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| 7250654965 | Ars Poetica | "the art of poetry" | 0 | |
| 7250661332 | Archaic Language | Words that were once common but that are no longer used. | 1 | |
| 7250686197 | Ballad | A sung poem that recounts a dramatic story | 2 | |
| 7250689062 | Cadence | Quality of spoken text formed by combining the text's rhythm with the inflection of voice. | 3 | |
| 7250693369 | Caricature | A character with exaggerated features or traits | 4 | |
| 7250697203 | Catharsis | Refers to the emotional release felt by the audience at the end of a tragic drama. | 5 | |
| 7250702276 | Stock Character | A type of flat character based on a stereotype | 6 | |
| 7250704720 | Colonialism | The occupation of one country by another | 7 | |
| 7250706935 | Epigram | A short, witty statement | 8 | |
| 7250709767 | Epiphany | A character's transformative moment of realization | 9 | |
| 7250725894 | Elegy | A contemplative poem on death and mortality often written for someone who has died | 10 | |
| 7250735776 | Motif | A recurring pattern of images, words, or symbols that reveals a theme in a work of literature. | 11 | |
| 7250738075 | Novella | A short novel, Italian for "story" | 12 | |
| 7250746183 | Ode | A form of poetry used to meditate on or address a single object or condition. | 13 | |
| 7250755831 | Caesura | A pause within a line of poetry mirroring natural speech. | 14 | |
| 7250760933 | Couplet | Two line stanza | 15 | |
| 7250761993 | Tercet | Three line stanza | 16 | |
| 7250762096 | Quatrain | Four line stanza | 17 | |
| 7250764167 | Sestet | A six line stanza | 18 | |
| 7250764169 | Octet | An eight line stanza | 19 | |
| 7250767700 | Synecdoche | Figure of speech, part represents the whole | 20 | |
| 7250768885 | Syntax | The arrangement of words in a sentence, clause, or phrase | 21 | |
| 7250775790 | Tragic Hero | A character that possesses a flaw that leads to their downfall | 22 | |
| 7250779370 | Theatrical Property | A prop in a play | 23 | |
| 7250782076 | Vignette | A short narrative scene or description | 24 | |
| 7250783080 | Villanelle | A form of poetry where 5 tercets are followed by a quatrain | 25 | |
| 7250785987 | Zuegma | One verb is used with multiple objects so the definition of the verb is changed | 26 | |
| 7250791284 | Wordplay | Technique by which writers manipulate language | 27 | |
| 7250800524 | Harlem Renaissance | A movement in the 1920s and 1930s marked by a great flowering of black arts and culture centered in the Harlem neighborhood of NYC. | 28 | |
| 7250804278 | hook | An opening piece of writing designed to catch the audience's attention. | 29 | |
| 7250806690 | Hubris | An excessive level of pride that leads to the protagonist's downfall. | 30 | |
| 7250810208 | iconography | The images or symbols used by an artist or present in a work of art | 31 | |
| 7250813248 | in medias res | Latin for "in the middle of things" | 32 | |
| 7250816408 | Kafkaesque | Having the nightmarish, uncanny characteristics of Kafka's stories | 33 | |
| 7250817527 | Literary Elements | The components that together create a literary work. | 34 | |
| 7250819931 | Lyric | A short poem expressing the personal feelings of a first-person speaker. | 35 | |
| 7277518820 | Satire | A literary work that uses irony to critique society or an individual. | 36 | |
| 7277527567 | Interrupted sentence | A sentence that is modified by interruptions that add description or details. | 37 | |
| 7277540882 | Perriodic Sentence | A sentence that begins with details, qualifications, or modifications building towards the main clause. | 38 | |
| 7281309116 | Epigraph | A quotation preceding a work of literature that helps set the text's mood or suggests its themes. | 39 | |
| 7281317751 | Exposition | Background or contextual information told to the reader. | 40 | |
| 7281321996 | Farce | A dramatic form marked by wholly absurd situations or raucous wordplay. | 41 | |
| 7281329854 | Iamb | The most common metrical foot in English poetry. One unstressed syllable followed by a stressed. | 42 | |
| 7281335405 | Impressionism | A movement of French painters in the 1870s-80's about capturing subjective experience of seeing things. | 43 | |
| 7281352963 | Passive voice | Subject doesn't act but is acted on | 44 | |
| 7281358810 | Resolution | The working out of a plot's conflicts. | 45 | |
| 7281367732 | Stream of consciousness | A technique in which prose follows the logic and flow of a character's thought processes. | 46 | |
| 7281374656 | Stage Directions | Notes in the script of a play that set guidelines for the performance | 47 | |
| 7281380208 | Prose Poem | A blending of prose and poetry | 48 | |
| 7281381709 | Realism | A literary technique that renders works that feels realistic. | 49 |
