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8716838133	absolute	a word free from limitations or qualifications	0
8716838134	anecdote	a brief narrative that focuses on a particular incident or event	1
8716838135	antecedent	the word, clause, or phrase to which a pronoun refers	2
8716838136	antithesis	a statement in which 2 opposing ideas are balanced	3
8716838137	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	4
8716838138	allusion	a reference to something literary, mythological, or historical that the author assumes the reader will recognize	5
8716838139	colloquialism	informal words or expressions not usually acceptable in formal writing	6
8716838140	denotation	the literal meaning of a word	7
8716838141	connotation	the implied or associative meaning of a word	8
8716838142	didactic	having the primary purpose of teaching or instructing	9
8716838143	epiphany	a moment of sudden realization or insight	10
8716838144	epitaph	an inscription on a tomb or burial place	11
8716838145	epithet	a term used to point out a characteristic of a person; often compound adjectives	12
8716838146	euphemism	an indirect and less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant	13
8716838147	expletive	an interjection to lend emphasis; sometimes a profanity	14
8716838148	fable	a brief story that leads to a moral, often using animals as characters	15
8716838149	hubris	excessive pride or arrogance that results in the downfall of the protagonist of a tragedy	16
8716838150	invective	an intensely vehement, highly emotional verbal attack	17
8716838151	limited narrator	a narrator who presents the story as it's seen and understood by a single character and restricts info to that character	18
8716838152	mood	the emotional atmosphere of a work	19
8716838153	tone	attitude of a writer, usually implied, towards the subject/audience	20
8716838154	parody	humorous imitation of a serious work	21
8716838155	pedantic	characterized by an excessive display of learning/scholarship	22
8716838156	parable	a simple story that illustrates a moral/religious lesson	23
8716838157	dichotomy	a division/contrast between 2 things that are represented as being opposite/different	24
8716838158	hyperbole	an exaggeration	25
8716838159	litote	a conscious understatement to emphasize something	26
8716838160	chiasmus	a statement with two parallel parts where they're structurally reversed	27
8716838161	Ellipses	used to indicate that words have been omitted in a text or that they are missing or illegible	28
8716838162	aphorism	a brief statement on a serious subject or truth, often using rhyme or balance	29
9415321686	irony	the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning, incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs	30
9415321687	paradox	an apparently contradictory statement that actually contains some truth	31
9415321688	metonymy	substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it	32
9415321689	synechdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	33
9415324467	oxymoron	a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction	34
9415324468	syllepsis	a construction in which one word is used in two different senses	35
9415324469	anaphora	the repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences	36
9415337727	apostrophe	address to an absent or imaginary person	37
9415337817	exhortative	giving strong encouragement	38
9415339504	ingratiating	calculated to please or gain favor	39
9415341115	ad hominem	a fallacy that attacks the person rather than dealing with the real issue in dispute	40
9415341116	analogy	A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way	41
9415341117	alliteration	Repetition of initial consonant sounds	42
9415342795	asyndeton	a construction in which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions	43
9415346068	polysyndeton	the use, for rhetorical effect, of more conjunctions than is necessary or natural	44
9415348646	anadiplosis	repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause	45
9415348647	conceit	a fanciful, particularly clever extended metaphor	46
9415350402	inductive reasoning	specific to general reasoning from detailed facts to general principles	47
9415350403	deductive reasoning	general to specific reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect)	48
9415353266	diction	word choice	49
9415353267	syntax	sentence structure	50
9415353268	synesthesia	describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound")	51
9415355953	compound sentence	a sentence with two or more coordinate independent clauses, often joined by one or more conjunctions	52
9415355954	complex sentence	A sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause	53
9415357669	dependent clause	subject and verb that does not express a complete thought and cannot stand alone as a sentence (without a subject and verb probably a modifier NOT a dependent clause)	54
9415357670	cumulative sentence	an independent clause followed by subordinate clauses or phrases that supply additional detail- this may include words or grammatical structures that are not clauses (different from complex sentence)	55
9415359608	modifying clause	an optional element of a sentence that does not change the essential meaning or structure of the sentence if removed	56
9415359609	dissonance	harsh, inharmonious, or discordant sounds	57
9415361157	declarative sentence	a sentence that makes a statement or declaration	58
9415361158	interrogative sentence	A sentence that asks a question	59
9415361159	exclamatory sentence	a sentence expressing strong feeling, usually punctuated with an exclamation mark	60
9415363520	rhetorical question	A question asked merely for rhetorical effect and not requiring an answer	61
