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Environmental Protection Vocabulary
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| 13507605406 | die Umwelt | environment | 0 | |
| 13507605407 | sparen | to save | 1 | |
| 13507605408 | der Strom | energy | 2 | |
| 13507605409 | nehmen | to take | 3 | |
| 13507605410 | die Plastiktüte | plastic bag | 4 | |
| 13507605411 | nutzen | to use | 5 | |
| 13507605412 | die Energie | energy | 6 | |
| 13507605413 | alternative Energien | alternative energy | 7 | |
| 13507605414 | die Sonnenenergie | solar energy | 8 | |
| 13507605415 | die Windenergie | wind energy | 9 | |
| 13507605416 | der Mülleimer | rubbish bin | 10 | |
| 13507605417 | der Müll | rubbish | 11 | |
| 13507605418 | trennen | to separate | 12 | |
| 13507605419 | sondern | but (contradictory) | 13 | |
| 13507605420 | die Stofftasche (n) | cloth bag | 14 | |
| 13507605421 | recyceln | to recycle | 15 | |
| 13507605422 | im Standby | on standby | 16 | |
| 13507605423 | das Papier (e) | paper | 17 | |
| 13507605424 | die Zeitung (en) | newspaper | 18 | |
| 13507605425 | die Zeitschrift (en) | magazine | 19 | |
| 13507605426 | die Dose (n) | tin/can | 20 | |
| 13507605427 | das Glas (er) | glass | 21 | |
| 13507605428 | baden | to bathe | 22 | |
| 13507605429 | bringen (pp: gebracht) | to bring | 23 | |
| 13507605430 | die Flasche (n) | bottle | 24 | |
| 13507605431 | zum Container | to the container | 25 | |
| 13507605432 | das Ozonloch | hole in the ozone | 26 | |
| 13507605433 | der Müllberg (e) | rubbish mountain | 27 | |
| 13507605434 | die Industrie (n) | industry | 28 | |
| 13507605435 | die Entwaldung (en) | deforestation | 29 | |
| 13507605436 | die Natur | nature | 30 | |
| 13507605437 | die Luft | air | 31 | |
| 13507605438 | die Verschmutzung | pollution | 32 | |
| 13507605439 | der Atommüll | atomic waste | 33 | |
| 13507605440 | der Klimawandel | climate change | 34 | |
| 13507605441 | die Pflanze (n) | plant | 35 | |
| 13507605442 | das Problem (e) | problem | 36 | |
| 13507605443 | die Lösung (en) | solution | 37 | |
| 13507605444 | das Aussterben von Tieren | animals dying out | 38 |
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| 12785761840 | Political culture | Sustained way of thinking about political and economic life (usually applied to a nation) | 0 | |
| 12785761841 | Alexis de Tocqueville | French political writer noted for writing a defining text on American political culture (Democracy in America) |  | 1 |
| 12785761842 | Elements of American political values | Liberty, equality, democracy, civic duty, & individual responsibility | 2 | |
| 12785761843 | American belief about liberty | People should be free do to what they please as long as they do not hurt others | 3 | |
| 12785761844 | American belief about equality | Everybody should have an equal vote, ability to participate in government, and chance to succeed | 4 | |
| 12785761845 | American belief about democracy | Government officials should be accountable to the people | 5 | |
| 12785761846 | American belief about civic duty | People should take community affairs seriously and help out when they can | 6 | |
| 12785761847 | American belief about individual responsibility | Individuals are responsible for their own actions and well-being (unless hampered by some disability) | 7 | |
| 12785761848 | The "American dilemma" | People act contrary to their professed ideals (ex. Americans denied African Americans full citizenship despite believing in equality) | 8 | |
| 12785761849 | Preferred economic system of Americans | Free enterprise economic system (AKA free market) |  | 9 |
| 12785761850 | Cause of lack of class-consciousness in America | Ethnic diversity, individualistic philosophy, fragmented political authority, and egalitarian family structure | 10 | |
| 12785761851 | Class-consciousness | Belief that people are in groups that automatically have economic interests opposed to others (ex. worker interests are always opposed to management interests and vice-versa) | 11 | |
| 12785761852 | Cultural classes in America | Orthodox and progressive | 12 | |
| 12785761853 | Orthodox cultural belief | Morality and religion are most important and do not change with time | 13 | |
| 12785761854 | Progressive cultural belief | Personal freedom and solving social problems are the most important issues |  | 14 |
| 12785761855 | Overall trend in government trust in America | Downward |  | 15 |
