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| 7358201102 | Adage | a wise saying that's short | 0 | |
| 7358202461 | Aesthetics | concerned with beauty | 1 | |
| 7358202463 | Allegory | story or poem that has a hidden meaning (ex: Lord of the Flies talks about humanity) | 2 | |
| 7358205347 | Alliteration | beginning of successive words have the same sound (sally sells seashells by the sea shore) | 3 | |
| 7358210827 | Allusion | a reference to a person, place, object, or event outside the work itself | 4 | |
| 7358213611 | Anachronism | out of place and time; out of time period (chronos=time) | 5 | |
| 7358217472 | Anagnorisis | a comedy that is part of tragedy (ex: realized that you brought upon the suffering to yourself and your family) | 6 | |
| 7358221721 | Anagram | a word created from rearranging letters from another word | 7 | |
| 7358224011 | Anapestic | Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented one (soft, soft, hard) | 8 | |
| 7358227396 | Anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase | 9 | |
| 7358229556 | Anticlimax | a disappointing end to a series of impressive events | 10 | |
| 7358231877 | Antistrophe | In Greek drama, that part of the ode in which the chorus moves from left to right, singing and dancing | 11 | |
| 7358243002 | Antithesis | two figures opposed in a phrase (ex:it was the best of times, it was the worst of times) | 12 | |
| 7358246027 | Aphorism | a proverb (ex: if it ain't broke, don't fix it) | 13 | |
| 7358249116 | Apostrophe | when a speaker addresses someone or something that isn't in the writing | 14 | |
| 7358252806 | Archetypal hero | a character that is an expression of our shared unconscious; all archetypal heroes share a common characteristic | 15 | |
| 7358262537 | Archetype | a re-occurring symbol or motif in in literature, art, or mythology | 16 | |
| 7358268399 | Aside | wordds that are spoken by an actor directly to the audience; it cannot be heard by the characters on stage | 17 | |
| 7358271277 | Assonance | repetition of a vowel sound | 18 | |
| 7358273036 | Atmosphere | feeling, emotion, or mood a writer conveys to a reader | 19 | |
| 7358276076 | Ballad | a narrative poem that's written in 4-line stanzas; narrated in a directed style | 20 | |
| 7358279202 | Bard | someone who writes lyric or heroic verse | 21 | |
| 7358280488 | Bathos | the opposite emotion of what should be expressed (ex: laughing when you should be crying) | 22 | |
| 7358284134 | Biblical free verse | free verse concerning biblical things | 23 | |
| 7358286038 | Blank verse | a line of poetry or prose that is in unrhymed iambic pentameter | 24 | |
| 7358290685 | Bombastic | elevated speech using words no one understands | 25 | |
| 7358294390 | Bowdlerize | to remove material that is inappropriate or offensive | 26 | |
| 7358299619 | Cacophony | something that sounds harsh and brash (sometimes done on purpose) | 27 | |
| 7358300968 | Cadence | signals the rising and falling of the voice when reading aloud | 28 | |
| 7358302706 | Caesura | a strong pause or break in the verse | 29 | |
| 7358304728 | Canon | a body of books, narratives, and other texts that are important to a specific period of time or place | 30 | |
| 7358308757 | Caricature | a character that is given oversimplified and exaggerated characteristics and features | 31 | |
| 7358311813 | Carpe diem | seize the day | 32 | |
| 7358314260 | Catastrophe | and ending full of sadness and suffering | 33 | |
| 7358315717 | Catharsis | emotion from a sad ending; purging of emotions of pity and fear from the audience in a tragic drama | 34 | |
| 7358317202 | Climax | turning point in the story; represents the greatest tension | 35 | |
| 7358321464 | Colloquialism | conversational language; more informal and casual | 36 | |
| 7358323041 | Comedy | happy ending; not necessarily a funny story | 37 | |
| 7358324416 | Comedy of manners | comedy that satirizes behavior (usually the behavior of the upper class) | 38 | |
| 7358327261 | Comic relief | the use of a comic scene that interrupts intense moments | 39 | |
| 7358328633 | Complex sentence | a subordinate clause and an independent clause | 40 | |
