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AP World History: Packet A - Themes Flashcards

4868328801	How many themes are there?	5	0
4868381230	Name theme 1.	Interaction	1
4868381231	Name theme 2.	Cultural	2
4868381232	Name theme 3.	Political	3
4868382955	Name theme 4.	Economic	4
4868385376	Name theme 5.	Social	5
4868420251	What is the theme that developed technology?	Cultural	6
4868441231	What is the theme that includes empires?	Political	7
4868445161	What is the historical theme that involved agricultural production and trade?	Economic	8
4868449999	What is the historical theme that made a coinage system that imported trade in Afroeurasia?	Economic	9
4868455129	What theme dominated gender roles?	Social	10
4868459279	Name historical theme that had to do with regional organizations.	Political	11
4868742462	The gap between social and economic classes widened during the IR	Social	12
4868745232	Interaction has to do with what?	Migration	13

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Period 4 - AP World History- Europe Words Starred Flashcards

Hello, welcome to the ultimate study guide for the AP World History exam. Have fun, and good luck. This is basically a compilation of every notecard term in the unit.

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5711516734	the time period of 1450 - 1750 (it is called this because events occurring in this time directly shape regional/political units of todays world)	Early Modern Period	0
5711516735	the church's actions to revive their reputation and membership roles in 1545 (regained control of most of southern Europe, Austria, Poland, and much of Hungary)	Catholic Reformation	1
5711516736	a religious order converting people to return to the church (went to Asia + Americas in 1500's)	Jesuits	2
5711516737	War within the Holy Roman Empire between German Protestants and their allies (Sweden, Denmark, France) and the emperor and his ally, Spain; ended in 1648 after great destruction with Treaty of Westphalia	Thirty Years War	3
5711516738	Ended the 30 years war, allowing principalities and cities to choose their own religion, creating a patchwork of religious affiliations through England.	Treaty of Westphalia	4
5711516739	This was the revolution as a result of whether the sovereignty would remain with the king or with the Parliament. Eventually, the kingship was abolished.	English Civil War	5
5711516740	a new vision of science developed during the renaissance in the 17th + 18th century	Scientific Revolution	6
5711516741	Scholars based their inquiry on the principles established by the church, which sometimes resulted in clashes between science and religion	Scholasticism	7
5711516742	developed a more complex theory from Copernicus in 1610	Brahe & Kepler	8
5711516743	used the first telescope during the Renaissance in 1609, where he made many large discoveries in the solar system, until he was put under house arrest for spreading conflicting ideas	Galileo	9
5711516744	discovered the basic principles of motion + gravity, where he captured the vision of a entire universe in simple laws	Isaac Newton	10
5711516745	interest in the capabilities and accomplishments of individuals	Humanism	11
5711516746	supporters of the arts, with payment and such, they found talented artists, often when they were young	Patrons	12
5711516747	was a powerful family of Florence in the mid to late 1400s that sponsored artists as a rich merchant family	Medici	13
5711516748	a humanist Dutch priest that published the first edition of the New Testament in Greek in 1516	Erasmus	14
5711516749	a German goldsmith and printer, who created the printing press, in 1454	Johan Gutenberg	15
5711516750	a Renaissance writer who wrote, "The Prince" which was a famous philosophical view of the ideal political leader in the 16th century, in Italian city states	Nicolo Machiavelli	16
5711516751	a religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches	Protestant Reformation	17
5711516752	The Catholic Church's grants of salvation for money in the 1500s, and was part of the growing corruption of the church.	Indulgences	18
5711516753	A protestant who established a variation of his beliefs on a stern and vengeful God.	John Calvin	19
5711516754	A form of Christianity established by Henry VIII that was not decided on the grounds of religious belief, but because the pope would not allow him to divorce his wife.	Anglican Church	20
5711516755	a Polish monk who based tables on those by Nasir Al-Din, an Islamic scholar, to correct inaccurate calendars.	Nicholas Copernicus	21
5711516756	The granting of tolerance to Protestants through this, which was later revoked by King Louis XIV	Edict of Nantes	22
5711516757	a German monk who wrote the 95 theses in 1517, which were 95 propositions that criticized the Catholic Church	Martin Luther	23
5711516758	Title of a person who was smart and genius in the Renaissance Era.	Renaissance Man	24
5711516759	God built the universe and let it run. Clockmaker theory.	Deism	25
5711516760	A shift in land based powers where governments controlled lands by building armies, bureaucracies, road, canals, and walls that unified and protected	Land-based Powers	26
5711516761	Sea people built their power by controlling water routes, developing technology to cross the seas, and gaining wealth from trade and land claims.	Sea-based Powers	27
5711516762	A heightened intellectual and artistic advance from about 1450s, that changed Europe forever	Renaissance	28
5711516763	He analyzed the natural law of supply and demand that governed economies in his classic book, "The Wealth of Nations"	Adam Smith	29
5711516764	Monarchies that emerged that differed from their medieval predecessors in having greater centralization of power, more regional boundaries, and stronger representative institutions	New Monarchies	30
5711516765	States where rulers shared power with a parliament, a body of representatives selected by the nobility and urban citizens	Constitutional Monarchy	31
5711516766	the most powerful members of a society, and landowners that affected the style of the old aristocracy	Gentry	32
5711516767	the emphasis on human abilities and accomplishments and the importance of independent and rational thought	Enlightenment	33
5711516768	sought to understand the impact of the "laws of nature" on human liberties	John Locke	34
5711516769	English materialist and political philosopher who advocated absolute sovereignty as the only kind of government that could resolve problems caused by the selfishness of human beings (1588-1679)	Thomas Hobbes	35
5711516770	A powerful family with land claims all over Europe from Spain to Italy to the Netherlands to Hungary, as all the Holy Roman Emperor's had been Hapsburg since 1273	Hapsburg	36
5711516771	a place/time where religion remained very important, and religious issues continued to fragment, and strong kings emerged in the 16th century	Holy Roman Empire	37
5711516772	the retaking of land in Iberia by Spain and Portugal in a religious crusade to expand. This conquest advanced in waves over several centuries.	Reconquest	38
5711516773	ruled Spain at the height of its power in the 16th century	Phillip II	39
5711516774	with God's blessing of the king's authority, the legitimacy of royalty across Europe was enhanced, and occurred under the reign of Louis XIV during the 17th and 18th centuries	Divine Right	40
5711516775	Understood the importance of a "theatre state", by building a magnificent palace at Versailles, and the apex of absolutism occurred under him	Louis XIV	41
5711516776	absolute monarchies held complete control over their kingdom vs. the limited power.	Absolute Monarchies vs. limited monarchies	42
5711516777	an economic system based on private ownership of property and business that provide goods to be bought and sold in a free manner	Capitalism	43
5711516778	the responsibility of government to promote the states economy to improve the revenues and limit imports to prevent profits from going to outsiders (allows industry to develop their own business)	Mercantilism	44
5711516779	these companies organized commercial ventures on a large scale by allowing investors to buy and sell shares. The new capitalist system largely replaced the old guild system of the middle ages.	Joint-stock Companies	45
5711516780	the concept of producing goods in the countryside outside the guilds control by delivering raw materials to their homes, where they are transformed into finished products to be used up later	Putting out system	46
5711516781	Upper middle class; factory owners who put long hours and much of their profits into their businesses	Bourgeoise	47
5711516782	states forming a temporary alliance to prevent the state form being too powerful. (Russia emerged as a major power in Europe after its mediterranean armies got Sweden in the GNW)	Balance of Power	48
5711516783	a place where Louis' palace was built symbolizing the French's triumph over the traditional rights of the nobility and clergy. This kept nobles away from plotting rebellions, and 'distracted europe'.	Versailles	49
5711516784	led expiditions in Chinese junks across the atlantic ocean, with one goal being to assert Chinas power after the demise of the Yuan dynasty.	Zheng He	50
5711516785	something of a renegade who supported a series of seven maritimes expeditions. Chinese vessels started to take tribute from those they encountered.	Yongle	51
5711516786	the third son of the portuguese king; devoted his life to navigation, creating a navigation school, which became a magnet for the cartographers of the world	Henry the Navigator	52
5711516787	a new ship developed by the portuguese, which was much smaller than the junk, but size allowed for exploration of shallower coastal areas	Caravel	53
5711516788	set out to find the tip of Africa and connect it to the Indian Ocean, and discovered the fastest and safest ways to travel to Portugal	Vasco da Gama	54
5711516789	A Genoese mariner who convinced Isabella and Ferdinand to sponsor a voyage across the Atlantic after he was turned down by the Genoese and Portugal. He believed he could reach east Asia by sailing West.	Christopher Columbus	55
5711516790	a treaty making Spain and Portugal land claim boundary. Portugal pushes its explorations to India and beyond.	Treaty of Tordesillas "Tortillas"	56
5711516791	had a ship that was first to circumnavigate the glove, even though Magellan himself died in the phillipines	Magellan	57
5711516792	went to search for gold and convert the natives to Christianity in the interior of Mexico	Conquistadors	58
5711516793	sought to find the Aztec capital, and took over the Aztec land - with help of Amerindians, disease, and technology	Cortes	59
5711516794	the Aztec emperor, who welcome the Spaniards at Tenochtitlan, seeing them as god-like. This was a mistake, as this allowed everyone to conquer him.	Moctezuma	60
5711516795	led a group of soldiers to the Andes to find the Inca. The Incas were weak; Pizzaro conquered and got gold.	Francisco Pizzaro	61
5711516796	the leader of the Incas, who was seized by Pizzaro and gave gold to him, first baptized as a Christian, than strangled	Atahualpa	62
5711516797	the term that describes the tendency of human beings to view their own culture as superior	Ethnocentrism	63
