Semester 1 Terms

120658495	symbol	a specific word, idea, or object that may stand for ideas, values, persons, or ways of life
120658496	situational irony	what we expect to happen and what happens are not the same
120658497	repetition	use of key words, phrases, or ideas more than once, in close proximity
120658499	dramatic irony	the reader or audience knows more than the characters
120658500	conceit	an extended metaphor
120658503	verbal irony	saying one thing but really meaning another
120658504	simile	an explicit comparison between two unlike things signaled by the use of "as," "like," or "than"
120658505	personification	attributing human qualities to an inanimate object
120658506	paradox	a statement that appears to be contradictory but, in fact, has some truth
120658507	parallelism	expresses similar or related ideas in similar grammatical structures
120658508	antithesis	the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas
120658509	irony	when the writer takes on another voice or role that states the opposite of what is expressed
120658510	hyperbole	exaggeration; deliberate exaggeration for emphasis
120658511	litotes	understatement, esp. that in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary, as in "not bad at all."
120658512	allusion	a reference to something literary, mythological, or historical that the author assumes the reader will recognize
120658513	motif	recurring ideas, images, and actions that tend to unify a work
120658514	stanza	a group of verse lines of the same structure and rhythm and rhyme scheme
120658515	alliteration	repetition of initial consonant sounds
120658516	assonance	repetition of the same vowel sounds in close proximity
120658517	conceit	an extended metaphor
120658518	consonance	repeated consonant sounds; not at the beginning of words
120658519	couplet	two lines, in successive order, that have end rhyme
120658520	heroic couplet	couplet that rhymes and is written in iambic pentameter
120658521	quatrain	a verse stanza of four lines
120658522	onomatopoeia	words that sound like they are spelled and create aural imagery like fizz and whirr
120658523	meter	the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
120658524	end rhyme	words that rhyme at the ends of lines of poetry
120658525	narrative	a poem or other work of literature that tells a story
120658526	epic	a long narrative poem that spans a long time period, uses grand language, involves the fate of an entire people, and has a hero of super human characteristics, among other things
120658527	octave	verse stanza of eight lines
120658528	sestet	verse stanza of six lines
120658529	caesura	a pause or break within a line of poetry
120658530	iambic pentameter	a line of poetry that contains five iambs (units which consist of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one, as in the word, arise) Shakespeare wrote his plays in this meter.
120658531	synesthesia	describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color" or "a sweet sound")
120658532	sonnet	fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter; Petrarchan (Italian) consists of an octave and a sestet; Shakespearean (English) consists of three quatrains and a couplet
120658533	pastoral	a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds)
120658534	setting	time, place, atmosphere, and social context in which a story takes place
120658535	theme	main idea of a work of literature
120658536	antagonist	character or force in opposition to the protagonist
120658537	point of view	the vantage from which a story is told: first person or third person--omniscient or limited
120658538	protagonist	the main character in a story
120658539	characterization	how a character acts and talks, what other characters say about him, and how others react to him
120658540	plot	sequence of events in a story
120658541	character	those who carry out the action of the plot in literature. Major/minor, static/dynamic, and round/flat are some types
120658542	foil	a character, usually minor, designed to highlight qualities of a major character
120658543	third person omniscient point of view	the narrator is not a character in the story and is "all knowing" able to reveal the thoughts and feelings of any character and to describe events from the viewpoint of any character
120658544	third person limited point of view	narrator outside the story sees the world through one character's eyes and reveals only that character's thoughts
120658545	first person point of view	a character in the story actually telling the story himself/herself
120658546	syntax	the way words and phrases are connected to form sentences
120658547	structure	the organized, planned framework of a piece of literature
120658548	denotation	dictionary definition of a word
120658549	diction	style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words
120658550	imagery	language that appeals to the five senses; creating pictures with words
120658551	tone	the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
120658552	mood	the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
120658553	en medias res	roughly translated as "in the middle of things," it describes a narrative or anecdote that ignores exposition and begins in the middle of an action
120658554	frame story	a secondary story or stories embedded in the main story
120658555	connotation	all the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests
120658556	exemplum	a story which teaches a moral lesson