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| 9876096798 | Antagonist | The force or character that opposes the main character, the protagonist. | 0 | |
| 9876096800 | Aside | Words spoken by an actor intended to be heard by the audience but not by the other characters on stage. | 1 | |
| 9876096801 | Ballad | A song-like poem that tells a story | 2 | |
| 9876096802 | Blank verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter. | 3 | |
| 9876096803 | Cacophony | Harsh or discordant sounds in a line or passage of a literary work. | 4 | |
| 9876096804 | Caesura | A break or pause within a line of poetry indicated by punctuation and used to emphasize meaning. | 5 | |
| 9876096806 | Climax | The turning point of action or character in a literary work, usually the highest moment of tension. | 6 | |
| 9876096807 | Comic Relief | The inclusion of humorous character or scene to contrast with the tragic elements of a work, thereby intensifying the next tragic event. | 7 | |
| 9876096810 | Couplet | Two lines of rhyming poetry. | 8 | |
| 9876096815 | Elegy | A poem that laments the dead or a loss. | 9 | |
| 9876096816 | Enjambment | A technique in poetry that involves the running on of a line or stanza. It enables the poem to move and to develop coherence as well as directing the reader with regard to form and meaning. | 10 | |
| 9876096817 | Epic | A lengthy, elevated poem that celebrates the exploits of a hero. | 11 | |
| 9876096818 | Euphony | The pleasant, mellifluous presentation of sounds in a literary work. | 12 | |
| 9876096819 | Exposition | Background information presented in a literary work. | 13 | |
| 9876096820 | Fable | A simple, symbolic story, usually employing animals as characters. | 14 | |
| 9876096822 | Flashback | A device that enables a writer to refer to past thoughts, events, and episodes. | 15 | |
| 9876096823 | Foot | A metrical unit in poetry; a syllabic measure of a line: iamb, trochee, anapest, dactyl, and spondee. | 16 | |
| 9876096824 | Foreshadowing | Hints of future events in a literary work. | 17 | |
| 9876096825 | Form | The shape or structure of a literary work. | 18 | |
| 9876096826 | Free Verse | Poetry without a defined form, meter, or rhyme scheme. | 19 | |
| 9876096828 | Iamb | A metrical foot consisting of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one (us) | 20 | |
| 9876096829 | Image | A verbal approximation of a sensory impression, concept, or emotion. | 21 | |
| 9876096830 | Imagery | The total effect of related sensory images in a work of literature. | 22 | |
| 9876096831 | Situational Irony | A contrast between what happens and what was intended or expected to happen. | 23 | |
| 9876096832 | Lyric poetry | A type of poetry characterized by emotion, personal feelings, and brevity. | 24 | |
| 9876096835 | Meter | A pattern of beats in poetry | 25 | |
| 9876096838 | Motif | The repetition or variations of an image or idea in a work which is used to develop theme or characters. | 26 | |
| 9876096839 | Narrative poem | A poem that tells a story | 27 | |
| 9876096840 | Narrator | The speaker of a prose work. | 28 | |
| 9876096841 | Octave | An eight-line stanza, usually combined with a sestet in a Petrarchan sonnet. | 29 | |
| 9876096842 | Ode | A complex, long lyric poem characterized by a serious subject and formal tone | 30 | |
| 9876096844 | Oxymoron | An image of contradictory terms. | 31 | |
| 9876096845 | Parable | A story that operates on more than one level and usually teaches a moral lesson. | 32 | |
| 9876096847 | Parallel plot | A secondary story line that mimics and reinforces the main plot. | 33 | |
| 9876096848 | Parody | A comic imitation of a work that ridicules the original | 34 | |
| 9876096849 | Pathos | The aspects of a literary work that elicit pity from the audience. | 35 | |
| 9876096851 | Plot | A sequence of events in a literary work | 36 | |
| 9876096853 | Protagonist | The hero or main character of a literary work, the character the audience sympathizes with. | 37 | |
| 9876096854 | Quatrain | A four line stanza | 38 | |
| 9876096855 | Resolution | The denouement of a literary work. | 39 | |
| 9876096856 | Rhetorical Question | A question that does not expect an explicit answer. | 40 | |
| 9876096857 | Rhyme scheme | The annotation of the pattern of the rhyme | 41 | |
| 9876096858 | Rhythm | The repetitive pattern of beats in poetry | 42 | |
| 9876096859 | Romanticism | A style or movement of literature that has as its foundation an interest in freedom, adventure, idealism, and escape. | 43 | |
| 9876096860 | Satire | Writing that ridicules human nature to bring about social reform | 44 | |
| 9876096862 | Sestet | A six-line stanza, usually paired with an octave to firm a Petrarchan sonnet. | 45 | |
| 9876096864 | Setting | The time and place of a literary work | 46 | |
| 9876096865 | Simile | An indirect comparison that uses the word, "like" or "as" to link the differing items in the comparison. | 47 | |
| 9876096866 | Soliloquy | A speech in a play which is used to reveal the character's inner thoughts to the audience. | 48 | |
| 9876096867 | Sonnet | A 14-line poem with a prescribed rhyme scheme in iambic pentameter. | 49 | |
| 9876096869 | Stanza | A unit of a poem, similar in rhyme, meter, and length to other units in the porm | 50 | |
| 9876096870 | Structure | The organization and form of a work. | 51 | |
| 9876096871 | Style | The unique way an author presents his ideas. | 52 | |
| 9876096875 | Tercet | A three-line stanza | 53 | |
| 9876096878 | Tragic Hero | According to Aristotle, a basically good person of noble birth or exalted position who has a fatal flaw or commits an error in judgement which leads to his downfall. The tragic hero must have a moment of realization and live and suffer. | 54 | |
| 9876096879 | Trochee | A single metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by one unaccented syllable (su) | 55 | |
