English WOD
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- vignette
- any brief composition or self-contained passage
- personification
- a figure of speech by which animals, abstract ideas, or inanimate objects are referred to with human qualities
- satire
- a mode of writing that exposes the failings of individuals, institutions, or societies to ridicule or scorn
- short story
- fiction, no specified length but not long enough to be published on its own, single event, 1 or 2 characters, condenced commentary
- poem
- language changed, sung, spoken, or written according to some patter of reccurence that emphasizes relationship between words
- theme
- asaliant abstract idea that emerges from a literary work's treatement of its own subject matter
- plot
- the patter of events and situations in a narrative or dramatic work
- tone
- a term usually designating the mood or atmosphere of a work, although in some more restricted uses it refers to the author's attitude toward the reader or to the subject matter
- acrostic
- a poem in which the initial letters of each line can be read down the page to spell either an alphabet, name, or some other secret message
- spoonerism
- a phrase in which the initial consonants of two words have been swapped over
- alliteration
- the repitition of the same sounds usually initial consonants of words
- anachronism
- misplacing of any person, place, thing, custom, or event
- consonance
- the repitition of identical or similar consonants in neighboring words whose vowel sounds are different
- climax
- any moment of great intensity in a literary work especially in drama
- synopsis
- a breif summary of a work, plot, or argument
- apostrophe
- a figure in which the speaker addresses a dead or absent person
- idiom
- a phrase that cannot be translated literally into another language because its meaning is not equivalent to that of its component words
- unreliable narrator
- a narrator whose account of events is not trustworthy
- protagonist
- the chief character in a play or story
- antagonist
- the most prominent of the characters who oppose the protagonish or hero or heroine in a dramatic work
- verisimilitude
- the symblance of trugh or reality in literary works
- simile
- comparison using the words "like" or "as"
- metaphor
- a figure of speech in which a comparison is made without using "like" or "as"
- excursus
- a degression in which some point is discussed at length
- circumlocution
- the roundabout manner of referring to something at length rather than naming it briefly and directly
- muse
- a source of inspiration to a poet or other writer usually represented as a female deity
- poetic justice
- morally reassuring allocation of happy and unhappy fates to virtues and viscious characters
- diction
- the choice of words used in a literary work