AP Literature Terms Flashcards

5040016115	Abstract	A style (in writing) that is typically complex, discusses intangible qualities like good and evil, and seldom uses examples to support its points	0
5040024380	Academic	As an adjective describing style, this word means dry and theoretical writing. A piece of writing that seems to be sucking all the life out of its subject with analysis	1
5040036364	Aesthetic, Aesthetics	Can be used as an adjective meaning "appealing to the senses." As a noun, it is a coherent sense of taste. The plural form defines the study of beauty	2
5040061714	Allegory	A prose or poetic narrative in which the characters, behavior, and even the setting demonstrates multiple levels of meaning and significance. Often it is a universal symbol or personified abstraction such as death portrayed as a black-cloaked "grim reaper" with a scythe and hourglass	3
5040085689	Alliteration	The sequential repetition of a similar initial sound, usually applied to consonants, usually heard in closely proximate stressed syllables. "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."	4
5040107690	Allusion	A reference to a literary or historical event, person, or place	5
5040133290	Ambiguity	A vagueness of meaning; a conscious lack of clarity meant to evoke multiple meanings and interpretation	6
5040142879	Anachronism	"misplaced in time." If the actor playing Brutus in a production of Julius Caesar forgets to remove his watch from his wrist	7
5040159841	Analogy	A comparison. Usually involves two or more symbolic parts and are employed to clarify an action or a relationship	8
5040180458	Anaphora	The regular repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases or clauses	9
5040190294	Anecdote	A brief story or tale told by a character in a piece of literature	10
5040199414	Annotation	A brief explanation, summary, or evaluation of a text or work of literature	11
5040205419	Antagonist	Any force that is in opposition to the main character, or protagonist	12
5040219680	Antecedent	The word, phrase, or clause that a pronoun refers to or replaces	13
5040234008	Anthropomorphism	In literature, when inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena are given human characteristics, behavior, or motivation. Personification is similar to this.	14
5040247234	Anticlimax	This occurs when an action produces far smaller results that on had been led to expect. Frequently comic.	15
5040271725	Antihero	A protagonist who is markedly unheroic by being morally weak, cowardly, dishonest, or any number of unsavory qualities	16
5040280868	Antithesis	The juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel words, phrases, grammatical structure, or ideas. A rhetorical opposition or contrast of ides by means of a grammatical arrangement of words, clauses, or sentences. For example, Alexander Pope reminds us that "To err is human, to forgive is divine."	17
5040304590	Aphorism	A short and usually witty saying	18
5040315847	Apostrophe	An address or invocation to something that is inanimate--such as an angry lover who might scream at the ocean in his or her despair	19
5040353532	Archaism	the use of deliberately old-fashioned language. Authors sometimes use this to create a feeling of antiquity	20
5040364987	Archetype	Recurrent designs, patterns of action, character types, themes or images which are identifiable in a wide range of literature	21
5040383593	Assonance	A repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, usually those found in stressed syllables of close proximity	22
5040392783	Asyndeton	A style in which conjunctions are omitted, usually producing a fast-paced, more rapid prose. For example, Caesar's famous lines, "I came, I saw, I conquered"	23
5040407291	Atmosphere	The emotional tone or background that surrounds the scene	24
5040411921	Attitude	The sense expressed by the tone of voice and/or the mood of a piece of writing: the feelings the author holds towards his subject, the people in his narrative, the events, the setting or even the theme. It might even be the feeling he holds for the reader	25
5040447265	Ballad	A narrative poem that is, or originally was, meant to be sung. Repetition and refrain (recurring phrase or phrases) characterize this.	26
5040470599	Ballad stanza	a common stanza form, consisting of a quatrain (a stanza with four lines) that alternates four-beat lines: one and three are unrhymed iambic tetrameter (4 beats), and 2 and 4 are rhymed iambic trimester (3 beats)	27
5040500712	Bathos	Insincere and overdone sentimentality	28
