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AP Literature Terms Flashcards

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

2771499898	Abstract	Complex, discusses intangible qualities like good and evil, seldom uses examples to support its points.	0
2771499899	Academic	Dry and rhetorical writing; sucking all the life out of its subject with analysis.	1
2771499900	Accent	In poetry, the stressed portion of a word.	2
2771499901	Aesthetic	Appealing to the senses; a coherent sense of taste.	3
2771499902	Allegory	A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself.	4
2771499903	Alliteration	The repetition of initial consonant sounds.	5
2771499904	Allusion	A reference to another work or famous figure.	6
2771499905	Anachronism	"Misplaced in time." An aspect of a story that doesn't belong in its supposed time setting.	7
2771499906	Analogy	A comparison, usually involving two or more symbolic parts, employed to clarify an action or a relationship.	8
2771499907	Anecdote	A Short Narrative	9
2771499908	Antecedent	The word, phrase, or clause that determines what a pronoun refers to.	10
2771499909	Anthropomorphism	When inanimate objects are given human characteristics. Often confused with personification.	11
2771499910	Anticlimax	Occurs when an action produces far smaller results than one had been led to expect.	12
2771499911	Antihero	A protagonist who is markedly unheroic: morally weak, cowardly, dishonest, or any number of other unsavory qualities.	13
2771499912	Aphorism	A short and usually witty saying.	14
2771499913	Apostrophe	A figure of speech wherein the speaker talks directly to something that is nonhuman.	15
2771499914	Archaism	The use of deliberately old-fashioned language.	16
2771499915	Aside	A speech (usually just a short comment) made by an actor to the audience, as though momentarily stepping outside of the action on stage.	17
2771499916	Aspect	A trait or characteristic	18
2771499917	Assonance	The repeated use of vowel sounds: "Old king Cole was a merry old soul."	19
2771499918	Atmosphere	The emotional tone or background that surrounds a scene	20
2771499919	Ballad	A long, narrative poem, usually in meter and rhyme. Typically has a naive folksy quality.	21
2771499920	Bathos	Writing strains for grandeur it can't support and tries too hard to be a tear jerker.	22
2771499921	Pathos	Writing evokes feelings of dignified pity and sympathy.	23
2771499922	Black humor	The use of disturbing themes in comedy.	24
2771499923	Bombast	Pretentious, exaggeratedly learned language.	25
2771499924	Burlesque	Broad parody, one that takes a style or form and exaggerates it into ridiculousness.	26
2771499925	Cacophony	In poetry, using deliberately harsh, awkward sounds.	27
2771499926	Cadence	The beat or rhythm or poetry in a general sense.	28
2771499927	Canto	The name for a section division in a long work of poetry.	29
2771499928	Caricature	A portrait (verbal or otherwise) that exaggerates a facet of personality.	30
2771499929	Catharsis	Drawn from Aristotle's writings on tragedy. Refers to the "cleansing" of emotion an audience member experiences during a play	31
2771499930	Chorus	In Greek drama, the group of citizens who stand outside the main action on stage and comment on it.	32
2771499931	Classic	Typical, or an accepted masterpiece.	33
2771499932	Coinage (neologism)	A new word, usually one invented on the spot.	34
2771499933	Colloquialism	A word or phrase used in everyday conversational English that isn't a part of accepted "school-book" English.	35
2771499934	Complex (Dense)	Suggesting that there is more than one possibility in the meaning of words; subtleties and variations; multiple layers of interpretation; meaning both explicit and implicit	36
2771499935	Conceit (Controlling Image)	A startling or unusual metaphor, or to a metaphor developed and expanded upon several lines.	37
2771499936	Denotation	A word's literal meaning.	38
2771499937	Connotation	Everything other than the literal meaning that a word suggests or implies.	39
2771499938	Consonance	The repetition of consonant sounds within words (rather than at their beginnings)	40
2771499939	Couplet	A pair of lines that end in rhyme	41
2771499940	Decorum	A character's speech must be styled according to her social station, and in accordance to the situation.	42
2771499941	Diction	The words an author chooses to use.	43
2771499942	Syntax	The ordering and structuring of words.	44
2771499943	Dirge	A song for the dead. Its tone is typically slow, heavy, depressed, and melancholy	45
2771499944	Dissonance	Refers to the grating of incompatible sounds.	46
2771499945	Doggerel	Crude, simplistic verse, often in sing-song rhyme, like limericks.	47
2771499946	Dramatic Irony	When the audience knows something that the characters in the drama do not	48
2771499947	Dramatic Monologue	When a single speaker in literature says something to a silent audience.	49
2771499948	Elegy	A type of poem that meditates on death or mortality in a serious, thoughtful manner.	50
2771499949	Elements	Basic techniques of each genre of literature	51
2771499950	Enjambment	The continuation of a syntactic unit from one line or couplet of a poem to the next with no pause.	52
2771499951	Epic	A very long narrative poem on a serious theme in a dignified style; typically deal with glorious or profound subject matter.	53
2771499952	Epitaph	Lines that commemorate the dead at their burial place.	54
2771499953	Euphemism	A word or phrase that takes the place of a harsh, unpleasant, or impolite reality.	55
2771499954	Euphony	When sounds blend harmoniously.	56
2771499955	Explicit	To say or write something directly and clearly.	57
2771499956	Farce	Extremely broad humor; in earlier times, a funny play or a comedy.	58
2771499957	Feminine rhyme	Lines rhymed by their final two syllables. Properly, the penultimate syllables are stressed and the final syllables are unstressed.	59
2771499958	Foil	A secondary character whose purpose is to highlight the characteristics of a main character, usually by contrast.	60
2771499959	Foot	The basic rhythmic unit of a line of poetry, formed by a combination of two or three syllables, either stressed or unstressed.	61
2771499960	Foreshadowing	An event of statement in a narrative that in miniature suggests a larger event that comes later.	62
2771499961	Free verse	poetry written without a regular rhyme scheme or metrical pattern	63
2771499962	Genre	A sub-category of literature.	64
2771499963	Gothic	A sensibility that includes such features as dark, gloomy castles and weird screams from the attic each night.	65
2771499964	Hubris	The excessive pride or ambition that leads to the main character's downfall	66
2771499965	Hyperbole	Exaggeration or deliberate overstatement.	67
2771499966	Implicit	To say or write something that suggests and implies but never says it directly or clearly.	68
2771499967	In media res	Latin for "in the midst of things," i.e. beginning an epic poem in the middle of the action.	69
2771499968	Interior Monologue	Refers to writing that records the mental talking that goes on inside a character's head; tends to be coherent.	70
2771499969	Inversion	Switching the customary order of elements in a sentence or phrase.	71
2771499970	Irony	A statement that means the opposite of what it seems to mean; uses an undertow of meaning, sliding against the literal a la Jane Austen.	72
2771499971	Lament	A poem of sadness or grief over the death of a loved one or over some other intense loss.	73
2771499972	Lampoon	A satire.	74
2771499973	Loose sentence	A sentence that is complete before its end: Jack loved Barbara despite her irritating snorting laugh.	75
2771499974	Periodic Sentence	A sentence that is not grammatically complete until it has reached it s final phrase: Despite Barbara's irritation at Jack, she loved him.	76
2771499975	Lyric	A type of poetry that explores the poet's personal interpretation of and feelings about the world.	77
2771499976	Masculine rhyme	A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable (regular old rhyme)	78
2771499977	Meaning	What makes sense, what's important.	79
2771499978	Melodrama	A form of cheesy theater in which the hero is very, very good, the villain mean and rotten, and the heroine oh-so-pure.	80
2771499979	Metaphor	A comparison or analogy that states one thing IS another.	81
2771499980	Simile	A comparison or analogy that typically uses like or as.	82
2771499981	Metonymy	A word that is used to stand for something else that it has attributes of or is associated with.	83
2771499982	Nemesis	The protagonist's arch enemy or supreme and persistent difficulty.	84
2771499983	Objectivity	Treatment of subject matter in an impersonal manner or from an outside view.	85
2771499984	Subjectivity	A treatment of subject matter that uses the interior or personal view of a single observer and is typically colored with that observer's emotional responses.	86
2771499985	Onomatopoeia	Words that sound like what they mean	87
2771499986	Opposition	A pairing of images whereby each becomes more striking and informative because it's placed in contrast to the other one.	88
2771499987	Oxymoron	A phrase composed of opposites; a contradiction.	89
2771499988	Parable	A story that instructs.	90
2771499989	Paradox	A situation or statement that seems to contradict itself, but on closer inspection, does not.	91
2771499990	Parallelism	Repeated syntactical similarities used for effect.	92
2771499991	Paraphrase	To restate phrases and sentences in your own words.	93
2771499992	Parenthetical phrase	A phrase set off by commas that interrupts the flow of a sentence with some commentary or added detail.	94
2771499993	Parody	The work that results when a specific work is exaggerated to ridiculousness.	95
2771499994	Pastoral	A poem set in tranquil nature or even more specifically, one about shepherds.	96
2771499995	Persona	The narrator in a non first-person novel.	97
2771499996	Personification	When an inanimate object takes on human shape.	98
2771499997	Plaint	A poem or speech expressing sorrow.	99
2771499998	Point of View	The perspective from which the action of a novel is presented.	100
2771499999	Omniscient	A third person narrator who sees into each character's mind and understands all the action going on.	101
2771500000	Limited Omniscient	A Third person narrator who generally reports only what one character sees, and who only reports the thoughts of that one privileged character.	102