9415363521	hypophora	raising a question then proceeding to answer it	62
9415366344	procatalepsis	anticipating an objection and answering it	63
9415366345	solecism	nonstandard grammatical usage; a violation of grammatical rules	64
9415366346	malapropism	the mistaken substitution of one word for another word that sounds similar	65
9415368656	COMMORATIO	repetition of an idea in different words	66
9415452224	EPIMONE	frequent repetition of a phrase or question dwelling on a point	67
9415456843	EPIPHORA	repetition of a word or phrase at the end of several clauses	68
9415461468	EPIZEUXIS (ep-uh-ZOOX-sis)	repetition of a word for emphasis (usually with no words in between)	69
9415464715	POLYPTOTON	repetition of words derived from the same root but with different endings	70
9423910211	PERIODIC SENTENCE	a long and frequently involved sentence, marked by suspended syntax, in which the sense is not completed until the final word—often with an emphatic climax.	71

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9103777969	Alliteration	Repeating consonant sound in a close proximity to others.	0
9103777970	Allusion	A casual reference in literature to a person, place, or event in another passage of literature.	1
9103777971	Anapest	A foot or unit of poetry consisting of two light syllables followed by a single stressed syllable.	2
9103777972	Apostrophe	Act of addressing some abstraction of personification that is not physically present.	3
9103777973	Assonance	Repeating identical or similar vowels in nearby words.	4
9103777974	Ballad	A narrative poem consisting of quatrains of iambic tetrameter alternating with iambic trimeter.	5
9103777975	Blank Verse	Unrhymed lines of ten syllables each with the even-numbered syllables bearing accents.	6
9103777976	Bildungsroman	German term for coming-of-age story.	7
9103777977	Caesura	A pause separating phrases within lines of poetry.	8
9103777978	Colloquialism	A word or phrase used in plain and relaxed speech but rarely found in formal writing.	9

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AP Literature & Composition: Poetry Forms 2 Flashcards

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8050735903	Poetry Form: ABC Poem	An ABC poem has 5 lines that create a mood, picture, or feeling. Lines 1 through 4 are mad up of words, phrases or clauses- and the first word of each line is in alphabetical order from the first word. Line 5 is one sentence, beginning with any letter. Example: Although things are not perfect Because of trial or pain Continue in thanksgiving Do not begin to blame Even when the times are hard Fierce winds are bound to blow	0
8050735904	Poetry Form: Anapest	A metrical foot of three syllables, two short (or unstressed) followed by one lone (or stressed). The anapest is the opposite of the dactyl. Example: The AsSYRian came DOWN like the WOLF on the FOLD,	1
8050735905	Poetry Form: Ballad	A poem that tells a story similar to a folk tale or legend and often has repeated refrain. Example: Day after day, day after day We stuck nor breathe, nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean'	2
8050735906	Poetry Form: Ballade	A type of poem, usually with three stanzas of seven, eight, or ten lines and a shorter final stanza of four or five lines. All stanzas end with the same on-line refrain. Example: Beseeching My Muse Immortal sisters please help me there are so many words to choose. Help, I beseech you, hear my plea I need guidance from you my Muse. Get me started, give me some clues lead with purpose, give me a goal. With you at my side I can't lose, you inspire and uplift my soul. Help me find creativity in letters and words that I use. When I write verse and poetry look over my work, give reviews. Some words I tend to overuse, to make the right choice, and enthuse. You inspire and uplift my soul. I hear orchestral melody, it's a performance to infuse, sweet voices all in harmony I stay to linger and peruse. More than delighted at the news you Muses are making me whole, I'll write and soon have no excuse. You inspire and uplift my soul. I read and sometimes wonder who's been writing the words on my scroll. Calliope, I thank you and Zeus. You inspire and uplift my soul.	3
8050735907	Poetry Form: Blank verse	Poetry that is written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. Blank verse is often unobtrusive and the iambic pentameter form often resemble the rhythms of ordinary speech. Shakespeare wrote most of his plays in blank verse. Example: Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.	4
8050735908	Poetry Form: Burlesque	Burlesque is a story, play, or essay, that treats a serious subject ridiculously, or is simply a trivial story. Example: Alexander Pope's "The Rape of the Lock", a poem that takes something seemingly trivial (a lady getting a lock of her hair cut off) and turns it all into a big ol' hullabaloo.	5
8050735909	Poetry Form: Canzone	A medieval Italian lyric poem, with five or six stanzas and a shorter concluding stanza (or envoy). The poet Patriarch was a master of the canzone.	6
8050735910	Poetry Form: Carpe diem	A latin expression that means "seize the day." Carpe diem poems have the theme of living for today. Example: Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles to-day, To-morrow will be dying.	7
8050735911	Poetry Form: Cinquain	A cinquain has five lines. Line 1 is one word (the title) Line 2 is two words that describe the title. Line 3 is three words that tell the action. Line 4 is four words that express the feeling. Line 5 is one word that recalls the title. Example: Snow Lovely, white Falling, dancing, drifting Covering everything it touches Blanket	8