5526875699	Pathos	When the writing of a scene evokes feelings of dignity and sympathy	29
5040521442	Bildungsroman	A German word referring to a novel structured as series of events that take place as the hero travels in a quest of a goal	30
5040536130	Black humor	The use of disturbing themes in comedy	31
5040553853	Blank Verse	The verse form that most resembles common speech, it consists of unrhymed lines in iambic pentameter	32
5040564712	Bombast	Pretentious, exaggeratedly learned language	33
5040575156	Burlesque	A broad parody, one that takes a style or form, such as tragic drama, and exaggerates it into ridiculousness.	34
5040590130	Cacophony	Refers to using deliberately harsh, awkward sounds, particularly in poetry	35
5040596518	Cadence	The beat or rhythm of poetry in a general sense (as opposed to identifying a specific rhythm such as iambic pentameter).	36
5040607419	Caesura	A pause in a line of verse, indicated by natural speech patterns rather than due to specific metrical patterns	37
5040616565	Canon	The works considered most important in a national literature or period; works widely read and studied	38
5042622613	Canto	the name for a section division in a long work of poetry. It divides a long poem into parts the way chapters divide a novel	39
5042626047	Caricature	A description in which character's characteristics or features are so deliberately exaggerated as to render them absurd	40
5042630109	Catharsis	Term drawn from Aristotle's writings on tragedy. Refers to the "cleansing" of emotion an audience experiences, having lived (vicariously) through the experiences presented on stage	41
5042632435	Chorus	The group of citizens who stand outside the main action on stage and comment on it	42
5042633537	Chiasmus	A figure of speech by which the order of the terms in the first two parallel clauses is reversed in the second. This may involve a repetition of the same words: "Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure" -Byron	43
5042636847	Coinage (neologism)	A new word, usually invented on the spot	44
5042638893	Colloquial	Ordinary language, the vernacular	45
5053539666	Colloquialism	A word or phrase used in everyday conversational English that is not part of accepted, standard English	46
5042640347	Coming-of-age-story/novel	A tale in which a young protagonist experiences an introduction to adulthood. The character may develop understanding via disillusionment, education, doses of reality, or any other experiences that alter his or her emotional or intellectual maturity. Example: Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird	47
5042643424	Complex/Dense	These two terms carry the similar meaning of suggesting that there is more than one possibility in the earning of words (image, idea, opposition); the text presents subtleties and variations with multiple layers of interpretation; the meaning is both explicit (stated) and implicit (implied)	48
5042646582	Conceit	A comparison of to unlikely things that is drawn out within a piece of literature, in a particular extended metaphor within a poem. Might be the idea of tracing a love affair as a flower growing, budding, coming to fruition, and dying, for example	49
5042651312	Connotation	What is suggested by a word, apart from what it explicitly describes, often referred to as the implied meaning of a word	50
5042653266	Consonance	the repetition of consonant sounds within words	51
5042654864	Couplet	Two rhyming lines of iambic pentameter that together present a single idea or connection	52
5042657932	Decorum	In order to observe this, a character's speech must be styled according to her social station, and in accordance with the occasion	53
5042659966	Denotation	A direct and specific meaning, often referred to as the dictionary meaning of a word	54
5042661452	Deus ex machine	In literature, the use of an artificial device or gimmick to solve a problem; an unexpected power or event saving a seemingly hopeless situation, especially as a contrived pot device in a play or novel	55
5042664097	Dialect	The language and speech idiosyncrasies of a specific area, region, or group of people	56
5042670313	Diction	The specific word choice an author uses to persuade or convey tone, purpose, or effect	57
5042674214	Dirge	A song for the dead. Its tone is typically slow, heavy, and melancholy	58
5042675139	Dissonance	The grating of incompatible sounds	59
5042675781	Doggerel	Crude, simplistic verse, often in sing-song rhyme. Limericks are an example of this	60
5042678494	Dramatic Irony	When the audience knows something that the characters in the drama do not know	61
