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| 9770880232 | adage (n) | an old saying that has come to be accepted as true; a proverb | 0 | |
| 9770880233 | alienation | feeling isolated and separated from everyone else | 1 | |
| 9770880234 | allegory (n) | a symbolic representation; a story, picture, or play employing representation | 2 | |
| 9770880235 | alliteration (n) | repetition of the same letter or consonant at the beginning of neighboring words | 3 | |
| 9770880236 | allusion (n) | figure of speech that refers to a well-known story, event, person, or object in order to make a comparison in the readers' minds | 4 | |
| 9770880237 | Ambiguity (Ambiguous) | The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence or passage. | 5 | |
| 9770880238 | anachronism (n) | something out of place in time | 6 | |
| 9770880239 | Agnorisis | the point in the plot especially of a tragedy at which the protagonist recognizes his or her or some other character's true identity or discovers the true nature of his or her own situation (light bulb) | 7 | |
| 9770880240 | analogy (n) | a comparison between things that are alike in some ways | 8 | |
| 9770880241 | anecdote | a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person | 9 | |
| 9770880242 | Antagonist | the character who works against the protagonist in the story | 10 | |
| 9770880243 | anthology | collection of literary works | 11 | |
| 9770880244 | anticlimax | a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events | 12 | |
| 9770880245 | Anti-hero | a central character in a story, movie, or drama who lacks conventional heroic attributes. | 13 | |
| 9770880246 | Antithesis | a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else | 14 | |
| 9770880247 | Aphorism (n) | a brief, often witty saying; a proverb | 15 | |
| 9770880248 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech wherein the speaker speaks directly to something nonhuman | 16 | |
| 9770880249 | Archaism | The use of deliberately old-fashioned language. | 17 | |
| 9770880250 | Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds | 18 | |
| 9770880251 | bathos (n) | anti climatic; disappointing | 19 | |
| 9770880252 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | 20 | |
| 9770880253 | bombast | pretentious, boastful talk | 21 | |
| 9770880254 | Brevity (n) | briefness or conciseness in speech or writing | 22 | |
| 9770880255 | burlesque | A work of literature meant to ridicule a subject; a grotesque imitation. | 23 | |
| 9770880256 | cacophony | harsh/hard words or sounds | 24 | |
| 9770880257 | caricature (n) | drawing, imitation, or description that ridiculously exaggerates peculiarities or defects | 25 | |
| 9770880258 | carpe diem | Literally, "seize the day"; "enjoy life while you can," a common theme in life and literature. | 26 | |
| 9770880259 | Catharsis | a play evoking pity and fear to the audience | 27 | |
| 9770880260 | Cinquain | 5 line stanza | 28 | |
| 9770880261 | cliché | a worn-out idea or overused expression | 29 | |
| 9770880262 | Climax | the most intense, exciting, or important point of something; a culmination or apex. | 30 | |
| 9770880263 | colloquial | characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation ("she's out" for "she is not home") | 31 | |
| 9770880264 | conceit | a fanciful, particularly clever extended metaphor | 32 | |
| 9770880265 | confidant(e) | one to whom you confide your secrets; a truthful individual | 33 | |
| 9770880266 | Connotation | the implied or associative meaning of a word | 34 | |
| 9770880267 | Couplet | 2 consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme | 35 | |
| 9770880268 | denouement | an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot | 36 | |
| 9770880269 | deus ex machina | an unexpected power or event saving a seemingly hopeless situation. God is Machine | 37 | |
| 9770880270 | diction (n) | word choice; terminology; enunciation | 38 | |
| 9770880271 | didactic | intended to instruct | 39 | |
| 9770880272 | digression | straying away from the main point | 40 | |
| 9770880273 | doppelgänger | a ghostly double or counterpart of a living person | 41 | |
| 9770880274 | double entendre | a statement that has two meanings, one of which is dirty or vulgar | 42 | |
| 9770880275 | dramatic irony | when the audience knows something the characters do not | 43 | |
| 9770880276 | Elizabethan | the era in which Shakespeare lived which was named after Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603) | 44 | |
| 9770880277 | elegy | a sad or mournful poem about someone's death. celebrates the life of someone in elegiac couplets | 45 | |
