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| 14011596318 | metaphor | comparison of two seemingly unlike things | 0 | |
| 14011596319 | simile | comparison using like or as | 1 | |
| 14011596320 | personification | characteristics of humans given to non-humans | 2 | |
| 14011596321 | synecdoche | giving the part for the whole | 3 | |
| 14011596322 | metonymy | substitution of associated word for word itself | 4 | |
| 14011596323 | allusion | reference to well-known being or event | 5 | |
| 14011596324 | symbol | is what it is and something more |  | 6 |
| 14011596325 | image | sensory detail | 7 | |
| 14011596327 | abstract | language that represents emotions or experiences with no physical parallel | 8 | |
| 14011596329 | motif | recurrent image, idea, or theme in a specific piece of literature | 9 | |
| 14011596330 | verbal irony | say one thing, mean another | 10 | |
| 14011596331 | dramatic irony | audience knows, character doesn't |  | 11 |
| 14011596332 | situational irony | unexpected result | 12 | |
| 14011596333 | understatement | making big things seem small/saying less than you mean | 13 | |
| 14011596334 | hyperbole | exaggeration |  | 14 |
| 14011596335 | paradox | an apparent or seeming contradiction, that is somehow true- long style | 15 | |
| 14011596336 | oxymoron | an apparent or seeming contradiction, that is somehow true- short style |  | 16 |
| 14011596339 | diction | word choice | 17 | |
| 14011596341 | antithesis | balancing of contrasting ideas | 18 | |
| 14011596342 | polysyndeton | stringing a sentence out with conjunctions | 19 | |
| 14011596344 | parallelism | repetition of similar syntactical structure | 20 | |
| 14011596345 | point of view | narrative perspective- 1st, 2nd, or 3rd person | 21 | |
| 14011596346 | apostrophe | addressing a person or entity not present | 22 | |
| 14011596347 | analogy | extended comparison of similar things | 23 | |
| 14011596348 | colloquialism | informal diction | 24 | |
| 14011596349 | alliteration | repetition of consonant sound in initial position | 25 | |
| 14011596350 | assonance | repetition of vowel sound | 26 | |
| 14011596351 | consonance | repetition of consonant sound in any position | 27 | |
| 14011596352 | euphony | soft, pleasing sounds | 28 | |
| 14011596354 | onomatopoeia | word whose sound suggests meaning | 29 | |
| 14011596358 | stanzas | The division of lines in a poem. Some examples are couplet, quatrain, octave | 30 | |
| 14011596360 | rhyme scheme | end rhyme expressed alphabetically (ex. abbacdcd) | 31 | |
| 14011596361 | naturalism | extreme realism in literature | 32 | |
| 14011596362 | existentialism | a form of literature where humans inadequate to explain complex world | 33 | |
| 14011596363 | magical realism | a form of literature that begins real, gets weird | 34 | |
| 14011596364 | expressionism | a form of literature that objectifies inner experience |  | 35 |
| 14011596365 | tragedy | a story that starts good, gets bad, hero destroyed |  | 36 |
| 14011596366 | comedy | a story that starts bad, gets good, hero triumphs |  | 37 |
| 14011596371 | allegory | persons equated with meanings beyond the narrative | 38 | |
| 14011596372 | satire | improving human conditions through exaggeration, comedy | 39 | |
| 14011596373 | novel | extended fictional narrative | 40 | |
| 14011596376 | parody | ridicule of a serious work by exaggerated imitation |  | 41 |
| 14011596382 | Myth | traditional story explaining natural phenomena or cultural practice | 42 | |
| 14011596383 | didactic literature | a work on literature that seeks to instruct | 43 | |
| 14011596385 | central idea | core of a writer's assertion | 44 | |
| 14011596387 | topic sentence | focus of paragraph | 45 | |
| 14011596388 | structure | introduction, body and conclusion | 46 | |
| 14011596400 | free verse | poetry with no regular rhyme or rhythm | 47 | |
| 14011596411 | atmosphere | effect of physical environment | 48 | |
| 14011596412 | tone | author or speaker's attitude | 49 | |
| 14011596413 | conflict | interplay of oppssing forces | 50 | |
| 14011596414 | comic relief | lightens narrative | 51 | |
| 14011596418 | flashback | device to supply background | 52 | |
| 14011596419 | foreshadowing | hints at coming events | 53 | |
| 14011596421 | theme | central idea | 54 | |
| 14011596422 | plot | exposition, rising action, climax, falling action | 55 | |
| 14011596429 | protagonist | character around which the action is centered | 56 | |
| 14011596430 | antagonist | person or force working against the protagonist | 57 | |
| 14011596440 | Denotation | The Dictionary definition of a word | 58 | |
| 14011596441 | Connotation | The meaning beyond the dictionary meaning | 59 | |
| 14011596442 | Figurative Language | language that cannot be taken literally- metaphors, similes, symbols, etc. | 60 |
