Knowledge Words And Meanings Pt.4

1. **Aesthetic**: Concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty.

2. **Alliteration**: Repetition of initial consonant sounds in closely positioned words.

3. **Antagonist**: A character who opposes the protagonist, creating conflict.

4. **Brevity**: Conciseness of expression; using few words.

5. **Character**: A person or being in a literary work.

6. **Dialogue**: Conversation between characters.

7. **Epic**: A long narrative poem detailing heroic deeds.

8. **Foreshadowing**: Hints or clues about future events in a story.

9. **Genre**: A category of literature, like fiction or poetry.

10. **Hyperbole**: Exaggerated statements not meant to be taken literally.

11. **Imagery**: Descriptive language that appeals to the senses.

12. **Irony**: A contrast between expectation and reality.

13. **Juxtaposition**: Placing two elements side by side for contrast.

14. **Kinetics**: Movement or dynamics in literature, often in action scenes.

15. **Legend**: A traditional story sometimes regarded as historical but unverifiable.

16. **Metaphor**: A figure of speech comparing two unlike things directly.

17. **Narrative**: A spoken or written account of connected events.

18. **Ominous**: Giving the impression that something bad is going to happen.

19. **Protagonist**: The main character in a literary work.

20. **Quotidian**: Ordinary or everyday; mundane.

21. **Realism**: Depiction of life as it really is, without idealization.

22. **Symbolism**: Using symbols to signify ideas and qualities.

23. **Theme**: The central topic or idea explored in a text.

24. **Tone**: The author's attitude towards the subject matter.

25. **Unreliable Narrator**: A narrator whose credibility is compromised.

26. **Verse**: A single line of poetry or a stanza.

27. **Wit**: The capacity for inventive thought and quick humor.

28. **Xenon**: Metaphorically used for something foreign or unusual in literature.

29. **Yarn**: A long, often elaborate narrative of real or fictive adventures.

30. **Zeugma**: A figure of speech in which a word applies to multiple parts of the sentence.

31. **Allegory**: A story with a hidden meaning, often moral or political.

32. **Ballad**: A narrative poem typically written in quatrains.

33. **Cliché**: An overused phrase or idea that has lost its originality.

34. **Dystopia**: An imagined society with severe oppression or disaster.

35. **Epiphany**: A moment of sudden revelation or insight.

36. **Fable**: A short story with moral lessons, often with animals as characters.

37. **Gothic**: A genre characterized by mysterious and supernatural elements.

38. **Hubris**: Excessive pride or self-confidence leading to downfall.

39. **Imaginary**: Existing only in the mind or imagination.

40. **Juvenilia**: Works produced by an author during their youth.

41. **Kaleidoscope**: Symbolically used for shifting or changing perspectives.

42. **Lyric**: A type of poetry expressing personal emotions.

43. **Motif**: A recurring element that has symbolic significance.

44. **Narrator**: The voice or character telling the story.

45. **Oxymoron**: A combination of contradictory terms.

46. **Pastiche**: A work that imitates another style or genre.

47. **Quirk**: A peculiar trait or characteristic in a character.

48. **Rhetoric**: The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing.

49. **Soliloquy**: A speech delivered by a character alone on stage.

50. **Tautology**: Redundancy in expressing the same idea.

51. **Utopia**: An idealized, perfect society or community.

52. **Vignette**: A brief, evocative description or scene.

53. **Whimsy**: Playful or fanciful behavior or ideas.

54. **Xenophobia**: Fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners in literature.

55. **Yarn**: A long, often elaborate narrative of real or fictive adventures.

56. **Zeal**: Great enthusiasm or passion for a cause or idea.

57. **Archetype**: A typical example of a certain person or thing.

58. **Bucolic**: Relating to the pleasant aspects of the countryside.

59. **Chiasmus**: A rhetorical device where concepts are reversed.

60. **Diction**: The choice of words and style of expression.

61. **Epigram**: A short, witty statement or poem.

62. **Fresco**: Used metaphorically for a vivid, detailed description.

63. **Grotesque**: Characterized by absurd or unnatural aspects.

64. **Heroine**: The female protagonist in a literary work.

65. **Intertextuality**: The relationship between texts and their references.

66. **Juxtaposition**: The placement of two elements side by side for contrast.

67. **Kinesis**: Movement or development in literature.

68. **Lament**: A passionate expression of grief or sorrow.

69. **Melancholy**: A deep, persistent sadness or sorrow.

70. **Narrative Arc**: The structure of a story's plot.

71. **Oxymoron**: A combination of contradictory terms.

72. **Polemics**: Disputes or arguments on controversial topics.

73. **Quatrain**: A stanza of four lines, often with a specific rhyme scheme.

74. **Refrain**: A repeated line or phrase in a poem or song.

75. **Suspense**: The tension or excitement in a narrative.

76. **Terse**: Brief and to the point, often with an edge.

77. **Understatement**: Deliberately downplaying a situation.

78. **Verisimilitude**: The appearance of being true or real.

79. **Whimsical**: Lightly fanciful or playful.

80. **Xenial**: Pertaining to hospitality, often in literature.

81. **Yearning**: Deep, often melancholic longing.

82. **Zenith**: The peak or highest point, often in a narrative arc.

83. **Anagnorisis**: A moment of recognition or discovery in a story.