| 12785761856 | Civil society | Voluntary organizations outside of the government that allow people to cooperate to advance their interests |  | 16 |
| 12785761857 | Unique aspects of American political culture | Tolerance, respect for orderly procedures and personal rights, acceptance of elected officials, & lack of military intervention | 17 |
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| 13807019688 | Allusion | A reference to some famous literary work, historical figure, or event. For example, to say that a friend "has the patience of Job" means that he is as enduring as the Biblical figure of that name. Allusions must be used with care lest the audience miss their meaning. | 0 | |
| 13807041736 | Argumentation | Argumentation is the writer's attempt to convince his readers to agree with him. It is based upon appeals to reason, evidence proving to inciting the reader to action. At the heart of all argumentation lies a debatable issue. | 1 | |
| 13807099184 | Coherence | The principle of clarity and logical adherence to a topic that binds together all parts of a composition. A coherent essay is one whose parts--sentences,paragraphs,pages--are logically fused into a single whole. Its opposite is an incoherent essay--one that is jumbled, illogical, and unclear. | 2 | |
| 13807135293 | description | A rhetorical mode used to develop an essay whose primary aim is to depict a scene, person, thing, or idea. Descriptive writing evokes the look, feel, sound, and sense of events, people, or things. | 3 | |
| 13807154229 | Diction | word choice. Diction refers to the choice of words a writer uses in an essay or other writing. Implicit in the idea of diction is a vast vocabulary of synonyms - different words that have more or less equivalent meanings. If only one word existed for every idea or condition, diction would exist. But since we have a choice of words with various shades of meaning, a writer can and does choose among words to express ideas. The diction of skilled writers is determined by the audience and occasion of their writing. | 4 | |
| 13807273466 | exposition | writing whose chief aim is to explain. Rather than showing, as in narration, exposition tells. A majority of essays contain some exposition because they need to convey information, give background, or tell how events occurred or processes work. | 5 | |
| 13807293921 | figurative language | said of a word or expression used in a nonliteral way. For example, the expression "to go the last mile" may have nothing at all to do with geographical distance, but may mean to complete an unfinished task or job. | 6 | |
| 13807328721 | hyperbole | a figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement. Hyperboles often have a comic effect; however, a serious effect is also possible. Often, hyperbole produces irony at the same time. | 7 | |
| 13807351646 | Image/Imagery | an image is a phrase or expression that evokes a picture or describes a scene. An image may be either literal, in which case it is a realistic attempt to depict with words what something looks like, or figurative, in which case the expression is used that likens the thing described to something else | 8 | |
| 13823443195 | irony | the use of language in such a way that apparent meaning contrasts sharply with the real meaning. (1) Verbal Irony- the words literally state the opposite of the writer's (or speaker's) true meaning. (2) Situational Irony- events turn out the opposite of what of is expected. (3) Dramatic Irony- facts or event that are unknown to a character in play or piece of fiction but known to the reader, audience, or other characters in the work. | 9 | |
| 13823492815 | Metaphor | a figurative image that implies the similarity between things otherwise dissimilar. | 10 | |
| 13823506625 | Mood | the pervading impression mad eon the feelings of the reader | 11 | |
| 13823578142 | Narration | An account of events as they happen. A narrative organizes material on the basis of chronological order or pattern, stressing the sequence of events and pacing these events according to the emphasis desired. | 12 | |
| 13823593412 | Oxymoron | a figure of speech wherein the author groups apparently contradictory terms to suggest a paradox | 13 | |
| 13823606203 | Pacing | the speed at which a piece of writing moves along. Pacing depends on the balance between summarizing action and representing action in detail | 14 | |
