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| 67151869 | Noun | a thing, a person, a place, an idea. (Bug, bob, Boston, Brotherhood.). | 0 | |
| 67151870 | Verb | an action OR a form of to be (am is are was were be being been.). | 1 | |
| 67151871 | Pronoun | a word used in place of a noun. (I, you, we, us, she, him, her, in, they, them.). | 2 | |
| 67151872 | Adjective | a word that describes a noun. (that wagon, this wagon, red wagon.). | 3 | |
| 67151873 | Adverb | tells where, when, how. (I ran there. I ran guickly) OR a verb that tells to what degree. (Very pretty. extremely bright. too far. so far.) -ly words... happily. | 4 | |
| 67151874 | Conjunction | joingin words. FANBOYS are most common. (therefore, however, since.). | 5 | |
| 67151875 | Interjection | Oh! No. Yes. Well. also expletives. | 6 | |
| 67151876 | Preposition | words that begin a preposisitonal phrase and show the relationship between two things. (to the store, for dinner, around the corner, above the clouds.). | 7 | |
| 67151877 | Subject | does the action in a sentence, what the sentence is about. | 8 | |
| 67151878 | Verb | the action of the sentence or a linking verb that shows a form of to be. | 9 | |
| 67151879 | Prepositional Phrase | a preposition, maybe an adjective or two, and a noun. | 10 | |
| 67151880 | Independent Clauses | has a subkect and verb. Expresses a complete though. can stand alone as a sentence. | 11 | |
| 67151881 | Dependent Clause | has a subject and a verb, but doesn't express a complete thought. | 12 | |
| 67151882 | Simple Sentence | one independent clause. | 13 | |
| 67151883 | Compound | two independent clauses joined by a FANBOYS word OR a semicolon. | 14 | |
| 67151884 | Complex | one dependent clause, one independent clause. | 15 | |
| 67151885 | Compound-Complex | a compound sentence with a dependent clause. | 16 | |
| 67151886 | Affect | an action meaning to influence. | 17 | |
| 67151887 | Effect | end result. | 18 | |
| 67151888 | There | a place. | 19 | |
| 67151889 | They're | they are. | 20 | |
| 67151890 | Their | shows something belongs to them. | 21 | |
| 67151891 | Who | use when you would use he. | 22 | |
| 67151892 | Whom | use with you would use him. | 23 | |
| 67151893 | Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement | use single subject with single pronoun. | 24 | |
| 67151894 | Allegory | literarty work in which characters, events, objects, and ideas have secondary or symbolic meanings. | 25 | |
| 67151895 | Alliteration | repetition of the beginning consonant sound. Ex. rough and readt, Peter Piper. | 26 | |
| 67151896 | Allusion | reference to something outside of the work, usually mythical, Biblical, or historical. | 27 | |
| 67151897 | Anaphora | repetition of a word or words at the beginning of successive phrases or sentences. | 28 | |
| 67151898 | Antagonist | the person or thing that opposes the protagonidt. Sometimes called the villian. | 29 | |
| 67151899 | Archetype | a recurring and familiar pattern in literature, like a journey or a wise old man. | 30 | |
| 67151900 | Aside | when a character in a play speaks to the audience and not to the other characters. | 31 | |
| 67151901 | Assonance | repetition of an internal vowel sound, as in "How now brown cow.". | 32 | |
| 67151902 | Asyndeton | absense of conjunctions in a series of items. | 33 | |
| 67151903 | Autobiography | a story about a person written by that person. | 34 | |
| 67151904 | Ballad | poem which tells a story of a person from the past and is often set to music. | 35 | |
| 67151905 | Biography | an author's account or story of another person's life. | 36 | |
| 67151906 | Characterization | the way an author reveals his characters. Can be done directly of indirectly. | 37 | |
| 67151907 | Climax | high point of the story, point of most intense interest, and a point of no return. | 38 | |
| 67151908 | Conflict | the problem or complication in a story, usually between a person and something else... either another person, a force of nature, fate, or the person himself. | 39 | |
| 67151909 | Connotation | all the emmotions or feelings a word arouses, such as negative feelongd about 'pig'. | 40 | |
| 67151910 | Ellipsis | the ommission of words (not always signaled by ...). | 41 | |
| 67151911 | End Rhyme | rhyminig words that appear at the end of two or more lines of poetry. | 42 | |
| 67151912 | Exposition | the part of the story or play that explains the background or makes conflict clear. | 43 | |
