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| 6715175940 | ambiente | The emotional condition created by a work. Environment | 0 | |
| 6715175941 | drama | General intermediate stage between comedy and tragedy. Drama | 1 | |
| 6715175942 | figura retórica | Word or phrase that creates different images based in meaning, diction or ideas that convey the words. Figure of speech | 2 | |
| 6715175943 | género | Term used to distinguish different forms of literary works (genre) | 3 | |
| 6715175944 | héroe | The person or character who performs the heroic action (not always protagonist or main character). Hero | 4 | |
| 6715175945 | imagen | Literal or mental representation of something imagined or real, so the reader can picture it. Image | 5 | |
| 6715175947 | narrativa | Literary Genre formed by the story. Narrative | 6 | |
| 6715175948 | personaje | A human real, fictional or imagined in the literary work. Character | 7 | |
| 6715175949 | poesía | Literary genre as embodied in a poem and is subject to measurement or cadence. Poem | 8 | |
| 6715175950 | protagonista | Main Character of the action in a literary work. Protagonist | 9 | |
| 6715175951 | público | Individual or group of individuals receiving a message through a literary work. Audience | 10 | |
| 6715175952 | suspenso | The eagerness to develop an action or event Expectation in a literary work in which the outcome is delayed. Suspense | 11 | |
| 6715175953 | el tema | The argument central idea of a work or a part of a literary work. Theme | 12 | |
| 6715175954 | autor | The person who writes a literary work. Author | 13 | |
| 6715175955 | el cuento | Literary work that chronicles both extensive fiction and fictional events as real. Story | 14 | |
| 6715175956 | narrador | The voice that narrates the action. Narrator | 15 | |
| 6715175957 | novela | Narrative fiction of variable length written in prose. Novel | 16 | |
| 6715175958 | prosa | Natural language expression. Prose | 17 | |
| 6715175959 | estrofa | The set of verses that are grouped in a certain order and forming the structure of a poetic work. Stanza | 18 | |
| 6715175960 | métrica | The way to build the verses according to the units metrics are: number of metric syllables, verse, stanza and poem. Metrics | 19 | |
| 6715175961 | el poema | Literary composition written in verse belonging to the genre of poetry. Poem | 20 | |
| 6715175962 | el/la poeta | Person who writes poems. Poet | 21 | |
| 6715175963 | rima | Acoustic partial or full concurrence of vowels and consonants located from the last stressed vowel between two or more lines. Rhyme | 22 | |
| 6715175964 | rima asonante | Imperfect rhyme, repeating only vowels from the stressed vowel. Assonance | 23 | |
| 6715175965 | rima consonante | Perfect rhyme, Consonant rhyme | 24 | |
| 6715175966 | verso | Word or set of words subject to size and pace, or just as in collective sense, is opposed to prose. Verse | 25 | |
| 6715175967 | la voz poética | Literary work where the storyteller or poet, not necessarily the author. Poetic Voice | 26 | |
| 6715175968 | el ritmo | The accompanied order in the succession of words of a work. Rhythm | 27 | |
| 6715175969 | acto | Each of the parts that a play is divided. Act | 28 | |
| 6715175970 | comedia | Generally refers to a play, and more specifically a drama with a happy ending. Comedy | 29 | |
| 6715175971 | diálogo | A conversation between two or more characters in a entire work or part of one. Dialouge | 30 | |
| 6715175972 | escena | A part in which the act is divided and in which the same characters are present. Scene | 31 | |
| 6715175973 | escenario | Space where a play is shown. It may be natural or built and can add to the ambiance of the work. Stage | 32 | |
| 6715175974 | monólogo | A work, or any part of one, in which the character speaks aloud appearing alone on stage expressing their thoughts. Monologue | 33 | |
| 6715175975 | teatro | Place where a play before spectators or participants is performed, also the drama of a culture, people, or author. Theater | 34 | |
| 6715175976 | tragedia | Play characterized by characters governed by the passions, and whose actions lead to a catastrophic end. Tradegy | 35 | |
