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| 7845874975 | Verbal Irony | A contrast or discrepancy between the expectation and reality; when a person says one thing and yet means another; sarcasm. | 0 | |
| 7845874976 | Situational Irony | When the outcome of a situation is the opposite of what someone expects. | 1 | |
| 7845874977 | Epitaph | A tombstone inscription or brief poem composed in memory of someone who has died. | 2 | |
| 7845874978 | Denouement | The resolution in the sequence of events in a narrative work, in which the final outcome is revealed. | 3 | |
| 7845874979 | Implied Theme | The main idea of a story, poem, novel, or play that sometimes expresses a general statement about life, revealed gradually through elements such as plot, character, setting, point of view, and symbol. | 4 | |
| 7845874980 | Setting | The time and place in which the events of a literary work occur. The setting includes not only physical surroundings, but also the ideas, customs, values, and beliefs of the people who live there. | 5 | |
| 7845874981 | Genre | A category or type of literature. | 6 | |
| 7845874982 | Epic | A long narrative poem that recounts, in formal language, the exploits of a larger-than-life hero. | 7 | |
| 7845874983 | Folk Epic | A long narrative poem that recounts the exploits of a larger-than-life hero, has uncertain authorship, and arises usually through storytelling, from the collective experiences of a people. | 8 | |
| 7845874984 | Protagonist | The central character in a story, drama, or dramatic poem, around whom most of the action revolves, who undergoes some conflict crucial to the plot. | 9 | |
| 7845874985 | Antagonist | A person or force that opposes the protagonist, or central character, in a story or drama, and may try to prevent the protagonist from doing something or may simply have beliefs that contradict the protagonist's. | 10 | |
| 7845874986 | Epic Hero | Usually a man of high social status who embodies the ideals of his people, often of great historical or legendary importance | 11 | |
| 7845874987 | Direct Characterization | The method used to reveal the personality of a character wherein the author states its description overtly. | 12 | |
| 7845874988 | Indirect Characterization | The author suggests traits through a character's words, actions, or appearance, as well as through the reactions of other characters to the person being portrayed. | 13 | |
| 7845874989 | Minor Character | A less important personage in a narrative or drama, used by a writer to "fill out" a scene, to provide a line of dialogue, or to further the plot in some way. | 14 | |
| 7845874990 | Main/Major Character | A personage in a narrative or drama, typically characterized fully, showing varied and sometimes contradictory traits. | 15 | |
| 7845874991 | Round Character | A character who shows varied and sometimes contradictory traits. | 16 | |
| 7845874992 | Dynamic Character | A personage in a narrative or drama who grows or changes significantly during the course of a story and is influenced by his or her experiences and by other characters in the story. | 17 | |
| 7845874993 | Flat Character | A character who reveals only one personality trait. | 18 | |
| 7845874994 | Static Character | A character who remains primarily the same throughout a story. | 19 | |
| 7845874995 | Internal Conflict | A struggle that takes place within the mind of a character who is torn between opposing feelings or goals. | 20 | |
| 7845874996 | External Conflict | The central struggle between two opposing forces in a story or drama, existing when a character struggles against some outside force, such as another person, nature, society, or fate. | 21 | |
| 7845874997 | Tone | A reflection of the writer's attitude toward a subject as conveyed through such element as word choice, punctuation, sentence structure, and figures of speech, conveying a variety of attitudes such as sympathy, irony, sadness, or bitterness. | 22 | |
| 7845874998 | Allusion | A reference in a work of literature to a well-known person, place, event, written work, or work of art. | 23 | |
| 7845874999 | Foreshadowing | The author's use of hints or cues to prepare readers for events that will happen later in a narrative. | 24 | |
| 7845875000 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech wherein the poet substitutes a part for a whole. | 25 | |
| 7845875001 | Kenning | A descriptive figure of speech that takes the place of a common noun. | 26 | |
| 7845875002 | Hyperbole | A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor. | 27 | |
| 7845875003 | Apostrophe | A literary device in which a speaker talks directly to an inanimate object, a person who is absent or dead, or an abstract quality, such as love. | 28 | |
| 7845875004 | Metaphor | A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seemingly unlike things to help readers perceive the first thing more vividly and to suggest an under- lying similarity between the two, but uses neither the word like nor as. | 29 | |
| 7845875005 | Simile | A figure of speech that uses the words like or as to compare two seemingly unlike things. | 30 | |
| 7845875006 | Personification | A figure of speech in which an animal, object, force of nature, or idea is given human qualities. | 31 | |
| 7845875007 | Symbol | Any person, animal, place, object, or event that exists on a literal level within a work, but also represents something on a figurative level. | 32 | |
| 7845875008 | Enjambment | The continuation of a sentence from one line of a poem to another, often to emphasize rhyming words, and to create a conversational tone. | 33 | |
| 7845875009 | Caesura | An obvious pause in a line of poetry, usually found near the middle of a line, with two stressed syllables before and two after, creating a strong rhythm; can be indicated with double slashes (//). | 34 | |
| 7845875010 | Alliteration | The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words, often used to emphasize certain words or to create a musical quality. | 35 |