84. **Brevity**: Shortness of time or expression.

85. **Climax**: The most intense point in the plot.

86. **Denouement**: The final resolution or outcome of a story.

87. **Exposition**: The introduction of background information.

88. **Foil**: A character who contrasts with another, highlighting traits.

89. **Gamut**: The complete range or scope, often of emotions.

90. **Hubris**: Excessive pride or arrogance.

91. **Innuendo**: An indirect or subtle reference.

92. **Juxtapose**: To place elements side by side for comparison.

93. **Kaleidoscopic**: Having complex patterns or changing views.

94. **Leitmotif**: A recurring theme associated with a character or idea.

95. **Motivation**: The reason behind a character's actions.

96. **Nostalgia**: Longing for the past.

97. **Oxymoron**: A figure of speech with contradictory terms.

98. **Paradox**: A seemingly self-contradictory statement with hidden truth.

99. **Quixotic**: Exceedingly idealistic; unrealistic.

100. **Realism**: Artistic representation that aims to depict subjects as they are.

1. **Absurdism**: A philosophy that human beings exist in a purposeless, chaotic universe.

2. **Anecdote**: A short, amusing, or interesting story about a real incident.

3. **Anthropomorphism**: Attributing human characteristics to non-human entities.

4. **Archaic**: Words or phrases no longer in everyday use but sometimes used for special effect.

5. **Bildungsroman**: A novel dealing with a character’s development from youth to adulthood.

6. **Catharsis**: The emotional release experienced by the audience after a dramatic climax.

7. **Cacophony**: Harsh, discordant sounds used in poetry or prose.

8. **Connotation**: The implied or suggested meaning of a word beyond its literal definition.

9. **Dystopia**: A world in which oppressive societal control and the illusion of a perfect society exist.

10. **Elegy**: A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.

11. **Eponymous**: Referring to the character after whom a work is titled.

12. **Farce**: A comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay.

13. **Genre**: A style or category of art, music, or literature.

14. **Homonym**: Two or more words having the same spelling or pronunciation but different meanings.

15. **Interlude**: A brief period or event between the main sections of a narrative or play.

16. **Juvenile**: Literature intended for children or young readers.

17. **Kitsch**: Art, objects, or design considered to be in poor taste but appreciated ironically.

18. **Litotes**: An understatement in which a positive statement is expressed by negating its opposite.

19. **Metonymy**: The substitution of the name of an attribute for that of the thing meant (e.g., “suit” for business executive).

20. **Neologism**: A newly coined word or expression.

21. **Onomatopoeia**: Words that imitate the sounds they represent.

22. **Pantomime**: The act of expressing oneself through gestures without speech.

23. **Quintessential**: Representing the most perfect or typical example of a quality or class.

24. **Red Herring**: A misleading or distracting clue in a narrative.

25. **Satire**: The use of humor, irony, or ridicule to criticize people’s stupidity or vices.

26. **Tragedy**: A drama or literary work in which the protagonist is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow.

27. **Ubiquitous**: Being present, appearing, or found everywhere.

28. **Vernacular**: The language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular region.

29. **Wanderlust**: A strong desire to travel or explore.

30. **Xenia**: The ancient Greek concept of hospitality and the guest-host relationship.

31. **Yokel**: A derogatory term for an unsophisticated or naive person from the countryside.

32. **Zealot**: A person who is fanatical and uncompromising in pursuit of their ideals.

33. **Ambiguity**: The quality of being open to more than one interpretation.

34. **Ballade**: A type of verse that typically consists of three stanzas and an envoy.

35. **Cameo**: A brief appearance or role by a famous person in a work.

36. **Doppelgänger**: A character's double or counterpart, often with sinister connotations.

37. **Epithet**: A descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of a person or thing mentioned.

38. **Free Verse**: Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.

39. **Grotesque**: Comically or repulsively ugly or distorted.

40. **Hamartia**: A fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero.

41. **Idiom**: A phrase or expression whose meaning cannot be understood from the ordinary meanings of the words in it.

42. **Jargon**: Special words or expressions used by a particular profession or group.

43. **Kaleidoscope**: Used metaphorically for a constantly changing pattern or sequence of elements.

44. **Labyrinthine**: Complicated and confusing in structure.

45. **Mimesis**: Imitation of real life in art and literature.

46. **Nemesis**: A long-standing rival or arch-enemy.

47. **Ode**: A lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style.

48. **Parody**: An imitation of a work for comic effect or ridicule.

49. **Quip**: A witty or clever remark.

50. **Rhyme Scheme**: The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of lines of a poem.

51. **Synecdoche**: A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole (e.g., "wheels" for a car).

52. **Tropes**: Commonly recurring literary devices, themes, or motifs.

53. **Underplot**: A secondary plot in a play or story, often contrasted with the main plot.

54. **Villanelle**: A 19-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain.

55. **Witticism**: A clever or amusing remark.

56. **Xylophone**: A metaphor used in literature for something harmonious or rhythmic.

57. **Yowl**: A loud wail or howl, often used to express intense emotions in literature.

58. **Zany**: Amusingly unconventional or idiosyncratic.

59. **Anthology**: A published collection of poems or other pieces of writing.

60. **Byronic**: Referring to the characteristics of Lord Byron’s poetry, often including a brooding, rebellious hero.

