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142 terms to "know for rest of life" is what my teacher describes
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abstract | Thought, feeling, or idea |
| Scene | Single time and single place in a play; a division within an act |
| Fiction | Stories made-up from the imagination |
| Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds in poetry |
| Blank Verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| Clause | Group of words containing a subject AND a verb |
| Dramatic Irony | Contradiction between what the audience knows and the characters know |
| Exposition | Introduction of character, setting and plot |
| Fact | Verifiable and true |
| Literal Language | Language of trade, of a group |
| Hubris | Ancient Greek sin of pride |
| Lyric poem | Short, song-like poem of great emotion- usually a single event |
| Mood | Reader's Response to a work of literature |
| Motivation | Reasons a character behaves the way she or he does |
| Myth | Made-up story to explain a phenomenon of nature |
| Novel | A fiction book of long, narrative prose |
| Onomatopoeia | Figure of speech in which sound equals meaning |
| Oxymoron | Bringing together two contradictory terms e.g., a wise fool |
| Resolution/Conclusion | Winding down of plot after the climax |
| Rhyme Scheme | Pattern of rhymes at the end of poetic lines |
| Situational Irony | Outcome very different than what is expected |
| Thesis | Statement put forth by a writer to be proved |
| 1st Person Narrator | "I" point of view: limited |
| 2nd Person Narrator | "You" Point of view: limited |
| Omniscient Narrator | An all-knowing point of view |
| Concrete | Perceived by one or more senses |
| Act | Major division of a play |
| Genre | A division of literature |
| Antagonist | Character in conflict with the protagonist |
| Soliloquy | Character is center stage alone and expresses thoughts and feelings |
| Autobiography | Non-fiction work written by an author about himself or herself |
| Avert | Turn away |
| Ballad | Poem that is based in folklore, tells a story and has a refrain |
| Biography | Non-fiction work about a person's life |
| Climax | Point of no return in a work of fiction; moment of greatest intensity in conflict |
| Comic Relief | Inclusion of a witty character or funny scene in a serious work |
| Dialogue | Conversation between two or more people in a written or spoken work |
| Dynamic Character | Character who changes; may grow or deteriorate |
| Epic | Long, narrative poem about a hero, often culturally grounded or based |
| Epic Simile | Simile running several lines in length |
| Epilogue | Story after the story |
| Essay | An "attempt" to write a formal opinion |
| Etymology | Study of the origins of words |
| External Conflict | Struggle caused by a force outside the character- war, nature |
| Internal Conflict | Conflict within a character- jealousy, fear |
| Opinion | View or judgment not necessarily based on fact or knowledge |
| Falling action | Series of events after the climax and ending in the resolution |
| Figurative language | Language not meant to be taken literally |
| Foot | Smallest unit of meter; contains at least one strong beat |
| Foreshadowing | Looking forward in the text |
| Glossary | A dictionary of special terms in a book |
| Haiku | Concise Japanese poetry of seventeen syllables |
| Hyperbole | An exaggeration |
| Iambic | A short/long foot |
| Index | Alphabetical list of contents with page numbers at the back of a book |
| Irony | An unexpected twist of events or words |
| Metaphor | Figurative language that is a direct comparison |
| Tone | Author's attitude about his or her work |
| Ode | Poem that elevates a common object |
| Parts of speech (8 parts) | Verb, noun, pronoun, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection |
| Personification | Giving human characteristics inanimate objects |
| Phrase | Group of words with a subject OR a verb |
| Plot | Linear sequence of events in a story |
| Prologue | Story before a story |
| Rising action (complication) | series of events that lead up to the climax |
| Root | Smallest unit of meaning in a word |
| Run-on | Sentence without end- stopped punctuation |
| Simile | Comparison using like or as |
| Stanza | Paragraph of poetry |
| Static Character | Character who stays the same |
| stereotype | Fixed image placed upon a group |
| suffix | An affix added to the end of a word- beauti-FUL |
| Syllable | Unit of pronunciation with a single vowel sound |
| Symbol | Something that represents something else |
| Synonym | Word that means the same |
| Table of Contents | List of major parts in which they appear in a book |
| 3rd Person Narrator | Limited point of view using he or she |
| Drama | A play acted out on stage, on television or on the radio |
| Poetry | Genre of literature written inverse form |
| Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds |
| Allusion | Reference in a literary work to mythology, the Bible, or other historical point |
| Anachronism | Out of the appropriate time |
| Protagonist | Main character in a work of fiction |
| Antonym | A word that means the opposite |
| Aside | Remark not intended for others |
| Attribute (trait) | Characteristic that makes a person distinctive |
| Couplet | Two rhyming lines, often at the end of a sonnet |
| Characterization | Creating a person, object, or animal to populate a story |
| Connotation | Emotional content of words |
| Denotation | Literal meaning of words |
| Diction | Author's choice of words |
| Verisimilitude | Creation of a believable word in fiction |
| Elegy | A poem of mourning or contemplation (think deeply) |
| Enjambment | One line of poetry runs into the next line |
| Epiphany | Moment of sudden insight |
| Flashback | Looking backward in the text |
| Foil | Character who provides contrast to other characters, often the protagonist |
| Free verse | Poetry of uneven rhyme, line length and meter |
| Homonym | Word that sounds the same but means something different |
| Imagery | Words that appeal to any or all of the senses |
| I Medias Res | Story begins "...in the middle of things..." |
| Inciting Incident | Plot element at the beginning of a story that heats up the action |
| Inference | A conclusion made based on text |
| Jargon | Language of trade, of a group |
| Memoir | Historical account or biography written from personal Knowledge |
| Meter | Rhythmic cadence of poetry |
| Motif | Recurring piece of theme |
| Narrative Poem | Poem that tells a story with a beginning, middle, and end |
| Paradox | An apparent contradiction with a truth- parting is such a sweet sorrow |
| Pentameter | Five feet per line |
| Point of view | Angle of vision of the narrator |
| Prose | Language written in ordinary form without metrical structure |
| Quatrain | Four line stanza |
| Refrain | Repetitive stanza or chorus |
| Rhythm | Regular rise and fall of language |
| Sonnet | A fourteen line poem written in iambic pentameter |
| Synesthesia | Description of a sense using another sense |
| Tercet | Three line stanza |
| Verbal Irony | Writer or speaker says one thing and means something completely different |
| Verse | |
| Homonym | Word that sounds the same but means something different |
| Imagery | Words that appeal to any or all of the senses |
| I Medias Res | Story begins "...in the middle of things..." |
| Inciting Incident | Plot element at the beginning of a story that heats up the action |
| Inference | A conclusion made based on text |
| Jargon | Language of trade, of a group |
| Memoir | Historical account or biography written from personal Knowledge |
| Meter | Rhythmic cadence of poetry |
| Motif | Recurring piece of theme |
| Narrative Poem | Poem that tells a story with a beginning, middle, and end |
| Paradox | An apparent contradiction with a truth- parting is such a sweet sorrow |
| Pentameter | Five feet per line |
| Point of view | Angle of vision of the narrator |
| Prose | Language written in ordinary form without metrical structure |
| Quatrain | Four line stanza |
| Refrain | Repetitive stanza or chorus |
| Rhythm | Regular rise and fall of language |
| Sonnet | A fourteen line poem written in iambic pentameter |
| Synesthesia | Description of a sense using another sense |
| Tercet | Three line stanza |
| Verbal Irony | Writer or speaker says one thing and means something completely different |
| Verse | Single line of poetry |
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