| 6715175977 | aliteración | Repetition of sounds within words or in next to produce an aural effect words. Alliteration | 36 | |
| 6715175978 | hipérbole | Wild exaggeration of facts, situations, characteristics, attitudes, etc., to emphasize or ridicule. Hyperbole | 37 | |
| 6715175979 | metáfora | Comparison between two essentially distinct things that may have something in common. Metaphor | 38 | |
| 6715175980 | onomatopeya | Word that imitates or suggests the sound of what the author describes. Onomatopoeia | 39 | |
| 6715175981 | personificación | Attribution of human qualities to beings inanimate or irrational. Personification | 40 | |
| 6715175982 | símil | Comparison between two things or ideas using like or as. Simile | 41 | |
| 6715175983 | ambigüedad | A statement containing more than one meaning, and that can be interpreted in different ways. Ambiguity | 42 | |
| 6715175984 | analogía | Comparison between two or more similar objects which suggests that if they are similar in certain respects, they are in another. Analogy | 43 | |
| 6715175985 | antagonista | Character or force in a work that deceives, frustrates or acts against the protagonist. Antagonist | 44 | |
| 6715175986 | antihéroe | Person who performs the functions of traditional hero but differs in appearance and values. Its characteristics are contrary to those of a hero. Antihero | 45 | |
| 6715175987 | arquetipo | symbol or universal model that exemplifies its category. Archetype | 46 | |
| 6715175988 | atmósfera | The emotional condition created by a work; refers to the general feeling that the reader must perceive from the text. Atmosphere | 47 | |
| 6715175989 | carpe diem | Latin for seize the day. Carpe diem | 48 | |
| 6715175990 | desenlace | Appears in the plot, after climax; is where you meet the conflicts and the loose ends and part of the plot are attached. Resolution | 49 | |
| 6715175991 | fábula | A short, fictional Story, in prose or verse, with didactic intention in which may involve animal characters, and people. Fable | 50 | |
| 6715175992 | In medias res | literary Technique in which the narrative starts in the middle of the action. (Ay de mi Alhama) | 51 | |
| 6715175993 | ironía | An unexpected event that is the opposite of what is expected or appropriate. Irony | 52 | |
| 6715175994 | memento mori | Generally an artistic or literary theme whose purpose is to remind people of their mortality. Recuerda que eres mortal | 53 | |
| 6715175995 | símbolo | Person, place, object or action that represents something tangible, abstract, or universal. Symbol | 54 | |
| 6715175996 | el tono | Apparent attitude or emotional state of the narrative voice of the work. Tone | 55 | |
| 6715175997 | la trama | Sequence of events in a story that forms the structure of the conflict. Plot | 56 | |
| 6715175998 | crónica | Historical prose that is studied as a narrative genre. It consists of a historical narrative in which the chronological order is observed from different periods. Chronicle | 57 | |
| 6715175999 | flashback | Narrative technique that allows the writer to make a retrospect or temporary jump back to past events in order to provide a background. Flashback | 58 | |
| 6715176000 | fluir de conciencia | Narration that seeks to capture the continuous course of the thought process of a character; also known as interior monologue. Flow awareness | 59 | |
| 6715176001 | narrador omnisciente | Narrator knows everything that happens and is narrated in the third person narrative. Omniscient narrator | 60 | |
| 6715176002 | narrador limitado o narrativa en primera persona | The narrator can participate as a character witness or observe the action and is in first person. First person narrative | 61 | |
| 6715176003 | prefiguración | The suggestion or indication of future events or even the resolution in a story. Prefiguration | 62 | |
| 6715176004 | punto de vista o perspectiva | Angle from which the narrator tells a story; serves to transmit the events of a story and, occasionally, feelings and motives of characters. Point of view | 63 | |
| 6715176005 | heptasílabo | Verse seven metric syllables. Not a very common verse of poetry in Castilian. | 64 | |
