic / Gothic Novel | Mid 1700s. Think of the Gothic Era. Ex: Mysterious gloomy castles perched high upon sheer cliffs. | 66 | |
| 7198648304 | Hubris | The excessive pride or ambition that leads to the main character's downfall. | 67 | |
| 7198649532 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration or deliberate overstatement. | 68 | |
| 7198651432 | Implicit | Writing or satin something that suggest and implies. Never direct or clear. | 69 | |
| 7198656103 | In Medias Res | "In the midst of things". Action happening or have happened prior to the beginning of a piece of literature. Ex: The Trojan War already taking place when The Iliad begins | 70 | |
| 7198667453 | Interior Monologue | Writing that records the mental talking that goes on inside character's head. | 71 | |
| 7198671042 | Inversion | Switch the customary order of elements in a sentence or phrase. Ex: "Do or do not, there is no try." | 72 | |
| 7198673307 | Irony | A statement that means the opposite of what it seems to mean. ^That's just the first layer. | 73 | |
| 7198679280 | Lament | A poem of sadness or grief over the death of a loved one or over some other intense loss. | 74 | |
| 7198680683 | Lampoon | It is literally a satire. Attempts to improve things by pointing out people's mistakes in the hope that once exposed, such behavior will become less common. | 75 | |
| 7198681666 | Loose Sentences | A sentence that is complete before its end. Ex: "Jack loved Barbara despite her irritating snorting laugh, her complaining, and her terrible taste in shoes." | 76 | |
| 7198682503 | Periodic Sentences | A sentence that is not grammatically complete until it has reached its final phrase. Ex: "Depire Barbara's irritation at Jack's peculiar habit of picking between his tos while watching MTV and his terrible haircut, she loved him." | 77 | |
| 7198692127 | Lyric | Poetry that explores the poet's personal interpretation of and feeling about the world. | 78 | |
| 7198694904 | Masculine Rhyme | A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable. | 79 | |
| 7198696153 | Means / Meaning | Discovering what makes sense and what's important to the piece of literature. Literal and emotional meaning. | 80 | |
| 7198700844 | Melodrama | A form of cheesy theater in which the hero is very, very good while the villain is mean and rotten. | 81 | |
| 7198828026 | Metaphor | Comparison stating that one thing is another. | 82 | |
| 7198828607 | Simile | Comparison using like or as. | 83 | |
| 7198831267 | Metaphysical conceit | A metaphor comparing two VERY unlike things. No correlation whatsoever. | 84 | |
| 7198835023 | Metonym | A word that is used to stand for something else that it has attribute of or is associated with. Ex: A herd of 50 cows is called 50 HEAD of cattle. | 85 | |
| 7198836775 | Nemesis | The protagonist's archenemy. Supreme and persistent difficulty. | 86 | |
| 7198838948 | Objectivity | An impersonal or outside view of events. | 87 | |
| 7198840543 | Subjectivity | An interior or personal view of a single observer. | 88 | |
| 7198889394 | Omniscient Narrator | ALL KNOWING NARRATOR. | 89 | |
| 7198889716 | Onomatopoeia | Words that sound like what they mean. Ex: "BOOM!", "SPLOOSH!" | 90 | |
| 7201665292 | Opposition | A pair of elements that contrast sharply. | 91 | |
| 7201665774 | Oxymoron | A phrase composed of opposites; a contradiction. Ex: "He's pretty ugly." | 92 | |
| 7201667902 | Parable | A story that instructs. | 93 | |
| 7201672609 | Paradox | A situation or statement that seems to contradict itself. Upon closer inspection, it does not. | 94 | |
| 7201673409 | Parallelism | Repeated syntactical similarities used for effect. | 95 | |
| 7201674789 | Paraphrase | To restate phrases and sentences in your own words. No analysis or interpretation. Prove that you comprehend and put it in your own words. | 96 | |
| 7201676695 | Parenthetical Phrase | A phrase set off by commas that interrupts the flow of a sentence with some commentary or added detail. | 97 | |
| 7201677506 | Parody | The work that results when a specific work is exaggerated to ridiculousness. | 98 | |
