Terms

Definitions:

Quarter 1
  • marginalia
  • Muse
  • epic
  • epic simile
  • in medias res
  • epithet
  • dactylic hexameter
  • hecatomb




  • Plot:
    • Beginning
      • 1. Exposition

      • 2. Complication or inciting incident (the antagonist presents an obstacle to the protagonist)

    • Middle
      • 3. Rising action which features 
        • Crisis points
      • 4. Climax or ultimate crisis 
        • there may be a black moment (darkest point of the climax)
        • the protagonist may experience an epiphany, sudden realization, clarification, or anagnorisis

    •  End
      • 5. Falling action, denouement
        • resolution

      • 6. Conclusion 
        • open ending or

        • closed ending
  • round character
  • flat character
  • static character
  • dynamic character
  • antagonist
  • protagonist


  • P.O.V.: limited
  • P.O.V.:objective or dramatic
  • P.O.V.: omniscient
  • P.O.V.: unreliable

Quarter 2



  • Root (gest to pak; up to 40 per quarter) 
  • phrase
  • clause
  • tragedy
  • Aristotle's poetics
  • hubris
  • hamartia
  • catastrophe
  • peripeteia
  • anagnorisis
  • catharsis
  • ataxia

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Quarter 3
  • Root (gest to pak; up to 40 per quarter) 
  • sonnet
  • volta
  • triolet
  • villanelle
  • heptameter
  • hexameter
  • pentameter
  • tetrameter
  • trimeter
  • dimeter
  • monometer
  • spondaic
  • dactylic
  • anapestic
  • trochaic
  • iambic
  • Christus Mansionem Benedicat

Quarter 4
  • Suffix (ese to ist; 17) 
  • Novel terms



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