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| 6266429930 | foil | a character whose qualities or actions serve to emphasize those of the protagonist by providing a strong contrast with them | 0 | |
| 6266429931 | foot | the basic unit of rhythmic measurement in a line of poetry | 1 | |
| 6266429932 | foreshadowing | the organization and presentation of events and scenes in a work of fiction or drama so that the reader or observer is prepared to some degree for what occurs later in the work | 2 | |
| 6266429933 | frame narrative | the result of inserting one or more small stories within the body of a larger story that encompasses the smaller ones | 3 | |
| 6266429934 | free verse | poetry that is free of rhyme and meter resembling natural speech | 4 | |
| 6266429935 | gothic novel | a type of novel characterized by master, horror, and the supernatural, often with haunted castles, secret passageways, grisly visions, and all the paraphernalia of the tale of terror | 5 | |
| 6266429936 | grotesque | a character or location that is irregular, extravagant or fantastic in form | 6 | |
| 6266429937 | harmartia | the greek word for error or failure; slightly different from tragic flaw, which is a flaw of character | 7 | |
| 6266429938 | heroic couplet | two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, cc, with the thought usually compete the two line unit | 8 | |
| 6266429939 | hexameter | a line containing six feet | 9 | |
| 6266429940 | homily | religious sermon or discourse | 10 | |
| 6266429941 | hubris | the greek word for insolence or affront, applied to the arrogance or pride of the protagonist in a tragedy in which he or she defies moral laws in the prohibitions of the gods. | 11 | |
| 6266429942 | humanism | a variety of ethical theory and practice that emphasizes reason, scientific inquiry, and human fulfillment in the natural world and often rejects the importance of belief in God. | 12 | |
| 6266429943 | hyperbole | exaggeration for the sake of emphasis in a figure of speech not meant literally | 13 | |
| 6266429944 | lamb | a metrical foot consisting of two syllables, an unaccented syllable followed by an accented ex: invade, today | 14 | |
| 6266429945 | idyll | a poe or prose work describing an idealized rural life, pastoral scenes | 15 | |
| 6266429946 | imagery | the making of pictures in words | 16 | |
| 6266429947 | impressionism | a practice in literature that emphasizes immediate aspects of objects or actions without attention to details | 17 | |
| 6266429948 | in medias res | latin for "the middle of things," the term describes the narrative practice of beginning a story in the middle of the action to involve the reader, and then sing one or more flashbacks to fill in what led up to that point | 18 | |
| 6266429949 | internal rhyme | rhyme which comes within the line | 19 | |
| 6266429950 | invective | direct denunciation or name-calling | 20 | |
| 6266429951 | irony | the incongruity, or difference, between reality (what is) and appearance (what seems to be) | 21 | |
| 6266429952 | jargon | the special language of a profession or group | 22 | |
| 6266429953 | juxtaposition | the "side by side" comparison of two or more objects or ideals for the purpose of highlighting similarities or differences | 23 | |
| 6266429954 | kenning | a metaphoric compound word or phrase used as a synonym for a common noun | 24 | |
| 6266429955 | lampoon | a sharp, often virulent satire directed against an individual or institution | 25 | |
| 6266429956 | limited pov | the narrator limits him;herself to a complete knowledge of one character in the story and tells us only what the one character feels, thinks, sees or hears. | 26 | |
| 6266429957 | litotes | a figure of speech by which an affirmation is made indirectly by saying its opposite, usually with an effect of understatement | 27 | |
| 6266429958 | loose sentence | sentence that follows normal patterns, subject then verb then modifiers | 28 | |
| 6266429959 | lyric poetry | a usually short, personal poem expressing the poet's emotions and thoughts rather than telling a story | 29 | |
| 6266429960 | malapropism | the comic substitution of one word for another similar in sound, but different in meaning. functions to make characters look ignorant or amusingly uneducated. | 30 | |
| 6266429961 | masculine rhyme | one-syllable rhyme | 31 | |
| 6266429962 | metaphor | one thing, idea, or action, is referred to by a word or expression normally denoting another thing, idea or action, so as to suggest some common quality shared by the two | 32 | |
| 6266429963 | metaphysical poetry | intricate 17th century English poetry employing with and unexpected images | 33 | |
| 6266429964 | meter | the pattern of measured sound-units recurring more or less regularly in lines of verse | 34 | |
| 6266429965 | metonymy | figure of speech in which a representative term is used for a large idea | 35 | |
| 6266429966 | mock epic | comically or satirically imitates the form and style of the epic, treating a trivial subject in a lofty manner | 36 | |
| 6266429967 | mode | an employed method or approach, identifiable with a written work | 37 | |
| 6266429968 | modernism | movement and emphasizing the desire to break away from established traditions | 38 | |
| 6266429969 | mood | the prevailing emotional attitude in a literary work | 39 | |
| 6266429970 | myth | an anonymous narrative, originating in the primitive folklore of a race or nation, that explains natural phenomena, or recounts the deeds of the heroes, passed on through oral tradition | 40 | |
| 6266429971 | naturalism | style of writing that rejects idealized portrayals of life and attempts complete accuracy, disinterested objectivity, and frankness in depicting life as a brutal struggle for survival | 41 | |
| 6266429972 | non sequitur | an inference or conclusion that does not follow established evidence or premises | 42 | |
| 6266429973 | novel of manners | a novel, usually comical and satirical, whose characters and plot emerge from and are limited by the social customs, values, habits and mores of a particular social class in a particular time and place | 43 | |
| 6266429974 | ode | an elaborately formal lyric poem, often in the form of a lengthy address to a person or abstract entity always serious and elevated in tone | 44 | |
| 6266429975 | omniscient pov | the narrator knows all (godlike) and is free to tell us anything, including what the characters are thinking or feeling and why they act as they do | 45 | |
| 6266429976 | onomatopeia | the use of words that seem to imitate the sounds they refer to | 46 | |
| 6266429977 | oxymoron | a figure of speech in which two contradictory words or phrases are combined in a single expression | 47 | |
| 6266429978 | parable | a brief tale intended to be understood as an allegory illustrating some lesson or moral | 48 | |
| 6266429979 | paradox | a statement or expression so surprisingly self-contradictory as to provoke us into seeking another sense in which it would be true | 49 | |
| 6266429980 | parody | a composition that ridicules another composition by imitating and exaggerating aspects of its content | 50 | |
| 6266429981 | pastoral | a poem dealing with rural life | 51 | |
| 6266429982 | pathetic fallacy | the presentation of nature as possessing human feelings | 52 |