| 13823620855 | Paradox | a statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity. | 15 | |
| 13823645123 | Parallelism | the principle of coherent writing requiring that coordinating elements be given the same grammatical form. | 16 | |
| 13823659760 | Parody | A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule. | 17 | |
| 13823665996 | Personification | attributing human qualities to objects, abstractions, or animals | 18 | |
| 13823675634 | Point of View | the perspective from which a piece of writing is developed. In nonfiction the point of view is usually the author's. In fiction the point of view can be first or third person point of view | 19 | |
| 13823682639 | rhetoric | the art of using persuasive language. The art of analyzing all the choices involving language that a writer, speaker, reader, or listener might make in a situation so that the text becomes meaningful, purposeful, and effective; the specific features of texts, written or spoken, that cause them to be meaningful, purposeful, and effective for readers or listeners in a situation | 20 | |
| 13862576041 | rhetorical modes | this flexible term describe the variety, the conventions, and the purposes of the major kinds of writing. The four most common rhetorical modes and their purposes are as follows: 1) The purpose of exposition is to explain and analyze information by presenting an idea, relevant evidence, and appropriate discussion. 2) The purpose of argumentation is to prove the validity of an idea, or point of view, by presenting sound reasoning, discussion, and argument that thoroughly convince the reader. 3) The purpose of description is to re-create, invent, or visually present a person, place, event, or action so that the reader can picture that being described. 4)The purpose of narration is tell a story or narrate an event or series of events | 21 | |
| 13862667853 | simile | implies a similarity between two things using like or as | 22 | |
| 13862671866 | slanting | the characteristic of selecting facts, words, or emphasis to achieve a preconceived intent | 23 | |
| 13862678369 | style | the way a writer writes | 24 | |
| 13862686881 | ad hominem argument | an argument attacking an individual's character rather than his or her position on an issue | 25 | |
| 13862692649 | analogy | A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way | 26 | |
| 13862698518 | anecdote | a brief narrative offered in a text to capture the audience's attention or to support a generalization or claim | 27 | |
| 13862713708 | begging the question | The situation that results when a writer or speaker constructs an argument on an assumption that the audience does not accept. | 28 | |
| 13862716572 | causal relationship | the relationship expressing "if X is the cause, then Y is the effect." or :if y is the effect, then x caused it." | 29 | |
| 13862736082 | Colloquialism | A word or phrase (including slang) used in everyday conversation and informal writing but that is often inappropriate in formal writing (y'all, ain't) | 30 | |
| 13862741696 | Conclusion | the final paragraph that sums up the essay and brings it to a close | 31 | |
| 13862752776 | Connotation | the implication of emotional overtones of a word rather than its literal meaning | 32 | |
| 13862764045 | emphasis | A rhetorical principle that requires stress to be given to important elements in an essay at the expense of less important elements. | 33 | |
| 13862767134 | essay | short prose discussion of a single topic | 34 | |
| 13862777134 | Eupemism | less offensive way of saying something | 35 | |
| 13862779699 | example | mode of development is used in essays that make a claim and then prove it by citing similar and supporting cases | 36 | |
| 13862794744 | Generalization | a statement that asserts some broad truth based upon a knowledge of specific cases | 37 | |
| 13862800152 | logical fallacy | errors in reasoning used by speakers or writers, sometimes in order to dupe their audiences | 38 | |
| 13862812649 | objective and subjective writing | in objective writing the author tries to present the material fairly and without bias; in subjective writing the author stresses personal responses and interpretations | 39 | |
| 13862816629 | Red Herring | A side issue introduced into an argument in order to distract from the main argument. | 40 | |
| 13862820391 | Sarcasm | bitter, caustic language that is meant to hurt or ridicule someone or something | 41 | |
