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| 6711051527 | Allegory | A story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for something else | 0 | |
| 6711053717 | Ballad | A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas, characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style. | 1 | |
| 6711055448 | Bildungsroman | A novel dealing with one person's formative years or spiritual education | 2 | |
| 6711057573 | Elegy | A lyric poem that laments the dead | 3 | |
| 6711059192 | Lyric Poem | A poem of a single speaker who expresses his thoughts and feelings | 4 | |
| 6711062457 | Pastoral | Literature that describes country or rural life | 5 | |
| 6711063890 | Satire | A style of writing that ridicules human weaknesses, vice or folly in order to promote social reform | 6 | |
| 6711065563 | Sonnet | A lyric poem of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter | 7 | |
| 6711068464 | Tragedy | A type of drama in which the characters experience reversals of fortune, usually for the worse | 8 | |
| 6711071618 | Villanelle | A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition | 9 | |
| 6711075967 | Couplet | A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem | 10 | |
| 6711077677 | Caesura | A strong pause within a line of verse | 11 | |
| 6711079325 | End Rhyme | A rhyme that occurs at the end of lines | 12 | |
| 6711080165 | Enjambment | A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next | 13 | |
| 6711084075 | Speaker | The voice in a poem that talks to the reader (not to be confused with the poet) | 14 | |
| 6711086603 | Alliteration | A repetition of initial consonant sounds | 15 | |
| 6711087628 | Biblical Allusion | A reference to a statement, person, place or event that is known from the Bible | 16 | |
| 6711090547 | Assonance | A repetition of vowel sounds in non-rhyming words | 17 | |
| 6711092392 | Epiphany | A moment of sudden revelation or insight | 18 | |
| 6711094929 | Hyperbole | A gross exaggeration for effect; overstatement | 19 | |
| 6711097281 | Paradox | A statement that appears to contradict itself but contains a truth beneath the surface | 20 | |
| 6711098007 | Personification | The endowment of inanimate objects or abstract concepts with animate or living qualities | 21 | |
| 6711099743 | Simile | A comparison of two unlike things using like or as | 22 | |
| 6711101293 | Metaphor | A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as like or as | 23 | |
| 6711108536 | Foil | Characters that contrast and emphasize the traits of the hero | 24 | |
| 6711111939 | Mood | The general emotional effect of a poem, story or scene from a story | 25 | |
| 6711121549 | Juxtaposition | Two contrasting elements placed side by side | 26 | |
| 6711122824 | Oxymoron | Contradictory terms brought together to express a paradox for strong effect | 27 | |
| 6711124101 | Repetition | Technique in which a sound, word, phrase or line is repeated for emphasis | 28 | |
| 6711127209 | Imagery | Descriptions that appeal to one of the 5 senses | 29 | |
| 6711129047 | Symbol | A concrete object that stands for itself and for something broader than itself as well | 30 | |
| 6711133255 | Soliloquy | A speech in a play that is meant to be heard by the audience but not by other characters on the stage | 31 | |
| 6727531883 | Slant Rhyme | A rhyming sound that is not exact | 32 | |
| 6743311030 | Overstatement | A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used in the service of truth | 33 | |
| 6743319505 | Euphemism | A more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept | 34 | |
| 6743326672 | Archaism | The use of deliberately old-fashioned language, sometimes used to create a feeling of antiquity | 35 | |
| 6743380088 | Epithet | An adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned | 36 | |
| 6743394561 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is substituted for the whole | 37 | |
| 6756318151 | Ode | A lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner | 38 | |
| 6756336193 | Anaphora | A rhetorical figure of repetition in which the same word or phrase is repeated in (and usually at the beginning of) successive lines, clauses, or sentences. | 39 | |
| 6756345531 | Octave | An eight-line stanza | 40 | |
| 6756345532 | Quatrain | A four-line stanza | 41 | |
| 6756346793 | Sestet | A six-line stanza | 42 | |
| 6756369951 | Cliche | A worn-out idea or overused expression | 43 | |
| 6756400896 | Classical Allusion | A reference to a statement, person, place or event that is known from Greek or Roman mythology | 44 | |
| 6756406541 | Parody | A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule | 45 | |
| 6756411444 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love | 46 | |
| 6756437285 | Internal Rhyme | A rhyme created by two or more words in the same line of verse | 47 | |
| 6782058024 | Blank Verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter | 48 | |
| 6782106351 | Archetype | A recurring symbol, character, landscape, or event found in myth and literature across different cultures and eras | 49 |
