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Euphony
A story containing unreal, imaginary features.
Structure that provides premise or setting for a narrative.
Pleasing, harmonious sounds.
The interpretation or analysis of a text.
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Tragic Flaw
Assumed personality of the author in the text.
Character flaw or error of a tragic hero.
Intelligent humar utilizing word play.
Utopian Fiction.
3
Practice of rhyming words placed at the end of the lines in poetry.
Schematics
Rhyme Time
Rhyme Scheme
Rythym
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Narrator with unlimited awareness.
Limited Narrator
Pathetic Fallacy
Omniscient Narrator
Point of View
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Cliffhanger
Used to ensure the audience returns for resolution.
Lyric poem or passage; describing ideal life or place.
A concise but ingenious, witty, and thoughtful statement.
Quick succession of images or impressions to express an idea
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A story consisting of events from which a moral or spiritual truth may be divined.
Allegory
Plot
Paradox
Parable
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Protagonist
The leading character or a major character.
The enemy of the main character.
Novels written for mass consumption.
Makes fun of a human weakness or character flaw.
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Understatement
Perspective of the author towards the work.
Exaggerating obviousness as a means of humor.
Irony
Represents something else, usually something more meaningful
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A quick succession of images or impressions used to express an idea.
Pathos
Melodrama
Montage
Sequence
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Character (Static/Flat)
Remains the same throughout; does not experience change.
A concise but ingenious, witty, and thoughtful statement.
It is the most exciting or intense part of the story.
Goes through change or growth in the story.
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Implied comparison between two unlike things that actually have something important in common.
Litotes
Kenning
Symbol
Metaphor
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Referring to all characters and places with: (he, she, they).
Point of View (First Person)
Point of View (Last Person)
Point of View (Third Person)
Point of View (Second Person)
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End-Stopped
A mocking, satirical assault on a person or situation.
Line of poetry; ends with a natural pause.
Exaggeration in writing that is used for effect.
Structure that provides premise or setting for a narrative.
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Dystopia
Imagined setting in which everything is unpleasant or bad.
Use of successive lines with no punctuation or pause.
The interpretation or analysis of a text.
Pleasing, harmonious sounds.
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Cacophony
Three periods (. . .) indicating the omission of words.
Pleasing, harmonious sounds.
Words with sharp, harsh, hissing and unmelodious sounds.
Poetic lines with no punctuation or pause between them.
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Language of a work and its style; words, often highly emotional, used to convince an audience.
Pun
Prologue
Satire
Rhetoric
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Literary form in which events are exaggerated in order to create an extreme emotional response
Melodrama
Drama
Smilie
Free Verse
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Point of view to address the reader. Uses the pronouns “you,” “your,” and “yours.”
Point of View (Third Person)
Point of View (Last Person)
Point of View (First Person)
Point of View (Second Person)
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The language spoken in England roughly between 1150 and 1500 AD.
Beginning English
Middle English
Late English
Ending English
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Exposition
An exaggeration in writing that is used for effect.
The action in a play or story that occurs after the climax
Background & events that explain the purpose of a work.
A mocking, satirical assault on a person or situation.
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Frame Story
A verse with five poetic feet per line.
A structure that provides premise or setting for a narrative
Extreme pride and arrogance shown by a character.
The interpretation or analysis of a text.
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Statement in which the actual meaning differs from the meaning that the words appear to express
Situational Irony
Verbal Irony
Dramatic Irony
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May mark a shift in point of view, tone, mood, style or any other manner of expression.
Voice
Volta
Viola
Vision
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A statement or idea that fails to follow logically from the one before.
Insert
Novel of Manners
Mary Sue
Non Sequitur
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Personal, reflective poetry that reveals the speaker’s thoughts and feelings about the subject.
Idyllic Poetry
Metaphysical Poetry
Lyric Poetry
Ode
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Also called a ‘pen name’ or ‘nom de plume,’ -- a false name used by some authors.
Publisher
Printer
Rhetoric
Pseudonym
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Stanza
A figurative comparison using the words like or as.
