Literary vocab
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| show | Broad Concept.
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| show | Concrete presentation of an abstract idea.
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| Alliteration | show 🗑
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| show | Reference to another work of literature, or to art, history, or current events.
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| Analogy | show 🗑
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| show | Character who opposes the protagonist. Creates or intensifies a conflict for the protagonist.
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| show | Repetition of vowel sounds in a sequence of words. EX: Crumbling Thunder
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| show | Feeling created for the reader by a work of literature.
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| Antihero | show 🗑
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| show | Any attribution of human characteristics to animals, non-living things, phenomena, material states, objects or abstract concepts
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| Anachronism | show 🗑
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| Aesthetic | show 🗑
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| Anticlimax | show 🗑
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| Archaism | show 🗑
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| show | Not expected to produce an immediate or practical result
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| Aside | show 🗑
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| Accent | show 🗑
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| show | A concise statement that claims to reveal a truth or principle.
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| Approximate Rhyme (slant) | show 🗑
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| Aubade | show 🗑
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| show | Inflated, extravagant, often ranting language.
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| show | 3 long stanzas ( 8 lines rhyming ababbcbc) and a concluding envoi (usually 4 lines rhyming bcbc).
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| show | Dark, disturbing, and often morbid or grotesque mode of comedy.
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| Burlesque | show 🗑
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| show | Unrhymed verse but usually referring to unrhymed iambic pentameter.
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| Classic | show 🗑
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| show | Harsh, unpleasant, or discordant sounds.
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| show | A word or phrase that is common in everyday, unconstrained conversation rather than in formal speech, or academic writing.
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| show | Figure of speech involving an elaborate and often surprising comparison between two apparently high dissimilar things.
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| Cadence | show 🗑
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| show | A newly invented word, phrase, usage, etc.
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| Catharsis | show 🗑
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| show | Two successive lines of rhyming verse.
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| Connotation | show 🗑
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| Canto | show 🗑
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| Chorus | show 🗑
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| show | Repetition of a final consonant sound or sounds following different vowel sounds in proximate words (made/wood).
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| Caricature | show 🗑
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| show | Pause in a line of poetry.
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| Character | show 🗑
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| show | Authors making their characters "come to life" by describing thoughts and emotions as well as physical attributes, actions, conversations, and so forth.
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| show | Point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
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| show | A humorous scene or passage inserted into an otherwise serious work.
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| show | Broadly defined, any amusing and entertaining work.
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| show | A confrontation or struggle between opposing character or forces in a plot of a narration work, from which the action emanates and around which it revolves.
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| Deus ex Machina | show 🗑
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| Didactic Writing | show 🗑
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| Diction | show 🗑
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| show | Harsh, discordant sounds.
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| Doggerel | show 🗑
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| show | Propriety of conduct in accordance with societal conventions.
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| Dirge | show 🗑
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| show | A word's literal meaning(s).
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| show | Pleasing, harmonious sounds.
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| Epic | show 🗑
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| show | Poem that laments the loss of someone or something, but may also be used even more broadly to refer to any serious, reflective poem.
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| Euphemism | show 🗑
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| Editorializing | show 🗑
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| End Rhyme | show 🗑
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| End-Stopped Line | show 🗑
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| show | Sudden revelatory experience or a work such an experience occurs.
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| English/Shakespearean Sonnet | show 🗑
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| Figurative Language | show 🗑
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| Foreshadowing | show 🗑
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| Foot | show 🗑
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| show | One character at a time, speaking for and about themselves.
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| Free Verse | show 🗑
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| show | Type of low comedy that employs improbable or otherwise ridiculous situations and mix-ups, slapstick and horseplay, and crude or even bawdy dialogue.
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| Foil | show 🗑
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| Gothic | show 🗑
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| Genre | show 🗑
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| show | 19 lines grouped in 5 tercets followed by a quatrain and involving only 2 rhymes, with the rhyme scheme aba aba aba aba aba abaa.
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| show | Excessive pride that brings about the protagonist's downfall.
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| show | A trope employing deliberate, emphatic exaggeration, usually for comic or ironic effect.
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| show | A metrical foot in poetry that consists of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable.
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| In Medias Res | show 🗑
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| show | Rendering stream of consciousness by reproducing a character's mental flow.
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| show | Reversal of the normal order of words.
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| show | A contradiction between appearance and reality.
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| Imagery | show 🗑
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| show | 14 line sonnet consisting of two parts: the octave, 8 lines with the rhyme scheme abbaabba; and the sestet, 6 lines usually following the rhyme scheme cdecde.
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| Melodrama | show 🗑
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| Metaphor | show 🗑
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| Meter | show 🗑
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| show | Figure of speech in which one thing is represented by another that is commonly and often physically associated with it.
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| Motivation | show 🗑
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| show | Something that is difficult or impossible to understand or explain.
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| show | Speaker through whom an author presents a narrative, often but not always a character in the work.
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| Nemesis | show 🗑
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| Octave | show 🗑
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| show | Both the reader and author observe the situation either through the senses and thoughts of more than one character, or through an overarching godlike perspective that sees and knows everything that happens.
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| show | A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction.
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| show | Presents only the external actions and not the character's thoughts and feeling
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| show | The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g., cuckoo, sizzle).
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| show | A statement that seems self-contradictory or nonsensical on the surface but that, upon closer examination, may express an underlying truth.
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| show | Information that is not essential to the meaning of the sentence.
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| Pastoral | show 🗑
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| Prelude | show 🗑
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| Protagonist | show 🗑
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| Persona | show 🗑
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| Parody | show 🗑
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| Parable | show 🗑
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| Pathos | show 🗑
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| Periodic Sentence | show 🗑
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| Personification | show 🗑
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| show | The perspective from which a speaker or writer recounts a narrative or presents information.
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| Quatrain | show 🗑
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| Rhapsody | show 🗑
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| show | A song or hymn of mourning.
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| show | A question asked merely for effect with no answer expected.
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| Refrain | show 🗑
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| Rhythm | show 🗑
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| Rhyme | show 🗑
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| Rhyme Scheme | show 🗑
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| show | When the natural pause in reading does not coincide with the end of a line, the speaker continues without pause.
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| show | The arrangement of material in a work.
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| show | Judgment based on individual personal impressions and feelings and opinions rather than external facts.
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| show | The continuous flow of past and present experience through the conscious mind.
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| Syntax | show 🗑
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| Simile | show 🗑
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| show | Temporary acceptance without protest in the premises of a fictional work, regardless of reality or probability.
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| Soliloquy | show 🗑
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| Satire | show 🗑
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| show | A grouped set of lines in a poem.
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| show | A fictional character based on a common literary or social stereotype.
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| Theme | show 🗑
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| Tone | show 🗑
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| Tragedy | show 🗑
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| Travesty | show 🗑
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| show | A paper or monograph written by a degree-seeking candidate in fulfillment of academic requirements.
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| Tragic Flaw | show 🗑
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| show | The presentation of something as being smaller or less good or important than it actually is.
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| Utopia | show 🗑
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| show | An individual line of poetry or a stanza of a poem or song.
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