8050735912	Poetry Form: Classicism	The principles and ideals of beauty that are characteristic of Greek and Roman art, architecture, and literature. Examples of classicism in poetry can be found in the works of John Dryden and Alexander Pope, which are characterized by their formality, simplicity, and emotional restraint. Example: In these deep solitudes and awful cells, Where heav'nly-pensive contemplation dwells, And ever-musing melancholy reigns; What means this tumult in a vestal's veins? Why rove my thoughts beyond this last retreat? Why feels my heart its long-forgotten heat?	9
8050735913	Poetry Form: Couplet	A couplet has rhyming stanzas each made up of two lines. Shakespearean sonnets usually end in a couplet. Example: "So, till the judgement that yourself arise, You live in this, and dwell in lovers' eyes."	10
8050735914	Poetry Form: Elegy	A sad and thoughtful poem lamenting the death of a person. An example of this type of poem is Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard." Example: My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still; My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will; The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done; From fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won; Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells! But I, with mournful tread, Walk the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.	11
8050735915	Poetry Form: Epic	A long, serious poem that tells the story of a heroic figure. Two of the most famous epic poems are the Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer and the epic poem of Hiawatha.	12
8050735916	Poetry Form: Epigram	A very short, satirical and witty poem usually written as a brief couplet or quatrain. The term epigram is derived from the Greek word epigramma, meaning inscription. The epigram was cultivated in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries by poets like Ben Jonson and John Donne. Example: "To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour"	13
8050735917	Poetry Form: Epitaph	An epitaph is a commemorative inscription on a tomb or mortuary monument written in a praise of a deceased person. Example: Reader, I am to let thee know, Donne's body only lies below; For could the grave his soul comprise, Earth would be richer than the skies.	14
8050735918	Poetry Form: Epithalamium (or Epithalamion)	A wedding poem written in honor of a bride and bridegroom. Example: Why have such scores of lovely, gifted girls Married impossible men? Simple self-sacrifice may be ruled out, And missionary endeavour, nine times out of ten.	15
8050735919	Poetry Form: Form	Form is the generic term for the organizing principle of a literary work. In poetry, form is described in terms elements like rhyme, meter, and stanzaic pattern.	16
8050735920	Poetry Form: Free verse (also vers libre)	Poetry composed of either rhymed or unrhymed lines that have no set fixed metrical pattern or expectation. Example: After the Sea-Ship—after the whistling winds; After the white-gray sails, taut to their spars and ropes, Below, a myriad, myriad waves, hastening, lifting up their necks, Tending in ceaseless flow toward the track of the ship.	17
8050735921	Poetry Form: Haiku	A japanese poem composed of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables. Haik reflects on some aspect of nature. Example: An old silent pond... A frog jumps into the pond, splash! Silence again. Autumn moonlight— a worm digs silently into the chestnut. Lightning flash— what I thought were faces are plumes of pampas grass.	18
8050735922	Poetry Form: Heroic couplet	A stanza composed of two rhymed lines in iambic pentameter. Example: O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.	19
8050735923	Poetry Form: Idyll (also Idyl)	Either a short poem depicting a peaceful, idealized country scene, or a long poem that tells a story about heroes of a bye gone age. Example: Come live with me and be my Love, And we will all the pleasures prove That hills and valleys, dale and field, And all the craggy mountains yield.	20
8050735924	Poetry Form: Lay	A lay is a long narrative poem, especially one that was sung by medieval minstrels called trouveres. Example: The way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old; His wither'd cheek, and tresses gray, Seem'd to have known a better day; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy.	21
8050735925	Poetry Form: Limerick	A short sometimes bawdy, humorous poem of consisting of five anapestic lines. Lines 1, 2, and 5 of a Limerick have seven to ten syllables and rhyme with one another. Lines 3 and 4 have five to seven syllables and also rhyme with each other. Example: "There was an Old Man with a beard Who said, 'It is just as I feared! Two Owls and a Hen, Four Larks and a Wren, Have all built their nests in my beard!'"	22
8050735926	Poetry Form: Lyric	A poem, such as a sonnet or an ode, that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet. The term lyric is now generally referred to as the words to a song. Example: I heard a fly buzz when I died; The stillness round my form Was like the stillness in the air Between the heaves of storm.	23
8050735927	Poetry Form: Name poem	A name poem tells about the word. It uses the letters of the wor for the first letter of each line. Example: Nicky is a Nurse It's her chosen career Children or Old folks Kindness in abundance Year after year	24
8050735928	Poetry Form: Narrative Poem	Ballads, epics, and lays are different kinds of narrative poems.	25
