| 7605812555 | Theme | The central idea or dominating thought, which results from the elements contained in fiction. This summarizes the author's purpose in writing the narrative. | | 0 |
| 7605812556 | Major Themes in Literature | • Human Nature
• The Nature of Society
• Fate and Freedom
• Ethics | | 1 |
| 7605812557 | Dualism | Theme
The belief that humans have two natures. | | 2 |
| 7605812558 | Synesthesia | Trope
The mingling of senses. | | 3 |
| 7605812559 | Conceit | Trope
A controlling piece of figurative language. | | 4 |
| 7605812560 | Metonym | Trope
When you replace one word with another word through association.
Ex.) The White House gave a press conference. | | 5 |
| 7605812561 | Synecdoche | Trope
When you replace a word for another from whole to part or part to whole.
Ex.) nice wheels! | | 6 |
| 7605812562 | Understatement | Trope
When you undervalue the intensity of something. | | 7 |
| 7605812563 | Parallelism | Syntax
A balance of structure. Uses a same general structure for multiple parts of a sentence or for multiple sentences. | | 8 |
| 7605812564 | Antithesis | Syntax
Built by contrasting any of the different parts of a statement.
Ex.) Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country. | | 9 |
| 7605812565 | Periodic Sentence | Syntax
A sentence that is not grammatically correct until the physical end of the sentence.
Ex.) Over the river, through the woods | | 10 |
| 7605812566 | Loose Sentence | Syntax
A sentence in which it is grammatically correct before it is physically complete. | | 11 |
| 7605812567 | Apothegmatic | Syntax
A short simple sentence that follows a series of longer more complex sentences. | | 12 |
| 7605812568 | Polysyndeton | Syntax
Adding coordinators after ever member in a list.
Ex.) We went to the beach and sang and laughed and played and had a fun time. | | 13 |
| 7605812569 | Asyndeton | Syntax
Leaves out conjunctions in a non-standard way.
Ex.) He was tall, dark, handsome. | | 14 |
| 7605812570 | Anadiplosis | Syntax
Takes the last word of a sentence or phrase and repeats it as the next sentence or phrase.
Ex.) Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. | | 15 |
| 7605812571 | Chiasmus | Syntax
A special form of parallelism that flips the original form around.
Ex.) You have seen how a man was made a slave, you shall see how a slave was made a man. | | 16 |
| 7605812572 | Litotes | Syntax
Emphasizes a point by using a word opposite to the condition.
Ex.) The trip was no easy journey. | | 17 |
| 7605812573 | Zeugma | Syntax
Greek for "yoking"- to link together
A structure in which two elements of a sentence are linked by a governing third element in a suggestive way.
Ex.) I drank of the wine and her beauty. | | 18 |
| 7605812574 | Romantic Irony | Irony
When the audience has been mislead by the story teller. | | 19 |
| 7605812575 | Cosmic Irony | Irony
When a character falsely believes they have free will. | | 20 |
| 7605812576 | Structural Irony | Irony
When the structure of something does not match its purpose. | | 21 |
| 7605812577 | Situational Irony | Irony
When something is expected to happen, but something else happens instead. | | 22 |
| 7605812578 | Dramatic Irony | Irony
The reader knows something the character doesn't. | | 23 |
| 7605812579 | Verbal Irony | Irony
When words express something contrary to truth. | | 24 |
| 7605812580 | Diction | An author's word choice | | 25 |
| 7605812581 | Denotation | Diction
The dictionary definition of a word. | | 26 |
| 7605812582 | Connotation | Diction
The emotional and cultural attachments of a word. | | 27 |
| 7605812583 | Semantics | Diction
The study of words or study of language. | | 28 |
| 7605812584 | Cliché | Diction
A phrase or expression that had been used so much that it is no longer original.
Ex.) Get off your high horse | | 29 |
| 7605812585 | Euphemism | Diction
Taking an unpleasant idea and making it sound better.
