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AP Literature and Composition Terms 2018 Flashcards

9731094050	allegory	an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances	0
9731094051	alliteration	the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words	1
9731094052	allusion	a reference to something literary, mythological, or historical that the author assumes the reader will recognize	2
9731094053	antagonist	the character who works against the protagonist in the story	3
9731094054	apostrophe	a figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply	4
9731094055	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	5
9731094056	aside	a line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage	6
9731094057	assonance	the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words	7
9731094058	ballad	A type of poem that is meant to be sung and is both lyric and narrative in nature	8
9731094059	blank verse	unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter)	9
9731094060	caesura	a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line	10
9731094061	theme	a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work	11
9731094062	characterization	the process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character	12
9731094063	stream of consiousness	the continuous flow of sense perceptions, thoughts, feelings, and memories in the human mind; a literary method of representating such a blending of mental processes in fictional characters, usually in an unpunctuated or disjointed form of interior monologue	13
9731094064	climax	the point of highest interest in a literary work	14
9731094065	comedy	light and humorous drama with a happy ending	15
9731094066	conceit	extended metaphor	16
9731094067	couplet	a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse	17
9731094068	deus ex machina	"An unrealistic or unexpected intervention to rescue the protagonists or resolve the conflict. The term means ""The god out of the machine"" and refers to stage machinery."	18
9731094069	detail	the use of carefully selected images, phrases, descriptions, to help create tone or mood in a literary work.	19
9731094070	diction	a writer's or speaker's choice of words	20
9731094071	epiphany	a moment of sudden revelation or insight	21
9731094072	exposition	introduces the characters, setting, and basic situation	22
9731094073	figurative language	Writing or speech that is not intended to carry literal meaning and is usually meant to be imaginative and vivid.	23
9731094074	first person point of view	Told from the viewpoint of one of the characters using the pronouns "I" and We"	24
9731094075	flashback	a transition (in literary works) to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story	25
9731094076	flashforward	Plot presentation moves forward to future events, then returns to the present.	26
9731094077	foreshadowing	the use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot	27
9731094078	iambic pentameter	meter in poetry consisting of a line with five feet or accents, each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable	28
9731094079	lyric	of or relating to a category of poetry that expresses emotion (often in a songlike way)	29
9731094080	meter	measures the number and type of feet in a line of poetry	30
9731094081	narrator	someone who tells a story	31
9731094082	octet	eight line stanza	32
9731094083	omniscient	The narrator is an all-knowing outsider who can enter the minds of more than one of the characters.	33
9731094084	parody	a humorous imitation of a serious work	34
9731094085	persona	the speaker, voice, or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing	35
9731094086	plot	The sequence of events in a story	36
9731094087	point of view	the perspective from which a story is told	37
9731094088	porsody	the rhythm, stress, and intonation of speech	38
9731094089	protagonist	the principal character in a work of fiction	39
9731094090	quatrain	a stanza of four lines	40
9731094091	resolution	the final unraveling or solution of the plot	41
9731094092	rhyme	a pattern of words that contain similar sounds; the matching of similar sounds in two or more words	42
9731094093	Romantic	a soulful or amorous idealist, originally connected with the Romantic tradition of the 1700s and 1800s	43
9731094094	satire	form of literature in which irony, sarcasm, and ridicule are employed to attack human vice and folly	44
9731094095	scan	the marking of metrical feet in lines of poetry	45
9731094096	sestet	a six line stanza	46
9731094097	soliloquy	in drama, a character speaks alone on stage to allow his/her thoughts and ideas to be conveyed to the audience	47
9731094098	speaker	the "narrator" of a poem	48
9731094099	stock character	a character in literature quickly recognized and accepted by the reader because it often relies on stereotypes, and thus requires no development by the writer	49
9731094100	tragedy	A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character	50
9731094101	unreliable narrator	a narrator whose account of events appears to be faulty, misleadingly biased, or otherwise distorted perhaps due to youth, mental capacity, or outside motivations	51
9731094102	rhythm	the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	52
9731094103	consonance	repetition of identical consonant sounds within two or more words in close proximity	53
9731094104	elegy	a mournful poem, esp. one lamenting the dead	54
9731094105	epic	a long narrative poem written in elevated style which present the adventures of characters of high position and episodes that are important to the history of a race or nation	55
9731094106	free verse	unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern	56
9731094107	hyperbole	a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor	57
9731094108	litotes	understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary): she's not unattractive; I was not a little upset	58
9731094109	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	59
9731094110	ode	a lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject	60
9731094111	paradox	a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.	61
9731094112	oxymoron	a figure of speech consisting of two apparently contradictory terms: deafening silence; bitter sweet	62
9731094113	personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	63
9731094114	simile	a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as')	64
9731094115	sonnet	a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme, usually iambic pentameter	65
9731094116	understatement	the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis	66
9731094117	ambiguity	the multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage	67
9731094118	connotation	refers to the implied or suggested meanings associated with a word beyond its dictionary definition	68
9731094119	denotation	the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression	69
