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| 13789775811 | Alliteration | When two or more words in a phrase or line of poetry start with the same constant sound | 0 | |
| 13789775812 | Allusion | A figure of speech that alludes to a well known event, story, person or object | 1 | |
| 13789775813 | Apostrophe | When writer or speaker speaks directly to a person, dead or not present or an inanimate object | 2 | |
| 13789775814 | Assonance | the repetition of a vowel sound or diphthong in non-rhyming words. | 3 | |
| 13789775815 | Blank Verse | Unrhymed verse | 4 | |
| 13789775816 | Colloquial | Used in or characteristic familiar and informal conversation (kind of, somewhat or rather) | 5 | |
| 13789775817 | Enjambment | The running over a sentence from one verse or couplet into another so that closely related words fall in different lines | 6 | |
| 13789775818 | Figurative language | Uses figures of speech to be more effective, persuasive and impactful | 7 | |
| 13789775819 | Figure of speech | A form of expression (like simile or metaphor) used to convey meaning or heighten effect by comparing or identifying one thing with another that has familiar meaning to the reader or listening | 8 | |
| 13789775820 | Hyperbole | Extravagant exaggeration | 9 | |
| 13789775821 | Imagery | Figurative language in mental images | 10 | |
| 13789775822 | Literal | Free from exaggeration and embellishment | 11 | |
| 13789775823 | Metaphor | A figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest likeness or analogy | 12 | |
| 13789775824 | Onomatopoeia | The naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it (hiss, pop) | 13 | |
| 13789775825 | Oxymoron | A combination of contradictory words (cruel kindness, kill em with kindness) | 14 | |
| 13789775826 | Personification | Representation of a thing or abstraction as a person or by the human form | 15 | |
| 13789775827 | Platitude | The quality or state or being dull or insipid | 16 | |
| 13789775828 | Poetic license | The freedom to depart from the facts of a matter or from the conventional rules of language when speaking or writing in order to create an effect | 17 | |
| 13789775829 | Prose | A literary medium distinguished from poetry especially by its greater irregularity and variety of rhythm and its closer correspondence to the patterns of everyday speech | 18 | |
| 13789775830 | Simile | A figure of speech comparing two unlike things using like or as | 19 | |
| 13789775831 | Sonnet | A fixed verse form of italian origin consisting of 14 lines that have 5-foot iambies rhyming according to a prescribed scheme | 20 | |
| 13789775832 | Stream-of-consciousness | The continuous unedited chronological flow of conscious experience through the mind | 21 | |
| 13789775833 | Subjective | The characteristic of or belonging to reality as perceived rather than independent of mind | 22 | |
| 13789775834 | Symbol | Something that stands for or suggests something else by association, convention or resemblance | 23 | |
| 13789783526 | Alienation | a withdrawing or separation of a person or a person's affections from an object or position of former attachment; a conveyance of property to another | 24 | |
| 13789783527 | Anagnorisis | the point in the plot especially of a tragedy at which the protagonist recognizes his or her or some other character's true identity or discovers the true nature of his or her own situation | 25 | |
| 13789783528 | Antagonist | one that contends with or opposes another; an agent of physiological antagonism | 26 | |
| 13789783529 | Catharsis | purification or purgation of the emotions; a purification or purgation that brings about spiritual renewal or release from tension; elimination of a complex by bringing it to consciousness and affording it expression | 27 | |
| 13789783530 | Climax | the most intense, exciting, or important point of something; a culmination or apex. | 28 | |
| 13789783531 | Denouement | the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work; the outcome of a complex sequence of events | 29 | |
| 13789783532 | deus ex machina | a god introduced by means of a crane in ancient Greek and Roman drama to decide the final outcome; a person or thing (as in fiction or drama) that appears or is introduced suddenly and unexpectedly and provides a contrived solution to an apparently insoluble difficulty | 30 | |
| 13789783533 | dramatic irony | when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't; incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result | 31 | |
