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| 6578173670 | Allegory | a universal symbol or personified abstraction | 0 | |
| 6578176258 | Alliteration | the repetition of similar initial sounds, usually consonants, in a group of words | 1 | |
| 6578179661 | Allusion | an indirect or oblique reference within a text to another text or work. Hence a subtle artistic quotation or homage | 2 | |
| 6578179662 | Ambiguity | something uncertain as to interpretation | 3 | |
| 6578181989 | Anachronism | something that shows up in the wrong place or the wrong time | 4 | |
| 6578183726 | Analogy | a comparison made between two things to show the similarities between them | 5 | |
| 6578183727 | Analysis | a method in which a work or idea is separated into its parts, and those parts given rigorous and detailed scrutiny | 6 | |
| 6578187668 | Anaphora | a device or repetition in which a word or words are repeated at the beginning of two or more lines, phrases, clauses, or sentences | 7 | |
| 6578187669 | Anecdote | a very short story used to illustrate a point. | 8 | |
| 6578189641 | Antagonist | a person or force opposing the protagonist in a drama or narrative | 9 | |
| 6578189642 | Antihero | a protagonist who does not embody or exhibit the qualities of the traditional hero. An antihero may even be downright dishonest and petty. | 10 | |
| 6578191528 | Aphorism | a terse, pointed statement expressing some wise or clever observation about life. | 11 | |
| 6578191529 | Apologia | a defense or justification for some doctrine, piece of writing, cause, or action; also apology | 12 | |
| 6578193154 | Apostrophe | a figure of speech in which an absent or dead person, an abstract quality, or something inanimate or nonhuman is addressed directly. | 13 | |
| 6578194711 | Apocalyptic Literature | writings that aim to reveal the future history of the world and the ultimate destiny of the earth and its inhabitants | 14 | |
| 6578194712 | Argumentation | the process of convincing a reader by proving either the truth or the falsity of an idea or proposition; also, the thesis or proposition itself | 15 | |
| 6578196711 | Assonance | the repetition of similar vowel sounds within a line or succeeding lines of verse. | 16 | |
| 6578196712 | Assumption | the act of supposing, or taking for granted that a thing is true | 17 | |
| 6578202742 | Audience | the intended listener or listeners | 18 | |
| 6578207903 | Autobiography | an author's own life history or memoir. | 19 | |
| 6578212274 | Antithesis | a balancing of one term against another for emphasis or stylistic effectiveness. | 20 | |
| 6578214092 | Archetype | recurrent designs, patterns of action, character types, themes, or images which are identifiable in a wide range of literature | 21 | |
| 6578219673 | Blank Verse | a verse form consisting of unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter. Shakespeare's plays are largely in blank verse. | 22 | |
| 6578219674 | Black Humor | comedy mingled with horror or a sense of the macabre; extremely bitter, morbid, or shocking humor | 23 | |
| 6578222541 | Catalogue | a traditional epic device consisting of a long rhetorical list or inventory. | 24 | |
| 6578225312 | Characterization | the means by which a writer reveals a character's personality | 25 | |
| 6578225313 | Chiasmus | a reversal in the order off words so that the second half of a statement balances the first half in inverted word order. | 26 | |
| 6578227403 | Christ Figure | a character who sacrifices himself or herself for the betterment of the characters in the story. | 27 | |
| 6578227404 | Circumlocution | a roundabout or evasive speech or writing, in which many words are used but a few would have served | 28 | |
| 6578229322 | Classicism | art, literature, and music reflecting the principles of ancient Greece and Rome: tradition, reason, clarity, order, and balance | 29 | |
| 6578229323 | Cliche | a phrase or situation overused within society | 30 | |
| 6578229324 | Climax | the decisive point in a narrative or drama; the pint of greatest intensity or interest at which plot question is answered or resolved | 31 | |
| 6578232342 | Colloquialism | folksy speech, slang words or phrases usually used in informal conversation | 32 | |
| 6578235328 | Conceit | A witty or ingenious thought a diverting or highly fanciful idea, often stated in figurative language. | 33 | |