| 67151913 | Falling Action | the action that takes place in a story after the climax and that resolves the conflict. | 44 | |
| 67151914 | First Person Point of View | told from the perspective on one character in the story. Designated by the pronoun "I". | 45 | |
| 67151915 | Flashback | when a story's sequence is interrupted and a character foes back to an earlier time. | 46 | |
| 67151916 | Foreshadowing | the use of clues that suggest events yet to come. | 47 | |
| 67151917 | Free Verse | poetry that is not written with a regular pattern of rhythm and rhyme. | 48 | |
| 67151918 | Genre | a frech word meaning form or type. literary genres are novel, essay, poetry, play. | 49 | |
| 67151919 | Hero | a character whose actions are inspiring or noble, and who overcomes difficulties. | 50 | |
| 67151920 | Hyperbole | exaggeration or stretching the truth for literary effect. "My shoes are killing me.". | 51 | |
| 67151921 | Iambic Pentameter | a meterical pattern of unstressed and stressed syllables common in poetry and in Shakespearean plays. The line contains ten syllables in the pattern. ~/~/~/~/~/. | 52 | |
| 67151922 | Imagery | words that describe sights, sounds, movements and recreate sensory experience. | 53 | |
| 67151923 | Irony | when something is different that it is supposed to be or thought to be. kinds of irony include verbal, dramatic, and situational. | 54 | |
| 67151924 | Litotes | a form of understatement using the negative. It's not a bad idea. | 55 | |
| 67151925 | Metaphor | comparison of two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'. | 56 | |
| 67151926 | Meter | the repetition of stressed and unstreesed syllables in a line of poetry. | 57 | |
| 67151927 | Monolouge | a speech or performance given entirely by one person or one character. | 58 | |
| 67151928 | Omniscient Point of View | when the story is told from the perspective of someone outside of the events but who knows and reveals all the character's thoughts and feelings. | 59 | |
| 67151929 | Onomatopoeia | the use of words that imitate sounds, as in buzz, hiss, or murmur. | 60 | |
| 67151930 | Oxymoron | two words used together that contradict each other, as in icy fire or sweet sorrow. | 61 | |
| 67151931 | Paradox | a statement that seems to be contradictory but that actually presents a truth. | 62 | |
| 67151932 | Parallelism | repetition of [hrases that have similar grammatical patterns. | 63 | |
| 67151933 | Personification | giving human characteristics to a non-human thing or substance. | 64 | |
| 67151934 | Plot | the sequence of events in a literary work. | 65 | |
| 67151935 | Point of View | the perspective from which a story is told. types are 1st person, 3rd person limited, omniscient, stream of consciousness, and dramatic. | 66 | |
| 67151936 | Polysyndeton | use of many conjunctions in a series of items. | 67 | |
| 67151937 | Prologue | the opening lines of a drama that give background information. | 68 | |
| 67151938 | Prose | the ordinary form of written language, not poetry, drama, or song. | 69 | |
| 67151939 | Protagonist | the main character in a literary work who drives the plot forward. | 70 | |
| 67151940 | Pun | a play on words when a word has move than ones meaning. | 71 | |
| 67151941 | Rhyme | repetition of sounds at the ends of words. | 72 | |
| 67151942 | Setting | time and place of a literary work. | 73 | |
| 67151943 | Simile | a comparison of two unlike things using the wowrd 'like' or 'as'. Love is like a rose. | 74 | |
| 67151944 | Soliloquy | speech deleivered by a character when he is alone on stages. | 75 | |
| 67151945 | Sonnet | fourteen lines of iambic pentameter- a very common form of poetry. | 76 | |
| 67151946 | Stanza | a unit or group of lines in poetry that are seperated by spaces. | 77 | |
| 67151947 | Style | an author's unique way of writing that involves word choice and sentence patterns. | 78 | |
| 67151948 | Symbol | something seen that stands for something unseen, as a rose for love, flag for country. | 79 | |
| 67151949 | Theme | centeral truth or idea in a story. | 80 | |
| 67151950 | Third Person Point of Veiw | when the story is told from the perspective of someone outside the events of the story but who reveals only one character's thoughts. | 81 | |
| 67151951 | Tone | the writer of speaker's attitude towards the subject of the work. | 82 | |
| 67151952 | Tradegy | a type of story that portrays the fall of a noble person, usually due to a tragic weakness or flaw in his/ her character. | 83 |