9731094120	foil	A character who is in most ways opposite to the main character (protagonist) or one who is nearly the same as the protagonist. The purpose of the foil character is to emphasize the traits of the main character by contrast only	70
9731094121	imagery	words or phrases that use a collection of images to appeal to one or more of the five senses in order to create a mental picture	71
9731094122	in medias res	beginning in the middle of the action (in the middle of things)	72
9731094123	irony	incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs	73
9731094124	symbol	something that stands for itself at a literal level but which also suggests something (or several things) at the same time; frequently a concrete object or animal that represents a quality or abstract idea	74
9731094125	syntax	The rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language	75
9731094126	tone	The attitude of the author towards the subject matter, audience, or speaker.	76

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9620987535	ambiguity	expression giving more than one meaning and leaving the true meaning unclear	0
9620987536	verisimilitude	the semblance of truth; the degree to which a writer creates the appearance of truth	1
9620987537	tone	author's attitude toward a subject	2
9620987538	stock character	stereotyped character whose nature is familiar from prototypes in previous fiction	3
9621083674	rhetoric	the art of using language effectively and persuasively	4
9621083675	parody	imitation, usually for comic effect, but sometimes for ridicule, in the style of another work	5
9621083676	Non-sequitur	Latin for "it does not follow." When one statement isn't logically connected to another	6
9621083677	litotes	a type of understatement in which an idea is expressed by negating its opposite	7
9621083678	hyperbole	exaggeration for effect	8
9621083679	genre	a specific kind or category of literature	9
9621083680	farce	a play filled with ridiculous or absurd happenings; broad or far-fetched humor; a ridiculous sham	10
9621083681	diction	author's choice of words, choice of specific words	11
9621083682	conflict	two or more opposing forces struggling	12
9621083683	crisis	the climax or turning point of a story or play	13
9621083684	aside	a statement delivered by an actor in such a way that other characters on stage are presumed not to have heard them	14

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9770880232	adage (n)	an old saying that has come to be accepted as true; a proverb	0
9770880233	alienation	feeling isolated and separated from everyone else	1
9770880234	allegory (n)	a symbolic representation; a story, picture, or play employing representation	2
9770880235	alliteration (n)	repetition of the same letter or consonant at the beginning of neighboring words	3
9770880236	allusion (n)	figure of speech that refers to a well-known story, event, person, or object in order to make a comparison in the readers' minds	4
9770880237	Ambiguity (Ambiguous)	The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence or passage.	5
9770880238	anachronism (n)	something out of place in time	6
9770880239	Agnorisis	the point in the plot especially of a tragedy at which the protagonist recognizes his or her or some other character's true identity or discovers the true nature of his or her own situation (light bulb)	7
9770880240	analogy (n)	a comparison between things that are alike in some ways	8
9770880241	anecdote	a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person	9
9770880242	Antagonist	the character who works against the protagonist in the story	10
9770880243	anthology	collection of literary works	11
9770880244	anticlimax	a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events	12
9770880245	Anti-hero	a central character in a story, movie, or drama who lacks conventional heroic attributes.	13
9770880246	Antithesis	a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else	14
9770880247	Aphorism (n)	a brief, often witty saying; a proverb	15
9770880248	Apostrophe	A figure of speech wherein the speaker speaks directly to something nonhuman	16
9770880249	Archaism	The use of deliberately old-fashioned language.	17
9770880250	Assonance	Repetition of vowel sounds	18
9770880251	bathos (n)	anti climatic; disappointing	19
9770880252	blank verse	unrhymed iambic pentameter	20
9770880253	bombast	pretentious, boastful talk	21
9770880254	Brevity (n)	briefness or conciseness in speech or writing	22
9770880255	burlesque	A work of literature meant to ridicule a subject; a grotesque imitation.	23
9770880256	cacophony	harsh/hard words or sounds	24
9770880257	caricature (n)	drawing, imitation, or description that ridiculously exaggerates peculiarities or defects	25
9770880258	carpe diem	Literally, "seize the day"; "enjoy life while you can," a common theme in life and literature.	26
9770880259	Catharsis	a play evoking pity and fear to the audience	27
9770880260	Cinquain	5 line stanza	28
9770880261	cliché	a worn-out idea or overused expression	29
9770880262	Climax	the most intense, exciting, or important point of something; a culmination or apex.	30
9770880263	colloquial	characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation ("she's out" for "she is not home")	31
9770880264	conceit	a fanciful, particularly clever extended metaphor	32
9770880265	confidant(e)	one to whom you confide your secrets; a truthful individual	33
9770880266	Connotation	the implied or associative meaning of a word	34
9770880267	Couplet	2 consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme	35
9770880268	denouement	an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot	36
9770880269	deus ex machina	an unexpected power or event saving a seemingly hopeless situation. God is Machine	37
9770880270	diction (n)	word choice; terminology; enunciation	38
9770880271	didactic	intended to instruct	39
9770880272	digression	straying away from the main point	40
9770880273	doppelgänger	a ghostly double or counterpart of a living person	41
9770880274	double entendre	a statement that has two meanings, one of which is dirty or vulgar	42
9770880275	dramatic irony	when the audience knows something the characters do not	43
9770880276	Elizabethan	the era in which Shakespeare lived which was named after Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603)	44
9770880277	elegy	a sad or mournful poem about someone's death. celebrates the life of someone in elegiac couplets	45
9770880278	empathy (n)	the ability to understand and share the feelings of another	46
9770880279	Enjambment	the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.	47
9770880280	epic	a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds	48
9770880281	epigram (n)	a witty saying expressing a single thought or observation	49
9770880282	epilogue	a short passage added at the end of a literary work	50