| 9876096880 | Understatement | The opposite of exaggeration. | 56 | |
| 9876096881 | Villanelle | A highly structured poetic form that comprises six stanzas: five tercets and a quatrain. The poem repeats the first and third line throughout. | 57 | |
| 9876096882 | Speaker | The voice behind the poem—the person we imagine to be saying the words out loud | 58 | |
| 9876096883 | Pastoral | Poetry that presents an ideal country setting | 59 | |
| 9876096884 | Foil | A character that serves as a contrast to another character | 60 | |
| 9876096887 | Bildungsroman | A coming-of-age story | 61 | |
| 9876096888 | Assonance | The repetition of vowel sounds in a sequence of words with different endings | 62 | |
| 9876096891 | Antithesis | the direct opposite |  | 63 |
| 9876096892 | Diction | the writer's word choices |  | 64 |
| 9876096893 | Symbol | generally anything that represents itself and stands for something else |  | 65 |
| 9876096894 | Allegory | The device of using characters and story elements to represent an abstraction in addition to a literal idea. |  | 66 |
| 9876096895 | Alliteration | Repetition of sounds especially the initial consonants of words near each other in written work. |  | 67 |
| 9876096896 | Aphorism | A terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or principle. A sort of folk proverb |  | 68 |
| 9876096897 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech in which the speaker directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified idea. |  | 69 |
| 9876096898 | Conceit | A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects. |  | 70 |
| 9876096899 | Connotation | The non-literal meaning of a word; the implied or suggested meaning. |  | 71 |
| 9876096900 | Denotation | The literal meaning of a word |  | 72 |
| 9876096901 | Didactic | Didactic words have the primary purpose of teaching or instructing |  | 73 |
| 9876096902 | Euphemism | a more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept. "Earthly remains" rather than "corpse" |  | 74 |
| 9876096903 | Figurative Language | Writing or language not meant to be taken literally |  | 75 |
| 9876096904 | Hyperbole | A figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement | 76 | |
| 9876096905 | imagery | Sensory details |  | 77 |
| 9876096906 | Invective | An emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong abusive language |  | 78 |
| 9876096907 | Metaphor | A figure of speech using implied comparisons of seemingly unlike things |  | 79 |
| 9876096908 | Metonymy | a figure of speech in which the name for one object is substituted for that of another closely related to it. For example, "The White House declared".... the "White House is substituted for the "president". | 80 | |
| 9876096909 | Mood | The prevailing atmosphere or emotional aura of a work (different from tone which involves the writer's attitude). | 81 | |
| 9876096910 | Onomatopoeia | A figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words. | 82 | |
| 9876096912 | Parallelism | Also called parallel structure. Refers to grammatical or rhetorical framing of words phrases, sentences or paragraphs to give structural similarity. For example, "It was the best of times, it was the worse of times". |  | 83 |
| 9876096913 | Anaphora | a sub type of parallelism, with the exact repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive lines. MLK uses anaphora in his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. |  | 84 |
| 9876096914 | Pedantic | An adjective that describes words or phrases that are overly scholarly, academic, or bookish |  | 85 |
| 9876096915 | Personification | Figurative language in which the author describes concepts, animals, or inanimate objects by endowing them with human attributes or emotions. | 86 | |
| 9876096916 | Point of View | The perspective from which the story is told. | 87 | |
| 9876096917 | Prose | Common writing style in which the writer generally uses complete sentence structure as opposed to poetry (in which the poet determines the length of the line based on other considerations). |  | 88 |
| 9876096918 | Repetition | The duplication, either exact or approximate, of any element of language such as sound, word, phrase, clause, sentence, or grammatical pattern. |  | 89 |
| 9876096919 | Shift | Tonal, point of view, structural change in writing that may signify an important new element. | 90 | |
| 9876096920 | Synecdoche | Figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent the whole. For example, "all hands on deck" in which the hands represent the sailors. how about , "wheels" representing your car? |  | 91 |
| 9876096921 | Synesthesia | When one kind of sensory stimulus evokes the subjective experience of another. In literature synesthesia refers to the use of associating two or more senses to the same image.... "Taste the pain" "Jerry's got the blues today" |  | 92 |
| 9876096922 | Syntax | The way an author decides to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences. |  | 93 |
| 9876096923 | Theme | The central idea or message of a work, the insight it offers into life. |  | 94 |
| 9876096924 | Tone | An author's attitude toward her material. Can be formed by author's use of diction as well as other techniques. |  | 95 |
| 9876096925 | Allusion | Example: "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?" | 96 | |
| 9876096927 | Litotes | Example: "Not the brightest bulb" or "Not a beauty" |  | 97 |
| 9876096928 | Inversion | Changing the conventional placement of words (not exclusive to but most common in poetry) | 98 | |
| 9876096929 | Portmanteau | Example: "smog" or "brunch" |  | 99 |
| 9876096931 | Paradox | Example: "Fair is foul and foul is fair" | 100 | |
| 9876096932 | Consonance | Example: "A Quietness distilled As Twilight long begun" (Dickinson) |  | 101 |
| 9876096933 | Doppelganger | A character who serves as a twin, shadow, or a mirror-image of a protagonist. |  | 102 |
