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Round character
Character that has multiple characteristics
Flat character
Character that has one characteristic
Dynamic character
Character that changes throughout the plot
Static Character
Character that doesn’t change throughout the plot
Diction
Authors choice of words
Denotation
What a word literally means
Connotation
Feelings/ emotions words produce/evoke
Syntax
Arrangement of words in a sentence
Prose
Ordinary form of writing
Clause
Anything that has a subject and a verb
Dependent Clause
Depends on the full clause(sentence) to make sense
Independent Clause
Makes a complete sentence and can stand alone
Simple sentence
1 independent clause
Compound sentence
More than 1 independent clause
Complex sentence
1 or more dependent clauses and 1 independent clause
Compound Complex sentence
2 or more independent clauses and 2 or more dependent clauses
Periodic Sentence
dependent clause that starts sentence and the independent clause ends sentence
Cumulative sentence
Independent clause starts sentence and dependent clause ends sentence
Rhetoric
Persuasive language
Ethos
establish the credibility of speaker
Pathos
Appeals to emotion
Logos
Appeals to logic
Deductive reasoning
Challenging hypothesis to come to a response
Inductive reasoning
To come up with a conclusion from existing knowledge
Enjambment
The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of the line
Stanza
Paragraph of poetry (any # of lines)
Quatrain
Stanza that has 4 lines
Meter
The number and types of stresses in a line of poetry
Foot
Basic unit of measurement of poetry
Alliteration
Repetition of initial consonant sounds in near words
Assonance
Repitition of vowel sounds
Consonance
Repeated consonant sounds in the last accented letter and different vowel sounds in front of it
Apostrophe
Speech or poem directed to someone who is not there
Internal rhyme
Rhyme that happens in the line
End rhyme
Rhyme that happens at the end of a line
Near/slant rhyme
Not fully a rhyme but close enough
Antithesis
The use of parallel structure to contrast ideas
Chiasmus
Parallel structure with flipped element
Anaphora
Repetition of initial meaning throughout successive things
Synecdoche
When you use part of the whole to represent the whole
Metonymy
When you use something closely associated with something to represent the whole
Trope
General term for artful diction
Schemes
Artful syntax
Juxtaposition
Compare and contrast something
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