| 13862826637 | satire | often an attack on a person. 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. | 42 | |
| 13862833894 | tone | A writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization on the sentence and global levels. | 43 | |
| 13862839010 | Understatement | a way of deliberately representing something as less than it is in order to stress its magnitude | 44 | |
| 13862851372 | voice | the presence or sound of self, chosen by author | 45 | |
| 13862870603 | abstract | words or phrases denoting ideas, qualities, and conditions that exist but cannot be seen | 46 | |
| 13862882269 | ad populem argument | a fallacious argument that appeals to the passions and prejudices of a group rather than its reason | 47 | |
| 13862885119 | Allegory | The device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning. | 48 | |
| 13862888089 | Anaphora | the repetition of a group of words at the beginning of successive clauses | 49 | |
| 13862909993 | Aphorism | A terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle. | 50 | |
| 13862912265 | Apostrophe | a figure of speech in which one directly addresses an absent or imaginary person, or some abstraction | 51 | |
| 13862918214 | attitude | a writer's intellectual position or emotion regarding the subject of the writing | 52 | |
| 13862921902 | audience | the group for whom a work is intended | 53 | |
| 13862927474 | claim | The ultimate conclusion, generalization, or point, backed up by support, of an argument. | 54 | |
| 13862934556 | cliche | a stale image or expression, and the bane of good writing | 55 | |
| 13862944102 | comparison and contrast | A rhetorical mode used to develop essays that systematically match two items for similarities and differences. | 56 | |
| 13862947515 | complex sentence | A sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause | 57 | |
| 13862953809 | concrete | Said of words or terms denoting objects or conditions that are palpable, visible, or otherwise evident to the senses. | 58 | |
| 13862958379 | evidence | the logical bases or supports for an assertion or idea | 59 | |
| 13862962972 | genre | the major category into which literature fits | 60 | |
| 13862967086 | Inversion | the reversal of the normal order of words in a sentence to achieve some desired effect, usually emphasis | 61 | |
| 13863006667 | loose sentence | A type of sentence in which the main idea comes first, followed by dependent grammatical units such as phrases and clauses | 62 | |
| 13863009416 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it | 63 | |
| 13863015942 | periodic sentence | A sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end. | 64 | |
| 13863018521 | Process Analysis | A type of development in writing that stresses how a sequence of steps produces a certain effect. | 65 | |
| 13863023980 | rhetorical question | a question posed with no expectation of receiving an answer | 66 | |
| 13863029184 | synecdoche | A part of something used to refer to the whole | 67 | |
| 13863032834 | syntax | the order of words in a sentence and their relationship to each other | 68 | |
| 13863044481 | transition | a word or phrase that links different ideas | 69 | |
| 13863044482 | Unity | The characteristic of having all parts contribute to the overall effect. | 70 |
ap literature test Flashcards
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| 15552738698 | oedipus | a tragic king of thebes who unknowingly killed his father and married his mother | 0 | |
| 15552738699 | tiresias | blind prophet that tells oedipus of all the things he will do and has done | 1 | |
| 15552738700 | jocasta | oedipus' wife and mother, sends oedipus to be killed | 2 | |
| 15552738701 | creon | brother of jocasta, became the king of theves after the fall of oedipus | 3 | |
| 15552738702 | laius | murdered by oedipus, oedipus' father, jocasta's first husband | 4 | |
| 15552738703 | the plague | favishes the city, up to oedipus to end it, in order to end it, the murderer of former king laius needs to be executed | 5 | |
| 15552738704 | jocasta's suicide | hung herself in her bedroom after discovering the news of her relationship with oedipus + the murder or laius | 6 | |
| 15552738705 | oedipus' blinding | he cannot see the truth of his life, after learning the truth, he gouges his eyes out so he can no longer see the truth | 7 | |
