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8957136660	Lit Terms Quiz 1	lol no	0
8957139054	Alliteration	number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series	1
8957139055	Allusion	brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance	2
8957139056	Annotation	a note of explanation or comment added to a text or diagram	3
8957141605	Antagonist	character, or a group of characters, which stands in opposition to the protagonist, which is the main character	4
8957141606	Assonance	two or more words, close to one another repeat the same vowel sound, but start with different consonant sounds	5
8957144399	Archetype	typical character, an action, or a situation that seems to represent universal patterns of human nature	6
8957144400	Conflict	a literary element that involves a struggle between two opposing forces, usually a protagonist and an antagonist	7
8957144401	Connotation	meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing which it describes explicitly; cultural or emotional associations	8
8957146644	Consonance	repetitive sounds produced by consonants withIN a sentence or phrase. This repetition often takes place in quick succession; don't confuse w alliteration; it is assonance but with consonants	9
8957146645	Denotation	literal or dictionary meanings of a word	10
8957146646	Diction	style of writing or choice of words	11
8957149575	Epiphany	moment in the story where a character achieves realization, awareness, or a feeling of knowledge, after which events are seen through the prism of this new light in the story	12
8957149576	Flashback	interruption of the chronological sequence with an earlier event	13
8957149577	Foil	character that shows qualities that are in contrast with the qualities of another character. The objective is to highlight the traits of the other character	14
8957152182	Foreshadowing	writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story	15
8957152183	Imagery	to use figurative language to represent objects, actions, and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our physical senses	16
8957152184	Irony	words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words. It may also be a situation that ends up in quite a different way than what is generally anticipated	17
8957155018	Metaphor	implicit, implied, or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated, but which share some common characteristics; does NOT use "like" or "as"	18
8957155019	Mood	the atmosphere of a literary piece, as it creates an emotional setting that surrounds the readers	19
8957155020	Motif	object or idea that repeats itself throughout a literary work	20
8957157012	Personfication	a thing - an idea or an animal - is given human attributes	21
8957157013	Point of View	who's eyes the story is presented through	22
8957157014	Protagonist	central character or leading figure aka "hero"	23
8957159591	Setting	the time and geographic location within a narrative or within a work of fiction	24
8957159592	Symbol (ism)	object representing another, to give an entirely different meaning that is much deeper and more significant	25
8957162086	Thesis	statement in a non-fiction or a fiction work that a writer intends to support and prove	26
8957162087	Tone	writer's attitude towards a subject; not to be confused with mood which is how the READER feels	27
8957169591	Lit Terms Quiz 2	yikessss	28
8957169592	Narrative Technique	any of several specific methods the creator of a narrative uses to convey what they want	29
8957172004	Iambic Pentameter	iamb- one syllable stressed followed by unstressed; pentameter= 5 iambs; a line with ten syllables total	30
8957174403	Figurative Language	language that uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation	31
8957176700	Structure	framework that underlies the order and manner in which a narrative is presented to a reader, listener, or viewer; plot/setting	32
8957176701	Style	literary element that describes the ways that the author uses words — the author's word choice, sentence structure, figurative language, and sentence arrangement all work together to establish mood, images, and meaning in the text	33
8957176717	Syntax	the way a writer writes; depends on one's syntax, word choice, and tone	34
8957178999	Villanelle	a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout	35
8957179000	Rhetorical Technique		36
8957181334	Rhyme	repetition of similar sounding words, occurring at the end of lines in poems or songs	37
8957181336	Haiku	three lines, where the first and last lines have five syllables, and the middle line has seven	38
8957183991	Rhythm	expressed through stressed and unstressed syllables	39
8957183992	Lyric	collection of verses and choruses, making up a complete song, or a short and non-narrative poem; expresses emotions	40
8957183993	Ode	a form of poetry; praises something like a person, idea, or object; not very lengthy	41
8957186780	Blank Verse	a literary device defined as un-rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter. In poetry and prose, it has a consistent meter with 10 syllables in each line (pentameter); where, unstressed syllables are followed by stressed ones, five of which are stressed but do not rhyme	42
8957186781	Cavalier Poets	school of English poets of the 17th century; wrote elegant verse, more light than serious	43
8957189681	Metaphysical Poets	17th-century England who inclined to the personal and intellectual complexity and concentration; used conceits; departed from traditional, genteel poetry	44
8957189682	Pastoral	dealing with shepherds or rural life in a usually artificial manner and typically drawing a contrast between the innocence and serenity of the simple life and the misery and corruption of city and especially court life	45
8957189683	Elegy	a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead	46
8957191833	Epitaph	a brief writing or saying inscribed on a grave	47
