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- Couplet
- A pair o rhyming lines in the same meter.
- Figurative language
- The use o figures of speech to express ideas.
- Ate
- The result of hubris, hero would say or do something excessive. Blind or rash behavior.
- Epithet
- A word or phrase describing a quality of a person, place, or thing that is repeated throughout a work. Ex: Wine-dark sea
- Denouement
- The falling action or final revelations in the plot.
- Sensory imagery
- Language that evokes images and triggers memories in the reader of the five senses.
- Antagonist
- A character, institution, group, or force that is in conflict with the protagonist.
- Tragic Hero
- Homeric heros go through circumstances beyond their control-are called to kill god men in battle instead of evil things.
- Simile
- A figure of speech that compares two things that are not alike, using the words like, as or than. Ex: eyes gleaming like live coals, as delicate as a snowflake, colder than ice.
- Analogy
- drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect
- Foil
- A character who. through contrast, reveals the characteristics of another character.
- Archetypes
- Primordial images and symbols that occur in literature, myth, religion, and folklore. Ex: Wizard, warrior
- Essay
- A short nonfiction work about a specific subject. Essays may be narrative, persuasive, descriptive, expository, or argumentative,
- Tragedy
- drama in which the protagonist is overcome by some superior force or circumstance
- Alliteration
- use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
- Climax
- The high point in the plot, after which there is falling action. May coincide with crisis.
- Protagonist
- The main character.
- Nemesis
- Homeric hero is ought his fate often death upon himself.
- Rising actions
- The path of the plot leading to the climax.
- Pun
- A play on words.
- Assonance
- The repetition of vowel sounds in two or more words that do not rhyme. Ex: The black cat scratched the saddle.
- Myth
- A fictional tale about gods or heroes. Allusions the Greek, Roman, Norse, and Celtic myths are common in English literature.
- Epic
- A long narrative poem about the adventures of gods or a hero.
- Homeric simile (epic simile)
- Compare heroic events in a story with common every day events using as to so.
- Consonance
- The repetition of a constant at the end of two or more words. Ex: Hop up the step.
- Falling action
- All action that takes place after the climax.
- Ellipsis
- Three periods (...) that signify the omission of one or more words.
- Exposition
- a systematic interpretation or explanation (usually written) of a specific topic
- Inciting Incident
- the incident that sets in motion the rising action in the story, play, etc.
- Rhyme
- Words with identical sounds, but different spellings. Ex:Cat/Hat
- Irony
- The opposite of what is expected. A reality different from appearance.
- Metaphor
- A figure of speech in which one thing is said to be another thing. Ex: Her eye of ice continued to dwell freezingly on mine.
- Rime scheme
- The pattern of rhyming words The last word in each line is assigned a letter of the alphabet beginning with a.
- Hubris
- Excessive pride.
- Theme
- A central idea.
- Repetition
- A poetic device that uses the repeating of words, sounds, phrases, or sentences.
- Extended metaphor
- A metaphor that is elaborated on and developed in several phrases or sentences.
- Arete
- Striving for excellence in particular areas o human behavior.
- Onomatopoeia
- A figure of speech that uses words to imitate sound. Ex: buzz, hiss.
- Poetic devices
- Words with harmonious sounds including assonance, consonance, alliteration, repetition and rhyme
- Hyperbole
- A figure of speech that uses exaggeration. Ex: our chances are on in a million
- Personification
- A figure of speech that attributes human qualities to an inanimate object. Ex: The wind sighed.
- Conflict
- The struggle between two forces, in a literary work. Conflicts may include interior conflict between two opposing emotions or commitments within the character, as well as external conflicts, such as characters opposing the mores of their society, forces of nature, or other characters.
- Allusion
- A reference to a well-known person, place, event, work of art myth or religion.
- Epitaph
- An inscription on a tomb or gravestone.