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| 7391510014 | Allegory | A work in which the concrete elements stand for obstructions usually in an unambiguous one to one relationship. A work in which people, places, and events have universal significance or symbolize something universal. EX: A road -> life, journey A splendid city -> salvation | 0 | |
| 7391510015 | Allusion | A reference to a person, statement, place or event from literature history, religion, myth, politics, sports, science or the arts. Author assumes the reader will recognize. This means the reader must be well read. Examples: I would love you ten years before the flood -> biblical The living record of your memory -> mythological/classical | 1 | |
| 7391512649 | Antagonist | The character who initiates conflict, specifically with protagonist. Doesn't have to be a person,can be the protagonist. Example: general zaroff from "the most dangerous game". | 2 | |
| 7391512650 | Archetype | Universal symbol. Pattern or model of an action, a character type, or an image that reoccurs consistently enough in life and literature to be considered universal. Erample: Action: Lamenting the dead, character: Rebellious youth, image: paradise as a garden | 3 | |
| 7391515874 | Climax | AKA the crisis. The peak action of the conflict; the turning point of the story or play. | 4 | |
| 7391515875 | Comedy | literary genre and type of dramatic work that is amusing and satirical in its tone, mostly having cheerful ending. The motif is triumph over unpleasant circumstance, resulting in happy or successful conclusion. The purpose is to amuse the audience. | 5 | |
| 7391518225 | Confidant | A character in drama who has little effect on the action but whose function is to listen to the intimate feelings and intentions of the protagonist. | 6 | |
| 7391624835 | Conflict | The two opposing forces in a story. External: man vs man. Man vs nature. Man vs society. Internal: man vs himself. | 7 | |
| 7391531112 | Verbal Irony | when the actual intent of the speaker is opposite of what she/she says. It differs from sarcasm in that it is usually less harsh in its wording though its effect is more cutting. EX: Understatement and hyperbole | 8 | |
| 7391621277 | Cosmic Irony | AKA irony of fate. Present in stories that contain gods who have different agendas than humans. These gods may play with the lives of humans for their own amusement. The irony lies in contrast between what the humans expect and what actually happens. | 9 | |
| 7391621278 | Crisis | AKA the climax. The peak action of the conflict; the turning point of the story or play. | 10 | |
| 7391621279 | Denouement | AKA the falling action or resolution. The events or episodes following the climax that resolves the conflict, establishingva new norm, a few states of affairs. The way things are going to be from then on. | 11 | |
| 7391533335 | Unreliable Narrator | A narrator that is not trustworthy, whose rendition of events must be taken with a grain of salt. We tend to see such narrators especially in first-person narration. | 12 | |
| 7391567269 | Third Person | Where a detached person (someone who isn't directly involved in the action) tells you everything that goes down in a narrative. | 13 | |
| 7391619030 | Dialogue | A conversational passage or a spoken or written exchange of conversation in a group or between two persons directed towards a particular subject. | 14 | |
| 7391619031 | Diction | Authors word choice. | 15 | |
| 7391619032 | Direct Characterization | AKA explicit characterization, consists of the author telling the audience what a character is like. A narrator may give this information, or a character in the story may do it. | 16 | |
| 7391567270 | Tragedy | a drama that recounts an important and causally related series of events in the life of a person of significance. It tends to depict people in terms of their godlike potential, ideals, struggle, not only with the implacable universe, but also with their own frailties. | 17 | |
| 7391616860 | Dramatic Irony | words or acts of a character that carry meaning unperceived by the character but understood by the audience. Usually the character's own interests are involved in a way he/she cannot understand. The irony lies in the meaning intended by the speaker and the significance seen by others. | 18 | |
| 7391616861 | Dynamic Character | Undergoes changes throughout the narrative, due to conflicts he encounters on his journey. Faces trials and tribulations, and takes time to learn from his encounters, his experiences, and his mistakes, as well as from other characters. Diff to round: traits of a dynamic character are not described outright. | 19 | |
| 7391573650 | Style | The author's manner of expressing him/herself. It is the way he/she uses language, rhythm, sentence length, subtlety, humor, concreteness, complexity, difficult language, dialogue or descriptive detail. | 20 | |
| 7391614161 | Epiphany | moment in the story where a character achieves realization, awareness or a feeling of knowledge after which events are seen through the prism of this new light in the story. | 21 | |
