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| 4136516766 | allegory - Doan Tran | story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or abstract ideas or quality ex: The Wizard of Oz | 0 | |
| 4136539453 | Alliteration - Doan Tran | repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together ex: She sells seashells. | 1 | |
| 4136699470 | Allusion - Doan Tran | reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature,religion, politics, sports, science, or another branch of culture. An indirect reference to something (usually from literature, etc.). ex: This place is like the Garden of Eden | 2 | |
| 4136714284 | Ambiguity - Doan Tran | deliberately suggesting two or more different, and sometimes conflicting, meanings in a work. An event or situation that may be interpreted in more than one way-- this is done on purpose by the author, when it is not done on purpose, it is vagueness, and detracts from the work. ex: A good life depends on a liver (liver may be an organ or simply a living person) | 3 | |
| 4136730988 | Analogy - Doan Tran | Comparison made between two things to show how they are alike ex: a pizza to a person is like a lover to their soulmate | 4 | |
| 4136742133 | Anaphora - Doan Tran | Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row. This is a deliberate form of repetition and helps make the writer's point more coherent. ex: "I Have a Dream" by Martin Luther King | 5 | |
| 4136752368 | Anastrophe - Doan Tran | Inversion of the usual, normal, or logical order of the parts of a sentence. Purpose is rhythm or emphasis or euphony. It is a fancy word for inversion. ex: Study vocabulary you must. | 6 | |
| 4136755734 | Anecdote - Doan Tran | Brief story, told to illustrate a point or serve as an example of something, often shows character of an individual ex: "When I was a child..." (very short story) | 7 | |
| 4136769229 | Antagonist -Doan Tran | Opponent who struggles against or blocks the hero, or protagonist, in a story. ex: Voldemort is the antagonist in Harry Potter. | 8 | |
| 4136772566 | Antimetabole - Doan Tran | Repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order. In poetry, this is called chiasmus. ex: Moliere: "One should eat to live, not live to eat." | 9 | |
| 4136779883 | Antithesis - Doan Tran | Balancing words, phrases, or ideas that are strongly contrasted, often by means of grammatical structure. ex: "...not made to me as a man, but to my work...not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create..." | 10 | |
| 4136801775 | Antihero - Doan Tran | Central character who lacks all the qualities traditionally associated with heroes. may lack courage, grace, intelligence, or moral scruples ex: Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsy | 11 | |
| 4136813449 | Anthropomorphism - Doan Tran | attributing human characteristics to an animal or inanimate object (Personification) ex: The heart yearns for belonging. | 12 | |
| 4136820113 | Aphorism - Doan Tran | brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life, or of a principle or accepted general truth. Also called maxim, epigram. ex: "Life's Tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late." - Benjamin Franklin | 13 | |
| 4136828339 | Apostrophe - Doan Tran | calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to a place or thing, or a personified abstract idea. If the character is asking a god or goddess for inspiration it is called an invocation. ex: "O Death!" | 14 | |
| 4136831761 | Apposition - Doan Tran | Placing in immediately succeeding order of two or more coordinate elements, the latter of which is an explanation, qualification, or modification of the first (often set off by a colon). ex: Paine: "These are the times that try men's souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it Now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman." | 15 | |
| 4136835568 | Assonance - Doan Tran | the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds especially in words that are together. ex: The ship has sailed to the far off shores | 16 | |
| 4136840151 | Asyndeton - Doan Tran | Commas used without conjunction to separate a series of words, thus emphasizing the parts equally: instead of X, Y, and Z... the writer uses X,Y,Z.... ex: All humans eat, excrete, repeat. | 17 | |
| 4136851290 | Balance - Doan Tran | Constructing a sentence so that both halves are about the same length and importance. Sentences can be unbalanced to serve a special effect as well. ex: "If you've got the time, we've got the beer." | 18 | |