Ex.) Friendly Fire | | 30 |
| 7605812586 | Sign | Literary Device
An object, picture, or word which signifies something other than itself. | | 31 |
| 7605812587 | Symbol | Literary Device
An object, place, character, or event that represents something more or something other than itself. | | 32 |
| 7605812588 | Archetype | Literary Device
A symbol that transcends time and culture. | | 33 |
| 7605812589 | Soliloquy | Literary Device
When a character, normally alone on the stage, delivers a speech, which is normally a collection of his own thoughts. | | 34 |
| 7605812590 | Aside | Literary Device
Just like a soliloquy, except there are other people on stage. Usually it is just for the audience to hear. | | 35 |
| 7605812591 | Apostrophe | Literary Device
A rhetorical device in which the writer breaks out of the flow of writing to directly address a person or personified object. | | 36 |
| 7605812592 | Allusion | Literary Device
Reference to a famous work. | | 37 |
| 7605812593 | Paradox | Literary Device
An idea that seems false but there is truth to it.
Ex.) No fashion is fashion. | | 38 |
| 7605812594 | Figurative Imagery | Literary Device
To use objects, patterns, and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our physical senses.
Ex.) The tall, menacing dog snarled at the fluffy cat. | | 39 |
| 7605812595 | Motif | Literary Device
Repeated element in a work of art. | | 40 |
| 7605812596 | Oxymoron | Literary Device
Contradictory terms.
Ex.) Jumbo shrimp | | 41 |
| 7605812597 | Poetry | Literary expression characterized by particular attention to rhythm, sound, and the concentrated concrete use of language. | | 42 |
| 7605812598 | Narrative Poem | Poetry Types
Tells a story in verse. | | 43 |
| 7605812599 | Ballad | Poetry Types
Songlike poem that tells a story. | | 44 |
| 7605812600 | Epic | Poetry Types
The hero of the poem embodies the values and aspirations of the poet's culture. | | 45 |
| 7605812601 | Dramatic Poem | Poetry Types
Makes use of the conventions of drama. | | 46 |
| 7605812602 | Dramatic Monologue | Poetry Types
A poem or speech in which an imaginary character speaks to a listener.
Ex.) Soliloquy | | 47 |
| 7605812603 | Dramatic Dialogue | Poetry Types
A poem in which two speakers converse with one another. | | 48 |
| 7605812604 | Lyric Poem | Poetry Types
A melodic poem that expresses the observations and the feelings of a single speaker. | | 49 |
| 7605812605 | The Elegy | Poetry Types
A reflective poem that laments the loss of someone or something. | | 50 |
| 7605812606 | The Ode | Poetry Types
A long, formal lyric poem, usually meditative, that treats a noble or otherwise elevated subject in a dignified manner. These poems often commemorate people, events, or consider the aspect of the human condition. | | 51 |
| 7605812607 | The Sonnet | Poetry Types
A lyric poem that consists of fourteen lines and that follows one of several traditional rhyme schemes. Love is among one of the most common themes. | | 52 |
| 7605812608 | Metaphysical Conceit | Poetry Types
A conceit which draws a shocking or unconventional comparison. | | 53 |
| 7605812609 | Carpe Diem | Poetry Types
A poem that expresses the value of "seize the day" | | 54 |
| 7605812610 | Stanza | Poetry Structure
A group of lines that work together to present an idea. | | 55 |
| 7605812611 | Concrete Poetry | Poetry Structure
When the shape of the poem enhances the meaning of the poem. | | 56 |
| 7605812612 | Enjambment | Poetry Structure
The physical end of a line of poetry does not match the grammatical end of a line of poetry. | | 57 |
| 7605812613 | End Stopped Line | Poetry Structure
The physical end of a line of poetry matches the grammatical end of a line of poetry. | | 58 |
| 7605812614 | Poetic Shift | Poetry Structure
When a poem moves from one tone or tones to a new tone. You are also usually able to find the meaning. | | 59 |
| 7605812615 | Couplet | Poetry Structure
2 lines | | 60 |
| 7605812616 | Quatrain | Poetry Structure
4 lines | | 61 |
| 7605812617 | Sestet | Poetry Structure
6 lines | | 62 |
| 7605812618 | Octave | Poetry Structure