9770880283	Epiphany	A moment of sudden revelation or insight	51
9770880284	epithet	A descriptive name or phrase used to characterize someone or something. Dwayne the Rock Johnson	52
9770880285	euphemism	An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant ex: he passed away	53
9770880286	euphony (n)	pleasing sound of words	54
9770880287	Exposition	the writer's way to give background information to the audience about the setting and the characters of the story	55
9770880288	Fable	A brief story that leads to a moral, often using animals as characters	56
9770880289	Farce (n)	exaggerated comedy; something ridiculous	57
9770880290	feminine rhyme	a rhyme between stressed syllables followed by one or more unstressed syllables (stocking/shocking)	58
9770880291	figurative language	writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally	59
9770880292	figure of speech	language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense	60
9770880293	Flashback	present action is temporarily interrupted so that past events can be described	61
9770880294	foreshadow	A narrative device that hints at coming events; often builds suspense or anxiety in the reader.	62
9770880295	fustian	pompous or pretentious talk or writing	63
9770880296	genre (n)	kind; sort; category	64
9770880297	heroic couplet	a couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentamenter and written in an elevated style	65
9770880298	homily	a sermon	66
9770880299	Hubris	Excessive pride or self-confidence	67
9770880300	Hamartia	a fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine	68
9770880301	Hyperbole (n)	extreme exaggeration	69
9770880302	iamb	an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable	70
9770880303	iambic pentameter	a poetic meter that is made up of 5 stressed syllables each followed by an unstressed syllable	71
9770880304	Imagery	visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.	72
9770880305	interior monologue	a piece of writing expressing a character's inner thoughts	73
9770880306	Irony	A contrast between expectation and reality	74
9770880307	journalese	style of writing typical of newspapers and/or magazines	75
9770880308	King's English	proper language	76
9770880309	lampoon	makes fun of male character	77
9770880310	literal	Exactly true, rather than figurative or metaphorical	78
9770880311	litotes	a double negative to get a message across "she's not ugly"	79
9770880312	malapropism	a word humorously misused "standing ovation vs. standing ovulation"	80
9770880313	masculine rhyme	final syllable of first word rhymes with final syllable of second word (scald recalled)	81
9770880314	maxim	a general truth about life	82
9770880315	melodrama	A literary form in which events are exaggerated in order to create an extreme emotional response.	83
9770880316	Metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	84
9770880317	Metonymy	Using a single feature to represent the whole (the big apple)	85
9770880318	mimesis [n]	imitation, in particular	86
9770880319	mise en scene	arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted	87
9770880320	Monologue	A long speech made by one performer or by one person in a group.	88
9770880321	nihilism	belief in nothing	89
9770880322	Octave	8 line stanza	90
9770880323	omniscient	all-knowing	91
9770880324	Onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	92
9770880325	Oxymoron	conjoining contradictory terms (as in 'deafening silence' 'sweet sorrow')	93
9770880326	palindrome	a word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward (AVA)	94
9770880327	parable (n)	a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson, as told by Jesus in the Gospels.	95
9770880328	paradox	a sentence that contradicts itself (the more you know the less you understand)	96
9770880329	Parallelism	Phrases or sentences of a similar construction/meaning placed side by side, balancing each other	97
9770880330	parody (n)	humorous imitation	98
9770880331	pathos (n)	quality in events or in art (literature, music, etc.) that arouses our pity or emotion	99
9856113022	pathetic fallacy	a more extreme version of personification	100
9856113023	pedantry	overly concerned with minorly details; OCD	101
9856113024	Peripeteia	A reversal in drama terms	102
9856113025	periodic sentence	A sentence that presents its central meaning at the end.	103
9856113026	persona	the speaker, voice, or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing	104
9856113027	Personification	the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea	105
9856113028	platitude	"ants in your pants" not taken literary	106
9856113029	pleonasm	using more words than necessary; "i went into the black darkness"	107
9856113030	poetic justice	When characters "get what they deserve" in the end of a story. good beats evil	108
9856113031	poetic license	the freedom a poet has to rhyme or not, make up words, etc.	109
9856113032	Prologue	Introduction	110
9856113033	prose	Any writing that is not poetry	111
9856113034	prose rhythms	free verse	112
9856113035	Protagonist	The main character; the "hero" of the story	113
9856113036	provincial	not proper; country bumpkin	114
9856113037	pseudonym	a false name Rodger Prynne to Rodger Chillingworth	115
9856113038	pun	a play on words	116
9856113039	Quatrain	4 line stanza	117
9856113040	redundancy	unnecessary repetition	118
9856113041	rhetorical question	A question asked merely for effect with no answer expected.	119
9856113042	sarcasm	harsh, cutting language or tone intended to ridicule	120
9856113043	satire	witty language used to convey insults or scorn	121
9856113044	sestet	6 line stanza	122
9856113045	Similie	A comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as"	123
9856113046	slang	an informal, often short-lived kind of language used in place of standard words	124
9856113047	slapstick	a boisterous comedy with chases and collisions and practical jokes	125
9856113048	Soliloquy	a (usually long) dramatic speech intended to give the illusion of unspoken reflections	126
9856113049	sonnet	a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme	127
9856113050	spondee	a metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables / /	128
9856113051	stereotype	a generalized (sometimes accurate but often overgeneralized) belief about a group of people	129
9856113052	static character	A character who does not change during the story.	130
9856113053	stock character	stereotypical character such as town drunk, nerd, etc	131
9856113054	Stock Situation	A frequently recurring pattern or incident in drama or fiction.	132
9856113055	subjective	based on personal experience or feeling, not on external evidence	133
9856113056	Symbol	anything that stands for or represents something else	134
9856113057	Synecdoche	A figure of speech in which a part is substituted for the whole.	135
9856113058	synopsis	summary	136
