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| 4589662359 | Abstract | Definition : thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances. Example: Michael Simpson, "Who Didn't Kill Blake's Fly: Moral Law and the Rule of Grammar in 'Songs of Experience.'" | 0 | |
| 4589664711 | Adage | Definition : A traditional saying expressing a common experience or observation; proverb. Example: All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. | 1 | |
| 4589666609 | Allegory | Definition : A representation of an abrtract or spiritual meaning through concrete or material forms; figurative treatment of one subject under the guise of another . Example: "Faerie Queen", a masterpiece of Edmund Spenser, is a moral and religious allegory. | 2 | |
| 4589667427 | Alliteration | Definition : The commencement of two or more streesed syllables of a word group either wit the same constant sound or sound group ( consonatal alliteration) as in from stem to stern, or with a vowel sound that may differ from syllable to syllable (vocalic alliteration) as in each to all. Example: "The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free; We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea." | 3 | |
| 4589669924 | Allusion | Definition : a passing or casual refernce; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication Example: "All night the dread less Angel unpursu'd Through Heav'ns wide Champain held his way, till Morn, Wak't by the circling Hours, with rosie hand Unbarr'd the gates of Light. There is a Cave Within the Mount of God, fast by his Throne" | 4 | |
| 4589670595 | Ambiguity | Definition : 1) doubtfulness or uncertainty of meaning or intention 2) an unclear, indefinite, or equivoca word, expression, meaning, etc. Example: "O Rose thou art sick. The invisible worm, That flies in the night In the howling storm: Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy; And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy" | 5 | |
| 4589671531 | Anachronism | Definition : 1) something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time, especially a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time 2) an error in chronology in which a person, object, event , etc. is assigned a date or period other than the correct one. Example: "These big children, their fears gone, became so ravished with wonder over my awe-compelling fireworks that I had to stay there and smoke a couple of pipes out before they would let me go." | 6 | |
| 4589672592 | Analogy | Definition : a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based. Example: "the analogy between the heart and the heart and the pump." | 7 | |
| 4589672593 | Anecdote | Definition : a short account of particular incident or event, especially of an interesting or amusing nature. A short, obscure historical or biographical account. Example: "To Kill a Mockingbird the character of Dill tells Scout and Jem the above story, which turns out not to be true. However, Dill has gone to lengths to tell this story to give a legitimate reason for leaving, when it turns out that he just doesn't feel loved or wanted by his parents." | 8 | |
| 4590054782 | Antagonist | Definition : a person who is opposed to, struggles against, or competes with another; opponent; adeversary. The adversary of the hero or protagonist of a drama or other literary work. Example: "The character of "Iago" in Shakespeare's "Othello". Iago stands as the most notorious villains of all time who spends all his time in plotting against Othello, the protagonist, and his wife Desdemona." | 9 | |
| 4590063041 | Antithesis | Definition : oppostion; contrast ; the direct opposite ( usually followed by the of or to). Example: "The antithesis of right and wrong." | 10 | |
| 4590063828 | Aphorism | Definition : A terse saying embodying a general truth, or astute observation. Example: "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." | 11 | |
| 4590064431 | Apostrophe | Definition : A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. Example: "Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are. Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky." | 12 | |
| 4590064796 | Archetype | Definition : A detail, image, or character type that occurs frequently in literature and myth and is thought to appeal in a universal way to the unconscious and to evoke a response. Example: The Hero: "He or she is a character who predominantly exhibits goodness and struggles against evil in order to restore harmony and justice to society e.g. Beowulf, Hercules, D'artagnan from "The Three Musketeers" etc." | 13 | |
| 4590065520 | Assonance | Definition : Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity. Example: "He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound's the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake. The woods are lovely, dar and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep." | 14 | |
| 4590065528 | Ballad | Definition : A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas, characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style. Example: 'O I forbid you, maiden all, That wears gold in your hair, To come or go by Carterhaugh For young Tam Lin is there. | 15 | |
