C Flashcards

7021527499	abstract	relating to or involving general ideas or qualities rather than specific people, objects, or actions	0
7038058048	Adage	an old and well-known saying that expresses a general truth	1
7038058049	Allegory	a story in which the characters and events are symbols that stand for ideas about human life or for a political or historical situation	2
7038059219	Alliteration	the use of words that begin with the same sound near one another	3
7038059220	Allusion	a statement that refers to something without mentioning it directly	4
7038061506	Ambiguity	something that does not have a single clear meaning	5
7038062907	Anachronism	something (such as a word, an object, or an event) that is mistakenly placed in a time where it does not belong in a story, movie, etc.	6
7038063653	Analogy	a comparison of two things based on their being alike in some way	7
7038063654	Anecdote	a short story about an interesting or funny event or occurrence	8
7038065064	Antagonist	a person who opposes another person	9
7038067165	Antithesis	the exact opposite of something or someone	10
7038114878	Aphorism	a short phrase that expresses a true or wise idea	11
7038114879	Apostrophe	the punctuation mark ʼ used to show that letters or numbers are missing	12
7038116358	Archetype	a perfect example of something	13
7038117703	Assonance	the use of words that have the same or very similar vowel sounds near one another	14
7038117704	Ballad	a kind of poem or song that tells a story	15
7038119635	Bathos	the sudden appearance of a silly idea or event in a book, movie discussion, etc., that is serious in tone	16
7038120987	Blank verse	poetry that does not rhyme but that has a regular rhythm	17
7038120988	Caesura	a break between words within a metrical foot.	18
7038122540	Canon	an accepted rule or guide about how people should behave or about how something should be done	19
7038122541	Caricature	a drawing that makes someone look funny or foolish because some part of the person's appearance is exaggerated	20
7038124028	Climax	the most exciting and important part of a story, play, or movie that occurs usually at or near the end	21
7038124029	Colloquial	used when people are speaking in an informal way	22
7038125274	Conceit	too much pride in your own worth or goodness	23
7038125275	Connotation	an idea or quality that a word makes you think about in addition to its meaning	24
7038126583	Consonance	a speech sound that is made by partly or completely stopping the flow of air breathed out from the mouth	25
7038126584	Couplet	two lines of poetry that form a unit	26
7038128900	Diction	the clearness of a person's speech	27
7038129735	Deus ex machina	a character or thing that suddenly enters the story in a novel, play, movie, etc., and solves a problem that had previously seemed impossible to solve	28
7038129736	Elegy	a sad poem or song : a poem or song that expresses sorrow for someone who is dead	29
7038131384	Ellipsis	the act of leaving out one or more words that are not necessary for a phrase to be understood	30
7038132907	Enjambment	the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza	31
7038132914	Epic	a long poem that tells the story of a hero's adventures	32
7038145385	Epigram	a short and clever poem or saying	33
7038147791	Euphemism	a mild or pleasant word or phrase that is used instead of one that is unpleasant or offensive	34
7038149234	Exposition	the act of explaining something : clear explanation	35
7038150463	Fable	a short story that usually is about animals and that is intended to teach a lesson	36
7038151786	Falling action	the parts of story after the climax and before the very end	37
7038152619	Farce	a funny play or movie about ridiculous situations and events	38
7038153646	First-person narrative	is a point of view (who is telling a story)where the story is narrated by one character at a time.	39
7038153647	Flashback	a part of a story or movie that describes or shows something that happened in the past	40
7038155819	Foil	to prevent (someone) from doing something or achieving a goal	41
7039678742	Foreshadowing	to give a suggestion of (something that has not yet happened)	42
7039679213	Free verse	poetry that does not rhyme and does not have a regular rhythm	43
7039679914	Genre	a particular type or category of literature or art	44
7039680585	Hyperbole	language that describes something as better or worse than it really is	45
7039681839	Imagery	language that causes people to imagine pictures in their mind	46
7039682245	In medias res	into the middle of a narrative; without preamble.	47
7039682973	Irony	the use of words that mean the opposite of what you really think especially in order to be funny	48
7039683186	Juxtapose	to place (different things) together in order to create an interesting effect or to show how they are the same or different	49
