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Connotation
An idea or feeling that a word invokes person in addition to its literal or primary meaning.

Ex. The word "discipline" has unhappy connotations of punishment and repression.
Denotation
The literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests.
Kenning
A compound expression.

Ex. oar-steed
Diction
The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.
Syntax
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Assonance
The repetition of stressed vowels.

Ex. Penitence, reticence
Consonance
Agreement or compatibility between opinions or actions.
Mood
The overall feeling of the poem. DIFFERENT FROM TONE.
Tone
The overall feeling the reader get's from the story.
Verbal Irony
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant.
Situational Irony
Irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected.
Dramatic Irony
Irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play.
Satire
The use of humor, irony exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity.
Didactic
Intended to teach, particularly for moral instruction.
Blocking
Planning stage movements
Monologue
A long speech by one actor in a play or movie.
Soliloquy
An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers.
Blank Verse
Distinguishing from Iambic Pentameter
Foot
Stressed and unstressed syllables.
Caesura
A break between words within a metrical foot.
Ethical Appeal
The writer creates a sense of him or herself as trustworthy and credible.
Rational/Logic Appeal
Using logic/evidence to convince the audience.
Emotional Appeal
Targeting the emotion of the reader.
Syllogism
An instance of a form of reasoning in which a conclusion is drawn.
Logical Fallacies
Mistakes in reasoning.
Heroic Epic
Poetry celebrating the deeds of a hero.
Heroic Couplets
Used in epics, poems constructed from a sequence of rhyming pairs of iambic pentameter lines.
Medieval Romances
A tale of high adventure, can be a religious crusade, a conquest, or the rescue of a lady.
Pilgrimage
A pilgrim's journey.
Fabliaux
A metrical tale, typically a humorous one.
Allegory
A story or poem that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral one.
Rhetorical Strategy
The ways writers and poets use words and language to persuade.
Anglo-Saxon
Relating to the Germanic inhabitants of England from their arrival in the 5th Century up to the Norman Conquest.
English Renaissance
The time when England was being ruled by hierarchy's and poetry and plays were coming alive.
Old English
The language of the Anglo-Saxons, largely Germanic vocabulary.
Wergild
A set of stories set in the Anglo-Saxon Period.
Middle English
The English language used from 1150-1470.
Chivalric Code
The sets of rules a knight in the Middle Ages had to follow.
Hubris
Excessive pride or self confidence
The First Folio
First of Shakespeare's plays.
The King's Men
An acting group of William Shakespeare's.
Thrust stage
A stage that extends into the auditorium so that the audience is seated around three sides.
The Globe Theater
A theater in London where many of Shakespeare's plays were first publicly performed.
Groundlings
A spectator/reader of inferior taste (people in the theater who stood in the pit beneath the stage)
Big Brother
The imaginary dictator of Oceania that is ruling a totalitarian state. (On all the posters, scares people, propaganda)
IngSoc
The political ideology of the totalitarian government of Oceania.
Telescreen
Television and security camera like devices used by the ruling party of Oceania to keep its subjects under surveillance.
Doublethink
The mental capacity to accept two different ideas at the same time.
Bear Pit
A type of theater where you can see everything that's going on.
Hierarchy
A system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority.
Infallible
Incapable of making mistakes or being wrong.
Unorthodox
Contrary to what is usual, traditional or accepted.
Oligarchic
A small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution.
Proles
A member of the working class; a worker.
Expedient
Convenient and practical
Dissemble
To conceal one's true feelings, beliefs, or motives.
Covert
Not openly acknowledged or displayed.
Effeminate
Having characteristics of a woman.
Preposterous
Contrary to reason or common sense.
Ravenous
Extremely hungry
Depredation
An act of attacking
Marauders
Roam in search of things to steal or people to attack.
Buoyant
Able to stay afloat
Regalia
The emblems of royalty
Parley
A conference between opposing sides in a dispute.
Heathenish
A person who does not belong to a widely held religion.
Monger
Dealer/trader
Stalwart
Loyal, reliable, and hardworking.
Lament
A passionate expression of grief or sorrow.
Rancor
Bitterness or resentfulness
Jocund
Cheerful or lighthearted
Usurp
To take a position of power illegally or by force.
Calamity
An event causing great distress.
Inter
Place in a grave or tomb
Entreat
Ask someone anxiously to do something.
Swoon
Faint from extreme emotion.
Burnish
To polish
Pompous
Affectedly and irritatingly grand.