| 13789783534 | Elizabethan | of, relating to, or characteristic of Elizabeth I of England or her reign | 32 | |
| 13789783535 | Empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings; the imaginative projection of a subjective state into an object so that the object appears to be infused with it | 33 | |
| 13789783536 | en medias res | in the middle of things | 34 | |
| 13789783537 | Exposition | A narrative device, often used at the beginning of a work that provides necessary background information about the characters and their circumstances; discourse or an example of it designed to convey information or explain what is difficult to understand | 35 | |
| 13789783538 | Hubris | excessive pride or self-confidence | 36 | |
| 13789783539 | Hamartia | tragic flaw | 37 | |
| 13789783540 | King's English | standard, pure, or correct English speech or usage | 38 | |
| 13789783541 | Melodrama | a work (such as a movie or play) characterized by extravagant theatricality and by the predominance of plot and physical action over characterization | 39 | |
| 13789783542 | Mimesis | imitation | 40 | |
| 13789783543 | mise en scene | the arrangement of actors and scenery on a stage for a theatrical production | 41 | |
| 13789783544 | Monologue | a dramatic sketch performed by one actor | 42 | |
| 13789783545 | Nihilism | a viewpoint that traditional values and beliefs are unfounded and that existence is senseless and useless | 43 | |
| 13789783546 | Peripeteia | a sudden or unexpected reversal of circumstances or situation especially in a literary work | 44 | |
| 13789783547 | Pleonasm | the use of more words than those necessary to denote mere sense | 45 | |
| 13789783548 | Prose | the ordinary language people use in speaking or writing; | 46 | |
| 13789783549 | prose rhythm | a literary medium distinguished from poetry especially by its greater irregularity and variety of rhythm and its closer correspondence to the patterns of everyday speech | 47 | |
| 13789783550 | Protagonist | the principal character in a literary work (such as a drama or story) | 48 | |
| 13789783551 | Persona | a character assumed by an author in a written work | 49 | |
| 13789783552 | Provincial | narrow-minded; one living in or coming from a province | 50 | |
| 13789783553 | Soliloquy | the act of talking to oneself | 51 | |
| 13789783554 | static character | A character that does not change from the beginning of the story to the end | 52 | |
| 13789783555 | stock character | the stereotyped character in which he is immediately known from typical characters in history | 53 | |
| 13789783556 | Stock Situation | often-used incidents or sequences of actions | 54 | |
| 13789783557 | Tragedy (Aristotle) | "Tragedy is a representation of a serious, complete action which has magnitude, in embellished speech . . . [represented] by people acting and not by narration; accomplishing by means of pity and terror the catharsis of such emotions." | 55 | |
| 13789783558 | Victorian | typical of the moral standards, attitudes, or conduct of the age of Victoria especially when considered stuffy, prudish, or hypocritical | 56 | |
| 13789804391 | Apostrophe | the addressing of a usually absent person or a usually personified thing rhetorically | 57 | |
| 13789804392 | Assonance | relatively close juxtaposition of similar sounds especially of vowels; repetition of vowels without repetition of consonants used as an alternative to rhyme in verse | 58 | |
| 13789804393 | Blank verse | unrhymed verse; unrhymed metrical poetry | 59 | |
| 13789804394 | Carpe diem | the enjoyment of the pleasures of the moment without concern for the future; the reader should make the most of life | 60 | |
| 13789804395 | Cinquain | a 5-line stanza | 61 | |
| 13789804396 | Couplet | two successive lines of verse forming a unit marked usually by rhythmic correspondence, rhyme, or the inclusion of a self-contained utterance | 62 | |
| 13789804397 | Elegy | a song or poem expressing sorrow or lamentation especially for one who is dead; something (such as a speech) resembling such a song or poem | 63 | |
| 13789804398 | Enjambment | the running over of a sentence from one verse or couplet into another so that closely related words fall in different lines | 64 | |
| 13789804399 | Euphony | leasing or sweet sound; a harmonious succession of words having a pleasing sound | 65 | |
| 13789804400 | Feminine rhyme | double rhyme in verses with feminine endings (as motion, ocean) | 66 | |
| 13789804401 | Heroic couplet | a pair of rhyming iambic pentameters | 67 | |