9856113059	Synaesthesia	describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("loud color" or "sweet sound")	137
9856113060	Syntax	The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.	138
9856113061	tall tale	a humorously exaggerated story about impossible events	139
9856113062	tirade (n)	a long, angry speech, usually very critical	140
9856113063	tone	the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc.	141
9856113064	tragedy	(n.) - a disastrous event, or a work of art in which the hero meets a terrible fate	142
9856113065	tragic flaw	A weakness or limitation of character, resulting in the fall of the tragic hero.	143
9856113066	trochee	a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable	144
9856113067	Universiality	Applies to all	145
9856113068	verisimilitude	the amount of truth in a work	146
9856113071	Victorian		147

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7757906177	Conjecture	to guess; a guess	0
7757906178	Halitosis	stale or foul smelling breath	1
7757906179	perfidy	deliberate breach of faith; calculated violation of trust	2
7757906180	tepid	moderately warm; lukewarm	3
7757906181	dour	silently ilhumored; gloomy	4
7757906182	odious	hateful	5
7757906183	intrinsic	pertaining to the essential nature of a thing	6
7757906184	capitulate	to give up all resistance; to surrender	7
7757906185	polygraph	an instrument that simultaneously records changes in such physiological processes	8
7757906186	vacuous	devoid of substance or meaning; inane	9
7757906187	impetus	a driving force	10
7757906188	procreate	to beget offspring; to reproduce	11
7757906189	curator	the administration director of a museum or other similar institute	12
7757906190	vernacular	the native language of a people, region, or country	13

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9620098552	allegory	universal symbol or personified abstraction (ex: Death being portrayed as cloaked in black with a scythe and hourglass)	0
9620197675	alliteration	sequential repetition of a similar sound (consonants) (ex: peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers)	1
9620267488	allusion	a reference to a literary or historical event, person, or place (Scar from the Lion King represents Claudius from Hamlet)	2
9620288718	Anapestic	a measurement in poetry of two unstressed and one stressed syllable	3
9620313473	Anaphora	the regular repetition of the same word or phase at the beginning of successive phrases (ex: starting every sentence with the same word)	4
9620426528	anecdote	a brief story told by a character in a piece of literature	5
9620479370	antagonist	any force that is in opposition to the main character/protagonist (does not have to be a person, ex: nature)	6
9620526272	antithesis	the juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced/parallel words, phrases, grammatical structure, or ideas (ex: "beauty is truth, truth beauty")	7
9620566854	apostrophe	an address to something inanimate	8
9620580984	archetype	recurrent themes/images that are identifiable in a wide range of literature (ex: water symbolizing renewal, femme fatale)	9
9620664497	assonance	a repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds	10
9620678058	asyndeton	a style in which conjunctions are omitted, creating a fast pace prose (ex: "I came, I saw, I conquered")	11
9620696895	attitude	the sense expressed by the tone of voice/mood of the piece writing; the feelings the author holds toward a subject/people/events/setting/reader	12
9620762023	ballad	a narrative poem that was originally meant to be sung, usually characterized by a reoccurring phrase	13
9620804628	ballad stanza	a common stanza (4 lines in iambic that alternate 3 beat and 4 beat lines, lines 1 and 3 do not rhyme, lines 2 and 4 rhyme)	14
9620837124	blank verse	form of verse that resembles common speech (unrhymed lines in iambic pentameter) (ex: Shakespeare's plays)	15
9620859199	Caesura	a pause in a line of verse indicated by natural speech patterns (ex: Alas how changed! II What sudden horrors rise!)	16
9620877190	caricature	a depiction in which a character's traits are exaggerated to render them absurd (ex: political cartoons)	17
9620892641	chiasmus	a figure of speech by which the order of the terms are switched (ex: "beauty is truth, truth beauty" or "pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure")	18
9620918387	colloquial	ordinary language, the vernacular (ex: north = "soda", south = "pop")	19
9620941329	conceit	a comparison of two unlikely things, an extended metaphor within a poem (ex: love affair can be describes as a flower growing, budding, fruiting, and dying)	20
9620966299	connotation	what is suggested by a word (apart from what it actually means), the implied meaning of a word (ex: awesome, sweet, wicked mean different things now than they used to)	21
9620988541	consonance	the repetition of a sequence of two or more consonants, but with a change in the vowels (ex: pitter-patter, cling-clang)	22
9621015513	couplet	two rhyming lines of iambic pentameter that together present a single idea/connection (ex: "So long as men can breath or eyes can see / So long lives this and this gives life to thee")	23
9621048211	dactylic	measurement in poetry that consists of 2 stressed syllables followed by 1 unstressed syllable	24
9621061623	denotation	a direct and specific meaning, referring to the dictionary meaning of a word	25
9621069506	dialect	the language/speech of a specific region/people (ex: Mark Twain captures southern dialect in Huck Finn)	26
9621085793	diction	the specific word choice an author uses to persuade or convey tone/purpose/effect (ex: "I hadn't so much forgot as I couldn't bring myself to remember" has more impact than "I chose not to remember")	27
9621115340	dramatic monologue	a monologue set in a specific situation and spoken to an imaginary audience (ex: "to be or not to be" speech in Hamlet)	28
9621128449	elegy		29

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9880963778	Objective	(of a person or their judgment) not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts	0
9880972271	Pragmatic	Dealing with things sensibly and realistically in a way that is based on practical rather than theoretical situations	1
9880981527	Indignant	Feeling or showing anger or annoyance at what is perceived as unfair treatment	2
9880993660	Latter	Denoting the second or last mentioned of two people or things	3
9880998993	Laconic	(of a person, speech, or style of writing) using very few words	4
9881007178	Feigned	simulated or pretended; insincere	5
9881012540	Quizzical	(of a person's expression or behavior) indicating mild or amused puzzlement	6
9881021558	Wantonness	One given to self-indulgent flirtation or trifling; a lewd or lascivious person	7
9881032527	Reproachful	Expressing disapproval or disappointment	8
9881039210	Elegiac	(especially of a work of art) having a mournful quality	9