8050735929	Poetry Form: Ode	John Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is probably the most famous example of this type of poem which is long and serious in nature written to a set structure. Example: Scatter, as from an unextinguish'd hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! Be through my lips to unawaken'd earth The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?	26
8050735930	Poetry Form: Ottava rima	A type of poetry consisting of 10- or 11-syllable lines arranged in 8-line "octaves" with the rhyme scheme abababcc Example: He is There When sorrow lies entrenched within your heart And doubts, like ocean waves, around you churn, When chaos reigns o'er life and won't depart And for the peace of yesterday you yearn, When evil thoughts are tearing you apart And there is nowhere left for you to turn, When dark of night persists throughout your day, It's time to fall upon your knees and pray. For God is there, He's always by your side, He is your life's companion and your friend, He's with you through each bitter storm you ride, From morn's first light to sunset at day's end. You must give up your bitterness and pride And to your Lord extend your hand again. He only wants for you to ask Him in And you will be forgiven for your sin.	27
8050735931	Poetry Form: Pastoral	A poem that depicts rural life in a peaceful, idealized way for example of shepherds or country life. Example: Come live with me and be my Love, And we will all the pleasures prove That hills and valleys, dale and field, And all the craggy mountains yield. There will we sit upon the rocks And see the shepherds feed their flocks, By shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals.	28
8050735932	Poetry Form: Quatrain	A stanza or poem of four lines. Lines 2 and 4 must rhyme. Lines 1 and 3 may or may not rhyme. Rhyming lines should have a similar number of syllables. Example: Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?	29
8050735933	Poetry Form: Senryu	A short Japanese poem that is similar to a haiku in structure but treats human beings rather than nature, often in a humorous but satiric way. Example: The robber, If I catch, My own son	30
8050735934	Poetry Form: Tanka	A Japanese poem of five lines, the first and third composed of five syllables and the rest of seven. Example: A cool wind blows in With a blanket of silence. Straining to listen For those first few drops of rain, The storm begins in earnest.	31
8050735935	Poetry Form: Terza rima	A type of poetry consisting of 10 or 11 syllable lines arranged in three-line "tercets". The poet Dante is credited with inventing terza rima and it has been used by many English poets including Chaucer, Milton, Shelley, and Auden. Example: O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing	32
8050735936	Poetry Form: Sonnet	English (or Shakespearean) sonnets are lyric poems that are 14 lines long falling into three coordinate quatrains and a concluding couplet. Italian (or Petrarchan) sonnets are divided into two quatrains and a six-line sestet. (look at notes)	33

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9103759542	Alliteration	Repeating consonant sound in a close proximity to others.	0
9103759543	Allusion	A casual reference in literature to a person, place, or event in another passage of literature.	1
9103759544	Anapest	A foot or unit of poetry consisting of two light syllables followed by a single stressed syllable.	2
9103759545	Apostrophe	Act of addressing some abstraction of personification that is not physically present.	3
9103759546	Assonance	Repeating identical or similar vowels in nearby words.	4
9103759547	Ballad	A narrative poem consisting of quatrains of iambic tetrameter alternating with iambic trimeter.	5
9103759548	Blank Verse	Unrhymed lines of ten syllables each with the even-numbered syllables bearing accents.	6
9103759549	Bildungsroman	German term for coming-of-age story.	7
9103759550	Caesura	A pause separating phrases within lines of poetry.	8
9103759551	Colloquialism	A word or phrase used in plain and relaxed speech but rarely found in formal writing.	9

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AP Spanish Literature Literary Terms Flashcards

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6662255728	vocales	vowels	0
6662255729	diptongo	diphthong, the combination of a strong vowel (a, o, e) with a weak vowel (i, u)	1
6662255730	sinéresis	two strong vowels in the same syllable	2
6662255731	sinalefa	blending two successive vowels into one syllable	3
6662255732	llana	describes words in which the stressed syllable is the second to last	4
6662255733	aguda	describes words in which the stressed syllable is the last	5
6662255734	esdrújulas	describes words in which the stressed syllable is the third to last	6
6662255735	tetrasílabo	four syllables per line	7
6662255736	hexasílabo	six syllables per line	8
6662255737	heptasílabo	seven syllables per line	9
6662255738	octosílabo	eight syllables per line	10
6662255739	eneasílabo	nine syllables per line	11
6662255740	decasílabo	ten syllables per line	12
6662255741	endecasílabo	eleven syllables per line	13
6662255742	dodecasílabo	twelve syllables per line	14
6662255743	alejandrino	fourteen syllables per line	15
6662255744	hipérbole	hyperbole, exaggeration	16
6662255745	prosopopeya	personification, giving human characteristics to non-human objects	17
6662255746	aliteración	alliteration, repetition of the same sound or group of sounds	18
6662255747	anáfora	anaphora, repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of two or more verses or sentences	19
6662255748	antítesis	antithesis, expression of contradictory ideas in similar phrases	20
6662255749	aparte	aside, technical theater term to communicate to the audience certain things that the other characters should not know	21
6662255750	apóstrofe	apostrophe, a passage addressing a person or thing as if it could respond	22
