| personal feelings, attitudes, and opinions | subjective |
| many sided, we know a lot about the way they act and why | Round Character |
| stereotyped, small and one-dimensional | Flat character |
| never-changing, doesn't change by the end of the story | Static character |
| character is different at the end, learned and changed as a result of the conflict | dynamic character |
| usually a lyric poem on death or some other somber subject | Elegy |
| the leaving out of a word or passage in a text, indicated by spaced periods | Ellipsis |
| a spoken or written praise, particularly the praise of a person who has died | Eulogy |
| literature based on a highly humorous and highly improbably plot | Farce |
| two words that are spelled alike, sound alike, but have different meanings, i.e.,grave,bear; two words that sound alike,night,knight, but are spelled differently | Homonyms/Homophones |
| Latin abbreviation for"that is" | I.E. |
| the officially recognized or chief poet of a nation | Poet Laureate |
| literary writing not marked by rhyme or meter | Prose |
| the art of persuasion by speech or writing | Rhetoric |
| pattern of rhyme in a stanza | Rhyme scheme |
| a literary tone used to ridicule or make fun of ahuman vice or weakness, often with the intent of correcting or changing the way things are | Satire |
| a judgment based on only one aspect of a person's character | Stereotype |
| a group of three related works | Trilogy |
| the native language of any particular place | Vernacular |
| the entry that results when citing or quoting an authority or resource; a quotation | Citation |
| an original and authoritative document pertaining to an event or subject of inquiry;a firsthand eyewitness account, i.e. an autobiography | Primary Source |
| Any document that describes and event, person,place, or thing,. not created contemporaneously, i.e. a biography | Secondary source |
| a word formed from the initial letters of words in a phrase, i.e., NASA | Acronym |
| a set of initials representing a name or organization, with each letter pronounced separately,i.e., FBLA | Initialism |
| characters and often parts of the narrative usually represent moral values, i.e. Lord of the Flies | Allegory |
| a partial similarity, as the computer is like the brain, or in reasoning, the inference that if things are similar in known ways, they are probably similar in other ways, i.e., petal:flower::leaf:tree | Analogy |
| away from | ab,de |
| both,around | amphi |
| to hear | Aud |
| book | Bibl |
| go,yield,surrender | cede,ceed,cess |
| around, in a circle | circum,peri |
| circle, wheel | Cycl |
| people | Dem,civi |
| speak | Dec,dict |
| power | Dyn,dyna |
| rebellious | Malcontent |
| hate or disgust | Abhor |
| all-powerful | Omnipotent |
| disrespect for something sacred | Sacrilege |
| to take for granted | Presumptuous |
| dishonor, public shame | Ignominy |
| greedy | Avaricious |
| information,ideas,or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movemen, institution,nation,etc. | Propaganda |
| relating to a political regime based on subordination of an individual and strict control of all aspects of life by coercive measures | Totalitarianism |
| form of government where everyone is supposed to be equal | Communism |
| form of government when one person has complete control | Dictatorship |
| showing contempt for accepted standards of honesty or morality by one's actions | Cynical |
| deeply respectful | Reverent |
| absence of emotion | Apathy |
| deeply earnest, serious | solemn |
| to speak or write in favor of | advocate |