9881044094	Pretentious	Attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed	10
9881054884	Former	Denoting the first or first mentioned of two people or things	11
9881067415	Contemptuous	Showing disdain, disrespect, scorn, insulting	12
9881072133	Somber	Dark or dull in color or tone; gloomy	13
9881075601	Whimsical	Playfully quaint or fanciful, especially in an appealing and amusing way	14
9881082999	Subjective	Based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions	15
9881091931	Flippant	Not showing a serious or respectful attitude	16
9881097529	Belie	Disguise, contradict, or betray	17
9881102272	Innate	Instinctive or natural	18
9881108966	Discursive	Digressing from subject to subject	19

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10363077879	allegory	1)a poem, play, picture, etc, in which the apparent meaning of the characters and events is used to symbolize a deeper moral or spiritual meaning 2)Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser is a religious or moral allegory where characters represent virtues and vices.	0
10363077880	alliteration	1)the commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group (consonantal alliteration), as in from stem to stern, or with a vowel sound that may differ from syllable to syllable (vocalic alliteration), as in each to all. 2)"She sells seashells by the sea-shore."Another fan-favorite is:"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."	1
10389256924	anapest	1)three-syllable foot, stress on third 2)Get a life, In the blink of an eye, By the skin of your teeth, Get it out of your system, Feeling under the weather, Hit the nail on the head	2
10389275695	Antagonist	1)A character or force in conflict with the main character 2)You're in line for a promotion. A friend of yours gets the job instead.	3
10389280417	aside	1)a line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage 2)"Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?"	4
10389287288	Assonance	1)Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity 2)Honesty is the best policy.	5
10389291954	Au bade	1)a poem about dawn; a morning love song; a poem about the parting of lovers at dawn 2)"I know my leaving in the breakfast table mess. Bowl spills into bowl: milk and bran, bread crust crumbled. You push me back into bed."	6
10389296654	Ballad	1)A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas 2)"Oh Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling From glen to glen, and down the mountain side The summer's gone, and all the flowers are dying 'Tis you, 'tis you must go and I must bide."	7
10389304348	blank verse	1)Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter 2)"Women of Adamant, fair neophytes— Who thirst for such instruction as we give, Attend, while I unfold a parable. The elephant is mightier than Man, Yet Man subdues him. Why? "	8
10389308020	Caesura	1)A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line. 2)"We hold these truths to be self-evident \|\| that all men are created equal."—Declaration of Independence, United States of America 1776."	9
10389316938	catastrophe	1)Catastrophe is a final resolution that appears in a narrative plot or a long poem. 2)"Despair thy charm; And let the angel whom thou still hast serv'd Tell thee, Macduff was from his mother's womb Untimely ripp'd."	10
10389324862	Catharsis	1)a release of emotional tension 2)When a relationship ends, one or both parties might choose to "purge" the other out of his/her lives by throwing away mementos and getting ride of shared objects.	11
10389328229	character	1)A person in a story 2)Protagonist, antagonist, foil, etc.	12
10389335972	Characterization	1)The act of creating and developing a character 2)"Cathy was chewing a piece of meat, chewing with her front teeth. Samuel had never seen anyone chew that way before. And when she had swallowed, her little tongue flicked around her lips."	13
10389341919	Chorus	1)In Greek drama, the group of citizens who stand outside the main action on stage and comment on it. 2)Chorus uses this phrase by introducing the couple to the Elizabethan audience. This shows that this term would definitely be familiar to the audience.	14
10389350130	Climax	1)the most intense, exciting, or important point of something; a culmination or apex. 2)In William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, the story reaches its climax in Act 3. In the first scene of the act, Romeo challenges Tybalt to a duel after he (Tybalt) killed Mercutio	15
10389359054	closed form	1)poetic form subject to a fixed structure and pattern 2)This limerick contains five lines with a rhyme scheme of aabba. Here we can notice the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme together, with three feet; whereas the third and fourth lines contain two feet and rhyme together.	16
10389377206	comedy	1)light and humorous drama with a happy ending 2)Every Man in His Humor, Ben Johnson brings a comedy of humors.	17
10393760090	comic relief	1)A humorous scene or speech intended to lighten the mood 2)R2-D2 and C-3PO are used as comic relief in Star Wars to offset desperate situations.	18
10393774312	complication	1)A series of difficulties forming the central action in a narrative. 2)Liz tells Julie she hears something. Julie suggests she calls the police.	19
10393784843	Connotation	1)the implied or associative meaning of a word 2)inexpensive vs. cheap, house vs. home, etc.	20
10393789445	convention	1) defining features of particular literary genres, such as novel, short story, ballad, sonnet, and play. 2)Drama conventions are multiple conflicts, tension, emotions, and exploring relationships.	21
10393798589	couplet	1)two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme 2)"Parting is such sweet sorrow / That I shall say good night till it be morrow."	22
10393802325	dactyl	1)Dactyl is a metrical foot, a beat in a line, containing syllables in which the first is accented, followed by second and third unaccented syllables. 2)garland, bicycle, speaking, value	23
10393822149	Denotation	1)The dictionary definition of a word 2)Dove: a stocky steed with a small head.	24
10393826314	denouement	1)an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot 2)At the end of The Little Mermaid, Ursula is killed.	25
10393833092	deus ex machina	1)In literature, the use of an artificial device or gimmick to solve a problem. 2)A character wakes up to find it was all a dream.	26
10393844669	Dialogue	1)Conversation between characters 2)How may I help you? You can .............	27
10393849024	diction	1)A writer's or speaker's choice of words 2)Grendel uses words that portrays gloomy and confused situations.	28
10393860547	dramatic monologue	1)a poem in which a speaker addresses a silent listener 2)Why did you come to hear me speak if not to listen to what I say?	29
10393873150	elegy	1)poem or song expressing lamentation 2)Fly to travel free of any constraints ........	30
