Vocabulary 1.1

A short often personal story used to emphasize a point, to develop a character or a theme, or to interject humor

• Stream of Conciousness

• Anecdote

• Apotheosis

• Catharsis

• Flashback

A simple, one-dimensional character who remains the same, and about whom little or nothing is revealed throughout the course of the work

• Static Character

• First Person

• Archetype

• Conventional Character

• Dynamic Characger

Harsh discordant sounds, unpleasant to the ear; the sounds of nails scratching a blackboard for example. Used by poets for effect.

• Hubris

• Aphorism

• Euphony

• Cacophony

• Tone

A terse statement that expresses a general truth or moral principle; sometimes considered a folk proverb

• Anachromism

• Elegy

• Platitude

• Aphorism

• Epigraph

A character in the story tells the story, using the pronoun "I." This is a limited point of view since the narrator can only relate events that he or she sees or is told

• 1st Person

• 2nd Person

• 3rd Person

• Limited

• Narator

Insolence, arrogance, or pride. In Greek tragedy, a protagonist's tragic flaw that leads to his or her downfall

• Charisma

• Hamartia

• Hubris

• Flaw

• Apotheosis

A character, situation, or symbol that is familiar to people from all cultures because it occurs frequently in literature, myth, religion, or folklore

• Flat Character

• Anecdote

• Tragic Flaw

• Archetype

• Protagonist

Elevating someone to the level of a god

• Anachronism

• Elegy

• Epiphany

• Antihero

• Apotheosis

In his Poetics, Aristotle wrote that a tragedy should "arouse pity and fear in such a way as to accomplish" this emotion in the audience. Refers to an emotional cleansing or feeling of relief.

• Catharsis

• Tragic Flaw

• Pastoral

• Climax

• Resolution

A poem, play, or short story that celebrates and idealizes the simple life of shepherds.

• Bucolic

• Pastoral

• Lyric

• Sonnett

• Quatrain