8957191834	Ballad	form of verse; can be sung; any light, simple song, especially one of sentimental or romantic character, having two or more stanzas all sung to the same melody	48
8957191835	Romantic	movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century; emphasized individualism and denounced exploiting the poor	49
8957191850	Gothic	style of writing that is characterized by elements of fear, horror, death, and gloom; emotions associated with it are fear and suspense	50
8957195308	Dramatic Monologue	type of poem in which the speaker is directly addressing and talking to some other person; one way conversation for a long period of time	51
8957195309	Narrative Poem	form of poetry that tells a story, often making the voices of a narrator and characters as well	52
8957197769	Epic	long narrative poem, often written about a hero or heroines	53
8957197770	Sestina	a poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet, all stanzas having the same six words at the line-ends in six different sequences that follow a fixed pattern	54
8957200258	Lit Terms Quiz 3	-_-	55
8957200259	Apostrophe	speaks directly to someone who is not present or is dead, or speaks to an inanimate object	56
8957202442	Bildungsroman	a novel dealing with one person's formative years or spiritual education; about a young protagonist's morals and psychology developing	57
8957202443	Catharsis	emotional discharge through which one can achieve a state of moral or spiritual renewal, or achieve a state of liberation from anxiety and stress	58
8957204226	Chiasmus	a rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form	59
8957204227	Climax	point in a narrative at which the conflict or tension hits the highest point	60
8957204228	Comic Relief	comic episodes in a dramatic or literary work that offset more serious sections	61
8957207009	Conceit	kind of metaphor that compares two very unlike things in a surprising and clever way. Often, conceits are extended metaphors that dominate an entire passage or poem	62
8957207011	Deus ex Machina	circumstance where an implausible concept or a divine character is introduced into a storyline, for the purpose of resolving its conflict and procuring an interesting outcome	63
8957209794	Enjambment	The running-over of a sentence or phrase from one poetic line to the next, without terminal punctuation	64
8957209795	Hubris	pride which leads to a character's downfall	65
8957211768	In Media Res	a narrative that begins, not at the beginning of a story, but somewhere in the middle — usually at some crucial point in the action	66
8957211769	Meter	a stressed and unstressed syllabic pattern in a verse, or within the lines of a poem	67
8957211770	Metonymy	a word or phrase that is used to stand in for another word ex.: "pen" = written word	68
8957214264	Oxymoron	two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect. The common oxymoron phrase is a combination of an adjective proceeded by a noun with contrasting meanings	69
8957214265	Pun	a play on words that produces a humorous effect by using a word that suggests two or more meanings, or by exploiting similar sounding words that have different meanings	70
8957216600	Sonnet	has 14 lines, and is written in iambic pentameter. Each line has 10 syllables. It has a specific rhyme scheme, and a volta, or a specific turn	71
8957216601	Soliloquoy	a person in a play talks to himself without acknowledging the presence of any other person; reveal the innermost thoughts of a character and progresses the play	72
8957219276	Tragic Hero	when the protagonist faces his or her downfall due to a tragic flaw or judgement error	73
8957223049	Verse	a single line of poetry	74

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8805302566	allegory	story or poem that can be used to reveal a hidden moral/political meaning	0
8805302567	alliteration	beginning of same letter or sound in closely connected words	1
8805302568	allusion	a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance	2
8805302570	antagonist	a hostile person who is opposed to another character	3
8805302571	apostrophe	figure of speech used to adresss an imaginary character	4
8805302572	aside	when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by other actors on the stage	5
8805302573	blank verse	poetry written in meter without an ending rhyme	6
8805302574	flat character	story character who have no depth, usually has one personality or characteristic	7
8805302575	round character	character who has complex personality: contradicted person	8
8805302576	dynamic character	changes throughout the story, through major conflict	9
8805302577	static character	person who doesn't change throughout story--keeps same personality	10
8805302579	climax	the beginning of the end, sets the stage for the final conflict	11
8805302581	conflict	struggle between opposing forces	12
8805302582	connotation	an idea or feeling evoked by a word	13
8805302583	couplet	two rhyming lines in a verse	14
8805302584	denotation	the literal meaning of a word	15
8805302585	denouement	final outcome of the story--loose ends are "tied up"	16
8805302586	deus ex machina	resolution of a plot by chance or coincidence	17
8805302588	end rhyme	rhymes occurring at the end of line	18
8805302589	end stopped line	poetic line ending in regular punctuation	19
8805302590	English sonnet	a sonnet rhyming ababcdcdededgg	20
8805302591	epiphany	when a character receives a spiritual insight into they life	21
8805302592	falling action	Events after the climax, leading to the resolution	22
8805302593	figurative language	Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling.	23
8805302595	foot	basic unit in the scansion or measurement of verse , stressed and un stressed syllables	24
8805302597	free verse	Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme	25
8805302599	imagery	Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)	26
8805302601	internal rhyme	A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line	27
8805302602	irony	A contrast between expectation and reality	28
