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Voc. Eng.
Mr. Farell's list (1-25)
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| allegory | a work with two levels of meaning: a literal one and a symbolic one |
| alliteration | repeated consonant sounds |
| allusion | a reference to something that is well-know outside of the literary work |
| analogy | the comparison of two pairs which have the same relationship |
| anaphora | a device or repetition in which a word or words are repeated at the beginning of two or more lines, phrases, clauses or sentences. |
| ancedote | a brief story that focuses on a single revealing event, sometimes taken from the life of a real operson |
| antagonist | characters we generally want to see fail.. those in opposition to main character |
| anticlimax | turning point in a story that is a letdown, story did not turn out the way you expected |
| apostrophe | figure of speech wherein the speaker speaks directly to something nonhuman to show thoughts |
| archetype | usage of any object or situation as it was originally made; a universally recognized idea or type |
| aside | In drama, words spoken in an undertone or to the audience; words are presumed inaudible to other characters |
| audience | the person or persons intended to read or listen to a piece of writing |
| bathos | an effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous |
| bildungsroman | story where protagonist undergoes growth throughout the entire narrative; coming of age |
| catharsis | describes the emotional response of pity and fear by audience at the end of a tragedy |
| characterization | techniques that writers use to develop characters |
| characters | the humans, animals or things doing the action in the story |
| climax | turning point of the action in plot |
| comedy | literary work that has a happy ending |
| connotation | language that is meant to not be taken literally; secondary definition-the feelings associated with a word |
| couplet | two successive rhyming lines; stanza made of only 2 lines |
| denotation | language in which the words are meant to be taken at their face value: real |
| dialect | the specific language used by people of a specific area, class, district, or any other group of people |
| diction | writer's choice of words; significant component of style |
| drama | plays' requires dialogue & stage directions in addition to other story elements |
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