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Literary Concepts Flashcards

1
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Advocatus diaboli

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Devils advocate

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Allegory

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Extended metaphor which veils a moral or political underlying meaning

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Ambiguity

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Words having two simultaneous meanings

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Ambivalence

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Simultaneous coexistence of opposing feelings or attitudes

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Anacoluthon

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When a sentence doesn’t follow usual grammatical convention

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Antithesis

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Contrast of ideas expressed by balancing words or phrases of opposite meaning

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Aside

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Remark spoken by a character which is shared by the audience but is unheard by other characters

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Black comedy

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Treating serious subjects as amusing

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Blank verse

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Unrhymed iambic pentameter

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Caesura

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Deliberate break or pause in a line

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Choric

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Chorus whose role it was to comment on the action and interpret its moral significance

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Climax

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Moment of intensity to which a series of actions has been leading

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Colloquial

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Informal language or speech rather than that of writing

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Dénouement

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Unfolding of the final stages of a plot when all is revealed

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Dramatic irony

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When the audience knows something that certain characters do not

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Enjambment

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Run on line of verse usually to reflect it’s meaning

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Hubris

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Over reaching of a human who aspires to divine power or status resulting in downfall

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In medias res

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Beginning a scene or chapter in the middle of an event or dialogue

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Machiavellian

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Ruthless self-interest and unethical methods to gain political power

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Malapropism

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Ludicrous misuse of a word in mistake for one resembling it

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Neologism

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Creation of a new word

22
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Oxymoron

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Phrase consisting of a contradiction in terms

23
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Paradox

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Self contradictory statement or state of affairs

24
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Pathos

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Pity evoked by a situation of suffering and helplessness

25
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Poetic justice

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Due allocation of reward and punishment for virtue and vice respectively

26
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Rabelaisian

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Obsessed with sexual acts and bodily functions

27
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Rhyming couplets

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Pair of adjacent rhyming lines

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Agon

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Formal argument between two characters

29
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Anagnoresis

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Change from ignorance to knowledge

30
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Aposopesis

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Suddenly breaking off in speech

31
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Chiasmus

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A figure of speech where two phrases are used in parallel but inverted

32
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Hamartia

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A characters tragic fatal flaw

33
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Litotes

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Double negative to achieve a positive statement

34
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Peripeteia

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A sudden reversal of fortune

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