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| 8405523527 | pathos | when the writing of a scene evokes feelings of dignified pity and sympathy | 0 | |
| 8405523528 | catharsis | the "cleansing" of emotion an audience member experiences, having lived through the experiences presented on stage | 1 | |
| 8405523529 | metonymy | when a word is used to stand for something else that it has attributes of or is associated with | 2 | |
| 8405526770 | interior monologue | refers to writing that records the mental talking that goes on inside a character's head | 3 | |
| 8405526771 | analogy | a comparison involving 2 or more symbolic parts, employed to clarify an action or a relationship | 4 | |
| 8405526772 | atmosphere | the emotional tone or background that surrounds a scene | 5 | |
| 8405526773 | apostrophe | a figure of speech wherein the speaker talks directly to something that is nonhuman | 6 | |
| 8405530170 | black humor | use of disturbing themes in comedy | 7 | |
| 8405530171 | ballad | a long, narrative poem, usually in regular meter and rhyme | 8 | |
| 8405530172 | archaism | use of deliberately old-fashioned language | 9 | |
| 8405533381 | aphorism | a short and witty saying | 10 | |
| 8405533382 | hyperbole | exaggeration or deliberate overstatement | 11 | |
| 8405533383 | periodic sentence | not grammatically complete until it has reached its final phrase | 12 | |
| 8405533384 | implicit | to say or write something that suggests and implies but never says it directly or clearly | 13 | |
| 8405537107 | foil | a secondary character whose purpose is to highlight the characteristics of a main character, usually by contrast | 14 | |
| 8405537108 | euphemism | a word or phrase that takes the place of a harsh, unpleasant, or impolite reality | 15 | |
| 8405537109 | lament | a poem of sadness or grief over the death of a loved one or over some other intense loss | 16 | |
| 8405537110 | lyric | a type of poetry that explores the poet's personal interpretation of and feelings about the world | 17 | |
| 8405540781 | limited omniscient narrator | a third person narrator who generally reports only what one character sees, and who only reports the thoughts of that one privileged character | 18 | |
| 8405540782 | stream of consciousness | the author places the reader inside the main characters head and makes the reader privy to all of the characters thoughts as they scroll through her consciousness | 19 | |
| 8405558287 | suggest | to imply, infer, indicate | 20 | |
| 8405558288 | subjunctive mood | when it expresses a condition which is doubtful or not factual, uses words like "if" and "were" | 21 | |
| 8405558289 | loose sentence | complete before its end | 22 | |
| 8405561670 | dramatic irony | when the audience knows something that the characters in the drama do not | 23 | |
| 8405561671 | epic | a very long narrative poem on a serious theme in a dignified style | 24 | |
| 8405561672 | genre | a sub-category of literature | 25 | |
| 8405561673 | inversion | switching the customary order of elements in a sentence or phrase | 26 | |
| 8405566207 | meaning | what makes sense, whats important | 27 | |
| 8405566208 | enjambment | the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line or couplet of a poem to the next with no pause | 28 | |
| 8405566209 | free verse | poetry written without a regular rhyme scheme or metrical pattern | 29 | |
| 8405570211 | melodrama | a form of cheesy theater in which the hero is very very good, the villain mean and rotten, and the heroine of so pure | 30 | |
| 8405570212 | personification | when an inanimate object takes on human shape | 31 | |
| 8405581995 | satire | attempts to improve things by pointing out peoples mistakes in the hope that once exposed, such behavior will become less common | 32 | |
| 8405581996 | pun | the usually humorous use of a word in such a way to suggest two or more meanings | 33 | |
| 8405581997 | refrain | a line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem | 34 | |
| 8405586601 | rhetorical question | a question that suggests an answer | 35 | |
| 8405586602 | dirge | a song for the dead | 36 | |
| 8405586603 | pastoral | a poem set in tranquil nature or even more specifically, one about shepherds | 37 | |
| 8405586604 | allegory | a story in which each aspect of the story has symbolic meaning outside the tale itself | 38 | |
| 8405589880 | summary | a simple retelling of what you've just read | 39 | |
| 8405589881 | oxymoron | a phrase composed of opposites; a contradiction | 40 | |
