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| 5620462365 | Allegory | Narrative in which the story has a greater symbolic meaning | 0 | |
| 5620462366 | Alliteration | Repetition of consonants | 1 | |
| 5620462367 | Allusion | Passing reference to person, place, events, literary works to enhance the subject in some way. | 2 | |
| 5620462368 | Ambiguity | Single word, phrase, or device to express two or more diverse meanings, attitudes, or feelings | 3 | |
| 5620462369 | Antithesis | Contrast or opposition in the meanings of continuous phrases or clauses. | 4 | |
| 5620462370 | Atmosphere | Emotional tone pervading a section or entire literary work | 5 | |
| 5620462371 | Ballad | Song, transmitted orally, that tells a story. | 6 | |
| 5620462372 | Bathos | Unintentional descent when staring to be pathetic, passionate, or elevated. | 7 | |
| 5620462373 | Anticlimac | Deliberate drop from the serious and elevated to the trivial and lowly. | 8 | |
| 5620462374 | Blank Verse | Unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter. Closest to he natural rhythms of English speech. | 9 | |
| 5620462375 | Burlesque | Incongruous imitation to amuse by disparity between manner (style) and matter (content) | 10 | |
| 5620462376 | Bombast | Worst and inflated diction disproportionate to the subject matter. (Polonius talk) | 11 | |
| 5620462377 | Parody | Imitation of serious manner and characteristic features of a particular literary work. | 12 | |
| 5620462378 | Carpe Diem | "Seize the day" common moral or theme in classical literature that the reader should make the most of his life and should enjoy it before it ends | 13 | |
| 5620462379 | Characterization | Used to highlight and explain details about a character in a story &i how other characters react to its personality | 14 | |
| 5620462380 | Comedy | Fictional work to interest and amuse | 15 | |
| 5620462381 | Comic Relief | Comic episodes in dramatic or literary work that offset more serious sections | 16 | |
| 5620462382 | Conceit | The metaphor where two things are yoked together by violent force | 17 | |
| 5620462383 | Connotation | Idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning | 18 | |
| 5620462384 | Denotation | The literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests. | 19 | |
| 5620462385 | Didactic literature | Literature that is meant to teach the reader a lesson | 20 | |
| 5620462386 | Dramatic monologue (poetry) | A poem in which an imagined speaker addresses a silent listener, usually not the reader | 21 | |
| 5620462387 | Elegy | A poem of serious reflection, typically lament for the dead | 22 | |
| 5620462388 | Epic | A long serious poetic narrative about a significant event, often featuring a hero. | 23 | |
| 5620462389 | Epigram | Short satirical and witty poem usually written as a couplet or quatrain. Brief and forceful remarks with a funny ending. | 24 | |
| 5620462390 | Epiphany | 25 | ||
| 5620462391 | Epithet | an adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned | 26 | |
| 5620462392 | Euphamism | a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing. | 27 | |
| 5620462393 | Euphony | the quality of being pleasing to the ear, especially through a harmonious combination of words. the tendency to make phonetic change for ease of pronunciation. | 28 | |
| 5620462394 | Cacophany | 29 | ||
| 5620462395 | Figurative Language | EX: simile, metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, personification | 30 | |
| 5620462396 | Free verse | 31 | ||
| 5620462397 | Genre | 32 | ||
| 5620462398 | Gothic Novel | 33 | ||
| 5620462399 | Hyperbole | Intentional Exaggeration | 34 | |
| 5620462400 | Undertatement | The opposite of hyperbole | 35 | |
| 5620462401 | Imagery | If u don't know imagery u need some milk | 36 | |
| 5620462402 | Irony | 37 | ||
| 5620462403 | Lyric | 38 | ||
| 5620462404 | Malapropism | The use of an incorrect with in place of a similar sounding word that results i a nonsensical and humorous expression. | 39 | |
| 5620462405 | Meter | The stressed and unstressed syllabic patter in a verse or within the lines of a poem. | 40 | |
| 5620462406 | Motif | a recurrent image, idea or a symbol that develops or explains a theme | 41 | |
| 5620462407 | Theme | a central idea or message | 42 | |
| 5620462408 | Ode | A lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter. | 43 | |
| 5620462409 | Onomatopeia | Words meant to describe a sound (boom, clap, etc) | 44 | |
| 5620462410 | Paradox | A phrase that may seem self contradictory or silly but may include a latent truth. | 45 | |
| 5620462411 | Persona | 46 | ||
| 5620462412 | Tone | 47 | ||
| 5620462413 | Voice | 48 | ||
| 5620462414 | Plot | 49 | ||
| 5620462415 | Poetic justice | Literary device in which virtue is rewarded and vice is punished. | 50 | |
| 5620462416 | Poetic lisence | The license or liberty to deviate from rule, conventional form, logic, or fact, in order to produce the desired effect. | 51 | |
| 5620462417 | Point of view | 52 | ||
| 5620462418 | Prose | Anda pal carajo u know what prose is | 53 | |
| 5620462419 | Pun | A play on words in which a humorous effect is produced by using a word that suggests two or more meanings. | 54 | |
| 5620462420 | Refrain | 55 | ||
| 5620462421 | Rhetorical figures | 56 | ||
| 5620462422 | Apostrophe | When a speaker directly addresses someone or something that isn't present in the poem. | 57 | |
| 5620462423 | Chiasmus | Employment of two or more clauses which are related grammatically and conceptually, but in which the grammar and concepts are reversed (inverted parallelism) | 58 | |
| 5620462424 | Zeugma | Using one word to modify two other ones Ex: "she broke his car and his heart" | 59 | |
| 5620462425 | Rhyme | 60 | ||
| 5620462426 | Satire | 61 | ||
| 5620462427 | Setting | 62 | ||
| 5620462428 | Soliloquy | 63 | ||
| 5620462429 | Sonnet | 14 lines of Iambic pentameter with a rhyming couplet at the end. Rhyme scheme depends on whether it is Shakespearean or Petrarchan. | 64 | |
| 5620462430 | Stanza | the equivalent of a paragraph in poetry | 65 | |
| 5620462431 | Stock characters | is a stereotypical person whom audiences readily recognize from frequent recurrences in a particular literary tradition. Stock characters are archetypal characters distinguished by their flatness. As a result, they tend to be easy targets for parody and to be criticized as clichés. | 66 | |
| 5620462432 | Stream of Consciousness | a literary style in which a character's thoughts, feelings, and reactions are depicted in a continuous flow uninterrupted by objective description or conventional dialogue | 67 | |
| 5620462433 | Style | 68 | ||
| 5620462434 | Symbol | 69 | ||
| 5620462435 | Synesthesia | 70 | ||
| 5620462436 | Tone | 71 | ||
| 5620462437 | Wit | 72 |