| 9770880278 | empathy (n) | the ability to understand and share the feelings of another | 46 | |
| 9770880279 | Enjambment | the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza. | 47 | |
| 9770880280 | epic | a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds | 48 | |
| 9770880281 | epigram (n) | a witty saying expressing a single thought or observation | 49 | |
| 9770880282 | epilogue | a short passage added at the end of a literary work | 50 | |
| 9770880283 | Epiphany | A moment of sudden revelation or insight | 51 | |
| 9770880284 | epithet | A descriptive name or phrase used to characterize someone or something. Dwayne the Rock Johnson | 52 | |
| 9770880285 | euphemism | An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant ex: he passed away | 53 | |
| 9770880286 | euphony (n) | pleasing sound of words | 54 | |
| 9770880287 | Exposition | the writer's way to give background information to the audience about the setting and the characters of the story | 55 | |
| 9770880288 | Fable | A brief story that leads to a moral, often using animals as characters | 56 | |
| 9770880289 | Farce (n) | exaggerated comedy; something ridiculous | 57 | |
| 9770880290 | feminine rhyme | a rhyme between stressed syllables followed by one or more unstressed syllables (stocking/shocking) | 58 | |
| 9770880291 | figurative language | writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally | 59 | |
| 9770880292 | figure of speech | language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense | 60 | |
| 9770880293 | Flashback | present action is temporarily interrupted so that past events can be described | 61 | |
| 9770880294 | foreshadow | A narrative device that hints at coming events; often builds suspense or anxiety in the reader. | 62 | |
| 9770880295 | fustian | pompous or pretentious talk or writing | 63 | |
| 9770880296 | genre (n) | kind; sort; category | 64 | |
| 9770880297 | heroic couplet | a couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentamenter and written in an elevated style | 65 | |
| 9770880298 | homily | a sermon | 66 | |
| 9770880299 | Hubris | Excessive pride or self-confidence | 67 | |
| 9770880300 | Hamartia | a fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine | 68 | |
| 9770880301 | Hyperbole (n) | extreme exaggeration | 69 | |
| 9770880302 | iamb | an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable | 70 | |
| 9770880303 | iambic pentameter | a poetic meter that is made up of 5 stressed syllables each followed by an unstressed syllable | 71 | |
| 9770880304 | Imagery | visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work. | 72 | |
| 9770880305 | interior monologue | a piece of writing expressing a character's inner thoughts | 73 | |
| 9770880306 | Irony | A contrast between expectation and reality | 74 | |
| 9770880307 | journalese | style of writing typical of newspapers and/or magazines | 75 | |
| 9770880308 | King's English | proper language | 76 | |
| 9770880309 | lampoon | makes fun of male character | 77 | |
| 9770880310 | literal | Exactly true, rather than figurative or metaphorical | 78 | |
| 9770880311 | litotes | a double negative to get a message across "she's not ugly" | 79 | |
| 9770880312 | malapropism | a word humorously misused "standing ovation vs. standing ovulation" | 80 | |
| 9770880313 | masculine rhyme | final syllable of first word rhymes with final syllable of second word (scald recalled) | 81 | |
| 9770880314 | maxim | a general truth about life | 82 | |
| 9770880315 | melodrama | A literary form in which events are exaggerated in order to create an extreme emotional response. | 83 | |
| 9770880316 | Metaphor | A comparison without using like or as | 84 | |
| 9770880317 | Metonymy | Using a single feature to represent the whole (the big apple) | 85 | |
| 9770880318 | mimesis [n] | imitation, in particular | 86 | |
| 9770880319 | mise en scene | arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted | 87 | |
| 9770880320 | Monologue | A long speech made by one performer or by one person in a group. | 88 | |
| 9770880321 | nihilism | belief in nothing | 89 | |
| 9770880322 | Octave | 8 line stanza | 90 | |
| 9770880323 | omniscient | all-knowing | 91 | |
| 9770880324 | Onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. | 92 | |
| 9770880325 | Oxymoron | conjoining contradictory terms (as in 'deafening silence' 'sweet sorrow') | 93 | |
| 9770880326 | palindrome | a word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward (AVA) | 94 | |
| 9770880327 | parable (n) | a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson, as told by Jesus in the Gospels. | 95 | |