5042680718	Dramatic monologue	A monologue set in a specific situation and spoken to an imaginary audience. Also known as a soliloquy.	62
5042682982	Elegy	A poetic lament upon the death of a particular person, usually ending in consolation.	63
5042685215	Elements	This word is used constantly and with the assumption that you know exactly what it means. Refer to the basic techniques of each genre of literature-characters, plot, irony, theme, setting, symbol, figurative language, imagery, rhythm, rhyme,characters, conflict, climax, set, props, exposition, rising action, falling action, resolution	64
5042689367	Ellipsis	Three spaced periods (. . .) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation	65
5042691100	Elliptical Construction	A sentence containing a deliberate omission of words	66
5047131303	End-stopped	A term that describes a line of poetry that ends with a natural pause often indicated by mark of punctuation	67
5047139010	Enjambment	the continuation of a sentence from one line or couplet of a poem to the next	68
5047155980	Epic	A poem that celebrates, in a continuous narrative, the achievements of mighty heroes and heroines, often concerned with the founding of a nation or developing of a culture; it uses elevated language and grand, high style. Prime example are The Illiad, The Odyssey, and Paradise Lost, and Star Wars	69
5047164461	Epigraph	quoted lines that are presented at the beginning of a text or the beginning of the chapters in a novel that work toward motif or theme development	70
5047168916	Epiphany	a moment when a character (or an individual) arrives at a conscious understanding or realization of something important; this realization provides enlightenment that alters the character's perception of a situation, a character, or himself/herself; may carry religious connotations in the context	71
5047183543	Epitaph	Lines that commemorate the dead at their burial place. Usaully a line or handful of lines, often serious or religious, but sometimes witty ad even irreverent	72
5047189551	Euphemism	A word or phrase that takes the place of a harsh, unpleasant, or impolite reality. The use of passed away for died, and let go for fired are examples	73
5047196279	Euphony	When sounds blend harmoniously	74
5047202393	Explicit	to say or write something directly and clearly	75
5047206048	Exposition	That part of the structure that sets the scene, introduces and identifies characters, and establishes the situation at the beginning of a story or play	76
5047211736	Extended metaphor	a detailed and complex metaphor that extends over a long section of a work, also known as a conceit	77
5047221218	Fable	a legend or a short moral story often using animals as characters. Aesop is the best-known teller of these.	78
5047229483	Falling action	That part of a plot structure in which the complications of the rising action are untangled. This is also known as the denouement	79
5047232877	Farce	Characterized by broad humor, wild antics, and often slapstick and physical humor. A Midsummer's Night's Dream, Catch-22, Pink Panther, or Search for the Holy Grail are some examples	80
5047244376	Foil	a secondary character whose purpose is to highlight the characteristics of a main character, usually by contrast.	81
5047251099	Foot	the basic rhythmic unit of a line of poetry. Formed by a combination of 2 or 3 syllables, either stressed or unstressed	82
5047255508	Foreshadowing	To hint at or to present an indication of the future beforehand	83
5047258330	Formal Diction	Language that is lofty, dignified, and impersonal. Often used in narrative epic poetry.	84
5047264987	Flashback	Retrospection, where an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronology of the narrative.	85
5047275483	Free Verse	Poetry that is characterized by varying line lengths, lack of traditional meter, and non-rhyming.	86
5047282814	Genre	a type or class of literature such as epic, drama, novel, or poetry	87
5047284912	Gothic novel	This form emerged in the middle of the 18th century and held popularity for 60 years, but is still alive. Think mysterious gloomy castles perched high upon cliffs. Ex: Frankenstein	88
5047294093	Hubris	The excessive pride or ambition that leads to the character's downfall	89
5047298347	Hyperbole	overstatement characterized by exaggerated language. EX: "I'm starving!"	90
5047304094	Iambic	A metrical foot in poetry that consists of two syllables, one short unstressed syllable (u) followed by a longer stressed syllable (/). Often used in sets of five called iambic pentameter	91