2771500001	Objective	A thrid person narrator who only reports on what would be visible to a camera. Does not know what the character is thinking unless the character speaks it.	103
2771500002	First person	A narrator who is a character in the story and tells the tale from his or her point of view.	104
2771500003	Stream of Consciousness	Author places the reader inside the main character's head and makes the reader privy to all of the character's thoughts as they scroll through her consciousness.	105
2771500004	Prelude	An introductory poem to a longer work of verse	106
2771500005	Protagonist	The main character of a novel or play	107
2771500006	Pun	The usually humorous use of a word in such a way to suggest two or more meanings	108
2771500007	Refrain	A line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem.	109
2771500008	Requiem	A song of prayer for the dead.	110
2771500009	Rhapsody	An intensely passionate verse or section of verse, usually of love or praise.	111
2771500010	Rhetorical question	A question that suggests an answer.	112
2771500011	Satire	Attempts to improve things by pointing out people's mistakes in the hope that once exposed, such behavior will become less common.	113
2771500012	Soliloquy	A speech spoken by a character alone on stage, meant to convey the impression that the audience is listening to the character's thoughts.	114
2771500013	Stanza	A group of lines roughly analogous in function in verse to the paragraphs function in prose.	115
2771500014	Stock characters	Standard or cliched character types.	116
2771500015	Subjunctive Mood	A grammatical situation involving the words "if" and "were," setting up a hypothetical situation.	117
2771500016	Suggest	To imply, infer, indicate.	118
2771500017	Summary	A simple retelling of what you've just read.	119
2771500018	Suspension of disbelief	The demand made of a theater audience to accept the limitations of staging and supply the details with their imagination.	120
2771500019	Symbolism	A device in literature where an object represents an idea.	121
2771500020	Technique	The methods and tools of the author.	122
2771500021	Theme	The main idea of the overall work; the central idea.	123
2771500022	Thesis	The main position of an argument. The central contention that will be supported.	124
2771500023	Tragic flaw	In a tragedy, this is the weakness of a character in an otherwise good (or even great) individual that ultimately leads to his demise.	125
2771500024	Travesty	A grotesque parody	126
2771500025	Truism	A way-too obvious truth	127
2771500026	Unreliable narrator	When the first person narrator is crazy, a liar, very young, or for some reason not entirely credible	128
2771500027	Utopia	An idealized place. Imaginary communities in which people are able to live in happiness, prosperity, and peace.	129
2771500028	Zeugma	The use of a word to modify two or more words, but used for different meanings. He closed the door and his heart on his lost love.	130
2771500029	Ode	A poem in praise of something divine or noble	131
2771500030	Iamb	A poetic foot -- light, heavy	132
2771500031	Trochee	A poetic foot -- heavy, light	133
2771500032	Spondee	A poetic foot -- heavy, heavy	134
2771500033	Pyrrhie	A poetic foot -- light, light	135
2771500034	Anapest	A poetic foot -- light, light, heavy	136
2771500035	Ambibranch	A poetic foot -- light, heavy, light	137
2771500036	Dactyl	A poetic foot -- heavy, light, light	138
2771500037	Imperfect	A poetic foot -- single light or single heavy	139
2771500038	Pentameter	A poetic line with five feet.	140
2771500039	Tetrameter	A poetic line with four feet	141
2771500040	Trimeter	A poetic line with three feet	142
2771500041	Blank Verse	unrhymed iambic pentameter.	143

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2806663841	Antagonist	A person who is opposed to, struggles against, or competes with another; opponent; adversary.	0
2806663842	Aphorism	A terse saying embodying a general truth, or astute observation.	1
2806663844	Aside	A temporary departure from a main theme or topic, especially a parenthetical comment or remark; short digression.	2
2806663846	Bildungsroman	A type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist.	3
2806663848	Caricature	A picture, description, etc., ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things	4
2806663849	Catharsis	purging of the emotions or relieving of emotional tensions, especially through certain kinds of art, as tragedy or music.	5
2806663851	Comic Relief	An amusing scene, incident, or speech introduced into serious or tragic elements, as in a play, in order to provide temporary relief from tension, or to intensify the dramatic action.	6
2806663852	Conceit	An elaborate, fanciful metaphor, especially of a strained or far-fetched nature.	7
2806663853	Denouement	The final resolution of the intricacies of a plot, as of a drama or novel.	8
2806663855	Dialect	A variety of a language that is distinguished from other varieties of the same language by features of phonology, grammar, and vocabulary, and by its use a group of speakers who are set off from others geographically or socially.	9
2806663856	Doppleganger	A ghostly double or counterpart of a living person.	10
2806663857	Dystopia	A society characterized by human misery, a squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.	11
2806663860	Epigraph	An apposite quotation at the beginning of a book, chapter, etc.	12
2806663861	Epilogue	A concluding part added to a literary work, as a novel.	13
2806663862	Epiphany	A literary work or section of a work presenting, usually symbolically, such a moment of revelation and insight.	14
2806663863	Epistolary	(of a novel or other work) constructed in the form of a series of letters.	15
2806663864	Epithet	Any word or phrase applied to a person or thing to describe an actual or attributed quality.	16
2806663865	Flashback	A device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which an event or scene taking place before the present time in the narrative is inserted into the chronological structure of the work.	17
2806663866	Flat & Round Characters	A flat character is a minor character in a work of fiction who does not undergo substantial change or growth in the course of a story. A round character is a character in fiction whose personality, background, motives, and other features are fully delineated by the author.	18
2806663867	Foil	A person or thing that makes another seem better by contrast.	19
2806663868	Foreshadowing	To show or indicate beforehand	20
2806663869	Frame Story	A narrative providing the framework for connecting a series of otherwise unrelated stories.	21
2806663870	Hubris	Excessive pride toward or defiance of the gods, leading to nemesis.	22
2806663871	Hyperbole	An extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally.	23
2806663872	In Media Res	The classical tradition of opening an epic not in the chronological point at which the sequence of events would start, but rather at the midway point of the story.	24
2806663873	Interior Monologue	A form of stream-of-consciousness writing that represents the inner thoughts of a character.	25
2806663874	Invocation of the Muse	An opening to a story in which the teller of the story prays to one of the 9 muses to help them tell/sing the story.	26
2806663876	Local Color	Distinctive, sometimes picturesque characteristics or peculiarities of a place or period as represented in literature or drama, or as observed in reality.	27
2806663877	Malapropism	An act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, especially by the confusion of words that are similar in sound.	28
2806663879	Metaphor	with the tenor referring to the concept, object, or person meant, and the vehicle being the image that carries the weight of the comparison.	29
2806663881	Monologue	a form of dramatic entertainment, comedic solo, or the like by a single speaker	30
2806663882	Motif	A reoccurring subject, theme, idea, etc., especially in a literary, artistic, or musical work.	31
2806663883	Paradox	A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.	32
2806663885	Satire	The use of irony sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.	33
2806663886	Soliloquy	An utterance or discourse by a person who is talking to himself or herself or is disregardful of or oblivious to any hearers present (often used as a device in drama to disclose a character's innermost thoughts).	34
2806663887	Stock Character	A character in literature, theater, or film of a type quickly recognized and accepted by the reader or viewer and requiring no development by the writer.	35
2806663888	Stream of Consciousness	A literary style in which one's thoughts and feelings are depicted in a continuous and uninterrupted flow.	36
2806663889	Symbolism	The practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character.	37
2806663890	Synethesia	The subjective sensation of a sense other than the one being stimulated. For example, a sound may evoke sensations of color.	38
2806663892	Tragic Flaw	The character defect that causes the downfall of the protagonist of a tragedy.	39
2806663893	Unreliable Narrator	In fiction, as in life, the unreliable narrator is a narrator who can't be trusted. Either from ignorance or self-interest, this narrator speaks with a bias, makes mistakes, or even lies.	40
2806665787	Alliteration	It is a stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series.	41
2806667031	Allusion	A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art. Allusions can be historical, literary, religious, topical, or mythical. There are many more possibilities, and a work may simultaneously use multiple layers of allusion.	42
2806670630	Ballad	A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas, characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.	43
2806672103	Cacophony	A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds	44
2806672562	Character	A fictional personality created by an author	45
2806672841	Climax	That point in a plot that creates the greatest intensity, suspense, or interest; usually the point at which the conflict is resolved	46
2806674471	Conflict	A struggle between two opposing forces	47
2806674472	Connotation	An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning	48
2806675101	Convention	A traditional aspect of a literary work such as a soliloquy in a Shakespearean play or a tragic hero in a Greek tragedy.	49
2806678239	Denotation	The dictionary definition of a word	50