| 7358330622 | Compound sentence | two independent clauses connected by a conjunction | 41 | |
| 7358331958 | Compound-complex sentence | two independent clauses connected by a conjunction and a subordinate clause | 42 | |
| 7358335053 | Conceit | ext. metaphor that compares to unlikely things | 43 | |
| 7358337245 | Conflict | struggle b/w two opposing forces in a story (usually resolved by the end of the story) | 44 | |
| 7358340148 | Connotation | implied meaning of a word; an idea or feeling a word has | 45 | |
| 7358343357 | Consonance | repetition of a consonant sound in a line of poetry | 46 | |
| 7358344935 | Couplet | two lines that rhyme at the end; must have rhythm | 47 | |
| 7358346346 | Crisis | a point in the story or drama when a conflict reaches its highest tension | 48 | |
| 7358349398 | Dactylic foot | Hard, soft, soft (opposite of anapestic) | 49 | |
| 7358354739 | Denotation | dictionary meaning of a word | 50 | |
| 7358354740 | Denouement | the resolution of the plot | 51 | |
| 7358356042 | dependent clause | phrase that needs an ind. clause to form a compete sentence | 52 | |
| 7358357750 | Determinism | concept that implies humans have no free will and cannot be held responsible for their actions | 53 | |
| 7358360640 | Deux ex machina | use of artificial means to resolve the plot; "a god from the machine" | 54 | |
| 7358363146 | Diction | word choice | 55 | |
| 7358366883 | Didactic | a novel or poem that aims to teach the audience something (like a moral)//ex: Aesop's Fables | 56 | |
| 7358371216 | Dirge | a poem for a funeral | 57 | |
| 7358372775 | Disunity | disagreement and conflict about an important thing w/in a group | 58 | |
| 7358375918 | Doggerel | poetry that is bad | 59 | |
| 7358377344 | Double entedre | a word or phrase that is open to two interpretations | 60 | |
| 7358378944 | Dramatic monologue | a speech of a long duration from one character to another character | 61 | |
| 7358381899 | Editorial omniscience | writing a narrative in third person where the AUDIENCE knows the feelings of everyone, but does not interject | 62 | |
| 7358389014 | Euphony | words or phrases distinguised with a loving or sweet sound | 63 | |
| 7358390462 | Embedded stories | everything w/in a story; excludes the first and last pages | 64 | |
| 7358392808 | Empathy | understanding of another's feelings | 65 | |
| 7358394344 | end-stopped lines | a poetic device here a pause comes at the end of a syntactic unit | 66 | |
| 7358397345 | English sonnet | a 14-line poem that contain iambic pentameter; rhyming pattern=abab cdcd efef gg | 67 | |
| 7358400714 | Enjambment | a run-on poetry in which everything carries to the next line | 68 | |
| 7358405484 | Enthymeme | argument that is not stated | 69 | |
| 7358406561 | Epic-long narrative poem | poem where hero accomplishes tasks and deeds | 70 | |
| 7358410350 | Epigram/epigraph | things that appear in the beginning of poems (quote, a line, etc) | 71 | |
| 7358412263 | Epiphany | moment in a story when the character realizes something | 72 | |
| 7358414028 | Epithet | word describing a person's qualities or attributes | 73 | |
| 7358420034 | Ethos | credibility based on argument | 74 | |
| 7358421928 | Euphemism | polite, indirect expression that is replaced with phrases that are less harsh (ex: kick the bucket=someone's dead) | 75 | |
| 7358427652 | Euphony | a soft "u" sound | 76 | |
| 7358428895 | Existentialism | emphasis of indvl. existence, freedom, and choice | 77 | |
| 7358431979 | explicit meaning | the meaning that is directly stated | 78 | |
| 7358431980 | exposition | describes or introduces background info about event, setting, character, etc | 79 | |
| 7358435017 | expressionism | literary movt. that expresses emotions rather than solely reality | 80 | |
| 7358437115 | fable | a story that has an explicit moral | 81 | |
| 7358438737 | falling action | action that follows the climax | 82 | |
| 7358438738 | farce | type of comedy that uses highly exaggerated and funny situations | 83 | |
| 7358443335 | feminine rhythm | rhyme between stressed syllables (ex: stocking and shocking) | 84 | |
| 7358446435 | foil | a character that contrasts or is the opposite of the main character | 85 | |
