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| 6562109217 | allegory | a work in which the characters and events are to be understood as representing other things and symbolically expressing a deeper, often spiritual, moral, or political meaning | 0 | |
| 6562126062 | alliteration | several words that begin with the same or similar consonants | 1 | |
| 6562130735 | allusion | an indirect or implicit reference to somebody or something or another literary work. gives work depth by association | 2 | |
| 6562141549 | anaphora | repetition for effect, the use of the same word or phrase at the beginning of several successive clauses, sentences, lines, or verses, usually for emphasis or rhetorical effect | 3 | |
| 6562149350 | anapest/ anapaest | metrical foot containing of two unstressed syllables and one stressed syllable | 4 | |
| 6562177722 | anthropomorphism | giving animals human qualities | 5 | |
| 6562202031 | apostrophe | a figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses an absent or dead person (or an absent personified object or place) as though the absent is capable of uderstanding | 6 | |
| 6562210524 | assonance | repetition of similar vowel sounds | 7 | |
| 6562226295 | asyndeton | conjunctions, articles, and even pronouns are omitted for the sake of speed and economy | 8 | |
| 6562233327 | blank verse | poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter | 9 | |
| 6562243677 | bildungsroman | a coming-of-age novel, a novel showing the educational or moral development or maturity of a hero | 10 | |
| 6562264799 | cacophonous | harsh sounding | 11 | |
| 6562267755 | caesura | a pause or break in the middle of a line of poetry | 12 | |
| 6562274030 | consonance | repetition of similar consonant sounds before and after different vowel sounds | 13 | |
| 6562276254 | connotation | implied additional meaning of a word | 14 | |
| 6562342808 | denotation | most specific or literal meaning of a word, as opposed to its figurative senses or connotations | 15 | |
| 6562350099 | dialect | regional variety of a language, with differences in vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation | 16 | |
| 6562354322 | dialogue | conversation between two or more characters | 17 | |
| 6562380369 | diction | writer's word choice which allows reader to make inferences about speaker or speaker's attitude | 18 | |
| 6562418061 | dramatic monologue | poem in which an imaginary speaker addresses an imaginary audience | 19 | |
| 6562429782 | elegy | poem of mourning for an individual or a lament, a serious meditative poem | 20 | |
| 6562439404 | enjambed/ enjambment | flow of sense, as in ordinary prose, between the end of one line of poetry and beginning of the next | 21 | |
| 6562465451 | euphonious | pleasant sounding, mellifluous | 22 | |
| 6562517636 | existentialism | pertaining to existence, philosophical movement that denies that the universe has any intrinsic meaning or purpose. people must take responsibility for their own actions and shape their own destinies | 23 | |
| 6562539017 | foot | group of syllables forming a metrical unit; a unit of rhythm. measured in terms of syllable variation | 24 | |
| 6562543875 | figurative language | language which uses figures of speech such as metaphor, personification, hyperbole, understatement, oxymoron, pun, sarcasm, or simile. representational language, not literal | 25 | |
| 6562557262 | foil | a character who provides a contrast to another character | 26 | |
| 6562574819 | frame story | a story within a story | 27 | |
| 6562576000 | free verse | poetry with no regular meter or line length. depends on natural speech rhythms, and any melodic quality comes from combination of stressed and unstressed syllables | 28 | |
| 6562595792 | gothic | has an element of horror or mystery | 29 | |
| 6562598550 | haiku | a japanese three line, 17 syllable poem (5-7-5). expresses single idea, image, or feeling | 30 | |
| 6562602557 | hero | principal male and female characters in a work of literature. carries no connotation of virtuousness or honor. | 31 | |
| 6562607291 | heroic couplet | two decasyllable lines of verse that rhyme | 32 | |
| 6562608653 | hyperbole | exaggeration for emphasis | 33 | |
| 6562610581 | imager | se of language to represent objects, actions, feelings, thoughts, ideas, states of mind, and any sensory experience | 34 | |
| 6562615264 | imply | to suggest | 35 | |
| 6562615265 | infer | to conclude through reasoning, to understand | 36 | |
| 6562616672 | irony | incongruity between what actually happens and what might actually be expected to happen, especially when the disparity seems absurd or laughable | 37 | |
| 6562623122 | language | these are words that are commonly used to describe language: abstract, abstruse, argumentative, artificial, cacophonous, concrete, connotative, cultured, denotative, detached, eloquent, emotional, esoteric, euphemistic, euphonious, figurative, homespun, idiomatic, jargon, literal, lofty, mellifluous, obscure, picturesque, plain, poetic, precise, pretentious, provincial, simple, slang, straight-forward, symbolic, trite, vague, and vulgar | 38 | |
| 6562650742 | litotes | a figure of speech that is a conscious understatement | 39 | |
| 6562655358 | metaphor | figure of speech in which one thing is described in terms of another | 40 | |
| 6562661111 | meter | pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in verse | 41 | |
| 6562663734 | monometer | one stressed beat per line (ex. adam) | 42 | |
| 6562669170 | dimeter | two stressed beats per line (ex. lift her with care) | 43 | |
