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11940833966	archaic	(adj.) related or belonging to an earlier time (outdated, old-fashioned, ancient, antiquated, obsolete, primitive, antique)	0
11940833967	carouse	(v.) to take part in wild, noisy merrymaking (booze, drink, frolic, imbibe, play, quaff, revel, riot, roister, spree, wassail)	1
11940837734	chicanery	(n.) clever deception through the use of misleading or confusing words or acts (dishonesty, duplicity, cheating, deviousness, fraud, ploy, dodge)	2
11940841328	contentious	(adj.) causing or marked by argument or conflict (antagonistic, combative, argumentative, aggressive, barbaric, disputatious, battling)	3
11940841330	dissemble	(v.) to conceal with an intent to deceive (camouflage, cloak, counterfeit, cover, fake, falsify, hide, mask, sham, shroud)	4
11940846344	egregious	(adj.) conspicuously bad; flagrant (atrocious, deplorable, heinous, intolerable, scandalous, nefarious, preposterous)	5
11940848996	execrate	(v.) to utterly abhor; to denounce as detestable (abominate, excommunicate, censure, condemn, curse, despise, denounce, execrate)	6
11940848997	fealty	(n.) faithfulness; allegiance (loyalty, constancy, devotion, fidelity, obligation, duty)	7
11940852766	microcosm	(n.) a small system that operates or develops like a larger system; a miniature world (planet, globe, earth, nature, cosmos, creation, star, universe, heavenly body)	8
11940855695	paroxysm	(n.) a sudden, violent, and uncontrollable action or occurrence (convulsion, agitation, anger, eruption, explosion, frenzy, fury, outbreak, rage, outburst, passion)	9
11940858240	pecuniary	(adj.) having to do with money (banking, budgeting, business, economic, fiscal, commercial, financial)	10
11940858241	rectitude	(n.) high moral character (decency, honesty, integrity, morality, righteousness, virtue, goodness)	11
11940861032	stratagem	(n.) a clever scheme for gaining an end (gimmick, ruse, subterfuge, wile, con, deception, hoax, fabrication)	12
11940863766	stultify	(v.) to render useless or ineffectual; to weaken (mock, decay, decline, fester, rust, rot, stagnate, decline, languish, atrophy)	13
11940863767	vendetta	(n.) a blood feud; a prolonged and bitter feud (bickering, grudge, hostility, quarrel, revenge, rivalry, squabble, conflict, discord, dispute)	14

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12283263436	tone	Attitude a writer conveys toward his or her subject and audience	0
12283263437	theme	Central idea of a work of literature	1
12283263438	mood	emotional content of a scene or setting	2
12283263439	analogy	a comparison between 2 things	3
12283263440	conceit	an imaginative figure of speech drawing an analogy between 2 things	4
12283263441	metaphor	comparison between 2 unlike things without using like or as	5
12283263442	simile	A comparison using "like" or "as"	6
12283263443	epic simile	an extended simile	7
12283263444	oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.	8
12283263445	paradox	A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.	9
12283263446	irony	a discrepancy between appearances and reality	10
12283263447	verbal irony	what is said is the opposite of what is meant	11
12283263448	dramatic irony	The audience knows something the characters do not	12
12283263449	situational irony	a discrepancy between the expected result and actual results	13
12283263450	allusion	a reference in literature to an event or person in history, myth, other piece of literature	14
12283263451	symbol	when a character, object, name or incident maintains its literal meaning while suggesting other meanings	15
12283263452	metonymy	something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it	16
12283263453	Synecdoche	a part of a thing represents that thing itself	17
12283263454	Personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	18
12283263455	Apostrophe	A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction	19
12283263456	pun	A play on words	20
12283263457	Euphemism	An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant	21
12283263458	Hyperbole	exaggeration	22
12283263459	Understatement	A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means	23
12283263460	litotes	A form of understatement that involves negating it (making it negative)	24
12283263461	Alliteration	Repetition of some consonant sounds at the beginning of words	25
12283263462	consonance	neighboring words repeat the same consonant sound not at the beginning of the word but at middle or end	26
12283263463	Assonance	repetition of the internal vowel sounds	27
12283263464	Onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	28
12283274811	parallelism	balance in syntactical expression; repeated grammatical patterns in phrases	29
12283274812	Anithesis	a direct opposite, a contrast	30
12283274813	inverted syntax	Reversal in the expected order of words	31
12283274814	cumulative sentence	a sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on	32
12283274815	periodic sentence	sentence that begins with details, qualifications and builds toward the main clause	33