5047309584	Imagery	Broadly defined, any sensory detail or evocation in a work; more narrowly, the use of figurative language to evoke a feeling, to call to mind an idea, or to describe an object. Basically, it involves any or all of the five senses. Types: auditory, gustatory, visual, tactile, and olfactory	92
5047319834	Implicit	To say or write something that suggests and implies but never says it directly or clearly. Subtext is another way to address what is meant beyond what the text literally says	93
5047330158	Informal diction	Language that is not as lofty or impersonal as formal diction; similar to everyday speech. such diction might include words like OK, bye, hey, huh?	94
5047335179	In medias res	"in the midst of things"; refers to opening a story in the middle of the action, necessitating filling in past details by exposition or flashback	95
5047340973	Interior monologue	It refers to writing that records the mental talking that goes on inside a character's head, but unlike a stream of consciousness narration it is actually coherent and understandable.	96
5047536410	Inversion	Switching the customary order of elements in a sentence or phrase. Example: "A pizza large I'll have, one with the fixin's all."	97
5047550335	Irony	A situation or statement characterized by significant difference between what is expected or understood and what actually happens or is meant. Often humorous and sometimes sarcastic when it uses words to imply the opposite of what they normally mean.	98
5047565959	Jargon	specialized or technical language of a trade, profession, or similar group	99
5047574052	Juxtapostion	The location of one thing as being adjacent or juxtaposed with another. This placing of 2 items side by side creates a certain effect, reveals an attitude, or accomplishes some purpose of the writer.	100
5047585150	Lament	a poem of sadness or grief over the death of a love done or over some other intense loss	101
5047598200	Lampoon	a satire	102
5047600366	Litotes	a figure of speech that emphasizes its subject by conscious understatement. For example, the understated "not bad" as comment about something especially well done	103
5047605822	Loose Sentence	A sentence grammatically complete, and usually stating its main idea, before the end. The sentence has to be long enough to clearly show the pattern.	104
5047613583	Lyric	Originally designated poems intended to be sung to the accompaniment of a lyre; now any short poem in which the speaker expresses intense personal emotion rather than describing a narrative or dramatic situation.	105
5047620831	Message	A misleading term for theme; The central idea or statement of a story, or area of inquiry or explanation; misleading because it suggests a simple, packaged statement that preexists and for the simple communication of which the story is written	106
5047628583	Metaphor	One thing pictured as if it were something else, suggesting a likeness or analogy between theme. It is an implicit comparison or identification of one thing with another unlike itself without the use of a verbal signal such as like or as.	107
5047639183	Meter	The more or less regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry. This is determined by the kind of "foot" and by the number of feet per line	108
5047655019	Metonymy	A figure of speech in which an attribute or commonly associated feature is used to name or designate something	109
5047664997	Mood	A feeling or ambiance resulting from the tone of a piece as well as the writer/ narrator's attitude and point of view. This effect is fabricated through descriptions of feelings or objects that establish a sense of fear, patriotism, sanctity, hope, etc	110
5047678107	Motif	A recurrent device, formula, or situation that often serves as signal for the appearance of a character or event.	111
5047687245	Muse	one of the ancient Greek goddesses presiding over the arts, the imaginary source of inspiration	112
5047689989	Narrative structure	a textual organization based on sequences of connected events, usually presented in a straightforward, chronological framework	113
5047695488	Narrator	The character who tells the story, or in poetry, the persona	114
5047697315	Nemesis	The protagonist's archenemy or supreme and persistent difficulty	115
5047700721	Objectivity	treatment of subject matter that is an impersonal or outside view of events	116
5527238226	Subjectivity	treatment uses the interior or personal view of a single observer and is typically colored with that observer's emotional responses	117
