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| 7595530087 | Envoi | 3-line conclusion to a sestina (poem composed of 6 6-line stanzas and 3-line conclusion) that includes all 6 key words, 3 placed at end of lines, and 3 w/in lines | 0 | |
| 7595537475 | Epic | long narrative poem recounting the adventures of heroes on whose actions depend the fate of a nation/race. Frequently the gods or other supernatural beings take active interest in events presented in this form -ex: "Iliad" or "Aeneid" | 1 | |
| 7601651885 | Epigram | short witty poem or phrase that makes a pointed statement -ex: Dorothy Parker's comment on an actress, "She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B." | 2 | |
| 7601673994 | Epiphany | term created by James Joyce and now used generally to describe a sudden moment of revelation about the deep meaning inherent in common things -ex: boy's revelation at the end of "Araby" | 3 | |
| 7601687266 | Euphemism | word chosen for its positive connotations: often used for subjects like sex and death whose frank discussion is considered taboo -ex: saying, "to pass away" instead of "to die" | 4 | |
| 7601726398 | Euphony | pleasant spoken sound created by smooth consonants -ex: "ripple" or "pleasure" | 5 | |
| 7601726399 | Exposition | 1st stage of a plot, where the author presents the info a reader or viewer will need to understand the characters and subsequent action | 6 | |
| 7601735197 | Expressionism | artistic and literary movement that attempts to portray inner experience. It moves away from realistic portrayals of life and is characterized by violent exaggeration of objective reality and extremes of mood and feeling | 7 | |
| 7601750242 | Extended metaphor | a comparison used throughout a work -ex: Tillie Olsen's "I Stand Here Ironing" comparing a mother's daughter to a dress waiting to be ironed (conveys daughter's vulnerability) | 8 | |
| 7601787840 | Extended simile | comparison of 2 things throughout a work using "like" or "as" | 9 | |
| 7601807556 | Eye rhyme | occurs when words look as though they should rhyme, but actually don't -ex: cough/tough | 10 | |
| 7601832155 | Fable | short didactic story, often involving animals or supernatural being and stressing plot above character development, whose object is to teach a pragmatic or moral lesson -ex: Aesop's "The Tortoise and the Hare" | 11 | |
| 7601848396 | Fairy tale/folktale | contemporary version of an old, even ancient, oral tale that can be traced back centuries though many different cultures | 12 | |
| 7601863220 | Falling action | stage in a play's plot during which the intensity of the climax subsides | 13 | |
| 7601868316 | Falling meter | trochaic and dactylic meters, so called b/c they move from stressed to unstressed syllables | 14 | |
| 7601878575 | Fantasy | non-realistic piece of literature that depends on whimsical plot, supernatural or mythical characters, and implausible actions, usually w/ a happy ending | 15 | |
| 7601961152 | Farce | comedy in which stereotypical characters engage in boisterous horseplay and slapstick humor -ex: Chekov's "The Brute" | 16 | |
| 7601978872 | Feminine rhyme | two syllables correspond, the second of which is stressed -aka: double rhyme or falling rhyme | 17 | |
| 7602032528 | Fiction | form of narrative that is primarily imaginative, though its form may resemble that of the factual writing like history or biography | 18 | |
| 7602049391 | Figures of speech | expressions that suggest more than their literal meanings; main ones are hyperbole, metaphor, metonymy, personification, simile, synedoche, and understatement | 19 | |
| 7602068250 | Flashback | variation on chronological order that presents an event or situation that occurred before the time in which the story's action takes place | 20 | |
| 7602081090 | Flat character | static, stereotypical, or foil character | 21 | |
| 7602086840 | Foil | minor character whose role is to highlight the main character by giving readers a chance to compare and contrast qualities -ex: the "straight man" can be seen as an example of this for other member in a modern comedic team | 22 | |
| 7602109291 | Foot | unit that makes up a meter, the regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables | 23 | |
| 7602124187 | Foreshadowing | presentation early in a story of situations, characters, or objects that seem to have no special importance but in fact have a larger significance -ex: a mention of a character's unusually accurate memory for faces may become significant only when his or her fate turns out to hinge on recognizing a person from the past | 24 | |
| 7602155247 | Form | general organizing principle of a literary work. In poetry, it is described in terms of presence in a particular work of elements like rhyme, mater, and stanzaic pattern | 25 | |
| 7602172818 | Formal diction | lofty and elaborate diction; typical of Shakespearean nobility | 26 | |
| 7602182020 | Free verse | poetry that makes use of varying line lengths, abandoning stanzaic divisions, breaking lines in unexpected places, and even abandoning any pretense of formal structure | 27 | |
| 7602204609 | Freytag's pyramid | 5 parts of classic dramatic points: exposition, complication, climax, catastrophe, and resolution; from Gustav Freytag's "Technique of the Drama" |  | 28 |
| 7602233527 | Genre | category of literature -ex: major: fiction, drama, and poetry subgenres: novel, farce, and lyric poem | 29 | |
| 7602246561 | Haiku | 17-syllable, 3-line form of Japanese verse that almost always uses concrete imagery and deals with the natural world | 30 | |
| 7602256959 | Hamartia | Aristotle's term for the "tragic flaw" in characters that eventually causes their downfall in Greek tragedy | 31 | |
| 7602265516 | Hermeneutics | the use of the Bible to interpret other historical of current events; in current critical theory, the principles and procedures followed to determine the meaning of a text | 32 | |
| 7602288436 | Heroic couplet | stanza consisting of 2 rhymed lines of iambic pentameter, w/ a weak pause after 1st line and strong pause after 2nd. -ex: prevalent on Chaucer's works and Alexander Pope's poetry | 33 | |
| 7602332199 | High comedy | term introduced in 1877 by George Meredith to denote comedy that appeals to the intellect -ex: Shakespeare's "As You Like It" | 34 | |
| 7602341547 | Hubris | tragic flaw of overwhelming pride that exists in the protagonist of a tragedy | 35 | |
| 7602349114 | Hyperbole | figurative language that depends on intentional overstatement; Mark Twain uses it for humor, Johnathan Sift for satire | 36 | |
| 7602364958 | Iamb | metric foot of 2 syllables, 1st unstressed and 2nd stressed | 37 | |
| 7602374020 | Imagery | words and phrases that describe the concrete experience of the 5 senses, most often sight. | 38 | |
| 7602407077 | Types of Imagery | Pattern of imagery: a group of related images developed throughout a work Synesthesia: the mixing of forms of imagery ("He smelled the blue fumes of her scent.") Static: freezes the moment to give it timeless quality of painting or sculpture Kinetic: imagery attempting to show motion or change | 39 |
