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| Allegory | 1. A fiction story that represents true life. |
| chaos | 3. A story usually using animal figures and having a moral or lesson |
| satire | 4. A work of art or literature that makes fun of human or society’s vices |
| moral | Lesson or point of the story |
| fable | story having animal figures and a moral |
| purge | To cleanse |
| pseudonym | fake or pen name |
| symbol | concret object represent |
| tyranny | government with absolute authority |
| utopia | perfect place |
| autobiography | self-written history of your own life |
| biography | history of someone else's life |
| descriptive | type of writing that uses vivid language; it paints a picture |
| expository | Type of writing that explains in facts and details |
| narrative | Type of writing that tells a story |
| persuasive | Type of writing that convinces |
| ballad | narrative poem, usually sung |
| blank verse | unrhymed lines of poetry |
| couplet | Two rhyming lines of poetry that complete a thought. |
| epic | a long narrative poem |
| free verse | Poems without rhyme or a fixed meter. |
| heroic couplet | This a two-line poem that has 10 syllables per line (iambic pentameter) and both lines rhyme. |
| limerick | 24. A five-line poem, rhyme scheme aabba, follows a specific meter. |
| parody | 25. A poem in which the poet imitates another poet’s tone, form, or language (Example: Any of Weird Al’s songs). |
| sonnet | A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter. |
| alliteration | 27. Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. |
| apostrophe | Talking directly to an idea or object: O, come, night. |
| cacophony | Harsh grating noises. |
| iambic pentameter | 30. A line which has five instances of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. |
| imagery | Words that create pictures in your mind using the five senses. |
| meter or metrical pattern | 32. The pattern of repeating stressed and unstressed syllables, mostly influenced by the subject matter. |
| oxymoron | 33. A seeming contradiction in only two words. Like a paradox, but shorter. |
| rhyme scheme | 34. The usage of a letter of the alphabet to denote each rhyming sound at the end of a line, like a-b-a-b-c-d-c-d-e-f-e-f-g-g. |
| simile | 35. Comparing two things using like or as: (Example--As sharp as a tack). |
| stanza | A grouping of two or more lines of a poem in terms of length, metrical form, or rhyme scheme. |
| mood | 37. Feelings or meanings conveyed in the poem |
| paradox | A statement that seems contraditory, but is true. |
| personification | Giving human qualities to nonhuman things. |
| onomatopoeia | Words that imitate the actual sounds refer to, like buzz or hiss. |
| hyperbole | excessive exaggeration |
| rhyme | The repetition of sounds (vowel and consonant, i.e., in at least the last syllable) at the end or words. |
| rhythm | The pattern of sound created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables. |
| understatement | to downplay a situation |
| pun | play on words |
| act | a major division in a play |
| aside | a character's remark to the audience; other characters pretend not to hear it. |
| antagonist | character who opposes the protagonist |
| catastrophe | when the hero dies in a dramatic tragedy |
| catharsis | emotional cleansing or purification |
| chorus | A group of actors who sang and danced in unison in Greek drama. |
| climax | turning point or peak of emotional intensity in a drama. |
| comedy | written to amuse the audience, these plays usually make fun of human folly. |
| complication | building of tension, caused by conflict. Also called rising action. |
| comic relief | lighter scenes sprinkled into a tragic plot |
| concealment | In drama, this allows the character to be seen b y the audience but not fellow actors |
| resolution | In a dramatic structuire, the end of the plot, wherein all the loose ends are tied up. |
| drama | A play that recreates huan life and emotion through action and dialogue |
| dramatic conventions | substitutes for reality in a play. |
| epilogue | The speech or text that comes after the main text. |
| falling action | In a dramatic structure, this part stresses action from forces opposing the protagonist. |
| foil | A character whose personlity or attitudes are in sharp contrast to another's. |
| introduction | setting the tone or mood, some characters, and background information. |
| pathos | The feeling of pity for someone else |
| persona | The mask or voice of the author. |
| plot | The main structure of a story. |
| prologue | The speech or text that come before a main text. |
| protagonist | The central hero with whom you identify. |
| scene | A minor division in a play where the setting changes in time or location. |
| setting | The changeable and unchangeable surroundings in a play. |
| soliloquy | A speech which an actor gives alone on stage. |
| tragedy | Drama in which the hero has a sad ending, usually death, brought about by his own fault. |
| tragicomedy | A funny play, but the hero dies at the end. |
| tragic flaw | The hero's personality fault that leads to his downfall. |
| bibliography | A list of sources you read for a paper. |
| connotation | The atttitudes and feelings a word evokes |
| dentotaion | The dictionary definition of a word |
| first person narration | Telling a story using the pronoun "I" |
| legend | A story which starts true but ends up fiction. |
| limited omniscient | Third-person but you can only hear one person's point of view. |
| Omniscient | god-like point of view |
| Third person point of view | A character does not tell the story; the perspective is outside of the story. |
| Appositive | A noun that renames another noun. |
