Domain-Specific and Academic Terms Flashcards
Adjectives
Adverbs
Allusion
Ambiguity
Analogy
Analysis
Antagonist
Antecedent
What the pronouns is referring to
Antithesis
Seeing opposites as parallels
Atmosphere
Catharsis
Purging of emotions
Character
Chronology
Beginning, Middle, End
Claim / Thesis
Climax
Comparison
Conceit
Extended Metaphor
External Conflict
Internal Conflict
Diction
Drama
Dramatic Monologue
Dramatic Situation / Moment
Epiphany
Coming to a realization
Evidence
Exposition
Beginning of story where you are presented characters / settings / etc.
Extended Metaphor
Fiction
Figurative Language
First - Person Narrator
Flashback
Foil
Opposites
Foreshadowing
Function
Genre
Hyperbole
Imagery
Inconsistencies
Infer
In Media Res
Starting in the middle of the story
Interpretation
Irony
Juxtaposition
Line of Reasoning
Literal vs. Figurative Meaning
Literary Argument
Metaphor
Mood
Motif
Narrative
Narrator Bias
Narrator Reliability
Nuance
Paradox
Parallel Structure
Patterns and breaks in patterns
Personification
Perspective
Plot
Poetry
Closed form Poetry
Poetry with rules (rythm, rhyme, iambic)
Open form poetry
free verse
POV
Pronoun references
Protagonist
Reasoning
Referent
Reliability
Repetition
Resolution
Setting
Shift
Simile
Soliloquy
Speech in a play
Stanza
Stream of consciousness
Structure
Symbols
Synonyms
Syntax
Tempo
Tense (grammatical)
Theme
Third person narrator
Third person omnicient
Tone
Understatement
Amplify
Associate
Clarify
Exemplify
Qualify