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| 5086247304 | Paraphrase | Putting a piece of literature into your own words; what you understand it to say; restating ideas that seem essential; coming out and saying what the piece of literature may only suggest; can help you find central thought (theme). | 0 | |
| 5086268369 | Carpe diem | Found in many poems, means "seize the day". | 1 | |
| 5086270574 | Lyric | A short poem expressing the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker (often written in 1st person, but now always). | 2 | |
| 5086278943 | Narrative Poem | A poem whose main purpose is to tell a story. | 3 | |
| 5086284189 | Dramatic Poem | Presents the voice of an imaginary character speaking directly, without any additional narration by the author. | 4 | |
| 5086295281 | Dramatic Monologue | A poem written as a speech made by a character at some decisive moment. | 5 | |
| 5086302181 | Checklist for Paraphrasing a Poem | Read poem closely & more than once. Go through line by line. Write paraphrase as normal prose. Describe literal meaning of poem. See if you can capture overall significance. | 6 | |
| 5086317101 | Tone | Conveys an attitude toward the person addressed. | 7 | |
| 5086320573 | Satiric Poetry | Comic poetry that conveys a message. | 8 | |
| 5086324597 | Persona | Fictitious character. | 9 | |
| 5086329223 | Irony | A manner of speaking that implies discrepancy. | 10 | |
| 5086335060 | Ironic Point of View | If the mask says one thing an we sense the writer is saying something else; Ex. A Modest Proposal. | 11 | |
| 5086341468 | Verbal Irony | When words say one thing but mean the opposite. | 12 | |
| 5086347389 | Sarcasm | Verbal irony that is bitter and mocking. | 13 | |
| 5086353458 | Dramatic Irony | Refers to a situation in a play wherein a character whose knowledge is limited says, does, or encounters something of greater significance than he or she knows. | 14 | |
| 5086361847 | Tragic Irony | Precedes the downfall of a hero in a tragedy. | 15 | |
| 5086368030 | Cosmic Irony/Irony of Fate | Clearly exists in poems in which fate or the Fates are personified & seen as hostile. | 16 | |
| 5086376133 | Checklist for Analyzing Tone | Who is speaking? How does the speaker address the listener? Does the person directly reveal an emotion or attitude? Indirectly? What adjectives best describe the poem's tone? | 17 | |
| 5086391405 | Diction | Choice of words. | 18 | |
| 5086391499 | Concrete Words | What we can immediately perceive with our senses. | 19 | |
| 5086396972 | Abstract Words | Express ideas or concepts. | 20 | |
| 5086404274 | Allusion | Indirect reference to any person, place, or thing. | 21 | |
| 5086409420 | Neoclassical Period/Augustan Age | Period from about 1660 into the late 18th century. | 22 | |
| 5086412566 | Poetic Diction | Elevated language intended for poetry rather than common use. | 23 | |
| 5086421823 | Decorum | Appropriateness. | 24 | |
| 5086426951 | Vulgate | The lowest level of formality in language. | 25 | |
| 5086437423 | Levels of Diction | Order of formality. Colloquial->General English->Formal English | 26 | |
| 5086445999 | Colloquial | Casual conversation or informal writing of literate people. | 27 | |
| 5086452872 | General English | Most literate speech and writing, more studied than colloquial but not pretentious. | 28 | |
| 5086459297 | Formal English | Impersonal language of educated persons, usually only written, possibly spoken on dignified occasions. | 29 | |
| 5086467056 | Dialect | Particular variety of language spoken by an identifiable regional group or social class of persons. | 30 | |
| 5086478574 | Checklist for Thinking About Word Choice | How does diction contribute to the poem's meaning? What sort of diction does the poem use? | 31 | |
| 5086485841 | Fiction | Storied that are not entirely factual, but at least partially shaped, made up, or imagined. | 32 | |
| 5086492155 | Fable | A brief story that sets forth some pointed statement of truth. | 33 | |
| 5086496358 | Moral | Message. | 34 | |
| 5086498306 | Parable | Brief narrative that teaches a moral whose plot is plausibly realistic and whose main characters are human rather than anthropomorphized animals or natural forces; Also usually possess a mysterious/suggestive tone. | 35 | |
| 5086515946 | Tale | A story that is usually short and sets forth strange and wonderful events in more or less bare summary, without detailed character-drawing; Goal= revelation of the marvelous rather than of character. | 36 | |
