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| 5544595630 | Antagonist | the "villain" of the story, opposer to the protagonist | 0 | |
| 5544595631 | Protagonist | the "hero" of the story, usually overcomes triumph to achieve a goal | 1 | |
| 5544595632 | Aside | a part of a drama where a character's thoughts or dialogue are heard by the audience but not by other characters | 2 | |
| 5544595633 | Catharsis | a great releasing of emotion | 3 | |
| 5544595634 | Dynamic character | a character in a story that changes internally | 4 | |
| 5544595635 | Flat character | character that are constant and remain unchanged | 5 | |
| 5544595636 | Static character | a character that has few traits and does not develop during the story | 6 | |
| 5544595637 | Round character | a character that is multifaceted and goes through changes throughout the story | 7 | |
| 5544595638 | Stock character | a stereotypical character occurring in many stories | 8 | |
| 5544595639 | Climax | the height of action in a story | 9 | |
| 5544595640 | Comedy | a genre of literature that is humorous or satirical | 10 | |
| 5544595641 | Comic relief | a person or event that provides humor or drama to a serious literary work | 11 | |
| 5544595642 | Conflict | a source of tension in a story | 12 | |
| 5544595643 | Crisis | the height of the conflict | 13 | |
| 5544595644 | Denouement | the resolution of a conflict in a story | 14 | |
| 5544595645 | Deus ex machina | when a story ends in an unrealistic matter, as if acted on by supernatural forces | 15 | |
| 5544595646 | Epilogue | an addition piece at the end of a work usually bringing additional closure to the reader | 16 | |
| 5544595648 | Falling action | the events that follow the resolution of the major conflict in the work | 17 | |
| 5544595649 | Farce | A literary genre that uses exaggeration and comedy | 18 | |
| 5544595650 | Foil | A character that is used to accentuate the attributes of another character by being the opposite of him/her | 19 | |
| 5544595651 | Hamartia | the error of a protagonist that brings about their personal downfall | 20 | |
| 5544595652 | Tragic hero | a character that makes a mistake that leads to their own destruction | 21 | |
| 5544595653 | Epic hero | the main character of an epic that is bold and courageous | 22 | |
| 5544595654 | Hubris | extreme pride | 23 | |
| 5544595655 | Monologue | a speech given by a character to express thoughts and emotions | 24 | |
| 5544595656 | Prologue | the opening of story that presents the setting and characters | 25 | |
| 5544595657 | Rising action | the events leading up to the major conflict of the story | 26 | |
| 5544595658 | Scene | a subunit of a play | 27 | |
| 5544595659 | Soliloquy | a speech given by a character to reveal inner emotions | 28 | |
| 5544595660 | Tragedy | a genre of literature characterized by unlucky events | 29 | |
| 5544595661 | Tragic flaw | the trait a character possesses that leads to their downfall | 30 | |
| 5544595662 | Villain | a malicious person who is against the protagonist and their goals | 31 | |
| 5544595664 | Atmosphere | the mood portrayed through diction and setting | 32 | |
| 5544595665 | Colloquial | Informal language used in everyday speech | 33 | |
| 5544595666 | Connotation | the implied meaning of a word | 34 | |
| 5544595667 | Denotation | the literal definition of a word | 35 | |
| 5544595668 | Dialect | the language a certain group of people use | 36 | |
| 5544595669 | Dialogue | conversation between characters | 37 | |
| 5544595670 | Diction | word choice by the author | 38 | |
| 5544595671 | Epigram | a brief satirical statement | 39 | |
| 5544595672 | Invective | speech that attacks another character | 40 | |
| 5544595673 | Inversion | when the normal order of a sentence is reversed | 41 | |
| 5544595674 | irony | a contradiction between what is used and what is meant | 42 | |
| 5544595675 | Dramatic | irony between what the audience knows and what the characters know | 43 | |
| 5544595676 | Verbal | a contradiction between what is said and what is meant | 44 | |
| 5544595677 | Situational | a contradiction between what is expected and what occurs | 45 | |
| 5544595678 | Mood | the use of certain words to evoke emotion | 46 | |
| 5544595679 | Paradox | a statement that appears to be contradictory | 47 | |
| 5544595680 | Parallelism | sentences similar in structure | 48 | |
| 5544595681 | Proverb | a short story or statement used to express a truth | 49 | |
| 5544595682 | Pun | a play on words | 50 | |