5711516798	a conquistador priest who dedicated himself to protecting Amerindian rights	De La Casas	64
5711516799	peoples who converted new world people to christianity, and took care of the poor.	Franciscans	65
5711516800	Spanish settlers who were in charge of the natives working on the encomiendas	Encomenderos	66
5711516801	a fading social class in the new world, composed of the people born in the old world	Peninsulares	67
5711516802	composed of European and Amerindian children, part of the castas	Mestizos	68
5711516803	composed of European and African children, also part of the castas	Mulattoes	69
5711516804	supervised all government and commercial activity in the Spanish colonies	Council of Indies	70
5711516805	set out to find the tip of Africa and connect beyond it to the Indian Ocean, as well as discovering the fastest and safest ways back to Portugal	Bartholomew Dias	71
5711516806	the system in which conquistadors had forced natives to do work for them	Encomienda	72
5711516807	composed of those born in the new world; a quickly growing class	Creoles	73
5711516808	a work ethic of the protestants that encouraged individual endeavors towards gaining wealth	Protestant work ethic	74
5711516809	a joint stock company that specialized in the spice and luxury trade of the East Indies and quickly gained control of Dutch Trading in the Pacific	Dutch East India Company	75
5711516810	a system in which the government is constantly intervened in the market, with the understanding the goal of economic gain and to benefit the mother country	Mercantilism	76
5711516811	a system which was usually ethnically the same as a free settler, but he or she was bound by an "indenture" (contract) to work for a person for four to seven years, in exchange for payment of the new world voyage	Indentured Servitude	77
5711516812	the global diffusion of crops, other plants, human beings, animals, and distance that took place after the European exploring voyages of the New World	Columbian exchange	78
5711516813	a clockwise network of sea routs in the Atlantic Ocean	Atlantic Circuit	79
5711516814	the first leg of the atlantic circuit, where ships took slaves to the new world	Middle Passage	80
5711516815	ships that traveled across the pacific ocean picking up and trading goods, like Asian luxury goods, and silver	Manila Galleons	81
5711516816	settled first in New England, and wanted to break away completely from the Church of England, sought to pursue spiritual ends in new lands	Pilgrims	82
5711516817	wanted to purify Church of England, not break with it	Puritans	83
5711516818	a small number of rich men owns most of the slaves and land, as well as had all the power	Plantocracy	84
5711516819	legal grant of freedom to an individual slave	Manumission	85
5711516820	runaway slaves in the Carribean	Maroons	86
5711516821	Christian missionaries went to this kingdom just south of the Congo River, where Christian Missionaries converted its inhabitants to Christianity	Kongo	87
5711516822	The spreading of Africans to many other parts of the world, especially the Americas. This is one of the most important demographic changes during 1450 - 1750	African Diaspora	88
5711516823	Produced insignificant amounts of gold and Kola nuts, they rose in West Africa on the Gold Coast.	Asante	89
5711516824	Not really a significant player in the slave trade - relied on traditional products, such as ivory, textiles, and their unique bronze castings	Benin	90
5711516825	a kingdom that used firearms to create its powerbase, in Contrast to the Asante, the Dahomey leaders were authoritarian, and often brutal in forcing compliance to the royal court	Dahomey	91
5711516826	one of the two beachland colonies established by the Europeans in the 16th century, functioned as a major coastal for travelers.	Cape Colony	92
5711516827	the 12th descendant of Muhammad, who in the end disappeared as a child	Hidden Imam	93
5711516828	brought the Safavids to the peak of the power, slave infantrymen	Shah Abbas I	94
5711516829	a system that required Christian's of the area to contribute young boys to be the sultans slaves	Devshirme	95
5711516830	fought against Janissaries in a great religious conflict. (Chaldiran)	Qizilbash	96
5711516831	The Shi'ite versus Sunni conflict at Chaldrian over religious differences, that set the limits for Shi'ite expansion	Battle of Chaldrian	97
5711516832	These two places differed in the sense the first was far from cosmopolitan, Shi'ite, and have international trade, while the latter had more numerous, and guilds organized merchants	Isfahan vs. Istanbul	98
5711516833	an age of time where almost all powerful states used guns to build control/attack (included Russia, Ming and Qing, Japan, the Ottoman Empire, the Safavid and the Mughal empire)	Gunpowder Empires	99
5711516834	ruled the Ottomans as the empire reached the height of its power. The Ottomans controlled much of the water traffic between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean sea	Suleiman the Magnificent	100
5711516835	Checked the military power of the sultan, being an elite military group	Janissaries	101
5711516836	head of the imperial administration in the Ottoman empire who took care of the day to day work of the empire, aiding the Sultan	Vizier	102
5711516837	a famous sea battle with the Ottomans vs Philip II. Ottomans and their Muslim allies lost control of many ports in this war.	Battle at Lepanto	103
5711516838	an empire that grew from a turkish nomadic group, that were Shi'ite muslims	Safavid Empire	104
5711516839	heirs of Muhammad according to Shi'ite muslims	Imams	105
5711516840	a person who united a large area south of the caspian sea and of the Ottoman empire. An army emerged under him, as well as declared Twelver shi'ism for his new Safavid realm	Ismail	106
5711516841	certain ranks in government by Akbar, which entitled their holder to revenue assignments and tracts of land	Mansabs	107
5711516842	founded the Mughal empire, claimed to be a descendant of Timur and Genghis Khan (1526)	Babur	108
5711516843	a woman's seclusion from society in India, which was more enforced for upper class women, who did not leave home unescorted	Purdah	109
5711516844	the grandson of Babur, who brought the height of the Mughal empire. Also expanded his empire to control much of the subcontinent.	Akbar	110
5711516845	a building of beauty built as a tomb for Shah Jahan's wife.	Taj Mahal	111
5711516846	the ritual suicide of widows by jumping into their husbands pyres, representing the low status of women	Sati	112
5711516847	a combination religion consisting of Muslim, Zorastriam, Christian, Sikh beliefs, with the catch being cementing loyalty to the empreror	Divine Faith	113
5711516848	an empire that that was a mixture of Mongol and Turkish peoples from Central Asia, which dominated India until the early 1700s	Mughal Empire	114
5711516849	Sincretic faith of Indian Subcontinent started by Nanuk, who became the first Guru of Sikhism. Sikhism was a following of people who formed a community free of caste divisions	Sikhism	115
5711516850	Akbar's entirely new capital city, showing the Mughal love for magnificent architecture.	Fetehpur Silkri	116
5711516851	Hindu warriors from the north, who made up 15 percent of Mansabars	Rajputs	117
5711516852	Ivan the Terrible (his nickname) reflected problems that tsars faced as power increased	Ivan IV	118
5711516853	War that was long and costly which came from Peter's modernized armies breaking Swedish control of the Baltic Sea, forcing Europe to see Russia as a major power	Great Northern War	119
5711516854	a form of drama that consisted of several acts and separate skits with singing, dancing, and elaborate staging. (Actors became well known starts)	Kabuki	120
5711516855	declared himself as "tsar" (means Caesar) with the claim he was establishing the "Third Rome"	Ivan III	121
5711516856	Peasants, who Ivan III consolidated land hold by recruiting them	Cossacks	122
5711516857	The nobility of the Russia feudal based economic system. They also had military responsibilities to overlords, including the tsar	Boyars	123
5711516858	The time of following Ivan's rule. Ivan executed his oldest son, touching off competition among Boyars for the throne.	Time of Trouble	124
5711516859	The tsar of Russia in 1682 to 1724, who was most responsible for transforming Russia into a great world power. He understood how things worked globally, and expanded water ports	Peter the Great	125
5711516860	The "Window to the West" established by Peter the Great, which was a capital built on the shoes of the newly accessed Baltic Sea (a port for the new navy + allowed closer access to western countries)	St. Petersburg	126
5711516861	A system by Peter the Great that allowed officials to attain gov't posistions based on merit, not on aristocracy status (reorganization of Bureaucracy)	Table of Ranks	127
5711516862	a derivative of "Caesar", establishing a "3rd rome". This was a major propaganda for Russia	Tsar	128
5711516863	power territorial lords, who held local control of areas. Some Daimyos had more influence than others, but each maintained his own governments and had his own samurai	Daimyo	129
5711516864	a competent, Daimyo general who broke the power of warring daimyos and eventually unified Japan under his own authority. His ambitions stretched far, and he sparked the Unification of Japan	Toyotomi Hideyoshi	130
5711516865	led the meetings of Daimyos after Hideyoshi's death, by the Togugawa shogunate	Tokigawa legasu	131
5711516866	a centralized government established in 1603 in present day Tokyo. Also called "Ba***u", was a tent government, which was temporary	Tokugawa Shogunate	132
5711516867	Required Daimyos to spend every other year at the Tokugawa court, keeping their power in check. Weakened in two ways: their wealth was affected by having two households, and their ability to establish separate power bases was impaired	Alternate attendance	133
5711516868	a Manchu style patch of hair gathered long and uncut in the back, showing submission to the Qing dynasty	Queue	134
5711516869	one of the rulers of the Manchu dynasty, helped to create a prosperous, powerful, and culturally rich empire. A sophisticated confucian scholar as well. His reign brought an empire that grew dramatically.	Kangxi	135
5711516870	the dispatch of Lord Macartney with other people to China, showing Britain's great interest in the Qing empire, as well the d Macartney esire to reuse the trade system	Macartney Mission	136
5711516871	The name of the empire after the Ming; seized China from the emperors who could no longer defend their borders from the Manchu	Qing Dynasty	137
5711516872	was the home of the emperor and his family, which expanded service people to 20,000; as the government returned to Beijing from Manjing	Forbidden City	138
5711516873	a special, often deep bow to the Chinese emperor. In the Qing dynasty, those who came to see the emperor had to do a special bow consisting of 3 separate kneeling	Kowtow	139
5711516874	a ruler of the Manchu dynasty who helped to create a prosperous, powerful, and culturally rich empire. He brought much prosperity that he cancelled taxes 4 times	Qianlong	140