61. **Cliché**: A phrase or opinion that is overused and lacks originality.

62. **Denotation**: The literal or primary meaning of a word.

63. **Euphemism**: A mild or indirect word substituted for one considered too harsh.

64. **Foil**: A character who contrasts with another character, usually the protagonist.

65. **Grimdark**: A genre or tone in literature that is particularly dystopian, violent, and bleak.

66. **Hyperbole**: Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

67. **Irony**: The expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite.

68. **Juxtaposition**: The fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.

69. **Kudos**: Praise and honor for an achievement, often used in literature to describe acclaim.

70. **Litotes**: A figure of speech that employs understatement by using double negatives.

71. **Monologue**: A long speech by one character in a play or film.

72. **Nadir**: The lowest point in the fortunes of a person or organization.

73. **Omniscient Narrator**: A narrator who knows everything about the characters and events in a story.

74. **Pastoral**: A work of literature portraying an idealized version of country life.

75. **Quintet**: A group of five lines of poetry.

76. **Refrain**: A repeated part of a poem or song.

77. **Simile**: A figure of speech comparing two different things using "like" or "as."

78. **Tactile Imagery**: Descriptive language that appeals to the sense of touch.

79. **Understatement**: A figure of speech where a situation is made to seem less important than it is.

80. **Verse**: Writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme.

81. **Wistful**: Having or showing a feeling of vague or regretful longing.

82. **Xenophobic**: Showing a dislike of or prejudice against people from other countries.

83. **Yore**: Of long ago or former times, often used in nostalgic literature.

84. **Zephyr**: A gentle breeze, often used metaphorically in poetry.

85. **Antithesis**: A contrast or opposition between two things.

86. **Ballad**: A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas.

87. **Colloquialism**: A word or phrase used in informal speech or writing.

88. **Dialect**: A particular form of a language peculiar to a specific region or social group.

89. **Epistolary**: Relating to or in the form of letters.

90. **Foreshadowing**: A literary device used to give an indication or hint of what is to come later in the story.

91. **Gothic**: A genre characterized by a gloomy, dark setting and mysterious, supernatural elements.

92. **Hubris**: Excessive pride or self-confidence, often leading to downfall in a tragedy.

93. **In medias res**: Beginning a narrative in the middle of the action.

94. **Jocular**: Fond of or characterized by joking.

95. **Kenning**: A compound expression in Old English and Old Norse poetry with metaphorical meaning.

96. **Lyrical**: Expressing the writer's emotions in an imaginative and beautiful way.

97. **Metafiction**: Fiction in which the author self-consciously alludes to the artificiality of the work.

98. **Nonlinear Narrative**: A narrative technique where events are portrayed out of chronological

1. **Absurd**: A genre of literature that focuses on characters in a meaningless, irrational universe.

2. **Acrostic**: A poem where the first letters of each line spell out a word or message.

3. **Adage**: A proverb or short statement expressing a general truth.

4. **Allusion**: A reference to another work of literature, person, or event.

5. **Anachronism**: Something placed out of its proper historical time.

6. **Anticlimax**: A disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events.

7. **Archaism**: The use of a form or style of language that is outdated.

8. **Bard**: A poet, traditionally one reciting epics and associated with oral history.

9. **Caricature**: A portrayal where characteristics are exaggerated for comic or grotesque effect.

10. **Circumlocution**: The use of many words when fewer would do, often to be vague.

11. **Cliffhanger**: A suspenseful situation where the outcome is left unresolved, often at the end of a chapter.

12. **Confessional Poetry**: A style of poetry that focuses on the poet’s personal life and feelings.

13. **Cynicism**: A belief that people are motivated purely by self-interest.

14. **Didactic**: Literature intended to teach or convey a moral lesson.

15. **Dissonance**: A disruption of harmonic sounds or rhythms.

16. **Eclogue**: A short pastoral poem, often in dialogue form.

17. **Enjambment**: The continuation of a sentence or clause across a line break.

18. **Exegesis**: Critical explanation or interpretation of a text, particularly religious texts.

19. **Flashback**: A scene set earlier than the main story.

20. **Free Indirect Speech**: A style of third-person narration that slips in and out of a character's consciousness.

21. **Gnomic**: Literary style that is wise and concise, often with a moral.

22. **Hagiography**: Biography that idealizes or idolizes its subject.

23. **Heroic Couplet**: A pair of rhymed lines in iambic pentameter.

24. **Homily**: A religious discourse intended for spiritual edification.

25. **Iconoclasm**: The rejection or destruction of religious or cultural icons, symbols, or beliefs.

26. **Imagism**: A literary movement that favored precision of imagery and clear, sharp language.

27. **Internal Rhyme**: Rhyme that occurs within a line of poetry.

28. **Laconic**: A concise or terse style of expression.

29. **Lampoon**: A sharp, often virulent satire directed against an individual or institution.

30. **Limerick**: A humorous five-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme (AABBA).

31. **Lyricism**: An expressive, melodic, or emotional style in writing.

32. **Macabre**: Literature that deals with the grim, gruesome, or horrifying.

33. **Malapropism**: The mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding one, often with unintentionally amusing effect.

34. **Memoir**: A historical account or biography written from personal knowledge.

35. **Mood**: The emotional atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.