| 5086545592 | Tall Tale | Variety of folk story which recounts the deeds of a superhero or of the story teller. | 37 | |
| 5086551896 | Fairy Tale | Set in a world of magic and enchantment. | 38 | |
| 5086555810 | Dramatic Situation | A person involved in some conflict: Man vs. Man, Man vs. Nature, Man vs. Society. | 39 | |
| 5086562596 | Exposition | The opening portion of a tale that sets the scene, introduces the main characters, tells what happened before the story opened, and provides any other background information needed to understand the events to follow. | 40 | |
| 5086575464 | Complication | A new conflict that is introduced in the middle of a tale. | 41 | |
| 5086579721 | Protagonist | Central character. | 42 | |
| 5086581736 | Antagonist | Central character challenging the protagonist. | 43 | |
| 5086585962 | Suspense | Pleasurable anxiety that heightens attention to the story. | 44 | |
| 5086595363 | Foreshadowing | Indications of events to come. | 45 | |
| 5086600726 | Crisis | Moment of high tension. | 46 | |
| 5086602993 | Climax | Moment of greatest tension at which the outcome is to be decided. | 47 | |
| 5086606232 | In Medias Res | "In the midst of things"; when the exposition is skipped and the story is first presenting some exciting or significant moment, then filling in what happened earlier. | 48 | |
| 5086618071 | Flashback/Retrospect | A scene relived in the character's memory. | 49 | |
| 5120971947 | Summary | Terse, general narration. | 50 | |
| 5120974458 | Short Story | A form more realistic than the tale and of modern origin, where the writer usually presents the main events in greater fullness. | 51 | |
| 5120979738 | Scene | A vivid or dramatic moment described in enough to detail to create the illusion that the reader is practically there. | 52 | |
| 5120984491 | Epiphany | Some moment insight, discovery, or revelation by which a character's life, or view of life, is greatly altered. | 53 | |
| 5120991513 | Story of Initiation | Short stories that tell of a character initiated into an experience or maturity. | 54 | |
| 5121000236 | Checklist for Analyzing Plot | What is the story's central conflict? Who is the protagonist/what do they want? What is at stake for the protagonist in the conflict? What stands in the way of the protagonist's easily achieving their goal? What are the main events that take place in the story and how does each event relate to the protagonist's struggle? Where do you find the story's climax, or crisis? How is the conflict resolved? Does the protagonist succeed in achieving their goals? What is the impact of success, failure, or a surprising outcome on the protagonist? | 55 | |
| 5121021054 | Narrator | The speaker of a story. | 56 | |
| 5121025683 | Point of View | Identified by describing any part the narrator plays in the events of a story and any limits placed on their knowledge. | 57 | |
| 5121037658 | Narrator a Participant (Writing in the First Person) | Could be: 1. A major character, or 2. A minor character. | 58 | |
| 5121042576 | Narrator a Nonparticipant (Writing in the Third Person) | Could be: 1. All-knowing (seeing into any of the characters), 2. Seeing into one major character, 3. Seeing into one minor character, or 4. Objective (not seeing into any characters). | 59 | |
| 5121051918 | Participant | When the narrator is a dramatized character who says "I". | 60 | |
| 5121060254 | Observer | When the narrator is a minor character standing a little to one side, watching a story unfold that mainly involves someone else. | 61 | |
| 5121063494 | Nonparticipant | A narrator who does not appear in the story as a character. Refers to characters as "he", "she", or "they". | 62 | |
| 5121070213 | All-knowing (Omniscient) | When the narrator sees into the minds of all or some characters, moving when necessary from one to another. | 63 | |
| 5121075972 | Editorial Omniscience | When the narrator adds an occasional comment or opinion. | 64 | |
| 5121079304 | Impartial Omniscience | When the narrator presents the thoughts and actions of the characters, but does not judge them or comment on them. | 65 | |
| 5121084028 | Limited or Selective Omniscience | When a nonparticipating narrator sees events through the eyes of a single character, whether a major character or a minor one. | 66 | |
| 5121090365 | Objective Point of View | When the narrator does not enter the mind of any character but describes events from the outside. Leaves the reader to infer thoughts an feelings of the characters. | 67 | |
