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Literary English: 100 palabras y expresiones en inglés con significado
- allegorya story whose characters and events symbolize deeper meanings
- alliterationrepetition of the same initial sound in nearby words
- antagonistthe character who opposes the hero
- protagonistthe main character of a story
- allusionan indirect reference to another work, person, or event
- anachronismsomething placed in the wrong historical period
- archetypea universal, recurring character type or symbol
- bildungsromana novel about a character's growth from youth to maturity
- catharsisemotional release felt by the audience of a tragedy
- denouementthe final resolution of a story's plot
- dystopiaan imagined society of great suffering or injustice
- elegya poem of mourning for the dead
- epiphanya character's sudden moment of profound insight
- epistolarywritten in the form of letters
- foreshadowinghints of what will happen later in a story
- hyperboledeliberate exaggeration for effect
- ironymeaning the opposite of what is said, or events defying expectation
- juxtapositionplacing contrasting things side by side for effect
- metaphordescribing one thing as another to suggest likeness
- motifa recurring image or idea that develops a theme
- novellaa work of fiction shorter than a novel
- odea lyric poem addressing and praising its subject
- onomatopoeiawords that imitate the sound they describe
- parablea short story teaching a moral or spiritual lesson
- parodyan imitation that exaggerates for comic effect
- pastichea work imitating the style of another artist or period
- pathosa quality that evokes pity or sadness
- proseordinary written language, not verse
- romanticisma movement prizing emotion, nature, and the individual
- satireusing humor and ridicule to criticize folly or vice
- soliloquya speech revealing a character's thoughts, spoken alone
- sonneta fourteen-line poem with a fixed rhyme scheme
- stream of consciousnessnarration mimicking the continuous flow of thought
- symbolismusing objects or images to represent deeper ideas
- tropea commonly recurring literary device or convention
- verisimilitudethe appearance of being true or real in fiction
- vernacularthe everyday language of ordinary people
- magical realismrealistic narrative woven with matter-of-fact fantastical elements
- modernisman early-20th-century movement breaking with traditional forms
- unreliable narratora storyteller whose account cannot be fully trusted
- anthologya published collection of works by various authors
- aphorisma short, memorable statement of a truth
- ballada narrative poem or song telling a story
- blank verseunrhymed poetry in regular meter
- canonthe body of works considered essential in a tradition
- characterizationhow a writer builds and reveals characters
- clichéan expression made stale by overuse
- climaxthe point of highest tension in a story
- colloquialcharacteristic of informal, everyday speech
- connotationthe associations a word carries beyond its literal meaning
- couplettwo consecutive rhyming lines of verse
- dictiona writer's choice of words and style of expression
- didacticintended to teach, often too obviously
- epica long poem narrating heroic deeds
- epiloguea concluding section after the main story ends
- euphemisma mild expression substituted for a harsh one
- expositionbackground information establishing the story's setting
- fablea short tale with animals teaching a moral
- flashbacka scene set earlier than the main story
- foila character whose contrast highlights another
- genrea category of artistic composition with shared conventions
- haikua Japanese three-line poem of seventeen syllables
- imagerylanguage appealing to the senses
- in medias resbeginning a story in the middle of the action
- limericka humorous five-line poem with a bouncing rhythm
- lyricpoetry expressing personal emotion, songlike in form
- memoira book about the author's own remembered experiences
- metonymynaming something by an associated thing, as 'the crown'
- monologuea long speech by one character
- oxymorontwo contradictory words joined, like 'deafening silence'
- pen namea fictitious name an author publishes under
- personificationgiving human qualities to things or ideas
- plot twistan unexpected turn in the story
- point of viewthe perspective from which a story is told
- prologuean introductory section before the main story
- puna joke exploiting a word's multiple meanings
- rhetoricthe art of persuasive speaking and writing
- similea comparison using 'like' or 'as'
- subplota secondary storyline within a work
- understatementdeliberately presenting something as less than it is
- anagnorisisa moment of critical recognition or discovery by a character
- antiheroa central character lacking traditional heroic qualities
- apostropheaddressing an absent person or abstract idea directly
- assonancethe repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words
- caesuraa pause or break within a line of poetry
- chiasmusa phrase repeated in reverse grammatical order
- conceitan elaborate, extended metaphor
- enjambmentrunning a sentence past the end of a line of verse
- epigrapha short quotation at the start of a book or chapter
- epitheta descriptive phrase attached to a name
- frame narrativea story that contains another story within it
- hubrisexcessive pride that leads to a character's downfall
- interior monologuethe written expression of a character's inner thoughts
- leitmotifa recurring theme associated with a person or idea
- malapropismthe comic misuse of a word for a similar-sounding one
- meterthe rhythmic structure of a line of verse
- polemica strong verbal or written attack on an opinion
- sibilancethe repetition of soft consonant sounds like s and sh
- synecdocheusing a part to represent the whole, or vice versa
- zeugmaone word applied to two others in different senses
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