| 4139322669 | Characterization - DTran | the process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character. ex: Her sympathetic nature led her to aid the passerby. | 19 | |
| 4139329812 | Indirect characterization - DTran | the author reveals to the reader what the character is like through the characters actions, feelings, thoughts, looks, or how others perceive them. ex: The passerby took advantage of the girl who sought to aid him. (passerby is cruel, girl is kind) | 20 | |
| 4139342206 | Direct characterization - DTran | the author tells us directly what the character is like. Romantic style literature relied more heavily on this form. ex: He is sneaky. | 21 | |
| 4139347548 | Static character - DTran | is one who does not change much in the course of a story ex: Slim in Of Mice and Men | 22 | |
| 4139350224 | Dynamic character - DTran | is one who changes in some important way as a result of the story's action. ex: Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter | 23 | |
| 4139357551 | Flat character - DTran | has only one or two personality traits. They are one dimensional, like a piece of cardboard. They can be summed up in one phrase. ex: Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet | 24 | |
| 4139358358 | Round character - DTran | has more dimensions to their personalities---they are complex, just a real people are. ex: Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby | 25 | |
| 4139374991 | Chiasmus - DTran | In poetry, a type of rhetorical balance in which the second part is syntactically balanced against the first, but with the parts reversed. In prose this is called antimetabole. ex: Coleridge: "Flowers are lovely, love is flowerlike." | 26 | |
| 4139378743 | Cliche - DTran | is a word or phrase, often a figure of speech, that has become lifeless because of overuse. ex: Avoid cliche like the plague. | 27 | |
| 4139381076 | Colloquialism - DTran | word or phrase in everyday use in conversation and informal writing but is inappropriate for formal situations. ex: "He's out of his head if he thinks I'm gonna go for such a stupid idea." | 28 | |
| 4139384792 | Comedy - DTran | in general, a story that ends with a happy resolution of the conflicts faced by the main character or characters. ex: A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare | 29 | |
| 4139387708 | Conceit - DTran | an elaborate metaphor that compares two things that are startlingly different. Often an extended metaphor. ex: "The broken heart is a damaged china pot." | 30 | |
| 4139399865 | Confessional poetry - DTran | a twentieth century term used to describe poetry that uses intimate material from the poet's life. ex: Sylvia Plath poems | 31 | |
| 4139410489 | Conflict - DTran | the struggle between opposing forces or characters in a story. ex: Man vs Man | 32 | |
| 4139412523 | External conflict - DTran | conflicts can exist between two people, between a person and nature or a machine or between a person a whole society. ex: Man vs Society | 33 | |
| 4139416377 | Internal conflict - DTran | a conflict can be internal, involving opposing forces within a person's mind. ex: Man vs Self | 34 | |
| 4139418455 | Connotation - DTran | the associations and emotional overtones that have become attached to a word or phrase, in addition to its strict dictionary definition. ex: Rose (is a flower by dictionary but implies nature and beauty) | 35 | |
| 4139428384 | Couplet - DTran | two consecutive rhyming lines of poetry. ex: In spring flowers bloom while winter causes their doom | 36 | |
| 4139439056 | Dialect - DTran | a way of speaking that is characteristic of a certain social group or of the inhabitants of a certain geographical area. ex: "Ya'll come back now ya hear?" (Southern/country) | 37 | |
| 4139443674 | Diction - DTran | a speaker or writer's choice of words. ex: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." ("it was" emphasizes past and setting) | 38 | |
| 4139458224 | Didactic - DTran | form of fiction or nonfiction that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking. ex: The Tortoise and the Hare | 39 | |
| 4139464862 | Elegy - DTran | a poem of mourning, usually about someone who has died. A Eulogy is great praise or commendation, a laudatory speech, often about someone who has died. ex: "O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman | 40 | |
