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| 9821064731 | allegory | story or poem that can be used to reveal a hidden meaning | 0 | |
| 9821064732 | alliteration | beginning of same letter or sound in closely connected words | 1 | |
| 9821064733 | allusion | indirect of passing reference | 2 | |
| 9821064734 | anaphora | repetition in first part of a sentence , to have an artistic meaning | 3 | |
| 9821064735 | antagonist | a hostile person who is opposed to another character | 4 | |
| 9821064736 | apostrophe | figure of speech used to adresss an imaginary character | 5 | |
| 9821064737 | approximate rhyme | words in rhyming pattern that sound alike | 6 | |
| 9821064738 | aside | when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by other actors on the stage | 7 | |
| 9821064739 | assonance | repetition of vowel sounds | 8 | |
| 9821064740 | blank verse | poetry written in meter without an ending rhyme | 9 | |
| 9821064741 | cacophony | blend of unharmonious sounds | 10 | |
| 9821064742 | caesura | pause in the middle of a line | 11 | |
| 9821064743 | catharsis | the release of emotions through art (emotional cleanse) | 12 | |
| 9821064744 | flat character | story character who have no depth, usually has one personality or characteristic | 13 | |
| 9821064745 | round character | character who has complex personality: contradicted person | 14 | |
| 9821064746 | dynamic character | changes throughout the story, through major conflict | 15 | |
| 9821064747 | static character | person who doesn't change throughout story keeps same personality | 16 | |
| 9821064748 | characterization | process of revealing characters personality | 17 | |
| 9821064749 | climax | point where conflict hits its highest point | 18 | |
| 9821064750 | comedy | drama that is amusing or funny | 19 | |
| 9821064751 | conflict | struggle between opposing forces | 20 | |
| 9821064752 | connotation | secondary meaning to a word | 21 | |
| 9821064753 | consonance | repetition of same consonant in words close together | 22 | |
| 9821064754 | couplet | two rhyming lines in a verse | 23 | |
| 9821064755 | denotation | the literal meaning of a word | 24 | |
| 9821064756 | denouement | final outcome of the story | 25 | |
| 9821064757 | deus ex machina | resolution of a plot by chance or coincidence | 26 | |
| 9821064758 | didactic writing | writing with a primary purpose to teach or preach | 27 | |
| 9821064759 | direct presentation of character | author telling the reader how a character is and what actions it will do further in the story | 28 | |
| 9821064760 | double rhyme | rhyme where the repeated vowel is in the second last syllable of words involved (ex; born scorn) | 29 | |
| 9821064761 | dramatic exposition | prose commentaries, to provide background information about the characters and their world | 30 | |
| 9821064762 | end rhyme | rhymes occurring at the end of line | 31 | |
| 9821064763 | end stopped line | line ending in regular punctuation | 32 | |
| 9821064764 | English sonnet | a sonnet rhyming ababcdcdededgg | 33 | |
| 9821064765 | epiphany | when a character receives a spiritual insight into they life | 34 | |
| 9821064766 | euphony | smooth choice and arrangement of sounds | 35 | |
| 9821064767 | extended figure | A figure of speech sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem. | 36 | |
| 9821064768 | falling action | Events after the climax, leading to the resolution | 37 | |
| 9821064769 | feminine rhyme | lines rhymed by their final two syllables | 38 | |
| 9821064770 | figurative language | Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling. | 39 | |
| 9821064771 | figure of speech | a way of saying something other than the ordinary way | 40 | |
| 9821064772 | :) | :) | 41 | |
| 9821064773 | form | external pattern or shape of a poem | 42 | |
| 9821064774 | free verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme | 43 | |
| 9821064775 | hamartia | tragic flaw which causes a character's downfall | 44 | |
| 9821064776 | imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) | 45 | |
| 9821064777 | indirect presentation of character | the personality of a character is revealed by what he or she does or says | 46 | |
| 9821064778 | internal rhyme | A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line | 47 | |
| 9821064779 | irony | A contrast between expectation and reality | 48 | |
| 9821064780 | verbal irony | A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant | 49 | |
| 9821064781 | 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 | |
| 9821064782 | irony of situation | refers to an occurrence that is contrary to what is expected or intended | 51 | |
| 9821064783 | italian sonnet | A sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd | 52 | |
| 9821064784 | masculine rhyme | A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable | 53 | |
| 9821064785 | melodrama | a play based upon a dramatic plot and developed sensationally | 54 | |
| 9821064786 | metaphor | A comparison without using like or as | 55 | |
| 9821064787 | meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry | 56 | |
| 9821064788 | metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it | 57 | |
| 9821064789 | motivation | A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior | 58 | |
| 9821064790 | narrator | Person telling the story | 59 | |
| 9821064791 | octave | 8 line stanza | 60 | |
| 9821064792 | onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. | 61 | |
| 9821064793 | hyperbole | A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor | 62 | |
| 9821064794 | oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. | 63 | |
| 9821064795 | paradox | A contradiction or dilemma | 64 | |
| 9821064796 | paraphrase | A restatement of a text or passage in your own words. | 65 | |
| 9821064797 | personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes | 66 | |
| 9821064798 | plot | Sequence of events in a story | 67 | |
| 9821064799 | point of view | The perspective from which a story is told | 68 | |
| 9821064800 | 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 | |
| 9821064801 | third person limited point of view | narrator tells the story from only one character's pov | 70 | |
| 9821064802 | first person point of view | a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself | 71 | |
| 9821064803 | objective point of view | a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story, with no comment on any characters or events. | 72 | |
| 9821064804 | protagonist | Main character | 73 | |
| 9821064805 | quatrain | A four line stanza | 74 | |
| 9821064806 | rhythm | A regularly recurring sequence of events or actions. | 75 | |
| 9821064807 | rhyme scheme | A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem | 76 | |
| 9821064808 | rising action | Events leading up to the climax | 77 | |
| 9821064809 | sarcasm | the use of irony to mock or convey contempt | 78 | |
| 9821064810 | satire | A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies. | 79 | |
| 9821064811 | scansion | Analysis of verse into metrical patterns | 80 | |
| 9821064812 | sestet | 6 line stanza | 81 | |
| 9821064813 | setting | The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs. | 82 | |
| 9821064814 | simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" | 83 | |
| 9821064815 | soliloquy | A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage | 84 | |
| 9821064816 | sonnet | 14 line poem | 85 | |
| 9821064817 | stanza | A group of lines in a poem | 86 | |
| 9821064818 | stream of consciousness | private thoughts of a character without commentary | 87 | |
| 9821064819 | syllabic verse | Verse measured by the number of syllables rather than the number of feet per line. | 88 | |
| 9821064820 | symbol | A thing that represents or stands for something else | 89 | |
| 9821064821 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 90 | |
| 9821064822 | synesthesia | describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound") | 91 | |
| 9821064823 | tercet | 3 line stanza | 92 | |
| 9821064824 | terza rima | a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc. | 93 | |
| 9821064825 | theme | Central idea of a work of literature | 94 | |
| 9821064826 | tone | Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character | 95 | |
| 9821064827 | tragedy | A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character | 96 | |
| 9821064828 | truncation | Utilizing a melody with part of the end omitted. | 97 | |
| 9821064829 | understandment | the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis | 98 | |
| 9821064830 | verse | A single line of poetry writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme | 99 | |
| 9821064831 | vilanelle | 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. | 100 |
