Terms from Euler's summer assignment
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| 7155696589 | Abstract | Complex, discusses intangible qualities like good and evil, and seldom uses examples to support its points. | 0 | |
| 7155696590 | Academic | Describing style, meaning dry and theoretical writing. When a piece of writing seems to be sucking all the life out of its subject with analysis. | 1 | |
| 7155696591 | Accent | In poetry, refers to the stressed portion of a word. | 2 | |
| 7155696592 | Aesthetic | Can be used as an adjective meaning "appealing to the senses". As a noun, it is a coherent sense of taste; as a plural noun, is the study of beauty. | 3 | |
| 7155696593 | Allegory | A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself. | 4 | |
| 7155696594 | Alliteration | The repetition of initial consonant sounds. | 5 | |
| 7155696595 | Allusion | A reference to another work or famous figure; can be topical (current event) or popular (pop culture). | 6 | |
| 7155696596 | Anachronism | Misplaced in time. | 7 | |
| 7155696597 | Analogy | A comparison involving two or more symbolic parts, and are employed to clarify an action or a relationship. | 8 | |
| 7155696598 | Anecdote | A short narrative. | 9 | |
| 7155696599 | Antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause that determines what a pronoun refers to. | 10 | |
| 7155696600 | Antagonist | Primary character in opposition to the protagonist or hero. | 11 | |
| 7155696601 | Anaphora | Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of word groups occurring one after the other. | 12 | |
| 7155696602 | Anthropomorphism | When inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena are given human characteristics, behavior, or motivation. | 13 | |
| 7155696603 | Anticlimax | Occurs when an action produces far smaller results than one had been led to expect. | 14 | |
| 7155696604 | Antihero | A protagonist who is markedly unheroic: morally weak, cowardly, dishonest, or any number of other unsavory qualities. | 15 | |
| 7155696605 | Aphorism | A short and usually witty saying. | 16 | |
| 7155696606 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech wherein the speaker talks directly to something that is nonhuman. | 17 | |
| 7155696607 | Archaism | The use of deliberately old-fashioned language. | 18 | |
| 7155696608 | Aside | A speech made by an actor to the audience, as though momentarily stepping outside of the action on stage. | 19 | |
| 7155696609 | Aspect | A trait or characteristic. | 20 | |
| 7155696610 | Assonance | The repeated use of vowel sounds, as in, "Old king Cole was a merry old soul." | 21 | |
| 7155696611 | Atmosphere | The emotional tone or background that surrounds a scene. | 22 | |
| 7155696612 | Ballad | A long, narrative poem, usually in very regular meter and rhyme. | 23 | |
| 7155696613 | Bathos | When the writing strains for grandeur it can't support and tries to jerk tears from every little hiccup. | 24 | |
| 7155696614 | Black humor | The use of disturbing themes in comedy. | 25 | |
| 7155696615 | Bombast | This is pretentious, exaggeratedly learned language. | 26 | |
| 7155696616 | Burlesque | A broad parody, one that takes a style or a form, such as tragic drama, and exaggerates it into ridiculousness. | 27 | |
| 7155696617 | Cacophony | Using deliberately harsh, awkward sounds. | 28 | |
| 7155696618 | Cadence | The beat or rhythm of poetry in a general sense. | 29 | |
| 7155696619 | Canto | The name for a section division in a long work of poetry. | 30 | |
| 7155696620 | Caricature | A portrait (verbal or otherwise) that exaggerates a facet of personality. | 31 | |
| 7155696621 | Catharasis | The cleansing of emotion an audience member experiences, having lived (vicariously) through the experiences presented on stage. | 32 | |
| 7155696622 | Chorus | In drama, the group of citizens who stand outside the main action on stage and comment on it. | 33 | |
| 7155696623 | Classic | Can mean typical, can also mean an accepted masterpiece. | 34 | |
| 7155696624 | Coinage (neologism) | A new word, usually one invented on the spot. | 35 | |
| 7155696625 | Colloquialism | A word or phrase used in everyday conversational English that isn't a part of accepted "schoolbook" English. | 36 | |
| 7155696626 | Complex, Dense | Suggesting that there is more than one possibility in the meaning of words; there are subtleties and variations; there are multiple layers of interpretation; the meaning is both explicit and implicit. | 37 | |
| 7155696627 | Conceit | Refers to a startling or unusual metaphor, or to a metaphor developed and expanded upon over several lines. | 38 | |
| 7155696628 | Controlling Image | When an image dominates and shapes the entire work. | 39 | |
