Vocab Test #3
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- Cliche
- A trite or overused phrase or expression
- Legend
- An unverified story handed down through time; a myth
- Parable
- A brief tale that teaches a lesson or a moral truth
- Rhyme
- Words that have identical sound
- Apostrophe
- A figure of speech (rhetorical device) in which a speaker or writer addresses an absent person or inanimate object
- Fable
- Legendary story of supernatural happenings intended to teach a lesson or moral
- Man vs. nature
- A conflict that pits man against the forces of nature
- Novel
- A lengthy prose fiction, which deals with human experiences; longer than a short story; a book
- Paraphrase
- A restatement of a text given in different words
- Romanticism
- Writing that shows life as we aspire it to be rather than as it really is
- Stock character
- A character that is the same in every story. E.g. "town drunk"
- Third person narration
- "He"; the narrator speaks about the third person in the narrative
- Pathos
- "Greek suffering"; quality that simulates pity, sorrow, sympathy or compassion in the reader
- Refrain
- A part of a stanza consisting of one or more lines that are repeated in a regular pattern of a poem
- Aphorism
- A brief statement that expresses the general truth about life; e.g., "the better part of the valor is discretion".
- Character
- A person in the story
- Dialect
- Distinctive variety of language spoken of a particular place; slang
- Free verse
- Poetry written without regular pattern of rhyme or meter
- Mood
- The feeling or atmosphere the writer creates for the reader at any time in the story
- Idiom
- Language peculiar to a region or group
- Naturalism
- The concept that man is at the mercy of nature
- Prologue
- The preface of play
- Parody
- A work that imitates, mocks, or burlesques another usually serious work
- Suspense
- A state of mental uncertainty or excitement about the outcome
- Tone
- An author's attitude toward his work
- Caricature
- A cartoon; an exaggeration by means of ludicrous distortion
- Assonance
- Repetition of a vowel within a word
- Drama
- Genre of literature that develops plot and character through dialogue and action; plays
- Meter
- Repetition of regular, rhythmic units in a line of poetry
- Incident
- One minor event in a story