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| 8864088222 | apostrophe | figure of speech that directly expresses an absent or imaginary person or abstraction |  | 0 |
| 8864098539 | slant rhyme | A rhyming sound that is not exact. |  | 1 |
| 8864103448 | terza rima | A three-line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc. | 2 | |
| 8864118614 | rhyme royal | a seven-line stanza of iambic pentameter rhymed ababbcc | 3 | |
| 8864121078 | ode | a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject | 4 | |
| 8864132468 | ardour/ardor | passion, enthusiasm | 5 | |
| 8864137078 | abhor | to detest; to hate strongly | 6 | |
| 8864147113 | verisimilitude | the appearance of being true or real | 7 | |
| 8864147116 | veracity | truthfulness | 8 | |
| 8864148958 | bildungsroman | coming of age story | 9 | |
| 8864153588 | conceit | an extended metaphor/simile that is surprising or uncommon | 10 | |
| 8864161027 | metaphysical poetry | +Concerned with the fundamental problems of the nature of the universe/man's function or place in life +the work of poets, particularly those of the seventeenth century, that implies elaborate conceits +discusses philosophy of knowledge and existence | 11 | |
| 8864175323 | sonnet | 14 lines of iambic pentameter | 12 | |
| 8864180466 | iambic | unstressed, stressed | 13 | |
| 8864184398 | trochaic | stressed, unstressed | 14 | |
| 8864184402 | alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds | 15 | |
| 8864186267 | allusion | A reference to another work of literature, person, or event | 16 | |
| 8864191195 | Petrarchan sonnet | Italian sonnet octave (8 lines) rhyming abbaabba, followed by sestet (6 lines) rhyming cdecde | 17 | |
| 8864202142 | Shakespearean Sonnet | a sonnet form divided into three quatrains and one couplet; also called an English sonnet ABAB CDCD EFEF GG | 18 | |
| 8864212414 | capricious | given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behavior | 19 | |
| 8864215087 | benevolent | kindly, charitable | 20 | |
| 8864219148 | archetype | a very typical example of a certain person or thing | 21 | |
| 8864308684 | ballad | a type of poem that is meant to be sung and is both lyric and narrative in nature | 22 | |
| 8864313579 | metonymy | replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated | 23 | |
| 8864320333 | synecdoche | using a part of something to represent the whole thing | 24 | |
| 8864333340 | volta | the turn of thought or argument in a sonnet | 25 | |
| 8864340172 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | 26 | |
| 8864350051 | onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. | 27 | |
| 8864354543 | pastoral poem | a poem that deals with idealized rural life | 28 | |
| 8864360972 | foot | A metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables (2-3syllables). | 29 | |
| 8864368845 | meter | A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry | 30 | |
| 8864371410 | form | fixed metrical arrangement | 31 | |
| 8864378494 | free verse | poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter | 32 | |
| 8864383440 | enjambment | the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza. | 33 | |
| 8864385722 | end stopped | A line of poetry that ends with a punctuation mark | 34 | |
| 8864389615 | caesura | A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line. | 35 | |
| 8864394037 | circumspect | careful, cautious | 36 | |
| 8864398216 | quasi | somewhat | 37 | |
| 8864401705 | paradox | an apparently contradictory statement that actually contains some truth | 38 | |
| 8864404468 | ethos | credibility | 39 | |
| 8864404469 | pathos | Appeal to emotion | 40 | |
| 8864407045 | logos | Appeal to logic | 41 | |
| 8864411356 | debilitate | impair the strength of; weaken | 42 | |
| 8864415335 | countenance | facial expression | 43 | |
| 8864419237 | fastidious | giving and careful attention to detail | 44 | |
| 8864430704 | vignettes | brief descriptive sketches; short stories; anecdotes | 45 | |
| 8864532894 | didactic | intended to instruct | 46 | |
| 8864536647 | amiable | (adj.) friendly, good-natured | 47 | |
| 8864538351 | malevolent | spiteful, showing ill will | 48 | |
| 8864544679 | irony | a contrast between what is expected and what actually exists or happens | 49 | |
| 8864550161 | hyperbole | exaggeration | 50 | |
| 8869136553 | synecdoche | referring to a violin as "strings" is an example of... | 51 | |
| 8869149689 | diction | A writer's or speaker's choice of words | 52 | |
