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8259252435ProtagonistThe central character of a narrative, the character through whom the lesson of the story is learned.0
8259361035George Orwell19841
8259252436SimileA comparison of two items using "like" or "as."2
8259375261F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Great Gatsby3
8259252437Point of ViewThe vantage point from which a story is told (first and third person).4
8259394132J. D. SalingerThe Catcher in the Rye5
8259252438ConnotationAnother significant meaning of a word, often steeped in symbol or feeling.6
8259403977Jane AustenPride and Prejudice7
8259252439CharacterizationThe manner by which an author develops a character within a narrative.8
8259415553Mark TwainAdventure of Huckleberry Finn9
8259252440DialogueThe spoken words of two or more character within a narrative.10
8259436285Leo TolstoyAnna Karenina11
8259252441ImageryThe picture in your mind that the words from the page create; can be figurative, symbolic, or literal.12
8259444539Charlotte BronteJane Eyre13
8259252442Situational IronyAn EVENT where the opposite of what's expected happens.14
8259462355Herman MelvilleMoby Dick15
8259252443Dramatic IronyWhen the reader or audience knows something a character does not know, and that knowledge in important to the flow of events.16
8259471805William ShakespeareHamlet17
8259252444EgoRepresents and enforces principle reality. Oriented towards perceptions in the real world and associated with reason and sanity.18
8259477172HomerThe Iliad19
8259252445Historical FictionA narrative which tells the story of a real moment in history but embellishes it at least slightly (factual, dated).20
8259484753Gabriel Garcia MarquezOne Hundred Years of Solitude21
8259252446ThemeThe main idea of a work of literature; the message is the author sending to the reader.22
8259492045Gustave FlaubertMadame Bovary23
8259252447ParadigmA set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality for the community that shares them, especially in an intellectual discipline.24
8259499663Fyodor DostoyevskyCrime and Punishment25
8259252448DialectA regional variety of language, often with distinct accents and usage, including but not limited to whole phrases.26
8259511396Emily BrontëWuthering Heights27
8259252449Oedipus ComplexA psychological aspect where a child, usually male, has strong, even desirous feelings for the parent of the opposite sex.28
8259527647Virginia WoolfTo the Lighthouse29
8259252450DenotationThe EXPLICIT meaning of a word or a particular meaning of a symbol.30
8259533799Charles DickensGreat Expectations31
8259252451AllusionA reference to another work of literature or to a part of another work of literature or to a moment in history.32
8259556701Geoffrey ChaucerThe Canterbury Tales33
8259252452ConflictThe struggle between two opposing forces in a piece of literature, which the story is built around- The forces are the protagonist and the antagonist.34
8259577931Charles DickensA Tale of Two Cities35
8259252453SettingThe time and the place of the action of the story.36
8259584676Ernest HemingwayThe Old Man and the Sea37
8259252454CatharsisThe releasing of certain emotions in the audience: a feeling of pity and hatred for the actions of the tragic hero.38
8259593676John SteinbeckEast of Eden39
8259252455ActA division within the drama, usually seen as the "chapter" of a novel.40
8259604155Ernest HemingwayFor Whom the Bell Tolls41
8259252456AutobiographyA truthful account of the life of a person, as told and written by that person.42
8259618976Harper LeeTo Kill a Mockingbird43
8259252457ToneThe attitude the author has toward the work, displayed through the language being used.44
8259627139John SteinbeckThe Grapes of Wrath45
8259252458ColloquialismA local variation of language, as in a word or phrase, found within particular dialects.46
8259637913Joseph HellerCatch 2247
8259252459ParadoxA seemingly contradictory statement that may nonetheless be true.48
8259645749James JoyceUlysses49
8259252460Dynamic CharacterA character who undergoes growth and development during the literary work in which he/she resides.50
8259654261William FaulknerThe Sound and the Fury51
8259252461Static CharacterA character of one dimension and personality trait who remains unchanged by the events of the literary work in which he/she resides.52
8259662236Miguel de CervantesDon Quixote53
8259252462BiographyA truthful account of the life a person, told and written by another person.54
8259676141Leo TolstoyWar and Peace55
8259252463SceneA small division of drama within an act, usually of the same setting as the act, but not by definition.56
8259683895Charles DickensDavid Copperfield57
8259252464StereotypeA conventional and oversimplified opinion or belief about a person or group of people who may share similar characteristics; taking one characteristic of an individual and spreading that characteristic over the group that individual belongs to.58
8259700270William GoldingLord of the Flies59
8259252465VirtueThe quality of moral excellence, righteousness, and responsibility, probity; goodness.60
8259705782Toni MorrisonBeloved61
8259252466ViceAn evil, degrading or immoral practice of habit; a serious moral failing.62
8259717414Lewis CarrollAlice in Wonderland63
8259252467Complex CharacterA character w/ different traits and aspects of personality but who neither grows nor changes during the literary work in which he resides.64
8259726220Aldous HuxleyBrave New World65
8259252468SuperegoThe part of the personality which acts as a moral monitor to the behaviors of the individual. It is the faculty that seeks to police what it deems unacceptable desires; it represent all moral restrictions.66
8259733345Nathaniel HawthorneThe Scarlet Letter A67
8259252469Direct QuotationUsing the words of a source directly.68
8259741221John SteinbeckOf Mice and Men69
8259252470PlotThe events which make up a story line.70
8259768254William ShakespeareMacbeth71
8259747023Jonathan SwiftGulliver's Travel72
8259774633William ShakespeareRomeo and Juliet73
8259252471StyleThe language used by the writer, as well as the narrative techniques used, working together to form the full aspect of the printed material in front of us.74
8259782762William ShakespeareOthello75
8259252472OmniscientThe third person narrator who sees all and know all -even the thoughts- about the character of the story.76
8259789401William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's Dream77