2806679248	Deus ex Machina	An unexpected power or event saving a seemingly hopeless situation, especially as a contrived plot device in a play or novel	51
2806679831	Diction	The author's choice of words.	52
2806681991	Epic	A long narrative poem, written in heightened language, which recounts the deeds of a heroic character who embodies the values of a particular society	53
2806682796	Epigram	A brief witty poem, often satirical.	54
2806683346	Exposition	A narrative device, often used at the beginning of a work that provides necessary background information about the characters and their circumstances.	55
2806684686	Fable	A brief story that leads to a moral, often using animals as characters	56
2806684985	Figurative Language	Writing or speech that is not intended to carry literal meaning and is usually meant to be imaginative and vivid	57
2806686435	Form	The shape or structure of a literary work.	58
2806690760	Idyll	Presenting a positive, peaceful view of rural life (as poetry or prose); pleasant in a natural, simple way	59
2806691077	Imagery	Descriptive or figurative language in a literary work; the use of language to create sensory impressions.	60
2806692002	Impressionism	An artistic movement that sought to capture a momentary feel, or impression, of the piece they were drawinAn artistic movement that sought to capture a momentary feel, or impression, of the piece they were drawing.	61
2806692337	Irony	A contrast or discrepancy between what is stated and what is really meant, or between what is expected to happen and what actually does happen.	62
2806693188	Magical realism	A type of literature that explores narratives by and about characters who inhabit and experience their reality differently from what we term the objective world. Writers who are frequently placed in this category are Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gunter Grass, and Isabel Allende.	63
2806697911	Narrator	Person telling the story	64
2806699519	Onomatopoeia	A figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words.	65
2806699857	Oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.	66
2806700272	Parable	A simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson	67
2806700273	Parallel Plot	A secondary story line that mimics and reinforces the main plot.	68
2806701206	Parody	A comic imitation of a work that ridicules the original.	69
2806701543	Pathos	The aspects of a literary work that elicit pity from the audience.	70
2806683183	Euphony	pleasant, harmonious sound	71
2808286328	Plot	Sequence of events in a story	72
2808286419	Point of view	In literature, the perspective from which a story is told. Same as narrative perspective.	73
2808286525	Narrative Perspective	In literature, the perspective from which a story is told. Same as point of view.	74
2808287891	Romanticism	19th-century western European artistic and literary movement; held that emotion and impression, not reason, were the keys to the mysteries of human experience and nature; sought to portray passions, not calm reflection.	75
2808288235	Setting	The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs.	76
2808288357	Simile	A comparison using "like" or "as"	77
2808289079	Stage directions	an instruction in the text of a play, especially one indicating the movement, position, or tone of an actor, or the sound effects and lighting.	78
2808289361	Style	The consideration of style has two purposes: (1) An evaluation of the sum of the choices an author makes in blending diction, syntax, figurative language, and other We can analyze and describe an author's personal style and make judgments on how appropriate it is to the author's purpose. Styles can be called flowery, explicit, succinct, rambling, bombastic, commonplace, incisive, laconic, etc. (2) Classification of authors to a group and comparison of an author to similar authors. By means of such classification and comparison, we can see how an author's style reflects and helps to define a historical period, such as the Renaissance or the Victorian period, or a literary movement, such as the romantic, transcendental, or realist movement.	79
2808289567	subplot	a subordinate or minor collection of events in a novel or play, usually connected to the main plot	80
2808289764	symbol	A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract.	81
2808289568	subtext	The implied meaning that underlies the main meaning of a work of literature	82
2808290153	syntax	The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.	83
2808290407	tone	A writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization on the sentence and global levels.	84
2808290223	theme	A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work.	85
2808290503	Understatement	A statement that says less than what is meant	86
2808290408	Tragic	A literary character who makes an error of judgment or has a fatal flaw that, combined with fate and external forces, brings on a tragedy	87
2808290942	Allegory	A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.	88
2808291132	Ambiguity	The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage.	89
2808291304	Anecdote	A short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person	90
2808291500	Anti-climax	A false climax in which expectations are aroused and let down	91
2808291632	Assonance	Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity	92
2808291947	Colloquial language	informal language; language that is "conversational"	93
2808292768	Emotive language	Deliberate use of language by a writer to instill a feeling or visual.	94
2808293671	Euphemism	An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant	95
2808296564	Folklore	The traditional beliefs, myths, tales, and practices of a people, transmitted orally.	96
2808296828	Genre	A category or type of literature (or of art, music, etc.) characterized by a particular form, style, or content.	97
2808297321	Gothic novel	A novel in which supernatural horrors and an atmosphere of unknown terrors pervades the action	98
2808297461	Heroine	A woman noted for courage and daring action or the female protagonist.	99
2808300666	Illocution	Language that avoids meaning of the words. When we speak, sometimes we conceal intentions or side step the true subject of a conversation. Writing illocution expresses two stories, one of which is not apparent to the characters, bujt is apparent ot the reader. For example, if two characters are discussing a storm on the surface it may seem like a simple discussion of the weather; however, the reader should interpret the underlying meaning--that the relationship is in turmoil, chaos, is unpredictable. As demonstrated, the story contains an underlying menaing or prallel meanings.	100
2808984966	Memoir	A historical account or biography written from personal knowledge or special sources	101
2808984967	Novella	a fiction work that is longer than a short story but shorter than a novel	102
2808986390	Neutral Language	Language opposite from emotive language as it is literal or even objective in nature.	103
2808986875	Personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	104
2808987776	Poetic Justice	The idea that virtuous and evil actions are ultimately dealt with justly, with virtue rewarded and evil punished.	105
2808988220	Prequel	A literary, dramatic, or cinematic work whose narrative takes place before that of a preexisting work or a sequel.	106
2808988226	Prologue	A speech, passage, or event coming before the main speech or event	107
2808988806	Protagonist	Main character in a story	108
2808989273	Pun	A humorous play on words	109
2808989838	Rising Action	A series of events that builds from the conflict. It begins with the inciting force and ends with the climax.	110
2808989839	Rites of Passage	An incident which creates tremendous growth signifying a transition from adolescence to adulthood.	111
2808990124	Resolution	End of the story where loose ends are tied up	112
2808990591	Slang	A type of language that consists of words and phrases that are regarded as very informal, are more common in speech than writing, and are typically restricted to a particular context or group of people	113
2808991064	Tragedy	A dramatic composition, often in verse, dealing with a serious or somber theme, typically that of a great person destined through a flaw of character or conflict with some overpowering force, as fate or society, to downfall or destruction.	114
2808991874	Tone	A writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization on the sentence and global levels.	115
2809134854	Analogy	A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way	116
2809135116	Archetype	A detail, image, or character type that occurs frequently in literature and myth and is thought to appeal in a universal way to the unconscious and to evoke a response	117
2809135678	Carpe Diem	Literally, "seize the day"; "enjoy life while you can," a common theme in life and literature.	118
2809136623	Characterization	A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.	119
2809136624	Details	The facts revealed by the author or speaker that support the attitude or tone in a piece of poetry or prose.	120
2809138264	Dialogue	Conversation between two or more characters	121
2809138265	Dramatic Monologue	A type of poem in which a speaker addresses a silent listener. As readers, we overhear the speaker in a dramatic monologue.	122
2809138876	Suspense	A feeling of uncertainty and curiosity about what will happen next in a story; key element in fiction and drama; "hook" writer uses to keep audience interested	123
5053644250	Antithesis	(n.) the direct opposite, a sharp contrast	124

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4390889217	Synecdoche	Meant to represent the whole (Cleveland won!)	0
4390889218	Metonymy	Substitute of a name of the attribute (suit=businessman)	1
4390889219	Syllepsis	A word is applied to two others in different senses (caught the train and a cold)	2
4390889220	Litotes	Ironic understatement expressing the contrary	3
4390889221	Antithesis	A person/thing that is the direct opposite of another person/thing	4
4390889222	Asyndeton	Omission of conjunction	5
4390889223	Assonance	Repetition of sound or vowel	6
4390889224	Anaphora	?	7
4400976390	Synthesis	Combination of ideas to form a theory	8
4400976391	Objective	Impartial	9
4400976392	Analysis	Detailed examination	10
4400976393	Induction	Inducting someone to a position	11
4400976394	Analogy	Life is like a race	12