| 8869161524 | alliteration | "beaded bubbles winking at the brim" (Keats) is an example of... | 53 | |
| 8869198616 | epithet | Term replacing a name/thing (used to characterize). Ex. "Jack the Ripper" | 54 | |
| 8869211503 | epigram | short, witty statement, graceful and ingenious | 55 | |
| 8869630352 | miser | one who saves greedily | 56 | |
| 8869707035 | personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes | 57 | |
| 8869720764 | quatrain | 4 line stanza | 58 | |
| 8869720767 | tercet | 3 line stanza | 59 | |
| 8869729314 | couplet | two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme (usually) | 60 | |
| 8869775422 | allegory | +A literary work in which characters, objects, or actions represent abstractions +A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself. | 61 | |
| 8869790376 | antithesis | the direct opposite, a sharp contrast | 62 | |
| 8869798103 | juxtapose | to place side by side, especially for comparison or contrast | 63 | |
| 8869802502 | vile | disgusting | 64 | |
| 8869802504 | fiend | evil spirit; devil | 65 | |
| 8869806103 | colloquial | pertaining to common everyday speech; conversational | 66 | |
| 8869815678 | repartee | quick, witty conversation | 67 | |
| 8869824192 | fallibility | capable of making a mistake/being wrong | 68 | |
| 8869847510 | terza rima | aba bcb cdc etc. | 69 | |
| 8869852644 | Spenserian sonnet | abab bcbc cdcd ee | 70 | |
| 8869953116 | static character | A character that does not change from the beginning of the story to the end | 71 | |
| 8870005430 | dynamic character | A character who grows, learns, or changes as a result of the story's action | 72 | |
| 8870005434 | flat character | A character who is not very well developed; has few identifiable characteristics | 73 | |
| 8870009910 | round character | this character is fully developed and complex - the writer reveals good and bad traits as well as background | 74 | |
| 8870017308 | foil character | a character's whose main purpose is to highlight the strengths of another character | 75 | |
| 8870871741 | syntax | the manner in which words are arranged into sentences | 76 | |
| 9806589146 | motif | a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work | 77 | |
| 9806601465 | theme | A message about life or human nature that the writer shares with the reader. Central idea of a work of literature | 78 | |
| 9806614979 | abstract | theoretical; not concrete; nonrepresentational | 79 | |
| 9806614980 | concrete | existing in a material or physical form; real or solid; not abstract. | 80 | |
| 9806623451 | ambiguity | multiple meanings--- The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage. | 81 | |
| 9806639897 | mood | Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader | 82 | |
| 9806643068 | tone | the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc. | 83 | |
| 9806661578 | pedantic | adjective that describes words, phrases, or a general tone that is overly scholarly, academic, or bookish. | 84 | |
| 9806678122 | synesthesia | describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound") | 85 | |
| 9806685950 | bathos | insincere or overly sentimental quality of writing/speech intended to evoke pity | 86 | |
| 9806690150 | dissonance | harsh, inharmonious, or discordant sounds | 87 | |
| 9806692546 | litotes | understatement | 88 | |
| 9806713668 | direct characterization | Author directly describes character | 89 | |
| 9806719678 | indirect characterization | we find out about characters indirectly through thoughts, comments, or actions of the characters | 90 | |
| 9806752856 | tragic flaw | the character flaw or error of a tragic hero that leads to his downfall | 91 | |
| 9806756665 | character motivation | an emotion, desire, physiological need, or similar impulse that acts as an incitement to action for a character. | 92 | |
| 9806761475 | anti-hero | a protagonist who lacks the characteristics that would make him a hero (or her a heroine) | 93 | |
| 9806767086 | aside | a line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage | 94 | |
| 9806767087 | colloquial | conversational | 95 | |
| 9806770561 | diction | word choice | 96 | |
| 9806773444 | euphemism | Substituting a mild, indirect, or vague term for a harsh, blunt, or offensive one. | 97 | |
| 9806780333 | Figure of speech | Broadly, any way of saying something other than the ordinary way; more narrowly, a way of saying on thing and meaning another. | 98 | |
