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| 4244665460 | Fantasy | A general term for any kind of fictional work that is not primarily devoted to the realistic representation of the known world. The category includes several different genres describing imagined worlds in which magical powers and other impossibilities are accepted. | 0 | |
| 4244674594 | Approximate Rhymes | (AKA Slant Rhymes) Include words with any kind of sound similarity form close to fairly remote | 1 | |
| 4244677632 | Internal Rhyme | When one o more rhyming words are within the line | 2 | |
| 4244680080 | Foot | The basic unit of a meter. Composed of one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables. | 3 | |
| 4244682418 | Truncation | An unaccented syllable that has been omitted from the beginning or ending of a line. Form of metrical variation. | 4 | |
| 4244689715 | Extrametrical Syllables | Adding extra syllables to the beginning or ending of a line. Form of metrical variation. | 5 | |
| 4244691973 | Stanza | A group of lines whose metrical pattern is repeated throughout the poem. | 6 | |
| 4244694790 | Substitution | Replacing the regular foot with another one. Form of metrical variation. | 7 | |
| 4244698683 | Syllogism | 3 part deductive argument in which a conclusion is based on a major premise and a minor premise. | 8 | |
| 4244703621 | Anagnorisis | When a character makes a critical discovery in a tragedy. | 9 | |
| 4244708098 | Attitude | The relationship an author has toward his or her subject, and/or his or her audience. | 10 | |
| 4244710550 | Peripeteia | A reversal in action in a tragedy | 11 | |
| 4244717305 | Overstatement | A type of verbal irony in which the speaker exaggerates. Says more than what he or she means. | 12 | |
| 4244719482 | Apostrophe | Someone absent, dead, or imaginary, or an abstraction is being addresses as if it could reply. | 13 | |
| 4244723524 | Parody | Mocking/Critiquing through imitation. Intended to be humorous. | 14 | |
| 4244726853 | Blank Free Verse | Unrhymed poetry that has a regular rhythm and line length, especially iambic pentameter. | 15 | |
| 4244732801 | Foreshadowing | The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later on in the plot | 16 | |
| 4244736506 | Stream of Consciousness | A literary technique that presents the thoughts and feelings of characters as they occur. | 17 | |
| 4244738911 | Masculine Rhymes | Rhymes that involve one syllable | 18 | |
| 4244742874 | Feminine Rhymes | Rhymes with two or more syllables. | 19 | |
| 4244744863 | Continuous Form | Lines following each other without formal grouping, the only breaks are dictated by units of meaning. | 20 | |
| 4244752632 | Stanzaic Form | Poem uses a series of stanzas. | 21 | |
| 4244755925 | Stanza | Repeated unites having the same number of lines, metrical pattern, and often identical rhymes scheme. | 22 | |
| 4244759026 | Fixed Form | A traditional pattern that applies to the whole poem. | 23 | |
| 4244760355 | Sonnet | A poem that is fourteen lines long in length, is almost always written in iambic pentameter, but there is leeway in structure and rhyme scheme. | 24 | |
| 4244765103 | Villanelle | Requires only two rhyme sounds, there are 19 lines divided into 5 tercets and one concluding quatrain. | 25 | |
| 4244773567 | Italian Sonnet | - Divided by octaves - 2 Rhymes (abbaabba) - Sestet with 2 or 3 rhymes (cdcdcd)/ (cdecde) | 26 | |
| 4244780333 | English Sonnet | - 3 Quatrains - Concluding couplet - Rhyme : (abab cdcd efef gg) | 27 | |
| 4244783833 | Rhetorical Poetry | Poetry using eloquent language, that is language too high-flown for its occasion and unfaithful to the full complexity of human experience. | 28 | |
| 4244786994 | Sentimentality | Refers to excessive or inappropriate emotion that an occasion warrants. | 29 | |
| 4244791985 | Synesthesia | The stimulation of two or more senses simultaneously. | 30 | |
| 4244794301 | Euphony | Smooth and pleasant sounding. | 31 | |
| 4244795018 | Phonetic Intensives | Group of words whose sound, to some degree connects with their meaning. | 32 | |
| 4244796742 | Onomatopoeia | Words that sound like the sound to which it refers too. | 33 | |
| 4244798446 | Hubris | The sin of excessive pride. | 34 | |
| 4244799278 | Purgation | The release of pity and fear. | 35 | |
| 4244800208 | Tragic Dilemma | The situation the protagonist faces. Both decisions are equally difficult and either choice leads to disaster. | 36 | |