| 4139480240 | Epanalepsis - DTran | device of repetition in which the same expression (single word or phrase) is repeated both at the beginning and at the end of the line, clause, or sentence. ex: Voltaire: "Common sense is not so common." | 41 | |
| 4139482541 | Epic - DTran | a long narrative poem, written in heightened language , which recounts the deeds of a heroic character who embodies the values of a particular society. ex: Harry Potter | 42 | |
| 4139485570 | Epigraph - DTran | a quotation or aphorism at the beginning of a literary work suggestive of the theme. ex: " 'Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,' he told me, 'just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.' " - The Great Gatsby | 43 | |
| 4139515722 | Epistrophe - DTran | Device of repetition in which the same expression (single word or phrase) is repeated at the end of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences (it is the opposite of anaphora). ex: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." | 44 | |
| 4139521417 | Epithet - DTran | an adjective or adjective phrase applied to a person or thing that is frequently used to emphasize a characteristic quality. ex: The father of our country | 45 | |
| 4139524109 | Essay - DTran | a short piece of nonfiction prose in which the writer discusses some aspect of a subject. ex: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays - Albert Camus | 46 | |
| 4139531520 | Argumentation - DTran | one of the four forms of discourse which uses logos, ethos, pathos to develop an effective means to convince the reader to think or act in a certain way. ex: "Why you should eat healthy" article | 47 | |
| 4139542215 | Persuasion - DTran | relies more on emotional appeals than on facts ex: "Donate to help a starving child in need" | 48 | |
| 4139546315 | Argument - DTran | form of persuasion that appeals to reason instead of emotion to convince an audience to think or act in a certain way. ex: "Facts why you should eat healthier" article | 49 | |
| 4139552140 | Casual relationship - DTran | Form of argumentation in which the writer claims that one thing results from another, often used as part of a logical argument. ex: "Fast food leads to obesity" article | 50 | |
| 4139559025 | Description - DTran | a form of discourse that uses language to create a mood or emotion. ex: The light was darkened as it tried shining through the blue curtains and into the barren room. (sad mood through the room's description) | 51 | |
| 4139570816 | Exposition - DTran | one of the four major forms of discourse, in which something is explained or "set forth". ex: The day started with a tardy slip and a failed test. | 52 | |
| 4139587998 | Narrative - DTran | the form of discourse that tells about a series of events. ex: Somewhere in La Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago..." - Don Quixote | 53 | |
| 4139594552 | Explication - DTran | act of interpreting or discovering the meaning of a text, usually involves close reading and special attention to figurative language. ex: Reading A Tale of Two Cities requires explication. | 54 | |
| 4139602462 | Fable - DTran | a very short story told in prose or poetry that teaches a practical lesson about how to succeed in life. ex: The Tortoise and the Hare | 55 | |
| 4139604669 | Farce - DTran | a type of comedy in which ridiculous and often stereotyped characters are involved in silly, far-fetched situations. ex: The Taming of the Shrew - Shakespeare | 56 | |
| 4139616032 | Figurative language - DTran | Words which are inaccurate if interpreted literally, but are used to describe. Similes and metaphors are common forms. ex: Brains brighter than the sun | 57 | |
| 4139620714 | Flashback - DTran | a scene that interrupts the normal chronological sequence of events in a story to depict something that happened at an earlier time. ex: Flashback of waking up late at home while waking up late at a concentration camp - Night by Elie Wiesel | 58 | |
| 4139663956 | Foil - DTran | A character who acts as contrast to another character. Often a funny side kick to the dashing hero, or a villain contrasting the hero. ex: Brutus and Antony - Julius Caesar | 59 | |
| 4139670737 | Foreshadowing - DTran | the use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot. ex: This journey's end will end all. | 60 | |
| 4139675523 | Free verse - DTran | poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme. ex: "I, Too, Sing America" by Langston Hughes | 61 | |