| 4590066597 | Bathos | Definition : insincere or overly sentimental quality of writing/speech intended to evoke pity. Example: MARY: John - once we had something that was pure, and wonderful, and good. What's happened to it? JOHN: You spent it all. | 16 | |
| 4590066886 | Blank verse | Definition : Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter Example: "something there is that doesn't love a wall. That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun;" | 17 | |
| 4590067345 | Caesura | Definition : A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line. Example: "of reeds and stalk-crickets, || fiddling the dank air, lacing his boots with vines, || steering glazed beetles" | 18 | |
| 4590067346 | Canon | Definition : an established set of principles or code of laws, often religious in nature. Example: In a summer season when soft was the sun, I clothed myself in a cloak as I shepherd were, Habit like a hermit's unholy in works, And went wide in the world wonders to hear. But on a May morning on Malvern hills, A marvel befell me of fairy, me thought. | 19 | |
| 4590068167 | Caricature | Definition : (n.) a representation (especially in drawing) in which the subject's characteristic features are deliberately exaggerated; (v.) to present someone or something in a deliberately distorted way. Example: "Over the course of the last several weeks, commentators have taken to portraying Mr. Obama as clinical and insufficiently emotive, which is really just another way of saying the president is not really knowable. It is a caricature his opponents can exploit in part because a lot of voters remain murky on his cultural identity." (Matt Bai, "Ethnic Distinctions, No Longer So Distinctive." The New York Times, June 29, 2010) | 20 | |
| 4590069195 | Climax | Definition : That point in a plot that creates the greatest intensity, suspense, or interest; most exciting moment of the story; turning point. Example: "And fire-eyed fury be my conduct now! Now, Tybalt, take the 'villain' back again That late thou gavest me; for Mercutio's soul Is but a little way above our heads," | 21 | |
| 4590069501 | Colloquial | Definition : Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing. Example: When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody. | 22 | |
| 4590069502 | Conceit | Definition : A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects. Example: "Thou counterfeit'st a bark, a sea, a wind; For still thy eyes, which I may call the sea, Do ebb and flow with tears; the bark thy body is, Sailing in this salt flood; the winds, thy sighs; Who, raging with thy tears, and they with them, Without a sudden calm, will overset Thy tempest-tossed body." | 23 | |
| 4590070314 | Connotation | Definition : All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests. Example: Metaphors are words that connote meanings that go beyond their literal meanings. Shakespeare in his Sonnet 18 says: "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day" | 24 | |
| 4590070828 | Consonance | Definition : Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity. Example: "Rap rejects my tape deck, ejects projectile Whether Jew or gentile, I rank top percentile Many styles, more powerful than gamma rays My grammar pays, like Carlos Santana plays." (The lines have been taken from the song 'Zealots 'by Fugees.) | 25 | |
| 4590070829 | Couplet | Definition : A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem. Example: "A little learning is a dangerous thing;/Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring." "Be not the first by whom the new are tried,/Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." "Be thou the first true merit to befriend;/His praise is lost, who stays till all commend." "Good nature and good sense must ever join;/To err is human, to forgive, divine." "Hope springs eternal in the human breast:/Man never is, but always to be blest." "'Tis education forms the common mind,/Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined." | 26 | |
| 4590071733 | Diction | Definition : A writer's or speaker's choice of words. Example: "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes, play on" | 27 | |
| 4590071734 | Deus ex machina | Definition : In literature, the use of an artificial device or gimmick to solve a problem. Example: Medea: When Medea is shown in the chariot of the sun god Helios, the god himself isn't present. From her vantage point in the chariot she watches the grieving Jason. | 28 | |
| 4590076047 | Elegy | Definition : a sorrowful poem or speech Example: "With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse, Sing of human unsuccess In a rapture of distress; In the deserts of the heart Let the healing fountain start, In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise." | 29 | |
| 4590077386 | Ellipsis | Definition : in a sentence, the omission of a word or words replaced by three periods. Example: The vast flapping sheet flattened itself out, and each shove of the brush revealed fresh legs, hoops, horses, glistening reds and blues, beautifully smooth, until half the wall was covered with the advertisement of a circus; a hundred horsemen, twenty performing seals, lions, tigers...Craning forwards, for she was short-sighted, she read it out... "will visit this town," she read. | 30 | |