8 lines | | 63 |
| 7605812619 | Tercet | Poetry Structure
3 lines | | 64 |
| 7605812620 | Scantion | Rhythm
When you read through a poem to analyze its rhythm. | | 65 |
| 7605812621 | Foot | Rhythm
A pattern of unstressed stressed syllables | | 66 |
| 7605812622 | Meter | Rhythm
The number of feet in a line of poetry. | | 67 |
| 7605812623 | Iambic Pentameter | Rhythm
A line of poetry that has five feet and one Iamb. | | 68 |
| 7605812624 | Rhyme | Sound
Made when the last vowel sounds and following consonant sounds of a word at the end of a line of poetry match another word that has the same sound. | | 69 |
| 7605812625 | Half-Rhyme | Sound
A rhyme in which the vowel or consonants done quite match, but it's obvious that the poet means for them to rhyme. | | 70 |
| 7605812626 | Rhyme Scheme | Sound
The pattern of rhyme in a section or a full poem. | | 71 |
| 7605812627 | Act | Plot Structure
A major division in a play. Allows us to jump scenes and show time progression. A unified set of actions. Also used to change characters. | | 72 |
| 7605812628 | 1st Act- Exposition | Plot Structure
Introduces characters, setting, and context. Introduction of the conflict takes place. | | 73 |
| 7605812629 | 2nd Act- "The Tying of Knots" | Plot Structure
More complications are added. | | 74 |
| 7605812630 | 3rd Act- Climax | Plot Structure
Where a crucial decision is made. | | 75 |
| 7605812631 | 4th Act- The Reversal | Plot Structure
"The untying of knots" | | 76 |
| 7605812632 | 5th Act- Resolution | Plot Structure
However, there is some sort of hope | | 77 |
| 7605812633 | Scenes | Plot Structure
Moving time, moving place, moving character. | | 78 |
| 7605812634 | Setting | The background against which a story takes place. | | 79 |
| 7605812635 | Collective Unconscious | The common connection humans unconsciously have through archetypes. | | 80 |
| 7605812636 | Characterization | The creation and development of a character. | | 81 |
| 7605812637 | Direct Characterization | Characterization
The author directly tells the reader about the character. | | 82 |
| 7605812638 | Indirect Characterization | Characterization
The author shows rather than tells about the character through external descriptions, internal descriptions, and other character's descriptions. | | 83 |
| 7605812639 | Round Character | Characterization
A complex character. | | 84 |
| 7605812640 | Flat Character | Characterization
A stereotypical character. | | 85 |
| 7605812641 | Static Character | Characterization
A character who does not change through the course of the story. | | 86 |
| 7605812642 | Dynamic Character | Characterization
A character who changes because of the events of the story. | | 87 |
| 7605812643 | Protagonist | Characterization
The main character who is trying to fill some desire. | | 88 |
| 7605812644 | Antagonist | Characterization
The character that acts against the desires of the protagonist. | | 89 |
| 7605812645 | Foil | Characterization
A character with similar attributes to the main character but one primary difference that highlights an aspect of the main character. | | 90 |
| 7605812646 | Aristotelian Tragedy | Tragedy
Tragedy that depicts the downfall of a basically good person through some fatal error or misjudgment, producing suffering and insight on the part of the protagonist and arousing pity and fear on the part of the audience. | | 91 |
| 7605812647 | Anagnorisis | Tragedy
A moment of clairvoyant insight or understanding in the mind of the tragic hero as he suddenly comprehends the web of fate that he has entangled himself in. | | 92 |
| 7605812648 | Hamartia | Tragedy
A fatal error or simple mistake on the part of the protagonist that eventually leads to the final catastrophe. | | 93 |
| 7605812649 | Hubris | Tragedy
The sin par excellence of the tragic or over aspiring hero. Though it is usually translated as pride, it is better understood as a sort of insolent daring, a haughty overstepping of cultural codes or ethical boundaries. | | 94 |
| 7605812650 | Nemesis | Tragedy
The inevitable punishment or cosmic payback for acts of hubris. | | 95 |
