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| 3688331553 | Plot | Sequence of events in a story | 0 | |
| 3688331554 | Symbol | A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract. | 1 | |
| 3688331555 | In Medias Res | A Latin term for a narrative that starts not at the beginning of events but at some other critical point. | 2 | |
| 3688331996 | Protagonist | Main character | 3 | |
| 3688331997 | Foil | A character who is in most ways opposite to the main character (protagonist) or one who is nearly the same as the protagonist. The purpose of the foil character is to emphasize the traits of the main character by contrast only | 4 | |
| 3688331998 | Denoument | the resolution of the conflict in a story's plot; a final outcome | 5 | |
| 3688333654 | Flashbacks | Events in the story are interrupted for events that took place in an earlier time | 6 | |
| 3688333655 | Dramatic Irony | Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play. | 7 | |
| 3688333853 | Tragedy | Translates "Goat Song" related to the festivals of Dionysus | 8 | |
| 3688333854 | Muse | 9 daughters of Zeus, Homer was inspired by them - entities to inspire | 9 | |
| 3688334252 | Deus Ex Machina | an incidence where an implausible concept or character is brought into the story in order to make the conflict in the story resolve and to bring about a pleasing solution boo radley --> jem | 10 | |
| 3688334501 | Aristotle's Unities | Unity of action, unity of place, unity of time | 11 | |
| 3688334502 | Catharsis | The process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions | 12 | |
| 3688334871 | Soliloquy | A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage | 13 | |
| 3688334872 | Onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. | 14 | |
| 3688335894 | Rhetoric | Effective writing or speaking | 15 | |
| 3688336175 | Denotation | The dictionary definition of a word | 16 | |
| 3688336176 | Connotation | All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests | 17 | |
| 3688336366 | Scansion | Analysis of verse into metrical patterns | 18 | |
| 3688336367 | Tone | Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character | 19 | |
| 3688336618 | Stanza | A group of lines in a poem | 20 | |
| 3688336850 | Stichic | A poem which is a continuous sequence of lines without any division into stanzas | 21 | |
| 3688336851 | Strophic | Describes a song where the stanzas are all sung to the same music | 22 | |
| 3688336852 | Hyperbole | A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor | 23 | |
| 3688337041 | Turn | turns/shifts (and, yet, for, but, nor, etc.) | 24 | |
| 3688337042 | Allusion | A reference | 25 | |
| 3688337430 | Caesura | a break between words within a metrical foot | 26 | |
| 3688344605 | Sonnet | Square, 14 line poem | 27 | |
| 3688345017 | Two Types of Sonnets | 1. Pertrachean sonnet - it is divided into an octave (8 lines) and a sestet (6 lines). The rhyme scheme for the octave is ABBA ABBA, for the sestet it is CDE CDE or CDCDCD. The octave introduces the topic or problem, the sestet provides a solution or comment on it. 2. Shakespearean sonnet - it has three quatrains (4 lines) and a concluding couplet. The quatrains introduce the topic and the couplet provides a solution or conclusion. It is usually written in iambic pentameter. The rhyme scheme is ABAB CDCD EFEF for the quatrains and GG for the couplet. | 28 |
