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| 5077172459 | Italian/ Petrarchan Sonnet | A sonnet consisting of an octave rhyming "abbaabba" and of a sestet using any arrangement of two or three additional rhymes, such as "cdcdcd" or "cdecde" | 0 | |
| 5077172460 | Shakespearean Sonnet | Sonnet that consists of 3 quatrains and a concluding couplet, rhyming abab cdcd efef gg | 1 | |
| 5077174560 | Octave | 8 lines | 2 | |
| 5077174561 | Sestet | 6 lines | 3 | |
| 5077176855 | Quatrain | 4 line stanza marked off by a rhyme scheme | 4 | |
| 5077180219 | Couplet | 2 rhyming lines | 5 | |
| 5077181851 | Volta | the turn in the argument or poem; shift | 6 | |
| 5077189805 | Iambic Pentameter | line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (unstressed) syllable followed by one long syllable | 7 | |
| 5085571345 | Setting | Time and place in which the story takes place | 8 | |
| 5085573615 | internal characterization | Audience must infer for themselves what the character is like through the character's thoughts, actions, speech (Parts of the character that you don't see aka their feelings, fears, etc) | 9 | |
| 5085573616 | external characterization | Author literally tells the audience what a character is like (the part of the character that you see) | 10 | |
| 5085575659 | conflict | Literary element that involves a struggle between two opposing forces usually a protagonist and an antagonist | 11 | |
| 5085575660 | symbol | Figure of speech in which something (object, person, situation, or action) means more than what it is | 12 | |
| 5085575661 | exposition | Literary device used to introduce background information about events, settings, to the audience or readers | 13 | |
| 5085577950 | rising action | Series of relevant incidents that create suspense, interest, and tension in a narrative | 14 | |
| 5085577951 | internal conflict | Psychological struggle within the mind of a literary or dramatic character, the resolution of which creates the plot's suspense | 15 | |
| 5085577952 | external conflict | Struggle between a literary or dramatic character and an outside force such as nature or another character, which drives the dramatic action of the plot | 16 | |
| 5085580209 | climax | The highest or most intense point in the development or resolution of something | 17 | |
| 5085590463 | resolution | Part of the story's plot line in which the problem of the story is resolved or worked out. | 18 |