10393881127	elision	1)the omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry 2)hafta, sotra, musta	31
10393884267	Enjambment	1)the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza. 2)My father could only play, only on special days he never knew.......	32
10393891694	epic	1)a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds 2)Gilgamesh, The Iliad, Odyssey	33
10393895377	epigram	1)a witty saying expressing a single thought or observation 2)"Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put and end to mankind." ... "If we don't end war, war will end us." ...	34
10393898453	Exposition	1)Background information presented in a literary work. 2)Liz is a loner, she's twenty-five years of age, her best friend is Julie.	35

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The Glossary of Literary Terms for the AP English Literature and Composition Test

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9888200211	Abstract	Complex, discusses intangible qualities like good and evil, seldom uses examples to support its points.	0
9888200212	Academic	Dry and rhetorical writing; sucking all the life out of its subject with analysis.	1
9888200213	Accent	In poetry, the stressed portion of a word.	2
9888200214	Aesthetic	Appealing to the senses; a coherent sense of taste.	3
9888200215	Allegory	A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself.	4
9888200216	Alliteration	The repetition of initial consonant sounds.	5
9888200217	Allusion	A reference to another work or famous figure.	6
9888200218	Anachronism	"Misplaced in time." An aspect of a story that doesn't belong in its supposed time setting.	7
9888200219	Analogy	A comparison, usually involving two or more symbolic parts, employed to clarify an action or a relationship.	8
9888200220	Anecdote	A Short Narrative	9
9888200221	Antecedent	The word, phrase, or clause that determines what a pronoun refers to.	10
9888200222	Anthropomorphism	When inanimate objects are given human characteristics. Often confused with personification.	11
9888200223	Anticlimax	Occurs when an action produces far smaller results than one had been led to expect.	12
9888200224	Antihero	A protagonist who is markedly unheroic: morally weak, cowardly, dishonest, or any number of other unsavory qualities.	13
9888200225	Aphorism	A short and usually witty saying.	14
9888200226	Apostrophe	A figure of speech wherein the speaker talks directly to something that is nonhuman.	15
9888200227	Archaism	The use of deliberately old-fashioned language.	16
9888200228	Aside	A speech (usually just a short comment) made by an actor to the audience, as though momentarily stepping outside of the action on stage.	17
9888200229	Aspect	A trait or characteristic	18
9888200230	Assonance	The repeated use of vowel sounds: "Old king Cole was a merry old soul."	19
9888200231	Atmosphere	The emotional tone or background that surrounds a scene	20
9888200232	Ballad	A long, narrative poem, usually in meter and rhyme. Typically has a naive folksy quality.	21
9888200233	Bathos	Writing strains for grandeur it can't support and tries too hard to be a tear jerker.	22
9888200234	Pathos	Writing evokes feelings of dignified pity and sympathy.	23
9888200235	Black humor	The use of disturbing themes in comedy.	24
9888200236	Bombast	Pretentious, exaggeratedly learned language.	25
9888200237	Burlesque	Broad parody, one that takes a style or form and exaggerates it into ridiculousness.	26
9888200238	Cacophony	In poetry, using deliberately harsh, awkward sounds.	27
9888200239	Cadence	The beat or rhythm or poetry in a general sense.	28
9888200240	Canto	The name for a section division in a long work of poetry.	29
9888200241	Caricature	A portrait (verbal or otherwise) that exaggerates a facet of personality.	30
9888200242	Catharsis	Drawn from Aristotle's writings on tragedy. Refers to the "cleansing" of emotion an audience member experiences during a play	31
9888200243	Chorus	In Greek drama, the group of citizens who stand outside the main action on stage and comment on it.	32
9888200244	Classic	Typical, or an accepted masterpiece.	33
9888200245	Coinage (neologism)	A new word, usually one invented on the spot.	34
9888200246	Colloquialism	A word or phrase used in everyday conversational English that isn't a part of accepted "school-book" English.	35
9888200247	Complex (Dense)	Suggesting that there is more than one possibility in the meaning of words; subtleties and variations; multiple layers of interpretation; meaning both explicit and implicit	36
9888200248	Conceit (Controlling Image)	A startling or unusual metaphor, or to a metaphor developed and expanded upon several lines.	37
9888200249	Denotation	A word's literal meaning.	38
9888200250	Connotation	Everything other than the literal meaning that a word suggests or implies.	39
9888200251	Consonance	The repetition of consonant sounds within words (rather than at their beginnings)	40
9888200252	Couplet	A pair of lines that end in rhyme	41
9888200253	Decorum	A character's speech must be styled according to her social station, and in accordance to the situation.	42
9888200254	Diction	The words an author chooses to use.	43
9888200255	Syntax	The ordering and structuring of words.	44
9888200256	Dirge	A song for the dead. Its tone is typically slow, heavy, depressed, and melancholy	45
9888200257	Dissonance	Refers to the grating of incompatible sounds.	46
9888200258	Doggerel	Crude, simplistic verse, often in sing-song rhyme, like limericks.	47
9888200259	Dramatic Irony	When the audience knows something that the characters in the drama do not	48
9888200260	Dramatic Monologue	When a single speaker in literature says something to a silent audience.	49
9888200261	Elegy	A type of poem that meditates on death or mortality in a serious, thoughtful manner.	50
9888200262	Elements	Basic techniques of each genre of literature	51
9888200263	Enjambment	The continuation of a syntactic unit from one line or couplet of a poem to the next with no pause.	52
9888200264	Epic	A very long narrative poem on a serious theme in a dignified style; typically deal with glorious or profound subject matter.	53
9888200265	Epitaph	Lines that commemorate the dead at their burial place.	54
9888200266	Euphemism	A word or phrase that takes the place of a harsh, unpleasant, or impolite reality.	55
9888200267	Euphony	When sounds blend harmoniously.	56
9888200268	Explicit	To say or write something directly and clearly.	57
9888200269	Farce	Extremely broad humor; in earlier times, a funny play or a comedy.	58
9888200270	Feminine rhyme	Lines rhymed by their final two syllables. Properly, the penultimate syllables are stressed and the final syllables are unstressed.	59
9888200271	Foil	A secondary character whose purpose is to highlight the characteristics of a main character, usually by contrast.	60