| 5544595683 | Repetition | the repeating of a word or phrase for emphasis | 51 | |
| 5544595684 | Restatement | to state a point again in a different way | 52 | |
| 5544595685 | rhetorical question | a question asked for emphasis that does not require an answer | 53 | |
| 5544595686 | Sarcasm | a satirical remark | 54 | |
| 5544595687 | Satire | humor used to express something's or someone's negative traits | 55 | |
| 5544595688 | Slang | casual language usually known by a certain group of people | 56 | |
| 5544595689 | Tone | the attitude of the writer | 57 | |
| 5544595690 | Voice | the writing style of the author | 58 | |
| 5544595691 | Anecdote | a story used to explain a point | 59 | |
| 5544595692 | Anticlimax | a quick transition from a serious event to a trivial one | 60 | |
| 5544595693 | Flashback | the interruption of the events of a story to refer to an earlier event | 61 | |
| 5544595694 | Incident | the first event in a story that upsets the character's life | 62 | |
| 5544595695 | Motivation | the reasons behind actions | 63 | |
| 5544595696 | Narrative voice | the narrator's voice | 64 | |
| 5544595697 | Points of view | first person, objective, omniscient, limited, third person, unlimited | 65 | |
| 5544595698 | Stream | of-consciousness- the stream of thoughts and feelings that occurs within a character | 66 | |
| 5544595699 | Subplot | a plot under the main plot of the story | 67 | |
| 5544595700 | Theme | the main idea of a text | 68 | |
| 5544595701 | Allusion | a reference to a notable event, person, place, etc. | 69 | |
| 5544595702 | Apostrophe | when a character addresses something or someone that is not present | 70 | |
| 5544595703 | Euphemism | a word standing in place of another more harsh | 71 | |
| 5544595704 | Hyperbole | grand exaggeration | 72 | |
| 5544595705 | Litotes | a negative statement confirming a positive one | 73 | |
| 5544595706 | Metaphor | comparing two unlike things without using "like" or "as" | 74 | |
| 5544595707 | Onomatopoeia | words that sound like their meaning | 75 | |
| 5544595708 | Personification | to give an inanimate object or animal is given human qualities | 76 | |
| 5544595709 | Simile | a comparison using "like" or "as" | 77 | |
| 5544595710 | Symbol | when an object or actions of a character have a deeper meaning than at first glance | 78 | |
| 5544595711 | Synecdoche | using a part to identify a whole, or vise versa | 79 | |
| 5544595712 | Understatement | intentionally making something seem less important | 80 | |
| 5544595713 | Allegory | a story that has two meanings | 81 | |
| 5544595714 | Anecdote | a story used to prove a point | 82 | |
| 5544595715 | Diary | a daily personal record of events | 83 | |
| 5544595716 | Discourse | argumentation, description, exposition, narration | 84 | |
| 5544595717 | essay | Types include formal, humorous, informal | 85 | |
| 5544595718 | Fable | a fictional story where the characters are animals, plants, inanimate objects, etc, given human qualities | 86 | |
| 5544595719 | Genre | the category of literature a work falls under | 87 | |
| 5544595720 | Novel | a longer narrative | 88 | |
| 5544595721 | Novella | fiction work longer than a short story but shorter than a novel | 89 | |
| 5544595722 | Parable | a short story created to teach a lesson | 90 | |
| 5544595723 | Prose | free flowing literature | 91 | |
| 5544595724 | Verse | a single line of a poem | 92 | |
| 5544595725 | Alliteration | repeated first sounds of each word | 93 | |
| 5544595726 | Assonance | repeated vowel sounds in a series of words | 94 | |
| 5544595727 | blank verse | unrhymed verse | 95 | |
| 5544595728 | Cacophony | used of more than one discordant sounds in a verse | 96 | |
| 5544595729 | Cadence | the beat of a poem | 97 | |
| 5544595730 | Caesura | a natural pause in a line of poetry | 98 | |
| 5544595731 | Conceit | a metaphor that is surprising and inventive | 99 | |
| 5544595732 | Connotation | the implied meaning of a word | 100 | |
| 5544595733 | Consonance | repeated consonant sounds | 101 | |
| 5544595734 | controlling image | a device using repetition to emphasize the theme of a work | 102 | |
| 5544595735 | Couplet | two rhyming lines | 103 | |
| 5544595736 | Dirge | a mourning song | 104 | |
| 5544595737 | Dissonance | interrupting the flow of the poetry to prove a point | 105 | |
| 5544595738 | dramatic monologue | when a single character reveals his or her true feelings to the audience | 106 | |
| 5544595739 | Elegy | a poem in honor of the deceased | 107 | |