4400976395	Cause and Effect	Stress causes low exam scores	13
4400976396	Classification/division	Noun (plural) can be classified as examples......Action can involve examples	14
4400976397	Comparison and Contrast		15

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2401722920	Surreptitiously	Done by secretive means	0
2401722921	Wary	On guard	1
2401722922	Wily	Cunning	2
2401722923	Ambiguous	Open to more than one interpretation	3
2401722924	Ambivalent	Simultaneously having opposing feelings; uncertain	4
2401722925	Apathetic	Feeling or showing little emotion	5
2401722926	Arbitrary	Determined by impulse rather than reason	6
2401722927	Capricious	Impulsive and unpredictable	7
2401722928	Equivocate	To avoid making a definite statement	8
2401722929	Indifferent	Not caring one way or the other	9
2401722930	Spontaneous	Unplanned; naturally occurring	10
2401722931	Whimsical	Subject to erratic behavior; unpredictable	11
2401722932	Inconsequential	Unimportant	12
2401722933	Superficial	Concerned only with what is on the surface or obvious; Shallow	13
2401722934	Tenuous	Having little substance or strength; shaky; unsure, weak	14
2401722935	Trivial	Of little importance or significance	15
2401722936	Assiduous	Hard-working	16
2401722937	Compelling	Forceful; urgently demanding attention	17
2401722938	Diligent	Marked by painstaking effort; hard-working	18
2401722939	Dogged	Stubbornly persevering	19

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4524671883	plaintive	adj. sad	0
4524673721	portentous	adj. foreboding	1
4524685270	portend	v. to foreshadow	2
4524687542	semblance	n. alikeness, resemblance	3
4524693303	penury	n. extreme poverty	4
4524693351	desolate	adj. abandoned	5
4524695590	ascetic	adj. abstinent	6
4524716121	sullen	adj. gloomy	7
4524719506	peremptory	adj. domineering; IMPERIOUS	8
4524725813	soporific	adj. boring	9
4524728008	ludicrous	adj. ridiculous; PREPOSTEROUS	10
4645278764	façade	n. exterior	11
4645279997	approbation	n. approval	12
4645281040	interminable	adj. never-ending	13
4645281446	calumny	n. slander	14
4645283871	acquiesce	v. to yield	15
4645284960	propitious	adj. favorable	16
4645285263	venerate	v. to admire	17
4645285970	phlegmatic	adj. indifferent	18
4645286495	enigma	n. puzzle	19
4645287159	deprecate	v. to belittle; to discommend	20
4645288022	noxious	adj. deadly	21
4645289422	assiduous	adj. hard-working; SEDULOUS	22
4645290872	solicitous	adj. concerned	23
4645291536	fastidious	adj. picky; METICULOUS	24
4645292150	insipid	adj. dull	25
4645297021	enervate	v. to fatigue; to VITIATE	26
4645298035	trepidation	n. fear	27
4645298662	intrepid	adj. brave	28
4645299283	evince	v. to show clearly	29
4645300435	indefatigable	adj. tireless	30
4645300950	insuperable	adj. impossible to overcome; abject	31
4645302401	engender	v. to generate	32
4645303753	capricious	adj. erratic; IRRESOLUTE; IMPETUOUS	33
4645305287	countenance	n. outward appearance; PHYSIOGNOMY	34
4645308555	conjecture	n; v. a guess; to guess	35
4645311135	inexorable	adj. relentless	36
4645312119	sardonic	adj. bitterly sarcastic	37
4645312712	impetuous	adj. impulsive; CAPRICIOUS	38
4645313755	equivocal	adj. uncertain	39
4645314515	transitory	adj. temporary; EPHEMERAL	40
4645314516	ephemeral	adj. fleeting; TRANSITORY	41
4645317277	obscure	adj/v. cryptic; to hide	42
4645318556	sanguine	adj. optimistic	43
4645321367	prodigal	adj. wasteful, PROFLIGATE	44
4645322703	discern	v. to detect	45
4645323681	profligate	adj. reckless, PRODIGAL	46
4645326061	languid	adj. indifferent	47
4645327565	sententious	adj. pithy	48
4645328496	disposition	n. frame of mind	49
4645330852	apoplexy	n. stroke	50
4738266086	picayune	adj. cheap	51
4738266239	querulous	adj. whiny	52
4738266882	puerile	adj. childish; CALLOW	53
4738267368	effluence	n. outflow, VERBOSITY	54
4738268273	fervent	adj. intense; ARDENT	55
4738268274	ascertain	v. to verify	56
4738268474	innocuous	adj. harmless	57
4738269406	dauntless	adj. brave	58
4738269407	indemnity	n. payment	59
4738269639	capacious	adj. spacious	60
4742587135	inveterate	adj. habitual	61
4781649604	noisome	adj. offensive; disgustive	62
4781650397	dross	n. trash	63
4781651439	irascible	adj. irritable; BILIOUS; PETULANT; QUERULOUS	64
4781652688	misconstrue	v. to misjudge	65
4781659295	automaton	n. robot	66
4781659298	conciliate	v. to calm	67
4781660148	tyro	n. beginner; newcomer; novice	68
4781661098	asperity	n. bitterness	69
4781662150	propinquity	n. proximity	70
4781662672	assuage	v. to ease	71
4781663771	invidious	adj. offensive	72
4781664649	panegyric	n. eulogy; encomium	73
4781665957	imbibe	v. consume	74
4781711429	physiognomy	n. outward appearance; COUNTENANCE	75
4781712643	confabulation	n. conversation; PALAVER	76
4781734513	effrontery	n. audacity; IMPUDENCE	77
4781735260	disquieting	adj. unsettling	78
4781735833	rapt	adj. captivated	79
4781735834	sapient	adj. intelligent	80
4781736474	mien	n. manner; DISPOSITION	81
4781737156	capitulate	v. to surrender	82
4781737157	preclude	v. to prevent	83
4781737902	disputatious	adj. argumentative	84
4781737903	salient	adj. significant	85
4781738651	facile	adj. effortless	86
4781738652	maladroit	adj. clumsy	87
4781739281	fait accompli	n. irreversible deed	88
4781739947	pedantry	n. meticulousness	89
4781739948	ineffable	adj. inexpressible	90
4781740865	salubrious	adj. wholesome	91

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1758940584	analogy	a similarity or comparison b/t 2 different things or the relationship b/t them, can explain something unfamiliar	0
1758940585	rhetoric	describes principles governing the art of writing or speaking effectively, eloquently, and persuasively	1
1758940586	figurative language	writing or speech that is not intended to carry literal meaning and is usually meant to be imaginative and vivid	2
1758940587	repetition	the duplication of any exact or approximate, of any element of language, words, phrases, sounds, clauses, sentences, or grammatical pattern	3
1758940588	run-on sentence	two independent clauses joined incorrectly by a comma or no punctuation at all.	4
1758940589	syllogism	deductive system of formal logic that presents two premises, first major and second minor, that inevitably lead to a sound conclusion, ex. major: all men are mortal, minor: Socrates is a man, conclusion: Socrates is a mortal	5
1758940590	independent clause	a clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence	6
1758940591	subordinate clause (dependent clause)	word group that contains both a subject and a verb, plus any accompanying phrases or modifiers, cannot stand alone, does not express a complete thought	7
1758940592	objective tone	language or tones that are neutral and without subjectivity or bias	8
1758940593	alliteration	repetition of sounds at the beginning of words, ex. in awe of the awesome aardvark	9

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3840443981	pathos	appeal to emotion	0
3840443982	pentameter	a line of five feet	1
3840445792	periodic sentence	a sentence that, by leaving the completion of its main clause to the end, produces an effect of suspense	2
3840448838	peripeteia	a sudden turn of events or an unexpected reversal in a tragedy	3
3840452908	personification	the technique by which animals, abstract ideas, or inanimate objects are referred to as if they were human	4
3840458442	plot	the careful arrangement by an author of incidents in a narrative to achieve a desired effect	5
3840460697	point of view	the vantage point, or stance, from which a story is told	6
3840462246	polysyndeton	the opposite of asyndeton. the use of many conjugations has a slowing effect.	7
3840465539	post-modernism	a tendency in contemporary culture characterized by the rejection of objective truth.	8
3840468983	primitivism	the belief that nature provides a truer and more healthful model than culture; the nobel savage	9
3840472426	prosody	the study of sound and rhythm in poetry	10
3840474569	pun	a form of wit, not necessarily funny, involving a play on a word with two or more meanings	11
3840477378	puritanism	extreme strictness in moral or religious matters, often to excess; rigid austerity	12
3840479963	quatrain	a verse stanza of four lines, rhymed or unrhymed	13
3840482638	rationalism	the doctrine that reason alone is a source of knowledge and is independent of experience	14
3840485644	realism	the author's use of accuracy in the portrayal of life or reality	15
3840491325	regionalism	the tendency in literature to focus on a specific geographical region or locality, re-creating as accurately as possible its unique setting, speech, customs, manners, beliefs and history	16
3840496259	rhetoric	the art of persuasion, in speaking or writing	17
3840497770	rising action	the part of a plot that leads through a series of events of increasing interest and poe to the climax or turning point	18
3840501187	romanticism	literature depicting emotional matter in an imaginative form	19
3840503989	sarcasm	harsh, cutting, personal remarks to or about someone, not necessarily ironic	20
3840506840	satire	any form of literature that blends ironic humor and wit with criticism directed at a particular folly, vice or stupidity. satire seeks to correct, improve, or reform through ridicule	21
3840513421	setting	the general locale, time in history, or social milieu in which the action takes place	22
3840516130	simile	a less direct metaphor, using like or as	23
3840517823	situational irony	the contrast between what is intended or expected and what actually occurs	24
3840519672	slant rhyme	inexact rhyme between two words	25
3840521422	soliloquy	a speech by one character while alone on the stage or under the impression of being alone	26
3840525050	sonnet	a fourteen-line lyric poem in iambic pentameter	27
3840527293	speaker's attitude	the speaker's viewpoint regarding his subject matter	28
3840529810	stanza	a section or division of a poem, resembling paragraphs in prose	29
3840532309	stock character	a stereotyped character; one familiar to use from examples in previous fiction	30
3840535070	stream of consciousness	a technique in which the reader sees the continuous, chaotic flow of a character's thoughts	31
3840538597	structure	the pattern of organization	32
3840539892	style	how the author's word choice, sentence structure, figurative language, and sentence arrangement all work together to establish mood, images, and meaning in the text	33
3840544924	surrealism	employs illogical, dreamlike images and events to suggest the unconscious	34