12283274816	declarative sentence	a sentence that makes a statement and ends with a period	34
12283274817	interrogative sentence	a sentence that asks a question and ends with a question mark	35
12283274818	exclamatory sentence	a sentence expressing strong feeling, usually punctuated with an exclamation mark	36
12283274819	imperative sentence	gives a direct command	37
12283274820	subject	A noun that performs the action of the verb	38
12283274821	direct object	a word representing the person or thing upon which the action of a verb is performed or toward which it is directed	39
12283274822	indirect object	a word representing the person or thing with reference to which the action of a verb is performed, rephrased as prepositional phrase	40
12283274823	Appositive	A noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it, often are set off by commas, parentheses or dashes	41
12283274824	abstract	lacks vivid detail	42
12283274825	concrete	specific detail, appeals to 5 senses	43
12283274826	Conntotation	the range of secondary or associated significances and feelings which a word or phrase commonly suggests or implies	44
12283274827	Imagery	Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)	45
12283274828	Dialect	local or regional characteristics of a language	46
12283274829	diction	word choice	47
12283274830	anecdote	short story	48
12283274831	Epithet	an adjective or phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing	49
12283274832	motif	a pattern of identical or similar images, actions or ideas throughout a passage	50
12283322913	exposition	The essential background information at the beginning of a literary work	51
12283325570	inciting incident	starts the action or sets the plot	52
12283328810	rising action	The development of a conflict	53
12283331058	climax	the turning point of the story	54
12283337471	anticlimax	serious to trivial to achieve a comic, satiric or ironic effect	55
12283343429	denouement	the resolution	56
12283344961	setting	The time AND place of a story	57
12283344990	in media res	in the middle of things	58
12283347062	deus ex machina	god from the machine superhuman force resolves a conflict	59
12283351287	flashback	interrupts the chronological flow by relating events from the past	60
12283357990	frame narrative	a story within a story	61
12283359729	Foreshadowing	A warning or indication of a future event	62
12283362744	epiphany	A moment of sudden revelation or insight	63
12283362745	Catharsis	Emotional release of fear or pity	64
12283366552	Protagonist	main character	65
12283366553	hero	traditional qualities of a true hero	66
12283368750	byronic hero	Anti hero who is a romanticized but wicked character	67
12283370530	antihero	protagonist who lacks typical moral characteristics of a true hero	68
12283376649	tragic hero	brings his own downfall	69
12283383971	Antagonist	The character opposing the main character	70
12283383972	dynamic charcater	character that changes as a result of the stories events	71
12283387961	static character	A character who does not change during the story	72
12283391361	flat character	lacks complexity, may be a stereotype	73
12283395273	round character	multi-dimensional character	74
12283397735	Hamartia	tragic flaw	75
12283397736	foil	A character who acts as a contrast to another character	76
12283399459	archetype / stereotype/ stock character	character does not grow or change	77
12283404270	speaker	The voice talking in a poem	78
12283407756	Narrator	Person telling the story	79
12283407757	first person point of view	a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself. uses me, my, I	80
12283411682	unrealiable narrator	may be biased, cannot trust his/her views	81
12283415274	limited 3rd person point of view	reader's info is limited to what only one character feels, thinks, and observes	82
12283419434	Omniscient 3rd Person point of view	a narrator is all-knowing and knows the feelings and thoughts of every character in the story	83
12283421496	interior monologue	writing that records the conversation that occurs inside a character's head, half thoughts	84
12283424780	dramatic monologue	when a single speaker in literature says something to a silent audience	85
12283427208	Soliquoy	a long speech in a drama that is spoken by a character alone on stage	86
12283429026	chorus	A group of characters in Greek tragedy (and in later forms of drama), who comment on the action of a play without participation in it.	87
12283430956	stream of consciousness	A literary technique that presents the thoughts and feelings of a character as they occur.	88
12283432877	prose	stories, essays, novels, plays	89
12283437178	verse	poetry	90
12283437229	Narrative	story line	91
12283438980	Allegory	a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.	92
12283441077	Bildungsroman	A coming of age story, main character recognizes his or her place and role in the world	93
12283445233	comedy	A humorous work of drama	94
12283447392	satire	belittling a subject by making it ridiculous	95
12283449370	comedy of manners	Makes fun of high society	96