36. **Mythopoeia**: The creation of a myth or mythology in modern literary works.

37. **Naturalism**: A literary movement that suggests that environment, heredity, and social conditions shape human character.

38. **Non Sequitur**: A conclusion or statement that does not logically follow from the previous argument or statement.

39. **Oeuvre**: The complete works of a writer or artist.

40. **Palimpsest**: A manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been erased to make room for later writing but of which traces remain.

41. **Parable**: A simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson.

42. **Pastiche**: A literary work that imitates the style of another work or genre, often to honor it.

43. **Pathos**: A quality that evokes pity or sadness.

44. **Pathetic Fallacy**: Attributing human feelings to inanimate objects or nature, often reflecting a character’s emotions.

45. **Persona**: The aspect of someone’s character that is presented to or perceived by others in literature.

46. **Picaresque**: A genre of prose fiction that depicts the adventures of a roguish hero.

47. **Platitude**: A remark or statement, especially one with moral content, that has been used too often to be interesting.

48. **Poetic License**: The freedom poets and writers take to deviate from facts or standard language rules to create effect.

49. **Polemic**: A strong verbal or written attack on someone or something.

50. **Prolepsis**: The representation of a thing as existing before it actually does, as in flash-forward in literature.

51. **Prologue**: An introductory section of a literary work.

52. **Purple Prose**: Writing that is excessively ornate or over-the-top.

53. **Redundancy**: Unnecessary repetition of ideas or words in a work.

54. **Roman à clef**: A novel in which real people or events are depicted under the guise of fiction.

55. **Scansion**: The act of analyzing a poem’s meter.

56. **Semantic**: Relating to meaning in language or logic.

57. **Sibilance**: A literary device where strongly stressed consonants are created deliberately by producing hissing sounds.

58. **Sonnet**: A poem of 14 lines using any of several rhyme schemes.

59. **Spoonerism**: A verbal error in which the initial sounds or letters of two words are swapped.

60. **Stream of Consciousness**: A literary technique that presents the thoughts and feelings of a character as they occur.

61. **Syllogism**: A form of reasoning in which a conclusion is drawn from two given or assumed propositions.

62. **Synesthesia**: The depiction of a strong link or overlap between different senses in literature.

63. **Syntax**: The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences.

64. **Truism**: A statement that is obviously true and says nothing new or interesting.

65. **Vignette**: A brief evocative description, account, or episode.

66. **Zeitgeist**: The defining spirit or mood of a particular period in history as shown by the ideas and beliefs of the time.

67. **Aphorism**: A pithy observation that contains a general truth.

68. **Canon**: The works of a writer that are considered authentic and significant.

69. **Conceit**: An elaborate metaphor or simile comparing two very different things.

70. **Dirge**: A mournful song, piece of music, or poem, typically for the dead.

71. **Elegiac**: Expressing sorrow or lamentation, particularly in poetry.

72. **Epistolary Novel**: A novel written as a series of letters.

73. **Fictionalize**: To make something into fiction or to treat a factual event in a fictional manner.

74. **Genre Fiction**: Works that fit within a specific literary genre, such as romance or mystery.

75. **Heresy**: Belief or opinion that goes against established literary or cultural norms.

76. **Incantation**: A series of words said as a magic spell or charm.

77. **Jingoism**: Excessive patriotism in literature, often associated with aggressive or warlike behavior.

78. **Keening**: A wailing or lament, particularly in mourning.

79. **Lament**: A passionate expression of grief or sorrow in writing or speech.

80. **Mnemonic**: A literary device used to aid memory.

81. **Noir**: A genre of crime fiction featuring cynical characters and bleak settings.

82. **Oxymoron**: A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear together.

83. **Palinode**: A poem in which the poet retracts a view or sentiment expressed in a previous poem.

84. **Paronomasia**: A play on words; a pun.

85. **Pedantic**: Excessively concerned with minor details or rules, especially in a literary work.

86. **Picaresque Novel**: A genre of prose fiction featuring the adventures of a low-born, roguish hero.

87. **Quibble**: A slight objection or criticism in literature.

88. **Raconteur**: A person who tells anecdotes in a skillful and amusing way.

89. **Retrospective**: Looking back on or dealing with past events or situations.

90. **Semantics**: The branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning.

91. **Slapstick**: A genre of comedy involving exaggerated physical activity.

92. **Spondee**: A metrical foot consisting of two long (or stressed) syllables.

93. **Subtext**: The underlying or implicit meaning in a piece of writing.

94. **Terse**: Sparing in the use of words; abrupt.

95. **Travesty**: A false, absurd, or distorted representation of something.

96. **Urbane**: Refined in manner; sophisticated in style.

97. **Vaudeville**: A type of entertainment popular in the early 20th century featuring a mixture

1. **Apostrophe**: A figure of speech where the speaker addresses an absent person, inanimate object, or abstract concept.

2. **Asyndeton**: The omission of conjunctions between parts of a sentence.

3. **Bildungsroman**: A novel focusing on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood.

4. **Cadence**: The rhythmic flow of sounds or words, particularly in poetry.

5. **Canon**: A group of literary works generally accepted as representing a field or genre.

6. **Chiaroscuro**: The use of light and dark to create contrast, often used metaphorically in literature.

