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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. |
| Allusion | An indirect or passing reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art. |
| Anecdote | A short, interesting, or amusing story about a real incident or person, often used to illustrate a point. |
| Antagonist | The character, force, or institutional barrier that opposes the protagonist or main character. |
| Apostrophe | A figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses an absent or dead person, an abstract concept, or an inanimate object. |
| Aside | A brief remark made by a character in a play that is intended to be heard by the audience but unheard by the other characters on stage. |
| Blank verse | Unrhymed poetry written in iambic pentameter. |
| Character | A person, animal, or personified object that takes part in the action of a literary work. |
| Round Character | A complex, fully developed character with many traits, flaws, and a detailed backstory. |
| Flat Character | A simple, two-dimensional character with only one or two distinct traits, often serving a purely functional role. |
| Dynamic Character | A character who undergoes a significant internal change, growth, or evolution over the course of a story. |
| Static Character | A character who remains largely unchanged in their personality, outlook, or values throughout the entire narrative. |
| Characterization | The process and methods an author uses to reveal a character's personality, through direct description or indirect actions, thoughts, and dialogue. |
| Complication | An intensification of the conflict in a story that builds up, develops, or sharpens the central struggle. |
| Conflict | The struggle or clash between opposing forces that drives the plot forward (e.g., man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. self). |
| Diction | The author's deliberate choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing. |
| Epic Hero | A brave and noble character in an epic poem, admired for great achievements or affected by grand, mythic events. |
| Epic Simile | An extended, highly detailed simile that runs to several lines, typically used in epic poetry to intensify the heroic stature of the subject. |
| Epithet | A descriptive phrase or adjective expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned (e.g., "swift-footed Achilles"). |
| Figurative Language | Language that uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation, such as metaphors, similes, and personification. |
| Flashback | A scene in a movie, novel, or play set in a time earlier than the main story, used to provide background information. |
| Foil | A character who underscores or enhances the distinctive characteristics of another by contrast. |
| Foreshadowing | A literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint or clue of what is to come later in the story. |
| Free Verse | Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter or rhythm. |
| Heroic Couplet | A pair of rhyming iambic pentameter lines, commonly used in epic and narrative poetry. |
| Hubris | Excessive pride or dangerous self-confidence, often leading to a character's downfall or tragic undoing. |
| Hyperbole | Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally, used for emphasis or effect. |
| Imagery | Visually descriptive or figurative language that appeals to the physical senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste). |
| In Medias Res | The narrative technique of starting a story in the middle of the action rather than from the chronological beginning. |
| Irony | A contrast or incongruity between expectations for a situation and what is reality. |
| Situational irony | A type of irony where the actual outcome of an event is the exact opposite of what was reasonably expected. |
| Verbal irony | A type of irony where a speaker says one thing but means the exact opposite, often functioning as sarcasm. |
| Dramatic irony | A type of irony where the audience or reader knows important information that a character in the story or play does not know. |
| Metaphor | A figure of speech that makes a direct comparison between two unrelated things by stating that one thing is another, without using "like" or "as." |
| Meter (Iambic Pentameter for sure!) | The rhythmic pattern of a poetic line; specifically, iambic pentameter consists of five iambs (an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable) per line, creating a "da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM" rhythm. |
| Monologue | A long, uninterrupted speech delivered by one character to other characters on stage or to the audience. |
| Mood | The emotional atmosphere or feeling created in the reader by a literary work, often established through setting and tone. |
| Motif | A recurring element, image, idea, or concept in a work of literature that helps to develop the central theme. |
| Onomatopoeia | The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g., "sizzle," "buzz," "bang"). |
| Oxymoron | A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g., "deafening silence," "bittersweet"). |
| Personification | A literary device where non-human things, animals, or abstract ideas are given human traits, emotions, or actions. |
| Plot Structure | The organized sequence of events and actions that make up a narrative. |
| Exposition | The introductory phase of a story that provides vital background information about characters, setting, and the initial situation. |
| Inciting Incident | The specific event or catalyst that disrupts the initial status quo and sets the primary conflict into motion. |
| Rising Action | A series of relevant incidents that create suspense, interest, and tension in a narrative, leading up to the climax. |
| Climax | The turning point, peak intensity, or emotional high point of the narrative, where the main conflict reaches its crisis. |
| Falling Action | The sequence of events that occurs after the climax has been reached, showing the immediate aftermath and winding down the tension. |
| Resolution | The concluding part of the plot where the main strands of the conflict are unraveled, answered, or brought to a close. |
| Point of View | The perspective or vantage point from which a story is narrated. |
| First-Person | A point of view where the narrator is a character inside the story, using pronouns like "I," "me," and "we." |
| Third-Person Omniscient | A point of view where an all-knowing narrator outside the story can see and describe the thoughts, feelings, and actions of all characters. |
| Third-Person Limited | A point of view where an outside narrator tells the story but closely confines their knowledge to the thoughts and feelings of just one specific character. |
| Protagonist | The main or central character in a narrative, around whom the primary plot and conflict revolve. |
| Pun | A humorous play on words, utilizing words that have multiple meanings or words that sound similar but have different meanings. |
| Rhyme | The correspondence or repetition of identical or similar sounds at the ends of words, particularly at the ends of lines of poetry. |
| Setting | The physical location, time period, historical context, and social environment in which the events of a story take place. |
| Simile | A figure of speech that explicitly compares two different things using the words "like" or "as." |
| Soliloquy | An extended speech delivered by a character who is alone on stage, revealing their innermost thoughts and feelings directly to the audience. |
| Sonnet | A highly structured 14-line poem, traditionally written in iambic pentameter with a specific rhyme scheme. |
| Theme | The central, underlying idea, message, or universal truth about human nature explored throughout a literary work. |
| Tone | The author's implicit attitude toward their subject matter, characters, or audience, conveyed through diction and stylistic choices. |
| Understatement | The deliberate presentation of a situation or fact as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is, often used for ironic or humorous effect. |
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