5047716598	Occasional Poem	a poem written about or for specific occasion, public or private	118
5047720996	Ode	A lyric poem that is somewhat serious in subject and treatment, elevated in style and sometimes uses elaborate stanza structure, which is often patterned in sets of 3. These are written to praise and exalt a person, characteristic, quality or object	119
5047730530	Onomatopoeia	A word capturing or approximating the sound of what it describes; "buzz" is a good example. The purpose of these words is to make a passage more effective for the reader or listener.	120
5047740975	Opposition	A pair of elements that contrast sharply. It is not necessarily conflict but rather a pairing of images (or settings or appeals) whereby each becomes more striking and informative because it is placed in contrast to the other. It creates mystery and tension. They can be obvious and lead lead to irony	121
5047755789	Overstatement	exaggerated language; also called hyperbole	122
5047758586	Oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines two apparently contradictory elements, sometimes resulting in a humorous image or statement	123
5047767257	Parable	a short fiction that illustrates an explicit moral lesson through the use of analogy; often spiritual	124
5047773551	Paradox	A statement that seems contradictory but may actually be true	125
5047779462	Parallel Structure	The use of similar forms in writing for nouns, verbs, phrases, or thoughts; Repeated syntactical similarities used for effect	126
5047790710	Paraphrase	to restate phrases and sentences into your own words; to rephrase. This is not analysis or interpretation. Demonstrates comprehension of content	127
5047802523	Parenthetical Phrase	A phrase set off by commas that interrupts the flow of a sentence with some commentary or added detail.	128
5047808868	Parody	A work that imitates another work for comic effect by exaggerating the style and changing the content of the original	129
5047822286	Pastoral	a work (also called an eclogue, a bucolic, or an idyll) that describes the simple life of country folk, life in a world full of beauty, music, love, and tranquil nature	130
5047827055	Periodic Sentence	A sentence in which is not grammatically complete until the end	131
5047840055	Persona	The voice or figure of the author who tells and structures the story and who may or may not share the values of the actual author	132
5047846086	Personification	Treating an abstraction or nonhuman object as if it were a person by endowing it with human qualities	133
5047857535	Petrarchan sonnet	also called Italian sonnet: a sonnet form that divides the poem into one section of 8 lines (octave) and a section of 6 lines (sestet), usually following the abba abba cde cde rhyme scheme though the sestet's rhyme varies	134
5047866798	Plot	the arrangement of the narration based on the cause-effect relationship of the events	135
5047870570	Point of view	the perspective from which a story is told	136
5527351946	Objective Narrator	a 3rd person narrator who only reports what would be visible to a camera; thoughts and feelings are only revealed if a character speaks of them	137
5527346534	Limited Omniscient	a 3rd person narrator who reports the thoughts of only one character and generally only what one character sees	138
5527321920	First-person narrator	a narrator, referred to as "I", who is a character in the story and relates the actions through his or her own perspective, also revealing his or her own thoughts	139
5527330365	Stream of Consciousness Narrator	Like a 1st person narrator, but instead placing the reader inside the character's head, making the reader privy to the continuous, chaotic flow or disconnected, half-formed thoughts and impressions in the characters mind	140
5527339345	Omniscient Narrator	a 3rd person narrator, referred to as "he," "she," or "they," who is able to see into each character's mind and understands all the action	141
5047905740	Prelude	an introductory poem to a longer work of verse	142
5047908306	Pulp fiction	novels written for mass consumption, often emphasizing exciting and titillating plots.	143
5047915556	Pun	the usually humorous use of a word in such a way to suggest two or more meanings; a play on words	144
5047918936	Protagonist	the main character in a work, who may or may not be heroic	145
5047935046	Quatrain	A poetic stanza of four lines	146
5047937791	Realism	the practice in literature of attempting to describe nature and life without idealization and with attention to detail.	147