| 13789804402 | Hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") | 68 | |
| 13789804403 | Iamb | a metrical foot consisting of one short syllable followed by one long syllable or of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable | 69 | |
| 13789804404 | Iambic Pentameter | a line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable | 70 | |
| 13789804405 | Imagery | figurative language that produces mental images; author's use of vivid language to add depth to their work | 71 | |
| 13789804406 | Masculine rhyme | a monosyllabic rhyme or a rhyme that occurs only in stressed final syllables (such as claims, flames or rare, despair) | 72 | |
| 13789804407 | Metaphor | figure of speech that makes an implicit, implied, or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated, but which share some common characteristics | 73 | |
| 13789804408 | Implied metaphor | type of metaphor that compares two unlike things without mentioning one of them. For example, "Elise finally lured Adam into her web." | 74 | |
| 13789804409 | Extended metaphor | a comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph, or lines in a poem. It is often comprised of more than one sentence, and sometimes consists of a full paragraph | 75 | |
| 13789804410 | Controlling metaphor | a symbolic story, where the whole poem may be a metaphor for something else; motif | 76 | |
| 13789804411 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech by which a part is put for the whole (such as fifty sail for fifty ships), the whole for a part (such as society for high society), the species for the genus (such as cutthroat for assassin), the genus for the species (such as a creature for a man), or the name of the material for the thing made (such as boards for stage) | 77 | |
| 13789804412 | Metonymy | a figure of speech consisting of the use of the name of one thing for that of another of which it is an attribute or with which it is associated (such as "crown" with "King+ Queen") | 78 | |
| 13789804413 | Octave | the first eight lines of an Italian sonnet; a musical interval embracing eight diatonic degrees | 79 | |
| 13789804414 | onomatopoeia | the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it (such as buzz, hiss) | 80 | |
| 13789804415 | Oxymoron | a combination of contradictory or incongruous words (such as cruel kindness)broadly; something (such as a concept) that is made up of contradictory or incongruous elements | 81 | |
| 13789804416 | Parallelism | repeated syntactical similarities introduced for rhetorical effect | 82 | |
| 13789804417 | Personification | attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form. | 83 | |
| 13789804418 | Quatrain | a unit or group of four lines of verse | 84 | |
| 13789804419 | Sestet | a stanza or a poem of six lines | 85 | |
| 13789804420 | Simile | a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as | 86 | |
| 13789804421 | Sonnet | a fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of 14 lines that are typically 5-foot iambics rhyming according to a prescribed scheme | 87 | |
| 13789804422 | Italian or Petrarchan | a sonnet consisting of an octave rhyming abba abba and a sestet rhyming in any of various patterns | 88 | |
| 13789804423 | English or Shakespearean | a sonnet consisting of three quatrains and a final couplet with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg. | 89 | |
| 13789804424 | Spondee | a metrical foot consisting of two long or stressed syllables | 90 | |
| 13789804425 | Symbol | an arbitrary or conventional sign used in writing or printing relating to a particular field to represent operations, quantities, elements, relations, or qualities | 91 | |
| 13789804426 | Conventional Symbol | widely recognized signs or sign systems that signify a concept or idea that all members of a group understand based on a common cultural understanding | 92 | |
| 13789804427 | Contextual Symbol | a setting, character, action, object, name, or anything else in a work that maintains its literal significance while suggesting other meanings | 93 | |
| 13789804428 | Synaesthesia | a concomitant sensation especially a subjective sensation or image of a sense (as of color) other than the one (as of sound) being stimulated | 94 | |
| 13789804429 | Litotes | understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary | 95 | |
| 13789804430 | Terza Rima | a verse form consisting of tercets usually in iambic pentameter in English poetry with an interlaced rhyme scheme (such as aba, bcb, cdc) | 96 | |