12283453303	farce	ridiculous situations, horseplay, crude dialogue	97
12283457048	parody	A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule.	98
12283458881	dystopian	a futuristic society that is imperfect	99
12283460729	utopian	idealistic or visionary, usually used to describe a perfect society	100
12283462236	epic	A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds	101
12283463859	fable	A brief story that leads to a moral, often using animals as characters	102
12283466092	Tragedy	A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character	103
12283467647	Existentialism	individuals have free will and are entirely responsible for their actions	104

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8405523527	pathos	when the writing of a scene evokes feelings of dignified pity and sympathy	0
8405523528	catharsis	the "cleansing" of emotion an audience member experiences, having lived through the experiences presented on stage	1
8405523529	metonymy	when a word is used to stand for something else that it has attributes of or is associated with	2
8405526770	interior monologue	refers to writing that records the mental talking that goes on inside a character's head	3
8405526771	analogy	a comparison involving 2 or more symbolic parts, employed to clarify an action or a relationship	4
8405526772	atmosphere	the emotional tone or background that surrounds a scene	5
8405526773	apostrophe	a figure of speech wherein the speaker talks directly to something that is nonhuman	6
8405530170	black humor	use of disturbing themes in comedy	7
8405530171	ballad	a long, narrative poem, usually in regular meter and rhyme	8
8405530172	archaism	use of deliberately old-fashioned language	9
8405533381	aphorism	a short and witty saying	10
8405533382	hyperbole	exaggeration or deliberate overstatement	11
8405533383	periodic sentence	not grammatically complete until it has reached its final phrase	12
8405533384	implicit	to say or write something that suggests and implies but never says it directly or clearly	13
8405537107	foil	a secondary character whose purpose is to highlight the characteristics of a main character, usually by contrast	14
8405537108	euphemism	a word or phrase that takes the place of a harsh, unpleasant, or impolite reality	15
8405537109	lament	a poem of sadness or grief over the death of a loved one or over some other intense loss	16
8405537110	lyric	a type of poetry that explores the poet's personal interpretation of and feelings about the world	17
8405540781	limited omniscient narrator	a third person narrator who generally reports only what one character sees, and who only reports the thoughts of that one privileged character	18
8405540782	stream of consciousness	the author places the reader inside the main characters head and makes the reader privy to all of the characters thoughts as they scroll through her consciousness	19
8405558287	suggest	to imply, infer, indicate	20
8405558288	subjunctive mood	when it expresses a condition which is doubtful or not factual, uses words like "if" and "were"	21
8405558289	loose sentence	complete before its end	22
8405561670	dramatic irony	when the audience knows something that the characters in the drama do not	23
8405561671	epic	a very long narrative poem on a serious theme in a dignified style	24
8405561672	genre	a sub-category of literature	25
8405561673	inversion	switching the customary order of elements in a sentence or phrase	26
8405566207	meaning	what makes sense, whats important	27
8405566208	enjambment	the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line or couplet of a poem to the next with no pause	28
8405566209	free verse	poetry written without a regular rhyme scheme or metrical pattern	29
8405570211	melodrama	a form of cheesy theater in which the hero is very very good, the villain mean and rotten, and the heroine of so pure	30
8405570212	personification	when an inanimate object takes on human shape	31
8405581995	satire	attempts to improve things by pointing out peoples mistakes in the hope that once exposed, such behavior will become less common	32
8405581996	pun	the usually humorous use of a word in such a way to suggest two or more meanings	33
8405581997	refrain	a line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem	34
8405586601	rhetorical question	a question that suggests an answer	35
8405586602	dirge	a song for the dead	36
8405586603	pastoral	a poem set in tranquil nature or even more specifically, one about shepherds	37
8405586604	allegory	a story in which each aspect of the story has symbolic meaning outside the tale itself	38
8405589880	summary	a simple retelling of what you've just read	39
8405589881	oxymoron	a phrase composed of opposites; a contradiction	40
8405589882	bombast	pretentious, exaggeratedly learned language	41
8405592974	suspension of disbelief	the demand made of a theater audience to accept the limitations of staging and supply the details with their imagination	42
8405592975	antecedent	the word, phrase, or clause that determines what a pronoun refers to	43
