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IB Literature Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a reference to a well known historical or literary event | Allusion |
| A speaker's, author's or character's disposition toward or opinion of a subject | Attitude |
| items or parts that make up a larger picture or story | Details |
| Correspondence of terminal sounds of words or of lines of verse | Rhyne |
| the repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables | Alliteration |
| the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds | Assonance |
| repetition of consonants or of a consonant pattern | Consonance |
| formation or use of words that imitate sounds | Onomatopeoia |
| word choice | Diction |
| uses works to mean something other than their literal meaning | Figurative language |
| A person or thing that makes another seem better by contrast | Foil |
| Images sensory details or figurative language of a work | Imagery(Sensory) |
| a figure of speech in which intent and actual meaning differ | Irony |
| A comparison expressed without the use of a comparative term | Metaphor |
| the methods involved in telling a story | Narrative Techniques |
| vantage point of a story where the narrator can know, see and report whatever they choose | Omniscient point of view |
| any of several possible vantage points from which a story is told | Point of view |
| Devices used in effective or persuasive language | Resources of Language |
| not meant to be answered, used to present what's taken to be and unanswerable question | Rhetorical Question |
| a statement or proposition that seems self contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth | Paradox |
| harsh or bitter derision or irony | Sarcasm |
| writing that seeks to arouse a readers disapproval of an object by ridicule | Satire |
| background to a story, physical location- involving time and place | Setting |
| directly expressed comparison | Simile |
| management of language for a specific effect | Strategy |
| arrangement of materials within a work, the relationship of the parts of a work to the whole, the logical divisions of the work, the most common principles are series, contrast or repetition | Structure |
| the characteristic manner of expression of an author | Style |
| something that is simultaneously itself and a sign of something else | Symbol |
| The arrangement of words in a sentence | Syntax |
| the main thought expressed by a work | Theme |
| the manner in which an author expresses his attitudes | Tone |
| any composition dealing with a somber theme coming to a tragic conclusion | Tragedy |
| the character defect that causes the downfall of the protagonist of a tragedy | Tragic Flaw |
| to state or represent less strongly or strikingly than the facts would bear out | Understatement |
| a story in which people, things or events have another meaning | Allegory |
| multiple meanings | Ambiguity |
| repetition of a word or words at eh beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses or sentences | Anaphora |
| the adversary of the hero or protagonist of a drama or other literary work | Antogonist |
| a direct address to someone not present | Apostrophe |
| an original model or type after which other similar things are patterned | Archetype |
| a part of an actors lines supposedly not heard by others on stage and intended for only the audience | Aside |
| the purging of the emotions or relieving of emotional tensions | Catharsis |
| representation of a character or character on the stage or in writing | Characterization |
| a decisive moment that is of maximum intensity or is a major turning point in a plot | Climax |
| the way things are said in local areas, that might be different to other parts, a local slang | Colloquial diction |
| the interruption of a serious work | Comic relief |
| a state of disharmony between compatible or antithetical persons, ideas, or interest; a clash | conflict |
| the implication of a word or phrase | Connotation |
| a device of style or subject matter so often used that it becomes a recognized means of expression | Convention |
| the dictionary meaning of a word | Denotation |
| the final resolution of the intricacies of a plot | Denouement |
| explicitly instructive | Didactic |
| using material unrelated to the subject of a work | digression |
| a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem | Elegy |
| the omission of a vowel at the end of one word when the next word begins with a vowel | Elision |
| any witty, ingenious, or pointed saying tersely expressed | Epigram |
| a figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness | Euphemism |
| in a play or novel dialogue,description that give the audience or reader the background of the characters and the present situation | Exposition |
| A metaphor that is extended through a stanza or whole poem | Extended Metaphor |
| the part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved | Falling action |
| a device in the narrative of a piece of literature by which an event or scene taking place before the present time in the narrative is inserted into the chronological structure of the work | Flashback |
| an easily recognized character type in fiction who may not be fully delineated but is useful in carrying out some narrative purpose of the author | Flatt character |
| characterized by distortions or incongruities | Grotesque |
| deliberate exaggeration | Hyperbole |
| the most common meter in an English verse | Iambic Pentameter |
| a special language of a profession or group usually considered pejorative implying that it is used to be evasive or tedious | Jargon |
| not figurative | Literal |
| song like; characterized by emotion, subjectivity and imagination | Lyrical |
| figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated | Metonymy |
| A combination of opposite, the union of contradictory terms | oxymoron |
| a story designed to suggest a principle, illustrate a moral , or answer a question | Parable |
| a composition that imitate the style of another composition normally for comic effect | Parody |
| use of language that endows the nonhuman with human characteristics | Personification |
| the repetition of conjunctions in close succession for rhetorical effect, as in the phrase 'here and there' | Polysyndeton |
| the representation in art or literature of objets, actions, or social conditions as they actually are, without idealization or presentation in abstract form | realism |
| a quality of some fictional narrators whose word the reader can trust | Reliability |
| Ceremonies that mark important transitional periods in a persons life | rite of Passage |
| a speech in which a character who is alone speaks their thoughts aloud | Sililoquy |
| a conventional pattern, expression, character or idea | Stereotype |
| a form of dramatic dialogue in which two disputing characters answer each other rapidly i alternation single lines | Stichomythia |
| a form of reasoning in which two statements are made and a conclusion is drawn from them | Syllogism |
| a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part | synecdoche |
| a four line stanza rhymed abcb with four feet in line one and three and three feet in lines two and our | Ballad Meter |
| unrhymed iambic pentameter | Blank verse |
| a break, a sense pause, usually near the middle of a verse and marked in scansion by a double vertical line | Caesura |
| a metrical for of three syllables, an accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllable | Dactyl |
| a line with a pause at the end | End stopped |
| the running on of the thought from one line, couple, or stanza to the next without a syntactical break | enjambment |
| poetry which is not written in a traditional meter but is still rhythmical | Free verse |
| two end stopped iambic pentameter line rhymed aa,bb,cc with the thought usually completed in the two line unit | Heroic couplet |
| a line containing six feet | Hexameter |
| a two syllable foot with and unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable | Iamb |
| rhyme that occurs within a line rather than at the end | Internal Rhyme |
| a line containing five feet | Pentameter |
| a seven line stanza of iambic pentameter rhymed ababbcc | Rhyme royal |
| moarmally a fourteen line iambic pentameter poem | sonnet |
| usually a repeated grouping of three or more lines with the same meter and rhyme scheme | Stanza |
| a three line stanza rhymed aba,bcb,cdc | Terza rima |
| a line of four feet | tetrameter |
| that which goes before, the word phrase or clause to which a pronoun refers | Antecedent |
| a group of words containing a subject and its verb that may or may not be a complete sentence | Clause |
| the omission of a word or several words necessary for the completed construction that is still understandable | Ellipsis |
| the mood of a verb that gives an order | Imperative |
| to restrict or limit in meaning | modify |
| a similar grammatical structure within a sentence or paragraph | Parallel structure |
| a sentence grammatical complete only at the end | periodic sentence |
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