| 5121099254 | Innocent or Naive Narrator | A character who fails to understand all implications of the story. | 68 | |
| 5121101468 | Unreliable Narrator | Point of view is that of a person who, we perceive, is deceptive, self-deceptive, deluded, or deranged. | 69 | |
| 5121109697 | Stream of Consciousness | Method of writing to describe the procession of thoughts passing through the mind. In fiction, a kind of selective omniscience: presentation of thoughts and sense impressions in a lifelike fashion, not in a sequence arranged by logic, but mingled randomly. | 70 | |
| 5121125804 | Interior Monologue | An extended presentation of a character's thoughts, not in the seemingly helter-skelter order of a stream of consciousness, but in an arrangement as if the character were speaking out loud to himself, for us to overhear. | 71 | |
| 5121141866 | Total Omniscience | A knowledge of the minds of all the characters. | 72 | |
| 5121220433 | Limitations to Point of View | EVERY point of view has limitations. Total omniscience requires high skill to manage, without the storyteller's losing their way in a multitude of perspectives. By using a particular point of view, an author may artfully withhold information rather than immediately present it to us. | 73 | |
| 5121236108 | Checklist for Understanding Point of View | Is the story told in the first or the third person? If the story is told in the third person, is the point of view omniscient, or does it stick closely to what is perceived by a particular character? What is gained by using this point of view? If the story is told by a first-person narrator, what is the speaker's main reason for telling the story? Does the narrator have something at stake in presenting the events? What does the narrator have to gain by making us believe their accounts? Does the first-person narrator fully understand their own motivations? Is there some important aspect of the narrator's character or situation that is being overlooked? If the story is told in the first person, is there anything peculiar about the narrator, and if so does this peculiarity create any suspicions about the narrator's accuracy or reliability? What does the speaker's perspective add, and would the story seem as memorable if related from another narrative angle? | 74 | |
| 5121282421 | Stock Characters | Stereotyped characters that are often known by some outstanding trait or traits. Require little detailed portraiture. | 75 | |
| 5121293525 | Character | A presumably imagined person who inhabits a story. | 76 | |
| 5121295314 | Motivation | Sufficient reason for a character to behave as they do. | 77 | |
| 5121305100 | Flat Character | Has only one outstanding trait or feature, or at the most a few distinguishing marks. Tend to stay the same throughout a story. | 78 | |
| 5121311217 | Round Character | Portrayed in greater depth and in more generous detail. Often change, learn or become enlightened, grow or deteriorate. | 79 | |
| 5121320069 | Static Character | Fixed character that does not change throughout a story. | 80 | |
| 5121321616 | Dynamic Character | Character that does change throughout a story. | 81 | |
| 5121323809 | Allusion | A reference to some famous person, place, or thing in history, in other fiction, or in actuality. | 82 | |
| 5121331119 | Antihero | A protagonist conspicuously lacking in one or more of the usual attributes of a traditional hero (bravery, skill, idealism, sense of purpose). Is an ordinary citizen of the modern world, usually drawn as someone "groping, puzzled, cross, mocking, frustrated, and isolated. | 83 | |
| 5121359059 | Checklist for Writing about Character | Who is the main character or protagonist of the story? Which of the character's physical, mental, moral, or behavioral traits seem especially significant to the action of the story? Does the main character have an antagonist in the story, and if so, how do they differ? Does the way the protagonist speaks reveal anything about their character? If the story is told in the first person, what is revealed about how the protagonist views his or her surroundings? What is the character's primary motivation, and does this motivation seem as reasonable to you as it does to the protagonist? If not, what is suggested by this unreasonableness? Does the protagonist fully understand his or her motivations? In what ways is the protagonist changed or tested by the events of the story? | 84 |