6662255751	arquetipo	archetype, a typical example or symbol of something, a model of behavior	23
6662255752	arte mayor	verses with more than eight syllables	24
6662255753	arte menor	verses with eight syllables or less	25
6662255754	asíndeton	asyndeton, omission of a conjunction between parts of a sentence	26
6662255755	carpe diem	life is short and should be appreciated	27
6662255756	cesura	caesura, a pause in the middle of a line	28
6662255757	clímax	climax, most intense point of action in the plot	29
6662255758	elipsis	ellipsis, omission of elements of a sentence	30
6662255759	encabalgamiento	enjambment, continuation of a thought from one verse to the next	31
6662255760	epopeya	epic poetry, poetry in an elevated style describing a historic or legendary hero	32
6662255761	epíteto	epithet, addition of adjectives that are not necessary, but emphasize a certain characteristic of a thing	33
6662255762	estribillo	refrain, line or lines that are repeated throughout a poem	34
6662255763	estrofa	stanza	35
6662255764	estructura	structure, the framework of a literary work	36
6662255765	exposición	exposition, the beginning of a work in which the characters and premise are introduced	37
6662255766	hamartia	tragic flaw, weakness of a tragic hero that leads him to catastrophe	38
6662255767	hipérbaton	hyperbaton, alteration to the typical order of words in a sentence	39
6662255768	imagen	image, literal or figurative representation of an object or sensory experience, mental image	40
6662255769	in media res	beginning in the middle of the action rather than before	41
6662255770	metáfora	metaphor, a comparison between objects in which one object is typically symbolic of another	42
6662255771	metonimia	metonymy, substitution of a word for the idea meant	43
6662255772	onomatopeya	onomatopoeia, use of words to imitate a sound	44
6662255773	paradoja	paradox, union of apparently irreconcilable ideas	45
6662255774	pareado	couplet, stanza of two lines	46
6662255775	parodia	parody, exaggerated imitation of something for comic effect	47
6662255776	prefiguración	foreshadowing, indication of events to come	48
6662255777	realismo mágico	magical realism, magical elements in a realistic setting	49
6662255778	rima asonante	assonance, type of rhyme in which only the vowels rhyme	50
6662255779	rima consonante	consonance, rhyme in which the last sounds rhyme	51
6662255780	simbolo	symbol, use of a concrete object to represent an abstract idea	52
6662255781	símil	simile, comparison between two objects using like or as	53
6662255782	sinécdoque	synecdoche, substituting the name of an object for another related object, typically used to give an object a more general name	54
6662255783	soneto	sonnet, poetic composition of fourteen lines	55
6662255784	tema	theme	56
6662255785	tono	tone, attitude of the author towards the material	57
6662255786	alegoría	allegory, story interpreted to reveal a deeper meaning	58
6662255787	copla	couplet, two lines of verse joined into one unit	59
6662255788	figuras retóricas	rhetorical figure, language device used by a writer to prompt the reader to consider the meaning from a different perspective	60
6662255789	hemistiquio	hemistich, half a line of verse preceded or followed by a caesura, sometimes used to indicate tension or suspense	61
6662255790	justicia poética	poetic justice, device in which a character is punished or rewarded based on their actions, often by fate	62
6662255791	metro	meter, rhythmic structure of verse	63
6662255792	retruécano	pun, play on words involving words that sound similar or a word with multiple meanings	64
6662255793	octava	octave, verse consisting of eight lines	65
6662255794	polifonía	polyphony, aspect of narrative involving multiple perspectives	66
6662255795	oda	ode, lyric poem addressing a particular subject, often elevated in style	67
6662255796	polisíndeton	polysyndeton, repetition of conjunctions	68
6662255797	pregunta retórica	rhetorical question, question posed for effect and not intended to be answered	69
6662255798	ritmo	rhythm, pattern of language	70
6662255799	serventesio	stanza of four verses of more than eight syllables with consonance, usually with a rhyme scheme ABAB	71
6662255800	apología	eulogy, speech in defense or praise of a person or ideology	72
6662255801	caricatura	caricature, work that ridicules the example it is about	73
6662255802	cromatismo	the use of a set or range of colors to represent ideas or emotions	74
6662255803	desdoblamiento	formation of two or more things through the separation of components that tend to be together, such as the manifestation of two or more personalities	75
6662255804	leitmotiv	leading motif, repetition of a word, phrase, situation, or concept in a work	76
6662255805	metaficción	metafiction, fiction in which the author breaks the illusion of reality in a work by referring to the artificiality of the work	77
6662255806	sátira	satire, a literary work whose purpose is to ridicule the subject	78
6662255807	narrativa epistolar	epistolary novel, a work in the form of written letters from one or multiple characters	79
6662255808	narrador fidedigno	reliable narrator, narrator whose understanding of the characters or the actions in the story accredit it to tell the facts	80
6662255809	narrador no fidedigno	unreliable narrator, narrator who misinterprets the motives or action of the characters or who does no perceive the connections between the facts of the story, creating a discrepancy between the author and the narrator because the narrator is offering inconsistent information	81
6662255810	narrador testigo	witness, narrator who does not participate in the action of the story but relates the facts in first person and makes commentary	82