8805302603	verbal irony	A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant	29
8805302604	dramatic irony	Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play.	30
8805302605	situational irony	refers to an occurrence that is contrary to what is expected or intended	31
8805302606	italian sonnet	A sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd	32
8805302607	metaphor	direct comparison without using like or as	33
8805302608	meter	A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	34
8805302609	motivation	A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior	35
8805302610	narrator	Person telling the story	36
8805302611	octave	8 line stanza	37
8805302612	onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	38
8805302613	hyperbole	A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor	39
8805302614	oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.	40
8805302615	paradox	A contradiction or dilemma	41
8805302616	paraphrase	A restatement of a text or passage in your own words.	42
8805302617	personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	43
8805302618	plot	Sequence of events in a story	44
8805302619	point of view	The perspective from which a story is told	45
8805302620	omniscient point of view	The point of view where the narrator knows everything about the characters and their problems - told in the 3rd person.	46
8805302621	third person limited point of view	narrator tells the story from only one character's pov	47
8805302622	first person point of view	a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself	48
8805302623	objective point of view	a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story, with no comment on any characters or events.	49
8805302624	protagonist	Main character	50
8805302625	quatrain	A four line stanza	51
8805302627	rhyme scheme	A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem	52
8805302630	satire	A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies.	53
8805302631	sestet	6 line stanza	54
8805302632	setting	The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs.	55
8805302633	simile	A comparison using "like" or "as"	56
8805302634	soliloquy	A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage	57
8805302635	sonnet	14 line poem	58
8805302636	stanza	A group of lines in a poem	59
8805302637	stream of consciousness	private thoughts of a character without commentary	60
8805302638	symbol	A thing that represents or stands for something else	61
8805302639	tercet	3 line stanza	62
8805302640	theme	Central idea of a work of literature	63
8805302641	tone	Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character	64
8805302642	tragedy	A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character	65
8805302643	understandment	the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis	66
8805302644	verse	A single line of poetry writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme	67

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8885518501	alliteration	repetition of similar consonant sounds	0
8885518502	allusion	a reference in a work of literature to something outside the work, especially to a well-known historical or literary event person or work	1
8885518503	apostrophe	an address to either an absent person, some abstract quality, or nonexistent personage	2
8885518504	assonance	the repetition of similar vowel sounds	3
8885518505	ballad	a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas.	4
8885518506	blank verse	a poem with a regular meter but no rhyme	5
8885518507	cacophony	a harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds or tones	6
8885518511	couplet	2 consecutive rhyming lines	7
8885518512	heroic couplet	Two rhymed lines written in iambic pentameter and used widely in eighteenth-century verse. See more at https://www.thoughtco.com/heroic-couplet-definition-4140168	8
8885518513	mock heroic	imitating the style of heroic literature in order to satirize an unheroic subject. used by Alexander Pope, especially in a Rape of the Lock * response to the deluge of epic, pastoral, heroic poems that were being written in the 17th century	9
8885518515	didactic poem	a poem which is intended to teach a lesson	10
8885518516	dramatic poem	a poem which employs a dramatic form or some element of dramatic techniques (think theater drama)	11
8885518517	elegy	a formal poem that mourns the loss of someone, a lament for the dead	12
8885518518	enjambment	the continuation from one line to the next with no pause	13
8885518519	epic poem	a long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero	14
8885518521	eye rhyme/slant rhyme	rhyme that appears correct from spelling, but is half-rhyme or slant rhyme from pronunciation	15
8885518522	free verse	poetry which is not written in traditional meter or rhyme	16
8885518524	iambic pentameter	five sets of unstressed syllables followed by stressed syllables.	17
8885518526	internal rhyme	rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end	18
8885518527	lyric poem	a short poem that presents a single speaker who expresses thoughts and feelings, usually identified by its musical quality	19
8885518529	narrative poem	a poem which tells a story or presents a narrative (epics and ballads are examples)	20
8885518530	octave	an eight line stanza	21
8885518531	ode	a lyric poem written in the form of an address to someone or something, often elevated in style	22
8885518536	quatrain	four line stanza	23
8885518537	refrain	a group of words forming a phrase or sentence and consisting of one or more lines repeated at intervals in a poem, usually at the end of a stanza	24
8885518538	rhyme	correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry	25
8885518539	rhythm	the recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllable	26
8885518540	rhyme scheme	the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.	27
8885518541	sestet	a six line stanza	28
8885518543	sonnet	a fourteen line poem with a specific rhyme scheme	29