| 15552738706 | theme of fate | -the audience knows the prophecy is true, but oedipus continues to deny it and say that it will not happen. -he is determined to flee his fate, without realizing that it already happened -contributes to his destruction | 8 | |
| 15552738707 | theme of pride | -oedipus thinks he can control his fate -says he can run away from the prophecy -he is too proud to see the truth of the prophecy play out which leads to him blinding himself | 9 | |
| 15552738708 | theme of family obligation | -ironic, because the family connections are more than typical families | 10 | |
| 15552738709 | greek theatre | - prior knowledge of mythology -non commercialized -thespis separated actor from chorus -very simplistic -sophocles' plays were very well-known | 11 | |
| 15552738710 | tragic hero | -noble/royal birth -tragic fall that leads to downfall | 12 | |
| 15552738711 | gregor samsa | -traveling salesmen, hates job but keeps it to pay for his family debt -transformed into a vermin -can no longer contribute to his family -family resents him -dies in the end | 13 | |
| 15552738712 | first line | "When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin. " | 14 | |
| 15552738713 | monstrous vermin | ugly insect that gregor turns into | 15 | |
| 15552738714 | grete | -gregor's sister -puts in the most effort to help gregor -plays the violin, shows her growth -eventually wants to get rid of him -undergoes her own metamorphosis | 16 | |
| 15552738715 | gregor's wish for grete | he can no longer support her career and passion for music which makes him depressed, he wants her to take care of him and support him and further her career | 17 | |
| 15552738716 | gregor's father | -relies on gregor for financial support -forced to work again -expresses hostility towards gregor -hits him with apple | 18 | |
| 15552738717 | gregor's mother | -faints at sight of bug -torn between her love for him and her disgust at his new body -protected from the reality of gregor's metamorphosis | 19 | |
| 15552738718 | loss of humanity | -takes a new form as as bug -resentment from his family -taking away his furniture -discussions of getting rid of him | 20 | |
| 15552738719 | financial responsibility evolution | -grendel was the main provider -couldn't work with his new body -father has to get a job, hire cheap mades, rent out rooms in the house | 21 | |
| 15552738720 | the hurled apple | -thrown at gregor by his father -severely injures him -shows that his father no longer sees him as a human | 22 | |
| 15552738721 | the boarders | -a person who rents a room from another person -family had to rent rooms to boarders in order to get income -shows that the family is on their last hope | 23 | |
| 15552738722 | alienation | -isolation and separation from everyone -gregor is isolated by his family -taking away the furniture -making him stay in his room | 24 | |
| 15552738723 | franz kafka | czech novelist who wrote in German about a nightmarish world of isolated and troubled individuals (1883-1924) | 25 | |
| 15552738724 | gregor's desire to remain human | -wanted family to treat him the same -internal conflict of being able to be the family provider | 26 | |
| 15552738725 | heorot | mead hall raided by the monster | 27 | |
| 15552738726 | who is grendel descended from | cain | 28 | |
| 15552738727 | What king does beowulf go to help? | hrothgar | 29 | |
| 15552738728 | what land is hrothgar from? | denmark | 30 | |
| 15552738729 | how long was the mead hall empty? | 12 years | 31 | |
| 15552738730 | who thinks beowulf was not a hero? | grendel | 32 | |
| 15552738731 | what kind of poem is beowulf? | epic poem | 33 | |
| 15552738732 | epic poetry | -long narrative poem -almost superhuman character -supernatural forces -quest | 34 | |
| 15552738733 | scop | -old english poet -translated oral poetry to written poetry | 35 | |
| 15552738734 | kenning | the name of a thing is replaced by one of its functions or qualities | 36 | |
| 15552738735 | who is loyal to beowulf? | wiglaf | 37 | |
| 15552738736 | how does beowulf defeat grendel? | -rips his arm off -grendel runs away and bleeds out | 38 | |
| 15552738737 | what does heorot symbolize? | all the good things in the world of beowulf and grendel | 39 | |
| 15552738738 | saxons | german-dutch | 40 | |
| 15552738739 | angles | southern danish (south denmark) | 41 | |
| 15552738740 | significance of oral traditions | way that anglo-saxons told their lives, beliefs, customs and what they valued | 42 | |