| 7391614162 | Exposition | literary device used to introduce background information about events, settings, characters etc. to the audience or readers. EX: star wars "a long time ago in a land far away..." | 22 | |
| 7391576607 | Story of Initiation | Fiction in which the protagonist undergoes an experience that is life-changing, and usually that character is a young person who gains a measure of maturity from the experience. | 23 | |
| 7391576608 | Stream of Consciousness | Method of narration that describes in words the flow of thoughts in the minds of the characters (Interior monologue). | 24 | |
| 7391611408 | Fiction | Consists of stories, novels, and dramas based on made-up and fabricated stories and characters. Contains symbolic and thematic features (literary merits). Comments on something significant related to social, political, or human related issues. | 25 | |
| 7391579137 | Static Character | A character who undergoes little or no change; does not grow or develop. | 26 | |
| 7391611356 | First Person | one of the characters (usually main) is the narrator telling the story as It occurs or did occur using the pronoun "I". | 27 | |
| 7391611357 | Flashback | An interruption in the chronological sequence of a work I'm order to describe or present an event that occurred prior to the main frame. | 28 | |
| 7391579138 | Stock Character | A stereotypical person whom audiences recognize from frequent recurrences in a particular literary tradition. Archetypal characters distinguished by their flatness. Tend to be easy targets for parody and to be criticized as clichés. | 29 | |
| 7391595645 | Motif | A recurring image, word, phrase, action, idea, object or situation that appears in various works or throughout the same work. Can refer to a recurrent theme. Example: carp diem. AKA yolo. When applied to a single work, a motif refers to a repetition that tends to unify the work. | 30 | |
| 7391609124 | Flat Character | a character with no real dimension or individual characteristics or one developed around a single characteristic or quality. | 31 | |
| 7391588747 | Objective Point of View | The narrator is outside the story reporting factual details and only that which can be perceived by the senses. There is no access to the mind in any way, as the narrator can only relay occurrences outside the characters thoughts like dialogue and actions. pronouns: he she, they | 32 | |
| 7391588748 | Omniscient Point of View | the narrator relates the actions, speech, thoughts and feelings of many characters in the story. An "all knowing" narrator who is an observer, not a participant or personally involved in what happens | 33 | |
| 7391609125 | Foreshadowing | Hinting at future events in a story. | 34 | |
| 7391581335 | Short Story | a work of fiction that can be read in one sitting. | 35 | |
| 7391585842 | Plot | The series of episodes that relate the action of the story through purposeful arrangement. | 36 | |
| 7391585843 | Point of View | The way in which a story is told. | 37 | |
| 7391583871 | Protagonist | The character who is the object of the conflict, usually the main character. Example: Sanger Rainsford from " The Most Dangerous Game" | 38 | |
| 7391581336 | Situational Irony | Occurs when incongruity appears between expectations of something to happen, and what actually happens instead. The final outcome is opposite to what the audience is expecting. | 39 | |
| 7391606873 | Genre | The type of literature characterized by a specific form, content and style. literature has five; 1. poetry 2. drama 3. prose 4. fiction 5. non-fiction | 40 | |
| 7391581334 | Setting | Time, place, and mood of the story. Functions: 1. Foreshadowing actions and events. 2. Establishes character. 3. Functions as a symbol. 4. Establishes theme. 5. Reflects or reveals emotions of the characters. 6. Establishes the mood and/or atmosphere. | 41 | |
| 7391606874 | Imagery | Essentially the creation of a visual picture with words and phrases that appeal to the senses. | 42 | |
| 7391606875 | Indirect Characterization | AKA implicit characterization. Consists of the author showing the audience what kind of person a character is through the character's thoughts, words, and deeds. This requires the audience to make inferences about why a character would say or do those things. | 43 | |
| 7391583872 | Round Character | a character with enough individuality to surprise the reader. They are usually dynamic and change during a work as a direct result of the action or situations. | 44 | |
| 7391604911 | In Medias Res | Beginning a work in the middle of the action and then supplying information about the beginning through devices of exposition—often a prologue or some character filling in the information. | 45 | |
| 7391602322 | Irony | When the opposite of what is expected occurs; Demonstrating a contrast between reality and expectation. | 46 | |
| 7391602323 | Horatian | lighthearted, gentle satire that points out general human failings. | 47 | |
| 7391573651 | Symbol (Symbolism) | An object, person, or action that represents something in addition to its literal meaning, such as a quality, attitude, belief or value. Example: Colors -> yellow= happiness Nature -> roses= love Weather -> thunder/lightning= gloom/sadness | 48 | |