7039684521	Litotes	ironic understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary	50
7039684525	Lyric	the words of a song	51
7039685122	Metaphor	a word or phrase for one thing that is used to refer to another thing in order to show or suggest that they are similar	52
7039685123	Meter	a device that measures and records the amount of something that has been used	53
7039687528	Metonymy	the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant,	54
7039687529	Mood	A literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions	55
7039687923	Motif	something (such as an important idea or subject) that is repeated throughout a book, story, etc.	56
7039687924	Narrator	to tell a story	57
7039688303	Ode	a poem in which a person expresses a strong feeling of love or respect for someone or something	58
7039688576	Omniscient point of view	a method of storytelling in which the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in the story,	59
7039688577	Onomatopoeia	the creation of words that imitate natural sounds	60
7039689323	Oxymoron	a combination of words that have opposite or very different meanings	61
7039690107	Parable	a short story that teaches a moral or spiritual lesson	62
7039690432	Paradox	something (such as a situation) that is made up of two opposite things and that seems impossible but is actually true or possible	63
7039690433	Parody	a piece of writing, music, etc., that imitates the style of someone or something else in an amusing way	64
7039690901	Pastoral	of or relating to the countryside or to the lives of people who live in the country	65
7039690902	Pathos	a quality that causes people to feel sympathy and sadness	66
7039691220	Persona	the way you behave, talk, etc., with other people that causes them to see you as a particular kind of person	67
7039691221	Personification	a person who has a lot of a particular quality and who is the perfect example of someone who has that quality	68
7039691521	Plot	an area of land that has been measured and is considered as a unit	69
7039691522	Protagonist	the main character in a novel, play, movie, etc.	70
7039692015	Quatrain	a poem or verse that has four lines	71
7039692016	Realism	the quality of a person who understands what is real and possible in a particular situation and is able to deal with problems in an effective and practical way	72
7039692302	Refrain	to stop yourself from doing something that you want to do	73
7039692475	Rhetorical question	a question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer.	74
7039692476	Rhyme	one of two or more words or phrases that end in the same sounds	75
7039692720	Rhythm	one of two or more words or phrases that end in the same sounds	76
7039692721	Rising action	a plot is a series of relevant incidents that create suspense,	77
7039692950	Sarcasm	the use of irony to mock or convey contempt.	78
7039692951	Satire	a way of using humor to show that someone or something is foolish, weak, bad, etc.	79
7039693968	Setting	the place and conditions in which something happens or exists	80
7039693969	Shakespearean sonnet	composed of three quatrains and a terminal couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern	81
7039694427	Simile	a phrase that uses the words like or as to describe someone or something by comparing it with someone or something else that is similar	82
7039694428	Soliloquy	a long, usually serious speech that a character in a play makes to an audience and that reveals the character's thoughts	83
7039694734	Stanza	a group of lines in a poem	84
7039694735	Stereotype	an often unfair and untrue belief that many people have about all people or things with a particular characteristic	85
7039694999	Structure	the way that something is built, arranged, or organized	86
7039695000	Style	a particular way in which something is done, created, or performed	87
7039695412	Syllogism	a formal argument in logic that is formed by two statements and a conclusion which must be true if the two statements are true	88
7039695413	Symbolism	the use of symbols to express or represent ideas or qualities in literature, art, etc.	89
7039695690	Synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	90
7039695691	Syntax	the way in which words are put together to form phrases, clauses, or sentences	91
7039696727	Terza rima	an arrangement of triplets, especially in iambs, that rhyme	92
7039696728	Theme	Is the central topic a text treat	93
7039697175	Tone	The general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing situation etc.	94
7039697176	Tragedy	Branch of drama that treats in a serious and dignified style the sorrowful or terrible events encounter or cause by a heroic individual	95
7039697316	Voice	The form or a format through which narrators tell their stories	96