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- rising action
- A step in the plot which is precedented before climax
- Kenning
- a metaphorical compound word or phrase used especially in old norse poetry and old english
- single effect
- the effect that is created by the combination of a certain literary piece's features.(character, plot, setting, narrator)
- tragedy
- a work of literature, especially aplay, that results in catastrophe, a disaster, or great misfortune, for the main character, or tragic hero.
- afflict
- beset, trouble, burden
- heretics
- people who dissents from the doctrine of an established church
- setting
- the time and place of action.
- pertinaciously
- to hold firmly to an opinion or a course of action
- aversion
- an intense dislike
- chaste
- pure, virtuous
- pernicious
- causing great injury or ruin
- scruples
- misgivings about something one feels is wrong
- anomalous
- deviating from a general rule, method, or analogy
- fray
- noisy fight
- incredulously
- skeptically
- meretricious
- tawdrily attractive
- resplendent
- shining brightly
- Allegory
- a story or tale with two or more levels of meaning - a literal level and one more symbolic levels.
- monologue
- a speech by one character that, unlike a soliloquy is addressed to another chararcter or characters
- grievance
- injustice; complaint
- specious
- showy
- character
- A person or an animal that takes part in the action of a literary work
- caesura
- in greek and latin prosody: a break in the flow of sound in a verse caused by the ending of a word within a foot/ In modern prosody: a usually rhetorical break in the flow of sound in the middle of a line of verse.
- tremulous
- characteried by trembling
- futile
- useless, hopeless
- falling action
- a step in the plot which comes after climax
- sepulcher
- tomb
- climax
- the high point of interest or suspense n a story, novel, or play.
- sagacious
- perceptive, shrewed
- iniquity
- sin
- maledictions
- curse
- Direct Characterization
- The act of creating and developing a character. In direct characterization, the author directly states a character's traits.
- de'classe'
- degrading of one's social status
- procure
- get; obtain
- ostentatious
- intended to attract notice, showy
- depreciate
- to lessen in price or value
- naive
- unsophisticated
- predilection
- pre-existing preference
- lamentable
- distressing, sad
- licentious
- lacking moral restraint
- obstinacy
- the quality or state of being stubbornly unyielding
- theology
- the study about religion
- vagary
- unpredictable occurence
- flat chararcter
- a character that shows only one trait
- impertinent
- not showing proper respect
- calumny
- false accusation; slander
- symbol
- anything that stands for something else
- accost
- to approch and speak to, especially hertily
- palpable
- able to be felt, easily perceived
- prodigous
- enormous
- resolution
- the step in a plot in which a general insight or change is conveyed
- instigates
- urges on; stirs up
- confounded
- confused, dismayed
- propitation
- action disigned to soothe or satisfy a person, a cause, e.t.c.
- inscrutable
- baffling, mysterious
- profoundly
- deeply
- drama
- a story written to be performed by actors. The script of a drama is made of dialogue and stage directions.
- disheveled
- untidy
- obeisance
- a movement of the body made in token of respect
- foil
- a character who provides a contrast to another character.
- soliloquy
- a long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on a stage
- mood
- the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage.
- Transcendentalism
- an American literary and philosophical movement of the nineteenth century. They believed that intuition and the individual conscience "transcend" experience and thus are better guides to truth than are the senses and logical reason.
- munificent
- very liberal in giving or bestowing
- plot
- the sequence of events in a literary work..
- venerable
- worthy of respect
- suspense
- a feeling of uncertainty about the outcome of events in a literary work. Writers create suspense by raising questions in the minds of their readers
- blandly
- gently
- connate
- existing naturally; innate
- irony
- the general term for literary techniques that portray differences between appearance and reality, or expectation and result.
- contentious
- hostile, aggressive
- ingratiating
- charming or flattering
- satire
- a literary work that ridicules the foulness and faults of individuals, an institution, society, or even humanity in general.
- aside
- a short speech delivered by a character in a play in order to express his or her true thoughts and feelings
- beguile
- to trick, to charm
- eloquence
- speech or writing that is graceful and persuasive
- vial
- a small closed or closable vessle especially for drugs
- Indirect Characterization
- The act of creating and developing a character. In dindirect characteriation, an author provides clues about a character by describing what a character looks lie, does, and says, as well as how other chraracters react to him/her.
- theme
- a central message or insight into life revealed through a literary work
- ameliorate
- improve
- avidly
- eagerly
- scourge
- instrument for inflicting punishement
- blank verse
- Poetry written in unrhythmed iambic pentameter lines.
- exile
- banish
- enjoined
- directed or imposed by authoritative order or urgent admonition
- meter
- the meter of a poem is tis rhythmical pattern. The pattern is determined by the number and types of stresses, or beats in each line.
- gallant
- brave and noble
- martial
- military
- equivocal
- subject to two or more interpretations and usually used to mislead or confusion
- fickle
- changeable
- imperceptible
- barely noticeable
- subsided
- to sink or fall to the bottom
- radiant
- shining brightly
- effrontery
- shameless boldness
- round character
- a character that shows many different traits- faults as well as virtues
- cascade
- fall
- appellation
- title
- inculcation
- teaching by repetition and urging
- allusion
- a reference to well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art.
- grotesque
- resembling a freak
- divines
- clergy
- Romanticism
- A literary and artistic movement of the nineteenth century. Romanticists placed a premium on imagination, emotion, nature, individuality, and exotica.
- sentience
- a sentiment quality or state
- indolently
- lazily, idly
- discreet
- careful about what one says or does
- transgression
- wrongdoing, sin
- chaos
- disorder
- dissembling
- disguising one's real nature or motives
- craven
- defeated
- bastions
- fortifications
- deposition
- the testimony of a witness made under oath but not in open court
- conflict
- a struggle between opposing forces.
- termination
- end in time or existence
- tumultuous
- rough, stormy
- rueful
- feeling sorrow or regret
- prescient
- having or showing knowledge of events before they occur
- bizarre
- deviating from the customary
- importunate
- troublesome
- indecorous
- improper
- narrator
- a speaker or character who tells a story
- ravages
- devastations
- ambiguities
- statements or events whos meaning are unclear
- explicit
- clearly stated
- Iambic p entameter
- a poem with five foots in which each foot with one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
- cleave
- adhere, cling
- pensive
- deeply or seriously thoughtful
- vile
- evil; wicked
- tantalized
- tormented, frustrated
- cunning
- skilled in deception
- waggery
- mischievous humor
- blithe
- carefree
- conciliatory
- tending to soothe anger
- augmenting
- increasing, enlarging
- imagery
- the descriptive or figurative language used in literature to create word pictures for the reader. These pictures, or images are created by details of sight, sound, taste, touch, smell, or movement.
- suffrage
- vote or voting
- precluded
- prevented