| 7201682713 | Pastoral | A poem set in a tranquil nature. Probably about shepherds. | 99 | |
| 7201683429 | Pathos | Appealing to emotion. | 100 | |
| 7201684308 | Persona | The narrator in a third person novel. Shadow-author. Although the author is not a character, the author may influence the reader's impressions through their style. | 101 | |
| 7201688072 | Personification | Giving an inanimate object human qualities or form. | 102 | |
| 7201688369 | Plaint | A poem or speech expressing sorrow. | 103 | |
| 7201691019 | Limited Omniscient Narrator | Narrator that only know everything about one character (main character). | 104 | |
| 7201693137 | Objective / Camera-Eye Narrator | Their person narrator that only reports on what would be visible to a "camera". | 105 | |
| 7201694195 | First-Person Narrator | The narrator is a character in the story and tells the tale from their point of view. | 106 | |
| 7201755761 | Unreliable Narrator | The narrator is misleading or genuinely does not know the truth. | 107 | |
| 7201696139 | Stream of Consciousness Technique (Narrator) | The author places the reader inside the main character's head and makes the reader privy to all of the character's thoughts as they scroll through their consciousness. | 108 | |
| 7201698389 | Prelude | An introductory poem to a longer work of verse. | 109 | |
| 7201698776 | Protagonist | The main character of a novel or play. | 110 | |
| 7201699072 | Pun | The usually humorous use of a word in such a way to suggest two or more meanings. XD | 111 | |
| 7201699629 | Refrain | A line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem. | 112 | |
| 7201700096 | Requiem | A song of prayer for the dead. | 113 | |
| 7201701521 | Rhapsody | An intensely passionate verse or section of verse, usually of love or praise. | 114 | |
| 7201702200 | Rhetorical Question | A question that suggests an answer. Ex: "Fight or flight-- are we cowards?" | 115 | |
| 7201703985 | Satire | Attempts to improve things by pointing out people's mistakes in the hope that once exposed, such behavior will become less common. | 116 | |
| 7201705911 | Soliloquy | A speech spoken by a character alone on stage. | 117 | |
| 7201711823 | Stanza | A group of lines in verse, roughly analogous in function to the paragraph in prose. | 118 | |
| 7201712760 | Stock Characters | Cliche character types. Ex: The Drunk, The Fool, The Memer, The Holy Man, The Tsundere. | 119 | |
| 7201714904 | Subjunctive Mood | If __________ was ____________, ________________ Ex: If Joey was rich, _________________ If John was smart, ______________ If Jack was Jill, ___________________ | 120 | |
| 7201720162 | Suggest | To imply, infer, indicate. | 121 | |
| 7201720745 | Summary | A simple retelling of what you've just read. Mechanical and superficial. | 122 | |
| 7201723269 | Suspension of Disbelief | The demand made of a theater audience to accept the limitation of staging and supply the detail with imagination. Ex: The play takes play in a forest BUT the stage has a wooden floor not dirt and grass. | 123 | |
| 7201726516 | Symbolism | A device in literature where an object represents an idea. | 124 | |
| 7201728155 | Syntax | The author's choice of words. Ex: Author using frugal instead of stingy to label a character. | 125 | |
| 7201729351 | Technique | The methods and tools the authors use. NOT AN ELEMENT Ex: Onomatopoeia, Blocking, Lighting, Etc. | 126 | |
| 7201735792 | Theme | The main idea of the overall work; the central idea. The topic of discourse or discussion. | 127 | |
| 7201737125 | Thesis | The main position of an argument. The central contention that will be supported. | 128 | |
| 7201738096 | Tragic Flaw | The weakness of character in an otherwise good individual that ultimately leads to his demise. Ex: Being blinded by love. | 129 | |
| 7201753426 | Travesty | A grotesque parody. | 130 | |
| 7201753873 | Truism | A way-too-obvious truth. Ex: "There are books in this library!" | 131 | |
| 7201756772 | Utopia | An idealized place. | 132 | |
| 7201757219 | Zeugma | The use of a word to modify two or more words, used for different meanings. Ex: "He closed the door and his heart on his lost love." | 133 |