Represents something else, usually something more meaningful
Implied meaning that underlies the main meaning in a work.
A single, related chunk of lines in poetry.
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Verisimilitude
Fiction set in an ideal or perfect community.
The character flaw or error of a tragic hero.
Similar to the truth: convinces readers of veracity of work.
Intelligent humor.
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Foreshadowing
Used to suggest an upcoming outcome to the story.
A structure that provides premise or setting for a narrative
An exaggeration in writing that is used for effect.
Lyric poem or passage describing an ideal life or place.
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Adage
Truthful saying or prover; couched in metaphorical language.
A concise but ingenious, witty, and thoughtful statement.
The repetition of an initial consonant sound.
3 periods (. . .) indicating the omission of 1 word or more.
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An object that represents something else, usually something more meaningful.
Motive
Motif
Symbol
Cymbal
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Narrative that starts not at the beginning of events but at some other critical point.
in media res
Montage
Verbal Irony
Meter
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A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word.
Pan
Wit
Wattage
Pun
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Fable
Events are exaggerated to create an emotional response.
The actual meaning differs from implied meaning
Short tale featuring non-human characters that act as people
A structure that provides premise or setting for a narrative
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Hero is destroyed by some character flaw & forces that cause the hero considerable anguish.
Hubris
Tragedy
Dystopia
Litotes
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roman à clef
Novel written for mass consumption.
Four-line poem.
Novel with historical events & people appear as fictional.
French novel featuring romantic elements.
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Flashback
An earlier event is inserted into the narrative.
It represents an appeal to the audience's emotions.
A figurative comparison using the words like or as.
They blur the line between hero and villain.
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Connotation
Belief emphasizing faith and optimism in human potential.
Earlier event is inserted into the normal order of the plot.
A story containing unreal, imaginary features.
A secondary, or implied meaning.
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Introduction that usually sets the tone and acts as a bit of a background; a sneak peek.
Prologue
Monologue
Soliloquy
Dialogue
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Pentameter
A verse with six poetic feet per line.
A verse with five poetic feet per line.
A verse with 20 poetic feet per line.
A verse with 3 poetic feet per line.
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Climax
The dictionary definition of a word, its literal meaning.
Humor that makes light of an otherwise solemn subject matter
It is the most exciting or intense part of the story.
Exaggeration in writing that is used for effect.
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An episodic novel about a rogue like wanderer who lives off his wits.
Novelistic
Prologue
Picaresque Novel
Novel of Manners
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Character (Dynamic/Round)
Goes through change or growth in the story.
The interpretation or analysis of a text.
Remains the same throughout; does not experience change.
Faith and optimism in human potential and creativity.
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Imaginary story that has become an accepted part of cultural or religious tradition.
Fantasy
Motif
Inspiration
Myth
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Occurs when a piece of writing is making fun of a human weakness or character flaw.
Sonnet
Setting
Smilie
Satire
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Attaching human traits and characteristics with inanimate objects, phenomena and/or animals.
Allegory
Fable
Paradox
Personification
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Quotation in which actual words are not stated but only approximated or paraphrased.
Indirect Quotation
Meter
Metaphysical
Lampoon
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Conflict
The struggle between opposing forces.
Pattern of stressed & unstressed syllables found in poetry.
Narrative that starts not at the beginning of events.
Structure that provides premise or setting for a narrative.
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When the reader is led to believe that one thing will occur but, in fact, the opposite occurs.
Dramatic Irony
Verbal Irony
Situational Irony
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Practice of forming a rhyme in only one line of verse.
Allegory
Kenning
Atmosphere
Internal Rhyme
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A mocking, satirical assault on a person or situation.
Genre
Lampoon
Litotes
Idyll
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A form of understatement; the negative of the contrary is used to achieve negative emphasis.
Litotes
Melodrama
Verbal Irony
Metaphor
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Onomatopoeia
Words that imitate or represent a sound.
Words that imitate or represent a sound.
Words that imitate or represent a sound.
Words that imitate or represent a sound.
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Quatrain
A two-line poem or a two-line unit of a longer poem.
A five-line poem or a five-line unit of a longer poem.