| 4139681164 | Hyperbole - DTran | a figure of speech that uses an incredible exaggeration or overstatement, for effect. ex: "If I told you once, I've told you a million times...." | 62 | |
| 4139684984 | Hypotactic - DTran | sentence marked by the use of connecting words between clauses or sentences, explicitly showing the logical or other relationships between them. (Use of such syntactic subordination of just one clause to another is known as hypotaxis). ex: I am tired because it is hot | 63 | |
| 4139691141 | Imagery - DTran | the use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, a thing, a place, or an experience. ex: Bright colors illuminated the sky as the fireworks bloomed magnificently in the dark sky. | 64 | |
| 4139695938 | Inversion - DTran | the reversal of the normal word order in a sentence or phrase. ex: Study vocabulary you must. | 65 | |
| 4139698770 | Irony - DTran | a discrepancy between appearances and reality. ex: Diet soda. | 66 | |
| 4139702885 | Verbal irony - DTran | occurs when someone says one thing but really means something else. ex:Juliet: "I will not marry yet; and, when I do, I swear it shall be Romeo, whom you know I hate, rather than Paris." | 67 | |
| 4139713140 | Situational irony - DTran | takes place when there is a discrepancy between what is expected to happen, or what would be appropriate to happen, and what really does happen. ex: Noticing the drowning woman who has fallen into lake, the man jumped to aid in her death. | 68 | |
| 4139730043 | Dramatic irony - DTran | is so called because it is often used on stage. A character in the play or story thinks one thing is true, but the audience or reader knows better. ex: "If someone knows the killer is a stranger, from some other state, let him not stay mute..." - Oedipus in Oedipus Rex by Sophocles | 69 | |
| 4139741165 | Juxtaposition - DTran | poetic and rhetorical device in which normally unassociated ideas, words, or phrases are placed next to one another, creating an effect of surprise and wit. ex: Martin Luther King: "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." | 70 | |
| 4139744764 | Litotes - DTran | is a form of understatement in which the positive form is emphasized through the negation of a negative form. ex: Hawthorne--- "...the wearers of petticoat and farthingale...stepping forth into the public ways, and wedging their not unsubstantial persons, if occasion were, into the throng..." - Hawthorne | 71 | |
| 4139749472 | Local color - DTran | a term applied to fiction or poetry which tends to place special emphasis on a particular setting, including its customs, clothing, dialect and landscape. ex: "...cotton house dress...with red mules..." - Of Mice and Men | 72 | |
| 4139763805 | Loose sentence - DTran | one in which the main clause comes first, followed by further dependent grammatical units. ex: "Hester gazed after him a little while, looking with a half-fantastic curiosity..." - Hawthorne | 73 | |
| 4139773055 | Lyric poem - DTran | a poem that does not tell a story but expresses the personal feelings or thoughts of the speaker. A ballad tells a story. ex: Shakespeare:"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" - Sonnet No. 18 | 74 | |
| 4143040978 | Metaphor - DTran | a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without the use of such specific words of comparison as like, as, than, or resembles. ex: He had the appetite of a bear. | 75 | |
| 4143046501 | Implied metaphor - DTran | does not state explicitly the two terms of the comparison ex: "I like to see it lap the miles" is an implied metaphor in which the verb lap implies a comparison between "it" and some animal that "laps" up water. | 76 | |
| 4143060722 | Extended metaphor - DTran | is a metaphor that is extended or developed as far as the writer wants to take it. (conceit if it is quite elaborate). ex: Edwards:"The bow of God's wrath is bent, and the arrow made ready on the string, and justice bends the arrow of your heart, and strains the bow..." | 77 | |
| 4143076195 | Dead metaphor - DTran | a metaphor that has been used so often that the comparison is no longer vivid ex: "The head of the house" | 78 | |
| 4143080791 | Mixed metaphor - DTran | a metaphor that has gotten out of control and mixes its terms so that they are visually or imaginatively incompatible. ex: its terms so that they are visually or imaginatively incompatible. "The President is a lame duck who is running out of gas." | 79 | |