| 6562676404 | metonymy | a figure of speech in which name of an attribute or a thing is substituted for the thing itself (referring to the king as the "crown") | 44 | |
| 6562689247 | mock heroic | heroic manner is adopted to make a trivial subject seem grand in such a way as to satirize the style, and it is therefore commonly used in parody | 45 | |
| 6562709743 | motif | one of the dominant ideas in a work of literature; a part of a theme. a situation, incident, idea, or verbal pattern that is repeated | 46 | |
| 6562722543 | ode | formal lyric poem, usually of some length, with a serious theme. often honor people, commemorate events, respond to natural scenes, or consider serious human problems | 47 | |
| 6562734541 | onomatopoeia | formation or use of words that imitate the sound associated with something | 48 | |
| 6562762973 | oxymoron | figure of speech in which two words of contradictory meaning are used together for special effect | 49 | |
| 6562772745 | parable | short simple story that has a moral | 50 | |
| 6562792884 | parody | humorous or mocking imitation of a literary work that exaggerates or distorts original text | 51 | |
| 6562801914 | parallelism | deliberate repetition of words or structure within a sentence | 52 | |
| 6562812001 | pastoral | literary work or painting that presents an idealized image of rural life and nature | 53 | |
| 6562820921 | personification | attribution of human qualities to inanimate objects | 54 | |
| 6562835370 | point of view | position or vantage point from which the story is told | 55 | |
| 6562839227 | polysyndeton | repetition of conjunctions | 56 | |
| 6562843097 | quatrain | stanza of four lines | 57 | |
| 6562845737 | satire | writing that ridicules or criticizes individuals, ideas, institutions, or social conventions sometimes with the purpose of effecting change | 58 | |
| 6562853403 | sestina | six verses with six lines and one three line verse. uses six words for line endings | 59 | |
| 6562856319 | simile | comparison between two different things using "like" or "as" | 60 | |
| 6562858505 | soliloquy | long speech in a play or in prose work made by a character who is alone and who reveals his or her private thoughts and feelings to the audience | 61 | |
| 6562873338 | sonnet | fourteen line poem | 62 | |
| 6562874315 | shakespearean sonnet | three quatrains and a concluding couplet that often makes a point in response to the rest of the poem. generally in iambic pentameter and has rhyming pattern of abab,cdcd,efef,gg | 63 | |
| 6562879296 | petrarchan/ italian sonnet | rhyming pattern (and meaning) consists of eight lines (octave) and six lines (sestet). generally has rhyming pattern of abba,cddc, followed by a sestet with the pattern cdecde or cdcdcd or any combination but NOT a rhyming couplet | 64 | |
| 6562889217 | spenserian sonnet | three quatrains and a concluding couplet with a pattern of abab,bcbc,cdcd,ee | 65 | |
| 6562893989 | speech acts/ speeches | how the speaker is speaking which helps reveal the tone. some examples are: apologizing, asking, arguing, begging, berating, boasting, bragging, cajoling, coaxing, condescending, contemplating, empathizing, excusing, flattering, hinting, insisting, inviting, lambasting, lecturing, ordering, patronizing, pleading, pondering, praying, projecting, questioning, ranting, rationalizing, recalling, reflecting, refuting, reliving, remarking, repeating, requesting, ridiculing, suggesting, sympathizing, taunting, teasing, telling off, threatening, urging, weasling, wheedling, witnessing, wondering, worrying | 66 | |
| 6562913398 | surreal | strange, unconscious mind is working on some level with the conscious mind | 67 | |
| 6562915395 | iambic | unstressed stressed ex. away | 68 | |
| 6562918322 | anapest | unstressed unstressed stressed ex. intervene | 69 | |
| 6562921499 | trochee | stressed unstressed ex. only | 70 | |
| 6562923458 | spondee | stressed stressed ex. airship | 71 | |
| 6562928401 | syllogism | deduction from two propositions ex. all men are mortal; greeks are men, so all greeks are mortal | 72 | |
| 6562932708 | synecdoche | figure of speech using a part of something to stand for the entire thing | 73 | |
| 6562937970 | syntax | sentence structure which can amplify/ echo the message/ meaning of the sentence | 74 | |
| 6562941696 | tone | the reflection of the writer or the speaker's attitude, manner, mood, and moral outlook; even perhaps the way his personality pervades the work | 75 | |
| 6562944359 | tragedy | tends to be a form of drama concerned with the fortunes and misfortunes, and, ultimately, the disasters that befall human beings of title, power, and position. what makes them tragic is that they have qualities of excellence ot nobleness, of passion; they have virtues and gifts that lift them above the ordinary run of mortal men and women. these attributes are seen to be insufficient to save them either from self-destruction or destruction brought upon them. and, there is no hope for them. there is hope, perhaps, AFTER the tragedy, but not DURING it | 76 | |
| 6562955720 | tragic flaw | defect in a tragic hero or heroine that leads to his or her downfall | 77 | |
| 6562957026 | transcendentalism | intuition and conscience transcend experience and thus are better guides to truth than are the senses and logical reason | 78 | |
| 6562961172 | villanelle | five three-line verses followed by a four line verse. first and third lines of poem are repeated alternately at the end of each terset, an both are used in the final quatrain | 79 |
