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| 13711049750 | Allegory | A story (verse or prose) in which characters, objects, events, or settings (codes) are symbolic and collectively relay a message, typically moral or religious. | 0 | |
| 13711049751 | Alliteration | The repetition of similar initial sounds (usually consonants), in a group of words. | 1 | |
| 13711049752 | Allusion | A reference in one literary work to a person, place, event, or other literary work that a writer expects the reader to recognize. | 2 | |
| 13711049753 | Analogy | A comparison of two different things to show the similarities between them, particularly to explain an unfamiliar entity in terms of a familiar one. | 3 | |
| 13711049754 | Aphorism | A concise, pointed statement expressing a wise or clever idea or truth about life. | 4 | |
| 13711049755 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech in which an absent or dead person or something non-human is directly addressed. | 5 | |
| 13711049756 | Aside | In drama, lines spoken by a character directly to the audience or in an undertone so other characters on stage do not hear. | 6 | |
| 13711049757 | Assonance | The repetition of similar vowel sounds. | 7 | |
| 13711049758 | Blank Verse | Verse written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. | 8 | |
| 13711049759 | Carpe Diem Tradition | A tradition dating back to classical Greek and Latin poetry, meaning "seize the day" or live for today. | 9 | |
| 13711049760 | Conceit | A metaphor that makes a comparison between two startlingly different entities. | 10 | |
| 13711049761 | Connotation | All the emotions and associations that a word or phrase may elicit. | 11 | |
| 13711049762 | Consonance | The repitition of similar consonant sounds, usually in the middle or end of words. | 12 | |
| 13711049763 | Couplet | Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme. | 13 | |
| 13711049764 | Denotation | The literal or dictionary definition of a word. | 14 | |
| 13711049765 | Diction | An author's choice of words. | 15 | |
| 13711049766 | Dissonance | A harsh or disagreeable combination of sounds; discord; cacophony. | 16 | |
| 13711049767 | Elegy | A poem of mourning, usually over the death of an individual. | 17 | |
| 13711049768 | Ellipsis | The omission of a word or words that a reader must supply for full understanding. | 18 | |
| 13711049769 | Epic | A long narrative poem telling about the deeds of a great hero and reflecting the values of the society from which it originated. | 19 | |
| 13711049770 | Epigraph | A quotation or motto at the beginning of a chapter, book, or short story or poem that makes some point about the work. | 20 | |
| 13711049771 | Euphemism | The use of an indirect, mild or vague word or expression in place of one thought to be coarse, blunt, or offensive. | 21 | |
| 13711049772 | Exposition | The part of a narrative or drama in which important background information about characters, setting, etc. is revealed. | 22 | |
| 13711049773 | Fable | A brief story, often including animals, that is told to present a moral or practical lesson. | 23 | |
| 13711049774 | Foil | A character that sets off another by contrasting qualities. | 24 | |
| 13711049775 | Free Verse | Verse that has either no metrical pattern or an irregular pattern. | 25 | |
| 13711049776 | Hyperbole | A figure of speech using exaggeration or overstatement for effect. | 26 | |
| 13711049777 | Iambic Pentameter | A poetic line consisting of five verse feet with each foot an iamb, an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. | 27 | |
| 13711049778 | Idiom | An expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its grammatical parts or from the general grammatical rules of language. Also, a language, dialect, or speaking style unique to a group of people. | 28 | |
| 13711049779 | Imagery | Words or phrases that appeal to the senses. | 29 | |
| 13711049780 | In medias res | A technique of starting in the middle of a story and using flashback to reveal what happened previously. | 30 | |
| 13711049781 | Inversion | A technique of reversing the normal structural order of a sentence. | 31 | |
| 13711049782 | Irony | A contrast or incongruity between what is stated and what is really meant (verbal), between what is expected to happen and what actually happens (situational), or when the reader knows something the characters do not (dramatic). | 32 | |
| 13711049783 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two opposing ideas, characters, or objects nearly side by side for heightened effect. | 33 | |
| 13711049784 | Lyric | A poem, usually a short one, that expresses a speaker's personal thoughts or feelings. | 34 | |
| 13711049785 | Metaphor | A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two entities that are basically dissimilar. | 35 | |
