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| 3160381472 | anti-climax | a rhetorical device which can be defined as a disappointing situation or a sudden transition in discourse from an important idea to a ludicrous or trivial one | 0 | |
| 3160384426 | asyndenton | the intentional omission of a grammatically necessary conjunction between parts of a sentence; used to create rhythm or emphasis | 1 | |
| 6626755100 | Anapest | A metrical foot consisting of two short or unstressed syllables followed by one long or stressed syllable. | 2 | |
| 6626755101 | Assonance | The repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible (e.g., penitence, reticence). | 3 | |
| 6626755102 | Aubade | A morning love song or a song or poem about lovers separating at dawn. | 4 | |
| 6626755103 | Ballad | A narrative poem written as a series of quatrains where (usually) lines of iambic tetrameter alternate with iambic trimeter with an xaxa xbxb rhyme scheme with frequent use of repetition and often including a refrain. | 5 | |
| 6626755104 | Blank verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter | 6 | |
| 6626755105 | Cacophony | A discordant series of harsh, unpleasant sounds that helps to convey disorder. Often furthered by the combined effect of the meaning and the difficulty of pronunciation. | 7 | |
| 6626755106 | Cadence | It is the term used to signal the rising and falling of the voice when reading a literary piece. | 8 | |
| 6626755107 | Caesura | A break, pause or interruption in the middle of a verse or the ending of a word in a foot or at the end of a foot. Marked with a double vertical line. | 9 | |
| 6626755108 | Cinquain | A five-line stanza. | 10 | |
| 6626755109 | Consonance | The use of repeated consonants or consonant patterns as a rhyming device. | 11 | |
| 6626755110 | Couplet | A pair of successive lines of verse, especially a pair that rhyme and are of the same length. | 12 | |
| 6626755111 | Dactyl | A foot of three syllables, one long followed by two short in quantitative meter, or one stressed followed by two unstressed in accentua meter (e.g., gently, humanly) | 13 | |
| 6626755112 | Dissonance | The use of harsh sounding and impolite words in poetry. | 14 | |
| 6626858940 | Elegy | Form of literature which can be defined as a poem or song in the form of elegiac couplets, written in honor someone deceased. | 15 | |
| 6626858941 | End-stopped rhyme | Where a pause comes at the end of a syntactic unit (sentence, clause, or phrase); this phrase can be expressed in writing as a punctuation mark such as a colon, semi-colon, period, or full stop. | 16 | |
| 6626858942 | Enjambmen | The continuation of the logical sense (and therefore the grammatical construction) beyond the end of a line of poetry. Sometimes done with the tile, which, in effect, becomes the first line of the poem. | 17 | |
| 6626858943 | Epic | A long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures or the history of a nation. | 18 | |
| 6626858944 | Feminine rhyme | Rhyme that matches two or more syllables, usually at the end of respective lines, where the final syllable or syllables are unstressed. | 19 | |
| 6626858945 | Fixed form | A kind of template or formula that poetry can be composed in. The opposite of fixed verse is free verse. | 20 | |
| 6626858946 | Foot | The basic unit of measurement of accentua-syllabic meter. | 21 | |
| 6626858947 | Haiku | A Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally depicting evening images of the natural world. | 22 | |
| 6626721478 | Connotation | The associated or secondary meaning of a word | 23 | |
| 6626721479 | Conundrum | A confusing and difficult problem or question | 24 | |
| 6626721480 | Crisis | A time of intense difficulty, trouble, or danger | 25 | |
| 6626721481 | Denotation | The dictionary definition of a word | 26 | |
| 6626721482 | Denoument | The final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are brought together | 27 | |
| 6626721483 | Diction | Word choice | 28 | |
| 6626721484 | Fable | A short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral | 29 | |
| 6626721486 | Falling action | A part of a story, after the climax, before the very end of the story | 30 | |
| 6626721487 | Fantasy | A genre of imaginative fiction involving magic and adventure, especially in a setting other than the real world | 31 | |
| 6626721488 | Farce | A comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations | 32 | |
| 6626717797 | Epithet | the application of a word or phrase to someone that describes that person's attributes or qualities | 33 | |
| 6626717798 | Euphony | the use of words and phrases that are distinguished as having a wide range of noteworthy melody or loveliness in the sounds they create | 34 | |