| 9770880328 | paradox | a sentence that contradicts itself (the more you know the less you understand) | 96 | |
| 9770880329 | Parallelism | Phrases or sentences of a similar construction/meaning placed side by side, balancing each other | 97 | |
| 9770880330 | parody (n) | humorous imitation | 98 | |
| 9770880331 | pathos (n) | quality in events or in art (literature, music, etc.) that arouses our pity or emotion | 99 | |
| 9856113022 | pathetic fallacy | a more extreme version of personification | 100 | |
| 9856113023 | pedantry | overly concerned with minorly details; OCD | 101 | |
| 9856113024 | Peripeteia | A reversal in drama terms | 102 | |
| 9856113025 | periodic sentence | A sentence that presents its central meaning at the end. | 103 | |
| 9856113026 | persona | the speaker, voice, or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing | 104 | |
| 9856113027 | Personification | the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea | 105 | |
| 9856113028 | platitude | "ants in your pants" not taken literary | 106 | |
| 9856113029 | pleonasm | using more words than necessary; "i went into the black darkness" | 107 | |
| 9856113030 | poetic justice | When characters "get what they deserve" in the end of a story. good beats evil | 108 | |
| 9856113031 | poetic license | the freedom a poet has to rhyme or not, make up words, etc. | 109 | |
| 9856113032 | Prologue | Introduction | 110 | |
| 9856113033 | prose | Any writing that is not poetry | 111 | |
| 9856113034 | prose rhythms | free verse | 112 | |
| 9856113035 | Protagonist | The main character; the "hero" of the story | 113 | |
| 9856113036 | provincial | not proper; country bumpkin | 114 | |
| 9856113037 | pseudonym | a false name Rodger Prynne to Rodger Chillingworth | 115 | |
| 9856113038 | pun | a play on words | 116 | |
| 9856113039 | Quatrain | 4 line stanza | 117 | |
| 9856113040 | redundancy | unnecessary repetition | 118 | |
| 9856113041 | rhetorical question | A question asked merely for effect with no answer expected. | 119 | |
| 9856113042 | sarcasm | harsh, cutting language or tone intended to ridicule | 120 | |
| 9856113043 | satire | witty language used to convey insults or scorn | 121 | |
| 9856113044 | sestet | 6 line stanza | 122 | |
| 9856113045 | Similie | A comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as" | 123 | |
| 9856113046 | slang | an informal, often short-lived kind of language used in place of standard words | 124 | |
| 9856113047 | slapstick | a boisterous comedy with chases and collisions and practical jokes | 125 | |
| 9856113048 | Soliloquy | a (usually long) dramatic speech intended to give the illusion of unspoken reflections | 126 | |
| 9856113049 | sonnet | a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme | 127 | |
| 9856113050 | spondee | a metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables / / | 128 | |
| 9856113051 | stereotype | a generalized (sometimes accurate but often overgeneralized) belief about a group of people | 129 | |
| 9856113052 | static character | A character who does not change during the story. | 130 | |
| 9856113053 | stock character | stereotypical character such as town drunk, nerd, etc | 131 | |
| 9856113054 | Stock Situation | A frequently recurring pattern or incident in drama or fiction. | 132 | |
| 9856113055 | subjective | based on personal experience or feeling, not on external evidence | 133 | |
| 9856113056 | Symbol | anything that stands for or represents something else | 134 | |
| 9856113057 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is substituted for the whole. | 135 | |
| 9856113058 | synopsis | summary | 136 | |
| 9856113059 | Synaesthesia | describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("loud color" or "sweet sound") | 137 | |
| 9856113060 | Syntax | The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. | 138 | |
| 9856113061 | tall tale | a humorously exaggerated story about impossible events | 139 | |
| 9856113062 | tirade (n) | a long, angry speech, usually very critical | 140 | |
| 9856113063 | tone | the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc. | 141 | |
| 9856113064 | tragedy | (n.) - a disastrous event, or a work of art in which the hero meets a terrible fate | 142 | |
| 9856113065 | tragic flaw | A weakness or limitation of character, resulting in the fall of the tragic hero. | 143 | |
| 9856113066 | trochee | a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable | 144 | |
| 9856113067 | Universiality | Applies to all | 145 | |
| 9856113068 | verisimilitude | the amount of truth in a work | 146 | |
| 9856113071 | Victorian | 147 |