5047945405	Refrain	a repeated stanza or line(s) in a poem or song	148
5047949854	Requiem	A song of prayer for the dead	149
5047952498	Rising action	the development of action in a work, usually at the beginning. The first part of plot structure	150
5047955181	Rhetorical question	a question that is asked simply for stylistic effect and is not expected to be answered. The question suggests the answer and works to engage the reader in a dialogue with the author	151
5047966596	Rhyme	the repetition of the same or similar sounds, most often at the ends of lines	152
5047973640	Rhythm	the modulation of weak and strong (stressed and unstressed) elements in the flow of speech	153
5047975873	Sarcasm	A form of verbal irony in which apparent praise is actually harshly or bitterly critical. For example, if a teacher says to a student who sneaks into class an hour late, "nice of you to join us today," the teacher is being sarcastic.	154
5047987764	Satire	A literary work that holds up human failings to ridicule and censure. This exposes common character flaws to the cold light of humor. In general, attempts to improve things by pointing out people's mistakes in the hope that once exposed, such behavior will become less common. The great satirical subjects are hypocrisy, vanity, and greed	155
5048001195	Scansion	the analysis of verse to show its meter	156
5048002860	Setting	the time and place of the action in a story, poem, or play.	157
5048012861	Shakespearean Sonnet	also called an English sonnet: a sonnet form that divides the poem into 3 units of 4 lines each and a final unit of two lines, usually abab cece efef gg	158
5048016353	Shaped Verse	another name for concrete poetry: poetry that is shaped to look like an object.	159
5048019651	Simile	a direct, explicit comparison of one thing to another, usually using the words like or as to draw the connection. See also metaphor.	160
5048023586	Stanza	a group of lines in rough verse, roughly analogous in fiction to the paragraph in prose. Couplet- 2 lines; Tercet- 3 lines; Quatrian- 4 lines; Cinquain- 5; Sestet- 6; Septet-7; Octave-8	161
5048031970	Stereotype	A characterization based on conscious or unconscious assumptions that some one aspect, such as gender, age, ethnic or natural identity, religion, occupation, marital status, and so on, are predictable accompanied by certain character traits	162
5048041287	Stock character	one who appears in a number of stories or plays such as the cruel stepmother, the femme fatale, the drunk, the miser, etc.	163
5048045754	Structure	The organization of arrangement of the various elements in a work	164
5048050111	Style	a distinctive manner of expression; each author's style is expressed through his or her diction, rhythm, imagery, and so on. It is a writer's typical way of writing. Hemingway wrote primarily short, simple sentences while Joseph Conrad wrote long, rambling prose	165
5048066635	Summary	a simple retelling of what you have just read. Cover content in general terms--a chapter, a book, a poem	166
5048071917	Suspension of disbelief	The demand made of theater audience to accept the limitations of staging and supply the details with imagination. Also, the acceptance on an audience's or reader's par of the incidents of plot in a play or story.	167
5048083021	Symbolism	a person, place, thing or event, or pattern in a literary work that designate itself and at the same time figuratively represents or stands for something esle	168
5048090142	Synecdoche	when a part is used to signify a whole.	169
5048099939	Syntax	the way words are put together to form phrases clauses, and sentences. This is sentence structure, grammar patterns, and how that influences the way the reader receives a particular piece of writing	170
5048104697	Theme	A generalized abstract paraphrase of the inferred central or dominant idea or concern of a work; must be expressed in a sentence	171
5048113072	Tragedy	A drama in which a character (usually good and noble and of high rank) is brought to a disastrous end in his or her confrontation with a superior force. Often, the protagonist's downfall is a direct result of a fatal flaw (Tragic flaw) in his or her character	172
5048120215	Trope	The generic name for a figure of speech such as image, symbol, simile, and metaphor	173
5048123853	Truism	a way-too-obvious truth	174
5048126426	Utopia	an idealized place. Imaginary communities in which people are able to live in happiness, prosperity, and peace	175
5048129599	Verisimilitude	The quality of realism in a work that persuades readers that they are getting a vision of life, as it is	176