| 7358447904 | foreshadowing | to leave hints of a future important plot point | 86 | |
| 7358449024 | frame | a narrative that introduces or contains one or more other narratives | 87 | |
| 7358452859 | free verse | poetry without a regular pattern | 88 | |
| 7358454135 | genre | a form of literature | 89 | |
| 7358456213 | gothic novel | an English genre of fiction popular in the 18th to early 19th centuries, characterized by an atmosphere of mystery and horror | 90 | |
| 7358457645 | hamartia | flaw | 91 | |
| 7358457646 | heroic couplet | couplet in iambic pentameter | 92 | |
| 7358458858 | historical criticism | a branch of literary criticism that investigates the origins of ancient texts | 93 | |
| 7358460132 | homily | commentary that follows a reading of scripture | 94 | |
| 7358461360 | hubris | tragic hamartia (flaw) in a hero, dangerous over-confidence 94. Hymn - a church song | 95 | |
| 7358462498 | hyperbole | exaggeration | 96 | |
| 7358462499 | iambic | pattern in poetry or words with soft followed by hard; soft, hard | 97 | |
| 7358464809 | idiom | phrase with words that should not be taken literally (ex:cool as a cucumber) | 98 | |
| 7358467730 | imagery | figurative language using lots of description | 99 | |
| 7358469040 | imagist | people within the 20th century movement that wrote poetry that favored precision of imagery and clear, sharp language | 100 | |
| 7358470003 | implicit meaning | meaning that is not directly stated | 101 | |
| 7358471255 | implied author | does not appear in the text, but creates an impression of the entire text through ideology or worldview | 102 | |
| 7358471256 | implied reader | intended audience | 103 | |
| 7358472544 | in medias res | beginning in the middle | 104 | |
| 7358473584 | independent clause | clause that can stand alone | 105 | |
| 7358475003 | internal rhyme | poetic device where middle and end words rhyme with each other | 106 | |
| 7358476003 | intertextual | relationship b/w two texts | 107 | |
| 7358476873 | invective | insulting, critical language | 108 | |
| 7358478763 | verbal irony | opposite of what someone should say | 109 | |
| 7358479671 | situational irony | something that doesn't go with the setting | 110 | |
| 7358479672 | dramatic irony | audience knows something characters do not | 111 | |
| 7358482099 | cosmic irony | idea that fate and destiny plays w/ human hopes and expectations | 112 | |
| 7358488565 | attitudinal irony | someone has an attitude that one doesn't expect | 113 | |
| 7358490121 | italian sonnet | divided into two sections: octave (8 lines) (situation) and sestet (6 lines) (reflection) | 114 | |
| 7358490122 | juxtapose | something placed close together for compare and contrast | 115 | |
| 7358491224 | lampoon | satire directed against an individual or institution | 116 | |
| 7358492780 | literary canon | a body of books or literature that are seen as the most important and influential of a time period | 117 | |
| 7358494355 | litote | Less than, same as meiosis and understatement, verbal irony | 118 | |
| 7358495661 | logos | logic | 119 | |
| 7358495663 | loose sentence | a cumulative sentence that is followed by phrases that modify the main clause | 120 | |
| 7358497476 | lyric poetry | an emotional songlike poetry, derived from dramatic poetry; characterized by brevity, compression, and expression of feeling | 121 | |
| 7358498504 | malapropism | mistakenly using a word that is similar sounding, unintentionally creating an amusing effect (dance a flamingo [flamenco]) | 122 | |
| 7358499944 | masculine rhyme | a single stressed syllable at the end of the line | 123 | |
| 7358501258 | maque | type of elaborate court entertainment | 124 | |
| 7358502302 | meiosis | figure of speech that understates something or implies that it is lesser in significance than it really is (opposite of hyperbole) | 125 | |
| 7358502303 | melodrama | Plays with stereotyped villains and heroes who represent the extremes of good and evil | 126 | |
| 7358503820 | metaphor | direct comparison | 127 | |
| 7358503821 | metaphysical conceit | extended metaphor that makes an outstretched comparison (ex:spider and web; web somehow represents branches of friendship) | 128 | |