| 6715176006 | octosílabo | Verse of eight metric syllables; frequent verse in romance and learned poetry in Hispanic literature. | 65 | |
| 6715176007 | endecasílabo | Metric verse of eleven syllables; frequent verse especially in learned poetry, as in the sonnet of Renaissance and Baroque poets. | 66 | |
| 6715176008 | alejandrino | Verse of French origin; metric verse of fourteen syllables divided into two hemistiches of seven syllables. It also appears in modern poetry. | 67 | |
| 6715176009 | arte menor | Verses of eight metric syllables or less. | 68 | |
| 6715176010 | arte mayor | Verses of more than eight metric syllables. | 69 | |
| 6715176011 | encabalgamiento | Continuation of an idea or phrase in the following verse to complete the meaning; this accelerates the pace of the verses. | 70 | |
| 6715176012 | estribillo | Verse or verses that are repeated at intervals in a poem, often at the end of each stanza, which usually comprise the idea principal. Create a rhythmic and emphatic effect. Chorus | 71 | |
| 6715176013 | lírica | Genre to which the works, usually in verse, express feelings of the author and intend to produce similar sentiments in the reader. Lyric poem | 72 | |
| 6715176014 | poema épico | Poem that tells the exploits of historical or legendary heroes. Epic poem | 73 | |
| 6715176015 | redondilla | Quatrain of minor art, generally octosyllabic, which is abba rhyme. Used in golden age and today. | 74 | |
| 6715176016 | romance | Narrative or non-narrative lyrics of strophic verse, octosyllabic in any number, with verses that rhyme in pairs. | 75 | |
| 6715176017 | sinalefa | Metric element when the final vowel of a word meets the initial vowel of the following and is counted as one syllable. | 76 | |
| 6715176018 | soneto | Poem of Italian origin consisting of fourteen lines of eleven syllables divided into two quartets and two triplets; Scheme more common is ABBA ABBA CDC DCD. Sonnet | 77 | |
| 6715176019 | verso agudo | Verse with the final word accented on the last syllable; (adds a syllable to the verse when counting) | 78 | |
| 6715176020 | verso esdrújulo | Verse where the final word has an emphasis on the third to last vowel (subtracts one syllable from the verse when counting) | 79 | |
| 6715176021 | verso llano | Verse with final word accented on the second to last syllable; the syllabic count is unchanged. It is the most common verse in the Castilian metric | 80 | |
| 6715176022 | acción dramática | Expression of movements occurring in the internal and external levels of the characters . Dramatic action | 81 | |
| 6715176023 | exposición | Part of the plot which informs about the characters, antecedents or causes of action. | 82 | |
| 6715176024 | nudo o clímax | Highlight in a work, usually the time of more excitement or tension that complicates the plot. Climax | 83 | |
| 6715176025 | acotaciones | Notes included in the play at the beginning of the work or brackets along it, to advise and explain everything about the action: gestures, movements of the characters, voice modulation, decorations, sound effects, etc. Dimensions | 84 | |
| 6715176026 | aparte | Theater technique in which a character makes a comment heard by the audience, not by the other characters, used to communicate or reveal their ideas and inner thoughts. Aside | 85 | |
| 6715176028 | dramaturgo | Author of dramatic plays. In the Golden Age they were called "ingenio" or "poeta". | 86 | |
| 6715176029 | teatro del absurdo | Drama based on a senseless situation, in which the characters face situations that show the folly of life in a dehumanized world. | 87 | |
| 6715176030 | anáfora | Repeating words in a succession of verses or sentences me quieres blanca me quieres pura me quieres casta | 88 | |
| 6715176031 | antítesis | Juxtaposition of a word, phrase or idea to another significance contrary. | 89 | |
| 6715176032 | apóstrofe | Appeal in which the speaker addresses bystanders or absent, animate beings or inanimate objects O,.... Dios,... | 90 | |
| 6715176033 | circunlocución o perífrasis | Indirectly alluding to something without saying precisely. | 91 | |
| 6715176034 | elipsis | Leaving out the elements of a phrase or idea, which forces the reader to infer. Ellipsis (...) | 92 | |