7. **Colophon**: A publisher’s emblem or imprint, often found at the end of a book.

8. **Dialectic**: A form of dialogue or debate used to explore complex ideas or arrive at the truth.

9. **Diegesis**: The narrative or plot of a story, as distinguished from its narration.

10. **Dystopia**: An imagined society characterized by oppression and misery, often used as a setting in speculative fiction.

11. **Elegy**: A mournful, reflective poem, usually lamenting the dead.

12. **Epigram**: A short, witty statement or poem.

13. **Epiphany**: A moment of sudden revelation or insight in literature.

14. **Epistle**: A letter, especially a formal or didactic one, often used in epistolary novels.

15. **Euphonious**: Pleasing to the ear, often referring to the sound of words.

16. **Exposition**: The introduction of background information, such as setting or characters, in a literary work.

17. **Fabliau**: A short, humorous, often bawdy story, typically written in verse.

18. **Fable**: A short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral.

19. **Farce**: A comedic work characterized by exaggerated situations and physical humor.

20. **Foil**: A character who contrasts with another character, usually the protagonist, to highlight particular qualities.

21. **Foreshadowing**: A literary device used to give hints or clues about future events in a story.

22. **Free Verse**: Poetry that lacks a regular meter or rhyme scheme.

23. **Genre**: A category of artistic composition characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.

24. **Gothic**: A genre that combines elements of horror, death, and romance, often set in eerie or medieval locations.

25. **Grotesque**: Distorted or exaggerated characters, often used to elicit empathy or revulsion.

26. **Homophone**: A word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning.

27. **Hubris**: Excessive pride or self-confidence, often leading to downfall in a character.

28. **Hyperbole**: Exaggeration for effect or emphasis.

29. **Iamb**: A metrical foot in poetry consisting of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable.

30. **Idyll**: A poem or prose work depicting a peaceful, idealized rural scene.

31. **Imagery**: Descriptive language that appeals to the senses and helps create a vivid picture.

32. **Intertextuality**: The relationship between different texts, especially literary ones.

33. **Irony**: A contrast between expectation and reality, often used for humorous or dramatic effect.

34. **Kenning**: A figurative expression in Old English and Norse poetry that replaces a noun, such as "whale-road" for the sea.

35. **Künstlerroman**: A narrative about an artist’s growth to maturity, a subcategory of the Bildungsroman.

36. **Lampoon**: A piece of writing that criticizes someone or something by using satire or ridicule.

37. **Lexicon**: The vocabulary of a language, an individual, or a specific group.

38. **Litany**: A repetitive series or list, often with a religious or ceremonial connotation.

39. **Lyrical**: Expressing personal emotions or thoughts, typically in a poetic form.

40. **Madrigal**: A secular vocal music composition, often referring to short pastoral poems set to music.

41. **Magnum Opus**: An artist or writer’s greatest work.

42. **Manuscript**: A handwritten or typed document, especially one that is not yet published.

43. **Masque**: A form of entertainment featuring masked performers, music, and dancing, often allegorical.

44. **Melodrama**: A dramatic form characterized by exaggerated emotions and interpersonal conflicts.

45. **Metaphor**: A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action that is not literally applicable.

46. **Metonymy**: A figure of speech in which something is referred to by one of its attributes, like "the crown" for monarchy.

47. **Mime**: The use of gestures and body movement to convey a story without spoken words.

48. **Mood**: The overall feeling or atmosphere that a piece of literature creates for the reader.

49. **Motif**: A recurring theme, subject, or idea in literature.

50. **Mythology**: A collection of myths, especially one belonging to a particular religious or cultural tradition.

51. **Narrative**: A story or account of events, either real or fictional.

52. **Nemesis**: A longstanding rival or enemy, often representing retribution or justice.

53. **Neologism**: A newly coined word or expression.

54. **Ode**: A form of lyric poetry, typically addressing and often praising a particular subject.

55. **Oxymoron**: A figure of speech in which contradictory terms appear together (e.g., “bittersweet”).

56. **Pacing**: The speed at which a story unfolds, controlled by sentence structure, scene length, and other techniques.

57. **Palimpsest**: A manuscript or surface on which the original writing has been erased to make room for new writing.

58. **Parable**: A simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson.

59. **Paradox**: A seemingly contradictory statement that reveals a deeper truth.

60. **Parody**: A humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or music.

61. **Pastoral**: A literary work that idealizes rural life and nature.

62. **Pathos**: A quality in literature that evokes pity, sympathy, or sorrow.

63. **Persona**: The voice or character speaking in a literary work, often distinct from the author.

64. **Plagiarism**: The act of using someone else’s work or ideas without giving proper credit.

65. **Plot**: The sequence of events in a story.

66. **Poetic Justice**: When good is rewarded and evil is punished in an ironically appropriate manner.

67. **Polemic**: A strong verbal or written attack on someone or something.

68. **Polyphony**: A narrative style in which multiple voices, perspectives, or stories are presented.

69. **Prologue**: An introductory section of a literary work.

70. **Protagonist**: The main character in a story, often in conflict with the antagonist.

71. **Pseudonym**: A fictitious name used by an author to conceal their identity.

72. **Pun**: A humorous play on words with similar sounds or multiple meanings.

73. **Quatrain**: A stanza of four lines, often with a specific rhyme scheme.

