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| 12076679303 | Anglo-Norman | the dialect of Norman French that developed in England Ex. Mostly Epics | 0 | |
| 12076679304 | Atheistic Existentialism | Sees life as absurd, but also sees human beings as totally free to make their own meaning in the face of this absurdity Ex. Henry in A Farewell to Arms | 1 | |
| 12076679305 | Scholarly | concerned with academic learning or research Ex. Amir's dad in the Kite Runner | 2 | |
| 12076679306 | Malapropism | a word humorously misused Ex. "Literally" | 3 | |
| 12076679307 | Flowery Language | very elaborate, ornate, and often poetic/literary way of speaking or writing Ex. The Scarlet Letter | 4 | |
| 12076679308 | Portmanteau | a new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings Ex. Smog | 5 | |
| 12076679309 | Archetype | a very typical example of a certain person or thing Ex. One Dimensional Character | 6 | |
| 12076679310 | Flat Character | A character who embodies a single quality and who does not develop in the course of a story Ex. Background Character | 7 | |
| 12076679311 | Foil | A character who acts as a contrast to another character Ex. Henry's friend in A Farewell to Arms | 8 | |
| 12076679312 | Stock Character | the stereotyped character in which he is immediately known from typical characters in history Ex. Reused character types | 9 | |
| 12076679313 | Turing Point | the point in a work in which a very significant change occurs Ex. Hassan getting raped | 10 | |
| 12076679314 | In Medias Res | in or into the middle of a plot; into the middle of things Ex. When Henry goes back to war in A Farewell to Arms | 11 | |
| 12076679315 | Denouement | an outcome; result Ex. End of the story | 12 | |
| 12076679316 | Epistolary Novel | a novel written as a series of documents Ex. The Things we Carried (Anthology) | 13 | |
| 12076679317 | Anachroism | someone or something existing out of its proper time Ex. When Amir goes back to his homeland | 14 | |
| 12076679318 | Bildungsroman | A coming of age story Ex. Tangerine | 15 | |
| 12076679319 | Resources of Prose | Ordinary Speech Ex. Dialogue in A Farewell to Arms | 16 | |
| 12076679320 | Anachronism | something out of place in time Ex. Amir when he goes back to his homeland | 17 | |
| 12076679321 | Kenning | A device employed in Anglo-Saxon poetry in which the name of a thing is replaced by one of its functions or qualities, as in "ring-giver" for king and "whale-road" for ocean. Ex. Early form of a metaphor | 18 | |
| 12076679322 | Kinesthetic | Relates to interaction with people and objects in real space. Ex. Characters having a meal | 19 | |
| 12076679323 | Gustatory | relating to the sense of taste Ex. Characters eating | 20 | |
| 12076679324 | Litote | A figure of speech that emphasizes its subject by conscious understatement Ex. Constantly undermining the speaker | 21 | |
| 12076679325 | Syllepsis | a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.") | 22 | |
| 12076679326 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it | 23 | |
| 12076679327 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds | 24 | |
| 12076679328 | elegy | a sad or mournful poem | 25 | |
| 12076679329 | Epic | A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds | 26 | |
| 12076679330 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 27 | |
| 12076679331 | Metaphor | A comparison without using like or as | 28 | |
| 12076679332 | Euphemism | An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant | 29 | |
| 12076679333 | Cliché | a worn-out idea or overused expression | 30 | |
| 12076679334 | Idiom | A common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally. | 31 | |
| 12076679335 | Consonance | Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity. | 32 | |
| 12076679336 | Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds | 33 | |
| 12076679337 | heroic couplet | two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, cc with the thought usually completed in the two-line unit | 34 | |
| 12076679338 | iambic pentameter | a poetic meter that is made up of 5 stressed syllables each followed by an unstressed syllable | 35 | |
| 12076679339 | Satire | A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies. | 36 | |
| 12076679340 | direct/indirect characterization | The two primary methods that an author uses to reveal what a character is like and how the character changes throughout the story | 37 | |
| 12076679341 | frame story | a story within a story | 38 | |
| 12076679342 | social commentary | writing that offers insight into society, its values, and its customs | 39 | |
| 12076679343 | frivolity | lack of seriousness | 40 | |
| 12076679344 | fortituitous | happening by chance | 41 | |
| 12076679345 | Hubris | excessive pride | 42 | |
| 12076679346 | inane | (adj.) silly, empty of meaning or value | 43 | |
| 12076679347 | abrogate | to abolish | 44 | |
| 12076679348 | acerbic | biting, bitter in tone or taste | 45 | |
| 12076679349 | vehemently | marked by intense force or emotion | 46 | |
| 12076679350 | vilify | slander | 47 | |
| 12076679351 | vested | significant to one's own profit or well-being | 48 | |
| 12076679352 | visceral | pertaining to the internal organs | 49 | |
| 12076679353 | whereby | by which | 50 | |
| 12076679354 | wrought | shaped; made | 51 | |
