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| 6531017350 | accent | the stressed portion of a word | 0 | |
| 6531024759 | aesthetic/aesthetics | appealing to the senses/the study of beauty | 1 | |
| 6531028618 | allegory | a story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself (LOTF) | 2 | |
| 6531035815 | alliteration | the repetition of initial consonant sounds | 3 | |
| 6531056295 | allusion | a reference to another work or famous figure | 4 | |
| 6531780824 | anachronism | misplaced in time | 5 | |
| 6531783685 | analogy | a comparison (usually two or more symbolic parts used to clarify an action or relationship. | 6 | |
| 6531792244 | anecdote | a short narrative | 7 | |
| 6531794679 | antecedent | the word, phrase, or clause that a pronoun refers to or replaces | 8 | |
| 6531800172 | anthropomorphism | inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena are given human characteristics | 9 | |
| 6531810630 | anticlimax | when an action produces far smaller results then one had been led to expect | 10 | |
| 6531818249 | antihero | a protagonist who is clearly unheroic: morally weak, cowardly, dishonest, etc. | 11 | |
| 6531830518 | aphorism | a short and usually witty saying | 12 | |
| 6531833273 | apostrophe | an address to someone not present or to a personified object or idea | 13 | |
| 6531836748 | archaism | the use of deliberately old-fashioned language | 14 | |
| 6531840410 | aside | a speech made an actor to the audience, as though momentarily stepping outside of the action on stage | 15 | |
| 6531854815 | assonance | the repeated use of vowel sounds | 16 | |
| 6531859265 | atmosphere | the emotional tone of background that surrounds a scene | 17 | |
| 6531863115 | attitude | a speaker's, author's, or character's nature toward or opinion of a subject | 18 | |
| 6531875293 | ballad | a long, narrative poem usually in a very regular meter and rhyme | 19 | |
| 6531888121 | cacophony | using deliberately harsh, awkward sounds | 20 | |
| 6531890971 | cadence | the beat or rhythm of poetry in a general sense | 21 | |
| 6531897282 | canto | a section division in a long work of poetry; similar to chapters in a novel | 22 | |
| 6531905288 | caricature | a portrait (verbal or otherwise) that exaggerates a facet of personality | 23 | |
| 6531909649 | catharsis | the "cleansing" of emotion experience by the audience after having lived through the experiences presented on stage | 24 | |
| 6531918973 | chorus | (drama) the group of citizens who stand outside the main action on stage and comment on it | 25 | |
| 6531925663 | classic | an accepted (literary) masterpiece | 26 | |
| 6531931354 | classical | the arts of ancient Greece and Rome and the qualities of those arts | 27 | |
| 6531934881 | colloquialism | a word or phrase used in everyday conversational English | 28 | |
| 6531941311 | conceit | a startling or unusual metaphor or one developed and expanded upon over several lines | 29 | |
| 6532004361 | denotation | the literal meaning of a word | 30 | |
| 6532007314 | connotation | the emotional suggestions of a word | 31 | |
| 6532010458 | consonance | the repetition of consonant sounds within words (as opposed to the beginning of words which is alliteration) | 32 | |
| 6532018791 | couplet | a pair of lines that end in rhyme | 33 | |
| 6532027259 | diction | author's choice of words | 34 | |
| 6532027421 | syntax | the ordering and structuring of words | 35 | |
| 6532032452 | dirge | a song for the dead | 36 | |
| 6532034328 | dissonance | the grating of incompatible sounds | 37 | |
| 6532037267 | doggerel | crude, simplistic verse, often in sing-song rhyme | 38 | |
| 6532041868 | dramatic irony | when the audience knows something that the characters in the drama do not | 39 | |
| 6532046890 | dramatic monologue | when a single speaker in literature says something to a silent audience | 40 | |
| 6532053901 | elegy | a poem that meditates on death or mortality in a serious, thoughtful manner | 41 | |
| 6532062387 | elements | the basic techniques of each genre of literature | 42 | |
| 6532066113 | short story elements | characters, irony, theme, symbol, plot, setting | 43 | |
| 6532070648 | poetry elements | figurative language, symbol, imagery, rhythm, rhyme | 44 | |
| 6532074769 | drama elements | conflict, characters, climax, conclusion, exposition, rising action, falling action, sets, props | 45 | |
| 6532283102 | enjambment | the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line or couplet of a poem to the next with no pause | 46 | |
| 6532295261 | epic | a long narrative poem on a serious theme and written in dignified style | 47 | |
| 6532299222 | epitaph | lines that commemorate the dead at their burial place | 48 | |
| 6532303013 | euphemism | a word or phrase that takes the place of a harsh, unpleasant, or impolite reality | 49 | |
| 6532312567 | euphony | when sounds blend harmoniously | 50 | |
| 6532316428 | explicit | to say or write something directly and clearly | 51 | |
| 6532319742 | farce | a funny play; broad humor | 52 | |
| 6532327021 | feminine rhyme | lines rhymed by their final two syllables | 53 | |
| 6532332961 | figurative language | writing that uses words to mean something other than their literal meaning | 54 | |
| 6532339824 | foil | a secondary character whose purpose is to highlight the characteristics of a main character, usually by contrast | 55 | |
| 6532347171 | foot | the basic rhythmic unit of a line of poetry | 56 | |
| 6532351325 | foreshadowing | an event or statement the suggests a larger event that comes later | 57 | |
| 6532355853 | free verse | poetry written without a regular rhyme scheme or metrical pattern | 58 | |
| 6532365269 | gothic, gothic novel | mysterious, gloomy literature | 59 | |
| 6532370643 | hubris | excessive pride or ambition that leads to the main character's downfall | 60 | |
