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| 5713771184 | active voice | the subject of the sentence performs the action | 0 | |
| 5713815359 | allusion | an indirect reference to something the readers are supposed to know | 1 | |
| 5713822800 | alter ego | a character that is used by the author to speak the authors own thoughts | 2 | |
| 5713838858 | anecdote | brief recounting of a relevant episode | 3 | |
| 5713842934 | antecedent | the word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun | 4 | |
| 5713858773 | classicism | art or literature characterized by a realist view of people in the world; it sticks to traditional themes or structures | 5 | |
| 5713883622 | comic relief | when a humorous scene is inserted into a serious story | 6 | |
| 5713903505 | diction | word choice | 7 | |
| 5713906802 | colloquial | ordinary or familiar type of conversation | 8 | |
| 5713915128 | jargon | the diction used by a group which practices a similar profession or activity | 9 | |
| 5713929572 | connotation | implied meaning, rather than literal meaning | 10 | |
| 5713934710 | denotation | the literal meaning | 11 | |
| 5713939501 | vernacular | language or dialect of a particular country, group, or clan | 12 | |
| 5713951692 | didactic | a term used to describe fiction, non-fiction, or poetry that teaches a specific lesson or moral, or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking | 13 | |
| 5713971752 | adage | a folk saying with a lesson | 14 | |
| 5713976700 | allegory | a story in which characters, things, and events represent qualities or concepts | 15 | |
| 5713986066 | aphorism | a terse statement which expresses a general truth or moral principle | 16 | |
| 5713999119 | ellipsis | the deliberate omission of a word or phrase from prose done for effect by the author | 17 | |
| 5714030173 | euphemism | a more agreeable, or less offensive, substitute for generally unpleasant words | 18 | |
| 5714045417 | figurative language | writing that is not meant to be taken literally | 19 | |
| 5714048925 | analogy | a comparison to one pair of variables to a parallel set of variables | 20 | |
| 5714059776 | hyperbole | exaggeration | 21 | |
| 5714064422 | idiom | a common, often used expression that does not make sense if you take it literally | 22 | |
| 5714073761 | metaphor | making an implied comparison, not using 'like' or 'as' | 23 | |
| 5714090062 | metonymy | replacing an actual word or idea with a related word or concept | 24 | |
| 5714103428 | synectoche | a kind of metonymy when a whole is represented by naming one of its parts or vice-versa | 25 | |
| 5714143660 | simile | a direct comparison using 'like' or 'as' | 26 | |
| 5714151901 | synesthesia | a description involving the crossing of the senses | 27 | |
| 5714164970 | personification | giving human like qualities to something that is not human | 28 | |
| 5714174021 | foreshadowing | when an author gives hints about what will occur later in the story | 29 | |
| 5714184092 | genre | the major category into which a literary work fits | 30 | |
| 5714193353 | gothic | writing that is characterized by gloom, mystery, fear and or death | 31 | |
| 5714203597 | imagery | word or word that create a picture in the reader's mind | 32 | |
| 5714211311 | invective | a long emotionally violent attack, using string abusive language | 33 | |
| 5714232665 | irony | when the opposite of what you expect to happen does | 34 | |
| 5714240937 | verbal irony | when you say something and mean the opposite | 35 | |
| 5714243887 | dramatic irony | when the audience knows something that the character does not and would be surprised to find out | 36 | |
| 5714254890 | situational irony | found in the plot or story line of a book, story, or movie | 37 | |
| 5714265968 | juxtaposition | placing things side by side with the purpose of comparison | 38 | |
| 5714273433 | mood | the atmosphere created by the literature and accomplished by word choice | 39 | |
| 5714283042 | motif | a recurring theme or idea | 40 | |
| 5714290379 | oxymoron | when apparently contradictory terms are paired together and suggest a paradox | 41 | |
| 5714301976 | pacing | the speed or tempo of an authors writing | 42 | |
| 5714312099 | paradox | a seemingly contradictory situation which is actually true | 43 | |
| 5714319862 | parallelism | sentence construction which places equal grammatical constructions near each other, or repeats identical grammatical patterns | 44 | |
| 5714338020 | anaphora | repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences or clause in a row | 45 | |
| 5714353130 | chiasmus | when the same words are used twice in succession, but the second time the order of the words is reversed | 46 | |
| 5714376987 | anithesis | two opposite or contrasting words, phrases, or clauses with parallel structure | 47 | |
| 5714386399 | zuegma | when a single word governs or modifies two or more other words, and the meaning of the first word must change for each of the other words that it governs or modifies | 48 | |
| 5714410723 | parenthetical idea | when parenthesis are used to set off ideas from the rest of the sentence | 49 | |
| 5714421768 | parody | an exaggerated imitation of a serious work for humorous purposes | 50 | |
| 5714433518 | persona | the fictional mask or narrator that tells a story | 51 | |
| 5714439402 | poetic device | device used in poetry to manipulate the sound of words, sentences, or lines | 52 | |
| 5714473012 | assonance | repetition of identical or similar vowels | 53 | |
| 5714498440 | alliteration | repetition of the same consonant sounds at the beginning of words | 54 | |
| 5714509625 | consonance | repetition of the same consonants at the end of a word or within words | 55 | |
| 5714522522 | onomatopoeia | the use of a word which imitates or suggests how it will sound | 56 | |
| 5714533256 | internal rhyme | a line of poetry that contains a rhyme within the same rhyme | 57 | |
| 5714545824 | slant rhyme | when a poet creates a rhyme but two words do not rhyme exactly, they are merely similar | 58 | |
| 5714564958 | end rhyme | when the last word of the two different lines of poetry rhyme | 59 | |
| 5714573981 | rhyme scheme | pattern of a poem's end rhymes | 60 | |
| 5714581755 | stressed and unstressed syllables | in every word of more than one syllable one of the syllables is stressed or is said with more force than the other syllable(s) | 61 | |
| 5714600925 | meter | regular pattern to the syllables in lines of poetry | 62 | |
| 5714607227 | free verse | poetry that does not have much meter or rhyme | 63 | |
| 5714613493 | iambic pentameter | a line of poetry that has ten syllables alternating with stressed and unstressed | 64 | |
| 5714626313 | sonnet | a fourteen line poem written in iambic pentameter | 65 | |
| 5714637106 | polysyndeton | when a writer creates a list of items which are all separated by conjuctions | 66 | |
| 5714644567 | pun | a play on words; when a word that has two or more meanings is used in a humorous way | 67 |
