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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 archetype | A symbol, story pattern, or character type that is found in the literature of many cultures. Example: Children of opposite qualities born of the same parents |
| omniscient | The narrator is an all-knowing outsider who can enter the minds of more than one of the characters. |
| oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. |
| paradox | a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. |
| pathetic fallacy | The attribution of human emotions or characteristics to inanimate objects or to nature; for example angry clouds; a cruel wind. |
| standard English | The common American language, words and grammatical forms that are used and expected in school, business, and other sites. |
| stereotype | a generalized belief about a group of people |
| symbolize | when an object or event represents or stands for something |
| syntax | the rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language |
| paradox | a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. |
| pathetic fallacy | The attribution of human emotions or characteristics to inanimate objects or to nature; for example angry clouds; a cruel wind. |
| stereotype | a generalized belief about a group of people |
| symbolize | when an object or event represents or stands for something |
| first person | told from the narrator's point of view, using "I" |
| second person | The narrator tells a listener what he/she has done or said, using the personal pronoun "you." This point of view is rare |
| sonnet | a short poem with fourteen lines, usually ten-syllable rhyming lines, divided into two, three, or four sections |
| third person | Point of view in which the narrator is outside the action and refers to characters as he or she |
| viewpoint | opinion based on one's frame of reference and perspective |
| symbolism | A device in literature where an object represents an idea |
| antithesis | the direct opposite, a sharp contrast |
| parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses. |
| scansion | The analysis of a poem's meter. This is usually done by marking the stressed and unstressed syllables in each line and then based on the pattern of the stresses dividing the line into feet. |
| cliche | a worn-out idea or overused expression |
| iambic pentameter | a common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable |
| metric foot | a unit of poetic meter (usually one stressed and one or two unstressed syllables). These terms are used for the metric feet and line lengths most common in English poetry: |
| synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole (as hand for sailor), the whole for a part (as the law for police officer), the specific for the general (as cutthroat for assassin), the general for the specific (as thief for pickpocket), or the material for the thing made from it (as steel for sword). |
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