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AP World History - Chapter Ten Flashcards

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8030062130	Byzantine Empire	The Empire that emerged after the fall of the Roman Empire. They were mostly Christians. (Spoke Greek) Was split due to disagreements.	0
8030100533	Constantinople	The capitol of the Eastern Orthodox Empire. Had many churches	1
8030102871	Crusades	Multiple pilgrimages that some Christians took to take back Jerusalem. Were not very successful, they killed many Muslims, and even some other Christians and Jews.	2
8030106096	Charlemagne	Crowned Emperor of Rome by the pope, gets Rome under control. He ruled the Carolingian Empire beforehand (Present day France, Belgium, parts of Germany and Italy)	3
8030108056	Caesaropapism	The tie of the state to the church.	4
8030112245	Greek Fire	A military innovation by the Byzantium Empire, they combined fire, oil, sulfur and limestone, launched from bronze tubes. Held off the Arabs from Persia.	5
8030114548	Cyril and Methodius	Byzantine missionaries, had developed an alphabet based on Greek letters that could be written with the Slavic language, so the Bible could be translated.	6
8030116241	Eastern Orthodox Christianity	The religion in Eastern Europe. Used leavened bread for communion, had icons, rejected popes as authority of Christians.	7
8030121894	Roman Catholic Christianity	The religion in Western Europe. They focused more on the pope. Were the crusaders.	8
8030125047	Cyrillic	The alphabet made by Cyril and Methodius to help Slavic people understand Greek writings	9
8030133607	Otto I	Was in control of most of Germany once Charlemagne died	10
8030135330	Kievan Rus	A Viking state that believed in a society of slaves and freemen, patriarchy.	11
8030139089	System of Competing States	Disagreements between ideas of the Trinity and Holy Spirit	12
8030146193	Vladimir, prince of Klev	The prince of Rus who accepted the religion of Eastern Orthodoxy.	13
8030149135	Vikings	Northern peoples (Finnic, Baltic, Slavic)	14
8030165590	Justinian	Byzantine emperor, was considered holy	15
8041251892	European Cities	The cities in Europe that adpoted and innovated inventions during the high ages	16
8041271026	Holy Roman Empire	"Otto I King of Germany built a consolidated German-northern Italian state and was crowned emperor in 962"	17
8041308518	Guild	"An association formed by people pursuing that same line of work that regulates their professions and also provides a social and religious network for members"	18
8041343263	Natural Philosophy	The scientific study of nature	19
8041347688	Iconoclasm	"The destruction of holy images; a term most often used to describe the Byzantine state policy of image destruction from 726 to 843"	20
8041347689	Indulgence	"A remission of the penalty (penance) for confessed sin that could be granted only by a pope, at first to Crusaders and later for a variety of reasons"	21
8041351197	Aristotle and classical Greek Learning	"The Byzantine Empire continued to teach Greek philosophy, literature and history but only to preserve the past. The Islamic world embraced Greek Philosophy"	22