| 9806786858 | monologue | a dramatic soliloquy | 99 | |
| 9806790821 | soliloquy | A device often used in drama where by a character relates his or her thoughts and feelings to him/herself and to the audience without addressing any of the other characters. | 100 | |
| 9806794595 | pun | A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words. | 101 | |
| 9806806098 | sarcasm | bitter or cutting speech | 102 | |
| 9806813309 | understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. | 103 | |
| 9806822425 | denouement | (resolution) conclusion of the story. | 104 | |
| 9806825349 | exposition | The part of a play (usually at the beginning) that provides the background information needed to understand the characters and actions. | 105 | |
| 9806829441 | First Person | "I" and "Me" standpoint. Personal perspective. | 106 | |
| 9806833013 | flashback | when a portion of the story goes back in time | 107 | |
| 9806833014 | flashforward | A part of the plot that jumps ahead in time and returns to the present | 108 | |
| 9806835965 | in medias res | in or into the middle of a plot; into the middle of things | 109 | |
| 9806848954 | limited omniscient | A third person who reports only the thoughts of only one character and what he sees. | 110 | |
| 9806854619 | stream of consciousness | A literary technique that presents the thoughts and feelings of a character as they occur. | 111 | |
| 9806858460 | unreliable narrator | a narrator whose account of events appears to be faulty, misleadingly biased, or otherwise distorted | 112 | |
| 9806861831 | objective POV | the narrator knows or appears to know no more than the reader | 113 | |
| 9806868532 | omniscient POV | all-knowing speaker shares the actions, thoughts, and dialogue of all characters | 114 | |
| 9806874006 | frame narrative | a story within a story | 115 | |
| 9806881337 | anticlimax | abrupt decline from the dignified or important to the trivial or ludicrous; comedown; bathos | 116 | |
| 9806896431 | comic relief | A humorous scene or speech intended to lighten the mood | 117 | |
| 9806896432 | dilemma | a situation in which a character must choose between two courses of action, both undesirable. | 118 | |
| 9806901140 | deus ex machina | an unexpected power or event saving a seemingly hopeless situation | 119 | |
| 9806915869 | inversion | reversal in order, nature, or effect. | 120 | |
| 9806922239 | aversion | firm dislike | 121 | |
| 9806926485 | suspension of disbelief | occurs when you surrender doubts about the reality of a story and become caught up in the story | 122 | |
| 9806937791 | connotation | the implied or associative meaning of a word | 123 | |
| 9806940898 | denotation | the dictionary definition of a word | 124 | |
| 9806945703 | extended figure | a figure of speech (usually metaphor, simile, personification, or apostrophe) sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem. | 125 | |
| 9806956915 | parallel structure | the repetition of phrases, clauses, or sentences that have the same grammatical structure | 126 | |
| 9806964857 | assonance | Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity | 127 | |
| 9806964858 | consonance | Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity. | 128 | |
| 9806974280 | ballad meter | stanzas formed of quatrains of iambs, alternating between tetrameter and trimeter. | 129 | |
| 9806985440 | dactyl | a foot of one accented and two unaccented syllables | 130 | |
| 9806988376 | anapest | foot consisting of two unaccented syllables followed by one accented | 131 | |
| 9806998743 | end rhyme | Rhyme that occurs at the end of two or more lines of poetry | 132 | |
| 9807003946 | heroic couplet | Poems constructed by a sequence of two lines of (usually rhyming) verse in iambic pentameter. | 133 | |
| 9807013214 | internal rhyme | rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end | 134 | |
| 9807024322 | tetrameter | four feet per line | 135 | |
| 9807024323 | pentameter | five feet per line | 136 | |
| 9807032795 | Shift | In writing, a movement from one thought, tone or idea to another; a change. | 137 | |
| 9807046008 | villanelle | a nineteen-line poem divided into five tercets and a final quatrain | 138 | |
| 9807058886 | gothic | of the middle ages; of or relating to a mysterious, grotesque, and desolate style of fiction | 139 | |
| 9807058887 | fable | A brief story that leads to a moral, often using animals as characters | 140 |