| 5544595740 | end | stopped line- the pause at the end of a unit of syntax | 108 | |
| 5544595741 | Enjambment | continuing lines of poetry without punctuation | 109 | |
| 5544595742 | Epic | a hero story | 110 | |
| 5544595743 | Euphony | words that sound nice together | 111 | |
| 5544595744 | Foot | a combination of stressed and unstressed syllables | 112 | |
| 5544595745 | free verse | lines of poetry with no rhyme or meter | 113 | |
| 5544595746 | Iamb | unstressed stressed | 114 | |
| 5544595747 | Image | the visual created by descriptions that appeal to the senses | 115 | |
| 5544595748 | Imagery | using description to appeal to the senses | 116 | |
| 5544595749 | In medias res | A narrative occurring at a crucial part of the story | 117 | |
| 5544595750 | Lyric | a short expressive poem | 118 | |
| 5544595751 | Measure | a short rhythmical unit | 119 | |
| 5544595752 | Meter | number of feet in a line | 120 | |
| 5544595753 | Octave | eight lines of iambic pentameter | 121 | |
| 5544595754 | Ode | a short lyrical piece normally praising a person or event | 122 | |
| 5544595755 | Pentameter | line of poetry with five beats | 123 | |
| 5544595756 | Persona | the way a character is presented | 124 | |
| 5544595757 | Quatrain | a verse with four lines | 125 | |
| 5544595758 | Refrain | the end set of lines repeated throughout the poem | 126 | |
| 5544595759 | Repetition | repeating of words or phrases | 127 | |
| 5544595760 | Rhyme | repetition of sounds | 128 | |
| 5544595761 | End | repetition of sounds at the ends of lines | 129 | |
| 5544595762 | External | rhyming the last syllable of each line | 130 | |
| 5544595763 | Feminine | a rhyme with multiple syllables where the last syllable is unstressed | 131 | |
| 5544595764 | Internal | Rhyme inside a line of poetry | 132 | |
| 5544595765 | Masculine | a rhyme with multiple syllables and the last is stressed | 133 | |
| 5544595766 | Scansion | analyzing a poem's meter | 134 | |
| 5544595767 | Sestet | the last six lines of a sonnet | 135 | |
| 5544595768 | Sonnet | Fourteen 10 syllable line poetry written in iambic pentameter | 136 | |
| 5544595769 | English | three quatrains and a rhyming couplet | 137 | |
| 5544595770 | Italian | octave rhyming and a sestet rhyming | 138 | |
| 5544595771 | Stanza | four or more lines with set rhythm and length | 139 | |
| 5544595772 | Stress | emphasized syllable | 140 | |
| 5544595773 | Trochee | stressed then unstressed | 141 | |
| 5544595774 | Volta | a change in argument or thought | 142 | |
| 5544595775 | Antithesis | when two opposites are put together to prove a point | 143 | |
| 5544595776 | Balanced sentence | a sentence with two equal portions ( length, structure, meaning ) | 144 | |
| 5544595777 | Coherence | when each part of a work contributes to the overall meaning | 145 | |
| 5544595778 | Complex sentence | one dependent and one independent clause | 146 | |
| 5544595779 | Compound complex | at least two independent clauses joined by a conjunction or form of joining Punctuation- marks used to separate sentences or their parts | 147 | |
| 5544595780 | Ellipsis | a form of punctuation used to take out part of a sentence or event | 148 | |
| 5544595781 | Inverted sentence | sentence when the predicate precedes the subject | 149 | |
| 5544595782 | Loose sentence | a main clauses followed by additional information | 150 | |
| 5544595783 | Sign | Abbreviations, Acronyms, Trademarks, Product names, Badges, Insignias | 151 | |
| 5544595784 | Symbol | Terms, Names, Pictures | 152 | |
| 5544616644 | Positive Tone Words | lighthearted, confident, amused, complimentary, amiable, relaxed, soothing, jubilant, encouraging, reverent, hopeful, cheery, etc. | 153 | |
| 5544626875 | Negative Tone Words | angry, wrathful, threatening, agitated, obnoxious, insulting, etc. | 154 | |
| 5544638078 | Neutral Tone Words | formal, objective, questioning, learned, authoritative, etc. | 155 | |
| 5544645379 | Beowulf | An epic poem describing a Danish hero's journey of defeating Grendel and other monsters to save his homeland. | 156 | |
| 5544656024 | My Antonia | The story of a young immigrant girl who grew up in the American West. Its major themes include gender boundaries, society and class, the American Dream, etc. | 157 | |
| 5544678618 | The Awakening | A novel written by Kate Chopin describing the turmoils of an unsatisfied, isolated woman pushed into the New Orleans's social elite struggling to meet others' expectations of her. | 158 |