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AP World History Test - Chapter 11 and 12 Flashcards

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5600106833	Identify the infrastructure changes made by the Sui Dynasty and analyze their impact.	Constructed irrigation system, built the great canal, and built the great wall.	0
5600115070	Identify the factors that led to the collapse of the Sui Dynasty.	unsuccessful wars = revolts, extravagant building projects, assassination of Yangdi.	1
5600115071	Describe the tributary system and how it served as a means of legitimizing political power in China.	A tributary system was first used by the Han Dynasty, by which independent states gave gifts to the Chinese. This served as an acknowledgement of China's regional power.	2
5600118708	Identify and analyze the impact of the maritime innovations made during this period.	Maritime technologies created includes a compass. This allowed vessel to transport materials and goods up and down the Great Canal.	3
5600126982	Describe "flying money" and analyze its impact on the Chinese economy.	Flying money was a credit system for merchants. A local re establishment of long distance trade.	4
5600129693	Identify the factors that contributed to the decline of the Tang Dynasty.	Rival states such as Uighur and the Tibetan empire threatened the Tang Dynasty. These external threats an internal revolution, and overexpansion signaled the decline of the Tang Empire.	5
5600129694	Explain how neo-Confucianism was different from traditional Confucianism.	N/A	6
5600133573	Explain the purpose of the civil service examinations instituted by the Song Dynasty.	Allowed people to be smart enough to get into the government. This is not as focal until the Song Dynasty.	7
5600144994	Identify a specific example of the decline of women's status in Chinese society due to the influence of neo-Confucianism.	Decline in women's status include having no property rights, the ability to re-marry, and women rarely had educational opportunities. Footbinding was also a major show in the decline of women status. During this practice people would tie womens feet until they broke them letting them heal to make their feet seem smaller. This led to women not being able to work and showed a higher elite class.	8
5600144995	Identify what spread throughout East Asia along with Confucianism.	Buddhism	9
5600150978	Identify the dynasty that united Korea in the early tenth century.	The Silla and Tang Dynasty together took over Korea. Then the Silla dynasty fell and the Koroyo family took over.	10
5600154898	Describe the traditional religion in Korea prior to contact with China.	Anatheistic. CHina had the most impact on Korea. Confucianism then came in. Afterwards Korea took back control.	11
5600163398	Compare the political power of Japanese emperors with Chinese emperors.	The Japanese Emperors did not believe in the concept "Mandate of Heaven". The Chinese empire though believed in the "Mandate of Heaven".	12
5600174673	Describe the role of samurai in Japanese society.	Japan's Samurai were used to defend the Japanese society from intruders including the mongols.	13
5600174674	Analyze the similarities and differences in the decentralized forms of government found in Europe and Japan during the period 600-1450.	Similarities: Japan and Europe both had feudal government systems. Difference:	14
5600179176	Describe the impact of champa rice on China and explain how this is an example of Sinification.	Champa rice was a cash crop within China. It was used to feed the Chinese civilization.	15
5600273476	Explain the attitude of early Tang emperors towards Buddhism.	The emporers first like Buddhism	16
5600273477	Identify an example of a Chinese practice that was not adopted by Vietnam, Korea, or Japan.	Women did not do footbinding.	17
5600275819	Explain the changing attitudes of Tang emperors towards Buddhism.	As time went on Scholar entries got influenced by Buddhism, so they didnt like it.	18
5600275820	Identify the Chinese dynasty that first implemented the use of paper money.	Tang Dynasty	19
5600278150	Identify one similarity between the Tang Dynasty and the Byzantine Empire.	The centralized system of government and the emperor has the divine right to rule.	20
5600190517	Analyze the effects of increased cultural interactions that define the period of 600-1450.	N/A	21
5600194130	Explain the impact in Japan of the threat of Mongol invasion.	Military government built a coastal government and consolidated a warrior class.	22
5600197900	Identify the area of Asia not conquered by the Mongols	India	23
5600204138	Identify the most lasting impact of the Mongols on China.	N/A	24
5600207045	Identify the economic problems Russia experienced as a result of Mongol domination.	N/A	25
5600249798	Identify the dynasty responsible for ending the period of political chaos following the collapse of the Han Dynasty.	The Han Dynasty created a strong bureaucratic government.	26
5600200458	Describe the changes in the social order during the Yuan Dynasty.	The government got rid of the scholar test within the government. The Mongols were then placed at the highest position in the government.	27
5600247371	Describe the attitude of later Tang emperors toward the Confucian scholar-gentry.	The at first disliked it but slowly disliked Buddhism and liked Confucianism.	28
5600247372	Compare the territorial size of China during the Tang and Song Dynasties.	The Song empire created a smaller empire than the Tang.	29
5600200459	Identify the factors that contributed to a significant decline in population and created hardship in China during Mongol rule.	The Mongols pillaged the farms and villages that produced the food.	30
5600213330	Describe the impact of the writings of Marco Polo in Europe.	They showed the vastness of the Chinese empire. And told us about how the mongols ruled and challenged the ideas within the society.	31
5600244001	Identify the religion that contributed to the transmission of Chinese civilization to Japan.	Buddhism played an important role in the transmission of Chinese civilization to Japan.	32
5600244002	Explain the role of the Taika reforms in Japan.	Empoer wanted confusiansim, but everyday people did not.	33
5600227558	Identify the source of most of our knowledge of early Japanese and Korean history.	China	34
5600219919	Identify the factors that contributed to the military supremacy of the Mongols.	Advanced technology and advanced military tactics.	35
5600239477	Identify the religion of choice for the Korean elite during this period.	Buddhism	36
5600219918	Identify the regions conquered by Genghis Khan.	Genghis Khan conquered regions from China all the way to Persia.	37
5600222954	Describe the Mongol way of life.	The Mongols were a nomadic tribe that originated from central asia.	38
5600222955	Describe the way in which Mongol leaders made decisions.	Courage culture and who had more power.	39