8885518545	stanza	a group of lines in a poem	30
8885518548	tercet	a stanza of three lines in which each lines ends with the same rhyme	31
8885518549	terza rima	a three line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc, etc	32
8885518552	understatement	a kind of irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is	33
8885518553	villanelle	a 19 line poem divided into five tercets and a final quatrain. Line 1 is repeated in lines 6, 12, and 18 and line 3 is repeated in lines 9, 15, 19.	34
8885518554	meter	stressed and unstressed syllabic pattern in a verse or within the lines of a poem	35
8886367412	haiku	three non rhyming lines of poetry; lines 1 and 3 have five syllables, line 2 has seven syllables	36
8886378553	pastoral	type of poem that usually focuses on describing a rural place, but the terms will be peace and harmony	37
8886387104	Petrarchian/Italian sonnet	14-line poem divided into two sections by two different groups of rhyming sounds. The first 8 lines is called the octave and rhymes abbaabba	38
8886397402	Shakespearean/English sonnet	14-line poem with the following rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gg	39
8886412328	Spenserian sonnet	A sonnet in which the lines are grouped into three interlocked quatrains and a couplet and the rhyme scheme is abab, bcbc, cdcd, ee	40

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8741494278	Plagues of Egypt	0
8741494279	Abram/Abraham	1
8741494280	Adam	2
8741494281	Ararat	3
8741494282	Ark of the Covenant	4
8741494283	Barabbas	5
8741494284	Bethlehem	6
8741494285	Cain and Abel	7
8741494286	Caiaphas	8
8741494287	Crown of Thorns	9
8741494288	Eden	10
8741494289	Eve	11
8741494290	Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse	12
8741494291	Garden of Gethsemane	13
8741494292	Gold, Frankincense, Myrrh	14
8741494293	Golgotha	15
8741494294	Goliath	16
8741494295	Harrowing of Hell	17
8741494296	Herod	18
8741494297	Isaac, Rebekah, and Leah	19
8741494298	Jacob and Esau	20
8741494299	Job	21
8741494300	John the Baptist	22
8741494301	Joseph, son of Jacob	23
8741494302	Joseph of Nazareth	24
8741494303	Judas	25
8741494304	King David	26
8741494305	Last Supper	27
8741494306	Lazarus	28
8741494307	Moses	29
8741494308	Noah and the Ark	30
8741494309	Nod/East of Eden	31
8741494310	Pharisees and Sadducees	32
8741494311	Pontius Pilate	33
8741494312	Saint Paul/Saul	34
8741494313	Saint Peter/Simon	35

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AP Human Geography: Language Flashcards

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9884994255	Dialect	A particular form of a language that is particular to a specific region or social group.	0
9884994256	Extinct Language	An extinct language is a language that no longer has any speakers, or that is no longer in current use.	1
9884994257	Ideogram	A written character symbolizing the idea of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it. An Example: 6 (six)	2
9884994258	Isogloss	A geographic boundary line delimiting the area in which a given linguistic feature occurs.	3
9884994259	Isolated Language	a natural language with no demonstrable genealogical (or "genetic") relationship with other languages; that is, one that has not been demonstrated to descend from an ancestor common with any other language. i.e A language family with only one language.	4
9884994260	Language Branch	A Subsection of a Language Family. i.e The Romance "-------" of the Indo-European language family.	5
9884994261	Language	The method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way.	6
9884994262	Language Group	A Collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary.	7
9884994263	Language Family	A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history	8
9884994264	Indo European language family	Largest language family that includes English and most other languages in the Western Hemisphere. Also used in South and Southwest Asia.	9
9884994265	Sino-Tibetan Language Family	2nd largest language family. Includes Madarin, Thai, Cantonese and Burmese	10
9884994266	Lingua Franca	A Language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages	11
9884994267	Literary Tradition	A Language that is written as well as spoken	12
9884994268	Monolingual	The condition of being able to speak only a single language	13
9884994269	Bilingual	The ability to speak two languages	14
9884994270	Multilingual	The ability to speak multiple languages	15
9884994271	Official Language	The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents.	16
9884994272	Pidgin Language	A Form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca, used for communications among speakers of two different languages.	17
9884994273	Standard Language	The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications.	18
9884994274	Trade Language	A language, especially a pidgin, used by speakers of different native languages for communication in commercial trade.	19
9884994275	Vernacular	Using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language. It is usually the language of the common people.	20
9884994276	Creole	a mother tongue formed from the contact of two languages through an earlier pidgin stage	21
9884994277	Denglish	The term is used in all German-speaking countries to refer to the increasingly strong influx of macaronic (slang) English or pseudo-English vocabulary into German.	22
9884994278	Franglais	a form of French using many words and idioms borrowed from English.	23
9884994279	Ebonics	American black English regarded as a language in its own right rather than as a dialect of standard English	24
9884994280	Spanglish	a hybrid language combining words and idioms from both Spanish and English, especially Spanish speech that uses many English words and expressions.	25
9884994281	Institutional Language	Professional language (not slang)	26
9884994282	Vulgar Latin	Informal Latin spoken by common folk (farmers, soldiers, etc.) in classical times	27