5048133170	Voice	the acknowledged or unacknowledged source of the words of the story; the speaker, the persona	177
5048136948	Zeugma	The use of a word to modify two or more words, but used for different meanings. Example: He closed the door and his heart on his lost love	178
6615868117	carpe diem	Latin phrase meaning "seize the day", or make the most of present opportunities	179
6615870551	character	an individual in a story or play	180
6615873009	conflict	a struggle or clash between opposing characters, forces, or emotions	181
6615877228	contrast	a literary technique in which the author examines two opposites to create an attitude, accomplish a purpose of effect, or to make an assertion	182
6615882876	description	using vivid words to paint a picture of what the fie senses are experiencing	183
6615885608	dialog	conversation between/among people	184
6615885609	didactic	something written primarily to teach or instruct	185
6615887871	dilemma	type of conflict in which both choices have some negative connotations	186
6615890435	epigram	a pithy saying	187
6615892394	figure of speech	imaginative comparisons used by the author o convey tone, purpose, or effect	188
6615894174	form (in poetry)	external pattern of the poem; continuous, stanzic, free verse, fixed, and blank	189
6615901026	heroic couplet	two consecutive lines of poetry that thyme and are written in iambic pentameter	190
6615902712	internal rhyme	rhyme that occurs within a line of poetry	191
6615908790	inverted order	reversing the normal subject-verb-complement order seen in a sentence	192
6615911463	mock-epic	a comic narrative poem that parodies the epic by treating a trivial subject in a lofty, grand manner	193
6615924833	modernism	a period of literature in the early 1900s which experimented with new forms and treated life realistically	194
6615928406	materialism	putting emphasis on worldly objects over less tangible values	195
6615931873	Naturalism	a nineteenth-century literary movement that carried realism to negative extreme. Character outcomes are doomed by heredity and environment	196
6615938357	Neoclassicism	the revival of classical standards and forms during the 17th and 18th centuries	197
6615940337	pacing	the rate of movement of a story may be slower with the exposition or description, faster with dramatic incidence, etc.	198
6615943087	paradigm	a model, ideal, or standard	199
6615945723	pathetic fallacy	the tendency to credit nature with human emotions; false emotionalism resulting in too impassioned description of nature; carrying over to inanimate objects the moods and passions of a human being	200
6615953820	plausibility	an element of literary judgment. Is the work believable?	201
6615957249	precis	the epitome or statement of the essential facts of a passage	202
6615959110	renaissance	the rebirth of learning which followed the Middle Ages	203
6615961297	repetition	the use of repeated words or phrases for effect	204
6615964262	rhetoric	the art of speaking or writing	205
6615965676	romanticism	a literary movement that emphasizes intuition, imagination, and emotion over reason	206
6615968644	sensory language	language used to appeal to the senses	207
6615972193	sensory image	the building of an image in the reader's mind through the use of sensory details	208
6615975262	soliloquy	a long speech made by a character in a play while he/she is alone on stage	209
6615979219	sonnet	a 14 line poem, usually written in iambic pentameter, that has one of several rhyme schemes	210
6615982314	terza rima	an interlocking three line stanza form with the rhyme scheme aba, bcb, cdc, ded, etc.	211
6615985788	thesis	an attitude or position taken by weriter or speaker with the purpose of proving or supporting it	212
6615988676	tone	the attitude a writer takes toward the reader, a subject, or a character	213
6615990828	Transcendetalism	a 19th century movement in the Romantic tradition which believes that humans can rise above materialism through simplicity and communion with nature	214
6615994317	understatement	a statement that says less than what it means, the opposite of exaggeration	215
6615996751	wit	a quality of writing that combines cleverness with keen perception, especially in the writer's ability to state things that the reader has thought but has not been able to express in words. A quality of writing that combines cleverness with keen perception, especially in the writer's ability to state things that the reader has though but has not been able to express in words	216