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| 4870312759 | Theme | A theme may be defined as "a salient abstract idea that emerges from a literary work's treatment of its subject matter; or a topic recurring in a number or literary works" (Baldick 258) | 0 | |
| 4870319428 | Metaphor | A figure of speech that compares two things which are basically dissimilar | 1 | |
| 4870320361 | Simile | A figure of speech, comparing two essentially like things through the use of a specific word of comparison (like, as, or than, for example) | 2 | |
| 4870326764 | Verbal Irony | The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning. | 3 | |
| 4870328566 | Ambiguity | use of language where the meaning is unclear or has two or more possible interpretations or meanings. it could be created through a weakness in the way the writer has expressed him or herself. | 4 | |
| 4870333798 | Diction | means "word choice", refers to word choice as a reflection of style. different types and arrangements of words have significant effects on meaning, | 5 | |
| 4870343784 | Satire | Text that reveals a critical attitude toward some element of human behavior by portraying it in an extreme way. | 6 | |
| 4870347033 | Motif | A dominant theme, subject or idea which runs through a piece of literature | 7 | |
| 4870348739 | Characterization | In literature is the process authors use to develop characters and create images of the characters for the audience. there are two different approaches to ______, including direct and indirect. | 8 | |
| 4870354158 | Metonymy | A figure of speech where the term for one thing is applied for another with which it has become closely associated in experience, or where a part represents the whole. | 9 | |
| 5019533762 | Setting | is used to identify and establish the time, place, and mood of the events of the story. It basically helps in establishing where and when and under what circumstances the story is taking place. | 10 | |
| 5019535626 | Imagery | use of images, especially, in a pattern of related images, often figurative, to create a strong, unified, sensory impression. | 11 | |
| 5019537694 | Tone | Author's attitude toward subject matter as revealed through style, syntax, diction, figurative language and organization. | 12 | |
| 5019539269 | Mood | The atmosphere in the text created by the author's tone towards the subject. | 13 | |
| 5019540450 | Dramatic Monologue | A poem or prose piece in which a character addresses an audience. Often the monologue is complete in itself. | 14 | |
| 5019542075 | Elegy | A mediative poem usually sad and reflective in nature. sometimes, though not always, it is concerned with the theme of death. | 15 | |
| 5019543349 | Allegory | A form of extended metaphor in which objects, persons, places, and actions in a narrative are equated with meaning outside the narrative itself. | 16 | |
| 5019545397 | Personification | A figure that endows animals, ideas, abstractions, and inanimate objects with human form. | 17 | |
| 5019547387 | Oxymoron | A self-contradictory combination of words | 18 | |
| 5019548557 | Antithesis | A figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, or ideas, as in "man proposes, God disposes." | 19 | |
| 5182720932 | Understatement | a common figure of speech in which the literal sense of what is said falls short (or under) the magnitude of what is being talked about. | 20 | |
| 5182723724 | Allusion | A figure of speech that makes brief reference to a historical or literary figure, event, or object. Biblical allusions are frequent in English literature. | 21 | |
| 5182729180 | Poetic Drama | A term properly restricted to plays written to be acted. if a poem is written to be read only, then it is not considered poetic drama. | 22 | |
| 5182733265 | Paradox | A statement that although seemingly contradictory or absurd may actually be well founded or true."for when i am weak, then i am strong." | 23 | |
| 5182761096 | Sentimentalism | The term used in two senses: (1) an overindulgence in emotion, or (2) an optimistic overemphasis of the goodness of humanity (sensibility) | 24 | |
| 5182763504 | Subjective | A term for something expressive in a personal manner of inward convictions, beliefs, dreams, or ideals. subjective writing is opposed to objective writing, which is impersonal, and concrete. | 25 | |
| 5182766819 | verisimilitude | the semblance of truth. The degree to which a work creates the appearance of truth. | 26 | |
| 5182785792 | Tragedy | It concerns, in general, the effort to exemplify what has been called "the tragic sense of life" - that is, the sense that human beings are inevitably doomed through their own failure for personal weaknesses. | 27 | |
| 5182790968 | Tragic Flaw | The theory that there is a flaw in the tragic hero that causes his or her downfall. Many characters in Shakespearean dramas exhibit tragic flaws such as Hamlet's inability to act. | 28 | |
| 5182793842 | Lyric Poem | A brief subjective poem strongly marked by imagination, melody, and emotion and creating a single, unified, impression. | 29 | |
| 5904325105 | foot | The unit a rhythm in verse, whether quantitive or accentual - syllabic. | 30 | |
| 5904335587 | iamb | a foot consisting of an unaccented syllable (u) and an accented syllable (/) = (u/) the most common rhythm in english verse. | 31 | |
| 5904366935 | echo | A complete, subtle, and multifarious acoustic phenomenon involving a faint but perceptive repetition inside a work or between works. | 32 | |
| 5904377302 | ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that, while essential to a grammatical structure, are easily supplied. | 33 | |
| 5904417816 | blank verse | unrhymed regular verse, usually iambic pentameter, but does not rhyme. | 34 | |
| 5904427646 | caesura | a pause or a break in a line of verse, normally signaled by punctuation | 35 | |
| 5904431747 | end rhyme | rhyme at the ends of lines in a poem. the most common type of rhyme. | 36 | |
| 5904442098 | end-stopped lines | lines in which both the grammatical structure and the sense reach completion at the end. | 37 | |
| 5904462950 | enjambment | the continuation of the sense and grammatical construction of a line on to the next verse or couplet. | 38 | |
| 5904469471 | assonance | generally patterning of vowel sounds without regard to consonants. the pattern may be successive as in :knee-deep" or alternating as in "lEft my nEcktie." | 39 | |
| 5904495525 | ambivalent | having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone | 40 | |
| 5904502797 | synecdoche | a part of something represents the whole or it may use a whole to represent a part | 41 | |
| 5904512025 | couplet | a literary device which can be defined as having two successive rhyming lines in a verse and has the same meter to form a complete thought. it is marked by a usual rhythm, rhyme scheme and incorporation of specific utterances. | 42 | |
| 5904527999 | refrain | a verse, a line, a set, or a group of some lines that appears where a poem divides into different sections. | 43 | |
| 5904536132 | colloquial | language is casual and conversational, characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation. | 44 | |
| 5904553285 | pedantic | "like a pedant," someone who's too concerned with literal accuracy or formality. a negative term that implies someone is showing off book learning or trivia, especially in a tiresome way. | 45 | |
| 5904633477 | shakespearean sonnet | also called the elizabethan sonnet, has 14 lines, and consists of three quatrains of iambic pentameter followed by a rhyming couplet. the first two quatrains offer a situation. the third may feature a turn or change. the couplet often reveals a theme or summarizes the conclusion. | 46 | |
| 5904657086 | Petrarchan sonnet | also called the Italian sonnet, divided into two parts that form an argument. the octave establishes a problem, then the sestet proposes a resolution. | 47 | |
| 5904726963 | pastoral | of or relating to the countryside or to the lives of people who live in the country. | 48 | |
| 5904730923 | brevity | the use of few words to say something; the quality or fact of lasting only for a short period of time. | 49 |