A three-line poem or a three-line unit of a longer poem.
A four-line poem or a four-line unit of a longer poem.
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Ambiguity
A four-line poem or a four-line unit of a longer poem.
A mocking, satirical assault on a person or situation.
A conscious lack of clarity meant to evoke multiple meanings
Lyric poem or passage describing an ideal life or place.
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Hyperbole
Exaggeration in writing that is used for effect.
Human quality, emotion, or ambition is given to a non-human
Grotesque likeness of striking qualities in persons & things
A mocking, satirical assault on a person or situation.
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Poetry: elaborate conceits, highly intellectual, & expresses the complexities of love and life.
Lyric Poetry
Verse
Metaphysical Poetry
Mock Epic
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A style of writing which tries to reproduce the random flow of thoughts in the human mind.
Stream of Consciousness
Creek of Thought
Rill of Expression
River of Life
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Foil
Negative of the contrary is used for negative emphasis.
Exaggerated events to create an extreme emotional response.
A mocking, satirical assault on a person or situation.
Character which creates a contrast to another character
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Novels written for mass consumption often emphasizing action or titillation.
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Kill Bill
Four Rooms
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Hubris
Pride & arrogance that ultimately brings about his downfall.
Structure that provides premise or setting for a narrative.
Goes through change or growth in the story.
The interpretation or analysis of a text.
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Atmosphere
Blurs the line between hero and villain.
Grotesque likeness of striking qualities.
Setting or scene elicits an emotional response.
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A term often used as a synonym for Realism; a view that is generally bleak and pessimistic.
Mood
Naturalism
Satire
Ode
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Form of intelligent humor and the ability to say or write things that are clever and funny.
Wit
Trope
Volta
Wat
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Treatment of inanimate objects as if they had human feelings, thoughts, or sensations.
Fable
Narration
Pathetic Fallacy
Onomatopoeia
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Persona
Story from which moral or spiritual truth may be devined.
Idealizes rural life.
Role or facade that a character assumes or depicts.
Attaching human traits to inanimate objects.
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Euphemism
Less harsh form of a negative description.
Language spoken in England roughly between 1150 and 1500 AD.
The imaginary source of inspiration for an artist or writer.
Bitter enemy, especially one that seems unbeatable.
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The author's emotional perspective towards the subject of the literary work.
Feeling
Mood
Instinct
Emotion
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A piece of fiction is set in an ideal or perfect community.
Utopia
Verse
Villanelle
Dystopia
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Caricature
Differs from connotation, an implied meaning.
The interpretation or analysis of a text.
Overused to the point of losing its original meaning.
Grotesque likeness of striking qualities.
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Humanism
Describes the customs & habits of particular groups
An eight-line rhyming stanza of a poem
Emphasizes faith & optimism in human potential & creativity
Bitter enemy, especially one that seems unbeatable.
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Apostrophe
Setting or scene elicits an emotional response.
The interpretation or analysis of a text.
Addresses an someone/something that is unable to respond.
Exaggeration in writing that is used for effect.
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Ellipsis
An eight-line rhyming stanza of a poem
Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry.
A nemesis is a bitter enemy.
Three periods indicating the omission of words or more.
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Villanelle
French poem. 19 lines.
Final ryhming couplet in a sonnet.
English poem. 14 lines.
Poetic shift.
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Told by the narrator from his/her point of view. It is identified by the use of "I" or “Me.”
Point of View (Third Person)
Point of View (Last Person)
Point of View (First Person)
Point of View (Second Person)
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Archetype
Quick succession of images or impressions to express an idea
Language spoken in England roughly between 1150 and 1500 AD.
Structure that provides premise or setting for a narrative.
Universally understood prototype of its kind.
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Synecdoche
Underlying message that acts as the foundation.
Perspective or attitude of the author.
A city in New York.
A part is made to represent the whole.
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It represents an appeal to the audience's emotions.
Pathos
First Person
Oxymoron
Plot
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Exposé
The interpretation or analysis of a text.
Writing that reveals weaknesses, faults, frailties, etc.