74. **Realism**: A literary movement focused on depicting life as it truly is, without romanticizing it.

75. **Refrain**: A repeated line or group of lines in a poem or song.

76. **Resolution**: The conclusion of a story, where conflicts are resolved.

77. **Rhetoric**: The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing.

78. **Rhyme Scheme**: The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of lines of a poem.

79. **Sarcasm**: The use of irony to mock or convey contempt.

80. **Satire**: The use of humor, irony, or exaggeration to criticize or expose flaws in society, individuals, or institutions.

81. **Scansion**: The analysis of a poem’s meter and rhyme scheme.

82. **Simile**: A comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as."

83. **Soliloquy**: A speech given by a character alone on stage, revealing inner thoughts.

84. **Sonnet**: A 14-line poem, typically written in iambic pentameter with a specific rhyme scheme.

85. **Stream of Consciousness**: A narrative technique that portrays the flow of thoughts and feelings as they occur.

86. **Subplot**: A secondary plot that runs parallel to the main plot in a story.

87. **Symbolism**: The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities beyond their literal meaning.

88. **Syntax**: The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences.

89. **Theme**: The underlying message or central idea in a work of literature.

90. **Tone**: The writer’s attitude toward the subject or audience, conveyed through word choice and style.

91. **Tragedy**: A dramatic work that typically ends in disaster for the main characters.

92. **Trope**: A commonly recurring literary device or motif.

93. **Utopia**: An imagined society where everything is perfect, often used as a critique of current social conditions.

1. **Aestheticism**: A literary movement that emphasized art for art's sake, valuing beauty over moral or social themes.

2. **Allegory**: A story with a hidden meaning, typically moral or political.

3. **Alliteration**: The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words in a sentence or phrase.

4. **Ambiguity**: The quality of being open to more than one interpretation.

5. **Anaphora**: The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences.

6. **Anecdote**: A short, amusing, or interesting story about a real incident or person.

7. **Anthropomorphism**: The attribution of human characteristics to non-human entities, especially animals or gods.

8. **Antithesis**: A contrast or opposition between two things, often presented in parallel structure.

9. **Archetype**: A typical character, action, or situation that represents universal patterns in human nature.

10. **Aside**: A remark or passage in a play intended to be heard by the audience but not by the other characters.

11. **Assonance**: The repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words.

12. **Autobiography**: An account of a person’s life written by that person.

13. **Avant-garde**: New and experimental ideas in the arts, especially in literature and art.

14. **Ballad**: A narrative poem or song, often passed down orally, that tells a story.

15. **Bawdy**: Humorously indecent or vulgar writing or speech.

16. **Bibliography**: A list of the books referred to in a scholarly work.

17. **Black Comedy**: A form of humor that makes light of serious, dark, or taboo subjects.

18. **Blank Verse**: Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.

19. **Bombast**: Language that is overly rhetorical or pompous, especially when considered inappropriate to the subject.

20. **Bourgeois**: Concerned with material values or conventional attitudes; often used to describe middle-class tastes in literature.

21. **Burlesque**: A form of satire that mocks serious subjects by presenting them in a ridiculous or exaggerated manner.

22. **Cacophony**: Harsh, discordant sounds in literature, often used for effect.

23. **Catharsis**: The process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions through literature or art.

24. **Chorus**: A group of characters in Greek tragedy who comment on the action of a play.

25. **Climax**: The most intense or exciting point in a story, often a turning point.

26. **Conceit**: An extended metaphor with a complex logic that governs a poetic passage or entire poem.

27. **Connotation**: The implied or suggested meaning of a word, beyond its literal definition.

28. **Consonance**: The repetition of consonant sounds, typically within or at the end of words.

29. **Couplet**: A pair of lines of verse, usually rhymed and of the same length.

30. **Critique**: A detailed analysis and assessment of a literary work.

31. **Denotation**: The literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to its connotation.

32. **Dénouement**: The final resolution or clarification of a dramatic or narrative plot.

33. **Diatribe**: A forceful and bitter verbal attack against someone or something.

34. **Doppelgänger**: A double or look-alike of a character, often representing an alter ego or shadow self.

35. **Double Entendre**: A phrase or figure of speech that has two interpretations, one of which is usually risqué or inappropriate.

36. **Dramatic Irony**: A literary device where the audience knows something the characters do not.

37. **Ecocriticism**: A literary criticism that explores the relationship between literature and the natural environment.

38. **Ekphrasis**: A vivid description of a work of art within a literary text.

39. **Empathy**: The ability to understand and share the feelings of a character or situation.

40. **Epigraph**: A short quotation or saying at the beginning of a book or chapter, intended to suggest its theme.

41. **Epitaph**: A brief statement written in memory of a person, often found on a gravestone.

42. **Epithet**: An adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned.

43. **Euphemism**: A mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt.

44. **Exemplar**: A person or thing serving as a typical example or excellent model in literature.

45. **Expletive**: An interjection to lend emphasis, sometimes profane or vulgar.

46. **Fantasy**: A genre of fiction that contains magical or supernatural elements not found in the real world.

47. **Feminist Criticism**: Literary criticism informed by feminist theory, focusing on gender roles and relations in texts.

48. **Figurative Language**: Language that uses figures of speech such as metaphors, similes, and personification.