| 4590078215 | Enjambment | Definition : A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next. Example: They stretched their beloved lord in his boat, Laid out by the mast, amidships, The great ring-giver. Far-fetched treasures Were piled upon him, and precious gear. I never heard before of a ship so well furbished With battle tackle, bladed weapons And coats of mail. The massed treasure Was loaded on top of him: it would travel far On out into the ocean's sway. | 31 | |
| 4590107900 | Epic | Definition : A long narrative poem, written in heightened language, which recounts the deeds of a heroic character who embodies the values of a particular society. Example: "Perhaps, the Epic of Gilgamesh is the first example of an epic. It tells the story of the life of an Assyrian king, Gilgamesh." | 32 | |
| 4590122690 | Epigram | Definition : A concise but ingenious, witty, and thoughtful statement. Example: To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour. | 33 | |
| 4590123150 | Euphemism | Definition : An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant. Example: Shakespeare's example: "I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs." | 34 | |
| 4590124143 | Exposition | Definition : A narrative device, often used at the beginning of a work that provides necessary background information about the characters and their circumstances. Example: The famous story for children titled "The Three Little Bears" applies this technique of exposition. Once upon a time, there were three bears. There was a Daddy Bear, who was very big, a Mama Bear, who was middle-sized, and a Baby Bear, who was very small. They all lived together in a little cottage in the middle of the woods. | 35 | |
| 4590124765 | Fable | Definition : A brief story that leads to a moral, often using animals as characters. Example: "A crow was sitting on a branch of a tree with a piece of cheese in her beak when a fox observed her and set his wits to work to discover some way of getting the cheese. "Coming and standing under the tree he looked up and said, 'What a noble bird I see above me! Her beauty is without equal..... Down came the cheese and the fox, snatching it up, said, 'You have a voice, madam, I see: what you want is wits...." | 36 | |
| 4590125282 | Falling action | Definition : Events after the climax, leading to the resolution. Example: Another example of falling action is from The Fault in Our Stars, a novel by John Green. The story revolves around two teenage lovers, Hazel Grace Lancaster and Augustus Waters, who are cancer patients.The falling action follows with their return to Indianapolis, where Hazel decides to be with him to take good care of him. | 37 | |
| 4590125853 | Farce | Definition : (n.) a play filled with ridiculous or absurd happenings; broad or far-fetched humor; a ridiculous sham. Example: Oscar Wilde's novel, The Importance of Being Earnest, is one of the best verbal farces. Just like a typical farce that contains basic elements like mockery of upper class, disgraceful physical humor, absurdity and mistaken identities, this novel also contains demonstrates these features of a farce. | 38 | |
| 4590145632 | First-person narrative | Definition : A narrative told by a character involved in the story, using first-person pronouns such as I and we. Example: "I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me." - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë | 39 | |
| 4593365191 | Flashback | Definition : A scene that interrupts the normal chronological sequence of events in a story to depict something that happened at an earlier time. Example: The Bible is a good source of flashback examples. In the Book of Matthew, we see a flashback has been used when Joseph, governor of Egypt, sees his brothers after several years, Joseph "remembered his dreams" about his brothers and how they sold him into slavery in the past. | 40 | |
| 4593367527 | Foil | Definition : A character who is in most ways opposite to the main character (protagonist) or one who is nearly the same as the protagonist. The purpose of the foil character is to emphasize the traits of the main character by contrast only. Example: "There was no moon, and everything beneath lay in misty darkness: not a light gleamed from any house, far or near all had been extinguished long ago: and those at Wuthering Heights were never visible..." | 41 | |
| 4593380137 | Foreshadowing | Definition : A narrative device that hints at coming events; often builds suspense or anxiety in the reader. Example: "Life were better ended by their hate, Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love" | 42 | |
| 4593381680 | Free verse | Definition : Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme. Example: Come slowly, Eden Lips unused to thee. Bashful, sip thy jasmines, As the fainting bee, Reaching late his flower, Round her chamber hums, Counts his nectars—alights, And is lost in balms! | 43 | |
| 4593382749 | Genre | Definition : A category or type of literature (or of art, music, etc.) characterized by a particular form, style, or content. Example: "Poetry is the first major literary genre." | 44 | |
| 4593384203 | Hyperbole | Definition : A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor. Example: "Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No. This my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red." | 45 | |