| 4143089204 | Metonymy - DTran | a figure of speech in which a person, place, or thing, is referred to by something closely associated with it. ex: "We requested from the crown support for our petition." The crown is used to represent the monarch. | 80 | |
| 4143094567 | Mood - DTran | An atmosphere created by a writer's diction and the details selected. ex: The light was darkened as it tried shining through the blue curtains and into the barren room. (gloomy mood) | 81 | |
| 4143100083 | Motif - DTran | a recurring image, word, phrase, action, idea, object, or situation used throughout a work (or in several works by one author), unifying the work by tying the current situation to previous ones, or new ideas to the theme. ex: the theme of human predatory nature in Of Mice and Men | 82 | |
| 4143116135 | Motivation - DTran | the reasons for a character's behavior. ex: Harry Potter's motivation is to save the muggle and magical world. | 83 | |
| 4143125723 | Onomatopoeia - DTran | the use of words whose sounds echo their sense. ex: "POW" or "SNAP" | 84 | |
| 4143128675 | Oxymoron - DTran | a figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. ex: "bittersweet" | 85 | |
| 4143131763 | Parable - DTran | a relatively short story that teaches a moral, or lesson about how to lead a good life. ex: The Bible | 86 | |
| 4143136508 | Paradox - DTran | a statement that appears self-contradictory, but that reveals a kind of truth. ex: Dickens:"It was the worst of times, it was the best of times..." (worst of times for the lower class but best of times for the aristocrats) | 87 | |
| 4143144882 | Koan - DTran | a paradox used in Zen Buddhism to gain intuitive knowledge ex: "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" | 88 | |
| 4143147508 | Parallel structure - DTran | the repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures. ex: "To eat, to excrete, to repeat..." or "I love fishing, cooking, and learning" | 89 | |
| 4143170645 | Paratactic sentence - DTran | simply juxtaposes clauses or sentences. ex: It is early: I am tired. | 90 | |
| 4143171997 | Parody - DTran | a work that makes fun of another work by imitating some aspect of the writer's style. ex: "Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes is a parody of romances written in his days | 91 | |
| 4143173439 | Periodic - DTran | after all introductory elements, periodic sentences place the main idea or central complete thought at the end of the sentence. ex: the definition of a periodic sentence is a periodic sentence | 92 | |
| 4143175099 | Personification - DTran | a figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes. ex: The heart yearns for belonging. | 93 | |
| 4143175100 | Plot - DTran | the series of related events in a story or play, sometimes called the storyline. ex: Of Mice and Men's plot surrounds George and Lennie | 94 | |
| 4143231285 | Rising action - DTran | complications in conflict and situations (may introduce new ones as well) ex: Of Mice and Men - Curley dislikes Lennie, Curley's wife seek other men's attention, and Lennie is mentally disabled. | 95 | |
| 4143236262 | Exposition (plot) - DTran | introduces characters, situation, and setting in the story. ex: | 96 | |
| 4143381365 | Climax - DTran | that point in a plot that creates the greatest intensity, suspense, or interest. Also called "turning point" ex: Of Mice and Men - When Lennie accidentally kills Curley's wife. | 97 | |
| 4143385213 | Resolution - DTran | the conclusion of a story, when all or most of the conflicts have been settled; often called the denouement. ex: Of Mice and Men - When George shoots Lennie himself. | 98 | |
| 4143389025 | Point of view - DTran | the vantage point from which the writer tells the story. ex: The narrator of Of Mice and Men is omniscient | 99 | |
| 4143392083 | First person POV - DTran | one of the characters tells the story. ex: Nick Carraway is a first person narrator in The Great Gatsby | 100 | |
| 4143394218 | Third person POV - DTran | an unknown narrator, tells the story, but this narrator zooms in to focus on the thoughts and feelings of only one character. ex: Harry Potter - J.K Rowling | 101 | |
| 4143396861 | Omniscient POV - DTran | an omniscient or all knowing narrator tells the story, also using the third person pronouns. This narrator, instead of focusing on one character only, often tells us everything about many characters. ex: Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck | 102 | |
| 4143396862 | Objective POV - DTran | a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story, with no comment on any characters or events. ex: Aesop's Fables | 103 | |