| 7155696629 | Connotation | Everything else that the word suggests or implies. | 40 | |
| 7155696630 | Denotation | Literal meaning of a word. | 41 | |
| 7155696631 | Consonance | The religion of constant sounds within words rather than at the beginning. | 42 | |
| 7155696632 | Couplet | A pair of lines that end in rhyme. | 43 | |
| 7155696633 | Pathos | When the writing of a scene evokes feelings of dignified pity and sympathy. | 44 | |
| 7155696634 | Decorum | A characters speech must be styled according to their social station, and in accordance with the occasion. | 45 | |
| 7155696635 | Diction | The author's choice of words. | 46 | |
| 7155696636 | Syntax | The ordering and structuring of the words. | 47 | |
| 7155696637 | Dirge | A song for the dead. | 48 | |
| 7155696638 | Dissonance | The grating of incompatible sounds. | 49 | |
| 7155696639 | Doggerel | Crude, simplistic verse, often in sing-song rhyme. | 50 | |
| 7155696640 | Dramatic irony | When the audience knows something that the characters in the drama do not. | 51 | |
| 7155696641 | Dramatic Monologue | When a single speaker in literature says something to a silent audience. | 52 | |
| 7155696642 | Elegy | A type of poem that meditates on death or mortality in a serious, thoughtful manner. | 53 | |
| 7155696643 | Elements | The basic techniques of each genre of literature. | 54 | |
| 7155696644 | Enjambment | The continuation of a syntactic unit from one line or couplet of a poem to the next with no pause. | 55 | |
| 7155696645 | Epic | A very long narrative poem on a serious theme in a dignified style. | 56 | |
| 7155696646 | Epitaph | Lines that commemorate the dead at their burial place. | 57 | |
| 7155696647 | Euphemism | A word or phrase that takes the place of a harsh, unpleasant, or impolite reality. | 58 | |
| 7155696648 | Euphony | When sounds blend harmoniously. | 59 | |
| 7155696649 | Explicit | To say or write something directly and clearly. | 60 | |
| 7155696650 | Farce | Broad humor, a funny play, comedy. | 61 | |
| 7155696651 | Feminine rhyme | Lines rhymed by their final two syllables. | 62 | |
| 7155696652 | First person narrator | Narrator is a character in the story and tells the tale from their point of view. | 63 | |
| 7155696653 | Foil | A secondary character who is the opposite of the main character. | 64 | |
| 7155696654 | Foot | The basic rhyming unit of a line of poetry. | 65 | |
| 7155696655 | Foreshadowing | An event of statement that suggests a larger event that comes later. | 66 | |
| 7155696656 | Free verse | Poetry written without a regular rhyme scheme or metrical pattern. | 67 | |
| 7155696657 | Genre | A subcategory of literature. | 68 | |
| 7155696658 | Gothic | Dark form of literature. | 69 | |
| 7155696659 | Hubris | The excessive pride or ambition that leads to the main character's downfall. | 70 | |
| 7155696660 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration or deliberate overstatement | 71 | |
| 7155696661 | Implicit | To say or write something that suggests and implies but never says it directly or clearly. | 72 | |
| 7155696662 | In medias res | Latin for "in the midst of things". | 73 | |
| 7155696663 | Interior monologue | Writing that records the mental talking that goes on inside a character's head. | 74 | |
| 7155696664 | Inversion | Switching the customary order of elements in a sentence or phrase. | 75 | |
| 7155696665 | Irony | A statement that means the opposite of what it seems to mean. | 76 | |
| 7155696666 | Lament | A poem of sadness or grief over the death of a loved one or over some other intense loss. | 77 | |
| 7155696667 | Lampoon | A satire. | 78 | |
| 7155696668 | Loose sentence | Complete before its end. | 79 | |
| 7155696669 | Period sentence | Not grammatically complete until it has reached its final phrase. | 80 | |
| 7155696670 | Lyric | A type of poetry that explores the poet's personal interpretation of and feelings about the world. | 81 | |
| 7155696671 | Masculine rhyme | A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable. | 82 | |
| 7155696672 | Meaning | What makes sense, what's important. | 83 | |
| 7155696673 | Melodrama | A form of cheesy theater in which the hero is very good, the villain mean and rotten, and the heroine very pure. | 84 | |
| 7155696674 | Metaphor | A comparison, or analogy that states one thing is another. | 85 | |
| 7155696675 | Simile | A comparison using "like" or "as". | 86 | |
| 7155696676 | Metaphysical conceit | Unusual metaphor for metaphysical poems only. | 87 | |
| 7155696677 | Metonym | A word that is used to stand for something else that it has attributes of or is associated with. | 88 | |
