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| 7602710763 | Five Branches of Philosophy | MEEPA Metaphysics: existence Epistemology: how we know about universe Ethics: how do we act in this world Politics: ethics applied to group of people Aesthetics: beauty | 0 | |
| 7602764581 | Great Chain of Being | Every existing thing has its place in a divinely planned hierarchical order. | 1 | |
| 7602788849 | Doctrine of Correspondences | humans are microcosms that reflect the structure of the macrocosm | 2 | |
| 7602816294 | Four Major Themes | Human Nature Nature of Society Human Freedom Ethics | 3 | |
| 7602835814 | Six types of Irony | VCRDSS Verbal - what is said is not what is meant Cosmic - falsely believe in freewill Romantic - audience is misled Dramatic - audience has more info Situational what happens is not what was expected Structural - structure does not match purpose | 4 | |
| 7602973040 | Metonym | replace by association | 5 | |
| 7602976237 | Synecdoche | when a part is made to represent the whole, or a whole to represent the part | 6 | |
| 7603036868 | Hero Cycle | Departure Initiation Return | 7 | |
| 7603072263 | Three Types of Poetry and Subtypes | NARRATIVE: -Ballad // song-like -Epic // hero of poem embodies the values of the poet's culture DRAMATIC: -monologue -dialogue LYRIC: -Elegy // laments a loss -Ode // dignifies noble subject -Sonnet -->Shakespearean//3 quatrains, couplet -->Italian//octave, sestet | 8 | |
| 7603114087 | Stanza | group of lines that work together to present an idea | 9 | |
| 7603119455 | Enjambment | when the physical end of a line of poetry does not match the grammatical end of the line | 10 | |
| 7603127154 | End Stopped Line | Physical end of a line of poetry matches the grammatical end of a line of poetry | 11 | |
| 7603136115 | Concrete Poetry | When the shape of the poem enhances the meaning of the poem | 12 | |
| 7603141196 | Poetic Shift | When a poem moves from tone to tone | 13 | |
| 7603149508 | Unstressed Syllable | makes voice go down | 14 | |
| 7603154189 | Stressed Syllable | makes voice go up | 15 | |
| 7603156960 | Scansion | when you read through a poem to analyze its rhythm | 16 | |
| 7603244730 | Four types of Setting | Sensuous World Time and Chronology Social Environment Emotional Environment | 17 | |
| 7603303046 | Four Character Types | Round, Flat, Static, Dynamic | 18 | |
| 7603326051 | Archetype | Symbol that transcends time and culture | 19 | |
| 7603393374 | Sign | object, picture, or word that signifies something else but with no deeper meaning | 20 | |
| 7603399492 | Symbol | object, place, character or event that signifies something other than itself | 21 | |
| 7603421814 | Plot Structure | Exposition, Conflict, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Denouement | 22 | |
| 7603492285 | Four Points of View | !st person 2nd person 3rd person omniscient 3rd person subjective | 23 | |
| 7603630510 | Unobtrusive Narrator | no commentary or bias from the narrator | 24 | |
| 7603634731 | Unreliable Narrator | seems trustworthy at first, but has audience questioning the validity of the story | 25 | |
| 7946746741 | Zeitgeist | the general philosophic, religious, cultural, and artistic climate of an era. | 26 | |
| 7946753065 | Dialectical Clash | Two opposing views that clash Theis: main idea Antithesis: new main idea Synthesis: combination of the ideas | 27 | |
| 7946782787 | Renaissance | Rebirth; renewal of interest in and study of classical antiquity *Great Chain of Being *Humanism *Imitation *Reformation *Doctrine of Correspondences | 28 | |
| 7946820340 | Humanism | regarded humans as social creatures who could create meaningful lives only in association with other social beings | 29 | |
| 7946831577 | Imitation (Renaissance) | it was the task of the writer to translate for present readers the moral vision of the past by "imitating" great works | 30 | |
| 7946841247 | Reformation (on literature) | Protestants stretched the need for all believers to read the bible. The Bible became a renewed source of literary inspiration | 31 | |
| 7946856753 | The Wheel of Fortune | The wheel belongs to the Goddess Fortuna, who spins the wheel at random, changing the positions of those on the wheel | 32 | |
| 7946911304 | Enlightenment | "the mirror" reasoning, interacting with the world but limiting imagination, scientific, did not want religion to interfere with the way they view the world | 33 | |
| 7946926537 | Romanticism | "the lantern" interacting with the world around you through imagination, creativity, religion as a source of inspiration | 34 | |
| 7946960508 | Conceit | a controlling piece of figurative language | 35 | |