8405592976	opposition	a pair of elements that contrast sharply	44
8405592977	canto	the name for a section division in a long work of poetry, like a chapter but for a poem	45
8405596875	elements	basic techniques of each genre of literature	46
8405596876	alliteration	the repetition of initial consonant sounds	47
8405596877	antihero	a protagonist who is markedly unheroic	48
8405596878	chorus	in greek drama, the group of citizens who stand outside the main action on stage and comment on it	49
8405600903	pathetic fallacy	the attribution of human feelings and responses to inanimate things or animals, found in poetic writing	50
8405600904	anecdote	a short narrative	51
8405600905	anachronism	"misplaced in time"	52
8405600906	academic	means dry and theoretical writing	53
8405604855	abstract	complex style, discusses intangible qualities like good and evil	54
8405604856	aesthetic	appealing to the senses	55
8405604857	assonance	the repeated use of vowel sounds	56
8405604858	allusion	a reference to another work or famous figure	57
8405625039	epitaph	lines that commemorate the dead at their burial place	58
8405625040	parenthetical phrase	a phrase set off by commas that interrupts the flow of a sentence with some commentary or added detail	59
8405625041	elegy	a type of poem that meditates on death or mortality in a serious thoughtful manner	60
8405629691	nemesis	the protagonists arch enemy or supreme and persistent difficulty	61
8405629692	hubris	the excessive pride or ambition that leads to the main characters downfall	62
8405635559	gothic	style of writing that is characterized by elements of fear, horror, death, and gloom, as well as romantic elements, such as nature, individuality, and very high emotion	63
8405635560	feminine rhyme	lines rhymed by their final two syllables	64
8405635561	foreshadowing	an event or statement in a narrative that in miniature suggests a larger event that comes later	65
8405639279	foot	the basic rhythmic unit of a line of poetry	66
8405639280	doggerel	crude, simplistic verse, often in sing-song rhyme	67
8405639281	dramatic monologue	when a single speaker in literature says something to a silent audience	68
8405639282	euphony	when sounds blend harmoniously	69
8405642584	simile	like a metaphor but softens the full out equation of things, usually using like or as	70
8405646131	metaphor	a comparison or analogy that states one thing is another	71
8405646132	colloquialism	a word or phrase used in everyday conversational english that isn't a part of accepter school-book english	72
8405646133	conceit	refers to a startling or unusual metaphor, or to a metaphor developed and expanded over several lines	73
8405646134	connotation	everything that a word suggests or implies other than its literal meaning	74
8405651184	denotation	the literal meaning of a word	75
8405651185	couplet	a pair of lines that end in rhyme	76
8405651186	decorum	styled according to social station, and in accordance with the occasion	77
8405651187	diction	the authors choice of words	78
8405651188	plaint	a poem or speech expressing sorrow	79
8405655185	anticlimax	occurs when an action produces far smaller results than one had been led on to expect	80
8405655186	objective	an impersonal or outside view of events	81
8405664672	aside	a speech made by an actor to the audience as though momentarily stepping outside of the action on stage	82
8405664673	stanza	a group of lines roughly analogous in function in verse to the paragraphs function in prose	83
8405664674	accent	refers to the stressed portion of a word	84
8405668512	imagery	visually descriptive or figurative language	85

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15033870135	Irony	the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning	0
15033874608	Itlaian sonnet	consisting of an octave with the rhyme scheme abbaabba and a sestet with one of several rhyme schemes, as cdecde or cdcdcd.	1
15033910506	Litote	A figure of speech that emphasizes its subject by conscious understatement	2
15034584527	lyric poems	usually short poems that express the deep personal feelings of the writer	3
15034591532	masculine rhyme	A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable	4
15034639328	Metaphor	implies comparison between two unlike entities	5
15034650009	metaphysical poetry	highly intellectualized poetry marked by bold and ingenious conceits, incongruous imagery, complexity and subtlety of thought, frequent use of paradox, and often by deliberate harshness or rigidity of expression	6
15034655372	meter	A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	7
15034674290	Metonymy	A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it	8
15034677663	Monometer	one foot per line	9
15034684474	narrative poem	a poem that tells a story	10
15034688812	Octave	8 line stanza	11
15034691400	Ode	A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject.	12
15034709488	Onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	13
15034711312	oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.	14
15034713564	paradox	a statement that seems contradictory but is actually true	15
