Poems
A group of lines that form a small unit within a poem
What is a stanza?
A character who does not change much in the course of a story.
What is a static character?
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without the use of such specific words of comparison as like, as, than, or resembles.
What is a metaphor?
One of the characters tells the story ("I").
What is first person point of view?
The part of the plot that introduces characters, situation, and setting
What is exposition?
The attitude a writer takes toward the subject of a work, the characters in it, or the audience, revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization.
What is tone?
A word, phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated, for effect, several times in a poem.
What is a refrain?
A character who changes in some important way as a result of the story’s action.
What is a dynamic character?
A figure of speech that makes an explicitly comparison between two unlike things, using words such as like, as, than, or resembles.
What is a simile?
An unknown narrator tells the story using the pronouns "he/she." The narrator zooms in to focus on the thoughts and feelings of only one character.
What is third person limited point of view?
The part of the plot that includes complications in conflict and situations (may introduce new ones as well)
What is rising action?
A speaker or writer’s choice of words.
What is diction?
A break in the flow of sound in the middle of a line of verse.
What is caesura?
The author tells us directly what the character is like: sneaky, generous, mean to pets and so on.
What is direct characterization?
A reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature, religion, politics, sports, science, or another branch of culture. An indirect reference to something (usually from literature, etc.).
What is an allusion?
An all-knowing narrator tells the story with access to everyone's thoughts, using he/she pronouns.
What is third person omniscient point of view?
This is any conflict between two people, between a person and nature, or between a person and society.
What is external conflict?
The arrangement of words, phrases, and clauses in a sentence.
What is syntax?
A poetic term for the continuation of a sentence or phrase from one line of poetry to the next
What is enjambment?
The author reveals character by describing the character's appearance, by letting the reader hear what the character says, by revealing the character’s private thoughts and feelings, by revealing the character's effect on other people, or by showing the character in action
What is indirect chracterization?
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes.
What is personification?
A narrative style that tries to capture a character’s thought process in a realistic way. Sometimes, this may include free association, looping thoughts, repetition, and irregular punctuation/syntax.
What is stream of consciousness?
A scene that interrupts the normal chronological sequence of events in a story to depict something that happened at an earlier time.
What is a flashback?
The associations and emotional overtones that have become attached to a word or phrase, in addition to its strict dictionary definition.
What is connotation?
In poetry, a type of rhetorical balance in which the second part is syntactically balanced against the first, but with the parts reversed. Coleridge: “Flowers are lovely, love is flowerlike.
What is chiasmus?
A character who acts as contrast to another character. Often a funny side kick to the dashing hero, or a villain contrasting the hero.
What is a foil?
The use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person , a thing, a place, or an experience.
What is imagery?
Moments in a third-person narrative when the narration becomes infected by the perspective of one of its characters.
What is free indirect discourse?
The purifying of the emotions or relieving of emotional tensions. This occurs at the end of a tragedy.
What is catharsis?
Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row. This is a deliberate form of repetition and helps make the writer’s point more coherent.
What is anaphora?