6662255811	narratario	the person at whom the narrator directs the text	83
6662255812	parábola	parable, a short educational story whose action is applicable to another situation	84
6662255813	diéresis	diaeresis, pronunciation of vowels in a diphthong in separate syllables	85
6662255814	hiato	hiatus, separation of a sinalefa	86
6662255815	verso blanco	blank verse, verse that does not have any kind of rhyme with any other verse, appears in poems with a regular metric rhyme scheme	87
6662255816	verso libre	free verse, verso that does not have any rhyme or metric pattern	88
6662255817	polimetría	polymetric, use of distinct metric forms in a single poem	89
6662255818	silva	silva meter, combines verses of seven and eleven syllables	90
6662255819	anagnórisis	anagnorisis, moment at which a character makes an important discovery or understands something about himself, human nature, or his situation	91
6662255820	catarsis	catharsis, feeling of purification or liberation prompted by some experience	92
6662255821	falla trágica	tragic flaw, fatal error of the protagonist in a work that causes an irreparable harm	93
6662255822	pathos	in a Greek tragedy, the affection that inclines the audience towards the tragic character	94
6662255823	tres unidades	theatrical rule that there is only one principal action, that the action does not last more than one day, and that all of the action takes place in the same place	95
6662255824	cacofonía	cacophony, use of words that combine unpleasant sounds	96
6662255825	sinestesia	synthesthesia, description of a sensation or image by means of sensations perceived by the five senses	97
6662255826	conceptismo	conceptism, literary movement associated with the Spanish baroque period that is characterized by the use of word play, paradoxes, acuteness of thoughts, and concision in expression	98
6662255827	culteranismo	Gongorism, Spanish literary style from the end of the 16th century and the 17th century, characterized by the excessive wealth of surprising metaphors, the exaggerated use of jargon, and syntactic complexity	99

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9290006991	onomatopoeia	word that phonetically imitates, resembles or suggests the sound that it describes	0
9290020928	alliteration	the repetition of initial sounds in words and syllables	1
9290028734	assonance	repetition of similar vowel sounds (ex. earth, hearth)	2
9290048356	consonance	repetition of consonants appearing within a line or at the end of words (ex. odds and ends)	3
9290127287	caesura	some lines of internal pauses that are usually indicated by a period, a semicolon, a dash, or other punctuation	4
9290191928	enjambment	indicated by an absence of punctuation and eliminates the need to pause (run-on)	5
9290212360	free verse	ignores conventions of meter and rhythm	6
9290224379	blank verse	(unrhymed verse) incorporates conventional meter	7
9290318732	stanzas	grouped lines of verse that serves as a poem's building block	8
9332154326	diction	the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing	9
9332122607	metaphor	a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable	10
9332131590	simile	the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid	11
9332161663	symbol	communicates a second meaning along with the literal meaning	12
9332169139	image	words and phrases that refer to something that can be seen, heard, tasted, smelled, or touched	13
9332173221	personification	assigns human characteristics to a nonhuman object or to an abstraction such as love, death, envy, victory, etc...	14
9332182424	metonymy	the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, (suit for business executive, or the track for horse racing)	15
9332201637	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	16
9332208815	allusion	historical, literary, or cultural reference to a person, a place, or event	17
9332223391	allegory	a story or vignette that has both a literal and a figurative meaning	18
9332228151	oxymoron	a phrase that seem self-contradictory or incompatible with reality	19
9332233844	litotes	a form of understatement in which a positive fact is stated by denying a negative fact	20
9332255193	hyperbole	an exaggeration	21
9332260543	tone	the general character or attitude of the piece of writing	22
9332267790	irony	a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result	23
9332279473	narrative poem	tells part or all of a story (a poem)	24
9332283012	lyric poem	expresses an individual's thoughts and emotions (a poem)	25
9332300896	ballad	a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas	26
9332303653	couplet	two rhymed lines, usually in the same meter	27
9332306481	dramatic monologue	a poem spoken by one person to a listener	28
9332309883	elegy	a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead	29
9332313572	limerick	a humorous, frequently bawdy, verse of three long and two short lines rhyming "aabba"	30
9332323084	ode	a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter	31
9332325962	sonnet	a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line	32
9332331860	villanelle	a nineteen-line poem with 5 three-line stanzas and a concluding quatrain	33

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9226748349	Allegory	A story with a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.	0
9226751929	Allusion	An expression that calls to mind something else without explicitly stating it.	1
9226767630	Archetype	A very typical example of a type of person or thing.	2
9226769778	Aside	When a character says something that only the audience hears.	3
9226773306	Bildungsroman	A book that concentrates on the entire development of a character from youth to adulthood.	4