15034718223	parallelism	similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses	16
15034720684	Pentameter	a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet	17
15034723963	Personification	the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea	18
15034731391	Phonetic Incentives	A word whose sound suggests is meaning	19
15034734510	Quatrain	A four line stanza	20
15034739826	rhetorical question	A question asked merely for rhetorical effect and not requiring an answer	21
15034742696	rhyme scheme	the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.	22
15034745571	run-on line (enjambment)	a line that ends without a pause and continues into the next line for its meaning	23
15034748489	Scansion	the action of scanning a line of verse to determine its rhythm	24
15034750550	Sestet	the last six lines of a sonnet	25
15034753633	Similie	comparing two things using like or as	26
15034756243	slant rhyme	rhyme in which the vowel sounds are nearly, but not exactly the same (i.e. the words "stress" and "kiss"); sometimes called half-rhyme, near rhyme, or partial rhyme	27
15034758793	Sonnet	a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme	28
15034762029	Speaker	the voice of the poem	29
15034765655	spondee (spondaic)	a foot consisting of two long (or stressed) syllables.	30
15034768909	Stanza	A group of lines in a poem	31
15034801383	Synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	32
15034803947	Syntax	The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.	33
15034806736	Tercet	3 line stanza	34
15034809355	Tetrameter	4 feet per line	35
15034812280	Theme	Central idea of a work of literature	36
15034815334	Tone	A writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization on the sentence and global levels.	37
15034817590	Trimeter	3 feet per line	38
15034828266	Trochee (trochaic)	a foot consisting of one long or stressed syllable followed by one short or unstressed syllable.	39
15034831667	Villanelle	A French verse form calculated to appear simple and spontaneous but consisting of nineteen lines and a prescribed pattern of rhymes	40
15034946663	Volta	the shift or point of dramatic change in a poem	41
15034946666	Zeugma	a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses	42

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13860867493	El Conde Lucanor	el infante Don Manuel guy marries an aggressive girl and intimidates her by killing all their animals	0
13860867494	Romance del rey moro que perdió Alhama	anónimo war when Christians take back Granada from Moors	1
13860867495	Vision de los vencidos	Miguel Leon-Portilla	2
13860867496	Segunda carta de relación	Hernán Cortés talking to Carlos V about all the great things he did in the New World	3
13860867497	Lazarillo de Tormes	anónimo picaresca; his bosses are the blind man (mean), the priest (mean), and the secretly poor guy. In the end he has a job and gets married	4
13860867498	Soneto XXIII	Garcilaso de la Vega you are beautiful; life is short; beauty will end	5
13860867499	El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha	miguel de cervantes	6
13860867500	Mientras por competir con tu cabello	Luis de gongora y argote	7
13860867501	mire Los muros de la patria mia	Francisco de quevedo y villegas	8
13860867502	El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra	gabriel tellez (tirso de molina)	9
13860867503	hombres necios que acusais	sor juana ines de la cruz	10
13860867504	en una tempestad	José María Heredia there is a storm; nature is amazing/powerful	11
13860867505	Volveran las oscuras golondrinas	Gustavo adolfo becquer	12
13860867506	nuestra America	Jose Marti Siglo XIX; Modernismo	13
13860867507	Lazarillo de Tormes	anónimo picaresca; his bosses are the blind man (mean), the priest (mean), and the secretly poor guy. In the end he has a job and gets married	14
13860867508	En tanto que de rosa y azucena	garcilaso de vega	15
13860867509	El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha	Miguel de Cervantes	16
13860867510	mientras por competir con tu cabello	Luis de Gongora y Argote	17
13860867511	Mire los muros de la patria mia	Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas	18
13860867512	He andado muchos caminos	Author: Antonio Machado Origin: born in Sevilla, Spain in 1875, moved to Madrid where he studied, exiled to France during civil war in Spain, many of his works explore spiritual aspects of people, nostalgic and melancholy Overall Themes: anti-materialistic poem, values the working class in Spain, discusses two different kinds of people, those who look past the unimportant people to the top and those who take the time to get to know someone regardless of position, selfish vs. unselfish	19
13860867513	A Roosevelt	Ruben dario	20
13860867514	Las medias rojas	Emilia Pardo Bazán uncle Clodio wants to control Ildara, so he ruins her pretty face so that no one will want her and she will have to take care of him	21
13860867515	el hijo	Horacio Quiroga boy goes into the woods to hunt and accidentally dies; dad imagines that he did not die	22
