Semester One is units 1-4, Semester Two is units 5-8.

Unit One

THEME (UNIVERSAL)
ATMOSPHERE (or mood)
ANTAGONIST
PROTAGONIST
TRAGIC
TRAGIC FLAW
ANTIHERO
CLICHE
EXTERNAL CONFLICT
INTERNAL CONFLICT
SETTING
TONE 
POINT OF VIEW
First Person
Second Person
Third Limited
Third Omniscient
Third Objective

Unit Two

INDIRECT CHARACTERIZATION
DIRECT CHARACTERIZATION
STATIC CHARACTER
DYNAMIC CHARACTER
FLAT CHARACTER
ROUND CHARACTER
CLIMAX
DIALECT
DICTION
DRAMA
DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE
EXPOSITION
ASIDE
SOLILOQUY
PERSONIFICATION

Unit Three

ALLEGORY
ALLUSION
APOSTROPHE
COLLOQUIALISM
CACOPHONY
EUPHONY
CONNOTATION
DENOTATION
DIRECT ADDRESS
FLASHBACK
FARCE
FOIL
FORESHADOWING
GENRE
HYPERBOLE
PARAPHRASE
STEREOTYPE 
PARODY

Unit Four

AMBIGUITY
ANALOGY
ANECDOTE
VERBAL IRONY
SITUATIONAL IRONY
DRAMATIC IRONY
MOTIF
MOTIVATION
OXYMORON
NONFICTION
PARABLE
PARADOX
STEREOTYPE
TRAGEDY
VERNACULAR 
SIMILE
METAPHOR
POETIC LICENSE

Unit Five

ALLITERATION
ASSONANCE
CONSONANCE
IMAGERY
FREE VERSE
ONOMATOPOEIA
STANZA
PROLOGUE
EPILOGUE
ROMANCE
SATIRE
SHIFT
SYNTAX
SENSORY
PURPOSE (AUTHOR’S)
STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS

Unit Six

ANAPHORA (PARALLEL STRUCTURE)
BALLAD
CAESURA
DOUBLE ENTENDRE
ELEGY
EPIGRAPH
ENJAMBMENT
EXPLICATION
LYRIC
NARRATIVE POEM
REFRAIN
END-STOP LINE

Unit Seven

RHYME SCHEME
EXACT RHYME
EYE RHYME
SLANT (APPROXIMATE) RHYME
INTERNAL RHYME
COUPLET
TERCET (TRIPLET)
QUATRAIN
QUINTET
SESTET
SEPTET
OCTAVE (or OCTET)

Unit Eight

NOUN
ARTICLE
ADJECTIVE
PRONOUN
VERB
ADVERB
CONJUNCTION
PREPOSITION
INTERJECTION
SUBJECT (OF A SENTENCE)
MEMOIR
GRAPHIC NOVEL

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