| 7358505395 | metonymy | another name for the thing itself (ex: DC represents US capital) | 129 | |
| 7358509980 | miracle play | real or fictitious account of the life, miracles, or martyrdom of a saint; tells a more straightforward story about biblical; symbolizes man's virtues and quest to find salvation; exact version of a bible story | 130 | |
| 7358511656 | mock heroic | imitating the style of heroic literature in order to satirize an unheroic subject; either puts a fool in the role of a hero or exaggerates the qualities of a hero so that it seems absurd | 131 | |
| 7358513673 | modernism | pertaining to modern day | 132 | |
| 7358514880 | mood | feelings or ambiance; what author wants audience to feel | 133 | |
| 7358515822 | moral center | belief base from which you derive your moral code | 134 | |
| 7358516864 | motif | distinct or dominant idea | 135 | |
| 7358518597 | nonce form | no rhythm in poetry | 136 | |
| 7358518598 | ode | lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject | 137 | |
| 7358520216 | onomatopoeia | word sounds like the sound it makes | 138 | |
| 7358521243 | oversoul | supreme reality or mind, spiritual reality of all minds (transcendentalist) | 139 | |
| 7358522769 | overstatement | exaggeration | 140 | |
| 7358524076 | oxymoron | figure of speech with a self-contradicting effect | 141 | |
| 7358524077 | parable | stories that are not true, but define a lesson | 142 | |
| 7358527030 | paradox | a statement that contradicts itself or a situation which seems to defy logic | 143 | |
| 7358527031 | parody | an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect. | 144 | |
| 7358528270 | pastoral | looks at the life of a pastor as ideal; beautiful rural landscapes (pasture) | 145 | |
| 7358532749 | pathos | relating to emotion | 146 | |
| 7358534249 | perepiteia | reversal in story, peak | 147 | |
| 7358534250 | personification | giving in something human-like qualities | 148 | |
| 7358536032 | picaresque novel | novel where person narrating cannot be trusted, and the narrator does a bunch of things that are mischievous | 149 | |
| 7358537159 | poetic license | you have license to do whatever you want poetically (you can change whatever you want) | 150 | |
| 7358540003 | private symbol | opposite of archetype/universal symbol; contains a personal meaning assigned by the individual/artist | 151 | |
| 7358541120 | prosody | the patterns of rhythm and sound used in poetry. | 152 | |
| 7358541992 | public symbol | commonly known meaning to the public | 153 | |
| 7358543433 | quatrain | a stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes (abab) | 154 | |
| 7358544826 | referential meaning | containing or of the nature of references or allusions. | 155 | |
| 7358548165 | resolution | end to a conflict | 156 | |
| 7358549546 | rhyme royal | 7 line stanza in iambic pentameter | 157 | |
| 7358550611 | scansion | the action of scanning a line of verse to determine its rhythm. | 158 | |
| 7358552222 | sestet | last six lines of a sonnet | 159 | |
| 7358552224 | sestina | a poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet, all stanzas having the same six words at the line-ends in six different sequences that follow a fixed pattern | 160 | |
| 7358554285 | setting | where a story takes place | 161 | |
| 7358555453 | simile | using like or as to compare something | 162 | |
| 7358556739 | simple sentence | sentence consisting of only one clause, with a single subject and predicate | 163 | |
| 7358556740 | soliloquy | A speech in a play that's meant to be heard by the audience but not by other characters on the stage. If no other characters are present, then the soliloquy represents the character thinking out loud. | 164 | |
| 7358558160 | sonnet | poem of 14 lines using any rhyme schemes, typically having ten syllables per line | 165 | |
| 7358559719 | spondee | hard, hard | 166 | |
| 7358562790 | stichomythia | dialogue in which two characters speak alternate lines of verse, used as a stylistic device in ancient Greek drama. | 167 | |
| 7358565484 | syllogism | deductive reasoning as distinct from induction. | 168 | |
| 7358565518 | sympathy | sharing of one's feelings | 169 | |