13860867516	San Manuel Bueno, mártir	Miguel de Unamuno everyone in the town loves don Manuel; Ángela and her brother Lázaro get to know him well and discover that he does not believe what he preaches; ignorance is bliss	23
13860867517	peso ancestral	Alfonsina Storni poem saying that men don't cry	24
13860867518	Prendimiento de Antoñito el Camborio en el camino de Sevilla	federico Garcia lorca	25
13860867519	Muerte de Antoñito el Camborio	federico Garcia lorca	26
13860867520	balada de Los dos abuelos	Nicolas guillen	27
13860867521	Walking Around	Pablo Neruda he doesn't like the big city because it is lonely	28
13860867522	La casa de Bernarda Alba	Federico García Lorca Bernarda doesn't let her daughters get married; Adela (the rebel) likes Pepe but he is supposed to marry Angustias; all Bernarda cares about is what other people think	29
13860867523	A Julia de Burgos	Julia de Burgos; la construcción del género- las relaciones sociales, Se escribe un poema largo a si misma diciendo que la gente murmura que escribir le esta haciendo mal a ella. Pero aclara que la que habla en los poemas es otra; una persona mejor que la ella de verdad. El tu de su poema es descrito como alguien muy materialistica y egoista, mientras que el yo es alguien pensante y bien hablada. El tu es quien le da la cara a la sociedad y el yo es el sentimiento detrás de esa cara.	30
13860867524	Borges y yo	Jorge Luis Borges	31
13860867525	No oyes ladrar los perros	Juan rulfo	32
13860867526	Chac Mool	Carlos fuentes	33
13860867527	La noche boca arriba	Julio cortazar	34
13860867528	el sur	Jorge Luis borges	35
13860867529	La siesta del martes	gabriel garcia marquez	36
13860867530	El ahogado más hermoso del mundo	Gabriel García Márquez 1	37
13860867531	Mi caballo mago	Sabine Ulibarri (usa, chicano)	38
13860867532	...y no se lo tragó la tierra	Tomas rivera	39
13860867533	mujer negra	Nancy Morejon, XX	40
13860867534	El hombre que se convirtió en perro	osvaldo dragun	41
13860867535	Dos palabras	Isabel Allende	42
13860867536	como la vida misma	rosa montera	43

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9816357535	allegory	story or poem that can be used to reveal a hidden meaning	0
9816357536	alliteration	beginning of same letter or sound in closely connected words	1
9816357537	allusion	indirect of passing reference	2
9816357538	anaphora	repetition in first part of a sentence , to have an artistic meaning	3
9816357539	antagonist	a hostile person who is opposed to another character	4
9816357540	apostrophe	figure of speech used to adresss an imaginary character	5
9816357541	approximate rhyme	words in rhyming pattern that sound alike	6
9816357542	aside	when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by other actors on the stage	7
9816357543	assonance	repetition of vowel sounds	8
9816357544	blank verse	poetry written in meter without an ending rhyme	9
9816357545	cacophony	blend of unharmonious sounds	10
9816357546	caesura	pause in the middle of a line	11
9816357547	catharsis	the release of emotions through art (emotional cleanse)	12
9816357548	flat character	story character who have no depth, usually has one personality or characteristic	13
9816357549	round character	character who has complex personality: contradicted person	14
9816357550	dynamic character	changes throughout the story, through major conflict	15
9816357551	static character	person who doesn't change throughout story keeps same personality	16
9816357552	characterization	process of revealing characters personality	17
9816357553	climax	point where conflict hits its highest point	18
9816357554	comedy	drama that is amusing or funny	19
9816357555	conflict	struggle between opposing forces	20
9816357556	connotation	secondary meaning to a word	21
9816357557	consonance	repetition of same consonant in words close together	22
9816357558	couplet	two rhyming lines in a verse	23
9816357559	denotation	the literal meaning of a word	24
9816357560	denouement	final outcome of the story	25
9816357561	deus ex machina	resolution of a plot by chance or coincidence	26
9816357562	didactic writing	writing with a primary purpose to teach or preach	27
9816357563	direct presentation of character	author telling the reader how a character is and what actions it will do further in the story	28
9816357564	double rhyme	rhyme where the repeated vowel is in the second last syllable of words involved (ex; born scorn)	29
9816357565	dramatic exposition	prose commentaries, to provide background information about the characters and their world	30
9816357566	end rhyme	rhymes occurring at the end of line	31
9816357567	end stopped line	line ending in regular punctuation	32
9816357568	English sonnet	a sonnet rhyming ababcdcdededgg	33
9816357569	epiphany	when a character receives a spiritual insight into they life	34
9816357570	euphony	smooth choice and arrangement of sounds	35
9816357571	extended figure	A figure of speech sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem.	36
9816357572	falling action	Events after the climax, leading to the resolution	37