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7383792613	Allegory	an extended narrative in prose or verse in which characters, events, and settings represent abstract qualities and in which the writer intends a second meaning to be read beneath the surface story Hamilton Definition: a sustained and circumscribed analogy between a subject and an image to which it is compared Ex: Animal Farm	0
7383816323	Alliteration	the repetition of initial sounds in successive or neighboring words Ex: Bed, Bath, & Beyond	1
7383828168	Allusion	a reference to something literary, mythological, or historical Ex: "Easy there, Romeo, I'm not ready to date anyone!"	2
7383844280	Anaphora	a rhetorical device of repeating the same word or words at the start of two or more lines of poetry or successive phrases or sentences in prose. Hamilton Def: the intentional repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive lines, stanzas, sentences, or paragraphs --- used to cerate emphasis. Ex: "What the hammer? What the chain? In what furnace was they brain? What the anvil?"	3
7383895378	Antithesis	a rhetorical device of contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas, balancing against each other in parallel order/syntax. Ex: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness..."	4
7383922717	Aphorism	a concise statement which expresses succinctly a general truth or idea, often using rhyme of balance Ex: "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."	5
7384008166	Apostrophe	a rhetorical device in which an absent or imaginary person or an abstraction is directly addressed as though present Purpose: make abstract ideas more lifelike --allows for reflection Ex: "O me! O life!"	6
7384044068	Assonance	the repetition of vowel so sounds between different consonants such as in neigh / fade Purpose: Gettin' in between! Creates musicality! Tone/Mood/Atmosphere	7
7396162427	Blank Verse	unrhymed iambic pentameter But, woe is me, you are so sick of late, So far from cheer and from your former state, That I distrust you. Yet, though I distrust, Discomfort you, my lord, it nothing must... (Shakespeare)	8
7396183458	Caesura	a pause in a line of poetry created not by the meter, but by the natural speaking rhythm, sometimes coinciding with punctuation Ex: St. Agnes' Eve-- // Ah, // bitter chill it was! The owl, // for all his feathers, // was a-cold.	9
7396201334	Cacophony	harsh, awkward, or dissonant sounds used deliberately in prose; opposite of euphony Ex: Bunches and bunches Punches is thrown until you're frontless Oodles and Oodles Bang bullets at suckers noodles	10
7396228351	Chiasmus	a statement consisting of two parallel parts with the second being structurally reversed Ex: Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whearas good men eat and drink that they may live.	11
7396242952	Colloquialism	Informal words or expressions not usually acceptable in formal writing Ex: Y'all is gonna go bananas when you hear that new jump-off	12
7396258425	Complaint	a lyric poem of lament, regret, and sadness which may explain the speaker's mood, describe its cause, discuss remedies, and appeal for help	13
7396266842	Conceit	an elaborate figure of speech in which two seemingly dissimilar things or situations are compared Ex: Romeo compares crying Juliet to a storm	14
7396280756	Connotation	the implied or associative meaning of a word Ex: home/politician/vulture/dog	15
7396309651	Consonance	Through the final consonant in several stressed syllables agree, the vowel sounds that precede them are different	16
7396331637	Denotation	the literal meaning of a word	17
7396338665	Diction	word choice	18
7396338666	Dissonance	the grating of sounds that are harsh or do not go together	19
7396343736	Elegy	a formal poem focusing on death or mortality, usually beginning with the recent death of a particular person	20
7396352562	Ellipsis	the omission of a word or phrase which is grammatically necessary but can be deduced from the context	21
7396365186	End-stopped line	a line of poetry that ends when the grammatical unit ends.	22
7396373555	Enjambment	french for "a striding over" describes a line of poetry in which the sense and grammatical construction continue onto the next line. In enjambment, the lack of completion creates pressure (or flow) to move to the next line	23
7396393279	Epigram	a concise, witty saying in poetry or prose that either stands alone or is part of a larger work; may also refer to a short poem of this type Ex: Little strokes Fell great oaks -Ben Franklin	24
7396412661	Euphemism	an indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant Ex: passed away for finally died	25
7396427884	Euphony	a succession of harmonious sounds used in poetry or prose; the opposite of cacophony	26
7396445150	Exemplum	a brief tale used in medieval times to illustrate a sermon or teach a lesson	27
7396459711	Foil	a character who, by contrast, highlights the characteristics of another character	28
7396465681	Free verse	poetry that is written without a regular meter, usually without rhyme	29
7396468605	Hyperbole	deliberate exaggeration in order to create humor or emphasis Ex: almost every (mis)use of literally	30
7396482745	Idyll	a short descriptive narrative, usually a poem, about an idealized country life	31
7396488475	Internal rhyme	a rhyme occurring within a line of poetry Ex: while I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping -poe	32
7396507843	Irony	a situation or statement where the truth is the opposite of appearances	33
7396516251	Litotes	a type of understatement in which something affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite	34
7396526876	Lyric	a type of melodious, imaginative, and subjective poetry that is usually short and personal, expressing the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker rather than telling a story	35
7396545155	Metonomy	a figure of speech that uses the name of an object, person, or idea to represent something with which it is associated not an unrelated metaphor, but incorporates some related element	36
7396566713	Motif	a standard theme or dramatic situation which recurs in various works	37
7396573548	Mood	the atmosphere that pervades a literary work with the intention of evoking a certain emotion/feeling from the audience	38
7396588355	Non sequitur	an inference that does not logically follow from the premise/context	39
7396592538	Ode	a long lyric poem, usually serious and elevated in tone; often written as praise to someone/thing	40
7397460651	Onomatopoeia	the formation of a word from the imitation of natural sounds Ex:Boom! Whup!	41
7397477898	Oxymoron	an expression in which two seemingly contradictory words are joined Ex: jumbo shrimp	42
7397487811	Parable	a short tale that teaches a moral; similar to an allegory, but shorter	43
7397494629	Paradox	a statement that seems to contradict itself but that turns out to have a rational meaning Ex: I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude -Thoreau	44
7397515802	Pastoral	a poem about idealized rural life, or shepherds, or both aka idyll	45
7397520085	Pathos	the quality in a work that prompts the reader to feel pity or sorrow	46
7397524949	Polysyndeton	the use of many conjunctions in arrow to achieve an overwhelming effect (rhythm/emphasis of connection)	47
7397545441	Stock character	a standard character whose flatness and simplicity makes for easy audience-recognition Ex: wise old man	48
7397557686	Syllepsis	the linking of one word with two other words in two strikingly different ways Ex: You held your breath and the door for me	49
7397578304	Symbol	an object which is something in itself yet also represents something else Ex: the flag	50
7397582043	Synecdoche	the use of one part of an object to represent the whole Ex: ABC = alphabet	51
7397588704	Synesthesia	describing one type of sensation another's terms e.g. sounds as colors, taste as color Ex: Back to where the sun is silent	52
7397598752	Syntax	the arrangement of words within a sentence - includes sentence length and complexity; variety and pattern of sentence form; inversion of natural word order; unusual juxtaposition; repetition; parallelism; use of active or passive voice; level of discourse	53
7397623647	Tautology	needless repetition which adds no meaning or understanding Ex: ran fast	54
7397640718	Tone	the attitude of a writer toward the subject or audience	55
7397643447	Understatement	the deliberate representation of something as less important than it really is	56

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5235449238	didactic	(adj.) intended to teach; teaching tone	0
5235450694	sardonically	(adj.) scornful; mocking	1
5235452774	imperious	(adj.) haughty; proud	2
5235454413	impervious	(adj.) not permitting passage or penetration	3
5235462778	obsequious	(adj.) complacent; obedient	4
5235470076	sycophant	(n.) one who tries to win favor by flattering influential people	5
5235472605	supercilious	(adj.) disdainful; compemtuous	6
5235475469	dissolute	(adj.) lacking moral contraint	7
5235476540	poignant	(adj.) profoundly moving; touching	8
5235478823	placate	(v.) to satisfy; to please	9
5235485718	aberration	(n.) something that differs from the norm	10
5235501864	aggrieved	(adj.) distresses; wronged; injured	11
5235505106	dissonance	(n.) lack if harmony or consistency	12
5235501865	egregrious	(adj.) extremely bad	13
5235501866	ethereal	(adj.) heavenly; exceptionally delicate or refined	14
5235501867	fervent	(adj.) ardent; passionate	15
5235503197	ignomimious	(adj.) humiliating; disgracing	16
5235503198	lithe	(adj.) graceful; flexible; supple	17
5235503199	onerous	(adj.) burdensome	18
5235503200	pugnacious	(adj.) quarrelsome; combative	19
5235532012	benevolent	(adj.) intending or showing kindness	20
5235534001	candor	(n.) the quality of frankness or outspokeness	21
5235536237	expiate	(v.) to make satisfaction or amends for	22
5235532013	facetious	(adj.) amusing	23
5235536238	felicity	(n.) a state of well-founded happiness	24
5235538162	imbibe	(v.) to take in	25
5235532014	nomic	(adj.) usual; customary	26
5235534002	salutary	(adj.) beneficial	27
5235538163	sapience	(n.) deep wisdom or knowlegde	28
5235539293	transience	(n.) something that is of short duration	29
5235577322	ambivalence	(n.) uncertainty; having mixed feelings	30
5235573641	bombastic	(adj.) too elaborate; exaggerated	31
5235573642	capricious	(adj.) changeable; fickle	32
5235573643	dispassionate	(adj.) unbiased; fair	33
5235573644	indecorous	(adj.) lacking in dignity	34
5235573645	loquacious	(adj.) talkative; wordy	35
5235578788	perdify	(n.) betrayal; treachery	36
5235578789	tenacity	(n.) firmness of purpose	37
5235578790	transcend	(v.) to go beyond a limit; to rise above	38
5235577323	vernerable	(adj.) worthy of respect	39
5235614449	abhor	(v.) loathe	40
5235614450	abjure	(v.) deny; renounce	41
5235614451	assay	(v.) to evaluate; assess	42
5235616132	augment	(v.) increase in size	43
5235619604	dauntless	(adj.) fearless	44
5235611387	disdain	(n.) contempt; scorn	45
5235616133	discern	(v.) detect	46
5235616134	equivocate	(v.) to intentionally deceive or confuse	47
5235617352	impedes	(v.) prevents	48
5235619605	judicious	(adj.) wise	49
5235611388	malevolence	(n.) ill feeling	50
5235624060	pernicious	(adj.) destructive	51
5235619606	prate	(v.) to talk on and on	52
5235613239	repose	(n.) rest; calmness	53
5235619607	surmise	(v.) imagine; guess	54

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AP Literature Poetry Terms Flashcards

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4925760006	Sonnet	Normally a fourteen-line iambic pentameter poem	0
4925760007	Stanza	Usually a repeated grouping of three or more lines with the same meter and rhyme scheme	1
4925760008	Symbol	Something that is simultaneously itself and a sign of something else	2
4925760011	Tercet	A stanza of three lines in which each line ends with the same rhyme	3
4925760014	Litote	The opposite of hyperbole; a kind of irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is, a form of understatement that takes the negative of the opposite adjective. ex: not bad	4
4925760016	Elegy	A sustained and formal poem setting forth the poet's meditations upon death or another solemn theme	5
4925760017	Enjambment / End Stopped Line	a run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carry over from one line into the next. Thus line differs from an end stopped line in which the grammatical and logical sense is completed within the line.	6
4925760018	Euphony	A style in which combinations of words pleasant to the ear predominate; the opposite of cacophony, in which the sounds are harsh and discordant.	7
4925760019	Figurative language	Writing that uses figures of speech (as opposed to literal language or that which is actual or specifically denoted) such as metaphor, irony, and simile; uses words to mean something other than their literal meaning	8
4925760020	Free verse	Poetry which is not written in traditional meter but is still rhythmical	9
4925760021	Hyperbole	A deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration; used for either serious or comic effect	10
4925760023	Lyric poem	Any short poem that presents a single speaker who expresses thoughts and feelings	11
4925760025	Meter	The repetition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line of poetry	12
4925760030	Pun	A play on words that are identical or similar in sound but have sharply diverse meanings; can have serious as well as humorous uses	13
4925760031	Quatrain	A four-line stanza with any combination of rhymes	14
4925760034	Alliteration	The repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds, normally at the beginnings of words	15
4925760036	Apostrophe	A figure of speech in which someone (usually, but not always absent), some abstract quality, or a nonexistent personage is directly addressed as though present	16
4925760037	Assonance & internal rhyme	The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, often to create rhyme between words in the same line	17
4925760038	Blank verse	Unrhymed iambic pentameter	18
4925760039	Cacophony	A harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds or tones; it may be an unconscious flaw in the poet's music, resulting in harshness of sound or difficulty of articulation, or it may be used consciously for effect	19
4925760040	Caesura	A pause, usually near the middle of a line of verse, usually indicated by the sense of the line, and often greater than the normal pause	20
4925760041	Consonance	The repetition of similar consonant sounds in a group of words; usually refers to words in which the ending consonants are the same but the vowels that precede them are different. has the effect of near/slant/off rhyme where the sounds are almost but not exactly alike.	21
4925760042	Couplet	A two-line stanza, usually with end-rhymes the same	22
4925760044	Connotation	The personal and emotional associations called up by a word that go beyond its dictionary meaning.	23
4925760047	Ballad	Narrative poem or song written in four-line stanzas, characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style. tells story in a number of short regular stanzas	24
4925760048	Iambic pentameter	A line of poetry with 5 feet of iambs, which is an unstressed and then a stressed syllable	25
4925816672	archetype	a symbol, theme, setting, or character-type that recurs in different times and places in myth, literature, folklore, dreams, and rituals so frequently or prominently as to suggest that it embodies some essential elements of "universal" human experience. ex: rose, serpent, sun, themes like love, death, etc. most fundamental is of death and rebirth, like the seasons	26
4925827833	allegory	a form of extended metaphor, in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative are equated with meaning that lie outside the narrative itself. the underlying meaning has moral,social, religious, or political significance, and characters are personifications of abstract ideas as charity, greed, or envy.	27
4925835054	Blank Verse	unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter	28
4925840774	Aubade	a song or instrumental compositions concerning, accompanying, or evoking daybreak. A poem or song about lovers separating at dawn.	29
4925902500	Paraphrase	A restatement of a text or passage in other form or other words, often to clarify meaning.	30
4925910857	Dramatic Monologue	a poetic form in which a single character, addressing a silent auditor at a critical moment, reveals himslef or herself and the dramatic situation	31
4925927752	End Rhyme	In poetry, a rhyme that occurs in the last syllables of verses	32
4925938519	Elision	the omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.	33
4925955457	Colloquialism / Jargon / Dialect	a special use of a common word in a certain geogrraphical region or a word/ phrase particular to a region / the specialized language of a professional occupations or other group / regional social variety of a language distinguished by pronunciation,grammar,vocab	34
4925977956	epic	a long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.	35
4925980324	foot	two or more syllables that together make up the smallest unit of a rhyme in a poem	36
4925983465	couplet / heroic couplet	a pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem. the heroic versions of these is a verse consisting of two rhymed lines in iambic pentameter.	37
4926018701	style	Analyzing author's ____ involves understanding the particular way a piece is written. key aspects include sentence length / variation / position, sensory details, figurative language, sound devices, dialogue, diction, tone, irony, etc	38