3840548312	syllogism	a form of logical reasoning, consisting of two premises and a conclusion (A=B B=C A=C)	35
3840611555	symbol	anything that stands for or represents something else beyond it	36
3840613611	synathesia	the description of one kind of sensation in terms of another	37
3840627970	synecdoche	figure of speech that utilizes a part as representative of a whole	38
3840629623	syntax	the rules or patterns of grammatical language	39
3840631060	theme	an abstract idea that emerges from a literary work's treatment of its subject matter	40
3840634041	title character	a character who gives his/her name to the work	41
3840635566	tone	the reflection in a work of the author's attitude toward his or her subject	42
3840637439	tragedy	a drama in which the protagonist, a person of high position, suffers a fall in fortune due to some error of judgement or flaw in his or her nature	43
3840642611	tragic flaw	the defect of a character that brings about the protagonist's downfall in a tragedy	44
3840645529	transcendentalism	the american version of romanticism; held that there was something in human beings that transcended human nature -- a spark of divinity	45
3840651669	trope	any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense	46
3840655090	unity of action	a tragedy that has one main action that it follows with no or few subplots	47
3840657351	verbal irony	a contrast between what is said and what is actually meant	48
3840659632	verisimilitude	the appearance or semblance of truth	49
3840662451	villanelle	a lyric poem made up of five stanzas of three lines, plus a final stanza of four lines	50
3840665839	voice	how a written work conveys to a reader of the writer's attitude, personality, and character	51
3840669516	wit	ingenuity in connecting amusingly incongruous ideas; intellect, humor	52

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4325886686	Abstract	Complex, discusses intangible qualities like good and evil, seldom uses examples to support its points	0
4325886687	Abstraction	A concept or value that cannot be seen (love, honor, courage, etc.) which the writer illustrates by comparing it metaphorically to a known, concrete object	1
4325886688	Academic	Dry and rhetorical writing; sucking all the life out of its subject with analysis	2
4325886689	Accent	In poetry, the stressed portion of a word	3
4325886690	Aesthetic	Appealing to the senses; a coherent sense of taste	4
4325886691	Allegory	A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself	5
4325886692	Alliteration	The repetition of initial consonant sounds	6
4325886693	Allusion	A direct or indirect reference to another work or famous figure	7
4325886694	Ambiguity	Deliberately suggesting two or more different, and sometimes conflicting, meanings in a work	8
4325886695	Anachronism	"Misplaced in time." An aspect of a story that doesn't belong in its supposed time setting	9
4325886696	Analogy	A comparison, usually involving two or more symbolic parts, employed to clarify an action or a relationship. Usually used for the purpose of explaining or clarifying some unfamiliar idea by showing how the idea is similar to a familiar one	10
4325886697	Anaphora	The repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases for rhetorical or poetic effect. Ex: "We cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground."	11
4325886698	Anecdote	A short narrative	12
4325886699	Antagonist	The character who is in conflict with the main character. May not even be a person...may be another side of the same character	13
4325886700	Antecedent	The word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers	14
4325886701	Anthropomorphism	When inanimate or non-human subjects are given human characteristics.	15
4325886702	Anticlimax	Occurs when an action produces far smaller results than one had been led to expect. Can be intentionally employed to achieve a humorous or satiric effect	16
4325886703	Antihero	A protagonist who is markedly unheroic: morally weak, cowardly, dishonest, etc.	17
4325886704	Antithesis	The second of two contrasting or opposing constituents, following the thesis. Ex: "Give me performances, not promises."	18
4325886705	Aphorism	A short and usually witty saying which expresses an observation on life	19
4325886706	Apostrophe	A figure of speech wherein the speaker talks directly to something that is nonhuman. Often, it is to a god, a ghost, or some supernatural thing like Death, Night, or Fate	20
4325886707	Archaism	The use of deliberately old-fashioned language	21
4325886708	Aside	A speech (usually just a short comment) made by an actor to the audience, as though momentarily stepping outside of the action on stage. The other characters are presumed not to have heard the character	22
4325886709	Assonance	The repeated use of vowel sounds Ex: "Old king Cole was a merry old soul."	23
4325886710	Atmosphere	The emotional tone or background that surrounds a scene	24
4325886711	Ballad	A long, narrative poem (or song), usually in meter and rhyme. Typically has a naive folksy quality	25
4325886712	Bathos	Writing strains for gandeur it can't support and tries too hard to be a tear jerker. Often a failed attempt at pathos	26
4325886713	Black Humor	The use of disturbing themes in comedy	27
4325886714	Blank Verse	Unrhymed iambic pentameter	28
4325886715	Bombast	Pretentious, exaggerated, pompous language	29
4325886716	Burlesque	Broad parody, one that takes a style of form and exaggerates it into ridiculousness	30
4325886717	Cacophony	In poetry, using deliberately harsh, awkward sounds	31
4325886718	Cadence	The beat of rhythm or poetry in a general sense	32
4325886719	Caesura	A pause for effect in the middle of a line of poetry indicated by a period, dash, etc.; it may or may not affect the meter	33
4325886720	Canto	The name for a section division in a long work of poetry	34
4325886721	Caricature	A portrait (verbal or otherwise) that exaggerates a facet of personality	35
4325886722	Catharsis	Drawn from Aristotle's writings on tragedy. Refers to the "cleansing" of emotion an audience member experiences during a play	36
4325886723	Chorus	In Greek drama, the group of citizens who stand outside the main action on stage and comment on it, usually speaking in unison	37
4325886724	Classic	Typical, or an accepted masterpiece	38
4325886725	Cliche	A word or phrase that has become lifeless because of overuse. Avoid cliches like the plague	39
4325886726	Coinage (neologism)	A new word, usually one invented on the spot	40
4325886727	Colloquialism	A word or phrase used in everyday conversational English that isn't a part of accepted "school-book" English	41
4325886728	Complex (Dense)	Suggesting that there is more than one possibility in the meaning of words; subtleties and variations; multiple layers of interpretation; meaning both explicit and implicit	42
4325886729	Conceit (Controlling Image)	A startling or unusual metaphor, or a metaphor developed and expanded upon several lines. Often an extended metaphor that compares two things that are startlingly different	43
4325886730	Connotation	Everything other than the literal meaning that a word suggests or implies. The association and emotional overtones that have become attached to a word	44
4325886731	Consonance	The repetition of consonant sounds within words (rather than at their beginnings)	45
4325886732	Couplet	A pair of lines that end in rhyme	46
4325886733	Decorum	A character's speech must be styled according to her social station, and in accordance to the situation	47
4325886734	Denotation	A word's literal meaning, i.e., the standard dictionary definition with no connotative attachments	48
4325886735	Diction	The words an author chooses to use	49
4325886736	Deus ex Machina	Literally, "god from a machine," An unexpected, artificial or improbably character, device, or event introduced suddenly to resolve a situation or untangle a plot	50
4325886737	Dionysian	Named after the Greek god Dionysus, pertaining to the base side of a person	51
4325886738	Dirge	A song for the dead; tone is typically slow, heavy, depressed, and melancholy	52
4325886739	Dissonance	Refers to the grating of incompatible sounds	53
4325886740	Doggerel	Crude, simplistic verse, often in sing-song rhyme, like limericks	54
4325886741	Dramatic Irony	When the audience knows something that the characters do not	55
4325886742	Dramatic Monologue	When a single speaker in literature says something to a silent audience	56
4325886743	Dyostopia	The opposite of utopia; a controlled world where pain exists instead of pleasure	57
4325886744	Elegy	A type of poem that meditates on death or mortality in a serious, thoughtful manner	58
4325886745	Empathy	Feelings of pity and understanding for a character	59
4325886746	Enjambment	The continuation of a syntactic unit from one line or couplet of a poem to the next with no pause	60
4325886747	Epic	A very long narrative poem on a serious theme in a dignified style; typically deals with glorious or profound subject matter, along the lines of The Iliad	61
4325886748	Epigram	A witty saying, usually at the end of a poem; a brief witty observation about a person, institution, or experience	62
4325886749	Epitaph	Lines that commemorate the dead at the burial place	63
4325886750	Euphemism	A word or phrase that takes the place of a harsh, unpleasant, or impolite reality	64
4325886751	Euphony	When sounds blend harmoniously	65
4325886752	Explicit	To say or write something directly and clearly	66
4325886753	Fable	A very short story told in prose or poetry that teaches a practical lesson about how to succeed in life	67
4325886754	Farce	Extremely broad humor; in earlier times, a funny play or a comedy	68
4325886755	Foil	A secondary character whose purpose is to highlight the characteristics of a main character, usually by contrast	69
4325886756	Foot	The basic rhythmic unit of a line of poetry, formed by a combination of two or three syllables, either stressed or unstressed	70
4325886757	Free Verse	Poetry written without a regular rhyme scheme or metrical pattern	71
4325886758	Genre	A sub-category of literature	72
4325886759	Gothic	A sensibility that includes such features as dark, gloomy castles and weird screams from the attic each night	73
4325886760	Heroic Couplet	Two successive rhyming lines of iambic pentameter	74
4325886761	Hubris	The excessive pride or ambition that leads to the main character's downfall	75
4325886762	Hyperbole	Exaggeration or deliberate overstatement	76