9816357573	feminine rhyme	lines rhymed by their final two syllables	38
9816357574	figurative language	Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling.	39
9816357575	figure of speech	a way of saying something other than the ordinary way	40
9816357576	foot	basic unit in the scansion or measurement of verse , stressed and un stressed syllables	41
9816357577	form	external pattern or shape of a poem	42
9816357578	free verse	Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme	43
9816357579	hamartia	tragic flaw which causes a character's downfall	44
9816357580	imagery	Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)	45
9816357581	indirect presentation of character	the personality of a character is revealed by what he or she does or says	46
9816357582	internal rhyme	A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line	47
9816357583	irony	A contrast between expectation and reality	48
9816357584	verbal irony	A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant	49
9816357585	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
9816357586	irony of situation	refers to an occurrence that is contrary to what is expected or intended	51
9816357587	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
9816357588	masculine rhyme	A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable	53
9816357589	melodrama	a play based upon a dramatic plot and developed sensationally	54
9816357590	metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	55
9816357591	meter	A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	56
9816357592	metonymy	A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it	57
9816357593	motivation	A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior	58
9816357594	narrator	Person telling the story	59
9816357595	octave	8 line stanza	60
9816357596	onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	61
9816357597	hyperbole	A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor	62
9816357598	oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.	63
9816357599	paradox	A contradiction or dilemma	64
9816357600	paraphrase	A restatement of a text or passage in your own words.	65
9816357601	personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	66
9816357602	plot	Sequence of events in a story	67
9816357603	point of view	The perspective from which a story is told	68
9816357604	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
9816357605	third person limited point of view	narrator tells the story from only one character's point of view	70
9816357606	first person point of view	a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself	71
9816357607	objective point of view	a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story with no comment on any characters or events.	72
9816357608	protagonist	Main character	73
9816357609	quatrain	A four-line stanza	74
9816357610	rhythm	a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound	75
9816357611	rhyme scheme	A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem	76
9816357612	rising action	Events leading up to the climax	77
9816357613	sarcasm	the use of irony to mock or convey contempt	78
9816357614	satire	the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.	79
9816357615	scansion	Analysis of verse into metrical patterns	80
9816357616	sestet	six-line stanza	81
9816357617	setting	The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs.	82
9816357618	simile	A comparison of unlike things using a comparison word such as "like" or "as"	83
9816357619	soliloquy	A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage	84
9816357620	sonnet	14-line poem	85
9816357621	stanza	A group of lines in a poem	86
9816357622	stream of consciousness	a literary style in which a character's thoughts, feelings, and reactions are depicted in a continuous flow uninterrupted by objective description or conventional dialogue.	87
9816357623	syllabic verse	Verse measured by the number of syllables rather than the number of feet per line.	88
9816357624	symbol	A thing that represents or stands for something else	89
9816357625	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	90
9816357626	synesthesia	describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound")	91
9816357627	tercet	three-line stanza	92
9816357628	terza rima	a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc.	93
9816357629	theme	Central idea of a work of literature, a generalization about the human condition	94
9816357630	tone	Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character	95
9816357631	tragedy	A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character	96
9816357632	truncation	the omission of one or more unaccented syllables at the beginning or the end of a line of verse.	97
9816357633	understatement	the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis	98
9816357634	verse	A single line of poetry. Also, writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme	99
9816357635	villanelle	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