8259252473NemesisThat force which restores order within a tragedy, named for the goddess of retributive justice.78
8259794870William ShakespeareKing Lear79
8259252474MetaphorA comparison of unlike things without using 'like' or 'as.'80
8259802487William ShakespeareJulius Caesar81
8259252475IronyA contrast between what is stated and what is meant; there are verbal irony, situational irony, and dramatic irony.82
8259835361Arthur MillerThe Crucible83
8259826768Thornton WilderOur Town84
8259814550Tennessee WilliamA Streetcar Named Desire85
8259252476ForeshadowTo use details and images to hint at events to come in the narrative.86
8259855666Lin-Manuel MirandaHamilton87
8259252477AnalysisThe separation of an intellectual whole into its component parts in order to better understand and to reach a truth.88
8259873628Marcel ProustIn Search of Lost Time89
8259252478Indirect QuotationUsing the words of the author, though not in a direct, word-for-word borrowing.90
8259896961Anton ChekhovThe Stories of Anton Chekhov91
8259252479ParaphraseTo put the words of the author into your own words.92
8259966856John BunyanPilgrim's Progress93
8259252480NovellaA prose fictional narrative containing all the elements of a novel but much shorter.94
8259975125Daniel DefoeRobinson Crusoe95
8259252481Tragic HeroA person of noble birth whose personal destruction is in some way involved w/ the well being of his/her world and who faces a battle of morals; her/his destruction comes from a flaw with his/her personality.96
8259983680Samuel RichardsonClarissa97
8259252482InsightThe act of outcome of grasping the inward or hidden nature of things which in turn tells the grasper a significant message about herself/himself; makes the learning personal, owned.98
8259998936Jane AustenEmma99
8259252483Stream-of-consciousnessThe unbroken flow of thought and awareness of the waking mind; a special mode of narration that undertakes to capture the full spectrum and the continuous flow of a character's mental processes.100
8260005634Mary ShelleyFrankenstein101
8259252484RhetoricThe body of principles and theory having to do with the presentation of the facts and ideas in clear, convincing, and attractive language.102
8260015817William Makepeace ThackerayVanity Fair103
8259252485Ad hominemAppealing to persona considerations rather than to logic or reason.104
8260025149Wilkie CollinsThe Woman in White105
8259252486A prioriInvolving deductive reasoning from a general principle to a necessary effect; not supported by facts.106
8260033825Louisa M. AlcottLittle Women107
8259252487Purple patchA selection of writing which contains an unusual piling up devices in such a way as to evidence a self-conscious literary effort; a colorful passage standing out from the writing around it.108
8260042782Robert Louis StevensonThe Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde109
8259252488EuphemismThe act or an example of substituting a mild, indirect, or vague term for one considered harsh, blunt, or offensive.110
8260050864Jack LondonThe Call of the Wild111
8259252489ApostropheWhen an absent person, an abstract concept, or an important object is directly addressed.112
8260067413E. B. WhiteCharlotte's Web113
8259252490DichotomyDivision into two usually contradictory parts or opinions.114
8260092507J. R. R. TolkienThe Lord Of The Rings115
8259252491TragedyA literary work, usually a drama, which deals with human themes; several elements are involved: hamartia, hubris, catharsis, nemesis; in a tragedy, a hero will fall due to elements within the personality.116
8260100053Jack KerouacOn the Road117
8259252492HubrisExcessive pride, especially found within the tragic hero.118
8259252493Local colorThe interests or flavor of a specific locality as expressed in a story through language.119
8259252494NarrativeThe story of a fictional or actual events as told by the teller.120
8259252495NaturalismA factual representation, conforming to nature, especially in art and literature.121
8259252496RealismA truthful representation, with an inclination toward pragmatism, that is accurate to life's xpression.122
8259252497Short StoryA fictional prose, dealing essentially with a single conflict, which can be read in a single session.123
8259252498Pleasure PrincipleThe concept that pleasure is the only thing that matters and any manner of attaining it is fine; often this is the role of the Id, the earliest part of the developing personality.124
8259252499Reality PrincipleThe function which monitors the Id; the concept that some things are more important than immediate pleasure, namely, the continuation of pleasure after the initial gaining of it.125
8259252500DenouementThe point in the story after the conflict is resolved.126
8259252501DramaA full-length work of fiction that is written in dialogue, meant to be performed upon a stage.127
8259252502FlashbackStopping the flow of the narrative to return to a setting or even earlier in the tale, even to events that predate the earliest part of the plot.128
8259252503HamartiaThe tragic flaw of a tragic hero; that which will make the hero fall; this needs to be a trait that is generally considered a good thing.129
8259252504DescriptionThe words the author uses to fully detail a place or thing; these words will bring pictures to the mind.130
8259252505SymbolSomething which stands for and represents itself but also stands for something much greater than itself.131
8259252506ClimaxThe point in the story when the conflict is resolved- where we know who wins this conflict, the protagonist or the antagonist.132
8259252507NovelA full-length prose fiction where the narrative is the chief story-telling element and several conflicts, settings, and characters will dwell.133
8259252508ParallelismA structural arrangement of parts of a sentence, sentences, paragraphs, and larger units of composition by which one element of equal importance with another is similarly developed and phrased.134
8259252509Pathetic FallacyFalse emotionalism in writing resulting in a too impassioned description of nature; it is the carrying over to inanimate objects the moods and passions of a human being.135
8259252510HistrionicsA deliberate display of emotion for effect.136
8259252511HagiographyA biography that idealizes or idolizes the person (especially a person who is a saint).137
8259252512IdiomaticOf or pertaining to, or conforming to, the mode of expression peculiar to a language.138
8259252513MetonymySubstituting a word for another word closely associated with it.139
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