| 15552738741 | why was beowulf translated by a christian poet? | -england recently converted to christianity -translated to entertain with knowledge and information | 43 | |
| 15552738742 | the ram (aries) | -chapter 1 -new life -mating season in spring -spiritual + nature rebirth | 44 | |
| 15552738743 | the bull (taurus) | -chapter 2 -mechanical chaos - | 45 | |
| 15552738744 | the fish (pisces) | -chapter 12 -beowulf -christianity + holiness | 46 | |
| 15552738745 | the goat (capricorn) | -chapter 10 -climbing up towards heaven (christianity) -transition from paganism to christianity | 47 | |
| 15552738746 | the twins (gemini) | -chapter 3 -represent grendel's internal conflict between the truth of the history of the danes and the poetic words of the shaper | 48 | |
| 15552738747 | the crab (cancer) | -chapter 4 -grendel backed away "crab-like" -moody and introverted like a crab | 49 | |
| 15552738748 | the lion (leo) | -chapter 5 -dragon takes the place of an actual lion -wise and proud of his wisdom | 50 | |
| 15552738749 | the virgin (virgo) | -chapter 6 -apple fight with a boy that ends with "a poor miserable virgin) | 51 | |
| 15552738750 | the scales (libra) | -chapter 7 -hymgod shows characteristics of libra | 52 | |
| 15552738751 | the scorpion (scorpio) | -chapter 8 -hrothulf shows characteristic of scorpio -determined with a dark side | 53 | |
| 15552738752 | the archer (sagittarius) | -chapter 9 -shows honest and caring characteristics of grendel | 54 | |
| 15552738753 | the water bearer (aquarius) | -chapter 11 -ocean carrying the strangers to grendel's domain | 55 | |
| 15552738754 | do rask's actions represent an extraordinary man | rask thinks his actions do, but in reality they do not | 56 | |
| 15552738755 | treatment of women in c&p | -poorly -two choices: marry rich or prositution | 57 | |
| 15552738756 | significance of st. petersburg | -poor and dirty -educated people that were poor with no potential to climb classes | 58 | |
| 15552738757 | dunya | -rask's sister -engaged to the rich + powerful luzhin -breaks engagement to take her power back | 59 | |
| 15552738758 | svidrigailov | -dunya's former employer -threat to rask + dunya | 60 | |
| 15552738759 | razumikhin | -rask's friend -intelligent + hard working despite his poverty -rask's foil | 61 | |
| 15552738760 | porfiry | detective that pursues rask as a suspect in the murder | 62 | |
| 15552738761 | marmeladov | -sonya's father -drunk -public official for rask | 63 | |
| 15552738762 | alyona | pawnbroker that rask kills for the well-being of the people she steals money from | 64 | |
| 15552738763 | rask's alienation | thought murdering the pawnbroker would make him the extraordinary man, but it just made him depressed and alienated from society | 65 | |
| 15552738764 | lazarus story | -sonya uses to teach rask about christianity -jesus raised lazarus from the dead | 66 | |
| 15552738765 | sonnet | a poem consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme | 67 | |
| 15552738766 | types of sonnets | Italian (Petrarchan) and English (Shakespearean) | 68 | |
| 15552738767 | iambic pentameter | five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable | 69 | |
| 15552738768 | intertextuality | the relationship between texts, especially literary ones. | 70 | |
| 15552738769 | myth of sisyphus | condemned to roll the boulder up the hill, fated to failure | 71 | |
| 15552738770 | existentialism | people give meaning to their lives through their choices and actions | 72 |
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| 11110505618 | Allegory | A narrative or description having a second meaning beneath the surface one | 0 | |
| 11110505619 | Alliteration | use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse | 1 | |
| 11110505620 | Allusion | a reference to something literary, mythological, or historical that the author assumes the reader will recognize | 2 | |
| 11110505621 | Ambiguity | An event or situation that may be interpreted in more than one way. | 3 | |
| 11110505622 | Anachronism | something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred | 4 | |
| 11110505623 | Analogy | drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect | 5 | |
| 11110505624 | Anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase as the beginning of successive clauses | 6 | |
| 11110505625 | Antithesis | the juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance | 7 | |