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14820285560	stateless societies	term realating to societies such as those of sub saharan africa after the Bantu migrations that featured decentralized rule through family and kinship groups instead of strongly centralized rule.	0
14820285561	Sundiata	founder of the Mali empire (r 1230-1255) also the inspiration of Sundiata, the african literary and mythological work. he won gold control.	1
14820285562	Mali	west african kingdom founded in the 13th century by Sundiata; it reached its peak under Mansa Musa	2
14820285563	Mansa Musa	Sundiata's grand nephew who ruled Mali from 1312-1337 during its high point. he observed Islamic traditions and made a pilgrimmage to Mecca	3
14820285564	Swahili	east African city state that dominated the coast and was active in trade	4
14820285565	Swahili city states	port cities in convienient locations in east Africa (malindi, mosambique, Zanzibar, Lamu etc) they were goverened by a king who supervised trade and organized public life	5
14820285566	kingdom of Kongo	central African state that began trading with Portugese	6
14820285567	Ghana	Kingdom in West Africa during the 5th - 13th centuries whose rulers eventually converted to Islam. power and wealth of this kingdom were based on dominating trans-saharan trade	7
14820285568	qadi	islamic judges	8
14820285569	zimbabwe	"dwelling of a chief" complex stone structures	9
14820285570	the great zimbabwe	maginificent stone complex near modern day zimbabwe	10
14820285571	Ibn Battuta	moroccan traveler who visted many west african places and recorded and reported what he saw. he was offended by the lack of modesty in the area he went to	11
14820285572	faqih	legal scholar	12
14820285573	zanj	black slaves from swahili coast; they labored under awful conditions	13
14820285574	the zanj revolt	led by Ali bin Muhammad in 869, thousands of zanj slaves revolted and captured Basra, the most important city in mesopotamia. demonstrated that african slavery was so porminent in Muslim society	14
14820285575	animism	religious belief that natural things (trees, rivers, rocks) and animals have spirtual essence	15
14820285576	diviners	intelligent people who had innate abilities to meditate between human and supernatural worlds and ask gods for help with questions or problems	16
14820285577	axum	a city and kingdom in northern ethiopia that was a major naval trading power	17
14820285578	kebra negast	"the glory of the kings" an acount written about the line of rulers descending from king soloman and david	18
14820285579	griots	oracle stroytellers	19
14820285580	Native religions of sub-Saharan Africa	-pagans w/ diviners (Kongo, smaller societies) -Islam (from north Africa- Ghana, Zimbabwe)	20
14820285581	Gender relations in sub-Saharan Africa	-high honor b/c they were sources of life -could have limited jobs (making pottery, trading, planting and harvesting crops) - domestic work	21
14820285582	How did Islam help facilitate trade in Africa?	- improved relations and cooperation with Muslims in northern Africa	22
14820285583	Mansa Musa- influence on Mali?	-grand nephew of Sundiata (founder of Mali) -ruler of Mali during high point -wealthiest king in the world (gold) -promoted Islam - created strong centralized govt that outlived the Mali Empire	23
14820285584	Bantu political structure	stateless society	24
14820285585	Stateless society	-Bantu political structure -NO hierarchy/ govt officials -male heads of families formed councils and kinship groups	25
14820285586	How did Mali become wealthy?	-taxes on trade	26
14820285587	What helped establish sub-Saharan trade routes?	-camels -Islam	27
14820285588	What were the Swahili city states? What were they heavily involved in?	- east African coast - Mogadishu, Lamu, Malindi, Momvasa, Zanzibar, Kilwa, Mozambique, Sofala - TRADE!!	28
14820285589	The remarkable oral tradition of sub-Saharan Africa was preserved primarily by	professional singers and griots	29
14820285590	The story of Sundiata was about	the heroic deeds of the lion prince in establishing the Mali empire	30
14820285591	Trade and communications networks were slower to penetrate sub-Saharan Africa compared to other regions because	there was formidable geographic barriers to overcome (Sahara desert)	31
14820285592	The earliest Bantu migrants were	agriculturalists	32
14820285593	The kingdom of Kongo maintained a royal currency system based on	cowries from the Indian Ocean	33
14820285594	The arrival of camels in Africa	quickened the pace of communication across the Sahara	34
14820285595	Koumbi-Saleh was to the kingdom of Ghana as	Niani was to the Mali Empire	35
14820285596	Swahili refers to the peoples of	the east African coast.	36
14820285597	Great Zimbabwe was	a capital city built of stone	37
14820285598	After the eleventh century, the slave trade became increasingly important in Africa because	demand for slaves in foreign markets outstripped the supply	38
14820285599	Unlike many other religions, African religion did not concern itself with matters of	theology	39

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