Literary Elements & Other Definitions for Literature --> H & I:
1. Haiku --> a three-line Japanese verse form (5 - 7 - 5 syllables, first and third lines have five syllables and second line has seven syllables) -- it seeks to convey a single vivid emotion by means of images from nature
2. Hamartia --> a tragic flaw in a character
3. Heptameter --> verse written in seven-foot lines
4. Hero / Heroine --> a character whose actions are inspiring or noble
5. Hexameter --> verse written in six-foot lines
6. Historical Fiction --> a story that combines historical facts and real people with made-up characters
7. Hook --> a compelling first sentence that entices a reader into a story
8. Hubris --> overweening pride
9. Hyperbole --> deliberate use of exaggeration
10. Iambic --> a "foot" of poetry with one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
11. Idioms --> old expressions of speech still used today
12. Image --> a word or phrase that appeals to one or more of the five senses (sight, taste, touch, smell, sound)
13. Imagery --> the use of words to evoke impressions and meanings that are more than just the basic, accepted definitions of the words themselves (the words create a picture is the reader's mind using words that stir the senses)
14. Implied Theme --> theme not stated directly, rather it is written in such a way that the reader must think about what the work seems to say about the nature of people or about life
15. In Medias Res --> Latin for "in the midst of things", in or into the middle of a narrative or plot without the formality of an introduction (to begin an epic or other fictional form by plunging into a crucial situation, previous events being developed later)
16. Inciting Incident --> in the plot of the story, it follows the exposition and introduces the central conflict
17. Indirect Characterization --> type of characterization where the author tells what a character looks like, does, and says and how other characters react to him or her by having the reader draw conclusions
18. Inference --> a conclusion based on combination of details and logical thinking
19. Internal Conflict --> conflict that involves a character in conflict with himself/herself (can involve a study of the human heart)
20. Internal Rhyme --> rhyme that occurs within a line of poetry
21. Intuition --> the act or faculty of knowing without the use of rational processes; immediate cognition
22. Inversion --> placing sentence elements out of normal position
23. Invocation --> prayer to the Muses at the beginning of an epic
24. Irony --> (dramatic, verbal, situational) a technique that involves differences between appearance and reality, expectations and result, meaning and intention (a twist)
25. Italian / Petrarchan Sonnet --> a sonnet which consists of an octave (eight-line stanza) and a sestet (six-line stanza), rhyming abbaabba and cdecde (the octave states the theme or asks a question and the sestet answers the question)
1. Haiku --> a three-line Japanese verse form (5 - 7 - 5 syllables, first and third lines have five syllables and second line has seven syllables) -- it seeks to convey a single vivid emotion by means of images from nature
2. Hamartia --> a tragic flaw in a character
3. Heptameter --> verse written in seven-foot lines
4. Hero / Heroine --> a character whose actions are inspiring or noble
5. Hexameter --> verse written in six-foot lines
6. Historical Fiction --> a story that combines historical facts and real people with made-up characters
7. Hook --> a compelling first sentence that entices a reader into a story
8. Hubris --> overweening pride
9. Hyperbole --> deliberate use of exaggeration
10. Iambic --> a "foot" of poetry with one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
11. Idioms --> old expressions of speech still used today
12. Image --> a word or phrase that appeals to one or more of the five senses (sight, taste, touch, smell, sound)
13. Imagery --> the use of words to evoke impressions and meanings that are more than just the basic, accepted definitions of the words themselves (the words create a picture is the reader's mind using words that stir the senses)
14. Implied Theme --> theme not stated directly, rather it is written in such a way that the reader must think about what the work seems to say about the nature of people or about life
15. In Medias Res --> Latin for "in the midst of things", in or into the middle of a narrative or plot without the formality of an introduction (to begin an epic or other fictional form by plunging into a crucial situation, previous events being developed later)
16. Inciting Incident --> in the plot of the story, it follows the exposition and introduces the central conflict
17. Indirect Characterization --> type of characterization where the author tells what a character looks like, does, and says and how other characters react to him or her by having the reader draw conclusions
18. Inference --> a conclusion based on combination of details and logical thinking
19. Internal Conflict --> conflict that involves a character in conflict with himself/herself (can involve a study of the human heart)
20. Internal Rhyme --> rhyme that occurs within a line of poetry
21. Intuition --> the act or faculty of knowing without the use of rational processes; immediate cognition
22. Inversion --> placing sentence elements out of normal position
23. Invocation --> prayer to the Muses at the beginning of an epic
24. Irony --> (dramatic, verbal, situational) a technique that involves differences between appearance and reality, expectations and result, meaning and intention (a twist)
25. Italian / Petrarchan Sonnet --> a sonnet which consists of an octave (eight-line stanza) and a sestet (six-line stanza), rhyming abbaabba and cdecde (the octave states the theme or asks a question and the sestet answers the question)