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| 7231504253 | allegory | The term loosely describes any writing in verse or prose that has a double meaning | 0 | |
| 7231652340 | alliteration | The repetition of sounds especially initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words (as in "she sells sea shells"). | 1 | |
| 7231652341 | allusion | A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art. | 2 | |
| 7231531297 | archetype | An original model or pattern from which other later copies are made, especially a character, an action, or situation that seems to represent common patterns of human life. | 3 | |
| 7231533412 | aside | In drama, a few words or a short passage spoken by one character to the audience while the other actors on stage pretend their characters cannot hear the speaker's words. | 4 | |
| 7231534278 | bildungsroman | The German term for a coming-of-age story. | 5 | |
| 7231536263 | character (round) | Character capable of growth and change during the course of the narrative. | 6 | |
| 7231538761 | character (flat) | Character built around a single idea or quality and unchanging over the course of the narrative. | 7 | |
| 7231539914 | character (static) | a literary or dramatic character who undergoes little or no inner change | 8 | |
| 7237518702 | character (dynamic) | character who undergoes an important inner change, as a change in personality or attitude | 9 | |
| 7231535078 | climax | The moment in a play, novel, short story, or narrative poem at which the crisis reaches its point of greatest intensity and is thereafter resolved. | 10 | |
| 7231653544 | conflict (internal) | Conflict within a character | 11 | |
| 7231655166 | conflict (external) | Conflict between a character and his environment. | 12 | |
| 7231569499 | convention | A common feature that has become traditional or expected within a specific genre (category) of literature or film. | 13 | |
| 7231569500 | connotation | the non literal, associative meaning of a word; the implied, suggested meaning. | 14 | |
| 7231569501 | denotation | the strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word, devoid of any emotion, attitude, or color | 15 | |
| 7231656285 | diction | related to style, diction refers to the writer's word choices, especially with regard to their correctness, clearness, or effectiveness. | 16 | |
| 7231657083 | exposition | a type of writing used to reveal information | 17 | |
| 7231599173 | figurative language | A deviation from what speakers of a language understand as the ordinary or standard use of words in order to achieve some special meaning or effect. | 18 | |
| 7231570441 | foil | A character that serves by contrast to highlight or emphasize opposing traits in another character. | 19 | |
| 7231661429 | imagery | the sensory details or figurative language used to describe, arouse emotion, or represent abstractions | 20 | |
| 7231572214 | in medias res | Latin for "the middle of things." A technique used to heighten dramatic tension or to create a sense of mystery. | 21 | |
| 7231602032 | irony (verbal) | also known as sarcasm, which a speaker makes a statement in which its actual meaning differs sharply from the meaning that the words ostensibly express. | 22 | |
| 7231603429 | irony (dramatic) | involves a situation in a narrative in which the reader knows something about present or future circumstances that the character does not know. | 23 | |
| 7231604183 | irony (situational) | in which accidental events occur that seem oddly appropriate, such as the poetic justice of a pickpocket getting his own pocket picked. | 24 | |
| 7231662691 | mood | the prevailing atmosphere or emotional aura of a work | 25 | |
| 7231605707 | monologue | used to refer to a character speaking aloud to himself, or narrating an account to an audience with no other character on stage. | 26 | |
| 7231610419 | motif | A conspicuous recurring element, such as a type of incident, a device, a reference, or verbal formula, which appears frequently in works of literature. | 27 | |
| 7231611115 | myth | a traditional tale of deep cultural significance to a people | 28 | |
| 7231612688 | oxymoron | a figure of speech wherein the author groups apparently contradictory terms to suggest a paradox | 29 | |
| 7231613420 | paradox | a statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense, but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity | 30 | |
| 7231663246 | parody | a work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule | 31 | |
| 7231663832 | personification | a figure of speech in which the author presents or describes concepts, animals, or inanimate objects by endowing them with human attributes or emotions | 32 | |
| 7231613838 | persona | An external representation of oneself which might or might not accurately reflect one's inner self; involves exaggerating certain characteristics and minimizing others. | 33 | |
| 7231664637 | point of view (first) | the protagonist narrates the story | 34 | |
| 7231616487 | point of view (third, omniscient) | a narrator who knows everything that needs to be known about the agents and events in the story | 35 | |
| 7231617722 | point of view (third, objective) | when the narrator reports speech and action, but never comments on the thoughts of other characters | 36 | |
| 7231618558 | point of view (third, limited) | a narrator who is confined to what is experienced, thought, or felt by a single character | 37 | |
| 7231665214 | resolution | the ending, untying, final of the novel. | 38 | |
| 7231622032 | satire | An attack on or criticism of any stupidity or vice in the form of scathing humor. | 39 | |
| 7231665793 | simile | An analogy or comparison implied by using an adverbial preposition such as like or as. | 40 | |
| 7231623946 | soliloquy | A monologue spoken by an actor at a point in the play when the character believes himself to be alone. | 41 | |
| 7231624618 | stock character | a character type that appears repeatedly in a particular literary genre | 42 | |
| 7231667345 | symbol | A word, place, character, or object that means something beyond what it is on a literal level. | 43 | |
| 7231668434 | syntax | word order and sentence structure of a language. | 44 | |
| 7231628195 | theme | A central idea or statement that unifies and controls an entire literary work | 45 | |
| 7231634541 | tragedy | A serious play in which the chief character, by some peculiarity of psychology, passes through a series of misfortunes leading to a final, devastating catastrophe. | 46 | |
| 7231634542 | tragic hero | The main character in a Greek or Roman tragedy | 47 | |
| 7231637645 | catharsis | An emotional discharge that brings about a moral or spiritual renewal or welcome relief from tension and anxiety | 48 | |
| 7231637658 | verisimilitude | The sense that what one reads is "real," or at least realistic and believable. | 49 | |
| 7231640713 | willing suspension of disbelief | Temporarily and willingly setting aside our beliefs about reality in order to enjoy the make-believe of a play, a poem, film, or a story. | 50 |