| 6626717799 | Exegesis | a critical explanation or interpretation of a text, particularly a religious text. | 35 | |
| 6626717800 | Existentialism | a movement in philosophy and literature that emphasizes individual existence, freedom and choice | 36 | |
| 6626717801 | Exposition | literary device used to introduce background information about events, settings, characters etc. to the audience or readers | 37 | |
| 6626717802 | Extended Metaphor | refers to a comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem | 38 | |
| 6626642351 | Fiction | literature in the form of prose, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people. | 39 | |
| 6626674071 | Dramatic irony | Irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play | 40 | |
| 6626724566 | Idiom | a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words | 41 | |
| 6626729962 | Imagery | visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work. | 42 | |
| 6626736736 | In media res | into the middle of a narrative; without preamble. | 43 | |
| 6626744990 | Interior monologue | interior monologue is a narrative technique that exhibits the thoughts, feelings, and associations passing through a character's mind. | 44 | |
| 6626674072 | Dumb-show | A part of a play presented in pantomime | 45 | |
| 6626674073 | Dystopia | An imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one | 46 | |
| 6626674074 | Epigram | A concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought | 47 | |
| 6626674075 | Epiphany | A literary work or section of a work presenting, usually symbolically, such a moment of revelation and insight | 48 | |
| 6626642352 | Flashback | A scene set in a time earlier than the main story | 49 | |
| 6626642353 | Flat character | Characters that are two-dimensional in a way that they are relatively uncomplicated and do not change throughout the course of the work | 50 | |
| 6626642354 | Foil | A character who contrasts with another character in order to highlight the qualities of the other character | 51 | |
| 6626670534 | Realism | literary technique which depicts everyday and banal activities and experiences, instead of using a romanticized or similarly stylized presentation | 52 | |
| 6626678420 | Apostrophe | absent person, a personified inanimate being, or an abstraction is addressed as though present | 53 | |
| 6626638593 | Situational Irony | Irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended. | 54 | |
| 6626718193 | Litote | Litote: understatement using a double negative Ex. "not bad" | 55 | |
| 6626641724 | Prologue | ... | 56 | |
| 6626680755 | Archetype | typical character, an action or a situation that seems to represent such universal patterns of human nature | 57 | |
| 6626650930 | Attitude | The behavior a person adopts towards others, things, incidents, or happenings | 58 | |
| 6626676844 | chiasmus | a rhetorical device in which two or more clauses are balanced against each other by the reversal of their structures in order to produce an artistic effect; example: "Never let a Fool Kiss You or a Kiss Fool You." | 59 | |
| 6626642355 | Foreshadowing | An advanced sign or warning of what is to come in the future | 60 | |
| 6626653821 | Anti-hero | main character in a story who lacks the typical heroic qualities of bravery, courage, morality, and the special ability and desire to achieve for the greater good | 61 | |
| 6626684375 | Kafkaesque | having a nightmarish, bizarre or illogical quality | 62 | |
| 6626679085 | anastrophe | also known as inversion; a literary technique in which the normal order of words is reversed in order to achieve a particular effect of emphasis or meter | 63 | |
| 6626711268 | Ideology | a system of ideas and ideals, especially one that forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy. | 64 | |
| 6626689685 | Lampoon | sharp satire against a person or institution | 65 | |
| 6626699833 | Hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally | 66 | |
| 6626678556 | Hubris | excessive pride toward or defiance of the gods, leading to nemesis. | 67 | |
| 6626674408 | Juxtaposition | two contrasting things or ideas put together in a literary work | 68 | |
| 6626656427 | Antithesis | rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect | 69 | |
| 6626672463 | Aphorism | statement of truth or opinion expressed in a concise and witty manner | 70 | |
| 6626667483 | Pun | a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings | 71 | |
| 6626655056 | Protagonist | the leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text | 72 | |
| 6626651772 | Prose | written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure | 73 | |
