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| 6940918633 | allegory | A story in which the narrative or characters carry an underlying symbolic, metaphorical, or possibly an ethical meaning. The story and characters represent values beyond themselves. | 0 | |
| 6940918634 | alliteration | The repetition of one or more initial consonants in a group of words or lines of poetry or prose. Used for ornament or for emphasis. Also used in epithets, phrases, and slogans. Enhances the aesthetic quality of a prose passage or poem. | 1 | |
| 6940918636 | ambiguity | A vagueness of meaning; a conscious lack of clarity meant to evoke multiple meanings and interpretation. | 2 | |
| 6940994627 | anaphora | the deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect is known as | 3 | |
| 6940996614 | anectode | as a short and interesting story or an amusing event often proposed to support or demonstrate some point and make readers and listeners laugh | 4 | |
| 6940918640 | antagonist | A character or force in a work of literature that, by opposing the protagonist, produces tension or conflict. | 5 | |
| 6940998093 | anti-climatic | Lacking climax, disappointing or ironically insignificant following of impressive foreshadowing. After all the build up, the ending of the story was a let-down | 6 | |
| 6940918644 | apostrophe | A rhetorical device in which a speaker addresses a person or personified thing not present. | 7 | |
| 6940918646 | the assonance | The repetition of two or more vowel sounds in a group of words or lines in poetry and prose. | 8 | |
| 6940918653 | blank verse | Poetry written in iambic pentameter, the primary meter used in English poetry and the words of Shakespeare and Milton. The lines generally do not rhyme. | 9 | |
| 6940999358 | climax | the highest or most intense point in the development or resolution of something | 10 | |
| 6941000372 | colloquial language | the use of informal words, phrases or even slang in a piece of writing; expressions tend to sneak in as writers, being part of a society, are influenced by the way people speak in that society. | 11 | |
| 6940918667 | connotation | The suggested or implied meaning of a word or phrase. Contrast with denotation. | 12 | |
| 6941002280 | convention | are defining features of particular literary genres, such as novel, short story, ballad, sonnet, and play. | 13 | |
| 6940918668 | consonance | The repetition of two or more consonant sounds in a group of words or a line of poetry. | 14 | |
| 6940918669 | couplet | A pair of rhyming lines in a poem. Two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter is sometimes called a heroic ________. | 15 | |
| 6940918671 | dénouement | The resolution that occurs at the end of a play or work of fiction. | 16 | |
| 6941003158 | doppelganger | a literary archetype of a character who meets his or her apparent double, with plot developments following. The plot and character device of "twinning" is widespread in all literature but appears often in fairy tales, myths, and gothic literature. | 17 | |
| 6940918673 | diction | The choice of words in oral and written discourse. | 18 | |
| 6940918676 | elegy | A poem or prose selection that laments or meditates on the passing or death of something or someone of value. | 19 | |
| 6941004173 | emotive language | describes words and phrases meant to evoke an emotional response to a subject | 20 | |
| 6940918681 | enjambment | In poetry, the use of the successive lines with no punctuation or pause between them. | 21 | |
| 6940918682 | epic | An extended narrative poem that tells of the adventures and exploits of a hero that in generally larger than life and is often considered a legendary figure. | 22 | |
| 6941004174 | epilogue | a short speech, poem, dirge, elegy or an event that comes at the end of a play, a novel or any other literary piece to close it | 23 | |
| 6941005885 | epiphany | that 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. | 24 | |
| 6941007157 | epistolary | a literary genre pertaining to letters, in which writers use letters, journals and diary entries in their works, or they tell their stories or deliver messages through a series of letters. | 25 | |
| 6940918687 | euphemism | A mild or less negative usage for a harsh or blunt term. | 26 | |
| 6941007158 | euphony | as the use of words and phrases that are distinguished as having a wide range of noteworthy melody or loveliness in the sounds they create. | 27 | |
| 6941008819 | expansion | defined as the act of getting bigger or something added onto something else. | 28 | |
| 6940918693 | fable | A short tale often featuring nonhuman characters that act as people whose actions enable the author to make observations or draw useful lessons about human behavior. | 29 | |
| 6941010301 | feminine ending | refers to a line ending in a stressless syllable | 30 | |
| 6940918697 | figurative language | In contrast to literal language, _____________ implies meanings. It includes metaphors, similes, and personification, among many others. | 31 | |
| 6941010302 | flashback | are interruptions that writers do to insert past events in order to provide background or context to the current events of a narrative. | 32 | |
| 6941011541 | flat character | are two-dimensional in that they are relatively uncomplicated and do not change throughout the course of a work | 33 | |
| 6940918700 | foil | A minor character whose personality or attitude contrasts with that of the main character. Juxtaposing one character against another intensifies the qualities of both, to advantage or sometimes to disadvantage. | 34 | |
