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| 10393289347 | Antagonist | character(s) who is in conflict with the protagonist, attempting to prevent him/her from reaching his/her goal or resolution | 0 | |
| 10393289348 | Caricature | an exaggeration of a character's personal qualities for an intended effect | 1 | |
| 10393289349 | Direct Characterization | exposition of a character through explicit means of narration | 2 | |
| 10393289350 | Indirect Characterization | exposition of a character through implicit action | 3 | |
| 10393289351 | Dynamic character | character that is fully realized in most aspects of personality and who changes as a result of actions and experiences. | 4 | |
| 10393289352 | Foil | character who contrasts with another character, usually the protagonist, in order to highlight the characteristics of a more important character | 5 | |
| 10393289353 | Motivation | the reason for a character's actions, usually based on his/her moral nature and worldview | 6 | |
| 10393289354 | First Person Narrator | the person telling the story, who is also a character within the action of the story and therefore may be unreliable | 7 | |
| 10393289355 | Third Person Omniscient Narrator | the person telling the story who is able to move from the viewpoint of each or any character | 8 | |
| 10393289356 | Third Person Limited Narrator | the person telling the story from the viewpoint of usually only one character | 9 | |
| 10393289357 | Protagonist | the main character of the story, who is responsible for resolving the conflict | 10 | |
| 10393289358 | Stereotype | an oversimplified character, lacking individualizing traits and reinforcing an often-negative picture of a particular type of person | 11 | |
| 10393289359 | Stock Character | a character who is flat (not changing) and has only one or two identifying traits | 12 | |
| 10393289360 | Dynamic Character | a character who changes, who is complex and multi-faceted | 13 | |
| 10393289361 | Atmosphere | the prevailing mood of the work, usually established by the setting, thus giving an emotional tone that influences the reader's expectations and attitude toward the piece | 14 | |
| 10393289362 | Frame | a narrative that provides a framework for the main story, setting up the interior story at the beginning and providing closure at the end | 15 | |
| 10393289363 | Mood | the atmosphere created or suggested by the setting and diction | 16 | |
| 10393289364 | Occasion | the immediate context of a work that motivated the speaker's words | 17 | |
| 10393289365 | Setting | the narrative background, including geographical location, time, historical context, moral and religious conditions | 18 | |
| 10393289366 | Speaker | (Persona) the narrator of the work, who may or may not represent the author | 19 | |
| 10393289367 | Stream of Consciousness | presenting the continuous flow of thoughts, ideas, images, and feelings of a character the moment they run through his/her mind | 20 | |
| 10393289368 | Abstract language | describing intangible things like ideas or emotions; also denoting general qualities of a person or thing | 21 | |
| 10393289369 | Ambiguity | an intentional creation of multiple meanings, both the denotation and one or more connotations | 22 | |
| 10393289370 | Cliche | an overused expression, resulting in the loss of its freshness and clarity | 23 | |
| 10393289371 | Concrete language | diction referring to specific and tangible persons or things | 24 | |
| 10393289372 | Connotation | the emotional implications and associations of a word | 25 | |
| 10393289373 | Denotation | the literal meaning of a word (dictionary definition) | 26 | |
| 10393289374 | Dialect | speech marked by regional or social differences | 27 | |
| 10393289375 | Epithet | a word (noun or adjective) used to point out a meaningful characteristic | 28 | |
| 10393289376 | Euphemism | term that replaces another, possibly objectionable, term in order to avoid giving offense | 29 | |
| 10393289377 | Literal language | factual language, without embellishment | 30 | |
| 10393289378 | Usage | the level of discourse that may be formal or informal, used to aid in the characterization and tone of a work | 31 | |
| 10393289379 | Carpe diem | poetry with the theme of "seize the day" specifically applied to youth andlove | 32 | |
| 10393289380 | Comedy | a work that involves both with and humor through irony and incongruity | 33 | |
| 10393289381 | Comedy of manners | a comedy that exposes the weakness and failure of pretentious of a character | 34 | |
| 10393289382 | Complaint | a poem of lament or regret, with the speaker appealing for help | 35 | |
| 10393289383 | Dramatic monologue | an extended passage in which the speaker addresses a non-present listener | 36 | |
| 10393289384 | Elegy | a poetic meditation on death, usually for a specific person or condition | 37 | |
| 10393289385 | Mock epic | a satirical work using the lofty style of the epic in relation to a trivial event or object | 38 | |
| 10393289386 | Lyric verse | a shorter poem expressing an emotional state in a single, unified impression | 39 | |
| 10393289387 | Parody | a work imitating a serious piece of literature in order to ridicule the work or the author | 40 | |
| 10393289388 | Romance | an imaginative work with exotic characters and settings, heroic events, love, and the supernatural, with an occasional disregard of realism | 41 | |
| 10393289389 | Horatian Satire | a satirical work that gently ridicules human absurdities and foibles, often in the form of a comedy of manners | 42 | |
