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3rd Q Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Symbol | A tangible object that represents something intangible or abstract |
| Figurative Language | Uses words to explore meanings that are not literal. |
| Alliteration | A repetition of initial consonant sounds in adjacent words. |
| Theme | The main thought expressed by a work. |
| Narrator | The voice or persona telling the story |
| Imagery | The sensory images contained in or evoked by a text. It can be figurative or directly described. |
| Allusion | A reference to something outside a text. This can be a reference to an event, person from history, mythology, popculture, or something else. |
| Foreshadowing | A warning or indication of a future event |
| Point of View | The perspective used in a text which affects how a story is told. |
| Cynamic Character | Someone within the story that goes through a significant change throughout a narrative. |
| Diction | Refers to the author's use of words. To analyze this, you want to use precise adjectives to clarify what type the author uses. |
| Flashback | A scene that interrupts the established linear narrative of a text. These often introduce character backgrounds and other important details for a text. |
| Epiphany | A sudden realization or discovery of the truth or meaning of things. |
| Foil | A character the contrasts with the protagonist |
| Perspective | How narrators characters or speakers understand their circumstances and is informed by background personality traits biases and relationships. |
| Setting | Includes time and place of a story, but it can also include the historical and cultural background of a text. |
| Dramatic Irony | When the reader or audience member knows something that a character does not. |
| Situational Irony | Occurs when the expected action is turned on its head and the opposite happens instead. |
| In Medias Res | In the midst of things, the story starts in the middle of a story instead of the exposition. |
| Metaphor | A subtle or implied comparison between two unlike things. |
| Personification | The act of giving human qualities to a non human object emotion or entity. |
| Stanza | Usually a repeated grouping of three or more lines with the same meter and rhyme scheme |
| Assonance | The repetition of vowel sounds in adjacent words. |
| Caesura | A pause within a line of poetry, indicated by punctuation. |
| CCatharsis | The cleansing or purging of emotion in or caused by a literary work. |
| EEnjabment | Occurs when a line of poetry continues onto the next line without punctuation |
| Juxtaposition | The act of contrasting two objects or images side by side and studying the effects of this contrast. |
| Sonnet | Normally a fourteen-line iambic pentameter poem. Shakespearian rhymed with abab, cdcd, efef, gg. |
| Soliloquy | An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play |
| Paradox | A statement that contradicts itself, or that must be true and untrue at the same time. |
| Blank Verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter. The meter of most of Shakespeare’s plays |
| Cacophony | A harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds or tones. It may be an unconscious flaw in the poet’s music, resulting in harshness of sound or difficulty of articulation, or it may be used consciously for effect. |
| Consonance | The repetition of similar consonant sounds in a group of words. The term usually refers to words in which the ending consonants are the same but the vowels that precede them are different. |
| Couplet | A two line stanza, usually with end-rhymes that are the same. |
| Parallelism | A similar grammatical structure within a line or lines of poetry. |
| Open Form Poetry | Does not follow expected or predictable patterns |
| Didactic Poem | Primarily intended to teach a lesson. The distinction between a didactic poem and a non-didactic poem is difficult to make and usually involves a subjective judgment on the author's purpose on the part of the reader or critic. |
| Free Verse | Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter. |
| Tragic Flaw | A character trait that ultimately leads to a character's tragic downfall. |
| Persona | A narrative voice an author adopts |
| Allegory | A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. |
| Connotation/Denotation | The associated feelings or ideas that a particular word evokes. Denotation is the dictionary definition of a word. |
| Pathos | A quality that evokes emotion. |
| End Stopped | A line with a pause at the end. Lines that end with a period, a comma, a colon, a semicolon, an exclamation point, or a question mark are end-stopped lines. |
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