4325886763	Iamb ( as in Iambic Pentameter)	A poetic foot-light, heavy (IP=five iambs)	77
4325886764	Implicit	To say or write something that suggests and implies but never says it directly or clearly	78
4325886765	In media res	Latin for "in the midst of things" Ex: beginning an epic poem in the middle of action	79
4325886766	Interior Monologue	Refers to writing that records the mental talking that goes on inside a character's head; tends to be coherent	80
4325886767	Inversion	Switching the customary order of elements in a sentence or phrase	81
4325886768	Irony	A statement that means the opposite of what it seems to mean; uses an undertow of meaning, sliding against the literal	82
4325886769	Juxtaposition	A form of contrast by which writers call attention to dissimilar ideas; a poetic device in which normally unassociated ideas are placed next to one another; creating a surprising effect Ex: MLK once said, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."	83
4325886770	Lament	A poem of sadness or grief over the death of a loved one or over some other intense loss	84
4325886771	Lampoon	A satire	85
4325886772	Lyric	A type of poetry that explores the poet's personal interpretation of and feelings about the world	86
4325886773	Metaphor	A comparison or analogy that states one thing IS another	87
4325886774	Metaphysical Poetry	17th century poetry characterized by conceits, condensed metaphorical language, unusual comparisons, complex imagery	88
4325886775	Metonymy	A word that is used to stand for something else that it has attributes of or is associated with Ex: "We requested from the crown support for our petition." The crown stands for the royal family.	89
4325886776	Mixed Metaphor	A metaphor whose elements are either incongruent or contradictory by the use of incompatible identifications such as Hamlet's line: "to take arms against a sea of troubles."	90
4325886777	Mood	The atmosphere created by the writer's diction and details selected	91
4325886778	Motif	A recurring image, word, phrase, action, idea, object, or situation used through a work that unifies the word by tying the current situation to previous ones	92
4325886779	Nemesis	The protagonist's arch enemy or a supreme and persistent difficulty	93
4325886780	Non-sequitur	Latin for "It doesn't follow" Ex: "Our nation will prevail if we eat more eggs."	94
4325886781	Objectivity	Treatment of subject matter in an impersonal manner or from an outside view	95
4325886782	Ode	A poem in praise of something divine or noble	96
4325886783	Omniscient	A third person narrator who sees into each character's mind and understands all the action	97
4325886784	Onomatopoeia	Words that sound like what they mean Ex: swoosh, pow	98
4325886785	Opposition	A pairing of images whereby each becomes more striking and informative because it's placed in contrast to the other one	99
4325886786	Oxymoron	A phrase composed of opposites; a contradiction	100
4325886787	Parable	A story that instructs	101
4325886788	Paradox	A situation or statement that seems to contradict itself, but on closer inspection, does not	102
4325886789	Parallelism (Parallel Structure)	Repeated syntactical similarities used for effect	103
4325886790	Paraphrase	To restate phrases and sentences in your own words	104
4325886791	Parenthetical Phrase	A phrase set off by commas that interrupts the flow of a sentence with some commentary or added detail	105
4325886792	Parody	The work that results when a specific work is exaggerated to ridiculousness, usually for comic effect but sometimes for ridicule. THe humor depends upon the reader's familiarity with the original	106
4325886793	Pastoral	A poem set in tranquil nature or even more specifically, one about shepherds	107
4325886794	Pathos	Greek term for deep emotion, passion or suffering. Writing that evokes feelings of dignified pity and sympathy	108
4325886795	Persona	The mask worn by an actor in Greek drama. In a literary context, the ________ is the character of the first-person narrator in verse or prose narratives, and the speaker in lyric poetry. The use of the term (as distinct from "author") stresses that the speaker is part of the fictional creation	109
4325886796	Personification	When a nonhuman object takes on human characteristics	110
4325886797	Plaint	A poem or speech expressing sorrow	111
4325886798	Point of View	The perspective from which the action of a novel is presented	112
4325886799	Prelude	An introductory poem to a longer work of verse	113
4325886800	Protagonist	The main character of a novel or play	114
4325886801	Pun	The usually humorous use of a word in such a way to suggest two or more meanings	115
4325886802	Quatrain	A poem consisting of four lines, or four lines of a poem that can be considered a unit	116
4325886803	Refrain	A line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem	117
4325886804	Requiem	A song of prayer for the dead	118
4325886805	Rhapsody	An intensely passionate verse or section of verse, usually of love or praise	119
4325886806	Rhetorical Question	A figure of speech in the form of a question posed for its persuasive effect without the expectation of a reply	120
4325886807	Satire	Vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, and society itself, into improvement	121
4325886808	Simile	A comparison of unlike things that uses "like" or "as"	122
4325886809	Soliloquy	A speech spoken by a character alone on stage, meant to convey the impression that the audience is listening to the character's thoughts	123
4325886810	Sonnet	A lyric poem of fourteen lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with rhymes arranged according to certain definite patterns. It usually expresses a single, complete idea or thought with a reversal, twist, or change of direction in the concluding lines	124
4325886811	Italian or Petrarchan	(Sonnet) Has an 8 line stanza followed by a 6 line stanza. 8 lines present the theme and then further develop it. 6 lines reflect on the theme and then bring the poem to a unified end	125
4325886812	English or Shakespearean	(Sonnet) Uses three quatrains: each rhymed differently, with a final, independently rhymed couplet that an effective, unifying climax to the whole	126
4325886813	Stanza	A group of lines roughly analogous in function in verse to the paragraphs function in prose	127
4325886814	Stream of Consciousness	Author places the reader inside the main character's head and makes the reader privy to all of the character's thoughts	128
4325886815	Stock Characters	Standard or cliched character types	129
4325886816	Subjectivity	A treatment of subject matter that uses the interior or personal view of a single observer and is typically colored with that observer's emotional responses	130
4325886817	Subjunctive Mood	A grammatical situation involving the words "if" and "were," setting up a hypothetical situation	131
4325886818	Suspension of Disbelief	The demand made of an audience to accept the limitations and supply the details with their imagination	132
4325886819	Symbolism	A device in literature where an object represents an idea	133
4325886820	Synecdoche	A figure of speech in which a part represents the whole "If you don't drive properly, you will lose your wheels."	134
4325886821	Syntax	The ordering and structuring of words	135
4325886822	Time Line	a. Puritanism (1620-1770s) b. Neoclassic (1770s- early 1800s) c. Romanticism (early 1800s-1870s) etc.	136
4325886823	Tragic Flaw	In a tragedy, the weakness of a character in an otherwise good (or even great) individual that ultimately leads to his demise	137
4325886824	Truism	A way-too obvious truth	138
4325886825	Understatement	A statement that deliberately says less than what is meant Ex. During the second war with Iraq, American troops complained of a fierce sand storm that made night vision equipment useless. A British commando commented: "It's a bit breeze."	139
4325886826	Unreliable Narrator	When the first person narrator is crazy, a liar, very young, or for some reason not entirely credible	140
4325886827	Utopia	An idealized place; imaginary community in which people are able to live in happiness, prosperity, and peace	141
4325886828	Vernacular	The language spoken by the people who live in a particular locality	142
4325886829	Zeugma	The use of a word to modify two or more words, but used for different meanings. "He closed the door and his heart on his lost love."	143

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2682676942	Ambiente	La condición emocional creada por una obra, la sensación general que el lector debe percibir del texto, circunstancias e influencias que crean el medio en el que se mueven los personajes de las obras.	0
2682676943	Argumento	Asunto o materia que se trata en una obra.	1
2682676944	Drama	Genero teatral intermedio entre la comedia y la tragedia. Puede estar escrito en prosa o verso.	2
2682676945	Ensayo	Genero literario que presenta una o varias tesis acerca del asunto, el autor comunica y desarrolla sus ideas sobre un tema constando de un planteamiento y conclusion.	3
2682676946	Ficcion	Obras literarias que presentan acontecimientos y personajes imaginarios.	4
2682676947	Figura Retorica	Palabra o frase que crea diversas imágenes con base en el significado, la dicción o las ideas que transmiten las palabras.	5
2682676948	Genero	Termino que se utiliza para distinguir las diferentes clases de obras literarias de acuerdo con su contenido, forma y propósito.	6
2682676949	Heroe	Person o personaje que realiza una acción heroica. No es necesariamente sinónimo de protagonista o personaje principal.	7
2682676950	Imagen	Representación literal o mental de algo real o imaginado cuya finalidad es que el lector pueda reconstruirla a través de su imaginación.	8
2682676951	Lector	Persona que lee, cada autor tiene en mente un lector ideal a quien dirige su obra.	9
2682676952	Narrativa	Genero literario formado por el cuento, la novel y la novela corta.	10
2682676953	Personaje	Ser humano, ficticio, simbolico, etc... que participa en una obra literaria. El personaje juega un papel determinado en la obra narrativa o dramática.	11
2682676954	Poesia	Genero literario que se concreta en un poema y esta sujeto a medida o cadencia. Expresa los sentimientos por medio de palabras que generan determinadas emocionas en el lector u oyente. Se ajusta a las reglas de la rima y la musicalidad.	12