| 12076679355 | whereas | While on the contrary, considering that | 52 | |
| 12076689631 | Dramatic Irony | when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't | 53 | |
| 12777595609 | Monologue | (n.) a speech by one actor; a long talk by one person | 54 | |
| 12777595610 | Soliloquy | A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage | 55 | |
| 12777605198 | Aside | a line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage | 56 | |
| 12777607676 | dramatic monologue | when a single speaker in literature says something to a silent audience | 57 | |
| 12777607677 | ridicule | to make fun of | 58 | |
| 12777610144 | Hyperbole | exaggeration | 59 | |
| 12777625031 | Understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. | 60 | |
| 12777659746 | Sarcasm | the use of irony to mock or convey contempt | 61 | |
| 12777662193 | humor | Anything that causes laughter or amusement | 62 | |
| 12777672583 | Wit | intellectually amusing language that surprises and delights | 63 | |
| 12777675667 | irony/ironic | the contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant | 64 | |
| 12777681635 | Hamartia | tragic flaw | 65 | |
| 12777681817 | Catharsis | a release of emotional tension | 66 | |
| 12777732866 | Peripety | Reversal in the hero's fortunes. | 67 | |
| 12777739747 | clause | A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb. | 68 | |
| 12777742969 | independent | A voter or candidate who does not identify with a political party. | 69 | |
| 12777746570 | subordinate | lower in rank or position | 70 | |
| 12777748930 | phase | any part of a sample with uniform composition and properties | 71 | |
| 12777750925 | Appositive | A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun. | 72 | |
| 12777753466 | Prepositional | a modifying phrase consisting of a preposition and its object. | 73 | |
| 12777759855 | infinitive phrase | Phrases that begin with an infinitive. (to + simple form of the verb) | 74 | |
| 12777763620 | gerund phrase | Begins with noun form of verb ending in -ing, plus any modifiers or complements | 75 | |
| 12777774297 | participal phrase | phrase that begins with a verbal ending in -ing or -ed - Serves as an adjective | 76 | |
| 12777807919 | Telegraphic sentence length | shorter than 5 words | 77 | |
| 12777812450 | Short sentence length | approximately 5 words in length | 78 | |
| 12777831187 | medium sentence length | Approximately 18 words in length | 79 | |
| 12777835441 | long and involved sentence | 30 words or more in length | 80 | |
| 12777838078 | simple | one layer | 81 | |
| 12777842117 | Compound | a thing that is composed of two or more separate elements; a mixture. | 82 | |
| 12777975692 | complex | complicated | 83 | |
| 12777979517 | Compound-Complex | a sentence having two or more coordinate independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses. | 84 | |
| 12778010671 | fragments | an incomplete sentence | 85 | |
| 12778078144 | Run-ons | two sentences written as if they were one | 86 | |
| 12779192294 | Ballad | A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas | 87 | |
| 12779333902 | pastoral poem | refers to literary works that deal with works that deal with the simple rural life or with escape to a similar place and time | 88 | |
| 12779429356 | idyll | a lyric poem or passage that describes a kind of ideal life or place | 89 | |
| 12779429357 | lyric poetry | A short poem in which a single speaker expresses personal thoughts and feelings | 90 | |
| 12779465812 | song | rhyme to a tune | 91 | |
| 12779474797 | Ode | A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject. | 92 | |
| 12779478598 | Shakesperian sonnet | It has three four-line units, or quatrains, followed by a con¬ cluding two-line unit, or couplet. | 93 | |
| 12779483843 | Petrarchan sonnet | a sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd | 94 | |
| 12779483844 | Spenserian Sonnet | abab bcbc cdcd ee | 95 | |
| 12779530067 | Cinquain | a five line stanza | 96 | |
| 12779530068 | Villanelle | A 19 line form using only two rhymes and repeating two of the lines according to a set pattern | 97 | |
| 12779539573 | complaint | a formal notice that a lawsuit is being brought | 98 | |
| 12779565359 | metaphysical poetry | The work of poets, particularly those of the seventeenth century, that uses elaborate conceits, is highly intellectual, and expresses the complexities of love and life | 99 | |
| 12779614353 | argument | A statement put forth and supported by evidence | 100 | |
| 12779622201 | cause and effect | The reason something happens and the result of it happening. | 101 | |
| 12779626352 | Classification and Division | a pattern of writing or speaking which is characterized by division, which is the process of breaking a whole into parts, and classification, which is the often subsequent process of sorting individual items into categories | 102 | |
| 12779638353 | comparison and contrast | A mode of discourse in which two or more things are compared and contrasted. Comparison often refers to similarities, contrast to differences. | 103 | |
| 12779643975 | definition | A statement that gives the meaning of a term. | 104 | |
| 12779648203 | description | a spoken or written summary of observations | 105 | |
| 12779664562 | Exposition | a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory. | 106 | |