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6336201698	foreshadowing	to hint at or to present an indication of the future beforehand	0
6336201699	enjambment	the continuation of a sentence from one line of a poem to the next	1
6336201700	pastoral	a work that describes the simple life of country folk who live in a timeless, painless life in a world full of beauty, music and love; bucolic, idyll	2
6336201701	ode	a lyric poem that is somewhat serious in subject and treatment, elevated in style and sometimes uses elaborate stanza structure, which is often patterned in sets of three	3
6336201702	antithesis	the juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel words, phrases, grammatical structure, or ideas	4
6336201703	apostrophe	an address or invocation to something that is inanimate	5
6336201704	denotation	a direct and specific meaning, often reffered to as the dictionary definition of a word	6
6336201705	blank verse	the verse form consisting of unrhymed lines in iambic pentameter	7
6336201706	caesura	pause in a line of verse, indicated by natural speech patterns rather than due to specific metrical patterns	8
6336201707	antagonist	any force that is in opposition to the main character	9
6336201708	colloquial	ordinary language, the vernacular	10
6336201709	theme	a generalized, abstract paraphrase of the dominant idea or concern of a work	11
6336201710	couplet	two rhyming lines of iambic pentameter that together present a single idea or connection	12
6336201711	dialect	the language and speech idiosyncrasies of a specific area, region, or group of people	13
6336201712	synechdoche	when a part is used to signify a whole, as in "All hands on deck!" (hands = sailors)	14
6336201713	diction	the specific word choice an author uses to persuade or convey tone, purpose, or effect	15
6336201714	syntax	the way words are put together to form phrases, clauses, and sentences	16
6336201715	flashback	retrospection, where an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronology of the narrative	17
6336201716	elegy	a poetic lament upon the death of a particular person, usually ending in consolation	18
6336201717	epic	a poem that celebrates, in a continuou narrative, the achievements of mighty heroes and heroines, often concerned with the founding of a nation or developing of a culture	19
6336201718	allusion	a reference to a literary or historical event, person, or place	20
6336201719	extended metaphor	a detailed and complex metaphor that extends over a long section of a work; also called a conceit	21
6336201720	farce	a play or scene in a play or book that is characterized by broad humor, wild antics, and often slapstick and physical humor	22
6336201721	in-media-res	refers to opening a story in the middle of the action, necessitating filing in past details by exposition or flashback; literally, "in the midst of things"	23
6336201722	formal diction	language that is lofty, dignified, and impersonal	24
6336201723	exposition	that part of the structure of a plot that sets the scene, introduces and identifies characters, and establishes the situation at the beginning of a story or play	25
6336201724	satire	a literary work that holds up human failing to ridicule	26
6336201725	alliteration	the sequential repetition of similar initial sound, usually applied to consonants, usually heard in closely proximate stressed syllables	27
6336201726	style	a distinctive manner of expression expressed through an author's diction, rhythm, imagery, and more	28
6336201727	free verse	poetry that is characterized by varying line lengths, lack of traditional meter, and non-rhyming lines	29
6336201728	genre	a type or class of literature such as epic or narrative or poetry	30
6336201729	hyperbole	overstatement characterized by exaggerated language	31
6336201730	iambic	a metrical foot in poetry that consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable	32
6336201731	conceit	a comparison of two unlikely things that is drawn out within a piece of literature; in particular, an extended metaphor within a poem	33
6336201732	motif	a recurrent device, formula, or situation that often serves as a signal for the appearance of a character or event	34
6336201733	dramatic monologue	also, a soliloquy; a monologue set in a specific situation and spoken to an imaginary audience	35
6336201734	imagery	broadly defined, any sensory detail or evocation in a work; more narrowly, the use of figurative language to evoke a feeling, to call to mind an idea, or to describe an object	36
6336201735	informal diction	language that is not as lofty or impersonal as formal diction; similar to everyday speech	37
6336201736	irony	a situation or statement characterized by a significant difference between what is expected or understood and what actually happens or is meant	38
6336201737	lyric	any short poem in which the speaker expresses intense personal emotion rather than desciribing a narrative or dramatic situation; a sonnet and ode are two examples	39
6336201738	consonance	the repetition of a sequence of two or more consonants, but with a change in the intervening vowels	40
6336201739	mood	a feeling or ambiance resulting from the tone of a piece as well as the writer/narrator's attitude and point of view	41
6336201740	metaphor	one thing pictured as if it were something else, suggesting a likeness or analogy between them; an implicit comparison of two unlike things	42
6336201741	villanelle	a verse form consisting of nineteen lines divided into six stanzas- five tercets and one quatrain; the first and third line of the first tercet rhyme, and this rhyme is repeated through each of the next four tercets and in the last two lines of the concluding quatrain	43
6336201742	allegory	a prose or poetic narrative in which the characters, behavior, and even the setting demonstrates multiple levels of meaning and significance; often is a universal symbol or personified abstraction	44
6336201743	tone	the attitude a literary work takes toward its subject and theme	45
6336201744	narrative structure	a textual organization based on sequences of connected events, usually presented in a straightforward, chronological framework	46
6336201745	narrator	the character who tells the story	47
6336201746	connotation	what is suggested by a word, apart from what it explictly describes	48
6336201747	omniscient	also called unlimited focus; a perspective that can be seen from multiple characters	49
6336201748	oxymoron	a figure of speech that combines two apparently contradictory elements, sometimes resulting in a humorous image or statement	50
6336201749	parable	a short fiction that illustrates an explicit moral lesson through the use of analogy	51
6336201750	realism	the practice in literature of attempting to describe nature and life without idealization and with attention to detail	52
6336201751	juxtaposition	the location of one thing as being adjacent with another; this placement of two items side by side creates a certain effect, reveals an attitude, or accomplishes some purpose of the writer	53
6336201752	anecdote	a brief story or tale told by a character in a piece of literature	54
6336201753	structure	the organization or arrangement of the various elements in a work	55
6336201754	parallel structure	the use of similar forms in writing for nouns, verbs, phrases, or thoughts; maintains balance and symmetry	56
6336201755	archetype	recurrent designs, patterns of action, character types, themes, or images which are identifiable in a wide range of literature	57
6336201756	refrain	a repeated stanza or line(s) in a poem or song	58
6336201757	quatrain	a poetic stanza of four lines	59
6336201758	rhyme	the repetition of the same or similar sounds, most often at the ends of lines	60
6336201759	simile	a direct, explicit comparison of two things, usually using like or as to draw the connection	61
6336201760	solioquy	a monologue in which the character in a play is alone and speaking only to himself or herself	62
6336201761	protagonist	the main character in a work who may or may not be heroic	63
6336201762	assonance	repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, usually those found in stressed syllables of close proximity	64
6336201763	personification	treating an abstraction or nonhuman object as if it were a person by endowing it with human qualitites	65
6336201764	Shakespearean sonnet	a sonnet form divided into three quatrains and one couplet; also called an English sonnet	66
6336201765	onomatopoeia	a work capturing or approximating the sound of what it describes	67
6336201766	speaker	the person, not necessarily the author, who is the voice of the poem	68
6336201767	symbolism	a person, place, thing, event, or pattern in a literary work that designates itself and at the same time figuratively represents something else	69
6336201768	Petrarchan sonnet	a sonnet form divided into an octave and a sestet; also called an Italian sonnet	70
6336201769	setting	the time and place of the action in a story, poem, or play	71
6336201770	tragedy	a drama in which a character, usually of noble or high rank, is brought to a disastrous end in confrontation with a superior force	72
6336201771	sestina	a highly structured poem consisting of six six-line stanzas followed by a tercet; the same set of six words ends the lines of each of the six-line stanzas, but in a different order each time	73
6336201772	paradox	a statement that seems contradictory but may actually be true	74
6336201773	rhythm	the modulation of weak and strong (stressed and unstressed) elements in the flow of speech	75
6336201774	terza rima	a verse form consisting of three-line stanzas in which the second line of each rhymes with the first and third of the next	76