| 6715176035 | enumeración | Figure naming different parts of a concept or general thought. | 93 | |
| 6715176036 | eufemismo | Word or phrase used in place of another because the first is distasteful, offensive or bad sounding. Euphemism | 94 | |
| 6715176037 | gradación | Series of words or concepts in ascending scale or descending; also known for climax. | 95 | |
| 6715176038 | hipérbaton | Alteration of the syntactic normal order of words. | 96 | |
| 6715176039 | Barroco | Spanish cultural movement (1580-1700) characterized by its complexity and extravagant ornamentation, whose purpose was to astonish and encourage introspection. Pessimistic. | 97 | |
| 6715176040 | Boom | In Spanish-American literature, a time of great boom: a creation of narrative works that began in 1940. Production is varied and many of its authors created international best sellers and translated into multiple languages | 98 | |
| 6715176041 | Colonial | It refers to literature produced during the time of Spanish colonization on American soil. | 99 | |
| 6715176042 | Edad Media (medioevo) | Period between the 5th and 15th centuries. In Spain it is considered that the Middle Ages closes with the arrival of Columbus to America (1492: la reconquista) | 100 | |
| 6715176043 | Generación del 98 | Group of Spanish novelists, poets, essayists and philosophers, active during and after the War of Cuba (1898), which was restored to Spain to an intellectual and literary prominence. This was of great importance in defining Spain as a cultural and historic entity. Unamuno, crisis, enigma de la vida | 101 | |
| 6715176044 | libro de caballerías | Very popular genre in prose in Spain mid-sixteenth century, celebrating the exploits of the knights in which they fiercely oppose masochism inspired by courteous love. | 102 | |
| 6715176045 | modernismo | Hispanic literary movement whose major exponent is Ruben Dario and melts three French movements: parnasianismo (French poetic movement of the late nineteenth century characterized by its inclination towards a more serene poetry), symbolism and romance. It employs a rich verbal musicality to express passions, visions, inner rhythms and harmonies. | 103 | |
| 6715176046 | naturalismo | Literary movement of the mid-nineteenth century that portrays humans and their circumstances with scientific objectivity.- includes "determinismo" | 104 | |
| 6715176047 | novela picaresca | Narrative prose or genre of pseudo-autobiography character; very characteristic of Spanish literature. The protagonist, a rogue of low social rank or a descendant of marginalized parents or criminals, aims to improve their lot by using their cunning or cheating. | 105 | |
| 6715176048 | pícaro | Character of low condition, sly, witty and unsavory that stars in a picaresque novel "novela picaresca". Usually an orphan. | 106 | |
| 6715176049 | realismo | Objective way of presenting things without minimization or exaggeration. | 107 | |
| 6715176050 | realismo mágico | Hispanic literary movement that emerged mid-twentieth century, characterized by the introduction of these elements: fantastic-dreams, superstition, myths, and magic-immersed in a realistic narrative. | 108 | |
| 6715176051 | Renacimiento | Era that began in the mid-fifteenth century and in which awakens in the West a strong enthusiasm for the Greek and Latin classical antiquity and the power of human creation/ intelligence. Renaissance | 109 | |
| 6715176052 | romanticismo | Literary school of the first half of the nineteenth century; overly individualistic, ignores the rules or precepts held for the classics. | 110 | |
| 6715176053 | Siglo de Oro | Time when literature, arts and culture reach their peak. Golden Age (Renacimiento + Barroco) | 111 | |
| 6715176054 | alegoría | Story that illustrates a moral idea or whose objects have symbolic meanings. | 112 | |
| 6715176055 | apología | Speech in defense or praise of a person or an ideology. | 113 | |
| 6715176057 | cromatismo o simbolismo cromático | Using a set or range of colors to represent ideas and feelings. | 114 | |
| 6715176058 | desdoblamiento | Formation of two or more things for separation of components that are usually together; in a character, expression of two or more personalities. (Borges y yo) | 115 | |
