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| 6708883463 | Allegory | A work in which the characters, setting, and events stand for abstract or moral concepts | 0 | |
| 6708883464 | Alliteration | The repetition of initial consonant sounds. | 1 | |
| 6708883465 | Allusion | A reference to history, politics, or religion in a work | 2 | |
| 6708883466 | Anapest | A metrical patter of two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable (uus) | 3 | |
| 6708883467 | Antagonist | The force or character that opposes the main character, the protagonist. | 4 | |
| 6708883468 | Apostrophe | A direct address, usually in poetry, of something nonliving | 5 | |
| 6708883469 | Aside | Words spoken by an actor intended to be heard by the audience but not by the other characters on stage. | 6 | |
| 6708883471 | Ballad | A song-like poem that tells a story | 7 | |
| 6708883472 | Blank verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter. | 8 | |
| 6708883473 | Cacophony | Harsh or discordant sounds in a line or passage of a literary work. | 9 | |
| 6708883474 | Caesura | A break or pause within a line of poetry indicated by punctuation and used to emphasize meaning. | 10 | |
| 6708883475 | Catharsis | According to Aristotle, the release of emotion that the audience of a tragedy experiences. | 11 | |
| 6708883477 | Climax | The turning point of action or character in a literary work, usually the highest moment of tension. | 12 | |
| 6708883478 | Comic Relief | The inclusion of humorous character or scene to contrast with the tragic elements of a work, thereby intensifying the next tragic event. | 13 | |
| 6708883480 | Connotation | The interpretive level of a word based on its associated images rather than its literal meaning. | 14 | |
| 6708883481 | Convention | A traditional aspect of a literary work. | 15 | |
| 6708883482 | Couplet | Two lines of rhyming poetry. | 16 | |
| 6708883483 | Dactyl | A foot or poetry consisting of a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables (suu) | 17 | |
| 6708883484 | Denotation | The literal or dictionary meaning of a word. | 18 | |
| 6708883485 | Denouement | The conclusion or tying up of loose ends in a literary work; the resolution of the conflict and plot. | 19 | |
| 6708883487 | Diction | The author's choice of words. | 20 | |
| 6708883488 | Elegy | A poem that laments the dead or a loss. | 21 | |
| 6708883489 | 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. | 22 | |
| 6708883490 | Epic | A lengthy, elevated poem that celebrates the exploits of a hero. | 23 | |
| 6708883492 | Euphony | The pleasant, mellifluous presentation of sounds in a literary work. | 24 | |
| 6708883493 | Exposition | Background information presented in a literary work. | 25 | |
| 6708883494 | Fable | A simple, symbolic story, usually employing animals as characters. | 26 | |
| 6708883495 | Figurative Language | The body of devices that enables the writer to operate on levels other than the literal one. | 27 | |
| 6708883496 | Flashback | A device that enables a writer to refer to past thoughts, events, and episodes. | 28 | |
| 6708883497 | Foot | A metrical unit in poetry; a syllabic measure of a line: iamb, trochee, anapest, dactyl, and spondee. | 29 | |
| 6708883498 | Foreshadowing | Hints of future events in a literary work. | 30 | |
| 6708883499 | Form | The shape or structure of a literary work. | 31 | |
| 6708883500 | Free Verse | Poetry without a defined form, meter, or rhyme scheme. | 32 | |
| 6708883501 | Hyperbole | Extreme exaggeration. | 33 | |
| 6708883502 | Iamb | A metrical foot consisting of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one (us) | 34 | |
| 6708883504 | Image | A verbal approximation of a sensory impression, concept, or emotion. | 35 | |
| 6708883505 | Imagery | The total effect of related sensory images in a work of literature. | 36 | |
| 6708883507 | Situational Irony | A contrast between what happens and what was intended or expected to happen. | 37 | |
| 6708883508 | Lyric poetry | A type of poetry characterized by emotion, personal feelings, and brevity. | 38 | |
| 6708883510 | Metaphor | A direct comparison between dissimilar things. | 39 | |
| 6708883511 | Metaphysical Poetry | Refers to the works of poets like John Donne who explore highly complex, philosophical ideas through extended metaphors and paradox. | 40 | |
| 6708883512 | Meter | A pattern of beats in poetry | 41 | |
| 6708883513 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which a representative term is used for a larger idea (using "the crown" to refer to a member of royalty, for example) | 42 | |
| 6708883514 | Dramatic Monologue | A poem in the form of a speech or narrative by an imagined person, in which the speaker inadvertently reveals aspects of their character while describing a particular situation or series of events | 43 | |
| 6708883515 | Motif | The repetition or variations of an image or idea in a work which is used to develop theme or characters. | 44 | |
