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- Arete
- Moral excellence of a person. A virtue is a trait valued as being good.
- Hyperbole
- A figgure of speech that uses exageration.
- Tragedy
- An event resulting in great loss and misfortune.
- Ate
- The action performed by the hero, usually because of his or her hubris that causes misfortune and/or downfall.
- Imagery
- Imagery is used in literature to refer to descriptive language that evokes sensory experience. Such images can be created by using figures of speech such as similes, metaphors, personification, and assonance.
- Nemesis
- Something causing misery or death.
- Epithet
- A term used to characterize a person or thing; A term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person.
- Topic Sentence
- The starting sence that sets up your essay or paper.
- Epic Style
- Style of writing used by Homer that uses Epic Similes.
- Rising action
- The path of the plot leading to the climax.
- Sensory imagery
- Language that evoces images and triggures memories in the reader of the five sences: sight, touch, taste, sound, smell.
- Extended
- Longer in length or extension; elongated; stretched out or pulled out; expanded; lasting longer; protracted; having a large scope or range.
- Personification
- A figure of speech that atributes human qualities to an inanimate object.
- Poetic devices
- Words with harmonious sounds including assoance, consonance, alliteration, repetition, and rhyme.
- Introduction
- Necessary info; title, author, 1 sentence plot summary and thesis statement.
- Thesis Statement
- Sentence with a subject & an opinion.
- Protagonist
- The main character.
- Onomatopoeia
- A figure of speech that uses words to imitate sound.
- Pun
- A play on words.
- Analogy
- A comparission of two things that are somewhat alike.
- Rhyme
- Words with identical sounds but different spellings.
- Repetition
- A poetic device that uses the repeating of words, sounds, phrases, or sentenses.
- Consonance
- The repetition of a consonant at the end of two or more words.
- Antagonist
- A character, instution, group, or force that is in conflict with the protagonist.
- Homeric Simile (epic simile)
- Words used to relate events from todays writing.
- Allusion
- A reference to a well known person, place, event, work of art, myth or religion.
- Irony
- The opposite of what is expected. A reality different from appearance.
- Theme
- The subject matter of a conversation or discussion.
- Metaphor
- A figure of speech in which one thing is said to be another thing.
- Quotation
- Any word sent. or pass. taken from a written text can/may not be spoken.
- Figurative language
- The use of figures of speech to express ideas.
- Exposition
- A systematic interpretation or explanation (usually written) of a specific topic.
- Foil
- A character who through contrast reveals the characteristics of another character.
- Simile
- A figure of speech that compares two things that are not alike using the words "like" "as" or "then".
- Assonance
- The repetition of vowel sounds in two or more words that do not rhyme.
- Couplet
- A stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse; usually rhymed.
- Hubris
- Overbearing pride or presumption.
- Alliteration
- The repetition of initial consonant or vowel sounds in two or more sucessive or nearby words.
- Climax
- The high point in the plot after which there is falling action may coincide with crisis.
- Naked Quote
- A quote which is not surrowned by useful or good words.
- Conflict
- The problem a character must go through.
- Archetypes
- Primordial images and symbols that occur in literature, myth, religion, and folklore.
- Rhapsode
- A professional performer of poetry.