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| 5966955620 | allegory | story or poem that can be used to reveal a hidden meaning |  | 0 |
| 5966955621 | alliteration | beginning of same letter or sound in closely connected words |  | 1 |
| 5966955622 | allusion | This is a reference in a work to some event, person, or thing that the reader is expected to know. For example, you make a literary allusion the moment you say, "I do not approve of this quixotic idea." Quixotic,which means stupid and impractical, is derived from Cervantes's "Don Quixote," a story of a foolish knight and his misadventures. |  | 2 |
| 5970710670 | antagonist | This is the character or force in a narrative that directly opposes the protagonist. |  | 3 |
| 5966955623 | anaphora | This is the repetition in first part of a sentence or in lines of poetry; it is meant to create an artistic meaning. |  | 4 |
| 5966955625 | apostrophe | This is a figure of speech used to address someone or something that is either not present or cannot respond. For example, the speaker could be addressing an abstract concept like love, a person (dead or alive), a place, or even a thing, like the sun or the sea. |  | 5 |
| 5966955626 | approximate rhyme | These are words in a rhyming pattern that sound or appear alike. In regular rhyme, the connected words must have the same vowel sounds and final consonant sounds, such as "bug" and "mug." Approximate rhyme, or half rhyme, generally uses the same vowel sounds with different final consonants or different vowel sounds with the same final consonants. For example, a half rhyme could be "bug" with "bun" or "bug" with "bag." At times it can be subtler. For example, "rush" and "must" have the same vowel and very similar sibilant consonants. "Pun" and "fume" have the short and long versions of the "u" vowel, and both end with a nasal consonant. |  | 6 |
| 5966955627 | aside | This occurs when a character's dialogue is spoken on stage but intentionally not heard by other actors on the stage/ |  | 7 |
| 5966955628 | assonance | This is the repetition of vowel sounds. |  | 8 |
| 5966955629 | blank verse | This is poetry written in meter without any ending rhyme. |  | 9 |
| 5966955630 | cacophony | This is a blend or a combination of words that sound harsh or unpleasant together, usually because they pack a lot of percussive or "explosive" consonants (like T, P, or K) into relatively little space. Think of explosive consonants as all the letters you would want to use if you were going to try to write out the sounds a frying pan would make if you threw it down a stairwell: ting, ping, clang, dong, bang, crash. |  | 10 |
| 5966955631 | caesura | This is a pause in the middle of a line of poetry. usually marked by some form of punctuation such as a period, comma, ellipsis, or dash. |  | 11 |
| 5966955632 | catharsis | This is the release of emotions through art/music/film/literature (an emotional cleanse). |  | 12 |
| 5966955633 | flat character | story character who have no depth, usually has one personality or characteristic |  | 13 |
| 5966955634 | round character | character who has complex or multi-faceted personality |  | 14 |
| 5966955635 | dynamic character | changes throughout the story, through major conflict |  | 15 |
| 5966955636 | static character | person who doesn't change throughout story keeps same personality |  | 16 |
| 5966955637 | characterization | process of revealing characters personality |  | 17 |
| 5966955638 | climax | the point in the plot where the protagonist has either made a decision to act or has acted in a way that irretrievably alters the plot; the point of no return |  | 18 |
| 5966955639 | comedy | a literary genre and a type of dramatic work that is amusing and satirical in its tone, mostly having cheerful ending. The motif of this dramatic work is triumph over unpleasant circumstance by which to create comic effects, resulting in happy or successful conclusion. |  | 19 |
| 5966955640 | conflict | struggle between opposing forces |  | 20 |
| 5966955641 | connotation | an emotional (or secondary meaning) of a word that creates a richness of meaning and/or a greater understanding |  | 21 |
| 5966955642 | consonance | repetition of the same medial and/or final consonants in words that are close together |  | 22 |
| 5966955643 | couplet | two rhyming lines in a verse |  | 23 |
| 5966955644 | denotation | the literal meaning of a word |  | 24 |
| 5966955645 | denouement | the resolution or final outcome of the narrative |  | 25 |
| 5966955646 | deus ex machina | A deus ex machina is a plot device whereby an unsolvable conflict or point of tension is suddenly resolved by the unexpected appearance of an implausible character, object, action, ability, or event. For example, if a character fell off a cliff and a flying robot suddenly appeared out of nowhere to catch them, that would be a deus ex machina. |  | 26 |
| 5966955647 | didactic writing | writing with a primary purpose to teach or preach |  | 27 |