| 10393289390 | Juvenalian Satire | a satirical work that harshly attacks vice and error with contempt | 43 | |
| 10393289391 | Tragedy | a work depicting the struggle of the protagonist in the face of inevitable defeat, often through his/her own pride or other fatal flaw | 44 | |
| 10393289392 | Antecedent action | action that came before the starting point of a work | 45 | |
| 10393289393 | Climax | the point of highest interest, the turning point of the plot | 46 | |
| 10393289394 | Conflict | the struggle between two opposing forces; may be internal or external, a conflict with nature, a human being, society, or the character's own self | 47 | |
| 10393289395 | Denouement | the falling action of the story, in which the solution or outcome is provided | 48 | |
| 10393289396 | Exposition | introductory material that establishes the setting and mood, as well as the different characters and their relationships | 49 | |
| 10393289397 | Flashback | antecedent action that is recalled by the character through inner reflection | 50 | |
| 10393289398 | Foreshadowing | the preparation for later plot elements as revealed through action or dialogue | 51 | |
| 10393289399 | Resolution | the falling action of a story after the climax | 52 | |
| 10393289400 | Rising action | the introduction of the conflict that drives the work | 53 | |
| 10393289401 | Subplot | a separate line of events that are related in some way to the main plot | 54 | |
| 10393289402 | Interior monologue | a stream-of-consciousness experience on a non-verbalized level, usually representing sensations or emotions | 55 | |
| 10393289403 | Naive narrator | narrator, such as a child, who does not understand the full implications of the narrative | 56 | |
| 10393289404 | Objective narrator | narrator who reports only what he/she can see and hear, without comment | 57 | |
| 10393289405 | Omniscient narrator | narrator who can be inside the minds of all characters and reports from multiple points of view | 58 | |
| 10393289406 | Unreliable narrator | the person telling the story, who is also a character within the action of the story and reports events from a personal bias and self-justification | 59 | |
| 10393289407 | Emphasis | indication of relative importance of elements by means of climatic order, placement, repetition, accumulation of detail, or contrast | 60 | |
| 10393289408 | Grammatical inversion | inversion of word order for a particular effect or to fit meter | 61 | |
| 10393289409 | Juxtaposition | the placement of words or phrases side by side to achieve a particular effect | 62 | |
| 10393289410 | Level of discourse | the use of formal or informal language for a particular purpose or impression | 63 | |
| 10393289411 | Emphatic position | the usage of syntax by placing one element in a position to indicate its importance | 64 | |
| 10393289412 | Subordinate position | the usage of syntax by place one or more elements in a position to indicate its lesser importance | 65 | |
| 10393289413 | Loose sentence | a sentence that contains a subject and predicate with many modifiers, tending to be long and rambling | 66 | |
| 10393289414 | Periodic sentence | a sentence that withholds the main clause until the end of the sentence | 67 | |
| 10393289415 | Active voice | verb structure showing the subject taking action | 68 | |
| 10393289416 | Passive voice | verb structure showing the subject receiving action | 69 | |
| 10393289417 | Authorial voice | the discernible presence of the author as distinct from the narrator, revealing a particular perspective, mood, and tone | 70 | |
| 10393289418 | Humor | a type of comedy that is sympathetic with the foibles of human nature, exposing the ridiculous and comical aspects of human affairs | 71 | |
| 10393289419 | Hyperbole | an overstatement used for humor or to height an particular effect | 72 | |
| 10393289420 | Dramatic irony | an incongruity of events or situations of which the character is unaware but the audience sees clearly | 73 | |
| 10393289421 | Irony of situation | a situation which is the opposite of what both the character and the audience might expect | 74 | |
| 10393289422 | Verbal irony | use of words to express the opposite of what they mean | 75 | |
| 10393289423 | Sarcasm | a statement, often expressing the opposite of the meaning of the words, that is meant to hurt or show disapproval | 76 | |
| 10393289424 | Sentimentalism | the conscious overindulgence of emotion in order to enjoy that emotion, replacing ethical and intellectual judgment | 77 | |
| 10393289425 | Understatement | a statement whose literal sense is far less than the magnitude of the subject or circumstance | 78 | |
| 10393289426 | Wit | the person telling the story from the viewpoint of usually only one character | 79 | |
| 10393289427 | Allusion | a brief reference to a commonly known historical or literary figure or work | 80 | |
| 10393289428 | Analogy | a description or explanation of something unfamiliar through a description ofsomething more familiar | 81 | |
| 10393289429 | Anaphora | the repetition of the same word or words at the start of two or more lines of poetry | 82 | |
| 10393289430 | Anticlimax | the placement of details of lesser importance where something greater is expected | 83 | |
| 10393289431 | Antithesis | the use of contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas, balancing one against the other in a strong opposition. | 84 | |
| 10393289432 | Catalog | the use of lists of people, things, or attributes | 85 | |
| 10393289433 | Incongruity | the linking of two incompatible things, often used humorously | 86 | |