| 6626659871 | Juvenalian satire | bitter and ironic criticism of contemporary people or institutions with moral indignation and pessimism | 74 | |
| 6626667484 | Hamartia | fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine. | 75 | |
| 6626642356 | Frame story | A literary technique that sometimes serves as a companion piece to a story within a story | 76 | |
| 6626736469 | Stream of Consciousness | A method of narration that describes in words the flow of thoughts in the minds of the characters. | 77 | |
| 6626624645 | Meter | The rhythm of a piece of poetry determined by number and length of feet in a line | 78 | |
| 6626631098 | Cliche | Cliché refers to an expression that has been overused to the extent that it loses its original meaning or novelty. | 79 | |
| 6626631099 | Climax | that particular point in a narrative at which the conflict or tension hits the highest point. | 80 | |
| 6626649048 | Greek tragedy | form of theatre from Ancient Greece and Asia Minor. | 81 | |
| 6626631100 | Comic relief | A humorous or farcical interlude in a serious literary work or drama, especially a tragedy, intended to relieve the dramatic tension or heighten the emotional impact by means of contrast. | 82 | |
| 6626631101 | Conceit | In literature, a conceit is an extended metaphor with a complex logic that governs a poetic passage or entire poem. By juxtaposing, usurping and manipulating images and ideas in surprising ways, a conceit invites the reader into a more sophisticated understanding of an object of comparison. | 83 | |
| 6626633340 | Anthropomorphism | technique in which a writer ascribes human traits, ambitions, emotions or entire behavior to animals, non-human beings, natural phenomena or objects | 84 | |
| 6626631102 | Conflict | In literature, a conflict is a literary element that involves a struggle between two opposing forces usually a protagonist and an antagonist. | 85 | |
| 6626638836 | bathos | ... | 86 | |
| 6626641284 | Great chain of being | strict, religious hierarchal structure of all matter and life, believed to have been decreed by god. | 87 | |
| 6626634405 | Gothic | writing characterized by elements of fear, horror, death, gloom, as well as romantic elements such as nature, individuality, and high emotion. | 88 | |
| 6626707801 | Rhyme | correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry. | 89 | |
| 6626719843 | Stock Character | A character representing a type in a conventional manner and recurring in many works. | 90 | |
| 6626707802 | Rhythm | a strong, regular, repeated pattern of sound. | 91 | |
| 6626624646 | Narrative verse | A poetic style that tells a story. Ex) ballad, epic | 92 | |
| 6626713132 | Allusion | an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference. | 93 | |
| 6626624647 | Octave | A poem or stanza of 8 lines | 94 | |
| 6626619978 | Aside | When a characters dialogue is spoken but the other characters on stage do not hear | 95 | |
| 6626624648 | Ode | A poem addressed to a particular object or person | 96 | |
| 6626700182 | Alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. (Sideboob slid slowly down the slithering stream) | 97 | |
| 6626629963 | Prolepsis | the anticipation and answering of possible objections in rhetorical speech | 98 | |
| 6626624649 | Quatrain | A poem or stanza of 4 lines | 99 | |
| 6626682811 | Allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. | 100 | |
| 6626702662 | Stereotype | A stereotype is a character, with traits that make the character a group representative rather than an individual. | 101 | |
| 6626630518 | Jargon | specific vocabulary used in a special situation, profession or trade | 102 | |
| 6626625878 | Genre | category of artistic composition, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter. | 103 | |
| 6626624650 | Refrain | A repeated line or number of lines in a poem, typically at the end of a verse | 104 | |
| 6626620258 | Moral | a lesson, especially one concerning what is right or prudent, that can be derived from a story, a piece of information, or an experience. | 105 | |
| 6626751498 | Catastrophe | the final action that completes the unraveling of the plot in a play, especially in a tragedy | 106 | |
| 6626620259 | Motif | a distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition. | 107 | |
| 6626678777 | Soliloquy | An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers. | 108 | |
| 6626715003 | Byronic hero | an antihero of the highest order. He (or she) is typically rebellious, arrogant, anti-social or in exile, and darkly, enticingly romantic (lord Byron) | 109 | |
| 6626740722 | Antagonist | a character or a group of characters which stand in opposition to the protagonist or the main character | 110 | |
| 6626620260 | Myth | a traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events. synonyms: | 111 | |