9226775668	Cacophony	The use of harsh sounds (words with lots of consonants).	5
9226777353	Catharsis	A state of emotional or spiritual renewal.	6
9226789075	Flat Character	A 2-d character, or character that is lacking in multiple traits and complexity	7
9226794614	Round Character	A 3-d character, a character that has many different traits and lots of development.	8
9226797847	Static Character	A character who does not develop and undergoes very little change.	9
9226800716	Dynamic Character	A character who undergoes an important change	10
9226804612	Protagonist	The main character of a story	11
9226806572	Antagonist	The character who opposes the protagonist and is instrumental to their development.	12
9226810351	Conflict	A struggle between opposing forces.	13
9226814692	Connotation	A hidden cultural or emotional meaning associated with a word/phrase.	14
9226816921	Dennotation	The literal definition/meaning of the word/phrase.	15
9226821481	Denouement/Resolution	The point after the climax when lose ends are tied up and the story is given an ending.	16
9226824496	Deus ex machina	When an implausible concept or character is brought into the story to resolve conflict and bring about a happy ending. (ex. flying eagles save gandalf)	17
9226846096	Diction	The author's word choice.	18
9226848850	Epigraph	A short quote at the beginning of a text to suggest the theme of what's to come.	19
9226858273	Euphony	Sounds that are pleasant to listen to.	20
9226870815	Exposition	Important information about plot, character background or setting	21
9226875476	Foil	A character that has characteristics that oppose another character, usually the protagonist.	22
9226879675	Foreshadowing	Clues about events that happen later in the story.	23
9226883418	Hamartia	A fatal flaw in a character that leads to their downfall (Ex. Percy Jackson falls into tartarus).	24
9226891391	Hubris	When a character has too much pride or self-confidence, and it becomes a flaw (Ex. Okonkwo in TFA, or Annabeth)	25
9226898378	Imagery	Descriptive language relating to the five senses (what you can see, feel, hear, smell, and taste).	26
9226900748	In media res	A narrative that begins in the middle of action in order to hook the reader.	27
9226904283	Invective	Using insulting language to express intense dislike (Ex. Westly is invective to the prince in Princess Bride).	28
9226916057	Literary Quibble/Equivocation	The use of ambiguous/broad language to conceal the truth and prove one's point (Ex. Alice in Wonderland)	29
9226926079	Malapropism	The accidental replacing of worlds with words of a similar sound to create nonsensical sentences (Ex. He is the very Pineapple of politeness instead of pinacle of politeness).	30
9226935307	Monologue	A speech a character gives that explains their thoughts to another character or the audience.	31
9226940518	Motif	A recurring image or idea in a literary work that contributes to the development of the theme.	32
9226959316	Pathetic Fallacy	Giving things in nature human qualities and emotions (rather than personification that gives human qualities to any inanimate object).	33
9226967973	Soliloquy	A speech a character makes to themself, often helps express important plot information about a character's feelings (a monologue is generally a speech given to another character or to the audience).	34
9226985478	Stream of Consciousness	The individual thought processes of a character, often used as a method of narration (Ex. The begining of Copper Sun).	35
9226992078	Syntax	The structure of a sentence created by the arrangement of words	36
9226996752	Theme	The main idea or underlying meaning of a work (Subject is the topic, but theme is the meaning, or the message).	37
9228062032	Tone	The attitude of the author towards the subject or audience. The author's attitude towards the theme.	38
9228064618	Lyric	A collection of verses and choruses that creates a song or short poem (elegy and ode are types of lyrics).	39
9228071115	Narrative poetry	A form of poetry that tells a story, often using a narrator and characters.	40
9228073352	Refrain	A recurring phrase or verse, especially at the first and last verse of a stanza (verse means line).	41
9228076881	Blank verse	A line of poetry (verse) that does not rhyme, often is also a pentameter (five stressed/unstressed beats).	42
9228090462	Caesura	Pause in the middle of a verse caused by punctuation or with a parallel symbol: \|\|.	43
9228095590	Conceit	A comparison between two vastly different objects, different from a metaphor in the sense that this comparison is unusual (instead of "slow as a snail", a conceit is "love is an oil change").	44
9228103143	Elegy	A poem or song in honor of someone who has passed away.	45
9228105546	End-stopped	A natural pause at the end of a verse, often indicated by punctuation.	46
9228108463	Enjambment	When a verse has no punctuation, and runs into another	47
9228111204	Epic	A long narrative poem usually depicting the heroics of a person (Ex. The Illiad. A ballad is similar to this, but is shorter and is sung not narrated).	48
9228124893	Free verse	A poem with no set pattern or rhyming scheme.	49
9228127299	Heroic couplet	Two successive rhyming verses in a poem with a iambic pentameter (stressed/unstressed rhythm scheme).	50
9228130286	Ending rhyme	When the last words of two verses of a stanza rhyme	51
9228133958	Feminine rhyme	When words ending in unstressed syllables rhyme (motion and notion or fortunate or importunate).	52
9228137617	Internal/middle rhyme	Words within a verse and words at the end of a verse rhyme	53
9228142349	Masculine rhyme	When words ending in stressed syllables rhyme (bells and hells).	54