| 11110505626 | Apostrophe | address to an absent or imaginary person | 8 | |
| 11110505627 | Archetype | A detail, image, or character type that occurs frequently in literature and myth and is thought to appeal in a universal way to the unconscious and to evoke a response | 9 | |
| 11110505628 | Assonance | the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words | 10 | |
| 11110505629 | Asyndeton | When the conjunctions (such as "and" or "but") that would normally connect a string of words, phrases, or clauses are omitted from a sentence | 11 | |
| 11110505630 | Catharsis | a release of emotional tension | 12 | |
| 11110505631 | Characterization | the process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character | 13 | |
| 11110505632 | Comedy of Manners | Deals with the relations and intrigues of gentlemen and ladies living in a polished and sophisticated society; it evokes laughter mainly at the violations of social conventions and decorum and relies on the wit and humor of the dialogue for its effect. | 14 | |
| 11110505633 | Comic Relief | An amusing scene, incident, or speech introduced into serious or tragic elements, as in a play, in order to provide temporary relief from tension, or to intensify the dramatic action. | 15 | |
| 11110505634 | Connotation | refers to the implied or suggested meanings associated with a word beyond its dictionary definition | 16 | |
| 11110505635 | Consonance | repetition of consonant sounds | 17 | |
| 11110505636 | Diction | a writer's or speaker's choice of words | 18 | |
| 11110505637 | Didactic | having the primary purpose of teaching or instructing | 19 | |
| 11110505638 | Dramatic Irony | (theater) irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play | 20 | |
| 11110505639 | Elegy | a mournful poem, esp. one lamenting the dead | 21 | |
| 11110505640 | Epigraph | a quotation at the beginning of some piece of writing | 22 | |
| 11110505641 | Epithet | a term used to point out a characteristic of a person. Homeric epithets are often compound adjectives ("swift-footed Achilles") that become an almost formulaic part of a name. Epithets can be abusive or offensive but are not so by definition. For example, athletes may be proud of given epithets ("The Rocket"). | 23 | |
| 11110505642 | Euphemism | the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt | 24 | |
| 11110505643 | Explication | The art of interpreting or discovering the meaning of a text. It usually involves close reading and special attention to figurative language. | 25 | |
| 11110505644 | Exposition | The introductory material which gives the setting, creates the tone, presents the characters, and presents other facts necessary to understanding the story. | 26 | |
| 11110505645 | Farce | (n.) a play filled with ridiculous or absurd happenings; broad or far-fetched humor; a ridiculous sham | 27 | |
| 11110505646 | Figurative Language | Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things, [examples are metaphor, simile, and personification. | 28 | |
| 11110505647 | Flat Character | a character who embodies a single quality and who does not develop in the course of a story | 29 | |
| 11110505648 | Foil Character | a character who is used as a contrast to another character; the contrast emphasizes the differences between the two characters, bringing out the distinctive qualities in each | 30 | |
| 11110505649 | Genre | a kind of literary or artistic work | 31 | |
| 11110505650 | Hubris | excessive pride | 32 | |
| 11110505651 | Hyperbole | a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor | 33 | |
| 11110505652 | Imagery | the use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, thing, place, or experience | 34 | |
| 11110505653 | Litotes | understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary) | 35 | |
| 11110505654 | Metaphor | a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity | 36 | |
| 11110505655 | Extended Metaphor | A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work. | 37 | |
| 11110505656 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it | 38 | |
| 11110505657 | Mood | the overall emotion created by a work of literature | 39 | |
| 11110505658 | Motif | a recurring idea throughout the novel, often symbolic | 40 | |
| 11110505659 | Onomatopoeia | using words that imitate the sound they denote | 41 | |
| 11110505660 | Oxymoron | conjoining contradictory terms (as in 'deafening silence') | 42 | |