| 6578235329 | Comedy | film or dramatic work depicting the uphill struggle and eventual success of a sympathetic hero or heroine; usually about ordinary people in difficult but non-life-threatening predicaments. | 34 | |
| 6578235330 | Connotation | implicit meaning, going beyond dictionary definition | 35 | |
| 6578255899 | Consonance | repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in a line or succeeding lines of verse. | 36 | |
| 6578255900 | Contrast | a rhetorical device by which one element (idea or object) is thrown into opposition to another for the sake of emphasis or clarity | 37 | |
| 6578264373 | Couplet | A pair of rhyming lines in a poem | 38 | |
| 6578266450 | Drama | a literary work designed for presentation by actors on a stage. | 39 | |
| 6578266451 | Dramatic Romance | play which adapts the themes, characters, and conventions of narrative romance for the stage | 40 | |
| 6578268213 | Denotation | plain dictionary definition | 41 | |
| 6578268214 | Denouement | loose ends tied up in a story after the climax, closure, and conclusion | 42 | |
| 6578269860 | Dialect | the language of a particular district, class or group of persons; the sounds, grammar, and diction employed by people distinguished from others. | 43 | |
| 6578273265 | Dialectics | formal debates usually over the nature of truth. | 44 | |
| 6578273266 | Dichotomy | split or break between two opposing things | 45 | |
| 6578273267 | Diction | the style of speaking or writing as reflected in the choice and use of words. | 46 | |
| 6578278187 | Didactic | having to do with the transmission of information; education. | 47 | |
| 6578278188 | Dogmatic | rigid in beliefs and principles. | 48 | |
| 6578280417 | Dues Ex Machina | in literature, the use of an artificial device or gimmick to solve a problem. | 49 | |
| 6578280418 | Elegy | a mournful, melancholy poem, especially a funeral song or lament for the dead, sometimes contains general reflections on death, often with a rural or pastoral setting. | 50 | |
| 6578281748 | Epic | a long narrative poem usually about gods, heroes, and legendary events; celebrates the history, culture, and character of a people | 51 | |
| 6578284750 | Enjambment | In poetry, the use of the successive lines with no punctuation or pause between them. | 52 | |
| 6578284751 | Epigram | witty aphorism. | 53 | |
| 6578286505 | Epitaph | any brief inscription in prose or verse on a tombstone; a short formal poem of commemoration often a credo written by the person who wishes it to be on his tombstone. | 54 | |
| 6578286506 | Epithet | a short, descriptive name or phrase that may insult someone's character, characteristics | 55 | |
| 6578287930 | Essay | literally a "trial," "test run," or "experiment" (from the French essayer, "to attempt"); hence a relatively short, informal piece of non-fiction prose that treats a topic of general interest in a seemingly casual, impressionistic, and lively way. | 56 | |
| 6578287931 | Euphemism | the use of an indirect, mild or vague word or expression for one thought to be coarse, offensive, or blunt. | 57 | |
| 6578290257 | Evocative (Evocation) | a calling forth of memories and sensations; the suggestion or production through artistry and imagination of a sense of reality. | 58 | |
| 6578290258 | Exposition | beginning of a story that sets forth facts, ideas, and/or characters, in a detailed explanation. | 59 | |
| 6578290259 | Expressionism | movement in art, literature, and music consisting of unrealistic representation of an inner idea or feeling(s). | 60 | |
| 6578295548 | Extended Metaphor | A series of comparisons between two unlike objects. | 61 | |
| 6578295549 | Fable | a short, simple story, usually with animals as characters, designed to teach a moral truth. | 62 | |
| 6578295550 | Fallacy | from Latin word "to deceive", a false or misleading notion, belief, or argument; any kind of erroneous reasoning that makes arguments unsound. | 63 | |
| 6578297409 | Falling Action | part of the narrative or drama after the climax. | 64 | |
| 6578299521 | Fantasy Fiction | modern adventure novels or tales that adapt many of the conventions and devices of medieval romance | 65 | |
| 6578299522 | Farce | comedy that makes extensive use of improbable plot complications, zany characters, and slapstick humor. | 66 | |
| 6578303309 | Figurative Language | apt and imaginative language characterized by figures of speech (such as metaphor and simile). This is language that cannot be taken literally | 67 | |