49. **Flash Fiction**: A genre of very short stories, usually less than 1,000 words.

50. **Foil**: A character who contrasts with another character, usually the protagonist, to highlight their traits.

51. **Frame Narrative**: A story within a story, where one narrative is presented as a frame for a second.

52. **Gentry**: The class of well-to-do people, typically referenced in historical literature.

53. **Genre**: A category of artistic work based on its style, form, or content.

54. **Hamartia**: A tragic flaw or error in judgment that leads to the protagonist's downfall in a tragedy.

55. **Haiku**: A traditional Japanese form of poetry consisting of three lines, with a syllable pattern of 5-7-5.

56. **Heptameter**: A line of verse consisting of seven metrical feet.

57. **Hexameter**: A line of verse consisting of six metrical feet.

58. **Hyperbaton**: A figure of speech where words are arranged in an unusual order for emphasis.

59. **Iconoclast**: A person who challenges or overturns traditional beliefs, values, or practices in literature.

60. **Idiom**: A phrase or expression whose meaning cannot be understood from the individual meanings of its words.

61. **Illusion**: A deceptive appearance or impression, often used as a literary device.

62. **In Medias Res**: A narrative that begins in the middle of the action.

63. **Innuendo**: An indirect or subtle reference, often suggestive or disparaging.

64. **Interlude**: A short episode or break in the action of a play, often with music or dance.

65. **Invective**: Language that strongly criticizes or insults, often used in satire.

66. **Juxtaposition**: Placing two or more ideas, characters, or objects close together for contrasting effect.

67. **Lacuna**: A gap or missing part in a manuscript, narrative, or other literary work.

68. **Lament**: A passionate expression of grief or sorrow in literature.

69. **Leitmotif**: A recurring theme or motif in a literary work, especially in music and literature.

70. **Litotes**: A figure of speech in which a negative statement is used to affirm a positive sentiment (e.g., "not bad").

71. **Lyric**: A short poem expressing personal feelings or emotions, often meant to be sung.

72. **Malapropism**: The unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar, often with humorous effect.

73. **Mantra**: A word or phrase that is repeated for emphasis, often used in spiritual or philosophical contexts.

74. **Masque**: A form of dramatic entertainment with music, dancing, and elaborate costuming, often used in Renaissance literature.

75. **Metafiction**: Fiction that self-consciously addresses the devices of fiction, often blurring the boundary between reality and fiction.

76. **Mimesis**: The imitation of real life in art and literature.

77. **Monologue**: A long speech by one character in a play or story, often revealing inner thoughts.

78. **Montage**: A technique of producing a composite literary work by piecing together different scenes, images, or sounds.

79. **Mood**: The emotional atmosphere or feeling that a literary work conveys to the reader.

80. **Narrator**: The voice or character telling the story in a literary work.

81. **Naturalism**: A literary movement that portrays life as it is, without idealization, often focusing on the harsh realities of life.

82. **Neoclassicism**: A movement in literature and the arts, inspired by the classical art and culture of ancient Greece and Rome.

83. **Nemesis**: The inevitable downfall or punishment of a protagonist, often due to a fatal flaw.

84. **New Criticism**: A movement in literary criticism that focuses on the text itself, rather than external factors like author or history.

85. **Novella**: A short novel, longer than a short story but shorter than a full-length novel.

1. **Ovation**: An enthusiastic display of appreciation, especially at the end of a performance or reading.

2. **Palinode**: A poem in which the poet retracts a view or sentiment expressed in an earlier poem.

3. **Pantoum**: A type of poem with a specific structure where the second and fourth lines of each stanza become the first and third of the next.

4. **Paranomasia**: A pun or play on words.

5. **Paratext**: Additional text surrounding the main body of a literary work, such as introductions, forewords, or footnotes.

6. **Pastiche**: A literary work that imitates the style or character of the work of one or more other artists.

7. **Pathography**: The study or narrative of an individual’s illness or misfortune, often focusing on famous figures.

8. **Pentameter**: A line of verse consisting of five metrical feet.

9. **Peripeteia**: A sudden reversal of fortune or change in circumstances, especially in a tragedy.

10. **Persona Poem**: A poem in which the poet adopts the voice of a character or fictional persona.

11. **Philology**: The study of language in written historical sources; a combination of literary studies and linguistics.

12. **Picaresque**: A genre of prose fiction depicting the adventures of a roguish but appealing hero, typically in a satirical context.

13. **Plosive**: A consonant sound produced by stopping airflow and then releasing it (e.g., p, t, k).

14. **Portmanteau**: A word blending the sounds and combining the meanings of two others (e.g., "brunch").

15. **Proem**: An introduction or preface, especially to a poem or literary work.

16. **Prosody**: The study of rhythm, meter, and intonation in poetry.

17. **Prose Poetry**: A form of poetry written in prose instead of verse, but preserving poetic qualities such as heightened imagery and emotional effect.

18. **Protagonist**: The main character in a story, often in conflict with an antagonist.

19. **Pulp Fiction**: Novels written for mass consumption, often featuring sensational, lurid, or melodramatic content.

20. **Pun**: A form of wordplay that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or similar-sounding words, for humorous or rhetorical effect.

21. **Quibble**: A slight objection or criticism, often referring to subtle arguments over trivial matters.