| 11110505661 | Parable | a short moral story (often with animal characters) | 43 | |
| 11110505662 | Paradox | a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. | 44 | |
| 11110505663 | Parallelism | phrases or sentences of a similar construction/meaning placed side by side, balancing each other | 45 | |
| 11110505664 | Parody | a work which imitates another in a ridiculous manner | 46 | |
| 11110505665 | Periodic Sentence | a complex sentence in which the main clause comes last and is preceded by the subordinate clause | 47 | |
| 11110505666 | Peripety | a sudden and unexpected change of fortune or reverse of circumstances (especially in a literary work) | 48 | |
| 11110505667 | Personification | representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature | 49 | |
| 11110505668 | Point of View | the perspective from which a story is told | 50 | |
| 11110505669 | Polysyndeton | using several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some might be omitted (as in 'he ran and jumped and laughed for joy') | 51 | |
| 11110505670 | Protagonist | the principal character in a work of fiction | 52 | |
| 11110505671 | Pun | a humorous play on words | 53 | |
| 11110505672 | Repetition | the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device | 54 | |
| 11110505673 | Round Character | this character is fully developed - the writer reveals good and bad traits as well as background | 55 | |
| 11110505674 | Satire | form of literature in which irony, sarcasm, and ridicule are employed to attack human vice and folly | 56 | |
| 11110505675 | Sarcasm | harsh, cutting language or tone intended to ridicule | 57 | |
| 11110505676 | Setting | the state of the environment in which a situation exists | 58 | |
| 11110505677 | Simile | Comparison using "like" or "as" | 59 | |
| 11110505678 | Situational Irony | occurs when the outcome of a work is unexpected, or events turn out to be the opposite from what one had expected | 60 | |
| 11110505679 | Soliloquy | in drama, a character speaks alone on stage to allow his/her thoughts and ideas to be conveyed to the audience | 61 | |
| 11110505680 | Monologue | speech you make to yourself | 62 | |
| 11110505681 | Stock Character | a fictional character that relies heavily on cultural types or stereotypes for its personality manner of speech and other characteristics. Stock characters are instantly recognizable to members of a given culture. | 63 | |
| 11110505682 | Stream of Consciousness | the continuous flow of ideas and feelings that constitute an individual's conscious experience | 64 | |
| 11110505683 | Style | a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period | 65 | |
| 11110505684 | Symbol | something that stands for something else | 66 | |
| 11110505685 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole (as hand for sailor), the whole for a part (as the law for police officer), the specific for the general (as cutthroat for assassin), the general for the specific (as thief for pickpocket), or the material for the thing made from it (as steel for sword). | 67 | |
| 11110505686 | Syntax | the rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language | 68 | |
| 11110505687 | Theme | a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work | 69 | |
| 11110505688 | Tone | the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author | 70 | |
| 11110505689 | Tragedy | A work in which the protagonist, a person of high degree, is engaged in a significant struggle and which ends in ruin or destruction | 71 | |
| 11110505690 | Hamartia | the error, frailty, mistaken judgment, or misstep through which the fortunes of the hero of a tragedy are reversed | 72 | |
| 11110505691 | Understatement | the opposite of exaggeration. It is a technique for developing irony and/or humor where one writes or says less than intended. | 73 | |
| 11110505692 | Verbal Irony | A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant | 74 | |
| 11110505693 | Zeugma | use of a word to govern two or more words though appropriate to only one | 75 | |
| 11110505694 | Static Character | a character that does not change from the beginning of the story to the end | 76 | |
| 11110505695 | Dynamic Character | A character who grows, learns, or changes as a result of the story's action | 77 | |
| 11110505696 | Catalyst | a person, thing, or agent that speeds up or stimulates a result, reaction, or change | 78 |
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