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| 9874611141 | allegory | story or poem that can be used to reveal a hidden meaning | 0 | |
| 9874611142 | alliteration | beginning of same letter or sound in closely connected words | 1 | |
| 9874611143 | allusion | indirect of passing reference | 2 | |
| 9874611144 | anaphora | repetition in first part of a sentence , to have an artistic meaning | 3 | |
| 9874611145 | antagonist | a hostile person who is opposed to another character |  | 4 |
| 9874611146 | apostrophe | figure of speech used to adresss an imaginary character |  | 5 |
| 9874611147 | approximate rhyme | words in rhyming pattern that sound alike |  | 6 |
| 9874611148 | aside | when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by other actors on the stage |  | 7 |
| 9874611149 | assonance | repetition of vowel sounds |  | 8 |
| 9874611150 | blank verse | poetry written in meter without an ending rhyme |  | 9 |
| 9874611151 | cacophony | blend of unharmonious sounds |  | 10 |
| 9874611152 | caesura | pause in the middle of a line |  | 11 |
| 9874611153 | catharsis | the release of emotions through art (emotional cleanse) |  | 12 |
| 9874611154 | flat character | story character who have no depth, usually has one personality or characteristic |  | 13 |
| 9874611155 | round character | character who has complex personality: contradicted person |  | 14 |
| 9874611156 | dynamic character | changes throughout the story, through major conflict |  | 15 |
| 9874611157 | static character | person who doesn't change throughout story keeps same personality |  | 16 |
| 9874611158 | characterization | process of revealing characters personality |  | 17 |
| 9874611159 | climax | point where conflict hits its highest point |  | 18 |
| 9874611160 | comedy | drama that is amusing or funny |  | 19 |
| 9874611161 | conflict | struggle between opposing forces |  | 20 |
| 9874611162 | connotation | secondary meaning to a word |  | 21 |
| 9874611163 | consonance | repetition of same consonant in words close together |  | 22 |
| 9874611164 | couplet | two rhyming lines in a verse |  | 23 |
| 9874611165 | denotation | the literal meaning of a word |  | 24 |
| 9874611166 | denouement | final outcome of the story |  | 25 |
| 9874611167 | deus ex machina | resolution of a plot by chance or coincidence |  | 26 |
| 9874611168 | didactic writing | writing with a primary purpose to teach or preach |  | 27 |
| 9874611169 | direct presentation of character | author telling the reader how a character is and what actions it will do further in the story |  | 28 |
| 9874611170 | double rhyme | rhyme where the repeated vowel is in the second last syllable of words involved (ex; born scorn) | 29 | |
| 9874611171 | dramatic exposition | prose commentaries, to provide background information about the characters and their world |  | 30 |
| 9874611172 | end rhyme | rhymes occurring at the end of line |  | 31 |
| 9874611173 | end stopped line | line ending in regular punctuation |  | 32 |
| 9874611174 | English sonnet | a sonnet rhyming ababcdcdededgg |  | 33 |
| 9874611175 | epiphany | when a character receives a spiritual insight into they life |  | 34 |
| 9874611176 | euphony | smooth choice and arrangement of sounds |  | 35 |
| 9874611177 | extended figure | A figure of speech sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem. |  | 36 |
| 9874611178 | falling action | Events after the climax, leading to the resolution |  | 37 |
| 9874611179 | feminine rhyme | lines rhymed by their final two syllables |  | 38 |
| 9874611180 | figurative language | Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling. |  | 39 |
| 9874611181 | figure of speech | a way of saying something other than the ordinary way |  | 40 |
| 9874611182 | foot | basic unit in the scansion or measurement of verse , stressed and un stressed syllables |  | 41 |
| 9874611183 | form | external pattern or shape of a poem |  | 42 |
| 9874611184 | free verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme |  | 43 |
| 9874611185 | hamartia | tragic flaw which causes a character's downfall |  | 44 |
| 9874611186 | imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) |  | 45 |
| 9874611187 | indirect presentation of character | the personality of a character is revealed by what he or she does or says |  | 46 |
| 9874611188 | internal rhyme | A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line |  | 47 |
| 9874611189 | irony | A contrast between expectation and reality |  | 48 |
| 9874611190 | verbal irony | A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant |  | 49 |
| 9874611191 | dramatic irony | Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play. |  | 50 |