| 6532374457 | hyperbole | exaggeration or deliberate overstatement | 61 | |
| 6532376780 | imagery | an author's use of figurative language, images, or sensory details that appeal to the reader's sentences | 62 | |
| 6532383893 | implicit | to say or write something that implies or suggests but never says so directly | 63 | |
| 6532388772 | in medias res | in the middle of things | 64 | |
| 6532393725 | interior monologue | writing that records the mental talking that goes on inside a character's head | 65 | |
| 6532400196 | juxtaposition | placing two or more concepts, places, characters, or their actions together for the purpose of comparison or contrast | 66 | |
| 6532412141 | lament | a poem of sadness or grief over the death of a loved on or over some other intense loss | 67 | |
| 6532416667 | lampoon | a satire | 68 | |
| 6532420584 | loose sentence | a sentence complete before its end | 69 | |
| 6532424562 | periodic sentence | a sentence that is not grammatically complete until it has reached its final phrase | 70 | |
| 6532440132 | lyric | poetry that explores the poet's personal interpretation of and feelings about the world | 71 | |
| 6532444316 | masculine rhyme | a rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable (what you think of when you think of a rhyme) | 72 | |
| 6532449512 | melodrama | a form of "cheesy" theater in which the hero is excessively good, the villain very mean and rotten, and the heroine incredibly pure | 73 | |
| 6532460098 | metaphor | a comparison or analogy that states one thing IS another | 74 | |
| 6532467100 | simile | a comparison often using like or as | 75 | |
| 6532476067 | metonym | a word that is used to stand for something else that it has attributes of or is associated with (crown for queen) | 76 | |
| 6532483624 | motif | a recurring symbol | 77 | |
| 6532487940 | narrative techniques | the methods employed in the telling of a story | 78 | |
| 6532493100 | narrative techniques - examples | point of view, manipulation of time, dialogue, internal monologue | 79 | |
| 6532497670 | nemesis | the protagonist's archenemy | 80 | |
| 6532512646 | onomatopoeia | words that sound like what they mean | 81 | |
| 6532514295 | oxymoron | a phrase composed of opposites; a contradiction | 82 | |
| 6532518705 | parable | a story that instructs (similar to fables or allegories) | 83 | |
| 6532522692 | paradox | a statement that seems to contradict itself but on closer inspection does not | 84 | |
| 6532531934 | parallelism | repeated syntactical similarities used for effect | 85 | |
| 6532538229 | parody | a work that makes fun of another work by exaggerating many of its qualities to ridiculousness | 86 | |
| 6532543215 | pastoral | a poem set in tranquil nature; often a poem about shepherds | 87 | |
| 6532626741 | persona | the narrator in a non-first-person novel | 88 | |
| 6532631293 | personification | giving an inanimate object human qualities or form | 89 | |
| 6532634320 | plaint | a poem or speech expressing sorrow | 90 | |
| 6532639715 | point of view | omniscient narrator, limited omniscient narrator, first-person narrator, stream of consciousness, objective narrator | 91 | |
| 6532649885 | objective narrator | third-person narrator who only reports on what would be visible to a camera; the objective narrator does NOT know what a character is thinking unless the character speaks of it | 92 | |
| 6532659499 | prelude | any introductory poem to a longer work of verse | 93 | |
| 6532662195 | protagonist | the main character of a play or novel | 94 | |
| 6532664356 | pun | the usually humorous use of a word to suggest two or more meanings | 95 | |
| 6532667938 | refrain | a line of set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem | 96 | |
| 6532670815 | requiem | a song of prayer for the dead | 97 | |
| 6532672514 | resources of language | linguistic devices, such as: diction, syntax, figurative language, and imagery | 98 | |
| 6532678705 | rhapsody | an intensely passionate verse or section of verse, usually of love or praise | 99 | |
| 6532682586 | rhetorical question | a question that suggests an answer | 100 | |
| 6532690983 | style | the manner in which an author writes that distinguishes him/her from other writers | 101 | |
| 6532696573 | style: examples of techniques | diction, syntax, figurative language, imagery, selection of detail, sound effects, tone, and voice | 102 | |
| 6539479671 | subjunctive mood | an "if . . . were" grammatical form | 103 | |
| 6539486279 | suspension of disbelief | the acceptance of an audience's or reader's incidents of plot | 104 | |
| 6539495553 | symbol | something that refers to itself while simultaneously representing something else | 105 | |
| 6539504512 | syncope | contracting, or shortening, a word by removing internal sounds, syllables, or letters and inserting an apostrophe "heav'n" "ev'ry" | 106 | |
| 6539515274 | synecdoche | figure of speech in which a part represents the whole (sail to refer to a ship) | 107 | |
| 6539522898 | technique | the tools of the author (not elements); for example, in poetry, onomatopoeia is a technique within the element of rhythm | 108 | |
| 6539536986 | theme | the main idea of the overall; the central idea | 109 | |
| 6539540234 | thesis | the main position of an argument | 110 | |
| 6539542474 | tone | the manner in which an author expresses his or her attitude about a subject | 111 | |
| 6539545770 | tragic flaw | the weakness of a character in an otherwise good (or even great) individual that ultimately leads to his demise | 112 | |
| 6539553745 | verisimilitude | the appearance of being real or true | 113 | |
| 6539555983 | zeugma | the use of a word to modify two or more words but used for different meanings. Ex: He closed the door and his heart on his lost love. | 114 |
