6201791559 | allegory | a form of extended metaphor in which objects and persons in a narrative are equated with meanings that lie outside the narrative itself | 0 | |
6201791560 | alliteration | a recurrence of initial consonant sounds | 1 | |
6201792990 | allusion | a casual and brief reference to a famous historical or literary figure or event | 2 | |
6201792991 | ambiguity | the quality of having more than one meaning | 3 | |
6201794381 | anaphora | the repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses or sentences | 4 | |
6201794382 | antithesis | establishing a clear, contrasting relationship between two ideas by joining them together or juxtaposing them, often in parallel structure | 5 | |
6201796039 | apostrophe | the direct address of a person or personified thing, usually absent | 6 | |
6201796040 | assonance | the use of similar vowel sounds repeated in successive or proximate words | 7 | |
6201796041 | canon | in relation to literature, this term is applied to those works generally accepted as the great ones | 8 | |
6201796042 | conceit | an elaborate, usually intellectually ingenious poetic comparison or image | 9 | |
6201797357 | diction | the author's choice of words | 10 | |
6201797358 | enjambment | the continuation of a sentence or clause over a line break | 11 | |
6201797359 | euphemism | the substitution of a mild or less negative word or phrase for a harsh or blunt one | 12 | |
6201798526 | flashback | a device that allows the writer to present events that happened before the time of the current narration or the current events in the fiction | 13 | |
6201798527 | frame | a narrative structure that provides a setting and exposition for the main narrative in a novel | 14 | |
6201798528 | hyperbole | exaggeration used for emphasis | 15 | |
6201798529 | imagery | the name given to the elements in a poem that spark off the senses | 16 | |
6201800015 | invective | speech or writing that abuses, denounces, or vituperates against | 17 | |
6201800016 | irony | conveying a reality different from and usually opposite to appearance or expectation | 18 | |
6201800017 | metaphor | a comparison which imaginatively identifies one thing with another dissimilar thing | 19 | |
6201801150 | metonymy | a closely associated object is substituted for the object or idea in mind | 20 | |
6201801151 | novella | a prose fiction longer than a short story but shorter than a novel | 21 | |
6201801152 | oxymoron | a paradox reduced to two words | 22 | |
6201801153 | parody | a satiric imitation of a work or of an author with the idea of ridiculing the author, his ideas, or work | 23 | |
6201802233 | persona | the person created by the author to tell the story | 24 | |
6201802234 | personification | the metaphorical representation of an animal or inanimate object as having human attributes | 25 | |
6201802235 | rhetoric | the principles governing the art of writing effectively, eloquently, and persuasively | 26 | |
6201803681 | satire | a manner of writing that mixes a critical attitude with wit and humor in an effort to improve mankind and human institutions | 27 | |
6201803682 | stanza | a group of lines within a poem, demarcated by a blank line | 28 | |
6201803683 | symbol | a closely associated object is substituted for the object or idea in mind | 29 | |
6201803684 | synecdoche | a form of metaphor in which the part stands for the whole | 30 | |
6201805537 | syntax | the organization of words in a sentence | 31 | |
6201805538 | thesis | the main idea or statement that a writer wishes to advance, illustrate, prove, or defend | 32 | |
6201805539 | tone | the writer's attitude toward his readers and his subject | 33 | |
6201805540 | understatement | expressing an idea with less emphasis or in a lesser degree than is the actual case | 34 | |
6201807528 | versimilitude | the semblance to truth or actuality in characters or events that a novel or other fictional work possesses | 35 | |
6201807529 | dramatic irony | when the audience or reader is aware of key elements that characters in the story are not aware of | 36 | |
6201807530 | dichotomy | a character feels two equally important but opposing feelings toward an event, action, or person | 37 | |
6201809092 | Old English era | 450-1066, alliterative verses, oral tradition, Beowulf | 38 | |
6201809093 | Middle English era | 1066-1500, didactic, chivalry, religious, Chaucer | 39 | |
6201810079 | Renaissance | 1500-1660, new discoveries, science, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Marlow | 40 | |
6201810080 | Romanticism | 1798-1837, nature, imagination, individualism, Austen, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Hawthorne, Whitman | 41 | |
6201811920 | Edwardian era | 1901-1915, imperialism, colonialism, class distinctions, Conrad, Barrie, Wells | 42 | |
6201811921 | Victorian era | 1837 - 1901, difficult lives, moral lesson, Hardy, George Elliot, Dickens, Carroll | 43 | |
6201811922 | Modern era | 1914 - 1945, war, alienation, T.S. Eliot, Wolf, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Steinbeck | 44 | |
6201813592 | Post-modern era | 1945-2000, irony, satire, paradox, Miller, Vonnegut | 45 | |
6201813594 | John Milton | Paradise Lost | 46 | |
6201816402 | Robert Browning | My Last Duchess | 47 | |
6201816403 | Joseph Conrad | Heart of Darkness | 48 | |
6201816404 | Mary Shelley | Frankenstein | 49 | |
6201818517 | Oscar Wilde | Importance of Being Earnest | 50 | |
6201821833 | John Steinbeck | Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men | 51 | |
6201821834 | William Faulkner | A Rose for Emily, Barn Burning | 52 | |
6201884900 | 18th Century | 1700-1799, political, reason, Swift, Voltaire | 53 | |
6201916491 | Shakespeare | The Tempest, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet | 54 | |
6201919642 | Marlow, narrator | Heart of Darkness | 55 | |
6201921870 | Kurtz | Heart of Darkness | 56 | |
6201923341 | Congo | Heart of Darkness | 57 | |
6201925131 | Accountant, Station Manager | Heart of Darkness | 58 | |
6201927485 | Savagery of colonialism | Heart of Darkness | 59 | |
6201927486 | Victor | Frankenstein | 60 | |
6201929399 | Creation | Frankenstein | 61 | |
6201931731 | Arctic and Europe | Frankenstein | 62 | |
6201931732 | Elizabeth | Frankenstein | 63 | |
6201935351 | Need to accept responsibility | Frankenstein | 64 | |
6201935352 | Prospero | Tempest | 65 | |
6201937566 | Miranda | Tempest | 66 | |
6201937567 | Caliban | Tempest | 67 | |
6201939233 | Value of mercy | Tempest | 68 | |
6201944647 | Explain God's actions to man | Paradise Lost | 69 | |
6201947141 | Comedy of multiple identities | Importance of Being Earnest | 70 | |
6201961986 | Arrogant, controlling duke | My Last Duchess | 71 | |
6201964466 | Crucible | Arthur Miller | 72 | |
6201964467 | In Cold Blood | Truman Capote | 73 | |
6201967015 | Julius Caesar | William Shakespeare | 74 | |
6201967016 | Scarlett Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne | 75 | |
6201989879 | John Donne | Holy Sonnet 10, Valedictory Forbidding Mourning, No Man is an Island | 76 | |
6201998440 | Valedictory Forbidding Mourning | conceit | 77 | |
6201998441 | My Last Duchess | dramatic monologue | 78 | |
6202002070 | dramatic monologue | a poem where a speaker speaks to an unseen but clearly present audience at a critical moment in his or her life | 79 | |
6202017774 | epistolary | told in letter form | 80 | |
6202019451 | frame novels | Frankenstein, Heart of Darkness | 81 | |
6202021071 | bildingsroman novel | coming of age story | 82 | |
6202051695 | homily | a speech that focuses on religious or spiritual enlightenment | 83 | |
6202057039 | connotation | the mood associated with a word | 84 |
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