Ad misericordiam
appeals to audiences sympathy
Alliteration
repetition of consonence
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Allusion
reference to something else
Ambiguity
Intention of being unclear
Anachronism
element of a story out of its time frame
Analysis
breaking down key aspects of story
Analogy
personal story
Anapest
poetic feet, unstressed , unstressed, stressed
Anecdote
refernece to a historial event or story
Antagonist
one putting force on the other
antecedent
pronoun that refers to a proper noun.
..he, she, they
Anticlimax
disapointment, not typical ending
Antihero
a character we like but is not “heroic”
Antithesis
concept that directly opposes a preveious idea
Aphorism
proverbs, short statment, forgone truth
Apostrophe
rehetorical figure, direct adress of a person
Archetype
Universal symbol
Aside
An actor will turn away from everyone to audience
Assonance
repetition of vowels
Attitude
Authors feeling toward the topic they are discussing
Aubade
poem about lovers that must leave eachother in the early hours
Ballad
folk song, passed down orally
Blank Verse
unrhymed poetry, iambic (Unstressed, stressed)
Cacophony
harsh unplesant sounds to ear
Carpe Diem
Latin for seize the day
Catharsis
emotional cleansing, feeling of relief
Chiamus
opposite of parallel the author will reverse repetion.
Inverting secon of two phrases that would have been parallel
Colloquial
slang, regional dialect, informal
Comic relief
Dramatic relief
connotation
extended definition, informal. ex: cool
Consonance
Repetition of consanence… work, stack
couplet
two rhyming lines with same number of sylobals
Denotation
literal meaning of word
Denouement
resolution, ending
Dues ex machine
Gods intervene
Diction
word choice
Farce
a light humerous play that relies on a situation rather than characters.
Flat/ Static character
character that undergoes little or no inner change
Genre
particular category
In medias res
In the middle of things
Third Person Omniscient
narator knows feelings and thoughts of all characters
Satire
Talking about a topic with humor, irony
Theme
subject of story
First person
story explained with I
Foil
Another character who is unlike the main characer that shows contrast and highlights the characers traits
Hyberbole
exaggeration, not literal..ex: “Ill wait a enternity”
Myth
Legendary story, being passed down
Protagonist
leading character that is having force placed on them by antagonist
Soliloquy
speach by a character given to themselves thinking no one is around.
Tone
characters voice in the story and unique diction shows there specific…
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Flashback
Reference to a event in the past
Foreshadowing
Author hints at what might happen..kind of a clue
Imagery
Description that illustrates a mental picture
Third person Limited
Narrator only knows main characters thoughts and feelings
Round/ Dynamic Character
Character that changes over the course of the story
Stream of Consciousness
Thoughts and ideas constantly moving forward in time
Tragic Flaw
Character defecet that causes the protagonist to experience a downfall
Free verse
verse that does not follow a fixed pattern
Metaphor
when something resembles something else..
ex: Life is a roller coster
Near/off/Slant Rhyme
Rhymes in which either the vowel or the consonance of stressed syllables are identical
Parallelism
agreement in direction
Refrain
to abstain from
Sonnet (English or Shakespearean)
poem that is 14 lines and is usually iambic
Stanza
certain amount of lines in a poem
Euphemism
Telling the someone the truth without being harsh or rude
Iambic pentameter
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Meter
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Onomatopoeia
Word that sounds like its spelling..EX: boom, quack
Personification
diving non living things human characteristics
Repetition
the act of repeating an action, word choice, ec in a piece of literature
Symbol
something used to represent something else, like an object
Figurative Language
Language that uses figure of speech like metaphors, and similes
Narrative Poem
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Paradox
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Pun
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Simile
Comparing two things using like or and
