Cusp
The edge
Theme
Recurring idea
Setting
The place or type of surroundings where something is positioned or where an event takes place.
Satire
Writing or verbal communication designed to expose the folly of human experience
Folly
Foolishness
Dialect
Regional and cultural variations in the standard form of a language
Stereotype
Belief that a group share similar characteristics
Episotic Novel
String of episodes
Temperance Movement
Banned the selling and consumption of alcohol
Connotation
Emotions given from a word (positive conn. or neg. conn.)
Dilemma
Problem with two solutions with equally bad consequences
Figurative Language
Word choices that an author uses to set a mood
Juxtaposition
Two opposite things or ideas placed side by side for emphasis
Pathos
Author creates a scene for sorrow, compassion, or sympathy
Homage
Honor, public acknowledgement
Gothic Novel
Dark mood, gruesome
Caricature
Make or give a comically or grotesquely exaggerated representation of
Xenophobia
Intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries.
Metaphor
A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
Oxymoron
A figure of speech containing words that contradict each other
Pious
Devoutly religious
Prodigal
Spending money or resources freely and recklessly; wastefully extravagant.
Aside
Term used in theater, audience hears it, other actor "does not hear it
Ghetto
A part of a city usually occupied by a certain groups
Antisemitism
Discrimination or hatred of Jews
Adversity
Difficulties, Misfortune
Genesis
The beginning of something
Perdition
A state of eternal punishment and damnation into which a sinful person passes after death.
Heathen
Sinner
Dogma
Central beliefs of a group
Loathe
To hate
Malaprop
The mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding one, often with unintentionally amusing effect
Venire
Jury Selection
Adversary
Opponent
Deux Ex Machina
When god saves the day
Perdition
Hell