| 6941011542 | folklore | a collection of fictional stories about animals and people, of cultural myths, jokes, songs, tales and even quotes. It is a description of culture, which has passed down verbally from generation to generation in any written or oral form. | 35 | |
| 6941012252 | foot | a combination of stressed and unstressed syllables. most basic unit of a poem's meter | 36 | |
| 6941012253 | manometer | 1 foot | 37 | |
| 6941014250 | dimeter | 2 feet | 38 | |
| 6941015740 | trimeter | 3 feet | 39 | |
| 6941017110 | tetrameter | 4 feet | 40 | |
| 6941017111 | pentameter | 5 feet | 41 | |
| 6941018828 | hexameter | 6 feet | 42 | |
| 6941019994 | heptameter | 7 feet | 43 | |
| 6941019995 | iamb | a literary device that can be defined as a foot containing unaccented and short syllables followed by a long and accented syllable in a single line of a poem (unstressed/stressed syllables). daDUM | 44 | |
| 6941021032 | trochee | a metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one, DUMda | 45 | |
| 6941021033 | dactyl | a metrical foot, or a beat in a line, containing three syllables in which first one is accented followed by second and third unaccented syllables (accented/unaccented/unaccented) DUMdada | 46 | |
| 6941021954 | anapest | a poetic device defined as a metrical foot in a line of a poem that contains three syllables wherein the first two syllables are short and unstressed followed by a third syllable that is long and stressed as given in this line "I must finish my journey alone." | 47 | |
| 6941021955 | foreshadowing | literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story; often appears at the beginning of a story or a chapter and helps the reader develop expectations about the coming events in a story. | 48 | |
| 6941023288 | free verse | can be defined as poetry that is free from limitations of regular meter or rhythm and does not rhyme with fixed forms. Such poems are without rhythms and rhyme schemes; do not follow regular rhyme scheme rules and still provide artistic expression. | 49 | |
| 6940918706 | Gothic novel | A novel in which supernatural horrors and an atmosphere of unknown terrors pervades the action. | 50 | |
| 6941023289 | heroine | a woman of distinguished courage or ability, admired for her brave deeds and noble qualities. 2. the principal female character in a story, play, film, etc. | 51 | |
| 6940918710 | hubris | The excessive pride that often leads tragic heroes to their death. | 52 | |
| 6940918712 | hyperbole | Overstatement; gross exaggeration for rhetorical effect. | 53 | |
| 6941025244 | illocution | pertaining to a linguistic act performed by a speaker in producing an utterance, as suggesting, warning, promising, or requesting. | 54 | |
| 6940918714 | imagery | A word or phrase representing that which can be seen, touched, tasted, smelled, or felt. | 55 | |
| 6940918715 | in medias res | A narrative that starts not at the beginning of events but at some other critical point. | 56 | |
| 6941026163 | inversion | in literary style and rhetoric, the syntactic reversal of the normal order of the words and phrases in a sentence, as, in English, the placing of an adjective after the noun it modifies ("the form divine"), a verb before its subject ("Came the dawn"), | 57 | |
| 6940918718 | irony | A mode of expression in which the intended meaning is the opposite of what is stated, often implying ridicule or light sarcasm; a state of affairs or events that is the reverse of what might have been expected. | 58 | |
| 6941027143 | dramatic irony | a form of irony that is expressed through a work's structure: an audience's awareness of the situation in which a work's characters exist differs substantially from that of the characters', and the words and actions of the characters therefore take on a different example: Two people are engaged to be married but the audience knows that the man is planning to run away with another woman. In a scary movie, the character walks into a house and the audience knows the killer is in the house. | 59 | |
| 6941027144 | verbal irony | in which a person says or writes one thing and means another, or uses words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning | 60 | |
| 6941029373 | cosmic irony | the idea that fate, destiny, or a god controls and toys with human hopes and expectations; also, the belief that the universe is so large and man is so small that the universe is indifferent to the plight of man; also called irony of fate. | 61 | |
| 6941029374 | masculine ending | refers to a line ending in a stressed syllable | 62 | |
| 6941032584 | memoir | written factual account of somebody's life; tells the experience of one's life | 63 | |
| 6940918727 | metaphor | A figure of speech that compares unlike objects. | 64 | |
| 6940918729 | meter | The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables found in poetry. | 65 | |
| 6940918730 | metonymy | A figure of speech that uses the name of one thing to represent something else with which it is associated. | 66 | |
| 6940918737 | motif | A phrase, idea, or event that through repetition serves to unify or convey a theme in a work of literature. | 67 | |
| 6941032585 | narrator | A person who tells a story; in literature, the voice that an author takes on to tell a story. This voice can have a personality quite different from the author's | 68 | |
| 6941033581 | first person | a point of view (who is telling a story) where the story is narrated by one character at a time. This character may be speaking about him or herself or sharing events that he or she is experiencing use of I or we | 69 | |