| 7391592614 | Narrator | a person who gives an account or tells the story of events, experiences, etc. | 49 | |
| 7391569786 | Syntax | Sentence structure; The arrangement of words in a sentence; The grammar of the sentence. | 50 | |
| 7391569787 | Theme | The underlying meaning or message in a work of literature. Seldom stated directly. It is an abstract concept indirectly expressed through recurrent images, actions, characters, and symbols. Inferred by reader. NOT SUBJECT. it is a comment on the subject. | 51 | |
| 7391599510 | Juvenilian | Satire with bitter and ironic criticism of contemporary persons and institutions that is filled with personal invective, angry moral indignation, and pessimism. | 52 | |
| 7391599511 | Limited Omniscient Point of View | Third person: limited or partial omniscient: the reader is limited to the views of one character in the story. The narrator can only relate the actions and speech of the other characters as an observer. | 53 | |
| 7391595644 | Minimalist | a style or technique that is characterized by extreme sparseness and simplicity. | 54 | |
| 7391544143 | Tone | Describes the author's attitude toward his material, the audience, or both. | 55 | |
| 7391595646 | Motivation | Reason behind a character's specific action or behavior. It is characterized by the character's own consent and willingness to do something. | 56 | |
| 8491435134 | Alliteration | The repetition of initial consonant sounds in two or more words of a line. Alliteration lightly links stressed syllables with common consonants | 57 | |
| 8491435135 | Apostrophe | An address to a person r personified object not present. Example: Spirit that made those heroes dare to die and leave their children free, bid Time and Nature gently spare the shaft the raise to them and thee -Emerson | 58 | |
| 8491435136 | Consonance | a pleasing sounding caused by the repetition of consonant sounds within sentences, phrases, or in poems. Typically this repetition occurs at the end of the words, but may also be found within a word or at the beginning. | 59 | |
| 8491435137 | Metaphor | A comparison of two unlike objects that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph | 60 | |
| 8491435138 | Metonymy | Occurs when the name of a thing is substituted for he name of something closely associated with it. Example: The pot is boiling -> actually the water is boiling | 61 | |
| 8491435139 | Onomatopoeia | The use of the words that imitate the sound they describe. Examples: pow, bang, meow, poof, slap, buzz, pop; The bird chirped in the distance. | 62 | |
| 8491435140 | Paradox | Uniting of seemingly contradictory words or ideas but when on closer examination proves to have unexpected meaning and truth. Example: "The longest way round is the shortest way home." poor little rich girl. | 63 | |
| 8491435141 | Personification | A form of comparison that gives human qualities to an animate or inanimate object. Example: Duty shouldn't whisper, but shout. In New York, boy, money really talks - I'm not kidding. -Catcher in the Rye | 64 | |
| 8491435142 | Simile | A direct comparison of two unlike objects using the words LIKE or AS. Example: "He was a skinny little weak-looking guy, with wrists about as big as pencils." -Catcher in the Rye. | 65 | |
| 8491435143 | Synecdoche | When a part is used to signify the whole or the whole for a part. Example: All hands on deck. - hands= sailors. Put your back into it - back= muscles. | 66 | |
| 8491435144 | Antithesis | A figure of speech in which opposing or contrasting ideas are balanced against each other in grammatically parallel syntax. Example: Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country. -JFK | 67 | |
| 8491435145 | Hyperbole | A deliberate exaggeration or overstatement for effect. Example: :I dropped about a thousand hints, but I couldn't get rid of him." | 68 | |
| 8491435146 | Pathos | appeal to emotion | 69 | |
| 8491435147 | Parable | a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson | 70 | |
| 8491435148 | Understatement | intentionally making a situation seem less important than it really is. | 71 | |
| 8491435149 | Foil | character who contrasts with another character —usually the protagonist— to highlight particular qualities of the other character. Ex: Fortinbras to Hamlet | 72 | |
| 8491435150 | Assonance | When two or more words, close to one another repeat the same vowel sound, but start with different consonant sounds. Ex: Men sell the wedding bells | 73 | |
| 8491435151 | Montage | filmmaking technique that uses a series of short images, collected together to tell a story or part of a story | 74 | |
| 8491435152 | Hubris | extreme pride and arrogance shown by a character that ultimately brings about his downfall. | 75 | |
| 8491435153 | Deus Ex Machina | circumstance where an implausible concept or a divine character is introduced into a storyline, for the purpose of resolving its conflict and procuring an interesting outcome. Unexpected, a solution, not wanted in a plot | 76 | |
| 8491435154 | Epistle | a composition in prose or poetry written in the form of a letter to a particular person or group | 77 |