| 7946979106 | Anadiplosis | take the word from the end of sentence and repeat it at the beginning of the next sentence | 36 | |
| 7946984928 | Antithesis | Redefining a word or a concept showing two things in contrast | 37 | |
| 7946989274 | Anaphora | The repetition of beginning phrases | 38 | |
| 7947010078 | Polysyndeton | placing a conjunction between every element in a series | 39 | |
| 7947016786 | Asyndeton | no conjunction between any elements in a series | 40 | |
| 7947021436 | Chiasmus | form of parallelism "X" "you have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man | 41 | |
| 7947032680 | Apothegmatic | a very short sentence surrounded by longer sentences, dramatic ending | 42 | |
| 7947043903 | Periodic Sentence | Sentence that is not grammatically correct until the very end of the sentence | 43 | |
| 7947047924 | Loose Sentence | sentence that is grammatically correct until the end of the sentence | 44 | |
| 7947055442 | Juxtaposition | putting two things side by side to compare and contrast | 45 | |
| 7947059129 | Litotes | Negation of a positive "that was no easy journey" "it wasn't a bad day" | 46 | |
| 7947079197 | Zeugma | when the verb in a sentence applies to more than one noun "John lost his coat and his temper." | 47 | |
| 7947112331 | Kenning | two-word phrase that describes an object through metaphors "whale road" (represents the sea) | 48 | |
| 7947195135 | Apostrophe | when the speaker directly addresses someone or something that is not present | 49 | |
| 7947201534 | Aside | a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by the other actors on the stage *used to give the audience special information | 50 | |
| 7947211079 | Allusion | writer or speaker refers either directly or indirectly to a person, event, or thing in history or to a work of art or literature. | 51 | |
| 7947218157 | Paradox | a statement that contradicts itself and still seems true somehow | 52 | |
| 7947239489 | Literal Imagery | When the descriptions are supposed to be taken as reality | 53 | |
| 7947242182 | Figurative Imagery | when a description is also supposed to be taken metaphorically and symbolically | 54 | |
| 7947253183 | Soliloquy | when a character, alone on stage, delivers a speech | 55 | |
| 7947283846 | Metaphysical Conceit | a conceit which draws a shocking or unconventional comparison | 56 | |
| 7947288945 | Carpe Diem | seize the day | 57 | |
| 7947297745 | Canto | a major division of poetry, usually containing multiple stanzas and normally designated by roman numerals | 58 | |
| 7947323987 | Assonance | repetition of vowel sounds between dissimilar consonant sounds "two turtles burning" | 59 | |
| 7947337076 | Consonance | repetition of consonant sounds by dissimilar vowel sounds "Rattle the kettle" | 60 | |
| 7947358701 | Deus Ex Machina | Machine of the Gods when an author brings in a device to solve a problem but it doesn't organically come from the plot | 61 | |
| 8476304621 | The Human Condition | the state of being human | 62 | |
| 8476318071 | Teleological | a philosophical belief that there is a purpose to time and the universe. Hegel | 63 | |
| 8476344876 | Puritanism | "city upon a hill" *government based upon religion *Predestination | 64 | |
| 8476356297 | Predestination | what people are going to do in their lives has already been determined | 65 | |
| 8476364148 | Deism | God created the universe humans are free agents who control their own destinies no holy trinity God as a "giant clock-maker" | 66 | |
| 8476387974 | 4 Categories of Existentialism | Choice and Commitment Subjectivity Moral Individualism Dread and Anxiety | 67 | |
| 8476425185 | Existence Precedes Essence | The idea that a human can develop their essence through their actions. They create their own values and give meaning to life in a meaningless world. | 68 | |
| 8476440600 | Fundamentalists | belief literally in religious text | 69 | |
| 8476445186 | Liberal Believers | Religious text contains metaphors and stories but do not represent realistic truth. Still believe in religion | 70 | |
| 8476459666 | Scholars/ Non-Believers | Do not believe in religion | 71 | |
| 8476474908 | Political Nihilism | belief that you should do away with all forms of government | 72 | |
| 8476482289 | Philosophical Nihilism | there is no God, atheistic, there is nothing, we are all just animals | 73 | |
| 8476499161 | Nietzsche 3 periods that civilization has gone through | Pre-moral stage: master morality, most powerful takes control Moral Stage: slave morality, everyone is equal under bigger idea Supra-moral Stage: rise of the ubermensch | 74 | |
| 8476533851 | Ubermensch | a man who shapes the world based upon their own moralities in a meaningless world | 75 | |