| 4244804159 | Hamartia | Protagonist's tragic flaw | 37 | |
| 4244805835 | Understatement | A statement that represents less than what the author means. | 38 | |
| 4244807309 | Imagery | Details that appeal to the senses 1. Visual Imagery (sight) 2. Auditory Imagery (Hearing) 3. Olfactory Imagery (smell) 4. Gustatory Imagery (taste) 5. Tactile Imagery (touch) 6. Organic Imagery (experiences of body) 7. Kinesthetic Imagery (movement of body) | 39 | |
| 4244817166 | Diction | Authors word choice. | 40 | |
| 4244818330 | Connotation | Emotional appeal/feeling to word. | 41 | |
| 4244821047 | Denotation | Dictionary definition of a word. | 42 | |
| 4244821769 | Allusion | Reference to something outside of text. 1. Biblical Allusion 2. Historical Allusion 3. Literary Allusion 4. Mythological Allusion 5. Cultural Allusion | 43 | |
| 4244826224 | Allegory | Characters and ideas can be take literally or symbolically. | 44 | |
| 4244828517 | Symbol | Object, person, situation, ect. that mean more that what it is. | 45 | |
| 4244851667 | Paradox | Statement that appears to contradict itself, but has meaning or truth. | 46 | |
| 4244853357 | Synecdoche | The part that signifies that whole or the whole part. | 47 | |
| 4244854629 | Personification | Giving inanimate or nonhuman objects human-like qualities. | 48 | |
| 4244864740 | Point of View | - 1st : I, me, ect - 2nd : you (addresses reader) - 3rd : he, she, it | 49 | |
| 4244868412 | Hyperbole | An exaggeration intended for effect. | 50 | |
| 4244871020 | Euphemism | Less offensive way to say something; substitution of a harsh word for a softer word. | 51 | |
| 4244873027 | Metonymy | Figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another word closely associated with it. | 52 | |
| 4244874487 | Simile | A comparison between two or more unlike things using "like" or "as". | 53 | |
| 4244876256 | Oxymoron | A set of contradictory words. | 54 | |
| 4244877248 | Metaphor | A comparison of two or more unlike things NOT using "like" or "as" | 55 | |
| 4244878959 | Structure | The arrangement of ideas, thoughts, images and sentences. | 56 | |
| 4244880495 | Form | External shape of a poem. | 57 | |
| 4244881624 | Didactic Poetry | Poetry whose primary purpose is to teach or preach. | 58 | |
| 4244882997 | Cacophony | Harsh and rough sounding. | 59 | |
| 4244883818 | Satire | The critique of government or social institutions or morality through imitation. | 60 | |
| 4244886371 | Epistolary | Narration through letters. | 61 | |
| 4244887353 | Ode | A long lyrical poem that is usually serious or meditative in nature. | 62 | |
| 4244888104 | Mood | 1. The feeling created in the reader by the literary work. 2. The prevailing atmosphere or emotional aura of a work. | 63 | |
| 4244890360 | Prose Meaning | A part of a poem's total meaning that can be separated out and expressed through paraphrase. | 64 | |
| 4244892765 | Total Meaning | The total experience communicated by a poem. It includes sensuous, emotional, imaginative, and/or intellectual details that are hidden within the composition itself. | 65 | |
| 4244896026 | Tone | The author's attitude toward the text and characters. | 66 | |
| 4244898052 | Irony | - Dramatic Irony: readers know something that the characters don't know - Situational Irony: Events turn out opposite of what was expected. - Verbal Irony: Saying the opposite of what one means. | 67 | |
| 4244902721 | Run on Line | The end of the line moves on without pause or punctuation. | 68 | |
| 4244903339 | End Stop Line | Pause is found at eh end of a line. Pause corresponds with natural speech pause or punctuation. | 69 | |
| 4244905263 | Meter | The number of feet in a line to identify the characteristic of rhythmic language. | 70 | |
| 4244906561 | Prose Poem | A short composition having intentions of poetry but it is written in prose rather that verse. | 71 | |
| 4244908767 | Rhetorical Stresses | Words and syllables that are stressed in order to make intentions of a poem clear. | 72 | |
| 4244910722 | Caesuras | Pauses that occur within the line. | 73 | |
| 4244911372 | Rhythm | The pattern of stresses and unstressed syllables in natural speech or verse. | 74 | |
| 4244913629 | Accented/Stressed | Every word with more than one syllable has stressed and unstressed syllables. More prominent part of a word. | 75 |