| 6715176059 | leitmotiv | Repeating a word, phrase, situation or notion. Recurring motif in a play. | 116 | |
| 6715176060 | meta- (e.g. metaficción, metateatro,metacrítica) | Meta-fiction in a fictional account, is that the theme of the story is the art of storytelling, particularly when the content breaks the illusion of reality in a play. | 117 | |
| 6715176061 | parodia | Imitation of a work in ridicule. | 118 | |
| 6715176062 | sátira | Literary work whose purpose is to ridicule the subject; although it may be funny, its primary purpose is to provoke rejection. | 119 | |
| 6715176063 | narrativa epistolar | Narrative in the form of letters written by one or several characters; allows to present multiple viewpoints and dispense omniscient narration. | 120 | |
| 6715176064 | narrador fidedigno | Narrator worthy of trust, whose understanding of characters or actions of narrative accredits to tell the facts. are conforms to the standards established by the implied author. | 121 | |
| 6715176065 | narrador no fidedigno | Narrator who misunderstands motives or actions of characters or does not perceive the connection between the facts the story, creating a discrepancy between the implied author and the narrator reliable because it provides inconsistent information. | 122 | |
| 6715176066 | narrador testigo | Narrator does not participate in the action but relates the events firsthand and comments. | 123 | |
| 6715176068 | parábola | Teaching short story whose actions cover or apply to another situation. Parable | 124 | |
| 6715176069 | cesura | Pausing in a verse that may affect the syllable count. Caesura | 125 | |
| 6715176070 | diéresis | Pronunciation in two different vowel syllables normally form diphthong. vïola ( vi / o / la) | 126 | |
| 6715176071 | hemistiquio | Each of the separate parts of a verse, determined a break. Hemistich | 127 | |
| 6715176072 | hiato | Separation or elision. Separation of a "sinalefa" | 128 | |
| 6715176073 | sinéresis | Union of two adjacent vowels within a word formed a hiatus. Reduce the metric syllable count. ex: caos | 129 | |
| 6715176074 | verso blanco o suelto | Verse has no rhyme or assonance with another verse. Appears in poems with a regular rhyme scheme. | 130 | |
| 6715176075 | verso libre | Verse does not rhyme with another verse or have metrical pattern. | 131 | |
| 6715176076 | polifonía | Plurality or set of voices that creates a literary text and corresponds to multiple independent and distinct consciousnesses (dialogue within a poem, for example) | 132 | |
| 6715176077 | polimetría | Using different metrical forms in one poem. Refers to the use of various stanzas in a unitary text. | 133 | |
| 6715176078 | silva | Non-strophic verse poem that combines seven and eleven syllables, linked by rhyme and free verse. | 134 | |
| 6715176079 | anagnórisis | Time the character discovers a material fact or understand something of himself, human nature or status. | 135 | |
| 6715176080 | catarsis | Feeling purification or release elicited by some works or experiences. | 136 | |
| 6715176081 | falla trágica | Fatal error protagonist of a work from which derives a irreparable damage. Tragic flaw | 137 | |
| 6715176082 | ironía dramática | Circumstance in which the reader or viewer knows something unknown to a character and know or suspect what will happen before the character knows. Dramatic irony | 138 | |
| 6715176083 | pathos | In Greek tragedy and in others it is affection tipping the viewer into the tragic figure; leads to catharsis, through which the viewer identifies with the character. | 139 | |
| 6715176084 | tres unidades | Theatrical rule: the work only has a main action (unity of action) that this action does not last more than a day (unit time) and all the action takes place in one place (unity of place). | 140 | |
| 6715176085 | asíndeton | Omission of conjunctions or words to evoke vividness or energy. | 141 | |
| 6715176086 | cacofonía | Using words that combine unpleasant, harsh sounds | 142 | |
| 6715176087 | epíteto | Word or phrase before or after the name, is used to characterize the character. | 143 | |
| 6715176088 | metonimia | One type of metaphor in which the image is associated with the represented, but not part of it; metonimia makes the recipient message make the association. | 144 | |