| 5966955648 | direct presentation of character | author telling the reader how a character is and what actions it will do further in the story |  | 28 |
| 5966955649 | double rhyme | rhyme where the repeated vowel is in the second last syllable of words involved (ex; born scorn) | 29 | |
| 5966955650 | dramatic exposition | prose commentaries, to provide background information about the characters and their world |  | 30 |
| 5966955651 | end rhyme | rhymes occurring at the end of line |  | 31 |
| 5966955652 | end stopped line | line ending in regular punctuation |  | 32 |
| 5966955653 | English (or Shakespearean) sonnet | a sonnet rhyming ababcdcdededgg |  | 33 |
| 5966955654 | epiphany | when a character receives a psychological and/or spiritual insight into life |  | 34 |
| 5966955655 | euphony | smooth choice and arrangement of sounds; pleasing to the ear |  | 35 |
| 5966955656 | extended figure | A figure of speech sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem. |  | 36 |
| 5966955657 | falling action | Events after the climax, leading to the resolution |  | 37 |
| 5966955658 | feminine rhyme | lines rhymed by their final two syllables |  | 38 |
| 5966955659 | figurative language | Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling. |  | 39 |
| 5966955660 | figure of speech | a way of saying something other than the ordinary way |  | 40 |
| 5966955661 | foot | basic unit in the scansion or measurement of verse , stressed and un stressed syllables |  | 41 |
| 5966955662 | form | external pattern or shape of a poem |  | 42 |
| 5966955663 | free verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme |  | 43 |
| 5966955664 | hamartia | tragic flaw which causes a character's downfall |  | 44 |
| 5966955665 | imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) |  | 45 |
| 5966955666 | indirect presentation of character | the personality of a character is revealed by what he or she does or says |  | 46 |
| 5966955667 | internal rhyme | A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line |  | 47 |
| 5966955668 | irony | A contrast between expectation and reality |  | 48 |
| 5966955669 | verbal irony | A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant |  | 49 |
| 5966955670 | dramatic irony | Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play. |  | 50 |
| 5966955671 | irony of situation | refers to an occurrence that is contrary to what is expected or intended |  | 51 |
| 5966955672 | Italian (or Petrarchan) sonnet | A sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd |  | 52 |
| 5966955673 | masculine rhyme | A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable |  | 53 |
| 5966955674 | melodrama | a play based upon a dramatic plot and developed sensationally |  | 54 |
| 5966955675 | metaphor | A comparison without using like or as |  | 55 |
| 5966955676 | meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry |  | 56 |
| 5966955677 | metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it. Examples include the Crown in place of a royal person such as Queen Elizabeth or the White House in place of the President or others who work there. |  | 57 |
| 5966955678 | motivation | In literature, "motivation" is defined as a reason behind a character's specific action or behavior. There are two types of motivation: one is intrinsic, while the other one is extrinsic. Intrinsic motivation is linked to personal pleasure, enjoyment and interest, while extrinsic motivation is linked to numerous other possibilities. Extrinsic motivation comes from some physical reward such as money, power, or lust. Intrinsic motivation, on the other hand, is inspired by some internal reward such as knowledge, pride, or spiritual or emotional peace or wellbeing, etc. |  | 58 |
| 5966955679 | narrator | Person telling the story |  | 59 |
| 5966955680 | octave | 8 line stanza |  | 60 |
| 5966955681 | onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. |  | 61 |
| 5966955682 | hyperbole | A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor |  | 62 |
| 5966955683 | oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. |  | 63 |
| 5966955684 | paradox | A contradiction or dilemma |  | 64 |
| 5966955685 | peripetia | a sudden reversal of fortune or change in circumstances |  | 65 |
| 5966955686 | personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes |  | 66 |
| 5966955687 | plot | a series of carefully devised, interrelated events that progress through a struggle of opposing forces to a climax and to a conclusion (not always a resolution) | | 67 |
| 5966955688 | point of view | the perspective from which a story is told |  | 68 |
| 5966955689 | omniscient point of view | The point of view where the narrator knows everything about the characters and their problems - told in the 3rd person. |  | 69 |
| 5966955690 | third person limited point of view | narrator tells the story from only one character's P.O.V. |  | 70 |
| 5966955691 | first person point of view | a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself |  | 71 |