| 7155696678 | Nemesis | The protagonist's archenemy or supreme and persistent difficulty. | 89 | |
| 7155696679 | Objectivity | Impersonal and outside view of events. | 90 | |
| 7155696680 | Subjectivity | Personal and interior view of events. | 91 | |
| 7155696681 | Omniscient narrator | All knowing narrator who sees into every character's thoughts. | 92 | |
| 7155696682 | Onomatopoeia | Words that sound like what they mean. | 93 | |
| 7155696683 | Opposition | A pair of elements that contrast sharply. | 94 | |
| 7155696684 | Oxymoron | A phrase composed of opposites; a contradiction. | 95 | |
| 7155696685 | Parable | A story that instructs. | 96 | |
| 7155696686 | Paradox | A situation or statement that seems to contradict itself but does not. | 97 | |
| 7155696687 | Paralellism | Repeated syntactical similarities used for effect. | 98 | |
| 7155696688 | Paraphrase | To restate phrases and sentences in your own words. | 99 | |
| 7155696921 | Parenthetical phrase | A phrase set off by commas that interrupts the flow of a sentence with some commentary or added detail. | 100 | |
| 7155696922 | Parody | The work that results when a specific work is exaggerated to ridiculousness. | 101 | |
| 7155696923 | Pastoral | A poem set in tranquil nature. | 102 | |
| 7155696924 | Persona | The narrator in a non-first-person novel. | 103 | |
| 7155696925 | Personification | Giving an inanimate object human qualities or form. | 104 | |
| 7155696926 | Plaint | A poem or speech expressing sorrow. | 105 | |
| 7155696927 | Mood | The overall feeling or prevailing atmosphere evident in a work of literature. | 106 | |
| 7155696928 | Point of view | The perspective from which a story is told. | 107 | |
| 7155696929 | Limited Omniscient Narrator | Third person narrator who reports only what one character sees and thinks. | 108 | |
| 7155696930 | Objective, or camera eye, narrator | Reports only what would be visible to a camera; no thoughts. | 109 | |
| 7155696931 | Stream of consciousness technique | The author places the reader inside the main character's ear and makes the reader aware of all the thoughts. | 110 | |
| 7155696932 | Prelude | An introductory poem to a longer work of verse. | 111 | |
| 7155696933 | Protagonist | The main character of a novel or play. | 112 | |
| 7155696934 | Pun | The usually humorous use of a word in such a way to suggest two or more meanings. | 113 | |
| 7155696935 | Refrain | A line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem. | 114 | |
| 7155696936 | Requiem | A song of prayer for the dead. | 115 | |
| 7155696937 | Rhapsody | An intensely passionate verse or section of verse, usually of love or praise. | 116 | |
| 7155696938 | Rhetorical question | A question that suggests an answer. | 117 | |
| 7155696939 | Satire | Exposes common character flaws to the cold light of humor, attempts to improve things by pointing out people's mistakes in hopes that they will change. | 118 | |
| 7155696940 | Soliloquy | A speech spoken by a character alone on stage. | 119 | |
| 7155696941 | Stanza | A group of lines roughly analogous in function in verse to the paragraph's function in prose. | 120 | |
| 7155696942 | Stock characters | Standard or cliched character types. | 121 | |
| 7155696943 | Subjunctive mood | Used to express doubt or a conditional attitude. | 122 | |
| 7155696944 | Suggest | To imply, infer, indicate. | 123 | |
| 7155696945 | Summary | A simple retelling of what you've just read. It's mechanical and superficial. | 124 | |
| 7155696946 | Suspension of disbelief | The demand made of a theater audience to accept the limitations of staging and supply the details with imagination. | 125 | |
| 7155696947 | Symbolism | A device in literature where an object represents an idea. | 126 | |
| 7155696948 | Technique | The methods and tools of the author. | 127 | |
| 7155696949 | Theme | The main idea of the overall work; the central idea. | 128 | |
| 7155696950 | Thesis | The main position of an argument. | 129 | |
| 7155696951 | Tragic flaw | The weakness of character in an otherwise good individual that leads to their downfall. | 130 | |
| 7155696952 | Travesty | A grotesque parody. | 131 | |
| 7155696953 | Truism | A way-too-obvious truth. | 132 | |
| 7155696954 | Unreliable narrator | When the narrator cannot be trusted, is usually young, crazy, a liar. | 133 | |
| 7155696955 | Utopia | An idealized place. | 134 | |
| 7155696956 | Zeugma | The use of a word to modify one or two more words but used for different meanings. | 135 | |
| 7155696957 | Tone | The implied attitude toward the subject. | 136 | |
| 7155696958 | Style | The manner in which and author writes or tells a story. Involves repeated patterns and includes various literary techniques. | 137 |