| 7605812651 | Peripeteia | A pivotal or crucial action on the part of the protagonist that changes his situation from seemingly secure to vulnerable. | | 96 |
| 7605812652 | Hegelian Tragedy | Tragedy
A situation in which two rights or values are in fatal conflict. | | 97 |
| 7606022212 | Plot | The pattern that results from the events in a story and the order in which they are presented. | | 98 |
| 7606022213 | Expostition | Plot
Introduction of characters and setting (The status quo) | | 99 |
| 7606022214 | Conflict | Plot
Most plots involve this, either external or internal as the characters participate in a series of actions. | | 100 |
| 7606022215 | Rising Action | Plot
The increase in tension in a story. | | 101 |
| 7606022216 | Climax | Plot
The highest point of tension in a story. This is when the protagonist makes a decision for better or worse. | | 102 |
| 7606022217 | Falling Action | Plot
The release of tension in a story. | | 103 |
| 7606022218 | Dénouement | Plot
How the story turns out. | | 104 |
| 7606022219 | Point of View | The vantage point from which the author chooses to tell the story. | | 105 |
| 7606022220 | 1st Person Subjective | Point of View
Told from the point of view of a single character, normally the protagonist. | | 106 |
| 7606022221 | 2nd Person Perspective | Point of View
Rare form of literature which places the reader into the narrative. | | 107 |
| 7606022222 | 3rd Person Omniscient | Point of View
Story narrated by a god like being who can shift from character to character. | | 108 |
| 7606022223 | 3rd Person Limited | Point of View
Story is portrayed through the eyes of a single character. | | 109 |
| 7606022224 | Unobtrusive Narrator | Types of Narrator
There is no commentary from the Narrator. | | 110 |
| 7606022225 | Unreliable Narrator | Types of Narrator
A Narrator who seems trustworthy at first, but the reader starts to question the validity of the story being told. | | 111 |
| 7699984626 | The 5 Branches Of Philosophy | • Metaphysics
• Epistemology
• Ethics
• Politics
• Aesthetics | | 112 |
| 7699984627 | Philosophy | A love of knowledge. | | 113 |
| 7699984628 | Metaphysics | Type of Philosophy
Rising above or beyond existence. The study of existence. | | 114 |
| 7699984629 | Epistemology | Type of Philosophy
A study of how we know about the universe | | 115 |
| 7699984630 | Ethics | Type of Philosophy
How do we act in the world?
The study of morality | | 116 |
| 7699984631 | Politics | Type of Philosophy
Ethics applied to a group of people | | 117 |
| 7699984632 | Aesthetics | Type of Philosophy
The study of beauty | | 118 |
| 7699984633 | Zeitgeist | Type of Ism
The spirit of the times. The general philosophic, cultural, and artistic climate of an era | | 119 |
| 7895335289 | Blank Verse | Rhythm
An Unrhymed iambic pentameter | | 120 |
| 7895335290 | Internal Rhyme | Type of Sound
Happens in the middle of a line of poetry. | | 121 |
| 8492218442 | Fundamentalists | A literal belief in religious text. | | 122 |
| 8492218443 | Liberal Believers | Believe that religious texts contain metaphors, might not believe it was a true story | | 123 |
| 8492218444 | Scholars and Non- Believers | Believe that religious texts are cultural relics, not necessarily true, but something to be studied. | | 124 |
| 8492218445 | Political Nihilism | Anarchy, a desire to destroy all forms of government | | 125 |
| 8492218446 | Philosophical Nihilism | There is no god, no afterlife, there is nothing after death ; Atheism | | 126 |
| 8492218447 | Nietzche- Will To Power | You are able to exert your own power into the world. | | 127 |
| 8492218448 | The three periods of Civilization Development | • Pre-Moral Stage: the master morality
• Moral Stage: slave morality
• The Supra-Moral Stage: the rise of the Ubermensch | | 128 |
| 8492218449 | Ubermensch | A figure that throws aside societal morality and decides to alter the world around them under their influence | | 129 |
| 8492218450 | 4 Major Themes of Existentialism | • Moral Individualism
• Subjectivity
• Choice and Commitment
• Dread and Anxiety | | 130 |