| 4143484168 | Polysyndeton - DTran | sentence which uses a conjunction with NO commas to separate the items in a series. Instead of X, Y, and Z... Polysyndeton results in X and Y and Z... ex: "...and hate and love and ache will exist..." | 104 | |
| 4143491920 | Protagonist - DTran | the central character in a story, the one who initiates or drives the action. Usually the hero or anti-hero; in a tragic hero there is always a hamartia, or tragic flaw in his character which will lead to his downfall. ex: Oedipus in Oedipus Rex by Sophocles | 105 | |
| 4143499370 | Pun - DTran | a "play on words" based on the multiple meanings of a single word or on words that sound alike but mean different things. ex: Santa's helpers are known as subordinate Clauses | 106 | |
| 4143503646 | Quatrain - DTran | a poem consisting of four lines, or four lines of a poem that can be considered as a unit. ex: Roses are red Violets are blue Love is in the air When I see you | 107 | |
| 4143508518 | Refrain - DTran | a word, phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated, for effect, several times in a poem. ex: "Do not go gentle into that good night,..." is repeated throughout the poem by Dylan Thomas | 108 | |
| 4143522315 | Rhythm - DTran | a rise and fall of the voice produced by the alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables in language. ex: Sonnets' iambic pentameters | 109 | |
| 4143528558 | Rhetoric - DTran | Art of effective communication, especially persuasive discourse. ex: logos, ethos, pathos | 110 | |
| 4143532002 | Rhetorical question - DTran | a question asked for an effect, and not actually requiring an answer. ex: "...If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" - Shelley | 111 | |
| 4143542398 | Romance - DTran | in general, a story in which an idealized hero or heroine undertakes a quest and is successful. ex: The Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas (adventure of successful revenge) | 112 | |
| 4143551618 | Satire - DTran | a type of writing that ridicules the shortcomings of people or institutions in an attempt to bring about a change. ex: Political cartoons | 113 | |
| 4143564830 | Simile - DTran | a figure of speech that makes an explicitly comparison between two unlike things, using words such as like, as , than, or resembles. ex: As big as a bear | 114 | |
| 4143568233 | Soliloquy - DTran | a long speech made by a character in a play while no other characters are on stage. ex: In Julius Caesar when Antony is alone with Caesar's dead body. | 115 | |
| 4143572896 | Stereotype - DTran | a fixed idea or conception of a character or an idea which does not allow for any individuality, often based on religious, social, or racial prejudices. ex: African Americans were stereotyped as the lower class or inferior before the civil rights movement. | 116 | |
| 4143582649 | Stream of consciousness - DTran | a style of writing that portrays the inner (often chaotic) workings of a character's mind. ex: interior monologue of a character | 117 | |
| 4143603654 | Style - DTran | the distinctive way in which a writer uses language: a writer's distinctive use of diction, tone, and syntax. ex: Charle's Dickens writing style involves superfluous and complicated diction. He also hints obscure but important details. | 118 | |
| 4143605728 | Suspense - DTran | a feeling of uncertainty and curiosity about what will happen next in a story. ex: The Great Gatsby after Myrtle is hit by the car. | 119 | |
| 4150413907 | Symbol - DTran | a person, place, thing, or event that has meaning in itself and that also stands for something more than itself. ex: Of Mice and Men - the dog that was shot symbolizes Lennie because of their uselessness and burden | 120 | |
| 4150430757 | Synecdoche - DTran | a figure of speech in which a part represents the whole. ex: "If you don't drive properly, you will lose your wheels." (The wheels represent the entire car) | 121 | |
| 4150435553 | Syntactic fluency - DTran | Ability to create a variety of sentence structures, appropriately complex and/or simple and varied in length. ex: Charles Dickens's writing | 122 | |
| 4150446254 | Syntactic permulation - DTran | Sentence structures that are extraordinarily complex and involved. Often difficult for a reader to follow. ex: Charles Dickens's writing | 123 | |
| 4150456702 | Tall Tale - DTran | an outrageously exaggerated, humorous story that is obviously unbelievable. ex: Folklore stories of talking animals | 124 | |