9888200272	Foot	The basic rhythmic unit of a line of poetry, formed by a combination of two or three syllables, either stressed or unstressed.	61
9888200273	Foreshadowing	An event of statement in a narrative that in miniature suggests a larger event that comes later.	62
9888200274	Free verse	poetry written without a regular rhyme scheme or metrical pattern	63
9888200275	Genre	A sub-category of literature.	64
9888200276	Gothic	A sensibility that includes such features as dark, gloomy castles and weird screams from the attic each night.	65
9888200277	Hubris	The excessive pride or ambition that leads to the main character's downfall	66
9888200278	Hyperbole	Exaggeration or deliberate overstatement.	67
9888200279	Implicit	To say or write something that suggests and implies but never says it directly or clearly.	68
9888200280	In media res	Latin for "in the midst of things," i.e. beginning an epic poem in the middle of the action.	69
9888200281	Interior Monologue	Refers to writing that records the mental talking that goes on inside a character's head; tends to be coherent.	70
9888200282	Inversion	Switching the customary order of elements in a sentence or phrase.	71
9888200283	Irony	A statement that means the opposite of what it seems to mean; uses an undertow of meaning, sliding against the literal a la Jane Austen.	72
9888200284	Lament	A poem of sadness or grief over the death of a loved one or over some other intense loss.	73
9888200285	Lampoon	A satire.	74
9888200286	Loose sentence	A sentence that is complete before its end: Jack loved Barbara despite her irritating snorting laugh.	75
9888200287	Periodic Sentence	A sentence that is not grammatically complete until it has reached it s final phrase: Despite Barbara's irritation at Jack, she loved him.	76
9888200288	Lyric	A type of poetry that explores the poet's personal interpretation of and feelings about the world.	77
9888200289	Masculine rhyme	A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable (regular old rhyme)	78
9888200290	Meaning	What makes sense, what's important.	79
9888200291	Melodrama	A form of cheesy theater in which the hero is very, very good, the villain mean and rotten, and the heroine oh-so-pure.	80
9888200292	Metaphor	A comparison or analogy that states one thing IS another.	81
9888200293	Simile	A comparison or analogy that typically uses like or as.	82
9888200294	Metonymy	A word that is used to stand for something else that it has attributes of or is associated with.	83
9888200295	Nemesis	The protagonist's arch enemy or supreme and persistent difficulty.	84
9888200296	Objectivity	Treatment of subject matter in an impersonal manner or from an outside view.	85
9888200297	Subjectivity	A treatment of subject matter that uses the interior or personal view of a single observer and is typically colored with that observer's emotional responses.	86
9888200298	Onomatopoeia	Words that sound like what they mean	87
9888200299	Opposition	A pairing of images whereby each becomes more striking and informative because it's placed in contrast to the other one.	88
9888200300	Oxymoron	A phrase composed of opposites; a contradiction.	89
9888200301	Parable	A story that instructs.	90
9888200302	Paradox	A situation or statement that seems to contradict itself, but on closer inspection, does not.	91
9888200303	Parallelism	Repeated syntactical similarities used for effect.	92
9888200304	Paraphrase	To restate phrases and sentences in your own words.	93
9888200305	Parenthetical phrase	A phrase set off by commas that interrupts the flow of a sentence with some commentary or added detail.	94
9888200306	Parody	The work that results when a specific work is exaggerated to ridiculousness.	95
9888200307	Pastoral	A poem set in tranquil nature or even more specifically, one about shepherds.	96
9888200308	Persona	The narrator in a non first-person novel.	97
9888200309	Personification	When an inanimate object takes on human shape.	98
9888200310	Plaint	A poem or speech expressing sorrow.	99
9888200311	Point of View	The perspective from which the action of a novel is presented.	100
9888200312	Omniscient	A third person narrator who sees into each character's mind and understands all the action going on.	101
9888200313	Limited Omniscient	A Third person narrator who generally reports only what one character sees, and who only reports the thoughts of that one privileged character.	102
9888200314	Objective	A thrid person narrator who only reports on what would be visible to a camera. Does not know what the character is thinking unless the character speaks it.	103
9888200315	First person	A narrator who is a character in the story and tells the tale from his or her point of view.	104
9888200316	Stream of Consciousness	Author places the reader inside the main character's head and makes the reader privy to all of the character's thoughts as they scroll through her consciousness.	105
9888200317	Prelude	An introductory poem to a longer work of verse	106
9888200318	Protagonist	The main character of a novel or play	107
9888200319	Pun	The usually humorous use of a word in such a way to suggest two or more meanings	108
9888200320	Refrain	A line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem.	109
9888200321	Requiem	A song of prayer for the dead.	110
9888200322	Rhapsody	An intensely passionate verse or section of verse, usually of love or praise.	111
9888200323	Rhetorical question	A question that suggests an answer.	112
9888200324	Satire	Attempts to improve things by pointing out people's mistakes in the hope that once exposed, such behavior will become less common.	113
9888200325	Soliloquy	A speech spoken by a character alone on stage, meant to convey the impression that the audience is listening to the character's thoughts.	114
9888200326	Stanza	A group of lines roughly analogous in function in verse to the paragraphs function in prose.	115
9888200327	Stock characters	Standard or cliched character types.	116
9888200328	Subjunctive Mood	A grammatical situation involving the words "if" and "were," setting up a hypothetical situation.	117
9888200329	Suggest	To imply, infer, indicate.	118
9888200330	Summary	A simple retelling of what you've just read.	119
9888200331	Suspension of disbelief	The demand made of a theater audience to accept the limitations of staging and supply the details with their imagination.	120
9888200332	Symbolism	A device in literature where an object represents an idea.	121
9888200333	Technique	The methods and tools of the author.	122
9888200334	Theme	The main idea of the overall work; the central idea.	123
9888200335	Thesis	The main position of an argument. The central contention that will be supported.	124
9888200336	Tragic flaw	In a tragedy, this is the weakness of a character in an otherwise good (or even great) individual that ultimately leads to his demise.	125
9888200337	Travesty	A grotesque parody	126
