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End Of Year Vocab ✏️ Flashcards

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Apostrophe

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Rhetorical device in which speaker addresses dead, absent or imaginary person or object

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Alliteration

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Repitition of initial consonant sounds in speech or writing

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Ballad

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Narrative poem, sometimes sung, often about a person

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Couplet

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Two lines of poetry with same rhyme and meter, often expressing a complete thought

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End rhyme

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Rhyming words that occur at the ends of lines of poetry

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Enjambment

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Running over of a sentence from one line of verse into another

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Meter

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Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poetic line

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Blank verse

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Verse with no rhyme but meter, usually iambic pentameter

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Foot

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Basic unit of meter consisting of a set group of stressed and unstressed syllables

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iamb

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Metrical foot of one unstressed syllable then one stressed, like heartbeat

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idyll

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Simple work in poetry or prose that presents peaceful rustic life or pastoral scenes

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Ode

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Lyric poem using exalted emotion on a specific subject

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Quatrain

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Four line stanza

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Sonnet

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Poem of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme

Elizabethan, Petrarchan, Spenserian

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Tercet

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Three line stanza

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Archetype

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In art, a pattern, character, or idea that recurs and conveys a universal symbolic meaning

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Caricature

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An exaggerated depiction of a character or incident, often using ludicrous distortion of parts or characteristics

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Dynamic/round character

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A character whose personality changes or evolved through a work

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Static/flat character

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A simple character who does not change or evolve during the course of a narrative; one who is not developed

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Stock character

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A very simple literary character who remains undeveloped in a work; one who is a stereotype

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Foil

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Character that serves as contrast to highlight opposing traits in another character

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Persona

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Voice/character representing speaker in literary work; the role a character plays in work

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Tragic hero

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A hero in a tragedy who makes an error on judgement or has a fatal flaw that combines with fate and/or external forces to bring about his/her downfall

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Denouement

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The ending; final outcome of a work, usu, including resolution of main complication

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Montage
A composition made by juxtaposing or superimposing images or designs; a cascade of images in cinema/literature
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In media res
The opening of an epic midway in a story- "in the middle of things" usually the hero recounts what occurred earlier
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Deus ex machina
An unexpected, improbable character, device or event that is introduced suddenly to resolve a situation or untangle a problem
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Aside
In play, a brief moment when a character speaks "under his breath"; only audience hears
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Colloquialism
A local or regional dialect expression
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Monologue
A dramatic soliloquy or long speech
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Internal monologue
A type of narration in which the author depicts the interior thoughts of a single individual
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Stream of consciousness
Narration like internal monologue, but when little coherence to convey jumble of thoughts
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Soliloquy
In drama, a section in which a character reveals thoughts without addressing a listener; usually proses a dilemma and weighs the pros/cons, declaring final decision at the end
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Omniscient narrator
3rd person narrator who knows all characters' thoughts and motivations. Limited omniscient has knowledge of one or more characters but not all
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Avant-garde
Referring to an innovative group in the arts; "cutting edge" of an artistic field
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Black comedy
Comedy that uses "dark" humor
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Comedy of manners
Dramatic work that satirizes the manners/behaviors of a social class
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Didactic literature
Instructional or informative literature
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Epic
A narrative poem of the life of a heroic or mythological person or group
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Mock epic
Parody that mocks common romantic or modern stereotypes of heroes
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Epistle/epistolary literature
Literature written in letter format
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Fable
A short tale with a moral lesson at the end
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Farce
A light dramatic work marked by satiric comedy and an improbable plot
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Frame story
Narrative technique of a story within a story
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Morality play
An allegorical play (from 15th-16th C) in which characters personify abstract qualities or concepts (ie death)
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Mystery/miracle play
A medieval drama based on scriptural (biblical) incidents or life of a saint
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Hymn
Song of praise, usually religious
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Novel of manners
A work that recreates a social world, conveying in detail the customs, values, and morals of a developed and complex society
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Novella
A short novel
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Bildungsroman
A novel whose principal subject is the moral, psychological and intellectual development of a youthful protagonist
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Pastoral
A poem that draws on the natural world and rustic human society
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Satire
Writing which ridicules it's subject to provoke or prevent social change
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Tragedy
Drama in which hero is overcome by superior force, fate, and/or his/her own doing
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Tragicomedy
Drama that combines certain elements of both tragedy and comedy
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Courtly romance
A medieval tale based on chivalric love, adventure, and supernatural elements
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Parable
A story with a moral or religious lesson
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Parody
A work that ridicules the style of an author or a work for comic effect
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Classical
Referring to ancient Greeks/Romans (~6th to C BC to 5th C AD), especially the art, architecture, and literature of the empires
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Medieval period/Middle Ages
Period extending from the end of the Western Roman Empire (5th century) until the Renaissance
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Renaissance
The period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world; a cultural rebirth from the 14th through the middle of the 17th centuries
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Elizabethan Age
A period associated with the reign of Elizabeth I of England (1558-1603) considered a part of the renaissance
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Humanism
A renaissance movement emphasizing the importance of human existence and seeking knowledge and understanding of all matters pertaining to earthly, secular life
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Neoclassical age
Era (18th C) of a revival of art/literature characterized by classical ideals of reason, form, and restraint
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Romanticism
An artistic and intellectual movement originating of the late 18th/early 19th C, characterized by interest in nature, emphasis on emotion and imagination, and departure from the attitudes/techniques of 18 C
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Gothic
Works characterized by a taste for the medieval or morbid; gothic novels (usually from 19th C) feature elements of horror, supernatural, gloom and violence
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Realism/naturalism
19 C movement advocating the literal, objective portrayal of reality
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Fin de Siecle
A French term meaning "end of century" the term denotes the last decade of the 19 C, a transition when writers/artists abandoned old conventions for new techniques and objects
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Modernism
The deliberate departure from tradition and the use of innovative forms of expression that distinguished many styles in the art and literature of the 20th century; self-conscious break from previous genres
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Lost generation
A term used to describe the post WWI generation of American writers: men and women haunted by a sense of betrayal and emptiness brought about by the destructiveness of the war
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Surrealism
A 20th century literary and artistic movement that attempts to express the workings of the subconscious and is characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtaposition of subject matter
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Harlem Renaissance
Time in American history (1920s-1930s) when African American literature, art and music flourished in NYC
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Existentialism
A 20th C philosophy concerned with the nature and perception of human existence. Followers often believe that the condition is one of suffering and loneliness. Never less, individuals can create their own meaning
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Theater of the Absurd
A form of drama that emphasizes the absurdity of human existence by employing disjointed, repetitious, and meaningless dialogue, purposeless and confusing situations, and plots that lack realistic or logical development
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Postmodernism
Period/movement (~1944 to present) which carried modernist styles or practices to extremes and/or rejects modernism for new approaches to art/literature
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Beat poets
Group of American writers of the 1950s whose work strongly influenced the cultural transformation of the '60s
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Magical realism
A literary genre in which magical elements appear in an otherwise realist setting; also a genre of Latin American literature from the 1960s in which magical themes were combined with realistic subject matter

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