5373374824 | allegory | a narrative or description having a second meaning beneath the surface one | 0 | |
5373386642 | alliteration | repetition at close intervals of the initial consonant sound of words | 1 | |
5373391197 | allusion | reference to history, pop culture, or other work of literature outside the work | 2 | |
5373400560 | Apostrophe | When someone absent, dead, or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply | 3 | |
5373407072 | Anagnorisis | Epiphany--startling discovery, usually in reference to a play | 4 | |
5373413827 | Analogy | A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them | 5 | |
5373417792 | Aside | Character speaks to audience only though others are on the stage--thoughts | 6 | |
5373429088 | Assonance | The repetition at close intervals of the vowel sounds of accented syllables | 7 | |
5373433575 | Ballad | Simple, narrative verse which tells a story | 8 | |
5373442411 | Ballad meter | Verse written in "lambs" with the meter of 8 and 6 (tetrameter & trimeter) | 9 | |
5373459168 | Blank verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter | 10 | |
5373469339 | Cacophony | A harsh, discordant, unpleasant-sounding choice and arrangement of sounds | 11 | |
5373473736 | Caesura | A natural pause in the rhythm of line, whether marked by punctuation or not | 12 | |
5373483874 | Conceit | An extended metaphor | 13 | |
5373485348 | Connotation | Overtones/associations of meaning of words--what a word implies | 14 | |
5373490692 | Consonance | The repetition at close intervals of the final consonant sounds of accented syllables | 15 | |
5373497538 | Couplet | Two successive lines linked by rhyme | 16 | |
5373501414 | Denotation | Dictionary meaning of words | 17 | |
5373506581 | Diction | word choice | 18 | |
5373508513 | Elegy | a poem of lament for deceased individual | 19 | |
5373510523 | End rhyme | Rhymes that occur at the end of lines | 20 | |
5373514418 | End-stopped line | A line that ends with a natural speech pause, usually marked by punctuation | 21 | |
5373522543 | Enjambment | Run on line, continuing onto the next without grammatical | 22 | |
5373525509 | Ethos | Ethical appeal; the source's credibility, the speaker's authority | 23 | |
5373533120 | Euphony | a smooth, harmonious, pleasant-sounding choice and arrangement of sounds | 24 | |
5373542417 | Figurative Language | Metaphoric language (Simile, metaphor, personification, onomatopoeia, etc.) | 25 | |
5373547376 | Foot | The basic unit of meter, measuring accented(stressed) and unaccented (unstressed) sounds in poetry. Poetic feet are measured in terms of grouped syllables, either iamb (iambic) one stressed syllable followed by one unstressed ; trochee (trochaic) stressed followed by unstressed; anapest (anapestic) two unstressed followed by one stressed; dactyl (dactylic) stressed followed by two unstressed; or spondee (spondaic) or two stressed syllables. These groups of syllables compose one foot. The line of poetry is then measured by how many feet compose that line: one foot is monometer; two feet, dimeter; three feet, trimester, four feet, tetrameter; five feet, pentameter; six feet, hexameter; etc. | 26 | |
5373606804 | Form | Physical structure or external pattern of the work | 27 | |
5373611027 | Free verse | Poetry without a specific metered rhythm | 28 | |
5373616729 | Heroic couplets | Two lines of rhythm iambic pentameter | 29 | |
5373624963 | Homeric/Epic Simile | An extended Simile | 30 | |
5373626911 | Hyperbole/Overstatement | Gross exaggeration or overstatement to emphasize | 31 | |
5373633033 | Idiom | A common saying that is metaphorical in nature (i.e. "kick the bucket") | 32 | |
5373637430 | Imagery/detail | Concrete details that appeal to one or more of the five senses | 33 | |
5373643001 | Internal Rhyme | a rhyme in which one or both of the rhymed words occur(s) within the line | 34 | |
5373648072 | Irony | The opposite of what is expected | 35 | |
5373651569 | Dramatic Irony | When the audience or reader knows something the character doesn't | 36 | |
5373656898 | Situational Irony | Opposite of what the situation normally calls for; actual vs. expected outcome | 37 | |
5373661585 | Verbal Irony | When what is said is the opposite of what is meant | 38 | |
5373666036 | Logos | Logical appeal; the logic used to support a claim | 39 | |
5373670942 | Metaphor | a direct comparison that doesn't use a comparison word as a link. Metaphors can be implied and often are created when the comparative term is substitute for the original | 40 | |
5373681298 | Meter | The measurable repetition of accented and unaccented syllables in poetry | 41 | |
5373685500 | Metonymy | The use of something closely related for the thing actually meant | 42 | |
5373691815 | Monologue | A long speech from one character to others | 43 | |
5373696338 | Motif | A reoccurring object, concept, or structure | 44 | |
5373700618 | Narrative Distance | How close the narrator is to a character-closest would be direct thoughts and furthest would be observational only | 45 | |
5373707283 | Narrative Voice | The personality of the narrator and the attitude he/she conveys. It is important to note that the narrative voice is not necessarily the same as tone, since an author's attitude toward a particular subject can differ from that of his/her narrator, just as the narrator's attitude can differ from that of the characters | 46 | |
5373722694 | Near Rhyme/ Eye Rhyme | Near rhyme refers to a rhyme that isn't perfect, but has a partial rhyme, such as "push" and "rush." Eye rhyme doesn't have to sound similar at all, just look like it should rhyme, such "prove" and "love" | 47 | |
5373736209 | Onomatopoeia | The use of words that mimic their meaning in their sound | 48 | |
5373741677 | oxymoron | Contradictory terms that work together to create an effect | 49 | |
5373745259 | Paradox | Juxtaposition of apparently contradicting ideas | 50 | |
5373750897 | Parallel structure | Multiple parts of a sentence or sentences that follow the same structure | 51 | |