9888200338	Truism	A way-too obvious truth	127
9888200339	Unreliable narrator	When the first person narrator is crazy, a liar, very young, or for some reason not entirely credible	128
9888200340	Utopia	An idealized place. Imaginary communities in which people are able to live in happiness, prosperity, and peace.	129
9888200341	Zeugma	The use of a word to modify two or more words, but used for different meanings. He closed the door and his heart on his lost love.	130
9888200342	Ode	A poem in praise of something divine or noble	131
9888200343	Iamb	A poetic foot -- light, heavy	132
9888200344	Trochee	A poetic foot -- heavy, light	133
9888200345	Spondee	A poetic foot -- heavy, heavy	134
9888200346	Pyrrhie	A poetic foot -- light, light	135
9888200347	Anapest	A poetic foot -- light, light, heavy	136
9888200348	Ambibranch	A poetic foot -- light, heavy, light	137
9888200349	Dactyl	A poetic foot -- heavy, light, light	138
9888200350	Imperfect	A poetic foot -- single light or single heavy	139
9888200351	Pentameter	A poetic line with five feet.	140
9888200352	Tetrameter	A poetic line with four feet	141
9888200353	Trimeter	A poetic line with three feet	142
9888200354	Blank Verse	unrhymed iambic pentameter.	143

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9659285938	abstract	typically complex, dicusses intangible qualities like good and evil, and seldom uses examples to support its points	0
9659285939	academic	dry or theoretical writing	1
9659285940	accent	In poetry this word refers to the stressed portion of a word	2
9659285941	aesthetic	adj. appealing to the senses; beautiful	3
9659285942	allegory	A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself.	4
9659285943	Alliteration	The repetition of the initial consonant sounds. EXAMPLE: Peter Piper picked a peck of peppers.	5
9659285944	Allusion	A reference to another work of literature, person, or event	6
9659285945	anachronism	something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred	7
9659285946	analogy	A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way	8
9659285947	anecdote	a short narrative	9
9659285948	antecedent	the word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun	10
9659285949	Anthropomorphism	attributing human characteristics to an animal or inanimate object (Personification)	11
9659285950	anticlimax	a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events	12
9659285951	Antihero	a central character in a story, movie, or drama who lacks conventional heroic attributes.	13
9659285952	aphorism	A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life.	14
9659285953	Apostrophe	Addressing something nonhuman as if it were human Example: Death, be not proud . . .	15
9659285954	archaism	The use of deliberately old-fashioned language.	16
9659285955	aside	a line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage	17
9659285956	aspect	a trait or characteristic	18
9659285957	Assonance	Repetition of vowel sounds	19
9659285958	Atmosphere	emotional tone or background that surrounds a scene	20
9659285959	Ballad	A story/narrative in poetic form	21
9659285960	bathos	when writing causes feelings of dignified pity or sympathy	22
9659285961	black humor	the use of disturbing themes in comedy	23
9659285962	bombast	pompous or pretentious talk or writing	24
9659285963	burlesque	A work of literature meant to ridicule a subject; a grotesque imitation.	25
9659285964	cacophony	harsh sounds	26
9659285965	cadence	rhythm	27
9659285966	canto	division of a long poem	28
9659285967	caricature	a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect	29
9659285968	Catharsis	the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions.	30
9659285969	chorus	Group of citizens in a play that comment about play	31
9659285970	classic	A highly regarded work of literature or other art form that has withstood the test of time.	32
9659285971	Coinage (neologism)	A new word, usually one invented on the spot.	33
9659285972	Colloquialism	The use of slang or informalities in speech or writing	34
9659285973	Complex (Dense)	Suggesting that there is more than one possibility in the meaning of words.	35
9659285974	Conceit (Controlling Image)	A startling or unusual metaphor, or to a metaphor developed and expanded upon several lines.	36
9659285975	Connotation	the implied or associative meaning of a word	37
9659285976	Consonance	Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity.	38
9659285977	couplet	two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme	39
9659285978	decorum	conformity to accepted standards of conduct; proper behavior	40
9659285979	Denotation	Dictionary definition of a word	41
9659285980	Diction	A writer's or speaker's choice of words	42
9659285981	syntax	sentence structure	43
9659285982	dirge	funeral hymn	44
9659285983	dissonance	harsh, inharmonious, or discordant sounds	45
9659285984	doggerel	trivial, poorly constructed verse	46
9659285985	dramatic irony	when the audience knows something the characters do not	47
9659285986	dramatic monologue	when a single speaker in literature says something to a silent audience	48
9659285987	elegy	a sad or mournful poem	49
9659285988	Enjambment	the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause	50
9659285989	epic	a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds	51
9659285990	epitaph	an inscription on a tombstone or burial place	52
9659285991	euphemism	An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant	53
9659285992	euphony	pleasant, harmonious sound	54
9659285993	explicit	definite, clearly stated	55
9659285994	farce	broad comedy; mockery; humorous play full of silly things happening; ADJ. farcical	56
9659285995	feminine rhyme	lines rhymed by their final two syllables	57
9659285996	foil	A character who contrasts and parallels the main character in a play or story.	58
9659285997	implicit	implied; understood but not stated	59
9659285998	in medias res	in the middle of things	60
9659285999	interior monologue	writing that records the conversation that occurs inside a character's head	61
9659286000	Inversion	Inverted order of words in a sentence	62
9659286001	irony	A contrast between expectation and reality	63
9659286002	lament	a passionate expression of grief or sorrow	64
9659286003	lampoon	a written satire used to ridicule or attack someone	65
9659286004	lyric	A type of poetry that explores the poet's personal interpretation of and feelings about the world.	66
9659286005	masculine rhyme	A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable	67
9659286006	melodrama	A literary form in which events are exaggerated in order to create an extreme emotional response.	68
9659286007	Metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	69
9659286008	Metonymy	substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it	70
9659286009	simile	comparison using like or as	71

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