2017 summer assignment
(1st 30 words: 1-30)
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| 7107285492 | Allegory | a narrative either in verse or prose, in which characters, action, and sometimes setting represent abstract concepts apart from the literal meaning of the story. (ex. Everyman) | 0 | |
| 7107285493 | Alliteration | Repetition of consonant sounds | 1 | |
| 7107285494 | Allusion | a brief reference to a person, event, or place in history, or to a work of art/ literature. | 2 | |
| 7107285495 | Analogy | a comparison made between two items, situations, or ideas that are somewhat alike but unlike in most respects | 3 | |
| 7107297361 | Anaphora | figure of repetition that occurs when the first word or set of words in one sentence, clause, or phrase is/are repeated at or very near the beginning of successive sentences, clauses or phrases | 4 | |
| 7107299264 | Antagonist | a character in a story or play who opposes the chief character or protagonist | 5 | |
| 7107301590 | Apostrophe | a figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses an absent person or a personified quality, object, or idea | 6 | |
| 7107302675 | Archetype | a character in a story or play who opposes the chief character or protagonist | 7 | |
| 7107305314 | Aside | in drama, a few words or a short passage spoken by one character to the audience while the other actors on stage pretend their characters cannot hear the speaker's words | 8 | |
| 7107306746 | Assonance | the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds in stressed syllables or words | 9 | |
| 7107308581 | Asyndeton | the omission of conjunctions from constructions in which they would normally be used | 10 | |
| 7107309565 | Atmosphere (mood) | the mood/feeling of the literary work created for the reader by the writer | 11 | |
| 7107310213 | Ballad | a narrative poem that usually includes a repeated refrain | 12 | |
| 7107310920 | Blank Verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter, a line of five feet | 13 | |
| 7107311963 | Cacophony | the use of words in poetry that combine sharp, harsh, hissing, or unmelodious sounds | 14 | |
| 7107935544 | Caesura | A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line. | 15 | |
| 7107935545 | Carpe Diem | Latin for "seize the day," the name applied to a theme frequently found in lyric poetry: enjoy life's pleasures while you are able | 16 | |
| 7107935546 | Catharsis | purification or purging of emotions (pity or fear) | 17 | |
| 7107951297 | Character | An imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (described as round/flat, protagonist/antagonist, etc.) | 18 | |
| 7107951298 | Characterization | the method an author uses to acquaint the reader with his or her characters | 19 | |
| 7107951299 | Chiasmus | A scheme in which the author introduces words or concepts in a particular order then later repeats those terms or similar ones in reverse or backwards order. It involves taking parellelism and deliberately turning it inside out, creating a "crisscross" pattern | 20 | |
| 7107951300 | Cliché | an expression or phrase that is over-used as to become trite and meaningless | 21 | |
| 7107951301 | Climax | as a term of dramatic structure, the decisive or turning point in a story or play when the action changes course and, as a result, begins to resolve itself | 22 | |
| 7107951302 | Conceit | elaborate figure of speech combining possible metaphor, simile, hyperbole, or oxymoron. | 23 | |
| 7114184548 | Conflict | the struggle between two opposing forces (man v. man, man v. nature, man v. self, man v. society). | 24 | |
| 7107951303 | Connotation | the emotional associations surrounding a word, as opposed to its literal meaning or denotation | 25 | |
| 7107951304 | Couplet | a pair of rhyming lines with identical meter | 26 | |
| 7107951305 | Denotation | the strict, literal meaning of a word | 27 | |
| 7107951306 | Denouement | the resolution of the plot | 28 | |
| 7107951307 | Dialogue | the conversation between two or more people in literary work | 29 |