| 4150468195 | Telegraphic sentence - DTran | A sentence shorter than five words in length. ex: "Enough is enough." | 125 | |
| 4150605270 | Theme - DTran | the insight about human life that is revealed in a literary work ex: The theme of the predatory nature of people in Of Mice and Men | 126 | |
| 4150607914 | Tone - DTran | the attitude a writer takes toward the subject of a work, the characters in it, or the audience, revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization. ex: The tree, with its tremendous roots, sprout majestically from the barren ground. (tone is amazed and reverence) | 127 | |
| 4150625227 | Tragedy - DTran | in general, a story in which a heroic character either dies or comes to some other unhappy end. ex: Oedipus Rex or Romeo and Juliet | 128 | |
| 4150634042 | Tricolon - DTran | Sentence of three parts of equal importance and length, usually three independent clauses. ex: "You are as smart. You are as kind. You are as special." | 129 | |
| 4150637787 | Understatement - DTran | a statement that says less than what is meant. ex: -30 degrees weather - "it's not so warm outside" | 130 | |
| 4150646846 | Unity - DTran | Unified parts of the writing are related to one central idea or organizing principle. Unity is dependent upon coherence. ex: Objective essays | 131 | |
| 4150651467 | Vernacular - DTran | the language spoken by the people who live in a particular locality. ex: the vernacular of Americans is a dialect of English | 132 | |
| 4150882521 | Impressionism - DTran | a nineteenth-century movement in literature and art which advocated a recording of the artist's personal impressions of the world, rather than a strict representation of reality. ex: Closely relating to symbolism, Virginia Woolf | 133 | |
| 4150887475 | Modernism - DTran | a term for the bold new experimental styles and forms that swept the arts during the first third of the twentieth century. ex: The Great gatsby | 134 | |
| 4150889194 | Naturalism - DTran | a nineteenth century literary movement that was an extension of realism and that claimed to portray life exactly as it was. ex: The Jungle by Upton Sinclaire | 135 | |
| 4150893399 | Plain Style - DTran | Writing style that stresses simplicity and clarity of expression (but will still utilize allusions and metaphors), and was the main form of the Puritan writers. ex: William Bradford | 136 | |
| 4150920689 | Puritanism - DTran | Writing style of America's early English-speaking colonists - emphasizes obedience to God and consists mainly of journals, sermons, and poems. ex: The Scarlet Letter | 137 | |
| 4150926476 | Rationalism - DTran | a movement that began in Europe in the seventeenth century, which held that we can arrive at truth by using our reason rather than relying on the authority of the past, on the authority of the Church, or an institution. Also called neoclassicism and age of reason. ex: The enlightenment writers (Rene Descartes) | 138 | |
| 4150933883 | Realism - DTran | a style of writing, developed in the nineteenth century, that attempts to depict life accurately without idealizing or romanticizing it. ex: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | 139 | |
| 4150936923 | Regionalism - DTran | literature that emphasizes a specific geographic setting and that reproduces the speech, behavior, and attitudes of the people who live in that region. ex: To Kill a Mockingbird (southern setting) | 140 | |
| 4150940247 | Romanticism - DTran | a revolt against Rationalism that affected literature and the other arts, beginning in the late eighteenth century and remaining strong throughout most of the nineteenth century. ex: Don Quixote | 141 | |
| 4150942629 | Surrealism - DTran | in movement in art and literature that started in Europe during the 1920s. Surrealists wanted to replace conventional realism with the full expression of the unconscious mind, which they considered to be more real than the "real" world of appearances. ex: Sigmund Freud | 142 | |
| 4150953824 | Symbolism - DTran | a literary movement that originated in late nineteenth century France, in which writers rearranged version of reality. ex: The Scarlet Letter | 143 | |
| 4150957862 | Transcendentalism - DTran | a nineteenth century movement in the Romantic tradition, which held that every individual can reach ultimate truths through spiritual intuition, which transcends reasons and sensory experience. ex: Into the Wild | 144 |