| 10393289434 | Incremental repetition | the use of repetition to effect successive minor changes in order to enhance and intensify the meaning | 87 | |
| 10393289435 | Oxymoron | a combination of ostensibly self-contradictory words | 88 | |
| 10393289436 | Paradox | a seemingly contradictory statement that is in fact well-founded, pointing toward the truth | 89 | |
| 10393289437 | Parallelism | the presentation of coordinate ideas in a coordinate manner, developing one element of equal importance with another similar element | 90 | |
| 10393289438 | Rhetorical accent | a stress on what would normally be an unaccented syllable, to clarify the meaning or intention of a sentence | 91 | |
| 10393289439 | Rhetorical question | a question asked for effect, not to elicit a reply, to which the answer is almost always negative | 92 | |
| 10393289440 | Structure | the plot or plan of a text | 93 | |
| 10393289441 | Volta | a turn; a change in thought signaled by words like but, however, yet, etc. | 94 | |
| 10393289442 | Auditory | a literal representation of an sound experience, or an object that can beknown by the sense of sound | 95 | |
| 10393289443 | Gustatory | a literal representation of a taste experience, or an object that can be known by the sense of taste | 96 | |
| 10393289444 | Olfactory | a literal representation of a smelling experience, or an object that can be known by the sense of smell | 97 | |
| 10393289445 | Tactile | a literal representation of a touch experience, or an object that can be known by the sense of touch | 98 | |
| 10393289446 | Visual | a literal representation of a sight experience, or an object that can be known bythe sense of sight | 99 | |
| 10393289447 | Caesura | a pause in a line of poetry created by the natural speaking rhythm or punctuation, rather than by meter | 100 | |
| 10393289448 | End stop | a line of poetry complete as a grammatical unit | 101 | |
| 10393289449 | Enjambment | a line of poetry whose grammatical construction continues on to the next line | 102 | |
| 10393289450 | Ballad stanza | a stanza of four lines, usually with a rhyme scheme of abab or abcb | 103 | |
| 10393289451 | Cinquain | a stanza of five lines | 104 | |
| 10393289452 | Envoy | closing stanza of four lines with an abab rhyme scheme; addressed to a prince | 105 | |
| 10393289485 | or patron and often repeats the refrain line or provides a summary | 106 | ||
| 10393289453 | Nonce form | a poetic work that has only one stanza | 107 | |
| 10393289454 | Octave | a stanza containing eight lines | 108 | |
| 10393289455 | Quatrain | a stanza containing four lines | 109 | |
| 10393289456 | Refrain | one or more words repeated throughout a poem, usually at the end of a stanza | 110 | |
| 10393289457 | Iambic | meter with two syllables, the second syllable being stressed | 111 | |
| 10393289458 | Trochaic | meter with two syllables, the first syllable being stressed | 112 | |
| 10393289459 | Falling meter | meter in which the first syllable is stressed | 113 | |
| 10393289460 | Foot | a measurement containing a certain number of heavy and light stresses | 114 | |
| 10393289461 | Monometer | a line of poetry containing one metrical foot | 115 | |
| 10393289462 | Dimeter | a line of poetry containing two metrical feet | 116 | |
| 10393289463 | Trimeter | a line of poetry containing three metrical feet | 117 | |
| 10393289464 | Tetrameter | a line of poetry containing four metrical feet | 118 | |
| 10393289465 | Pentameter | a line of poetry containing five metrical feet | 119 | |
| 10393289466 | Hexameter | a line of poetry containing six metrical feet | 120 | |
| 10393289467 | Septameter | a line of poetry containing seven metrical feet | 121 | |
| 10393289468 | Rising Meter | meter in which the last syllable is stressed | 122 | |
| 10393289469 | Scansion | system for describing conventional rhythms, dividing lines into syllables and analyzing the stressed and unstressed syllable to determine the predominant rhythm of the poem | 123 | |
| 10393289470 | Stress | the accenting or emphasizing of a syllable | 124 | |
| 10393289471 | Couplet | two consecutive lines of verse with the same end rhyme | 125 | |
| 10393289472 | Double rhyme | a rhyme of stressed syllables followed by indentical unstressed syllables | 126 | |
| 10393289473 | End rhyme | rhyme found at the end of a line of verse | 127 | |
| 10393289474 | Full rhyme | a rhyme containing the same vowel but different preceding consonants; also called a perfect rhyme | 128 | |
| 10393289475 | Internal rhyme | a rhyme within a line of verse, rather than at the end | 129 | |
| 10393289476 | Rhyme scheme | a pattern of rhymes, shown by a letter of the alphabet for each rhyming sound | 130 | |
| 10393289477 | Slant rhyme | a rhyme with close, but not perfect, rhyming sounds | 131 | |
| 10393289478 | Alliteration | the repetition of initial consonant sounds in words in close proximity | 132 | |
| 10393289479 | Assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds, but not of ending consonant sounds (not a full rhyme) | 133 | |
| 10393289480 | Cacophony | the conscious use of a combination of harsh, unpleasant sounds | 134 | |
| 10393289481 | Consonance | the repetition of the final consonants in stresses syllables, but with different vowel sounds that precede them | 135 | |
| 10393289482 | Euphony | pleasant, easy to articulate sounds | 136 | |
| 10393289483 | Onomatopoeia | a word that is an imitation of a sound | 137 | |
| 10393289484 | Sibilance | have the sounds of s, z, or sh | 138 |