| 8492218451 | Moral Individualism | The individual must decide which situations are to count as moral situations | | 131 |
| 8492218452 | Subjevtivity | The understanding of a situation by someone involved in that situation is superior to that of a detached, objective observer | | 132 |
| 8492218453 | Choice and Commitment | Choice is inescapable, freedom of choice entails commitment and responsibility | | 133 |
| 8492218454 | Dread and Anxiety | Because you have no guide, you should be conscious of the power you hold through the freedom to make choices | | 134 |
| 8492218455 | Existentialism | Philosophical movement or tendency, emphasizing individual existence, freedom, and choice, that influenced many diverse writers during the 19th and 20th centuries. | | 135 |
| 8492218456 | 4 Parts of a Dialectical Clash | • Dialectical
• Thesis
• antithesis
• synthesis | | 136 |
| 8492218457 | Ideological | A philosophic belief that there is a purpose to time and the universe | | 137 |
| 8492218458 | Predestination | Derived from Puritanism; What you are going to do or be has already been determined | | 138 |
| 8492218459 | Temporal Time | Existing in the present. The past is gone and the future has not occurred yet. | | 139 |
| 8492218460 | Unconditional Election | Humans are not able to save themselves. No amount of food deeds will save you. | | 140 |
| 8492218461 | Total Depravity | Derived from Calvinism; you are born with original sin | | 141 |
| 8492218462 | Limited Atonement | Jesus only died on the cross for those who are already saved, not for everybody | | 142 |
| 8492218463 | Irresistible Grace | The grace of god is only given to the saved. | | 143 |
| 8492218464 | Perseverance of the Saints | Those elected by god have full power to interpret the will of god | | 144 |
| 8492218465 | Renaissance | Refers to the rebirth of learning that spread through Italy and the north in the 14th century and ended in mid 17th century | | 145 |
| 8492218466 | The Great Chain of Being | Every existing thing has its "place" in a hierarchal order. | | 146 |
| 8492218467 | Humanism | Gave renewed emphasis to life in this world instead of to the otherworldly life in the Middle Ages. A shift from "contemplation life" to "active life" | | 147 |
| 8492218468 | Protestantism | Wanted the medieval church to conform within, most important was the rejection of the pope as a spiritual leader. | | 148 |
| 8492218469 | Wheel of Fortune | The goddess Fortunate spins the wheel of fate. Some suffer misfortune, others gain windfalls | | 149 |
| 8492218470 | Dualism | The belief that human beings have 2 natures. | | 150 |
| 8492218471 | Onomatopoeia | When a word means what it sounds like | | 151 |
| 8492218472 | Kenning | A noun that takes the place of another noun | | 152 |
| 8492218473 | Poetic Diction | A word used to refer to the linguistic style, the vocabulary, and the metaphors used in the writing of poetry. | | 153 |
| 8492218474 | Inverted Syntax | When the normal order of words are reversed to produce a certain effect | | 154 |
| 8492218475 | Anachronism | an act of attributing a custom, event, or object to a period to which it does not belong. | | 155 |
| 8492218476 | Tone | Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character. | | 156 |
| 8492218477 | Stream of Consciousness | A literary technique that presents the thoughts and feelings of a character as they occur. | | 157 |
| 8492218478 | Monomyth- The Hero Cycle | • I. Departure
• II. Initiation
• III. Return | | 158 |
| 8492218479 | The Hero Cycle | A. The call to adventure
B. Circumstance of the call
C. Threshold
D. Beyond threshold
E. Return threshold
F. Apperance of helper | | 159 |
| 8492218480 | 3 Major Types of Poetry | • Narrative
-ballad
-epic
• Dramatic
-dialogue
-monologue
• lyric
-the elegy
-the ode
-the sonnet | | 160 |
| 8492837726 | Assonance | The repetition of vowel sounds between dissimilar consonant sounds.
Ex.) two turtles burning | | 161 |
| 8492837727 | Consonance | Repetition of consonant sounds by dissimilar vowel sounds.
Ex.) rattle the kettle | | 162 |
