4299887071 | Metaphor | Comparison of two unlike things without using like or as | ![]() | 0 |
4299896315 | hyperbole | exaggerating or stretching the truth for literary effect | ![]() | 1 |
4299903321 | simile | a comparison of two unlike things using like or as | ![]() | 2 |
4299908639 | personification | giving human characteristics to non human things | ![]() | 3 |
4299915551 | imagery | words that create images in the mind | ![]() | 4 |
4299921172 | rhyme scheme | the pattern of rhyming words that appears at the ends of two or more lines of poetry | ![]() | 5 |
4299929925 | alliteration | repetition of the beginning consonant sound | ![]() | 6 |
4299938603 | assonance | repetition of an internal vowel sound | ![]() | 7 |
4299945265 | onomatopoeia | the use of words that imitate sounds as in buzz, hiss, or murmur | ![]() | 8 |
4299950433 | stanza | a unit or group of lines in poetry that are separated by spaces | ![]() | 9 |
4299955958 | quatrain | 4 line stanza | ![]() | 10 |
4299958340 | couplet | 2 line stanza | ![]() | 11 |
4299960586 | haiku | a Japanese form of poetry with three lines of 5,7,5 syllables | ![]() | 12 |
4300000241 | sonnet | fourteen lines of iambic pentameter popular by shakesphere | ![]() | 13 |
4300006367 | myth | a fictional tale that explains the actions of gods or heroes or the causes of natural phenomenon | ![]() | 14 |
4300013707 | mystery | a story that involves the reader in guessing who committed the crime or deed | ![]() | 15 |
4300019493 | protagonist | the main character in a literary work who drives the plot forward | ![]() | 16 |
4300024920 | hero | a character whose actions are inspiring | ![]() | 17 |
4300030325 | science fiction | fictional stories that center upon scientific elements | ![]() | 18 |
4300033954 | resolution | the tying up loose ends and the end of the story | ![]() | 19 |
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