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| 103676438 | adventure novel | a novel where exciting events predominate over characterization and sometimes theme | 0 | |
| 103676439 | allegory | a form of extended metaphor in which objects and persons in a narrative, either in prose or in verse, are equated with meanings that lie outside the narrative itself | 1 | |
| 103676440 | alliteration | the repetition of initial consonant sounds | 2 | |
| 103687079 | allusion | a casual and brief reference to a famous historical or literary figure or event | 3 | |
| 103687080 | anadiplosis | a rhetorical trope formed by repeating the last word of one phrase, clause, or sentence at or very near the beginning of the next. it can be generated in series for the sake of beauty or to give a sense of logical progression | 4 | |
| 103687081 | analogy | the comparison of two things, which are alike in several respects, for the purpose of explaining or clarifying some unfamiliar or difficult idea or object by showing how the idea or object is similar to some familiar one | 5 | |
| 103687082 | anaphora | the repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences, commonly in conjunction with climax and with parallelism | 6 | |
| 103687083 | antimetabole | reversal of the order of repeated words or phrases (a loosely chiastic structure, AB-BA) to intensify the final formulation, to present alternatives, or to show contrast (all work and no play is as harmful as all play and no work) | 7 | |
| 103687084 | antithesis | establishing a clear, contrasting relationship between two ideas by joining them together or juxtaposing them, often in parallel structure | 8 | |
| 103687085 | apostrophe | the direct address of a person or personified thing, either present or absent. its most common purpose is to give vent to or display intense emotion, which can no longer be held back | 9 | |
| 103687086 | assonance | the use of similar vowel sounds repeated in successive or proximate words containing different consonants | 10 | |
| 103687087 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | 11 | |
| 103687088 | burlesque | a work designed to ridicule a style, literary form, or subject matter either by treating the exalted in a trivial way or by discussing the trivial in exalted terms (with mock dignity) | 12 | |
| 103687089 | caesura | a pause, metrical or rhetorical, occurring somewhere in a line of poetry | 13 | |
| 103687090 | canon | in relation to literature, this term is half-seriously applied to those works generally accepted as the great ones | 14 | |
| 103687091 | chiasmus | a crossing parallelism, where the second part of a grammatical construction is balanced or paralleled by the first part, only in reverse order (he labors without complaining and without bragging rests) | 15 | |
| 103687092 | coming of age story | a type of novel where the protagonist is initiated into adulthood through knowledge, experience, or both, often by a process of disillusionment. | 16 | |
| 103687093 | conceit | an elaborate, usually intellectually ingenious poetic comparison or image, such as an analogy or metaphor in which, say a beloved is compared to a ship, planet, etc. | 17 | |
| 103687094 | diacope | repetition of a word or phrase after an intervening word or phrase | 18 | |
| 103687095 | end-stopped | a line that has a natural pause at the end (period, comma, etc.) | 19 | |
| 103687096 | enjambed | the running over of a sentence or thought into the next couplet or line without a pause at the end of the line; a run-on line | 20 | |
| 103687097 | epistrophe | the repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences. counterpart to anaphora | 21 | |
| 103687098 | epithet | an adjective or adjective phrase appropriately qualifying a subject (noun) by naming a key or important characteristic of the subject, as in "laughing happiness" | 22 | |
| 103687099 | transferred epithet | an adjective modifying a noun which it cannot logically modify, yet which works because the metaphorical meaning remains clear | 23 | |
| 103687100 | epizeuxis | the repetition of a word for emphasis | 24 | |
| 103687101 | euphemism | the substitution of a mild or less negative word or phrase for a harsh or blunt one, as in the use of "pass away" instead of "die" | 25 | |
| 103687102 | flashback | a device that allows the writer to present events that happened before the time of the current narration or the current events in the fiction | 26 | |
| 103687103 | foot | the basic unit of meter consisting of a group of two or three syllables | 27 | |
| 103687104 | frame | a narrative structure that provides a setting and exposition for the main narrative of the novel. often, a narrator will describe where he found the manuscript of the novel or where he heard someone tell the story he is about to relate | 28 | |
| 103687105 | free verse | verse that has neither regular rhyme nor regular meter | 29 | |
| 103696817 | heroic couplet | two lines of rhyming iambic pentameter | 30 | |
| 103696818 | humanism | the new emphasis in the renaissance on human culture, education and reason, sparked by a revival of interest in classical Greek and Roman literature, culture, and language | 31 | |
| 103696819 | hyperbole | exaggeration used for emphasis. can be used to heighten effect, to catalyze recognition, or to create a humorous perception | 32 | |
| 103696820 | invective | speech or writing that abuses, denounces, or vituperates against. it can be directed against a person, cause, idea, or system. it employs a heavy use of negative language | 33 | |
| 103696821 | irony | a mode of expression, through words (verbal irony) or events (irony of the situation), conveying a reality different from and usually the opposite to appearance or expectation | 34 | |
| 103696822 | juvenalian satire | harsher, more pointed, perhaps intolerant satire typified by the writings of juvenal. often attacks particular people, sometimes thinly disguised as fictional characters. uses invective | 35 | |
| 103696823 | lampoon | a crude, coarse, often bitter satire ridiculing the personal appearance or character of a person | 36 | |
| 103696824 | literary quality | a judgment about the value of a novel as literature | 37 | |
| 103700091 | metaphor | a comparison which imaginatively identifies one thing with another dissimilar thing, and transfers or ascribes to the first thing ( the tenor or idea) some of the qualities of the second (the vehicle or image) | 38 | |
| 103700092 | metaphysical poetry | applied to style of 17th century poetry first by John Dryden and later by Dr. Samuel Johnson because of the highly intellectual and often abstruse imagery involved. revolt against the conventions of elizabethan love poetry | 39 | |
| 103700093 | meter | the rhythmic pattern that emerges when words are arranged in such a way that their stressed and unstressed syllables fall into a more or less regular sequence; established by the regular recurrence of similar accent patterns (feet) | 40 | |
| 103700094 | metonymy | another form of metaphor, very similar to synecdoche, in which a closely associated object is substituted for the object or idea in mind (You cannot fight city hall) | 41 | |
| 103700095 | mock epic | treating a frivolous or minor subject seriously, especially by using the machinery and devices of the epic (invocations, descriptions of armor, battles). opposite of travesty | 42 | |
| 103700096 | novel | an extended prose fiction narrative of 50,000 words or more concerning the everyday events of ordinary people | 43 | |
| 103700097 | novella | a prose fiction longer than a short story but shorter than a novel | 44 | |
| 103703676 | novel of manners | a novel focusing on and describing in detail the social customs and habits of a particular social group. usually these conventions function as shaping or even stifling controls over the behavior of the characters | 45 | |
| 103703677 | onomatopoeia | the use of words which in their prononciation suggest their meaning "hiss" "screech" | 46 | |
| 103703678 | oxymoron | a paradox reduced to two words, usually in adjective-noun ("eloquent silence") or adverb-adjective relationship, and is used for effect, to emphasize contrasts, incongruities, hypocrisy, or simply the complex nature of reality | 47 | |
| 103703679 | parody | a satiric imitation of a work or of an author with the idea of ridiculing the author, his ideas, or the work. | 48 | |
| 103703680 | persona | the person created by the author to tell a story. the actual author of the work often distances himself from what is said or told by adopting a persona--a personality different from his real one | 49 | |
| 103703681 | personification | the metaphorical representation of an animal or inanimate object as having human attributes | 50 |