| 4593384204 | Imagery | Definition : Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste). Example: "O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear;" | 46 | |
| 4593386040 | In medias res | Definition : into the middle of a narrative; without preamble. Example: The story starts in the middle without exposition. | 47 | |
| 4593386062 | Irony | Definition : A contrast or discrepancy between what is stated and what is really meant, or between what is expected to happen and what actually does happen. Example: "Go ask his name: if he be married. My grave is like to be my wedding bed." | 48 | |
| 4593387992 | Juxtapose | Definition : To place side by side for comparison Example: "Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." | 49 | |
| 4593387993 | Litotes | Definition : A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite. Example: "Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if I had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice." | 50 | |
| 4593389524 | Lyric | Definition : A type of poetry that explores the poet's personal interpretation of and feelings about the world. Example: "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,.." | 51 | |
| 4593389525 | Metaphor | Definition : A comparison that establishes a figurative identity between objects being compared. Example: "The light of my life - The person described by this metaphor isn't really providing physical light. He or she is just someone who brings happiness or joy." | 52 | |
| 4593390544 | Meter | Definition : A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry. Example: "If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound, That breathes upon a bank of violets..." | 53 | |
| 4593392108 | Metonymy | Definition : A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it Example: "I'm mighty glad Georgia waited till after Christmas before it secedes or it would have ruined the Christmas parties." | 54 | |
| 4593393224 | Mood | Definition : Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader Example: "The river, reflecting the clear blue of the sky, glistened and sparkled as it flowed noiselessly on." | 55 | |
| 4593393225 | Motif | Definition : a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design Example: "In Mark Twain's "The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn", we see several motifs that support the central idea of the narrative. The motif of childhood gives the novel a lighter tone and makes it enjoyable to read despite its grave central idea i.e. slavery and racism." | 56 | |
| 4593394187 | Narrator | Definition : The person telling the story Example: "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.`'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, `tapping at my chamber door -Only this, and nothing more." | 57 | |
| 4593395433 | Ode | Definition : a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter Example: There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore. | 58 | |
| 4593404610 | Omniscient point of view | Definition : The point of view where the narrator knows everything about the characters and their problems - told in the 3rd person. Example: "The narrator in Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel, The Scarlet Letter, is an omniscient one, who scrutinizes the characters and narrates the story in a way that shows the readers that he has more knowledge about characters than they have knowledge about themselves. Though narrator is an omniscient one, however, he is also a subjective narrator, meaning the readers form their own opinions about the things that take place." | 59 | |
| 4593409353 | Onomatopoeia | Definition : A word that imitates the sound it represents. Example: water plops into pond splish-splash downhill warbling magpies in tree trilling, melodic thrill whoosh, passing breeze flags flutter and flap frog croaks, bird whistles babbling bubbles from tap | 60 | |
| 4593410736 | Oxymoron | Definition : A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. Example: "Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O anything, of nothing first create! O heavy lightness! Serious vanity! Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms! Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health! Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! This love feel I, that feel no love in this. Dost thou not laugh?" | 61 | |
| 4593412128 | Parable | Definition : A simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson Example: " Perhaps the most famous parable is that of the Boy Who Cried Wolf. In it, a young boy enjoys yelling "wolf" and laughing as the adults in his village run around in a panic. But one day, he sees an actual wolf, and cries out "wolf" to try and get someone to save him. But no one believes him anymore, and no one comes to help. This story is extremely memorable for children, and seems to stick in our minds better than the simple statement "don't lie." | 62 | |
| 4593412129 | Paradox | Definition : A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. Example: "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others." | 63 | |
| 4593413146 | Parody | Definition : a imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect. Example: "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks;" | 64 | |