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4848423488	Allegory	A narrative or description having a second "deeper" meaning beyond the surface layer. There is a literal meaning to the narrative or description which also represents a higher meaning often relating to a system of principles or ideas. Ex. In Young Goodman Brown by Hawthorne, the character Faith represents a young woman named Faith as well as the possession of Christian faith.	0
4848423489	Alliteration	The repetition of a consonant sound in a line of poetry. The consonant sound is used in more than one word in the line of poetry and the repeated consonant comes at the beginning of each word. Ex. Footloose and fancy free. The repeated f sound makes this alliteration.\nthe repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of a word. Ex. Mirror - moon, kick - candy, pray - approval.	1
4848423490	Allusion	A reference to something in history, previous literature, the Bible, or mythology.	2
4848423491	Anachronism	Something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time, especially a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time. The sword is an anachronism in modern warfare.	3
4848423492	Analogy	A comparison based on a similarity between two things.	4
4848423493	Anaphora	The repetition of an opening word or phrase in a series of lines.	5
4848423494	Antagonist	any force aligned against the protagonistcan be personsmay be conventions of societycould be protagonist's own character traits	6
4848423495	Apostrophe	Addressing someone absent or dead or something inhuman as if it were alive and present and could reply.	7
4848423496	Aside	A combination of a monologue and a soliloquy in which a character reveals his or her thoughts as if there were no other characters on stage. The character speaks to the audience, but the other characters are not meant to hear what is said.	8
4848423497	Assonance	The close repetition of middle vowel sounds between different consonants Example: F ade / P ale	9
4848423498	Assimilation	The process whereby a minority group gradually adopts the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture completely.	10
4848423499	Ballad	A short narrative poem written in a songlike stanza form.	11
4848423500	Caesura	A pause within a line of poetry. Usually a dash or comma will indicate the reader should pause.	12
4848423501	Characterization	The people who take part in the events.\n Dynamic Character: a changing character; one who undergoes an awakening of some kind or gains some insight. Ex. Elizabeth Proctor from Miller's The Crucible as she concludes she is somewhat to blame for her husband's affair as she has been a suspicious and cold wife feeling she could not be loved (due to her plainness) by a man like John.Flat Character: a simple character with only a few traits. Ex. Paris from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.Round Character: a complex character with many qualities and traits. Ex. Romeo from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.Static Character: a character remaining the same throughout; does not experience change or grow as an individual. Ex. Paris from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet as he does not waver in his betrothal to Juliet and remains unchanged even by her death. Direct Characterization is when the author tells us the information about the character. Indirect Characterization is when the author shows the reader the character and some determination or inference about the character is made by the reader.	13
4848423502	Colloquial Language	Conversational or informal speech. Such speech may contain slang or non-standard grammar usage.	14
4848423503	Conceit	An extended metaphor or simile often yoking together two apparently unconnected ideas	15
4848423504	Conflict	A struggle, conflict or battle.man vs. man where conflict is between peopleman vs. himself where conflict is psychological, character grapples with her values/morals or some situation affecting his lifeman vs. nature where conflict is between protagonist and the elements of nature	16
4848423505	Connotation	The meaning a word suggests beyond its basic dictionary definition or denotation.	17
4848423506	Consonance	The repetition of consonant sounds at the end of a word. Ex. Spook—plaque—sticker.	18
4848423507	Denotation	The literal definition of a word as opposed to an implied meaning (connotation).	19
4848423508	Dialogue	The conversation between characters in a play or poem. Dialogue helps to develop a character.	20
4848423509	Diction	The choice of words an author uses to create an intended response and to reflect a particular style.	21
4848423510	Drama	A story performed by actors for an audience. A realistic convention in drama is a convention which preserves the illusion of actual, everyday life. An example is the use of furniture one would find in a family home in the play A Doll House.A non-realistic convention in drama is a convention which departs from preserving the illusion of actual, everyday life. An example is when Romeo and Juliet their love for each other. They speak in iambic pentameter and at one point a perfect sonnet. This way of speaking is not true to actual, everyday life, so it is a non-realistic convention.	22
4848423511	Enjambment	The employment of "run-on" lines which carry the completion of a statement from one line to anther without rhetorical pause.	23
4848423512	Envoi	The part of a complex poem that ends with 3 lines which include repeated end words sprinkled in the middle of the lines and then concluding the lines using some of the same 6 end words.	24
4848423513	Euphemism	A type of understatement replacing an offensive term with a more mild one less likely to offend or be thought of as harsh. An example is substituting the term \"downsizing\" for \"lay-off.\"	25
4848423514	Existentialism	A philosophy that emphasizes the uniqueness and isolation of the individual experience in a hostile or indifferent universe, regards human existence as unexplainable, and stresses freedom of choice and responsibility for the consequences of one's acts.	26
4848423515	Figurative Language	Words that are not used in their ordinary meaning such as similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole and understatement.	27
4848423516	Flashback	Action that shows better understanding by interrupting to show an event that happened in the past. Soap operas often use flashbacks.	28
4848423517	Foil	A minor character whose situation or actions parallel a major character's. By contrast, the minor character illuminates distinctive qualities of the major character. An example would be Mercutio as foil to Romeo in Romeo and Juliet. Mercutio makes light of every situation using bawdy and witty language in his comments on romance. His character emphasizes Romeo's romantic view of love and his lovesick nature.	29
4848423518	Foreshadowing	A method used to build suspense by providing hints of what is to come.	30
4848423519	Hamartia	\"An act of injustice\" either unknowingly or for the greater good to be achieved.	31
4848423520	Hubris	Excessive pride or self-confidence.	32
4848423521	Hyperbole	An extreme exaggeration in order to emphasize a truth.	33
4848423522	Iambic Pentameter	A rhythmical pattern of syllables consisting of poetic lines of five feet of unstressed and stressed syllables. An iamb is a metrical unit made up of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable (like the word goodbye with bye being the stressed syllable.) Pentameter is a line that has 5 feet.\n \nThese lines in iambic pentameter are from \"Sonnet 18,\" by William Shakespeare. The feet are separated by slashes and the stressed syllables are in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS while the unstressed syllables are in lower case letters. Shall I / com PARE/ thee TO / a SUM / mer's DAY? \nThou ART / more LOVE / ly AND / more TEM / per ATE (Sonnet 18)	34
4848423523	Imagery	The representation through language of sense experience. It grounds the poem in the concrete and the specific. It provides the details that appeal to and stimulate our senses and through which we experience the world around us. We see the colors of the sunrise; hear children laugh and sing; we feel the cool breeze on our skin; we smell the delicious aroma of apple pie baking in the oven; we taste the sweetness of chocolate and the tartness of lemonade. Poems also have such details that trigger our memories, stimulate our feeling, and capture our imaginations. Auditory imagery (a sound)Olfactory imagery (a smell)Gustatory imagery (a taste)Tactile imagery (a touch)Organic imagery (an internal feeling)Kinesthetic imagery (movement or tension in the muscles)	35
4848423524	Irony	Dramatic Irony: When the audience knows something the character does not. Ex. In The Scarlet Letter Hester asks Reverend Dimmesdale to help her persuade the governor to allow her to keep her daughter Pearl. The audience knows Dimmedale is the father, but the governor does not. Situational Irony: When there is a disparity between appearance and reality or when a disparity exists between an actual situation and what is appropriate or when there is a situation with a recognizable oddity. Ex. The owner of an airline wins a free plane ticket. This is situational irony as it is ridiculous that he has one the very thing he does not need. An odd situation or what is inappropriate for this airline owner has occurred creating situational irony.Verbal Irony: saying one thing but meaning the opposite. Ex. Upon attempting to enter a friend's room, you see dirty clothes, food wrappers, books, sports equipment and other paraphernalia blocking the doorway. You say, "What a clean room you have here." Clearly, the room is not clean, and you do not mean your friend's room is clean, but you make your point with verbal irony.	36
4848423525	Italian Sonnet	The Italian sonnet is divided into two sections by two different groups of rhyming sounds. The first 8 lines is called the octave and rhymes: \na b b a a b b a\nThe remaining 6 lines is called the sestet and can have either two or three rhyming sounds, arranged in a variety of ways: c d c d c d c d d c d c c d e c d e c d e c e d c d c e d c In English all sonnets make use of iambic pentameter as a common practice although there have been variations.	37
4848423526	Literary criticism	A close reading or interpretation of a text using different methods to arrive at meaning.	38
4848423527	Lyric poem	A poem that expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker. There are different types of lyrics that include elegies, odes, and sonnets.	39
4848423528	Metaphor	A word that compares one thing or idea to another. Example, My love is a rose.	40
4848423529	Meter	The combination of stressed and unstressed syllables creating rhythm.	41
4848423530	Metonymy	A figure of speech characterized by substituting an aspect or detail from the experience or closely related to the experience to represent the whole experience.Ex. Using the words "the crown" to denote the king.	42
4848423531	Monologue	A speech given by one person often alone on the stage. The actor speaks directly to the audience and is conscious of having a listener.	43
4848423532	Mood	The overall pervading feeling or emotion of the poem itself that is intended to influence the reader's emotional response. The feeling the reader receives when reading a work.	44
4848423533	Motif	The repetition of an idea or theme. An example is the repetition of the reference to light and darkness in The Heart of Darkness.	45
4848423534	Narrator	The person telling the story.	46
4848423535	Ode	A lyrical poem of elaborate metrical form and expressing enthusiastic emotion.	47
4848423536	Onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.\nExample: "bang", "click", \"buzz\" and \"pop\"	48
4848423537	Overstatement	An exaggeration of language in order to reveal a truth.	49
4848423538	Paradox	A contrasting statement or phrase which illuminates a truth or insight. An example is evil innocence. This is a contradictory phrase which can illuminate a poignant truth when applied to specific instances.	50
4848423539	Paraphrasing	Utilizing other authors' ideas in the forwarding of one's ideas. However, even when paraphrasing, one must give credit to the original author. When paraphrasing, one would not necessarily use the original source's exact words, but one would enclose whatever of the author's words that fit exactly one's intentions in quotation marks.When paraphrasing, one would give the original author credit at the end of the body of text in which one has included another author's work.Also, when paraphrasing, one would not want to just rearrange the original author's body of text or simply replace a few words in order to call it one's own. (Indiana). This latter practice has become so common in lazy undergraduate work that a new term, "paraplagiarism," has been coined to describe it.	51
4848423540	Personification	Giving human qualities to an inanimate object. \nExample, the skies wept in sadness.	52
4848423541	Plot	The sequencing of events in a piece of fiction.\nhow the author arranges the events of the story and moves along the actionmay use suspensemay employ coincidencemay include different types of conflictmay use ironyalways includes a conflict needing to be resolved	53
4848423542	Point of view	The angle from which the story is told. There are 4 types: Omniscient is all knowing. The author knows everything the characters are thinking and feeling and can relate any piece of information desired to the reader.Third-person Limited is when the author tells the story from one character's perspective. Everything a reader learns is told from how this character sees it.First-person is when one of the characters tells the story using the first person.Objective is when the author tells the story using third person but is limited to reporting what the characters say and do. The author doesn't give any commentary on character behavior; he/she merely presents the story.	54
4848423543	Protagonist	The main character embroiled in conflict.	55
4848423544	Quoting	Using another's exact words either to add authority to the concept, theory, or information one is trying to portray or because that author has stated so clearly what one is wishing to add to one's document that one could not say it better oneself. All of the authors' words need to be enclosed in quotation marks.If one is quoting another author, that author needs to be credited at the end of the quote by last name (in MLA format) enclosed in parentheses.	56
4848423545	Realism	A method or technique in fiction which provides an accurate portrayal of life. Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn is an example of realism.	57
4848423546	Refrain	A repeated work, phrase, or line or group of lines, normally at some fixed position in a poem written in stanzas.	58
4848423547	Regionalism / Local Color	Stories refer to works recognizing the differences of specific areas of the country by focusing on the characters, dialect, customs, topography, and other particular features of the region.	59
4848423548	Repetition	When words or phrases are repeated for a stronger emphasis.	60
4848423549	Rhyme scheme	The pattern of rhyming words in a stanza. \nExample: Once upon a midnight dreary (a) \nWhile I pondered weak and weary (a)\nOver many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore; (b)\nWhile I nodded nearly napping, (c)\nSuddenly there came a tapping (c)\nAs of someone gently rapping, (c)\nRapping at my chamber door. (b)	61
4848423550	Satire	Humorous writing or speech that is meant to point out the errors, lies, foibles, or failings. Its purpose is to inform and reform human behavior or society and its social institutions.	62
4848423551	Scene	A minor division of a play. An act may have several scenes.	63
4848423552	Setting	The particular time and place of the story.	64
4848423553	Shift	A change in perspective or moving from one line of thought to another often signaled by words like: if, but, however or therefore.	65
4848423554	Simile	A comparison of two unlike things using the words "like" or "as."\nEx: "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun."\nEx: "the sea roared like a wounded beast.	66
4848423555	Soliloquy	A speech given by a person who is talking to himself or herself or is unaware of anyone present who may be listening. Example: Hamlet's soliloquy that begins with "To be or not to be."	67
4848423556	Sonnet	A fourteen-line lyric poem that focuses on a single theme. \nShakespeare wrote the \"Elizabethan sonnet\" also known as the \"Shakespearean sonnet.\" This type of sonnet consisted of three quatrains and a rhyming couplet. The meter was iambic pentameter with a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg. Often the quatrain verses build upon a theme with the final couplet providing a conclusion and insight into the meaning of the poem.	68
4848423557	Stanza	The division of a poem into lines or units often arranged in groups such as lines of four, six or eight.	69
4848423558	Sestina	A complex form of a poem that consists of 6 stanzas for the body of the poem with each line ending in 1 of 6 chosen end words.	70
4848423559	Stereotype	A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image. The cowboy and Indian are American stereotypes.	71
4848423560	Stichomythia	A line-for-line, verbal fencing match, used by the principal characters who retort sharply to each other, echoing their opponent's words and figures of speech. It is a play on words.	72
4848423561	Stream of Consciousness	A literary technique presenting the thoughts of a character as they occur.	73
4848423562	Symbol	Something having a literal meaning as well as another meaning beyond the literal. Authors may use symbols in their works to represent people, places or ideas that have special meaning. The flag is one well-known example of a symbol. It can represent a country, a group, a state, or a concept.\nAuthors often use colors symbolically. Birds are often used as symbols - the dove representing peace, and the eagle standing for courage. The meaning of a symbol is usually not directly stated but must be inferred by the reader. For this reason, a symbol may be used several times to reinforce its meaning in the story.	74
4848423563	Syntax	The pattern of formation of sentences or phrases in a language. Authors and poets manipulate the order of words to create meaning and purpose. An example from Patrick Henry's speech to the Continental Congress is "Give me liberty or give me death!" By placing contrasting phrases right next to each other, Henry has created emphasis of his idea that liberty must be gained at any cost.	75
4848423564	Tercets	A group of three lines of verse, often rhyming together or with another triplet.	76
4848423565	Theme	The overall meaning of the work - the point the author has made, the questions or issues he or she has raised. The theme is rarely directly stated or explicit, but is usually stated indirectly, requiring the reader to draw conclusions.	77
4848423566	Thesis statement	A sentence stating your point of view on a topic. The thesis statement serves as a summary of the argument you will make in the rest of your paper.	78
4848423567	Tone	The attitude an author conveys about the subject he is writing.	79
4848423568	Understatement	A figure of speech that consists of saying less than one means, or saying what one means with less force than the situation requires in order to reveal a truth.	80
4848423569	Universality	How the theme of a novel or play applies to individuals, transcending race, class, gender, and other systems which tend to segregate individuals.	81
4848423571	Verisimilitude	Creating an accurate and truthful portrayal of something.	82
4848423572	Villanelle	A fixed form poem consisting of 19 lines divided into 5 stanzas of 3 lines each called tercets and closing with a stanza of 4 lines called a quatrain. This form includes a repeating refrain and a rhyme scheme depending on only 2 rhyming sounds throughout the poem. The pattern of rhyme expresses the following scheme: A1bA2 abA1 abA2 abA1 abA2 abA1A2. A1 is a repeated line rhyming with a and A2. A2 is a repeated line rhyming with a and A1.	83
4848423573	Voice	Two different areas of writing employ this term. One refers to the relationship between a sentence's subject and verb (active voice and passive voice). The second and more common definition refers to the total "sound" of a writer's style based on diction, syntax, and figurative language."	84