| 8405589882 | bombast | pretentious, exaggeratedly learned language | 41 | |
| 8405592974 | suspension of disbelief | the demand made of a theater audience to accept the limitations of staging and supply the details with their imagination | 42 | |
| 8405592975 | antecedent | the word, phrase, or clause that determines what a pronoun refers to | 43 | |
| 8405592976 | opposition | a pair of elements that contrast sharply | 44 | |
| 8405592977 | canto | the name for a section division in a long work of poetry, like a chapter but for a poem | 45 | |
| 8405596875 | elements | basic techniques of each genre of literature | 46 | |
| 8405596876 | alliteration | the repetition of initial consonant sounds | 47 | |
| 8405596877 | antihero | a protagonist who is markedly unheroic | 48 | |
| 8405596878 | chorus | in greek drama, the group of citizens who stand outside the main action on stage and comment on it | 49 | |
| 8405600903 | pathetic fallacy | the attribution of human feelings and responses to inanimate things or animals, found in poetic writing | 50 | |
| 8405600904 | anecdote | a short narrative | 51 | |
| 8405600905 | anachronism | "misplaced in time" | 52 | |
| 8405600906 | academic | means dry and theoretical writing | 53 | |
| 8405604855 | abstract | complex style, discusses intangible qualities like good and evil | 54 | |
| 8405604856 | aesthetic | appealing to the senses | 55 | |
| 8405604857 | assonance | the repeated use of vowel sounds | 56 | |
| 8405604858 | allusion | a reference to another work or famous figure | 57 | |
| 8405625039 | epitaph | lines that commemorate the dead at their burial place | 58 | |
| 8405625040 | parenthetical phrase | a phrase set off by commas that interrupts the flow of a sentence with some commentary or added detail | 59 | |
| 8405625041 | elegy | a type of poem that meditates on death or mortality in a serious thoughtful manner | 60 | |
| 8405629691 | nemesis | the protagonists arch enemy or supreme and persistent difficulty | 61 | |
| 8405629692 | hubris | the excessive pride or ambition that leads to the main characters downfall | 62 | |
| 8405635559 | gothic | style of writing that is characterized by elements of fear, horror, death, and gloom, as well as romantic elements, such as nature, individuality, and very high emotion | 63 | |
| 8405635560 | feminine rhyme | lines rhymed by their final two syllables | 64 | |
| 8405635561 | foreshadowing | an event or statement in a narrative that in miniature suggests a larger event that comes later | 65 | |
| 8405639279 | foot | the basic rhythmic unit of a line of poetry | 66 | |
| 8405639280 | doggerel | crude, simplistic verse, often in sing-song rhyme | 67 | |
| 8405639281 | dramatic monologue | when a single speaker in literature says something to a silent audience | 68 | |
| 8405639282 | euphony | when sounds blend harmoniously | 69 | |
| 8405642584 | simile | like a metaphor but softens the full out equation of things, usually using like or as | 70 | |
| 8405646131 | metaphor | a comparison or analogy that states one thing is another | 71 | |
| 8405646132 | colloquialism | a word or phrase used in everyday conversational english that isn't a part of accepter school-book english | 72 | |
| 8405646133 | conceit | refers to a startling or unusual metaphor, or to a metaphor developed and expanded over several lines | 73 | |
| 8405646134 | connotation | everything that a word suggests or implies other than its literal meaning | 74 | |
| 8405651184 | denotation | the literal meaning of a word | 75 | |
| 8405651185 | couplet | a pair of lines that end in rhyme | 76 | |
| 8405651186 | decorum | styled according to social station, and in accordance with the occasion | 77 | |
| 8405651187 | diction | the authors choice of words | 78 | |
| 8405651188 | plaint | a poem or speech expressing sorrow | 79 | |
| 8405655185 | anticlimax | occurs when an action produces far smaller results than one had been led on to expect | 80 | |
| 8405655186 | objective | an impersonal or outside view of events | 81 | |
| 8405664672 | aside | a speech made by an actor to the audience as though momentarily stepping outside of the action on stage | 82 | |
| 8405664673 | stanza | a group of lines roughly analogous in function in verse to the paragraphs function in prose | 83 | |
| 8405664674 | accent | refers to the stressed portion of a word | 84 | |
| 8405668512 | imagery | visually descriptive or figurative language | 85 |