5373754144 | Pathos | Emotional appeal; vivid language, emotional language and numerous sensory details | 52 | |
5373761223 | Peripeteia | Reversal of circumstances/ protagonist's plans-usually in reference to a play | 53 | |
5373765736 | Personification | Giving an object, animal, or concept human characteristics | 54 | |
5373768088 | Polysindeton | repetition of "and" when listing | 55 | |
5373772179 | Prose | Nonmetrical language; the opposite of verse | 56 | |
5373775212 | Pun | A play on words that relies on a word's having more than one meaning or sounding like another word | 57 | |
5373780228 | Rhetoric | Te principles governing the art of writing effectively, eloquently, and persuasively | 58 | |
5373783800 | Sarcasm | Bitter or cutting speech; speech intended by its speaker to give pain to the person addressed; similar in structure to verbal irony, but not in intention | 59 | |
5373794644 | Satire | A kind of literature that ridicules human folly or vice with the purpose of bringing about reform or of keeping others from falling into similar folly or vice | 60 | |
5373807492 | simile | Comparison of two unlike objects using a linking word or phrase (like, as, than, similar to, resembles, or seems) | 61 | |
5373815040 | Soliloquy | A speech made when only one character is on the stage, expression of thought. | 62 | |
5373820439 | Sonnet | Rigid fourteen line verse with specific structure and rhyme scheme | 63 | |
5373824212 | Structure | Internal arrangement of ideas, images, or thoughts | 64 | |
5373825871 | Style | The language conventions used to construct the piece. A writer can manipulate diction, sentence structure, phrasing, dialogue, and other aspects of language to create style. | 65 | |
5373836983 | Syllogism | a type of argument that follows this logic: If A=B and B=C, then A=C | 66 | |
5373843179 | Symbol | A concrete noun that represents and abstract noun | 67 | |
5373845006 | Synecdoche | The use of the part for the whole | 68 | |
5373846983 | Syntax | The structure of a sentence --how it's put together-arrangement or words | 69 | |
5373852724 | terza rima | Groups of three lines in iambic pentameter following the rhyme scheme of aba, bcb, etc. | 70 | |
5373856629 | Tone | Attitude conveyed in writing toward audience, subject, or speaker himself | 71 | |
5373861691 | Understatement | Downplaying the importance off to emphasize | 72 | |
5373863055 | Verse | Metrical language; the opposite of porse | 73 | |
5373866256 | Voice | The personality of the writer and the attitude conveyed by the writer. The writer's style directly leads to the creation of voice. Both style and voice work together to create tone as tone is the attitude the writer conveys about the subject being discussed, and the personality of the writer directly leads to our understanding of his attitude. | 74 | |
5373879706 | abstract | Used as a noun, the term refers to a short summary or outline of a longer work. As an adjective applied to writing or literary works, abstract refers to words or phrases that name things not knowable through the five senses. Allegory: A narrative technique in which characters. | 75 | |
5373880552 | aesthetic | the philosophical theory or set of principles governing the idea of beauty at a given time and place: the clean lines, bare surfaces, and sense of space that bespeak the machine-age aesthetic | 76 | |
5373880553 | ambiguos | Ambiguity or fallacy of ambiguity is a word, phrase, or statement which contains more than one meaning. Ambiguous words or statements lead to vagueness and confusion, and shape the basis for instances of unintentional humor. | 77 | |
5373881911 | Animistic | The belief that animals, plants, and objects have their own souls or spirits inhabiting them | 78 | |
5373885082 | antithetical | directly opposite or opposed | 79 | |
5373885083 | auditory | relating to the sense of hearing | 80 | |
5373886325 | cathartic | A Catharsis is an emotional discharge through which one can achieve a state of moral or spiritual renewal or achieve a state of liberation from anxiety and stress. Catharsis is a Greek word and it means cleansing. In literature it is used for the cleansing of emotions of the characters. | 81 | |
5373889724 | Circumspect | thinking carefully about possible risks before doing or saying somethin | 82 | |
5373889725 | Colloquial | of or relating to conversation | 83 | |
5373891656 | Deprecating | express disapproval | 84 | |
5373891657 | Deterministic | the belief that all events are caused by things that happened before them and that people have no real ability to make choices or control what happens | 85 | |
5373892373 | Gustatory | elating to taste or the sense of taste | 86 | |
5373892374 | Idolatrous | the worship of a picture or object as a god | 87 | |
5373893555 | Melodramatic | emotional in a way that is very extreme or exaggerated : extremely dramatic or emotional | 88 | |
5373895782 | Mendacious | not honest : likely to tell lies | 89 | |
5373895783 | Naturalistic | looking like what appears in nature : not looking artificial or man-made | 90 | |
5373897861 | Olfactory | of, relating to, or connected with the sense of smell | 91 | |
5373897862 | Parody | a piece of writing, music, etc., that imitates the style of someone or something else in an amusing way | 92 | |
5373898731 | Pastoral | of or relating to the spiritual care or guidance of people who are members of a religious group | 93 | |
5373904894 | pedantic | a person who annoys other people by correcting small errors and giving too much attention to minor details | 94 | |
5373906011 | romantic | marked by the imaginative or emotional appeal of what is heroic, adventurous, remote, mysterious, or idealized | 95 | |
5373906012 | tactile | relating to the sense of touch | 96 | |
5373906925 | trivial | not important | 97 | |
5373906926 | vague | not clear in meaning : stated in a way that is general and not specific | 98 | |
5373907915 | Visual | relating to seeing or to the eyes | 99 | |
5373908879 | Whimsical | unusual in a playful or amusing way : not serious | 100 |
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