Studying for my fall semester final.
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| 3574441948 | Allegory | a story which has meaning on both the literal and figurative or moral level. | 0 | |
| 3574441949 | Alliteration | the repetition of sounds in a group of words as ex) "peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers". | 1 | |
| 3574441950 | Allusion | an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference. | 2 | |
| 3574441951 | Antagonist | a major character who opposes the protagonist in a story or play. | 3 | |
| 3574441952 | Archetype | a character who represents a certain type of person ex) the breakfast club | 4 | |
| 3574441953 | Aside | words spoken in a whisper, in an undertone not intended to be heard by all characters. | 5 | |
| 3574441954 | Assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds. | 6 | |
| 3574441955 | Atmosphere | tone and mood combined create this overall feeling of a work. | 7 | |
| 3574441956 | Audience | may be a single person or a group of people. | 8 | |
| 3574441957 | Blank Verse | un-rhymed lines of poetry usually in iambic pentameter. | 9 | |
| 3574441958 | Characterization | the way an author describes a character, through description, action, or dialogue. | 10 | |
| 3574441959 | Claim | what the writer wants to prove ex) assertion, position, or thesis | 11 | |
| 3574441960 | Climax | the point at which the action in a story or play reaches its emotional peak. | 12 | |
| 3574441961 | Comic Relief | use of comedy in tragedies. | 13 | |
| 3574441962 | Conflict | the struggle in the story. ex) person vs self, vs person, vs society, or vs nature. | 14 | |
| 3574441963 | Connotation | the definition of a word found outside of the dictionary | 15 | |
| 3574441964 | Consonance | the repetition of consonant sounds. | 16 | |
| 3574441965 | Counter-claim/Counter-argument | the opposing view to your position | 17 | |
| 3574441966 | Couplets | a pair of rhyming lines in poetry often set off from the rest of the poem. | 18 | |
| 3574441967 | Denouement | the resolution after the resolution ex) sherlock and watson going back over what events have already been resolved | 19 | |
| 3574441968 | Diction | word choice | 20 | |
| 3574441969 | Denotation | the definition of a word found in the dictionary | 21 | |
| 3574441970 | Dramatic Fail | a character whose purpose is to show off another character. | 22 | |
| 3574441971 | Dramatic Irony | a contradiction between what the audience knows and what the characters don't know. | 23 | |
| 3574441972 | Dramatic Monologue | a poem in which the speaker reveals his/her character through extended speech. | 24 | |
| 3574441973 | Elegy | a poem mourning the dead | 25 | |
| 3574441974 | End Rhyme | rhyming words that are at the end of their lines. | 26 | |
| 3574441975 | Ethos | An appeal to the audience's ethics (right from wrong) | 27 | |
| 3574441976 | Epic | a long poem narrating the adventures of a heroic figures. | 28 | |
| 3574441977 | Fable | a story that illustrates a moral often using animals as characters. | 29 | |
| 3574441978 | Figurative Language | describing something by comparing it with something else. | 30 | |
| 3574441979 | Foreshadowing | the author's use of clues about something that'll happen later in the story. | 31 | |
| 3574441980 | Free Verse | poetry with no set meter (rhythm) or rhyme scheme. | 32 | |
| 3574441981 | Genre | a term used to describe a category or type of literature. | 33 | |
| 3574441982 | Hyperbole | obvious, extreme, and intentional exaggeration | 34 | |
| 3574441983 | Iambic Pentameter | ten-syllable lines in which every other syllable is stressed. | 35 | |
| 3574441984 | Imagery | the use of description that helps the reader imagine how something looks, sounds, feels etc. | 36 | |
| 3574441985 | Incongruity | when two unlike objects/people are put together ex) flip flops and socks are opposites | 37 | |
| 3574441986 | Internal Rhyme | a rhyme occurs within the line | 38 | |
| 3574441987 | Invective | an insulting, abusive word or expression ex) you don't want to jump off the bridge? you're a CHICKEN! | 39 | |
| 3574441988 | Inversion | reversal of the usual or natural order of words | 40 | |
| 3574441989 | Irony | an intention or attitude opposite to that which is actually stated; language that conveys a certain idea by saying the opposite. | 41 | |
| 3574441990 | Literal Language | language that means exactly what it says. | 42 | |
| 3574441991 | Lyric | a type of poetry that expresses the poet's emotions. | 43 | |
| 3574441992 | Logos | An appeal to the audience's logic/common sense. | 44 | |
| 3574441993 | Metaphor | a comparison of two unlike things using a verb. | 45 | |
| 3574441994 | Meter | the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in the lines of a poem. | 46 | |
| 3574441995 | Mood | suggested by the writer's choice of words, by events in the work, or by the physical setting. | 47 | |
| 3574441996 | Monologue | a speech, the speaker knows others are listening to. | 48 | |
| 3574441997 | Motif | a recurrent image, word, phrase or action that tends to unify the literary work or that forms the theme in the work of literature. | 49 | |
| 3574441998 | Myth | a legend that embodies that belief of people. | 50 | |
| 3574441999 | Onomatopoeia | the use of words that sound like they mean. ex) buzz, woof , etc | 51 | |
| 3574442000 | Paradox | a statement that is apparently self-contradictory with some truth. | 52 | |
| 3574442001 | Parallelism | use of similar grammatical structure for effect. | 53 | |
| 3574442002 | Parody | the genre of literary composition represented by such imitations | 54 | |
| 3574442003 | Pathos | An appeal to the audience's emotions in rhetoric. | 55 | |
| 3574442004 | Personification | giving inanimate object human characteristics. | 56 | |
| 3574442005 | Plot | what happens in the story | 57 | |
| 3574442006 | Point of View | the perspective from which the story is told | 58 | |
| 3574442007 | Prose | writing in sentences and paragraphs that is not poetry | 59 | |
| 3574442008 | Protagonist | the main character of a novel, play or story | 60 | |
| 3574442009 | Pun | humorous use of a word with two meanings. | 61 | |
| 3574442010 | Quatrain | a four line stanza | 62 | |
| 3574442011 | Reversal | making fun of the order of things | 63 | |
| 3574442012 | Rhetorical Question | a question not meant to be answered. | 64 | |
| 3574442013 | Sarcasm | harsh or bitter irony. | 65 | |
| 3574442014 | Satire | the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule. | 66 | |
| 3574442015 | Simile | comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as". | 67 | |
| 3574442016 | Soliloquy | long speech, expressing inner thoughts; a rant. | 68 | |
| 3574442017 | Sonnet | a 14 line poem, written in iambic pentameter. | 69 | |
| 3574442018 | Stanza | a major subdivision in a poem ex) 2 lines= couplet, 3 lines=tercet, 4 lines=quatrain | 70 | |
| 3574442019 | Symbolism | the use of one thing to represent another something that stands for something else. | 71 | |
| 3574442020 | Theme | the central idea of a work | 72 | |
| 3574442021 | Tone | the author's attitude towards the subject of the work. Usually positive or negative. | 73 | |
| 3574442022 | Tragedy | drama where the central character(s) suffer disaster or great misfortune. ex) Fate, Character, or Fatal Flaw | 74 | |
| 3574442023 | Understatement | the act of understating or representing in a weak way. | 75 | |
| 3574442024 | Voice | the authorial presence in a piece of literature whether in the first, second, or third person. | 76 |