| 9874611192 | irony of situation | refers to an occurrence that is contrary to what is expected or intended |  | 51 |
| 9874611193 | italian sonnet | A sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd |  | 52 |
| 9874611194 | masculine rhyme | A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable |  | 53 |
| 9874611195 | melodrama | a play based upon a dramatic plot and developed sensationally |  | 54 |
| 9874611196 | metaphor | A comparison without using like or as |  | 55 |
| 9874611197 | meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry |  | 56 |
| 9874611198 | metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it |  | 57 |
| 9874611199 | motivation | A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior |  | 58 |
| 9874611200 | narrator | Person telling the story |  | 59 |
| 9874611201 | octave | 8 line stanza |  | 60 |
| 9874611202 | onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. |  | 61 |
| 9874611203 | hyperbole | A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor |  | 62 |
| 9874611204 | oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. |  | 63 |
| 9874611205 | paradox | A contradiction or dilemma |  | 64 |
| 9874611206 | paraphrase | A restatement of a text or passage in your own words. |  | 65 |
| 9874611207 | personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes |  | 66 |
| 9874611208 | plot | Sequence of events in a story | | 67 |
| 9874611209 | point of view | The perspective from which a story is told |  | 68 |
| 9874611210 | omniscient point of view | The point of view where the narrator knows everything about the characters and their problems - told in the 3rd person. |  | 69 |
| 9874611211 | third person limited point of view | narrator tells the story from only one character's point of view | 70 | |
| 9874611212 | first person point of view | a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself | 71 | |
| 9874611213 | objective point of view | a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story with no comment on any characters or events. | 72 | |
| 9874611214 | protagonist | Main character | 73 | |
| 9874611215 | quatrain | A four-line stanza | 74 | |
| 9874611216 | rhythm | a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound | 75 | |
| 9874611217 | rhyme scheme | A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem | 76 | |
| 9874611218 | rising action | Events leading up to the climax | 77 | |
| 9874611219 | sarcasm | the use of irony to mock or convey contempt | 78 | |
| 9874611220 | satire | the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. | 79 | |
| 9874611221 | scansion | Analysis of verse into metrical patterns | 80 | |
| 9874611222 | sestet | six-line stanza | 81 | |
| 9874611223 | setting | The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs. | 82 | |
| 9874611224 | simile | A comparison of unlike things using a comparison word such as "like" or "as" | 83 | |
| 9874611225 | soliloquy | A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage | 84 | |
| 9874611226 | sonnet | 14-line poem | 85 | |
| 9874611227 | stanza | A group of lines in a poem | 86 | |
| 9874611228 | stream of consciousness | a literary style in which a character's thoughts, feelings, and reactions are depicted in a continuous flow uninterrupted by objective description or conventional dialogue. | 87 | |
| 9874611229 | syllabic verse | Verse measured by the number of syllables rather than the number of feet per line. | 88 | |
| 9874611230 | symbol | A thing that represents or stands for something else | 89 | |
| 9874611231 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 90 | |
| 9874611232 | synesthesia | describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound") | 91 | |
| 9874611233 | tercet | three-line stanza | 92 | |
| 9874611234 | terza rima | a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc. | 93 | |
| 9874611235 | theme | Central idea of a work of literature, a generalization about the human condition | 94 | |
| 9874611236 | tone | Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character | 95 | |
| 9874611237 | tragedy | A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character | 96 | |
| 9874611238 | truncation | the omission of one or more unaccented syllables at the beginning or the end of a line of verse. | 97 | |
| 9874611239 | understatement | the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis | 98 | |
| 9874611240 | verse | A single line of poetry. Also, writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme | 99 | |
| 9874611241 | villanelle | a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain. | 100 |
