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| 4648782363 | allegory | the device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meanin | 0 | |
| 4648783841 | Alliteration | the repetion of sounds, especially inital constant sounds in two or more neighboring words | 1 | |
| 4648784704 | Allusion | a direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place or work of art | 2 | |
| 4648785166 | 4. Ambiguity | the multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence or passage | 3 | |
| 4648785609 | 5. Analogy | a similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them | 4 | |
| 4648785610 | 6. Anaphora | one of the devices of repetition, in which the same expression (word or words) is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines, clauses or sentences | 5 | |
| 4648786266 | 7. Anecdote | a short narrative detailing particulars of an interesting episode or event | 6 | |
| 4648786267 | 8. Antihero | a protagonist (main character) who is markedly unheroic: morally weak, cowardly, dishonest etc... | 7 | |
| 4648788147 | 9. Antithesis | A person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else. | 8 | |
| 4648786616 | 10. Apostrophe | when a speaker breaks off from addressing one party and instead addresses a third party | 9 | |
| 4648786617 | 11. Archetype | a typical character, an action or a situation that seems to represent such universal patterns of human nature | 10 | |
| 4648788498 | 12. Assonance | n poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel in non-rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for an echo effect | 11 | |
| 4648788842 | 13. Catharsis | the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions. | 12 | |
| 4648788843 | 14. Conceit | a fanciful expression in writing or speech; an elaborate metaphor | 13 | |
| 4648789912 | 15. Connotation | a meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing which it describes explicitly | 14 | |
| 4648789913 | 16. Consonance | the recurrence of similar sounds, such as consonants, in close proximity | 15 | |
| 4648790708 | 17. Diction | word choice; also called syntax | 16 | |
| 4648790709 | 18. Elegy | a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead | 17 | |
| 4648791790 | 19. Enjambment | practice of running lines of poetry from one to the next without using any kind of punctuation to indicate a stop | 18 | |
| 4648791791 | 20. Ethos | appeal to ethics, and it is a means of convincing someone of the character or credibility of the persuader | 19 | |
| 4648792217 | 21. Foil | a character who, by contrast, highlights the characteristics of another character | 20 | |
| 4648794453 | 22. Free verse | poetry that is written without a regular meter, usually without ryme | 21 | |
| 4648794454 | 23. Hubris | in Greek tragedies, excessive pride toward or defiance of the gods, leading to nemesis | 22 | |
| 4648794776 | 24. Hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally | 23 | |
| 4648794777 | 25. Irony (situational, verbal, and dramatic) | -when incongruity appears between expectations of something to happen, and what actually happens instead - person says or writes one thing and means another, or uses words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning -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. | 24 | |
| 4648795079 | 26. juxtaposition | echnique in which two or more ideas, places, characters and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts | 25 | |
| 4648795577 | 27. Litotes | figure of speech which employs an understatement by using double negatives or, in other words, positive statement is expressed by negating its opposite expressions. | 26 | |
| 4648795578 | 28. Metonymy | the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant | 27 | |
| 4648796032 | 29. Monologue | he speech or verbal presentation that a single character presents in order to express his/her collection of thoughts and ideas aloud | 28 | |
| 4648796904 | 30. Motif | any recurring element that has symbolic significance in a story | 29 | |
| 4648796905 | 31. Onomatopoeia | the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named; cuckoo; sizzle | 30 | |
| 4648798169 | 32. Oxymoron | a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunctio | 31 | |
| 4648798170 | 33. Paradox | a statement or proposition that leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory | 32 | |
| 4648798718 | 34. Parody | an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect | 33 | |
| 4648798719 | 35. Pathos | appeal to the emotions of an audience | 34 | |
| 4648799550 | 37. Point of View | the perspective from which a story is presented | 35 | |
| 4648799551 | 38. Protagonist | the leading character or one of the major characters in a literary work | 36 | |
| 4648800296 | 39. Proverb | a brief, simple and popular saying, or a phrase that gives advice and effectively embodies a commonplace truth based on practical experience or common sense | 37 | |
| 4648800297 | 40. Rhyme Scheme | a poet's deliberate pattern of lines that rhyme with other lines in a poem or a stanza. | 38 | |
| 4648800939 | 41. Satire (Juvenalian and Horatian) | -addresses social evil through scorn, outrage, and savage ridicule. This form is often pessimistic, characterized by irony, sarcasm, moral indignation and personal invective, with less emphasis on humor. - Satire in which the voice is indulgent, tolerant, amused, and witty. | 39 | |
| 4648800940 | 42. Soliloquy | an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play | 40 | |
| 4648801459 | 43. Stream of Consciousness | similar to first person, but places the reader in the character's head | 41 | |
| 4648801460 | 44. Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 42 | |
| 4648801954 | 45. Theme | the central idea or message of a literary work | 43 |