| 4593416918 | Pastoral | Definition : concerning or appropiate to the giving of spiritual guidance. noun: a work of literature portraying an idealized version of country life. Example: "A belt of straw and ivy buds, With coral clasps and amber studs: And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me, and be my love." | 65 | |
| 4593418059 | Pathos | Definition : a quality that evokes pity or sadness. Example: "He had meant the best in the world, and been treated like a dog—like a very dog. She would be sorry someday—maybe when it was too late. Ah, if he could only die TEMPORARILY!" | 66 | |
| 4593418931 | Persona | Definition : the aspect of someone's character that is presented to or perceived by others. Example: "He was therefore not at all persona grata in Berlin, but the German imperial authorities learned by experience that he was an opponent to be respected, who understood thoroughly the interests of his country, and was quite capable of adopting if necessary a vigorous policy of reprisals." | 67 | |
| 4593418932 | Personification | Definition : the attribution of personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form. Example: "While making my way to my car, it appeared to smile at me mischievously." | 68 | |
| 4593421573 | Plot | Definition : the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence. Example: The plot of the story begins when Harry learns that Professor Snape is after the Sorcerer's Stone. | 69 | |
| 4593421574 | Protagonist | Definition : the leading character or one of te majors characters in drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text. Example: "In the movie Star Wars the character of Luke Skywalker was developed by George Lucas. He plays an outwardly naïve farm boy. " | 70 | |
| 4593433168 | Quatrain | Definition : a stanza of four lines, especially having alternate rhymes. Example: "Oh Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling From glen to glen, and down the mountain side The summer's gone, and all the flowers are dying 'Tis you, 'tis you must go and I must bide." | 71 | |
| 4593434116 | Realism | Definition : the quality or fact of representing a person, thing, or situation accurately or in a way that is true to life. Example: His realism enables him to maintain the reality of Time, and so of the process of the world's redemption. | 72 | |
| 4593436710 | Refrain | Definition : stop oneself from doing something. Example: The "man of great merit," despite his desire to obtain the post of director, could not refrain from reminding Prince Vasili of his former opinion. | 73 | |
| 4593438035 | Rhetorical question | Definition : question that you ask without expecting an answer. The question might be one does not have an answer. Example: " Do you ever feel like a plastic bag?" - Firework, Katy Perry | 74 | |
| 4593438036 | Rhyme | Definition : correspondence of sound between words or te endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry. Example: So that by no possibility could Coleridge's wild Rhyme have had aught to do with those mystical impressions which were mine, when I saw that bird upon our deck. | 75 | |
| 4593441000 | Rhythm | Definition : a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound. Example: In Macbeth, Shakespeare creates rhythm in the witches' words by using a pattern of stressed and unstressed : Double, Double, Toil and Trouble. Fire burn and cauldron bubble. | 76 | |
| 4593442655 | Rising action | Definition : rising action in a plot is a series of releant incidents that create suspense, interest and tension in a narrative. Example: The Hobbit, as Gandalf meets Bilbo and asks him to play the role of a burglar of dwarves' expedition to recover treasure of Thorin from Smaug. Rising action occurs as he agrees to live up and act as a burglar during this adventure. | 77 | |
| 4593442693 | Sarcasm | Definition : the use of irony of mock or convey contempt Example: When Dean didn't answer, she continued, professionally, but with a hint of sarcasm, sing-songing a rehearsed litany—present your driver's license and registration and something about exceeding a fifty-mile-an-hour speed limit. | 78 | |
| 4593444937 | Satire | Definition : the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contempory politics and anoter topical issues. Example: "But the most discriminating character of Garrick, slightly tinged with satire, is that drawn by Goldsmith in his poem of Retaliation." | 79 | |
| 4593446483 | Setting | Definition : the place or type of surroumdings where something is positioned or where an event takes place. Example: Yes," he thought, "they are capital people, who of course have not the slightest idea what a treasure they possess in Natasha; but they are kindly folk and form the best possible setting for this strikingly poetic, charming girl, overflowing with life!" | 80 | |
| 4593446484 | Shakespearean sonnet | Definition : a sonnet form used by Shakespeare and having the rhyme scheme abab, cdcd, efef,gg. Example: "The sonnet form used by Shakespeare, composed of three quatrains and a terminal couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg. Also called Elizabethan sonnet, English sonnet." | 81 | |