| 7358567437 | symptomatic meaning | when Dorothy talks about Kansas, Kansas is home; values that come from the work itself (values of that culture/time) | 170 | |
| 7358568579 | synecdoche | part of metonymy; a part of that thing that represents the whole (ex: hand in marriage, but want the whole person) (ex2: "nice set of wheels", but talking about the whole car) | 171 | |
| 7358570314 | synesthesia | the production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense or part of the body. | 172 | |
| 7358572757 | syntax | sentence structure | 173 | |
| 7358572758 | tercet | 3-lined stanza that often has a rhyme | 174 | |
| 7358574052 | terza rima | 3 line stanzas, has a pattern (ABA, BCB, CDC, DED, ...) | 175 | |
| 7358576077 | theater of the absurd | form of drama explaining human absurdity (ex: "life is meaningless"so do meaningless things on stage) | 176 | |
| 7358577359 | tragedy | important event in bad way | 177 | |
| 7358577360 | tragic flaw | Series of unfortunate events within a tragedy | 178 | |
| 7358578468 | trochaic | hard, soft (in iambic meter) | 179 | |
| 7358579780 | trope | word or phrase used to create artistic meaning | 180 | |
| 7358581080 | unity/unities | quality of individualism in a story and paragraph, when all details bring together for the main idea | 181 | |
| 7358581081 | universal symbol | symbol/word that mostly everyone agrees towards the meaning | 182 | |
| 7358582498 | verisimilitude | likelihood, probability | 183 | |
| 7358585072 | villanelle | 19 line poem | 184 | |
| 7358585758 | zeugma | use of a word to modify or govern two or more words when it is appropriate to only one of them (two things together); a word that changes meaning based on the context of when it is used | 185 | |
| 7364527447 | metrics | theory and practice of poetic meter | 186 | |
| 7364540193 | motivation | a reason behind a character's specific action or behavior. | 187 | |
| 7364573199 | narrative pace | pace, or pacing is the speed at which a story is told; can be determined by the genre of the story | 188 | |
| 7364585879 | naturalism | writers write stories based on the idea that environment determines and governs human character | 189 | |
| 7364592916 | neoclassicism | Western movement in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theater, music, and architecture that draw inspiration from the "classical" art and culture of Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome | 190 | |
| 7364606706 | new criticism | emphasized close reading, particularly of poetry, to discover how a work of literature functioned as a self-contained, self-referential aesthetic object | 191 | |
| 7364609111 | octave | verse form consisting of eight lines of iambic pentameter | 192 | |
| 7364628958 | stasimon | Greek tragedy is a stationary song, composed of strophes and antistrophes and performed by the chorus in the orchestra | 193 | |
| 7364808308 | morality play | main character in a Morality Play represents all humanity: Everyman, Mankind, Humanum Genus; focuses on neither The Bible nor the saints, but on the common man; takes a bible story but puts a "modern twist" on it | 194 | |
| 7364840463 | stream of consciousness | a method of narration that describes in words the flow of thoughts in the minds of the characters | 195 | |
| 7364849909 | subtext | underlying and often distinct themes in a piece of writing or conversation | 196 | |
| 7364869879 | romanticism | a style of art, literature, etc., during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that emphasized the imagination and emotions | 197 | |
| 7364885628 | propaganda | technique for convincing people, misleading in nature and promotes a viewpoint or a political cause; spreading of rumors or false information | 198 | |
| 7369401113 | convention | inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable, or the use of a particular rhyme scheme | 199 | |
| 7369455026 | trochee | hard, soft; opposite of an iamb | 200 | |
| 7369471261 | tone | author's implied attitude toward the subject discussed at hand | 201 | |
| 7369481959 | pyrrhic | soft, soft | 202 | |
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