| 12779671527 | Narration | the telling of a story in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama; one of the four modes of discourse | 107 | |
| 12779685909 | Process Analysis | A method of paragraph or essay development by which a writer explains step by step how something is done or how to do something. | 108 | |
| 12779685910 | Style Analysis | Spoken or written analysis or discourse about literature. It tries to help us better understand a work, not just evaluate the work. The ten critical approaches to literature are: Formalist criticism; Biographical criticism; Historical criticism; Psychological criticism; Mythological criticism; Sociological criticism; Gender criticism; Reader-response criticism; Deconstructionist criticism; Cultural studies | 109 | |
| 12779692746 | Synthesis | combination | 110 | |
| 12779706188 | purpose | the goal the speaker wants to achieve | 111 | |
| 12779709548 | audience | One's listener or readership; those to whom a speech or piece of writing is addressed. | 112 | |
| 12779714242 | Appeals to logic | Logos | 113 | |
| 12779723902 | inductive reasoning | A type of logic in which generalizations are based on a large number of specific observations. | 114 | |
| 12779741707 | deductive reasoning | reasoning in which a conclusion is reached by stating a general principle and then applying that principle to a specific case (The sun rises every morning; therefore, the sun will rise on Tuesday morning.) | 115 | |
| 12779764066 | Syllogism | A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion. | 116 | |
| 12779771827 | Arguments | The values that the programmer provides in the function call. | 117 | |
| 12779775432 | Analogy | A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way | 118 | |
| 12779779910 | logical fallacy | a mistake in reasoning | 119 | |
| 12779791091 | ad hominem | a fallacy that attacks the person rather than dealing with the real issue in dispute | 120 | |
| 12779796279 | Ad Misericordiam (Appeal to Pity) | trying to make people feel sorry for one rather than using logic to sway them | 121 | |
| 12779802386 | ad populum | bandwagon appeal | 122 | |
| 12779864538 | Ad vernicundium | appeal to authority | 123 | |
| 12779869755 | begging the question | A fallacy in which a claim is based on evidence or support that is in doubt. | 124 | |
| 12779875057 | either/or fallacy | oversimplifying an issue as offering only two choices | 125 | |
| 12779875059 | False Analogy | When two cases are not sufficiently parallel to lead readers to accept a claim of connection between them. | 126 | |
| 12779877659 | guilt | Blame directed toward one's self based on real or unreal conditions | 127 | |
| 12779881303 | Hasty Generalization | A fallacy in which a faulty conclusion is reached because of inadequate evidence. | 128 | |
| 12779886358 | loaded words | Words which are slanted for or against the subject. Scotland stole a goal in the first half, but England's efforts were well rewarded in the second half when... Can you guess which side the reporter comes from? | 129 | |
| 12779889012 | Bandwagon | A fallacy which assumes that because something is popular, it is therefore good, correct, or desirable. | 130 | |
| 12779889013 | Card Stacking | propaganda technique involving the use of showing one-sided information | 131 | |
| 12779891645 | Testimonial | attempts to persuade the reader by using a famous person to endorse a product or idea | 132 | |
| 12779895406 | Old English | The Anglo-Saxon language spoken from approximately 450 to 1150 A.D. in what is now Great Britain. | 133 | |
| 12779916303 | Anglo-Saxon | The entire English race wherever found, as in Europe, the United States, or India. | 134 | |
| 12779916304 | Middle English | The language spoken in England roughly between 1150 and 1500 A.D. | 135 | |
| 12779921664 | Reinassance | rebirth | 136 | |
| 12779921665 | Neoclassicism | the revival of a classical style or treatment in art, literature, architecture, or music. | 137 | |
| 12779924375 | Romanticism | 19th century artistic movement that appealed to emotion rather than reason | 138 | |
| 12779927200 | Transcendentalism | A philosophy pioneered by Ralph Waldo Emerson in the 1830's and 1840's, in which each person has direct communication with God and Nature, and there is no need for organized churches. It incorporated the ideas that mind goes beyond matter, intuition is valuable, that each soul is part of the Great Spirit, and each person is part of a reality where only the invisible is truly real. Promoted individualism, self-reliance, and freedom from social constraints, and emphasized emotions. | 139 | |
| 12779927201 | elevated | to raise | 140 | |
| 12779930128 | formal operational stage | in Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development (normally beginning about age 12) during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts | 141 | |
| 12779934443 | scholary | concerned with academic learning or research | 142 | |
| 12779938172 | standard | exact, agreed-upon quantity used for comparison | 143 | |
| 12779938174 | colloquial | Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing | 144 | |
| 12779941725 | low | low | 145 | |
| 12779944301 | Dialect | A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation. | 146 | |
| 12779944302 | slang | informal language | 147 | |
| 12779946924 | vulgar | common people | 148 |
