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| 7253849776 | allegory | story or poem that can be used to reveal a hidden meaning |  | 0 |
| 7253849777 | alliteration | beginning of same letter or sound in closely connected words |  | 1 |
| 7253849778 | allusion | indirect of passing reference |  | 2 |
| 7253849779 | anaphora | repetition in first part of a sentence , to have an artistic meaning |  | 3 |
| 7253849780 | antagonist | a hostile person who is opposed to another character |  | 4 |
| 7253849781 | apostrophe | figure of speech used to adresss an imaginary character |  | 5 |
| 7253849782 | assonance | repetition of vowel sounds |  | 6 |
| 7253849783 | flat character | story character who have no depth, usually has one personality or characteristic |  | 7 |
| 7253849784 | round character | character who has complex personality: contradicted person |  | 8 |
| 7253849785 | dynamic character | changes throughout the story, through major conflict |  | 9 |
| 7253849786 | static character | person who doesn't change throughout story keeps same personality |  | 10 |
| 7253849787 | characterization | process of revealing characters personality |  | 11 |
| 7253849788 | climax | point where conflict hits its highest point |  | 12 |
| 7253849789 | comedy | drama that is amusing or funny |  | 13 |
| 7253849790 | conflict | struggle between opposing forces |  | 14 |
| 7253849791 | connotation | secondary meaning to a word |  | 15 |
| 7253849792 | consonance | repetition of same consonant in words close together |  | 16 |
| 7253849793 | couplet | two rhyming lines in a verse |  | 17 |
| 7253849794 | denotation | the literal meaning of a word |  | 18 |
| 7253849795 | denouement | final outcome of the story |  | 19 |
| 7253849796 | figurative language | Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling. |  | 20 |
| 7253849797 | imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) |  | 21 |
| 7253849798 | irony | A contrast between expectation and reality |  | 22 |
| 7253849799 | verbal irony | A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant |  | 23 |
| 7253849800 | dramatic irony | Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play. |  | 24 |
| 7253849801 | irony of situation | refers to an occurrence that is contrary to what is expected or intended |  | 25 |
| 7253849802 | metaphor | A comparison without using like or as |  | 26 |
| 7253849803 | metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it |  | 27 |
| 7253849804 | motivation | A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior |  | 28 |
| 7253849805 | narrator | Person telling the story |  | 29 |
| 7253849806 | onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. |  | 30 |
| 7253849807 | hyperbole | A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor |  | 31 |
| 7253849808 | oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. |  | 32 |
| 7253849809 | paradox | A contradiction or dilemma |  | 33 |
| 7253849810 | personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes |  | 34 |
| 7253849811 | plot | Sequence of events in a story | | 35 |
| 7253849812 | omniscient point of view | The point of view where the narrator knows everything about the characters and their problems - told in the 3rd person. |  | 36 |
| 7253849813 | third person limited point of view | narrator tells the story from only one character's pov |  | 37 |
| 7253849814 | first person point of view | a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself |  | 38 |
| 7253849815 | objective point of view | a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story, with no comment on any characters or events. |  | 39 |
| 7253849816 | protagonist | Main character |  | 40 |
| 7253849817 | quatrain | A four line stanza |  | 41 |
| 7253849818 | satire | A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies. |  | 42 |
| 7253849819 | soliloquy | A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage |  | 43 |
| 7253849820 | stream of consciousness | private thoughts of a character without commentary |  | 44 |
| 7253849821 | symbol | A thing that represents or stands for something else |  | 45 |
| 7253849822 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa |  | 46 |
| 7253849823 | theme | Central idea of a work of literature |  | 47 |
| 7253849824 | tone | Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character |  | 48 |
| 7253849825 | tragedy | A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character |  | 49 |
| 7253849826 | understatement | the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis |  | 50 |