2682676955	Protagonista	Personaje principal de la acción de una obra literaria narrativa o teatral. Puede haber un protagonista colectivo.	13
2682676956	Público	Persona o conjunto de individuos que recibe un mensaje a través de una obra.	14
2682676957	Suspenso	Expectación ansiosa por el desarrollo de una acción o suceso en una obra literaria en la que se demora el desenlace.	15
2682676958	Tema	Esencia, idea central del argumento de una obra o una parte de una obra literaria.	16
2682676959	Autor	Persona que escribe una obra literaria. Hay que distinguirlo de la voz poética o la voz narrativa.	17
2682676960	Cuento	Relato de ficción poco extenso que narra sucesos tanto ficticios como reales o fantásticos.	18
2682676961	Narrador	La voz que narra la acción. Puede ser en primera, segunda o tercera persona, en singular o plural.	19
2682676962	Novela	Obra narrativa de ficción y extension variable escrita en prosa. Si no supera aproximadamente ciento cincuenta paginas se considera novela corta.	20
2682676963	Prosa	Expresión natural del lenguaje. Como expresión literaria, no pretende seguir lar reglas de la rima y la musicalidad como en la poesía.	21
2682676964	Estrofa	Conjunto de versos que se agrupan en un orden determinado y que forman la estructura de una obra poética.	22
2682676965	Métrica	El modo de construir los versos de acuerdo con las unidades métricas que son: el numero de sílabas, el verso, la estrofa y el poema.	23
2682676966	Poema	Composición literaria escrita en verso perteneciente al genero de la poesía.	24
2682676967	Poeta	Persona que escribe poemas.	25
2682676968	Rima	Concurrencia acustica parcial o total de las vocales	26
2682676969	Rima Asonante	Se repiten solamente las vocales a partir de la vocal acentuada.	27
2682676970	Rima Consonante	Se repiten todos los sonidos a partir de la vocal acentuada.	28
2682676971	Verso	Palabra o conjunto de palabras sujetas a medida y ritmo o solo a medida.	29
2682676972	Voz Poetica	El narrador o poeta, no necesariamente el autor.	30
2682676973	Ritmo	El orden acompasado en la sucesión de las palabras de una obra literaria. En el verso se origina la repetición periódica de pausas, acentos y ciertos fonemas colocados al final de cada verso.	31
2682676974	Acto	Una de las parte en que se divide la obra teatral. (Jornadas en el Siglo de Oro)	32
2682676975	Comedia	En general se refiere a una obra teatral, y mas específicamente una obra con final feliz.	33
2682676976	Dialogo	Una conversación entre dos o mas personajes que constituye una obra entera o una parte de la misma.	34
2682676977	Escena	Una de las partes en las que se divide el acto y en las que están presentes los mismos personajes.	35
2682676978	Escenario	Espacio donde se representa una obra teatral.	36
2682676979	Monologo	Una obra, o parte de ella, en la que habla en voz alta un personaje que aparece solo en el escenario expresando sus pensamientos. Aveces llamado soliloquio.	37
2682676980	Teatro	Lugar en que se realiza una acción ante espectadores o participantes.	38
2682676981	Tragedia	Obra teatral caracterizada por personajes gobernados por las pasiones y cuyas acciones desembocan en un fin catastrófico.	39
2682676982	Aliteracion	La repeticion de sonoidos en el interior de las palabras o en palabras proximas para producir un efecto auditivo.	40
2682676983	Hiperbole	Exageracion desproporcionada de hechos, situaciones, caracteristicas, actitudes, etc. para enfatizar o ridiculizar.	41
2682676984	Metafora	Comparacion entre dos elementos esencialmente diferentes pero que puedan tener algo en comun.	42
2682676985	Onomatopeya	Palabra que imita o sugiere el sonido de lo que describe.	43
2682676986	Personificacion	Prosopopeya. Atribución de cualidades humanas a seres inanimados o irracionales.	44
2682676987	Simil	Comparación entre dos cosas o ideas desiguales conectadas por "como" u otras palabras semejantes.	45
2682676988	Ambiguedad	Una declaración que contiene más de un significado, y que se puede interpretar de maneras diferentes.	46
2682676989	Analogia	Comparación entre dos o varios objetos semejantes que sugiere que, si son parecidos en ciertos aspectos, lo serán en otros.	47
2682676990	Antagonista	Personaje o fuerza en una obra que engaña, frustra o actúa en contra del protagonista; no es necesariamente una persona.	48
2682676991	Antiheroe	Personaje que cumple las funciones del héroe tradicional pero difiere en su aspecto y valores. Sus características son contrarias a las de un héroe.	49
2682676992	Arquetipo	Simbolo o modelo universal que ejemplifica toda su categoría.	50
2682676993	Atmosfera	La condición emocional creada por una obra; se refiere a la sensación general que el lector debe percibir del texto.	51
2682676994	Carpe Diem	Tema literario tópico que invita a gozar del presente y de la juventud. Instiga a disfrutar el momento sin preocuparse del futuro, o del temor a la vejez y la muerte.	52
2682676995	Desenlace	En la trama, aparece después del clímax; es donde se resuelven los conflictos y se atan los cabos sueltos y parte de la intriga. Puede ser cerrado (con solución de la intriga) o abierto (sin soluciones), y la intriga puede continuar.	53
2682676996	Fabula	Relato breve, ficticio, en prosa o verso, con intención didáctica, en el que pueden intervenir animales como personajes, y también personas. La fábula contiene una moraleja acerca de la naturaleza humana.	54
2682676997	In medias res	Técnica literaria y artística en que la narración empieza a mitad del relato.	55
2682676998	Ironia	Un acontecimiento inesperado que es un opuesto absurdo de lo esperado o apropiado. Se expresa una idea pero se entiende lo contrario.	56
2682676999	Memento mori	Tema literario tópico cuyo propósito es recordarles a las personas su mortalidad.	57
2682677000	Simbolo	Persona, lugar, objeto o acción tangible que representa algo abstracto o universal.	58
2682677001	Tono	Actitud o estado emocional aparente de la voz narrativa que se transmite por medio del lenguaje de la obra.	59
2682677002	Trama	Secuencia de eventos en un relato que forma la estructura del argumento.	60
2682677003	Cronica	Obra histórica en prosa que se estudia como un género narrativo. Consiste en un relato histórico en el cual se observa el orden cronológico de diversos períodos.	61
2682677004	Flashback	Técnica narrativa que permite al escritor hacer una retrospección, o salto temporal hacia atrás, para presentar eventos pasados intercalados en los del tiempo presente, con el fin de proveer un trasfondo.	62
2682677005	Fluir de Conciencia	Modo especial de narrar que busca capturar el transcurso continuo del proceso mental de un personaje; también conocido como monólogo interior.	63
2682677006	Narrador Omnisciente	Relata como si conociera todo cuanto ocurre y narra en la tercera persona narrativa. No participa en la acción pero conoce los pensamientos y motivos de los personajes y comenta sobre lo sucedido.	64
2682677007	Narrado 1ra Persona	Puede participar como personaje u observar como testigo de la acción. Relata en 1a. persona gramatical y su narración no es objetiva porque no conoce toda la realidad de la historia.	65
2682677008	Prefiguración	Insinuación o indicios de eventos venideros o incluso de la resolución. La prefiguración no se limita a la narración, sino que aparece en todos los géneros literarios.	66
2682677009	Punto de Vista	Ángulo desde el cual el narrador cuenta una historia; sirve para transmitir los eventos de un relato y, en ocasiones, los sentimientos y motivos de los personajes.	67
2682677010	Heptasilabo	Verso de siete silabas métricas.	68
2682677011	Octosilabo	Verso de ocho silabas métricas.	69
2682677012	Endecasilabo	Verso de once sílabas métricas.	70
2682677013	Alejandrino	Verso de catorce sílabas métricas.	71
2682677014	Arte Menor	Versos de ocho sílabas métricas o menos.	72
2682677015	Arte Mayor	Versos de más de ocho sílabas métricas.	73
2682677016	Encabalgamiento	Continuación de una idea o frase en el siguiente verso para completar el significado, esto hace más breve la pausa del verso, acelerando así el ritmo de los versos.	74
2682677017	Estribillo	Verso o versos que se repiten a intervalos en un poema, frecuentemente al final de cada estrofa	75
2682677018	Lirica	Genero literaio que expresan sentimientos del autor y se proponen producir en el lector u oyente sentimientos análogos.	76
2682677019	Poema Epico	Poema que cuenta y exalta las hazañas de héroes históricos o legendarios.	77
2682677020	Redondilla	Estrofa de cuatro versos de arte menor, generalmente octosílabos, cuya rima es abba. Predomina en el teatro del Siglo de Oro y es todavía muy usada.	78
2682677021	Romance	Poema narrativo o lírico narrativo no-estrófico de versos octosílabos, en número indeterminado, con rima en los versos pares.	79
2682677022	Sinalefa	Elemento métrico en que la vocal final de una palabra se une con la vocal inicial de la siguiente y se cuenta como una sílaba.	80
2682677023	Soneto	Poema de procedencia italiana que consiste en catorce versos endecasílabos repartidos en dos cuartetos y dos tercetos	81
2682677024	Verso Agudo	Verso con palabra final acentuada en la última sílaba; se le cuenta una sílaba más.	82
2682677025	Verso Esdrujulo	Verso con palabra final esdrújula; se le cuenta una sílaba menos.	83
2682677026	Verso Llano	Verso con palabra final acentuada en la penúltima sílaba; el cómputo silábico no se altera. Es el verso más frecuente en la métrica castellana.	84
2682677027	Accion Dramatica	Expresión de los movimientos que se producen en los niveles internos y externos de los personajes.	85
2682677028	Exposicion	Parte de la trama que informa acerca de los personajes, antecedentes o causas de la acción.	86
2682677029	Climax	Punto culminante en una obra, habitualmente el momento de mayor emoción o tensión que complica la trama.	87
2682677030	Acotaciones	Notas incluidas en la obra teatral al principio de la obra o entre paréntesis a lo largo de ella, para avisar y explicar todo lo relativo a la acción.	88
2682677031	Aparte	Técnica teatral en la que un personaje hace un comentario escuchado por el público, no por los otros personajes, que necesita comunicar para revelar sus ideas y pensamientos interiores.	89
2682677032	Comedia nueva del Siglo de Oro	En el siglo XVII cualquier obra escrita para ser representada en el teatro.	90
2682677033	Dramaturgo	Autor de obras dramáticas. En el Siglo de Oro se le llamaba "ingenio" o "poeta".	91