| 6578303310 | Flashback | a narrative device that flashes back to prior events. | 68 | |
| 6578303311 | Foil | a person or thing that, by contrast, makes another seem better or more prominent. | 69 | |
| 6578304659 | Folk Tale | story passed on by word of mouth. | 70 | |
| 6578304660 | Foreshadowing | in fiction and drama, a device to prepare the reader for the outcome of the action; "planning" to make the outcome convincing, though not to give it away. | 71 | |
| 6578306998 | Free Verse | verse without conventional metrical pattern, with irregular pattern or no rhyme. | 72 | |
| 6578310350 | Genre | a collective grouping or general category of literary works; a large class or group that consists of individual works of literature that share common attributes (e.g., similar themes, characters, plots, or styles). | 73 | |
| 6578310351 | Gothic Tale | a style in literature characterized by gloomy settings, violent or grotesque action, and a mood of decay, degeneration, and decadence. | 74 | |
| 6578312444 | Hyperbole | an exaggerated statement often used as a figure of speech or to prove a point | 75 | |
| 6578314260 | Imagery | a word or phrase in a literary text that appeals directly to the reader's taste, touch, hearing, sight, or smell. | 76 | |
| 6578317487 | Incongruity | the deliberate joining of opposites or of elements that are not appropriate to each other. | 77 | |
| 6578317488 | Inference | a judgment or conclusion based on evidence presented; the forming of an opinion which possesses some degree of probability according to facts already available. | 78 | |
| 6578320728 | Irony | 79 | ||
| 6578320729 | Interior Monologue | 80 | ||
| 6578322355 | Inversion | 81 | ||
| 6578324326 | In-Medis-Res | 82 | ||
| 6578325861 | Juxtaposition | 83 | ||
| 6578327190 | Lyric | 84 | ||
| 6578327191 | Magical Realism | 85 | ||
| 6578328755 | Melodrama | 86 | ||
| 6578328756 | Metaphor | 87 | ||
| 6578328757 | Meter | 88 | ||
| 6578330478 | Metonymy | 89 | ||
| 6578333128 | Mock Epic | 90 | ||
| 6578333129 | Mode of Discourse | 91 | ||
| 6578334749 | Modernism | 92 | ||
| 6578334750 | Monologue | 93 | ||
| 6578334751 | Mood | 94 | ||
| 6578336407 | Motif | 95 | ||
| 6578336408 | Myth | 96 | ||
| 6578337780 | Narrative | 97 | ||
| 6578341612 | Narrator | 98 | ||
| 6578341613 | Neo-Classicism | 99 | ||
| 6578341614 | Novel | 100 | ||
| 6578343109 | Novella | 101 | ||
| 6578343110 | Ode | 102 | ||
| 6578344438 | Omniscient Point of View | 103 | ||
| 6578348931 | Onomatopoeia | 104 | ||
| 6578348932 | The Other | 105 | ||
| 6578350381 | Oxymoron | 106 | ||
| 6578350382 | Pacing | 107 | ||
| 6578351822 | Parable | 108 | ||
| 6578351823 | Paradox | 109 | ||
| 6578353940 | Parallelism | 110 | ||
| 6578368378 | Parody | 111 | ||
| 6578369695 | Pastoralism | 112 | ||
| 6578372655 | Pathos | 113 | ||
| 6578372656 | Personification | 114 | ||
| 6578374457 | Plot | 115 | ||
| 6578374458 | Poignant | 116 | ||
| 6578376260 | Point of View | 117 | ||
| 6578376261 | Postmodernism | 118 | ||
| 6578376262 | Prosody | 119 | ||
| 6578381557 | Prose | 120 | ||
| 6578383364 | Protagonist | 121 | ||
| 6578383365 | Pun | 122 | ||
| 6578383366 | Purpose | 123 | ||
| 6578385523 | Quatrain | 124 | ||
| 6578392118 | Realism | 125 | ||
| 6578393965 | Refrain | 126 | ||
| 6578395964 | Requiem | 127 | ||
| 6578400707 | Resolution | 128 | ||
| 6578400708 | Rhetoric | 129 | ||
| 6578400709 | Rhetorical Question | 130 | ||
| 6578402075 | Rhyme | 131 | ||
| 6578402076 | Rhythm | 132 | ||
| 6578402077 | Rising Action | 133 | ||
| 6578403651 | Romance | 134 | ||
| 6578405034 | Romanticism | 135 | ||
| 6578405035 | Satire | 136 | ||
| 6578406352 | Science Fiction | 137 | ||
| 6578406353 | Scansion | 138 | ||
| 6578408744 | Setting | 139 | ||
| 6578410541 | Simile | 140 | ||
| 6578419672 | Soliloquy | 141 | ||
| 6578424171 | Sonnet | 142 | ||
| 6578425884 | Spiritual | 143 | ||
| 6578425885 | Speaker | 144 | ||
| 6578425886 | Stereotype | 145 | ||
| 6578429014 | Stream of Consciousness | 146 | ||
| 6578429015 | Structure | 147 | ||
| 6578430730 | Style | 148 | ||
| 6578430731 | Synecdoche | 149 | ||
| 6578432111 | Symbolism | 150 | ||
| 6578434095 | Syntax | 151 | ||
| 6578436023 | Theme | 152 | ||
| 6578439420 | Tragedy | 153 | ||
| 6578439421 | Tragicomedy | 154 | ||
| 6578440704 | Tone | 155 | ||
| 6578443573 | Utopian Literature | 156 | ||
| 6578449797 | Victorian Literature | 157 |
