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| 3840443981 | pathos | appeal to emotion | 0 | |
| 3840443982 | pentameter | a line of five feet | 1 | |
| 3840445792 | periodic sentence | a sentence that, by leaving the completion of its main clause to the end, produces an effect of suspense | 2 | |
| 3840448838 | peripeteia | a sudden turn of events or an unexpected reversal in a tragedy | 3 | |
| 3840452908 | personification | the technique by which animals, abstract ideas, or inanimate objects are referred to as if they were human | 4 | |
| 3840458442 | plot | the careful arrangement by an author of incidents in a narrative to achieve a desired effect | 5 | |
| 3840460697 | point of view | the vantage point, or stance, from which a story is told | 6 | |
| 3840462246 | polysyndeton | the opposite of asyndeton. the use of many conjugations has a slowing effect. | 7 | |
| 3840465539 | post-modernism | a tendency in contemporary culture characterized by the rejection of objective truth. | 8 | |
| 3840468983 | primitivism | the belief that nature provides a truer and more healthful model than culture; the nobel savage | 9 | |
| 3840472426 | prosody | the study of sound and rhythm in poetry | 10 | |
| 3840474569 | pun | a form of wit, not necessarily funny, involving a play on a word with two or more meanings | 11 | |
| 3840477378 | puritanism | extreme strictness in moral or religious matters, often to excess; rigid austerity | 12 | |
| 3840479963 | quatrain | a verse stanza of four lines, rhymed or unrhymed | 13 | |
| 3840482638 | rationalism | the doctrine that reason alone is a source of knowledge and is independent of experience | 14 | |
| 3840485644 | realism | the author's use of accuracy in the portrayal of life or reality | 15 | |
| 3840491325 | regionalism | the tendency in literature to focus on a specific geographical region or locality, re-creating as accurately as possible its unique setting, speech, customs, manners, beliefs and history | 16 | |
| 3840496259 | rhetoric | the art of persuasion, in speaking or writing | 17 | |
| 3840497770 | rising action | the part of a plot that leads through a series of events of increasing interest and poe to the climax or turning point | 18 | |
| 3840501187 | romanticism | literature depicting emotional matter in an imaginative form | 19 | |
| 3840503989 | sarcasm | harsh, cutting, personal remarks to or about someone, not necessarily ironic | 20 | |
| 3840506840 | satire | any form of literature that blends ironic humor and wit with criticism directed at a particular folly, vice or stupidity. satire seeks to correct, improve, or reform through ridicule | 21 | |
| 3840513421 | setting | the general locale, time in history, or social milieu in which the action takes place | 22 | |
| 3840516130 | simile | a less direct metaphor, using like or as | 23 | |
| 3840517823 | situational irony | the contrast between what is intended or expected and what actually occurs | 24 | |
| 3840519672 | slant rhyme | inexact rhyme between two words | 25 | |
| 3840521422 | soliloquy | a speech by one character while alone on the stage or under the impression of being alone | 26 | |
| 3840525050 | sonnet | a fourteen-line lyric poem in iambic pentameter | 27 | |
| 3840527293 | speaker's attitude | the speaker's viewpoint regarding his subject matter | 28 | |
| 3840529810 | stanza | a section or division of a poem, resembling paragraphs in prose | 29 | |
| 3840532309 | stock character | a stereotyped character; one familiar to use from examples in previous fiction | 30 | |
| 3840535070 | stream of consciousness | a technique in which the reader sees the continuous, chaotic flow of a character's thoughts | 31 | |
| 3840538597 | structure | the pattern of organization | 32 | |
| 3840539892 | style | how the author's word choice, sentence structure, figurative language, and sentence arrangement all work together to establish mood, images, and meaning in the text | 33 | |
| 3840544924 | surrealism | employs illogical, dreamlike images and events to suggest the unconscious | 34 | |
| 3840548312 | syllogism | a form of logical reasoning, consisting of two premises and a conclusion (A=B B=C A=C) | 35 | |
| 3840611555 | symbol | anything that stands for or represents something else beyond it | 36 | |
| 3840613611 | synathesia | the description of one kind of sensation in terms of another | 37 | |
| 3840627970 | synecdoche | figure of speech that utilizes a part as representative of a whole | 38 | |
| 3840629623 | syntax | the rules or patterns of grammatical language | 39 | |
| 3840631060 | theme | an abstract idea that emerges from a literary work's treatment of its subject matter | 40 | |
| 3840634041 | title character | a character who gives his/her name to the work | 41 | |
| 3840635566 | tone | the reflection in a work of the author's attitude toward his or her subject | 42 | |
| 3840637439 | tragedy | a drama in which the protagonist, a person of high position, suffers a fall in fortune due to some error of judgement or flaw in his or her nature | 43 | |
| 3840642611 | tragic flaw | the defect of a character that brings about the protagonist's downfall in a tragedy | 44 | |
| 3840645529 | transcendentalism | the american version of romanticism; held that there was something in human beings that transcended human nature -- a spark of divinity | 45 | |
| 3840651669 | trope | any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense | 46 | |
| 3840655090 | unity of action | a tragedy that has one main action that it follows with no or few subplots | 47 | |
| 3840657351 | verbal irony | a contrast between what is said and what is actually meant | 48 | |
| 3840659632 | verisimilitude | the appearance or semblance of truth | 49 | |
| 3840662451 | villanelle | a lyric poem made up of five stanzas of three lines, plus a final stanza of four lines | 50 | |
| 3840665839 | voice | how a written work conveys to a reader of the writer's attitude, personality, and character | 51 | |
| 3840669516 | wit | ingenuity in connecting amusingly incongruous ideas; intellect, humor | 52 |