Pleasing, harmonious sounds.
Concise but ingenious, witty, and thoughtful statement.
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Anthropomorphism
Setting or scene elicits an emotional response in reader.
A story containing unreal, imaginary features.
Human quality, emotion, or ambition is given to a non-human.
Structure that provides premise or setting for a narrative.
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Verse containing fourteen lines and a prescribed rhyme scheme.
Oblique Poem
Heroic Poem
Sonnet
Free Verse
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Dark Comedy
Repetition of an initial consonant sound.
Setting or scene elicits an emotional response.
Figure of speech; addresses an object, concept, or person
Humor that makes light of an otherwise solemn subject matter
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Epigram
A concise but ingenious, witty, and thoughtful statement.
Exaggeration in writing that is used for effect.
Lyric poem or passage that describes a kind of ideal life.
A verse with five poetic feet per line.
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Epithet
Intelligent humor; things that are clever & funny.
Added to a person's or place’s name describing a quality.
The repetition of an initial consonant sound.
Piece of fiction is set in an ideal or perfect community.
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Genre
Device in which characters or story symbolize concepts.
Three periods indicating the omission of words or more.
Term used to describe forms, such as novel play, and essay.
The repetition of an initial consonant sound.
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Syntax
Character flaw of the protagonist.
Arrangement of the words in a sentence.
Perspective or attitude of the author towards the topic.
Implied underlying meaning of the work.
87
Idiom
The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry.
Saying with meaning not deducible from the individual words
Words that imitate or represent a sound.
Audience knows something; characters within the story do not
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The implied meaning that underlies the main meaning in a work.
Syntax
Symbolism
Subtext
Motif
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A bitter enemy, especially one that seems unbeatable.
Narrative
Bad Guy
Denotation
Nemesis
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Paradox
It represents an appeal to the audience's emotions.
Self-contradictory statement that may prove to be true
A four-line poem or a four-line unit of a longer poem.
A figurative comparison using the words like or as.
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A synonym for poetry. Also a group of lines in a song or poem; also a single line of poetry.
Obverse
Purse
Verse
Terse
92
Total environment for the action in a novel or play: time, place, history, and social, etc.
Area of Effect
Setting
Subtext
Narration
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Intense feeling that an audience goes through while waiting for the outcome of certain events.
Synecdoche
Input
Suspense
Outcome
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Trope
Generic name for a figure of speech: image, metaphor, etc.
Poem with 19 proscribed patterned lines.
Quality of realism and truth in a work of fiction.
Implied meaning that underlies a work.
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Epic
A concise but ingenious, witty, and thoughtful statement.
Pleasing, harmonious sounds.
Narrative poem that tells adventures & exploits of a hero
The interpretation or analysis of a text.
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A novel focusing on and describing the social customs and habits of particular social groups.
Myth
Novel of Manners
Metonymy
Period Piece
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Enjambment
Successive lines with no punctuation or pause between them.
A story containing unreal, imaginary features.
Human quality, emotion, given to non-human object.
Grotesque likeness of striking qualities in persons & things
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Substituting words with similar sounding words that have different, often unconnected, meanings
Meter
Metonymy
Malapropism
Metaphor
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The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables found in poetry.
Mood
Iamb
Meter
Montage
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Tone
Declarative Sentences.
Generic name for a figure of speech: image, symbol, etc.
Specific use of language.
The perspective or attitude of the author towards the topic.
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Denotation
Dictionary definition of a word, its literal meaning.
Language spoken in England roughly between 1150 and 1500 AD.
Writing that reveals weaknesses, frailties, shortcomings.
Statement that fails to follow logically from the one before
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A figurative comparison using the words
like
or
as.
Symbol
Metaphor
Allegory
Simile
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Allusion
Two sentences of contrasting meanings close to one another.
A person, place, event, book, etc. as a passing reference.
The interpretation or analysis of a text.
Grotesque likeness of striking qualities in persons & things
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Alliteration
A work of literature dealing with rural life
Words that imitate or represent a sound.
A verse with five poetic feet per line.
The repetition of an initial consonant sound.
