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Cards Term conflict Definition the problem Term hyperbole Definition exaggeration beyond belief Term dynamic character Definition a character who undergoes change through the course of the story Term allegory Definition story with literal and symbolic meaning Term alliteration Definition Repeating a consonant sound in close proximity to others, or beginning several words with the same vowel sound. Term allusion Definition A casual reference in literature to a person, place, event, or another passage of literature, often without explicit identification. Term anaphora Definition The intentional repetition of beginning clauses in order to create an artistic effect. Term antagonist Definition the enemy of the main character Term climax, rhetorical Definition refers to an artistic arrangement of a list of items so that they appear in a sequence of increasing importance. Term climax, literary Definition The moment in a play, novel, short story, or narrative poem at which the crisis reaches its point of greatest intensity and is thereafter resolved. Term chiasmus Definition A literary scheme involving a specific inversion of word order. It involves taking parallelism and deliberately turning it inside out, creating a "crisscross" pattern. Term complication Definition added problem to the conflict Term dialect Definition The language of a particular district, class, or group of persons. It encompasses the sounds, spelling, grammar, and diction employed by a specific people as distinguished from other persons either geographically or socially Term dialogue Definition The lines spoken by a character or characters in a play, essay, story, or novel, especially a conversation between two characters, or a literary work that takes the form of such a characterization. Term diction Definition The choice of a particular word as opposed to others. A writer could call a rock formation by many words--a stone, a boulder, an outcropping, a pile of rocks, a cairn, a mound, or even an "anomalous geological feature." The analytical reader then faces tough questions. Term characterization Definition an author or poet's use of description, dialogue, dialect, and action to create in the reader an emotional or intellectual reaction to a character or to make the character more vivid and realistic. Term irony Definition Verbal irony (also called sarcasm) Dramatic irony involves a situation in a narrative in which the reader knows something about present or future circumstances that the character does not know. Situational irony is a trope in which accidental events occur that seem oddly appropriate, such as the poetic justice of a pickpocket getting his own pocket picked. Term flashback Definition A method of narration in which present action is temporarily interrupted so that the reader can witness past events--usually in the form of a character's memories, dreams, narration, or even authorial commentary Term foreshadowing Definition suggesting, hinting, indicating, or showing what will occur later in a narrative. Foreshadowing often provides hints about what will happen next. Term free verse Definition Poetry based on the natural rhythms of phrases and normal pauses rather than the artificial constraints of metrical feet. Term imagery Definition A common term of variable meaning, imagery includes the "mental pictures" that readers experience with a passage of literature. It signifies all the sensory perceptions referred to in a poem, whether by literal description, allusion, simile, or metaphor. Term internal rhyme Definition A poetic device in which a word in the middle of a line rhymes with a word at the end of the same metrical line. Term antithesis Definition Using opposite phrases in close conjunction. Examples might be, "I burn and I freeze," or "Her character is white as sunlight, black as midnight." Term metaphor Definition A comparison or analogy stated in such a way as to imply that one object is another one, figuratively speaking. Term monologue Definition a character speaking aloud to himself, or narrating an account to an audience with no other character on stage Term personification Definition A trope in which abstractions, animals, ideas, and inanimate objects are given human character, traits, abilities, or reactions. Term plot Definition The structure and relationship of actions and events in a work of fiction. In order for a plot to begin, some sort of catalyst is necessary. Term subtext Definition A minor or subordinate secondary plot, often involving a deuteragonist's struggles, which takes place simultaneously with a larger plot, usually involving the protagonist. Term symbolism Definition Frequent use of words, places, characters, or objects that mean something beyond what they are on a literal level. Term theme Definition A central idea or statement that unifies and controls an entire literary work. Term antistrophe Definition repetition of the same word or phrase at the end of successive clauses Term antithesis Definition opposition or contrast of ideas in parellel construction Term apostrophe Definition a sudden turn from the general audience to address a specific group or person. Term assonance Definition repetition of the same sound in words close to each other. Term antistrophe Definition repitition at the end of a phrase