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| 8634108908 | agon | conflict especially against the antagonist and protagonist | 0 | |
| 8634108909 | alliteration | the same letter or sound at the BEGINNING of words that are close to each other. ie) artful apes | 1 | |
| 8634108910 | allusion | a reference to something outside of the text. ie) Titanic in Thousand Splendid Suns | 2 | |
| 8634109991 | ambiguity | unclear of meaning/intention | 3 | |
| 8634109992 | anagnorisis | epiphany | 4 | |
| 8634111009 | Apollonian-Dionysian conflict | The structured science side v. the party side with lusts and "sinful" ideas | 5 | |
| 8634111010 | archetype | a typical example of a certain person or thing. Current symbol or motif. ie) good v. evil in mythology | 6 | |
| 8634111011 | assonance | resemblance of sounds, specifically vowel sounds. ie) go SLOW over the ROAD. Both have the long "O" | 7 | |
| 8634111676 | bildungsroman | the type of work where the character matures over time. Young protagonist matures. | 8 | |
| 8634111677 | carpe diem | Seize the day. Theme were one makes the most out of life | 9 | |
| 8634112637 | catharsis | in Greek. Undergo fear and pity of the audience towards the character | 10 | |
| 8634112638 | connotation | implied by a ward apart from the thing that describes it explicitly. ie) a dove is a sign of peace | 11 | |
| 8634112639 | consonance | repetitive sounds produced by CONSONANTS within a sentence or phrase. ie) pitter patter | 12 | |
| 8634113648 | denotation | literal meaning of a word. ie) a dove is a bird | 13 | |
| 8634113649 | deus ex machina | refers to the incidence where a god is introduced into a play to resolve entanglements of the plot | 14 | |
| 8634114552 | end-stopped | when a line of poetry ends with a punctuation mark | 15 | |
| 8634115448 | enjambment | running lines of poetry from one to the next w/o punctuation | 16 | |
| 8634115449 | epic simile | extended simile that could serve to intensify heroic stature | 17 | |
| 8634117475 | epistle | poetry written in the form of a letter | 18 | |
| 8634117476 | epithet | application of a word/phrase to someone that describes their attributes or qualities | 19 | |
| 8634118100 | foreshadowing | you know this | 20 | |
| 8634118101 | hamartia | tragic flaw | 21 | |
| 8634118102 | hubris | putting a "normal" character on the same level as the gods. When they really aren't, it's arrogant. | 22 | |
| 8634118103 | hyperbole | exaggeration | 23 | |
| 8634120768 | imagery | duh | 24 | |
| 8634120769 | in media res | in the middle of. Describes a narrative in the middle of the story | 25 | |
| 8634120770 | irony | you know dis | 26 | |
| 8634120771 | ghazal | 5 couplets which are the same in length. You wrote one | 27 | |
| 8634121366 | metaphor | you know dis | 28 | |
| 8634121367 | metonymy | the use of the name of one object for one of another related to the subject. ie) the king = the crown | 29 | |
| 8634121368 | monomyth | the circle of a hero's journey | 30 | |
| 8634121369 | mood | the feeling of the scene | 31 | |
| 8634122075 | octave | verse form containing 8 lines of iambic pentameter | 32 | |
| 8634122076 | onomatopoeia | how something sounds. "mooooo" "oink" | 33 | |
| 8634122077 | pantoum | a type of poem with a verse form consisting of three stanzas. It has a set pattern within the poem of repetitive lines. The pattern in each stanza is where the second and fourth line of each verse is repeated as the first and third of the next. (seen in Black helicopters) | 34 | |
| 8634124322 | paradox | statement that contradicts itself | 35 | |
| 8634124323 | peripeteia | the shift towards downfall. Downhill slide that leads to destruction, this happens usually after one's anagnorisis. | 36 | |
| 8634124949 | personification | you know dis | 37 | |
| 8634124950 | pun | hahaha | 38 | |
| 8634125517 | tercet | 3 lined stanza poem that often has a rhyme | 39 | |
| 8634125518 | sibilance | repetition of soft consonants in words to create soft sounds. ie) the Snail was Slow and Slithered Sideways into a Cell. ie) the White Window Was Washed and Hushed the Hound | 40 | |
| 8634125526 | simile | comparing two things with like and as | 41 | |
| 8634126785 | slant/off rhyme | the stressed syllables of ending consonants match, however the preceding vowel sounds do not match. ie) eyes=light, years=yours | 42 | |
| 8634126786 | sonnet | seen in Shakespeare. A poem of 14 lines. Usually has a couplet thrown in for the English version after 3 quatrains | 43 | |
| 8634126787 | symbol | duh | 44 | |
| 8634126788 | syntax | sentence structure (patterns in a sentence) | 45 | |
| 8634127410 | theme | duh | 46 | |
| 8634128539 | tone | duh | 47 | |
| 8634128540 | tragedy | tragic event in a drama. Oedipus Rex | 48 | |
| 8634129114 | 3 unities | action, place, time. Oedipus Rex played in a single day. | 49 |