| 6708883516 | Narrative poem | A poem that tells a story | 45 | |
| 6708883517 | Narrator | The speaker of a prose work. | 46 | |
| 6708883518 | Octave | An eight-line stanza, usually combined with a sestet in a Petrarchan sonnet. | 47 | |
| 6708883519 | Ode | A complex, long lyric poem characterized by a serious subject and formal tone | 48 | |
| 6708883520 | Onomatopoeia | Words that sound like the sound they represent. | 49 | |
| 6708883521 | Oxymoron | An image of contradictory terms. | 50 | |
| 6708883522 | Parable | A story that operates on more than one level and usually teaches a moral lesson. | 51 | |
| 6708883523 | Paradox | A set of seemingly contradictory elements which nevertheless reflects an underlying truth. | 52 | |
| 6708883524 | Parallel plot | A secondary story line that mimics and reinforces the main plot. | 53 | |
| 6708883525 | Parody | A comic imitation of a work that ridicules the original | 54 | |
| 6708883526 | Pathos | The aspects of a literary work that elicit pity from the audience. | 55 | |
| 6708883527 | Personification | The assigning of human qualities to inanimate objects or concepts. | 56 | |
| 6708883528 | Plot | A sequence of events in a literary work | 57 | |
| 6708883529 | Point of View | The method of narration in a work. | 58 | |
| 6708883530 | Protagonist | The hero or main character of a literary work, the character the audience sympathizes with. | 59 | |
| 6708883531 | Quatrain | A four line stanza | 60 | |
| 6708883532 | Resolution | The denouement of a literary work. | 61 | |
| 6708883533 | Rhetorical Question | A question that does not expect an explicit answer. | 62 | |
| 6708883535 | Rhyme scheme | The annotation of the pattern of the rhyme | 63 | |
| 6708883536 | Rhythm | The repetitive pattern of beats in poetry | 64 | |
| 6708883537 | Romanticism | A style or movement of literature that has as its foundation an interest in freedom, adventure, idealism, and escape. | 65 | |
| 6708883538 | Satire | Writing that ridicules human nature to bring about social reform | 66 | |
| 6708883539 | Scansion | Analysis of a poem's rhyme and meter. | 67 | |
| 6708883540 | Sestet | A six-line stanza, usually paired with an octave to firm a Petrarchan sonnet. | 68 | |
| 6708883541 | Sestina | A highly structured poetic form of 39 lines, written in iambic pentameter. It depends on the repetition of six words from the first stanza in each of the six stanzas. | 69 | |
| 6708883542 | Setting | The time and place of a literary work | 70 | |
| 6708883543 | Simile | An indirect comparison that uses the word, "like" or "as" to link the differing items in the comparison. | 71 | |
| 6708883544 | Soliloquy | A speech in a play which is used to reveal the character's inner thoughts to the audience. | 72 | |
| 6708883545 | Sonnet | A 14-line poem with a prescribed rhyme scheme in iambic pentameter. | 73 | |
| 6708883546 | Spondee | A poetic foot consisting of two accented syllables. | 74 | |
| 6708883548 | Stanza | A unit of a poem, similar in rhyme, meter, and length to other units in the porm | 75 | |
| 6708883549 | Structure | The organization and form of a work. | 76 | |
| 6708883550 | Style | The unique way an author presents his ideas. | 77 | |
| 6708883553 | Symbol | Something in a literary work that stands for something else. | 78 | |
| 6708883554 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech that utilizes a part as representative of the whole. | 79 | |
| 6708883555 | Syntax | The grammatical structure of prose and poetry | 80 | |
| 6708883556 | Tercet | A three-line stanza | 81 | |
| 6708883557 | Theme | The underlying ideas that the author illustrates through characterization, motifs, language, plot, etc. | 82 | |
| 6708883558 | Tone | The author's attitude toward his subject | 83 | |
| 6708883559 | 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. | 84 | |
| 6708883560 | Trochee | A single metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by one unaccented syllable (su) | 85 | |
| 6708883561 | Understatement | The opposite of exaggeration. | 86 | |
| 6708883562 | Villanelle | A highly structured poetic form that comprises six stanzas: five tercets and a quatrain. The poem repeats the first and third line throughout. | 87 | |
| 6709149885 | Speaker | The voice behind the poem—the person we imagine to be saying the words out loud | 88 | |
| 6709154376 | Pastoral | Poetry that presents an ideal country setting | 89 | |
| 6709163237 | Foil | A character that serves as a contrast to another character | 90 | |
| 6709168346 | Doppelganger | A look-alike of another character who usually represents his alter ego | 91 | |
| 6709175019 | Consonance | The repetition of consonant sounds through a sequence of words | 92 | |
| 6709180464 | Bildungsroman | A coming-of-age story | 93 | |
| 6709184833 | Assonance | The repetition of vowel sounds in a sequence of words with different endings | 94 |