| 6941034363 | third person objective | the narrator simply describes what is happening to the characters in the story and does not show us anyone's thoughts or feelings. In other words, the narrator doesn't favor one character's perspective over another, so the narrative is unbiased | 70 | |
| 6941034364 | third person limited | narrator only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character. All characters are described using pronouns, such as 'they', 'he', and 'she'. But, one character is closely followed throughout the story, and it is typically a main character | 71 | |
| 6941036088 | third person omniscient | point of view is a method of storytelling in which the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in the story | 72 | |
| 6940918743 | novella | A work of fiction of roughly 20,000 to 50,000 words-longer than a short story, but shorter than a novel. | 73 | |
| 6941036996 | neutral language | hmmm one i do not know... use common sense my friends | 74 | |
| 6941038622 | oblique rhyme | a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of ending consonants match, however the preceding vowel sounds do not match. | 75 | |
| 6940918745 | ode | A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject. | 76 | |
| 6940918748 | onomatopoeia | The use of words whose sounds suggest their meaning. | 77 | |
| 6940918752 | paradox | A statement that seems self-contradictory but is nevertheless true | 78 | |
| 6941039694 | parody | an imitation of a writer, artist, subject, or genre in such a way as to make fun of or comment on the original work; often exaggerated in order to be humorous | 79 | |
| 6940918760 | personification | A figure of speech in which objects and animals are given human characteristics | 80 | |
| 6941040447 | poetic justice | a literary device in which ultimately virtue is rewarded and viciousness is punished. In modern literature it is often accompanied by an ironic twist of fate related to the character's own action. | 81 | |
| 6941040448 | prequel | a literary, dramatic, or filmic work whose story precedes that of a previous work, by focusing on events that occur before the original narrative. | 82 | |
| 6941041377 | prologue | an opening of a story that establishes the setting and gives background details. Generally speaking, the main function tells some earlier story and connects it to the main story. | 83 | |
| 6941041378 | prose | a form of language that has no formal metrical structure. It applies a natural flow of speech, and ordinary grammatical structure rather than rhythmic structure, such as in the case of traditional poetry. | 84 | |
| 6941042823 | protagonist | the central character or leading figure in poetry, narrative, novel or any other story | 85 | |
| 6940918768 | pun | A humorous play on words, using similar-sounding or identical words to suggest different meanings | 86 | |
| 6940918773 | rhyme | The repetition of similar sounds at regular intervals, used mostly in poetry. | 87 | |
| 6940918774 | rhyme scheme | The pattern of rhymes within a given poem | 88 | |
| 6941042824 | rising action | in a plot is a series of relevant incidents that create suspense, interest and tension in a narrative. In literary works, it includes all decisions, characters' flaws and background circumstances that together create turns and twists leading to a climax. | 89 | |
| 6941044410 | rites of passage | Ceremonies that mark important transitional periods in a person's life, such as birth, puberty, marriage, having children, and death. usually involve ritual activities and teachings designed to strip individuals of their original roles and prepare them for new roles. | 90 | |
| 6941044411 | round character | are two-dimensional in that they are relatively uncomplicated and do not change throughout the course of a work | 91 | |
| 6941047015 | resolution | means the unfolding or solution of a complicated issue in a story. presented in the final parts or chapters of a story. It mostly follows the climax. | 92 | |
| 6940918779 | satire | A literary style used to poke fun at, attack, or ridicule an idea, vice, or foible, often for the purpose of inducing change | 93 | |
| 6940918784 | simile | A figurative comparison using the words like or as | 94 | |
| 6941049022 | slang | Words that are not a part of standard vocabulary or language and are used informally These words are mostly used in speech rather than in writing. | 95 | |
| 6941050265 | soliloquy | a super important monologue given by a character in a play who is alone on the stage. Think Hamlet's "To Be or Not To Be" speech. Because they're alone when they deliver these speeches, a character might reveal some very key thoughts, feelings, and opinions to us audience members | 96 | |
| 6941079556 | sonnet | means a small or little song or lyric. In poetry, it has 14 fourteen lines and is written in iambic pentameter. Each line has 10 syllables. It has a specific rhyme scheme and a "volta" or a specific turn. | 97 | |
| 6940918788 | style | The manner in which an author uses and arranges words, | 98 | |
| 6940918791 | symbolism | The use of one object to evoke ideas and associations not literally part of the original object | 99 | |
| 6940918796 | tone | The author's attitude toward the subject being written about. The spirit or quality that is the work's emotional essence | 100 | |
| 6940918797 | tragedy | A form of literature in which the hero is destroyed by some character flaw and a set of forces that cause the hero considerable anguish | 101 |
