vocab 9
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- Denouement (n.)
- Literally, the "untying of the knot;" the final outcome, solution, or unraveling of the principal dramatic conflict in a literary work.
- Epistolary novel (n.)
- A novel in which the story is carried forward entirely through letters from one or more persons.
- Assonance (n.)
- The close repetition of similar vowel sounds
- Irony (n.)
- A figure of speech used as a literary device in which a contrast between appearance and reality, or between expectation and outcome forms the basis for some rhetorical or dramatic effect.
- god from a machine
- Deus ex machina (n.)
- Epilogue (n.)
- A concluding section that completes the design of a literary work
- Consonance (n.)
- The close repetition of consonant sounds before and after different vowels
- Apostrophe (n.)
- In literature, the addressing of an absent person, an abstract quality (like melancholy), or a nonexistent or mythological personage (like the muse) as though present.
- Analogy (n.)
- An (implied) comparison between two different things that resemble each other.
- Repetition of initial words or phrases at the beginning of each in a series of clauses
- Anaphora (n.)
- Bildungsroman (n.)
- A novel, usually autobiographical, that covers the principal subject's life from adolescence to maturity
- Epithet (n.)
- A word or phrase used to characterize a person or thing.
- Allusion (n.)
- An indirect or casual reference to a famous person or event in history, the Bible, a literary work, mythology, or another known source.
- Juxtaposition (n.)
- the act of placing two or more things (words, images, phrases) side by side.
- Metaphor (n.)
- A figure of speech implying a comparison between two different objects by saying one object is another.
- Didactic (n.)
- The term used to describe a piece of literature that attempts to serve a cause that is moral, political, social, and so on.
- Foreshadowing (n.)
- A plot device that warns or prepares the reader for what will eventually happen.
- Flashback (n.)
- An interruption of the narrative flow in order to present scenes or incidents that occurred prior to the beginning of the work.
- Malapropism (n.)
- A humorous misuse of language that results from substituting an incorrect word for one with a similar sound.
- Climax (n.)
- The point of highest interest or conflict in the plot of a short story, novel, or play.