| 4593448080 | Simile | Definition : a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid. Example: "He introduced the simile that geography represented an artist's sketch of a whole portrait, while chorography corresponded to the caref and detailed drawing of an eye or an ear." | 82 | |
| 4593451120 | Soliloquy | Definition : an act of speaking one's thoughts aloudwhen by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play. Example: "The soliloquy at the end showed a man still puzzled by his continuing inability to ever see anything more than the facts." | 83 | |
| 4593451918 | Stanza | Definition : a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse. Example: It was the voice of a young girl, his cousin, who sang a stanza, saying, "Happy the father, happy the mother, happy the wife of such a son and husband." | 84 | |
| 4593453532 | Stereotype | Definition : a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. Example: "8vo, a collection of logarithmic and trigonometrical tables which has passed through many editions, a very useful one volume stereotype edition having been published in 1840 by Masse." | 85 | |
| 4593453533 | Structure | Definition : mode of building, construction, or organization; arrangement of parts, elements, or constituents; something built or constructed, as a building. Example: "Such roofs are not suitable for cold climates, for accumulations of snow might overburden the structure and would also cause the wet to penetrate through any small crevices and under flashings." | 86 | |
| 4593456689 | Style | Definition : a particular kind, sort, or type, as with reference to form, appearance, or character. Example: "In his essay on style De Quincey says that the best English is to be found in the letters of the cultivated gentlewoman, because she has read only a few good books and has not been corrupted by the style of newspapers and the jargon of street, market-place, and assembly hall." | 87 | |
| 4593456690 | Syllogism | Definition : an argument the conclusion of which is supported by two premises, of which contains the term that is predicate of the conclusion , and the other contains the term that is subject of the conclusion Example: "Jennifer leaves for school at 7:00 a.m. Jennifer is always on time. Jennifer assumes, then, that she will always be on time if she leaves at 7:00 a.m." | 88 | |
| 4593458086 | Symbolism | Definition : the practice of representing things by symbols, or investing things with a symbolic meaning or character. Example: In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven", the black bird stands for death and loss. | 89 | |
| 4593460748 | Synecdoche | Definition : a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for part, the special for the general or the general for te special. Example: "At the Olympics, you will hear that the United States won a gold medal in an event. That actually means a team from the United States, not the country as a whole." | 90 | |
| 4593460749 | Syntax | Definition : Linguistics or logic ; the arrangement of words and phrases to creat a well-formed sentences in a language. Example: "By the common methods of discipline, at the expense of many tears and some blood, I purchased the knowledge of the Latin syntax," but manifestly, in his own opinion, the Arabian Nights, Pope's Homer, and Dryden's Virgil, eagerly read, had at this period exercised a much more powerful influence on his intellectual development than Phaedrus and Cornelius Nepos, "painfully construed and darkly understood." | 91 | |
| 4593462973 | Terza rima | Definition : an Italian form of iambic verse consisting of eleven- syllable lines arragened in tercets, the middle line of each tercet rhyming with the first and last lines of the following tercet. Example: (D) Winter is a time for Halloween frights (E) Snow on the ground and Jack Frost's ache (D) Celebrations filled with festive delights (E) As winter ends the new year starts to make (E) New life begins to spring to life and awake. | 92 | |
| 4593462974 | Theme | Definition : a subject of discourse, discussion, meditation, or composition; topic Example: "This is illustrated by his love of Switzerland, his intense interest in the fortunes of that country, his design of writing " The History of the Liberty of the Swiss " - a theme, he says " from which the dullest stranger would catch fire." | 93 | |
| 4593466230 | Tone | Definition : any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength. source, etc. Example: "When she was at the Wright-Humason School in New York, Dr. Humason tried to improve her voice, not only her word pronunciation, but the voice itself, and gave her lessons in tone and vocal exercises." | 94 | |
| 4593466231 | Tragedy | Definition : a lamentable, dreadful, or fatal event or affair, calamity; disaster: Example: "Their mother, loving the latter most, avenged his death by murdering her son, and the people, horrified at her act, revolted and murdered both her and King Gorboduc. This legend was the subject of the earliest regular English tragedy which in 1561 was played before Queen Elizabeth in the Inner Temple hall." | 95 | |
| 4593467428 | Voice | Definition : The sound or sounds uttered through the mouth of living creatures, especially of human beings in speaking, shouting, singing, etc. Example: " Would this disorderly crowd of soldiers attend to the voice of their commander, or would they, disregarding him, continue their flight?" | 96 |