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Allegory
Central character who lacks conventional heroic qualities.
Characters or events symbolize ideas and concepts.
A mocking, satirical assault on a person or situation.
Statement that fails to follow logically from the one before
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Anti-Hero
Cleansing of spirit; the pity & terror of a dramatic tragedy
The dictionary definition of a word, its literal meaning.
A central character who lacks conventional heroic qualities.
The interpretation or analysis of a text.
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Oxymoron
A verse with five poetic feet per line.
Episodic novel; rogue like wanderer living off his wits.
When opposite or contradictory words are placed together.
It represents an appeal to the audience's emotions.
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Antithesis
Two sentences of contrasting meanings close to one another.
Synonym for poetry.
Set in an ideal or perfect community.
When a human quality is given to a non-human object or being
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Fantasy
Use of successive lines without punctuation or pause.
When the setting or scene elicits an emotional response.
Pleasing, harmonious sounds.
A story containing unreal, imaginary features.
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Cliché
Exaggeration in writing that is used for effect.
Expression, idea, or element which has become overused.
Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry.
A mocking, satirical assault on a person or situation.
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A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject.
Motif
Ode
Litotes
Montage
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Flashforward
Device used to give plot info about what may happen later.
A structure that provides premise or setting for a narrative
Synonym for poetry.
Belief emphasizing faith and optimism in human potential.
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It is the practice of substituting the main word with a word that is closely linked to it.
Metaphor
Litotes
Allegory
Metonymy
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The imaginary source of inspiration for an artist or writer.
Naturalism
Symbol
Muse
Mood
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Idyll
Name of a thing is replaced by one of its qualities.
Words that imitate or represent a sound.
Succession of images or impressions used to express an idea.
Lyric poem or passage describing an ideal life or place
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Catharsis
Used to ensure the audience returns to see the resolution.
An exaggeration in writing that is used for effect.
A story containing unreal, imaginary features.
Cleansing of spirit; by pity and terror of dramatic tragedy.
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The Anglo-Saxon language spoken in what is now England from approximately 450 to 1150AD.
Ending English
Late English
Middle English
Old English
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Specific theme that dominates a literary work.
Myth
Motif
Muse
Montage
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Falling Action
Occurs after the climax and that leads to the conclusion.
A mocking, satirical assault on a person or situation.
Novel with historical events and people appear as fictional.
A story containing unreal, imaginary features.
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Imagery
An exaggeration in writing that is used for effect.
Poem marked by serious, respectful, & exalted feelings
Starts not at the beginning but at some other critical point
Words and phrases to create mental images using five senses.
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Anglo-Saxon poetic device: "whale road" for ocean, or "ring-giver" for king.
Malapropism
Lampoon
Kenning
Allegory
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A parody of traditional epic form.
Imaginary Epic
Boring Epic
Pretend Epic
Mock Epic
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Report of related events presented to readers in words arranged in a logical sequence.
Novel of Manners
Ode
Narrative
Non Sequitur
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Anachronism
Quick succession of images or impressions to express an idea
Fails to match the time or era in which the work is set
Dynamic or round character goes through change or growth.
The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry.
125
Analogy
Comparison; shows similarities between 2 different things.
Statement that fails to follow logically from the 1 before.
A story containing unreal, imaginary features.
A bitter enemy, especially one that seems unbeatable.
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The underlying message that acts as the foundation for the entire literary piece.
Tragedy
Theme
Tone
Trope
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Refers to the sequence of events and happenings that make up a story.
Plot
Novel
Oxymoron
Hubris
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Occurs when the reader knows something but the characters within the story do not.
Situational Irony
Verbal Irony
Dramatic Irony
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Antagonist
Exaggeration in writing that is used for effect.
Opposes the protagonist to promote tension & conflict.
Episodic novel; a rogue like wanderer who lives off his wits
Novels for mass consumption; featuring action or titillation
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Explication
A story containing unreal, imaginary features.
The interpretation or analysis of a text.
Remains the same in the story; does not experience change.
Device in which characters symbolize ideas and concepts.