| 5966955692 | objective point of view | a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story, with no comment on any characters or events. |  | 72 |
| 5966955693 | protagonist | the leading figure in terms of importance in the story and in terms of the ability to enlist the reader's interest and/or sympathy, whether the cause is heroic or ignoble |  | 73 |
| 5966955694 | quatrain | a four-line stanza |  | 74 |
| 5966955696 | rhyme scheme | A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem |  | 75 |
| 5966955697 | rising action | a series of complications leading up to the climax |  | 76 |
| 5966955699 | satire | a literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies. |  | 77 |
| 5966955700 | scansion | analysis of verse into metrical patterns |  | 78 |
| 5966955701 | sestet | a stanza or a poem of six lines--specifically, the last six lines of an Italian sonnet |  | 79 |
| 5966955702 | setting | the context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs. |  | 80 |
| 5966955703 | simile | a comparison using "like" or "as" or "that" |  | 81 |
| 5966955704 | soliloquy | a poem, discourse, or utterance of a character in a drama that has the form of a monologue or gives the illusion of being a series of unspoken reflections (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/soliloquy) |  | 82 |
| 5966955705 | sonnet | a fixed verse form consisting of 14 lines that are typically 5-foot iambics rhyming according to a prescribed scheme (most commonly are Italian/Petrarchan or English/Shakespearean) |  | 83 |
| 5966955706 | stanza | a group of lines in a poem | | 84 |
| 5966955707 | stream of consciousness | private thoughts of a character without commentary and perhaps without standard punctuation or spacing |  | 85 |
| 5966955708 | syllabic verse | Verse measured by the number of syllables rather than the number of feet per line. |  | 86 |
| 5966955709 | symbol | Something/one that represents or stands for something else |  | 87 |
| 5966955710 | synecdoche (sih-nek-duh-kee) | This is a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa. For example, "The captain commands one hundred sails" is a synecdoche that uses "sails" to refer to ships—ships being the thing of which a sail is a part. A less common form of synecdoche occurs when a whole is used to refer to a part. An example of this is when the word "mortals" is used to mean humans—"mortals" technically includes all animals and plants (anything that dies), so using "mortals" to mean humans is a synecdoche that uses a category to stand in for one of its subsets. |  | 88 |
| 5966955711 | synesthesia | a blending of the senses; describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color" or "a sweet sound") |  | 89 |
| 5966955712 | tercet | a three-line stanza | | 90 |
| 5966955713 | terza rima | a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc. |  | 91 |
| 5966955716 | tragedy | Tragedy is kind of drama that presents a serious subject matter about human suffering and corresponding terrible events in a dignified manner. |  | 92 |
| 5966955717 | truncation | Utilizing text with part of the end omitted. Truncate descends from the Latin verb truncare, meaning "to shorten," which in turn can be traced back to the Latin word for the trunk of a tree, which is truncus. Incidentally, if you've guessed that truncus is also the ancestor of the English word trunk, you are correct. Truncus also gave us truncheon, which is the name for a police officer's billy club, and the obscure word obtruncate, meaning "to cut the head or top from" (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/truncate). |  | 93 |
| 5966955718 | understatement | This is the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis. Here is a classic example: "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress." |  | 94 |
| 5966955719 | verse | This is a single line of poetry writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme. | | 95 |
| 5966955720 | vilanelle | This is a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain. |  | 96 |
| 10068094931 | Syndecdoche versus Metonymy | Synecdoche uses part for the whole or the whole for a part. A good example is "Nice wheels!" This is a synecdoche in which "wheels" stand in for the car of which they are a part. Metonymy is a substitution where a word or phrase is used in place of another word or phrase. A good example is the phrase "The pen is mightier than the sword." The word "pen" substitutes for written work, and the word "sword" substitutes for violence or warfare. | 97 | |
| 10068191697 | Tone | The tone of a piece of writing is its general character or attitude, which might be cheerful or depressive, sarcastic or sincere, comical or mournful, praising or critical, and so on. For instance, an editorial in a newspaper that described its subject as "not even having the guts to do the job himself," has a tone that is both informal and critical. | 98 |