| 13789804431 | Rhyme Royal | a stanza of seven lines in iambic pentameter with a rhyme scheme of ababbcc | 97 | |
| 13789804432 | Tercet | a unit or group of three lines of verse; one of the 3-line stanzas in terza rima; one of the two groups of three lines forming the sestet in an Italian sonnet | 98 | |
| 13789804433 | Sestina | a lyrical fixed form consisting of six 6-line usually unrhymed stanzas in which the end words of the first stanza recur as end words of the following five stanzas in a successively rotating order and as the middle and end words of the three verses of the concluding terce | 99 | |
| 13789804434 | Internal rhyme | rhyme between a word within a line and another either at the end of the same line or within another line | 100 | |
| 13789804435 | Consonance | harmony or agreement among components | 101 | |
| 13789823100 | Horatian satire | After the Roman satirist Horace: Satire in which the voice is indulgent, tolerant, amused, and witty. The speaker holds up to gentle ridicule the absurdities and follies of human beings, aiming at producing in the reader not the anger of a Juvenal, but a wry smile | 102 | |
| 13789823101 | Juvenalian satire | After the Roman satirist Juvenal: Formal satire in which the speaker attacks vice and error with contempt and indignation Juvenalian satire in its realism and its harshness is in strong contrast to Horatian satire. | 103 | |
| 13789823102 | Parody | an imitation of a particular writer, artist, or genre, exaggerating it deliberately to produce a comic effect | 104 | |
| 13789823103 | Caricature | exaggeration by means of often ludicrous distortion of parts or characteristics | 105 | |
| 13789823104 | Burlesque | a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation | 106 | |
| 13789823105 | Wit | the ability to relate seemingly disparate things so as to illuminate or amuse | 107 | |
| 13789823106 | Epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought | 108 | |
| 13789823107 | Sarcasm | a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain | 109 | |
| 13789823108 | Repartee | a quick and witty reply | 110 | |
| 13789823109 | Allusion | an implied or indirect reference especially in literature | 111 | |
| 13789823110 | Tone | : vocal or musical sound of a specific quality | 112 | |
| 13789823129 | Irony | 113 | ||
| 13789823111 | Verbal Irony | when words express something contrary to truth or someone says the opposite of what they really feel or mean | 114 | |
| 13789823112 | Situational Irony | occurs when incongruity appears between expectations of something to happen, and what actually happens instead. | 115 | |
| 13789823113 | Dramatic Irony | when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't; incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result | 116 | |
| 13789823114 | Socratic Irony | pretended ignorance in discussion | 117 | |
| 13789823115 | Cosmic Irony | fate and destiny, or even gods, control and play with human hopes and desires | 118 | |
| 13789823116 | Literal | Free from exaggeration and embellishment | 119 | |
| 13789823117 | Figurative | representing by a figure or resemblance | 120 | |
| 13789823118 | Pessimism | an inclination to emphasize adverse aspects, conditions, and possibilities or to expect the worst possible outcome | 121 | |
| 13789823119 | Misanthropic | of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope (a person who hates or distrusts humankind) | 122 | |
| 13789823120 | Optimism | a doctrine that this world is the best possible world | 123 | |
| 13789823121 | Philanthropists | one who makes an active effort to promote human welfare | 124 | |
| 13789823122 | Pollyanna | a person characterized by irrepressible optimism and a tendency to find good in everything | 125 | |
| 13789823123 | Double entendre | ambiguity of meaning arising from language that lends itself to more than one interpretation | 126 | |
| 13789823124 | Farce | to improve or expand (something, such as a literary work) as if by stuffing | 127 | |
| 13789823125 | Lampoon | a harsh satire usually directed against an individual | 128 | |
| 13789823126 | Pun | the usually humorous use of a word in such a way as to suggest two or more of its meanings or the meaning of another word similar in sound | 129 | |
| 13789823127 | Slapstick | a style of humour involving exaggerated physical activity which exceeds the boundaries of normal physical comedy | 130 | |
| 13789823128 | Tall tale | a story that is very difficult to believe, a greatly exaggerated story | 131 |
