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TermDefinition
Leo Tolstoy After the Ball
Sophocles Antigone
Stephen Crane Do not weep, Maiden, For War is Kind
Jeanne and James Houston Farewell to Manzanar
William Shakespeare Julias Caesar
EE Cummings look at this)
Tim Obrien On the rainy river
Sir Thomas Malory Sir Launcelot Du Lake
John Steinback The acts of K. Arhur & his noble knights
Watt Whitman The Artilleryman's Vision
Sir Thomas Malory The Crowning of Arthur
Marion Zimmer Bradley The mists of Avalon
Edgar Allen Poe The Pit and the Pendulum
Bessie Head The Prisoner who wore glasses
Guy De Maupassant Two Friends
alliteration the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
assonance in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible (e.g., penitence, reticence ).
audience the assembled spectators or listeners at a public event, such as a play, movie, concert, or meeting.
author's perspective how the author feels about the subject
autobiography an account of a person's life written by that person
bias prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.
biography account of a person's life written by another person
characterization the creation or construction of a fictional character.
Climax the most intense, exciting, or important point of something; a culmination or apex.
external conflict refer to the types of conflicts within literature that occur outside of the main character
internal conflict a struggle within a person's mind over a problem or question.
connotation an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
consonance the recurrence of similar sounds, especially consonants, in close proximity (chiefly as used in prosody).
couplet two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.
denotation the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests.
dialect a particular form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group.
dynamic character a character who undergoes some important change in the course of the story.
exposition the background information on the characters and setting explained at the beginning of the story.
expository writing that exposes facts.
falling action everything that takes place immediately after the climax.
farce a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations.`
foreshadowing a warning or indication of (a future event).
free verse poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.
hyperbole exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
imagery visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.
inference a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.
memoir a historical account or biography written from personal knowledge or special sources.
metaphor a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
monologue a long speech by one actor in a play or movie, or as part of a theatrical or broadcast program.
mood a temporary state of mind or feeling.
narrative poetry a type of poem which tells a story.
onomatopoeia the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g. cuckoo, sizzle )
personification the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
plot the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.
omniscient most open and flexible POV available to writers.
limited omniscient when an author sticks closely to one character but remains in third person.
objective the narrator reports the events that take place without knowing the motivations or thoughts of any of the characters
1st person the narrator is a person in the story, telling the story from their own point of view.
quatrain a stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes.
rising action a related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest.
sarcasm a literary device that uses irony to mock someone or something or convey contempt
sequence the identification of the components of a story — the beginning, middle, and end — and also to the ability to retell the events within a given text in the order in which they occurred
setting the time and place in which a story is told.
simile a figure of speech that compares two unlike things using the words “like” or “as.”
sonnet A 14-line poem with a variable rhyme scheme originating in Italy and brought to England by Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, earl of Surrey in the 16th century
speaker the voice of the poem, similar to a narrator in fiction
stanza a division of a poem consisting of two or more lines arranged together as a unit.
static character one that does not undergo important change in the course of the story, remaining essentially the same at the end
style a manner of doing something.
summary a brief statement or account of the main points of something.
symbol an object, a person, a situation, or an action that has a literal meaning in a story but suggests or represents other meanings
theme the main subject that is being discussed or described in a piece of writing, a movie, etc.
tone the attitude that a character or narrator or author takes towards a given subject.
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