| 6626725926 | Caricature | particular aspects of a subject are exaggerated to create a silly or comic effect | 112 | |
| 6626729511 | Anecdote | a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person. | 113 | |
| 6626620261 | Narrative | a spoken or written account of connected events; a story | 114 | |
| 6626622667 | Irony | words that take on a different intended meaning than the actual meaning or a situation that ends differently than what is anticipated | 115 | |
| 6626672095 | Aesthetic | concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty. | 116 | |
| 6626679084 | hypotaxis | the combination of multiple clauses in a sentence using either coordinating or subordinating conjunctions | 117 | |
| 6626709743 | Roman a clef | novel in which real people or events appear with invented names. | 118 | |
| 6626682874 | parataxis | the placement of multiple clauses side-by-side in a sentence withOUT the use on conjunctions | 119 | |
| 6626707655 | Question | a linguistic expression used to make a request for information, or the request made using such an expressio | 120 | |
| 6626691536 | Revenge Tragedy | drama in which the dominant motive is revenge for a real or imagined injury | 121 | |
| 6626698637 | RHETORICAL | technique that an author or speaker uses to convey to the listener or reader a meaning with the goal of persuading him or her towards considering a topic from a different perspective. | 122 | |
| 6626679086 | parallelism | a literary device in which parts of the sentence (may be words, phrases, or entire sentences) are grammatically the same, or are similar in construction. Example: King's famous 'I have a dream' repetition makes the speech compelling and rhythmic, as well as memorable. | 123 | |
| 6626689204 | Bildungsroman | a special kind of novel that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of its main character from his or her youth to adulthood | 124 | |
| 6626620262 | Neoclassicism | the name given to Western movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw inspiration from the "classical" art and culture of Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome. | 125 | |
| 6626721182 | Analogy | a comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification | 126 | |
| 6626676845 | ellipsis | a literary device that is used in narratives to omit some parts of a sentence or event, which gives the reader a chance to fill the gaps while acting or reading it out; for example, in some (especially much older) novels, the names of characters will begin with a capital letter but then be blacked out | 127 | |
| 6626679567 | Renaissance | refers to European literature which was influenced by the intellectual and cultural tendencies associated with the Renaissance. belief that humanity was making progress towards a noble summit of perfect existence. Renaissance literally means rebirth | 128 | |
| 6626620263 | Nonfiction | prose writing that is based on facts, real events, and real people, such as biography or history. | 129 | |
| 6626620264 | Novella | a work of written, fictional, narrative prose normally longer than a short story but shorter than a novel. The English word "novella" derives from the Italian novella, feminine of novello, which means "new". The novella is a common literary genre in several European languages. | 130 | |
| 6626698850 | Anachronism | a thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, especially a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned. | 131 | |
| 6626716981 | Anagorisis | a moment in a play or other work when a character makes a critical discovery. | 132 | |
| 6626664530 | Absurd | wildly unreasonable, illogical, or inappropriatein literature | 133 | |
| 6626620265 | Nuance | a subtle difference in or shade of meaning, expression, or sound | 134 | |
| 6626600718 | Dogma | A positive, arrogant assertion of opinion | 135 | |
| 6626596060 | Humorous | Humor is a literary tool that makes audience laugh, or that intends to induce amusement or laughter. Its purpose is to break the monotony, boredom and tedium, and make the audience's nerves relaxed. | 136 | |
| 6626610673 | Freytag's pyramid | structure of a dramatic work including exposition, inciting incident, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution and denouement. | 137 | |
| 6626617408 | Gallows humor | grim and ironic humor in a desperate or hopeless situation. | 138 | |
| 6626751536 | Subjective details | existing in the mind; belonging to the thinking subject rather than to the object of thought (opposed to objective ). pertaining to or characteristic of an individual; personal; individual: | 139 | |