| 13711049786 | Meter | A generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry. | 36 | |
| 13711049787 | Metonymy | A type of metaphor in which something very closely associated with a thing is used to stand for or suggest the thing itself. | 37 | |
| 13711049788 | Mock Epic | A comic literary form that treats a trivial subject in the grand, heroic style of the epic. | 38 | |
| 13711049789 | Motif | A unifying element in a work, especially a recurrent feature such as an image, symbol, theme, character type, subject, or narrative detail. | 39 | |
| 13711049790 | Narrative Poem | A poem (of any length) that tells a story. | 40 | |
| 13711049791 | Ode | A complex and often lengthy lyric poem written in a dignified, formal style on some lofty or serious subject. | 41 | |
| 13711049792 | Parable | A story designed to convey some religious principle, moral lesson, or general truth; always teaches by comparison with actual events. | 42 | |
| 13711049793 | Paradox | A statement that at first seems to be self-contradictory and nonsensical but actually reveals a kind of truth. | 43 | |
| 13711049794 | Parallelism | The use of phrases, clauses or sentences that are grammatically similar in structure to highlight equivalent ideas. | 44 | |
| 13711049795 | Parody | The humorous, often outlandish imitation of a work of literature, art, or music. | 45 | |
| 13711049796 | Pastoral | A type of poem that deals in an idealized way with shepherds and rustic or rural life. | 46 | |
| 13711049797 | Pathos | The quality in a work that arouses the reader's feelings of pity, horror, or compassion for a character. | 47 | |
| 13711049798 | Personification | A figure of speech in which something non-human is given human qualities. | 48 | |
| 13711049799 | Pun | The use of a word or phrase to suggest two or more meanings at the same time. | 49 | |
| 13711049800 | Refrain | A word, phrase, line or group of lined repeated regularly in a poem, usually at the end of each stanza. | 50 | |
| 13711049801 | Repetition | A word or phrase repeated at regular intervals in a work. | 51 | |
| 13711049802 | Rhetoric | Art of persuasion through speaking and writing. | 52 | |
| 13711049803 | Satire | A work that holds up to ridicule or condemnation the weaknesses or wrongdoings of individuals, groups, institutions or humanity in general, with hope of somehow improving the specific issue. | 53 | |
| 13711049804 | Simile | A comparison made between two entities through the use of specific words of comparison such as like, as, than, or resembles. | 54 | |
| 13711049805 | Soliloquy | In drama, an extended speech delivered by a character alone on stage. | 55 | |
| 13711049806 | Sonnet | A 14 line lyric poem usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter and following a certain definite rhyme scheme. | 56 | |
| 13711049807 | Shakespearean Sonnet | A.k.a English sonnet, arranged in three quatrains and a couplet. The couplet in some form comments on, replies to, or extends the idea set forth in the first twelve lines. Rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg | 57 | |
| 13711049808 | Petrarchan Sonnet | A.k.a Italian sonnet, arranged into an octave and sestet, includes a volta (change in thought and feeling which divides the octave from the sestet. The sestet in some form comments on, replies to, or extends the idea set forth in the octave. Rhyme scheme abbaabba cdecde/cdcdcd | 58 | |
| 13711049809 | Stream of Consciousness | The style of writing that attempts to imitate the natural flow of a character's thoughts, feelings, reflections, memories, and mental images as the character experiences them. | 59 | |
| 13711049810 | Symbol | Any object, person, place, or action that has a meaning in itself and also stands for something larger than itself. | 60 | |
| 13711049811 | Synechdoche | A type of metaphor that substitutes a part for a whole. | 61 | |
| 13711049812 | Syntax | Arrangement of words within a sentence (ordering, grouping, placement); when coupled with vocabulary (together, the two components of diction) often differentiate poetic diction from prose. | 62 | |
| 13711049813 | Theme | The central meaning or dominant idea in a literary work; provides a unifying point around which all story elements are organized: not the subject, rather, abstract concept made concrete throughout the story aspects of the text. In non-fiction, generally refers to the main topic of discourse. | 63 | |
| 13711049814 | Tone | The author's implicit attitude toward his or her subject, characters, or audience. | 64 | |
| 13711049815 | Understatement | A form of humor or irony in which something is intentionally represented less strongly or strikingly than facts would warrant. | 65 | |
| 13711049816 | Voice | The authorial presence that pervades a literary piece, lying beyond/behind such aspects as imagery, character, plot, or theme: a piece's personality. | 66 |