| 7253852444 | ANASTROPHE | Inversion of the usual, normal, or logical order of the parts of a sentence. Purpose is rhythm or emphasis or euphony. It is a fancy word for inversion. |  | 51 |
| 7253863157 | ANTIMETABOLE | Repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order. Moliere: "One should eat to live, not live to eat." In poetry, this is called chiasmus. |  | 52 |
| 7253864948 | ANTITHESIS | Balancing words, phrases, or ideas that are strongly contrasted, often by means of grammatical structure. |  | 53 |
| 7253866231 | ANTIHERO | Central character who lacks all the qualities traditionally associated with heroes. may lack courage, grace, intelligence, or moral scruples. |  | 54 |
| 7253867694 | APHORISM | brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life, or of a principle or accepted general truth. Also called maxim, epigram. |  | 55 |
| 7253872066 | apostrophe | calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to a place or thing, or a personified abstract idea. If the character is asking a god or goddess for inspiration it is called an invocation | 56 | |
| 7253875607 | APPOSITION | Placing in immediately succeeding order of two or more coordinate elements, the latter of which is an explanation, qualification, or modification of the first (often set off by a colon). |  | 57 |
| 7253878023 | ASYNDETON | Commas used without conjunction to separate a series of words, thus emphasizing the parts equally: instead of X, Y, and Z... the writer uses X,Y,Z.... |  | 58 |
| 7253879471 | BALANCE | Constructing a sentence so that both halves are about the same length and importance. Sentences can be unbalanced to serve a special effect as well. |  | 59 |
| 7253880525 | CHIASMUS | In poetry, a type of rhetorical balance in which the second part is syntactically balanced against the first, but with the parts reversed | | 60 |
| 7253882426 | CONCEIT | an elaborate metaphor that compares two things that are startlingly different. Often an extended metaphor. |  | 61 |
| 7253884271 | DIDACTIC | form of fiction or nonfiction that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking. | 62 | |
| 7253884975 | EPANALEPSIS | device of repetition in which the same expression (single word or phrase) is repeated both at the beginning and at the end of the line, clause, or sentence. | 63 | |
| 7253885432 | EPIC | a long narrative poem, written in heightened language , which recounts the deeds of a heroic character who embodies the values of a particular society. | 64 | |
| 7253885804 | EPIGRAPH | H a quotation or aphorism at the beginning of a literary work suggestive of the theme. | 65 | |
| 7253886525 | EPISTROPHE | Device of repetition in which the same expression (single word or phrase) is repeated at the end of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences (it is the opposite of anaphora). | 66 | |
| 7253887949 | EPITHET | an adjective or adjective phrase applied to a person or thing that is frequently used to emphasize a characteristic quality. "Father of our country" and "the great Emancipator" are examples. | 67 | |
| 7253889126 | EXPLICATION | act of interpreting or discovering the meaning of a text, usually involves close reading and special attention to figurative language. | 68 | |
| 7253889592 | FARCE | a type of comedy in which ridiculous and often stereotyped characters are involved in silly, far-fetched situations. | 69 | |
| 7253890032 | FREE VERSE | poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme. | 70 | |
| 7253890727 | HYPOTACTIC | sentence marked by the use of connecting words between clauses or sentences, explicitly showing the logical or other relationships between them. | 71 | |
| 7253891192 | INVERSION | the reversal of the normal word order in a sentence or phrase. | 72 | |
| 7253891804 | LITOTES | is a form of understatement in which the positive form is emphasized through the negation of a negative form | 73 | |
| 7253892522 | METONYMY | a figure of speech in which a person, place, or thing, is referred to by something closely associated with it. | 74 | |
| 7253893653 | PARABLE | a relatively short story that teaches a moral, or lesson about how to lead a good life. | 75 | |
| 7253894219 | PERIODIC | sentence that places the main idea or central complete thought at the end of the sentence, after all introductory elements. | 76 | |
| 7253895060 | POLYSYNDETON | sentence which uses a conjunction with NO commas to separate the items in a series. Instead of X, Y, and Z... Polysyndeton results in X and Y and Z... | 77 | |
| 7253895652 | REFRAIN | a word, phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated, for effect, several times in a poem | 78 |