| 6715176089 | paradoja | Juxtaposition of two contradictory concepts that express a truth. | 145 | |
| 6715176090 | polisíndeton | Repetition of conjunctions to lengthen the sentence or make a solemn expression. | 146 | |
| 6715176091 | sinécdoque | Type metaphor that uses a portion or quality of an physical object to represent the entire object. | 147 | |
| 6715176092 | sinestesia | Description of a feeling or image by means of sensations, perceived by different sensory organs, for example, sight and smell. | 148 | |
| 6715176093 | retruécano | play on words; inversion of the terms of a term or proposition in another subsequent to the latter with the above shock. ex: El momento es eterno. La eternidad momentánea. | 149 | |
| 6715176094 | conceptismo | Literary movement linked to the Spanish Baroque is characterized by the use of gimmicky associations, puns, paradoxes, acuity of thought and concise expression. | 150 | |
| 6715176095 | culteranismo | Spanish literary style of the late sixteenth century and during the seventeenth century, characterized by the excessive wealth of striking metaphors, overuse of cultism and syntactic complexity. | 151 | |
| 6715176096 | costumbrismo | Custom-based portrait of typical regional or national customs or in literary and artistic works. | 152 | |
| 6715176097 | existencialismo | Philosophical movement that founded the knowledge of all reality on the experience of existence. Some subjects are so absurd, freedom from the need to choose, anguish and death, or nothing. | 153 | |
| 6715176098 | neoclasicismo | Eighteenth-century literary movement that rejects the Baroque and proposes a return to classical and universal, simple tasteful art and teaching. | 154 | |
| 6715176099 | postmodernismo | Twentieth century cultural movement that opposes the functionalism and modern rationalism. | 155 | |
| 6715176100 | surrealismo | Literary and artistic movement that tried to overcome impulse with psychic automatism imaginary and irrationality: dreams and hallucinations. | 156 | |
| 6715176101 | vanguardia | Artistic movement that emerged around the First War World and advocated experimentation with new literary techniques. Among its manifestations are surrealism and negritude. | 157 | |
| 6715182166 | dirigir (a) | directed towards | 158 | |
| 6715183726 | resaltar | emphasize | 159 | |
| 6715184847 | alcanzar | reach/ achieve/ be enough | 160 | |
| 6715186367 | destacar | stress/ emphasize | 161 | |
| 6715187391 | rumbo | direction | 162 | |
| 6715189577 | insondable | unfathomable | 163 | |
| 6715189578 | verosímil | truthful/ accurate | 164 | |
| 6715192109 | lograr | achieve | 165 | |
| 6715192110 | gozar | enjoy | 166 | |
| 6715193614 | aprovechar | take advantage of | 167 | |
| 6715194596 | acontecimientos | events | 168 | |
| 6715195956 | cotidiano | daily/ habitual | 169 | |
| 6715195957 | caduco | old-fashioned | 170 | |
| 6715197488 | detalles | details | 171 | |
| 6715198647 | hallar | discover / find | 172 | |
| 6715201704 | polémico | controversial | 173 | |
| 6715202769 | fantasmagórico | phantasmagorical | 174 | |
| 6715204047 | promulgar | publish | 175 | |
| 6715205959 | muchedumbre | crowds/ masses | 176 | |
| 6715207912 | el entorno | the surroundings | 177 | |
| 6715210820 | ocultar | hide | 178 | |
| 6715211969 | añorar | yearn for | 179 | |
| 6715221883 | quejarse | to complain | 180 | |
| 6715221884 | castigar | to punish | 181 | |
| 6715221886 | sangre | blood | 182 | |
| 6715226336 | hazañas | heroic actions | 183 | |
| 6715232334 | sabiduría | knowledge/ wisdom | 184 | |
| 6715239667 | tener lugar | takes place | 185 | |
| 6715239668 | trata de | talks about | 186 | |
| 6715241476 | según | according to | 187 | |
| 6715241477 | el lector | the reader | 188 | |
| 6715248189 | padecer | to suffer | 189 | |
| 6715375731 | abarcar | to cover/ to include | 190 | |
| 6715380496 | consuelo | consolation | 191 | |
| 6715382346 | reverente | respect/ reverence | 192 | |
| 6715388588 | la autoría | authorship | 193 | |
| 6715408135 | venganza | vengeance | 194 | |
| 6715415783 | "tan largo me lo fías" | Don Juan : carpe diem | 195 |