22. **Rebus**: A puzzle in which words are represented by combinations of pictures and individual letters.

23. **Red Herring**: A misleading or distracting clue, often used in mystery and detective stories.

24. **Reification**: The act of treating something abstract as though it were a tangible object.

25. **Restoration Comedy**: A genre of English comedy, written during the Restoration period, known for its wit, sexual explicitness, and satirical edge.

26. **Reverie**: A state of being pleasantly lost in one’s thoughts; a daydream, often represented in literature.

27. **Rhetorical Question**: A question asked for effect, not in expectation of an answer.

28. **Rhapsody**: An enthusiastic or ecstatic expression of feeling, often in literature or music.

29. **Roman à Clef**: A novel in which real people or events appear under fictional names.

30. **Romanesque**: A style of architecture or art, and by extension, literature, characterized by certain formal qualities; often used to describe works that evoke medieval romance.

31. **Romanticism**: A literary movement that emphasized emotion, imagination, nature, and the rejection of industrialization.

32. **Saga**: A long story of heroic achievement, often spanning generations; originally referring to Old Norse prose.

33. **Sardonic**: Grimly mocking or cynical, often describing tone or humor.

34. **Satyr Play**: An ancient Greek form of tragicomedy, featuring satyrs and providing comic relief after a trilogy of tragedies.

35. **Scansion**: The act of analyzing verse to determine its meter.

36. **Semiotics**: The study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation in literature and language.

37. **Sensibility**: The capacity to feel, perceive, or experience deeply, often associated with literature of the 18th century.

38. **Serif**: A slight projection at the end of a stroke in a letter or symbol, common in typography and associated with older literary texts.

39. **Sesquipedalian**: Given to using long words; also refers to long, polysyllabic words themselves.

40. **Sestina**: A complex form of poetry that uses a specific pattern of word repetition at the end of lines across six stanzas.

41. **Sibilance**: The repetition of the 's' sound in a series of words, often used to create a hissing or soft effect.

42. **Socratic Dialogue**: A literary form developed by Plato in which characters engage in a dialogue to arrive at philosophical truths.

43. **Soliloquy**: A long speech given by a character alone on stage, revealing inner thoughts to the audience.

44. **Spiritual Autobiography**: A narrative of personal religious experience, often focusing on spiritual development and growth.

45. **Stichomythia**: Dialogue in which two characters speak alternate lines of verse, often found in Greek drama.

46. **Stream of Consciousness**: A narrative technique that presents thoughts as they flow uninterrupted, often in an unstructured or associative manner.

47. **Syllogism**: A form of reasoning in which a conclusion is drawn from two given or assumed propositions.

48. **Synecdoche**: A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole, or the whole for a part (e.g., “wheels” to refer to a car).

49. **Syntax**: The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.

50. **Tableau**: A group of models or figures representing a scene from a story or history.

51. **Tagline**: A short, memorable phrase associated with a work, often summarizing its theme or appeal.

52. **Tetrameter**: A line of verse consisting of four metrical feet.

53. **Thematic Criticism**: A method of literary criticism that emphasizes recurring themes in a text.

54. **Third-person Narrator**: A narrative voice that is outside the story, using “he,” “she,” or “they” pronouns.

55. **Tone**: The attitude or approach that the author takes toward the work’s central theme or subject.

56. **Tragic Flaw**: A character trait that leads to the downfall of the protagonist in a tragedy.

57. **Travesty**: A grotesque or absurd representation of something, often used in literature for satirical purposes.

58. **Trope**: A common or overused theme or device in literature.

59. **Unreliable Narrator**: A narrator whose credibility is compromised, often leaving the reader to question the truth of the story.

60. **Utopian Literature**: A genre of speculative fiction describing an ideal or perfect society.

61. **Verisimilitude**: The appearance of being true or real in literature, especially in a fictional work.

62. **Vernacular**: The language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular region or country.

63. **Vignette**: A brief, evocative description, account, or episode in a literary work.

64. **Villanelle**: A 19-line poetic form with a specific rhyme scheme and structure.

65. **Voice**: The individual style in which a certain author writes their literary work.

66. **Volta**: A turn or shift in thought or argument, especially in a sonnet.

67. **Vulgate**: The commonly accepted or colloquial version of a text or language.

68. **Zeitgeist**: The defining spirit or mood of a particular period in history, often reflected in its literature.

69. **Zeugma**: A figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses (e.g., “she broke his car and his heart”).

70. **Anachronism**: A chronological inconsistency, especially the assignment of something to a time when it didn’t exist.

71. **Anecdotal Evidence**: Personal stories or experiences used to illustrate a point or theme.

72. **Anthology**: A collection of selected literary works, often organized by theme or genre.

73. **Anticlimax**: A disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events in a narrative.

74. **Antonomasia**: The substitution of a proper name with a descriptive phrase or title.

75. **Archaism**: The use of old or outdated language in literature.

76. **Assonance**: The repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words.

77. **Baroque**: A style of writing that is extravagant, heavily ornamented, and often complex.

78. **Cliché**: An overused phrase or idea that has lost its originality or impact.

79. **Colloquialism**: A word or phrase used in everyday conversation, often specific to a region.

80. **Consonance**: The repetition of consonant sounds, particularly at the end of words.