2682677034	Teatro del Absurdo	Obra dramática basada en una situación sin sentido, en la que los personajes se enfrentan a situaciones que muestran la insensatez de la vida en un mundo deshumanizado.	92
2682677035	Anafora	Repetición de palabras en una sucesión de versos o enunciados.	93
2682677036	Antítesis	Yuxtaposición de una palabra, frase o idea a otra de significación contraria.	94
2682677037	Apostrofe	Recurso en que el hablante se dirige a personas presentes o ausentes, a seres animados o a objetos inanimados.	95
2682677038	Perifrasis	Forma indirecta de aludir a algo sin decirlo precisamente.	96
2682677039	Elipsis	Omisión de elementos de una frase o idea, lo que le obliga al lector u oyente a inferir; en un escrito, se indica con puntos suspensivos.	97
2682677040	Enumeracion	Figura que nombra distintas partes de un concepto o pensamiento general.	98
2682677041	Eufemismo	Palabra o frase que se emplea en lugar de otra por ser esta desagradable, ofensiva o mal sonante.	99
2682677042	Gradacion	Serie de palabras o conceptos en escala ascendente o descendente; también conocido por clímax.	100
2682677043	Hiperbaton	Alteración del orden normal sintáctico de las palabras en una oración.	101
2682677044	Barroco	Movimiento cultural español (1580-1700) caracterizado por su complejidad y su extravagante ornamentación, cuyo propósito era asombrar e incitar introspección.	102
2682677045	Boom	Un momento de gran auge de la creación de obras narrativas que inicia en 1940.	103
2682677046	Colonial	Se refiere a la literatura producida durante la época de colonización española en tierras americanas.	104
2682677047	Edad Media	Período comprendido entre los siglos V y XV. En España se considera que la Edad Media se cierra con la llegada de Colón a tierras americanas.	105
2682677048	Generacion del 98	Grupo de novelistas, poetas, ensayistas y filósofos españoles, activos durante y después de la Guerra de Cuba (1898), que restauraron a España a una prominencia intelectual y literaria.	106
2682677049	Libro de Caballerias	Género literario en prosa muy popular en España a mediados del siglo XVI, que celebra las hazañas de los caballeros andantes y contrapone a la fiereza guerrera un masoquismo amoroso inspirado en el amor cortés.	107
2682677050	Modernismo	Movimiento literario hispanoamericano cuyo mayor exponente es Rubén Darío y que funde tres movimientos franceses: parnasianismo, simbolismo y romanticismo.	108
2682677051	Naturalismo	Corriente literaria de mediados del siglo XIX que retrata al ser humano y su circunstancia con una objetividad científica.	109
2682677052	Novela Picaresca	Género literario narrativo en prosa de carácter pseudo- autobiográfico muy característico de la literatura española.	110
2682677053	Picaro	Personaje de baja condición, astuto, ingenioso y de mal vivir que protagoniza la novela picaresca	111
2682677054	Realismo	Manera objetiva de presentar las cosas sin suavizarlas ni exagerarlas. Movimiento literario que enfatiza la descripción detallada de lo cotidiano, particularmente en las clases baja y media.	112
2682677055	Realismo Magico	Movimiento literario hispanoamericano surgido a mediados del siglo XX, caracterizado por la introducción de elementos fantásticos —sueños, superstición, mitos, magia— inmersos en una narrativa realista.	113
2682677056	Renacimiento	Época que se inicia a mediados del siglo XV y en la que se despierta en Occidente un fuerte entusiasmo por la Antigüedad clásica griega y latina.	114
2682677057	Romanticismo	Escuela literaria de la primera mitad del siglo XIX; exageradamente individualista, prescinde de las reglas o preceptos mantenidos por los clásicos.	115
2682677058	Siglo de Oro	Época en que la literatura, las artes y la cultura alcanzan su mayor esplendor. En España abarca dos períodos estéticos, el Renacimiento del siglo XVI y el Barroco del siglo XVII.	116
2682677059	Alegoria	Relato que ilustra una idea o moraleja y cuyos objetos tienen significado simbólico.	117
2682677060	Apologia	Discurso en defensa o alabanza de una persona o una ideología.	118
2682677061	Caricatura	Obra que ridiculiza el ejemplo que tiene por objeto.	119
2682677062	Cromatismo	Uso de conjunto o gama de colores para representar ideas y sentimientos.	120
2682677063	Desdoblamiento	Formación de dos o más cosas por separación de componentes que suelen estar juntos; en un personaje, manifestación de dos o más personalidades.	121
2682677064	Leitmotiv	Repetición de una palabra, frase, situación o noción. Motivo recurrente en una obra.	122
2682677065	Meta-	Metaficción, en un relato ficticio, es que el tema del relato es el arte de narrar, particularmente cuando el contenido rompe la ilusión de la realidad en una obra. Metateatro se refiere a una representación teatral en que el tema es el arte dramático, particularmente cuando el contenido rompe la ilusión de estar viendo la realidad. La metacrítica es la crítica de la crítica.	123
2682677066	Parodia	Imitación de una obra con fin de ridiculizarla.	124
2682677067	Satira	Obra literaria cuyo propósito es ridiculizar el sujeto; aunque puede ser graciosa, su propósito primordial es suscitar repudio.	125
2682677068	Narrativa Epistolar	Narrativa en forma de cartas escritas por uno o varios personajes; permite presentar varios puntos de vista y prescindir del narrador omnisciente.	126
2682677069	Narrador Fidedigno	Narrador digno de confianza, cuyo entendimiento de los personajes o las acciones del relato lo acredita para contar los hechos. Se ajusta a las normas que establece el autor implícito.	127
2682677070	Narrador no Fidedigno	Narrador que malinterpreta los motivos o acciones de los personajes o que no percibe la conexión entre los hechos del relato, creando una discrepancia entre el autor implícito y el narrador no fidedigno porque éste ofrece información inconsistente	128
2682677071	Narrador Testigo	Narrador que no participa en la acción pero relata los hechos en primera persona y hace comentarios.	129
2682677072	Narratario	Personaje o personajes a los que se dirige el narrador de un texto.	130
2682677073	Parabola	Relato breve didáctico cuya acción se refiere, o es aplicable, a otra situación.	131
2682677074	Cesura	Pausa en un verso que puede afectar el cómputo silábico.	132
2682677075	Diéresis	Pronunciación en sílabas distintas de dos vocales que normalmente forman diptongo.	133
2682677076	Hemistiquio	Cada una de las partes separadas de un verso, determinadas por una cesura.	134
2682677077	Hiato	Separación de una sinalefa	135
2682677078	Sineresis	Unión de dos vocales adyacentes que formaban un hiato. Reduce en la métrica el cómputo silábico.	136
2682677079	Verso Libre	Verso que no rima con otro verso ni tiene patrón métrico.	137
2682677080	Polifonia	Pluralidad o conjunto de voces que crea un texto literario y que se corresponden con múltiples conciencias independientes e inconfundibles no reducibles entre sí.	138
2682677081	Polimetria	Uso de distintas formas métricas en un solo poema.	139
2682677082	Silva	Poema no estrófico que combina versos de siete y once sílabas, entrelazados por rima consonante y versos libres.	140
2682677083	Anagnorisis	Momento en que el personaje descubre un hecho importante o entiende algo de sí mismo, la naturaleza humana o su situación.	141
2682677084	Catarsis	Sentimiento de purificación o liberación suscitado por algunas obras o vivencias.	142
2682677085	Falla Tragica	Error fatal del protagonista de una obra del que se deriva un daño irreparable.	143
2682677086	Ironia Dramatica	Circunstancia en la que el lector o espectador sabe algo desconocido por un personaje y sabe o sospecha lo que ocurrirá antes de que lo sepa el personaje.	144
2682677087	Pathos	En la tragedia griega y en otras, es el afecto que inclina al espectador hacia el personaje trágico; desemboca en la catarsis, por medio de la cual el espectador se identifica con el personaje.	145
2682677088	Tres Unidades	-unidad de acción -unidad de tiempo -unidad de lugar	146
2682677089	Asindeton	Omisión de conjunciones o palabras para suscitar viveza o energía.	147
2682677090	Cacofonia	Uso de palabras que combinan sonidos desagradables, ásperos y cortantes.	148
2682677091	Epiteto	Palabra o frase delante o después del nombre que sirve para caracterizar al personaje.	149
2682677092	Metonimia	Un tipo de metáfora en la que la imagen se asocia con lo representado, pero no es parte de ello; la metonimia hace que el destinatario del mensaje haga la asociación.	150
2682677093	Paradoja	Contraposición de dos conceptos contradictorios que expresan una verdad.	151
2682677094	Polisindeton	Repetición de conjunciones para alargar la frase o hacer más solemne la expresión.	152
2682677095	Sinecdoque	Tipo de metáfora que usa una parte o cualidad de un objeto físico para representar todo el objeto.	153
2682677096	Sinestesia	Descripción de una sensación o imagen por medio de sensaciones percibidas por distintos órganos sensoriales, por ejemplo, vista y olfato.	154
2682677097	Retruecano	Juegos de palabras; inversión de los términos de una cláusula o proposición en otra subsiguiente para que esta última choque con la anterior	155
2682677098	Conceptismo	Movimiento literario vinculado al Barroco español que se caracteriza por el uso de asociaciones rebuscadas, retruécanos, paradojas, agudeza de pensamiento y concisión en la expresión.	156
2682677099	Culteranismo	Estilo literario español, de finales del siglo XVI y durante el siglo XVII, caracterizado por la riqueza desmedida de metáforas sorprendentes, el uso exagerado de cultismos y la complejidad sintáctica.	157
2682677100	Costumbrismo	Atención al retrato de las costumbres típicas regionales o nacionales que se da en las obras literarias y pictóricas.	158
2682677101	Existencialismo	Movimiento filosófico que funda el conocimiento de toda realidad sobre la experiencia de la existencia propia.	159
2682677102	Neoclasicismo	Movimiento literario del siglo XVIII que rechaza el barroco y propone una vuelta a los clásicos y un arte sencillo, universal, de buen gusto y didáctico.	160
2682677103	Postmodernismo	Movimiento cultural del siglo XX que se opone al funcionalismo y racionalismo modernos.	161
2682677104	Surrealismo	Movimiento literario y artístico que intentó sobrepasar lo real impulsando con automatismo psíquico lo imaginario y lo irracional: sueños y alucinaciones.	162
2682677105	Vanguardia	Movimiento artístico que surgió alrededor de la Primera Guerra Mundial y que abogó por la experimentación con nuevas técnicas literarias.	163

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