9228144791	Sight rhyme	When word endings are spelled the same, but do not actually rhyme (have and grave).	55
9228148032	Slant/imperfect/half/almost rhyme	Rhyming words sound very similar but do not actually rhyme.	56
9228156520	Terza rima	Tercets (stanzas with three lines) in iambic pentameter	57
9229275157	Scansion	To divide a poem into feet	58
9233628067	Meter	The number of feet in a verse	59
9233633698	Foot	A combination of stressed and unstressed syllables	60
9233645421	Sonnet	A poem with 1 stanza, 14 lines and a specific rhyme scheme and iambic pentameter rhythm scheme	61
9233656789	Italian/Petrarchan Sonnet	A sonnet with ABBA ABBA CDE CDE rhyming	62
9233661283	English/Shakespearean Sonnet	A sonnet with ABAB ABAB CDE CDE rhyming	63
9233665179	Villanelle	A poem with 6 stanzas, 19 lines, and an ABA*5 ABAA rhyme scheme (also the first and third lines repeat throughout the stanza, Ex. Do not go gently into that good night)	64
9233684450	Stanza	A grouped set of lines in a poem	65
9233687083	Couplet	2 successive rhyming lines	66
9233691478	Tercet	A stanza with three lines, sometimes with a ABA rhyme and iambic pentameter (Ex. Haiku is a tercet without a rhyme and rhythm scheme)	67
9233718916	Quatrain	A stanza with 4 lines	68
9233724999	Sestet	A stanza with 6 lines	69
9233730003	Octet	A stanza with 8 lines	70
9233734073	Alliteration	Words with the same first consonant sound appearing close to each other (But a better butter makes a batter better).	71
9233737710	Anaphora	The repetition of the first part of a sentence (Ex. I have a dream)	72
9233741730	Antithisis	Putting two opposite ideas together to create a contrast (unlike juxtaposition, compleatly opposite ideas like Heaven and Hell)	73
9233749137	Assonance	When words with the same vowel sounds are close together (men sell the wedding bells, sell and bells sound similar but do not rhyme).	74
9233759725	Asyndeton	The omission of a conjunction in a sentence (Ex. The air was thick, warm, heavy, sluggish. The and is emitted).	75
9233777016	Consonance	When there are words with the same consonant sound close together (Ex. The Fugees, "Rap rejects my tape deck, ejects projectile Whether Jew or gentile, I rank top percentile Many styles, more powerful than gamma rays My grammar pays, like Carlos Santana plays." examples are projective, gentile, percentile and rays, pays, plays)	76
9233828568	Parallelism	The use of components in a sentence that are grammatically similar, or are similar in construction (Ex. I came, I saw, I conquered)	77
9233869813	Polysyndeton	When conjunctions are used more than necessary (Ex. beer, and gin, and tea, and coffee, and what not)	78
9233878810	Apostrophe	When the writer/speaker speaks directly to someone who is not present, is dead, or an inanimate object.	79
9233908280	Hyperbole	An exaggeration for effect	80
9233931736	Euphemism	A polite, indirect statement that replaces words that might be considered harsh or impolite (Ex. kicked the bucket or passed away for died, downsizing for firing, darn and shoot for cuss words, perspiration for sweat, mentally challenged for stupid, bottom/read-end for butt, unmentionables for underwear, before I go for before I die).	81
9233937050	Homeric/Epic Simile	Detailed simile that spans many lines	82
9233941535	Verbal Irony	When a person says one thing and means another	83
9233946127	Situational Irony	Actions have an opposite effect than what was intended (Harry must kill Lord Voldemort, but to do so he must be killed by Lord Voldemort)	84
9233955706	Dramatic Irony	When the audience knows more than the characters	85
9233965292	Cosmic Irony	The idea that the universe is either indifferent to man's fate or is toying with them (Ex. Dirk Gently or Hitchhikers Guide)	86
9234006523	Romantic Irony	When an author has an attitude of dettached skepticism towards their work (might result in an author self-reflecting/criticizing within their work)	87
9234031082	Structural Irony	An alternate meaning within a work, often caused by a unreliable/naive narrator	88
9234036203	Extended Metaphor	A comparison between two different things spanning several lines or sentences	89
9234043214	Mixed Metaphor	When several metaphors are used at once, creating an odd effect (Ex. the failure left a sour taste in my eye, or "That's awfully thin gruel for the right wing to hang their hats on.")	90
9234061691	Onomatopoeia	A word that imitates a soud	91
9234079232	Oxymoron	Contrasting ideas that form an effect (cruel kindness, living death, "in order to lead, you must walk behind").	92
9234084793	Paradox	A statement that is a contradiction, but contains truth (Ex. Nobody goes to the restaurant because it's too crowded)	93
9234089041	Personification	Giving something that is not human human-like qualities	94
9234099507	Pun	A play on words creating more than one meaning (Ex. I was struggling to figure out how lightning works then it struck me)	95
9234113702	Simile	A comparison between two ideas using like or as (or other comparison words)	96
9234121391	Symbol	When an object, person or idea has another meaning	97
9234128575	Synesthesia	Description that appeals to more than one sense (Ex. In "Dying" by Dickison she describes the sound buzz as blue)	98
9234133042	Synecdoche	When a part is used to represent a whole or vise-versa (Ex. All hands on deck)	99
9234139874	Understatement	When a situation is intentionally made to seem less important than it is (Ex. Sethe concentrates on her stolen milk rather than her own rape)	100

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6280892855	High-potency 1st AP	flupentixol fluphenazine haloperidol pimozide pipotiazine thiothixene trifluoperazine	4
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