| 6626591420 | Catharsis | A Catharsis is an emotional discharge through which one can achieve a state of moral or spiritual renewal or achieve a state of liberation from anxiety and stress. Catharsis is a Greek word and it means cleansing. In literature it is used for the cleansing of emotions of the characters. | 140 | |
| 6626806073 | Masque | A short allegorical dramatic entertainment of the 16th and 17th centuries performed by masked actors. | 141 | |
| 6626806074 | Medieval drama | These plays were largely religious with the most common type being enactments of stories from the Bible. | 142 | |
| 6626806075 | Meiosis | A figure of speech that minimizes the importance of something through euphemism. Meiosis is an attempt to downplay the significance or size of an unpleasant thing, though not all meiosis examples refer to something negative. | 143 | |
| 6626806076 | Melodrama | Drama in which many exciting events happen and the characters have very strong or exaggerated emotions. | 144 | |
| 6626806077 | Metaphor | Used to compare two unrelated things with an element that is shared without the use of "like" or "as". | 145 | |
| 6626806078 | Metaphysical | Referring to an idea, doctrine, or posited reality outside of human sense perception. | 146 | |
| 6627003562 | Stanza | A grouped set of lines within a poem | 147 | |
| 6627030868 | Euphony | The use of words and phrases that are distinguished as having a wide range of noteworthy melody or loveliness in the sounds they create. | 148 | |
| 6627038568 | Hexameter | A line of verse consisting of six metrical feet | 149 | |
| 6627051981 | Iambic pentameter | Aline of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable | 150 | |
| 6627067907 | Idyll | Ashort description in verse or prose of a picturesque scene or incident, especially in rustic life. | 151 | |
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| 6635538501 | Sestet | The last six lines of a sonnet. | 153 | |
| 6635551235 | Sonnet | A poem consisting of 14 fourteen lines and written in iambic pentameter. Each line has 10 syllables. It has a specific rhyme scheme. | 154 | |
| 6635623574 | Spondee | A unit of meter comprised of two stressed syllables. Not very common. | 155 | |
| 6643111823 | Romanticism | a movement in the arts and literature that originated in the late 18th century, emphasizing inspiration, subjectivity, and the individuality of the person | 156 | |
| 6643119138 | Sarcasm | the use of irony to mock or convey contempt | 157 | |
| 6643124522 | Satire | genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement | 158 | |
| 6643128015 | Sentimentality | base actions and reactions from emotions and feelings as opposed to reason | 159 | |
| 6643133111 | Setting | the place or type of surroundings where something is positioned or where an event takes place | 160 | |
| 6643136016 | Simile | a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind | 161 | |
| 6651938731 | Malaproposim | the mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding one, often with unintentionally amusing effect, as in, for example, "dance a flamingo " (instead of flamenco ). | 162 | |
| 6651943934 | Marxism | the political and economic theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, later developed by their followers to form the basis for the theory and practice of communism | 163 | |
| 6651957373 | Metonymy | the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example suit for business executive, or the track for horse racing. | 164 | |
| 6651962782 | Mock epic | Mock-heroic, mock-epic or heroi-comic works are typically satires or parodies that mock common Classical stereotypes of heroes and heroic literature. Typically, mock-heroic works either put a fool in the role of the hero or exaggerate the heroic qualities to such a point that they become absurd. | 165 | |
| 6651968028 | Modernism | modern character or quality of thought, expression, or technique. | 166 | |
| 6651979292 | Monologue | a long speech by one actor in a play or movie, or as part of a theatrical or broadcast program. | 167 | |
| 6651981682 | Mood | literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions. Usually, mood is referred to as the atmosphere of a literary piece, as it creates an emotional situation that surrounds the readers. | 168 | |
| 6692868028 | Limerick | 5 lined poem. A humorous, frequently bawdy, verse of three long and two short lines rhyming aabba | 169 | |
| 6692872740 | Lyric | A short poem of songlike quality | 170 | |
| 6692877034 | Heroic Couplet | A poem with a pair of rhyming iambic pentameters that is used in epics | 171 | |
| 6692886955 | Pastoral | A poem portraying an idealized version of country life. | 172 | |
| 6692923036 | Internal Ryhme | a rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next. | 173 |