| 8476545752 | Trope | twisting of language and syntax to give words a different meaning | 76 | |
| 8476549807 | Metaphor | comparing two things without using "like" or "as" | 77 | |
| 8476558864 | Simile | comparing two things using "like" or "as" | 78 | |
| 8476566760 | Hyperbole | extreme exaggeration | 79 | |
| 8476585149 | Understatement | the force of a descriptive statement is less than one would expect | 80 | |
| 8476590867 | Personification | giving life-like descriptions to something non-living | 81 | |
| 8476599853 | Synesthesia | confusion of the senses "stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway." | 82 | |
| 8476611487 | Connotation | a word's cultural and emotional attachments | 83 | |
| 8476614801 | Denotation | dictionary definition of a word | 84 | |
| 8476621064 | Poetic Diction | when someone's level of writing reaches a level of poetry | 85 | |
| 8476628194 | Onomatopoeia | when a word sounds like what it is ex: crunch, zip, buzz | 86 | |
| 8476639958 | Cliche | overused expression that has lost its power | 87 | |
| 8476645837 | Euphemism | softening of language used to cover up reality or shed light on a new reality | 88 | |
| 8476654910 | Pun | a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings | 89 | |
| 8476676622 | Anachronism | something that does not fit the time and place | 90 | |
| 8476733918 | Motif | repeated element in a work of art | 91 | |
| 8476740094 | Oxymoron | two dissimilar words next to each other | 92 | |
| 8476760361 | Feet/foot | a pattern of unstressed and stressed syllables | 93 | |
| 8476769212 | Meter | the number of feet in a line of poetry | 94 | |
| 8476772742 | Blank Verse | Un-rhymed iambic pentameter | 95 | |
| 8476782913 | Iambic Pentameter | a line of poetry that has 5 feet and its feet are iambs | 96 | |
| 8476793495 | Caesura | a break or pause in the middle of the line of poetry | 97 | |
| 8476918219 | Internal Rhyme | when a word rhymes in the middle of line of poetry | 98 | |
| 8476949738 | Epistolary | when a work is told through letters | 99 | |
| 8476970858 | Utopic | perfect society | 100 | |
| 8476974583 | Dystopic | exact opposite of utopic | 101 | |
| 8476988732 | Frame Story | a novel in which you have one story within another story (Frankenstein) | 102 | |
| 8476999939 | Point of View | 1st person - character tells 2nd person - places reader into the narrative 3rd person - omniscient: all-knowing limited | 103 | |
| 8477020058 | Atmosphere | created by the sensuous world, the emotional reaction the reader and characters have to the setting | 104 | |
| 8477039334 | Round Character | complex character | 105 | |
| 8477039451 | Flat Character | a stereotypical character | 106 | |
| 8477046722 | Static Character | character who does not change | 107 | |
| 8477048454 | Dynamic Character | character who does change throughout the story | 108 | |
| 8477056266 | FOIL character | character who has similar attributes to the main character, but one primary difference that highlights a characteristic of the main character | 109 | |
| 8489811080 | Dualism | the belief that humans have two natures: 1. Physical body 2. Spiritual soul | 110 | |
| 8489909178 | Collective Unconscious | the idea that humans have common experiences registered as common images we call archetypes | 111 | |
| 8489937654 | Tone | the author's attitude toward the subject in which he/she is writing about | 112 | |
| 8489963039 | Alliteration | repetition of the beginning sounds of words | 113 | |
| 8489973022 | In Medias Re | a story that begins in the middle of the plot and goes backwards to show how it got to this point | 114 | |
| 8489984174 | Allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one | 115 | |
| 8489989611 | Pastoral | Religious story | 116 | |
| 8490016396 | Anagnorisis | character makes a critical discovery | 117 | |
| 8490018655 | Hamartia | a fatal error that the protagonist makes | 118 | |
| 8490023135 | Hubris | excessive pride of the protagonist that ultimately brings about their downfall | 119 | |
| 8490026029 | Nemesis | punishment for acts of hubris | 120 | |
| 8490030166 | Peripeteia | shift of the protagonist's fortune from good to bad | 121 | |
| 8490033562 | Character Arc | way to describe the changes of characters in a novel | 122 | |
| 9081512289 | Modernism | A time of great change Movement into big cities but increased sense of isolation Break with tradition Decay and alienation | 123 | |
| 9081553915 | Free Verse | poetry that has no meter or rhyme scheme | 124 | |
| 9081571513 | Refrain | a phrase or line that is repeated frequently throughout a poem | 125 |