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5763848179	Allegory	A story illustrating an idea or a moral principle in which objects take on symbolic meanings.	0
5763848180	Alliteration	Used for poetic effect, a repetition of the initial sounds of several words in a group.	1
5763848181	Allusipn	A reference in one literary work to a character or theme found in another literary work.	2
5763848182	Ambigury	A statement which can contain two or more meanings.	3
5763848183	Analogue	A comparison between two similar things. In literature, a work which resembles another work either fully or in part. If a work resembles another because it is derived from the other, the original work is called the source, not an analogue of the lager work.	4
5763848184	Anapest	In a line of poetry, two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable forming the pattern for the line or perhaps the entire poem.	5
5763848185	Anecdote	A very short tale told by a character in a literary work.	6
5763848186	Antagonist	A person or force which opposes the protagonist in a literary work.	7
5763848187	Aphorism	A brief statement which expresses an observation on life, usually intended as a wise observation. Example - Benjamin Franklins Poor Richard's Almanac	8
5763848188	Apostrophe	A figure of speech wherein the speaker speaks directly to something nonhuman.	9
5763848189	Asdie	A device in which a character in a drama makes a short speech which is heard by the audience but not by other characters in the play.	10
5763848190	Assonance	The reposition of vowel sounds in a literary work, especially in a poem.	11
5763848191	Autobiography	The story of a person's life written by himself or herself.	12
5763848192	Ballad	A story in poetic form, often about tragic love and usually sung. Ballads were passed down from generation to generation by singers.	13
5763848193	Biography	The story of a person's life write me by someone other than the subject of the work. It is supposed to be rigorously factual. However, since the biographer may be biased for or against the subject of the biography, critics, and sometimes the subject of the biography himself or herself, may come forward to challenge the trustworthiness of the material.	14
5763848194	Blank Verse	A poem written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.	15
5763848195	Cacaphony / Euphony	Cacaphony is an unpleasant combination of sounds. Euphony, the opposite, is a pleasant combination of sounds. These sound effects can be used intentionally to create an effect, or they may appear unintentionally.	16
5763848196	Caesura	A pause within a line of poetry which may or may not affect the metrical count. In scansion, a caesura is usually indicated by //	17
5763848197	Canto	A subdivision of an epic poem.	18
5809317845	Carpe Diem	A Latin phrase which means "seize (catch) the day," meaning "make the most of the day." Phrase originated as the title of the poem by the Roman Horace and caught on with Robert Herrick and Andrew Marvell.	19
5809317846	Catastrophe	The scene in a tragedy which includes the death or moral destruction of the protagonist. Oedipus plucks his eyes out & is beggar. In Shakespearean tragedy this occurs in act 5 of each drama & always includes the death of the protagonist.	20
5809317847	Character	A person, or any thing presented as a person in a literary work. Animals who figure importantly in movies of live drama are considered characters.	21
5809317848	Characterization	The method of a writer uses to reveal the personality of a character in a literary work: Methods may include (1) by what the character says about themselves; (2) by what others reveal about the character, and (3) by the characters own actions.	22
5809317849	Classicism	A movement or tendency in art, music, and literature to retain the characteristics found in work originating in classical Greece and Rome. It differs from Romanticism in that it doesn't dwell on the emotional impact of a work, it concerns itself with form and discipline.	23
5809633530	Climax	The decisive moment in a drama, the climax is the turning point of the play to which the rising action leads. This is the crucial part of the drama, the part which determines the outcome of the conflict.	24
5809633531	Comedy	A literary work which is amusing and ends happily. Modern comedies tend to be funny, while Shakespearean comedies simply end well. They also contain items such as misunderstandings and mistaken identity to heighten the comic effect. Comedies may contain lovers, those who interfere with lovers, and entertaining scoundrels. In modern situation comedies, characters are thrown into absurd situations and are forced to deal with those situations, all while reciting clever lines for the amusement of a live television or movie audience.	25
5809633532	Conceit	A far fetched simile of metaphor, a literary conceit occurs when the speaker compares two highly dissimilar things.	26
5809633533	Conclusoom	Also called the resolution. It is the point in a drama to which the entire play has been leading. It is the logical outcome of everything that has come before it. The conclusion stems from the nature of the characters.	27
5809633534	Concrete Poetry	A poem that visually resembles something found in the physical world.	28
5809633535	Conflct	In the plot of a drama, conflict occurs when the protagonist is opposed by some person or force in the play.	29
5809633536	Connotation and Denotation	The denotation of a word is it's dictionary definition. The connotation of a word is it's emotional content.	30
5809633537	Consonance	The repetition of consonant sounds with differing vowel sounds in words near each other in a line or lines of poetry.	31
5809633538	Couoket	A stanza of two lines, usually rhyming.	32
5809633539	Dactyl	In poetry, a metrical pattern consisting of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables.	33
5809633540	Denouement	Part of a drama which follows the climax and leads to the resolution.	34
5809633541	Dialogue	In drama, a conversation between characters. Stichomythia occurs when the dialogue takes the form of a verbal duel between characters.	35
5809633542	Diction	An authors choice of words. Since words have specific meanings, and since ones choice of words can affect feelings, diction can have great impact in a literary work. The writer must then choose their words carefully.	36
5809633543	Didactic Literature	Language designed explicitly to instruct	37
5809633544	Dramatic Monologue	In literature, the occurrence of a single speaker saying something to a silent audience.	38
5809633545	Elegy	A lyric poem lamenting death.	39
5814996213	Epic	In literature generally, a major work dealing with an important theme. In poetry, it is a long work dealing with the actions of gods and heroes.	40
5815003431	Epigraph	A brief quotation which appears at the beginning of a literary work.	41
5815005512	Epithet	In literature, a work or phrase preceding or following a name which serves to describe the character.	42
5815010036	Euphemism	A mild word or phrase which substitutes for another which would be undesirable because it is too direct, unpleasant, or offensive.	43
5815012048	Exposition	In drama, the presentation of essential information regarding what has occurred prior to the beginning of the play.	44
5815019941	Fable	A brief tale designed to illustrate a moral lesson. Often the characters are animals as in the fables of Aesop.	45
5815021508	Falling Action	It is the series of events which take place after the climax. The falling action of a drama leads to the conclusion.	46
5815024998	Farce	A type of comedy based on a humorous situation such as a bank robber who mistakenly wanders into a police station to hide. It is the situation here which provides the humor, not the cleverness of plot or lines, nor the absurdities of the character, as in situational comedy.	47
5815028719	Figurative Language	In literature, a way of saying one thing and meaning something else. Provides the writer with the opportunity to write imaginatively and also tests the imagination of the reader, forcing the reader to go below the surface of a literary work into deep, hidden meanings.	48
5815033047	Figure of Speech	An example of figurative language that states something that is not literally true in order to create an effect. Similes, metaphors, personification are figures of speech which are based on comparisons. Metonymy, synecdoche, synesthesia, apostrophe, oxymoron, and hyperbole are other figures of speech.	49
5815037736	Flashback	A reference to an event which took place prior to the beginning of a story or play.	50
5815043252	Foil	A character in a play who sets off the main character or other characters by comparison.	51
5815044946	Foot	The basic unit of measurement in a line of poetry. In scansion, a foot represents one instance of a metrical pattern and is shown either between or to the right to left of vertical lines. The meter in a poem is classified according both to its pattern and the number of feet to the line. monometer: one foot to a line dimeter: two feet to a line trimeter: three feet to a line tetra (4), penta (5)	52
5815055835	Foreshadowing	In drama, a method used to build suspense by providing hints of what is to come.	53
5815057135	Free Verse	Unrhymed poetry with lines of varying lengths, and containing no specific metrical pattern.	54
5815061330	Genre	A literary type or form. Drama is a genre of literature. Within drama, genre include tragedy, comedy, and other forms.	55
5815062773	Haiku	A Japanese poetic form which originated in the 16th century. In its Japanese language form consists of three lines: five syllables in the first and third lines, and seven syllables in the second line. If translated, it may not contain the same syllabication. Designed to capture a moment in time, it creates images.	56
5815067389	Hyperbole	A figure of speech in which an overstatement or exaggeration occurs.	57
5815068929	Iamb	A vertical pattern of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable.	58
5815069800	Imagery	A word or group of words in a literary work which appeal to one or more of the 5 senses. The use of images serves to intensify the impact of the work.	59
5815071187	Inference	A judgement based on reasoning rather than on direct or explicit statement. A conclusion based on facts or circumstances.	60
5815074128	Irony	Takes place in many forms. Irony of Situation: the result of an action is the reverse of what the actor expected. Dramatic Irony: the audience knows something that the characters in the drama do not. Verbal Irony: the contrast is between the literal meaning of what is said and what is meant. sarcasm is an example.	61
5815079513	Local Color	A detailed setting forth of the characteristics of a particular locality, enabling the reader to "see" the setting.	62
5815081228	Lyric Poem	A short poem wherein the poet expresses an emotion or illuminates some life principle.	63
5815083184	Metaphor	A figure of speech wherein a comparison is made between two unlike quantities without the use of the words "like" or "as."	64
5815085358	Meter	A regular pattern of unstressed and stressed syllables in a line or lines of poetry.	65
5815103129	Metonymy	A figure of speech in which a word represents something else which it suggests. Calling a herd of 50 cows a fifty head of cattle, head representing the herd.	66
5815105714	Mood	The atmosphere or feeling created by a literary work, partly by a description of the objects or by the style of descriptions. May contain a mood of horror, mystery, holiness, or childlike simplicity, depending on the author's treatment of the work.	67
5815110659	Myth	An unverifiable story based on a religious belief. The characters of myths are gods and goddesses, or the offspring of the mating of gods or goddesses and humans. Some myths detail the creation of the earth, while others may be about love, adventure, trickery, or revenge. In all cases, gods and goddesses control events, while humans may be aided or victimized. It is said that the creation of myths were the method by which ancient, superstitious humans attempted to account for natural or historical phenomena.	68
5815118070	Narrative Poem	A poem which tells a story. Usually a long poem, sometimes even book length, the narrative may take the form of a plotless dialogue. In other instances, the narrative may consist of a series of incidents.	69
5815122921	Novel	A fictional prose work of substantial length. It narrates the actions of characters who are entirely the invention of the author and who are placed in an imaginary setting.	70
5815125948	Ode	A poem in praise of something divine or expressing some noble idea.	71
5815127187	Onomatopoeia	A literary device wherein the sound of a word echoes the sound it represents.	72
5815130858	Oxymoron	A combination of contradictory terms.	73
5815131400	Parable	A brief story, told or written in order to teach a moral lesson.	74
5815138083	Paradox	A situation or a statement that seems to contradict itself, but on closer inspection, does not.	75
5815139456	Parallel Structure	A repetition of sentences using the same structure.	76
5815141043	Parody	A literary work that imitates the style of another literary work. Can simply be amusing or it can be mocking in tone, such as a poem which exaggerates the use of alliteration in order to show the ridiculous effect of overuse of alliteration.	77
5815144325	Pastoral	A literary work that has to do with shepherds and rustic settings.	78
5815145521	Pathetic Fallacy	A fallacy of reason in suggesting that nonhuman phenomena act form human feelings, as suggested by the word pathetic from the Greek pathos; a literary device wherein something nonhuman found in nature performs as though from human feeling or motivation.	79
5815149528	Personification	A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human characteristics.	80
5815151746	Plot	The structure of story. The sequence in which the author arranges events in a story. 5 act play includes rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. Protagonist opposed by antagonists, creating conflict. May include subplot which is a mirror image of the main plot.	81
5815154888	Point of View	A piece of literature contains a speaker who is speaking either in the first person, telling things from his or her own perspective, or in the third person, telling things from the perspective of an onlooker. If speaker knows everything including actions, motives, and thoughts of all characters, it is omniscient. Speaker is unable to know what is in any characters mind but his or her own, called limited omniscience.	82
5815160415	Protagonist	The hero or central character of a literary work. In accomplishing his or her objective, the protagonists is hindered by some opposing force either human, animal, or natural.	83
5815162845	Pun	A play on words wherein a word issued to convey two meanings at the same time.	84
5815164284	Quatrain	A four line stanza which may be rhymed or unrhymed. A heroic quatrain is a four line stanza rhymed abab.	85
5815166451	Resolution	The part of a story or drama which occurs after the climax and which establishes a new norm, a new state of affairs the ways things are going to be form then on.	86
5815170648	Rhyme	In poetry, a pattern of repeated sounds. In end rhyme, the rhyme is at the end of the line. Internal rhyme is when one of the rhyming words occurs in a place in the line other than at the end. Eye rhyme is where the look rather than the sound is important (looks like it rhymes). Half rhyme is when the final consonants rhyme, but the vowel sounds don't.	87
5815175815	Rhyme Scheme	The pattern of rhymed words in a stanza or generalized throughout a poem, expressed in alphabetic terms.	88
5815178920	Rhythm	Recurrences of stressed and unstressed syllables at equal intervals, similar to meter. However, though two lines may be of the same meter, the rhythms of the lines may be different.	89
5815181585	Rising Action	The part of a drama which begins with the exposition and sends the stage for the climax.	90
5815183219	Romance	In the Middle Ages, tales of exciting adventures written in vernacular (French) instead of Latin. The medieval romances were tales of chivalry or amorous adventure occurring in King Arthur's court.	91
5815185748	Saga	A story of the exploits of hero, or the story of a family told through several generations.	92
5815186750	Satire	A piece of literature designed to ridicule the subject of the work. While satire can be funny, its aim is not amuse, but to arouse contempt.	93
5815187718	Scansion	A close, critical reading of a poem, examining the work for meter.	94
5815188209	Setting	The time and place in which a story unfolds. A drama may contain a single setting, or the setting may change from scene to scene.	95
5815189016	Short Story	A shore fictional narrative. It is difficult to set forth the point at which a short story becomes a short novel (novelette), or the page number at which a novelette become a novel.	96
5815190572	Simile	A figure of speech which takes the form of a comparison between two unlike quanitites for which a basis for comparison can be found, and which uses the words like or as in the comparison.	97
5815191954	Soliloquy	In drama, a moment when a character is alone and speaks his or her thoughts aloud.	98
5815192493	Sonnet	A lyric poem of fourteen lines whose rhyme scheme is fixed. In the Italian form as typified in the sonnets of Petrarch is abbaabba cdecde. It has two divisions: the first is of eight lines (octave) and the second of six lines (sestet). English sonnet is abab cdcd efef gg. Change in rhyme is coincidental with change in theme in poem.	99
5815200617	Spondee	A metrical pattern characterized by two or more successively placed accented syllables.	100
5815216053	Stanza	A major subdivision in a poem. A stanza of two lines is called a couplet, three lines is tercet, four lines is quatrain.	101
5815217792	Stereotype	An author's method of treating a character so that the character is immediately identified with a group. A character may be associated with a group through accent, food choices, style of dress, or any readily identifiable group characteristic.	102
5815221370	Style	Includes authors use of figurative language, diction, sound effects, and other literary devices.	103
5815223037	Suspense	Suspense in fiction results primarily from two factors: the reader's identification with and concern for the welfare of a convincing and sympathetic character, and an anticipation of violence.	104
5815224498	Symbolism	A device in literature where an object represents an idea.	105
5815227105	Synecdoche	A figure of speech wherein a part of something represent the whole thing.	106
5815229171	Synesthesia	One sensory experience described in terms of another sensory experience.	107
5815230170	Theatre of the Absurd	A drama based on an absurd situation.	108
5815231100	Theme	An ingredient of a literary work which gives the work unity. The theme provides an answer to the question what is work about? Unlike plot which deals with the action of a work, theme concerns itself with a work's message or contains the general idea of a work.	109
5815234033	Tone	Tone expresses the author's attitude toward his or her subject. Since there are as many tones in literature as there are tones of voice in real relationships, the tone of a literary work may be one of anger or approval, etc.	110
5815237713	Tragedy	A type of drama which is pre-eminently the story of one person, the hero. The story depicts the trouble part of the hero's life in which a total reversal of fortune comes upon a person who formerly stood in high degree, apparently secure, sometimes even happy. The suffering and calamity in a tragedy are exceptional, since they befall a conspicuous person. It spreads far and wide until the whole scene becomes a scene a scene of woe. Leads up to & includes death (shakespearean) or moral destruction (sophoclean) of protagonist.	111
5815245887	Trochee	A metrical pattern in a line of poetry characterized by one stressed syllable followed by one unstressed syllable.	112
5815246701	Understatment	A statement which lessens or minimizes the importance of what is meant. The opposite of hyperbole.	113

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