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| 7309527777 | Diction | Word choice | 0 | |
| 7309530420 | Syntax | The way a sentence is arranged.(form/voice) | 1 | |
| 7309534085 | Denotation | What a word literally means. | 2 | |
| 7309540111 | Connotation | The tone or emotional effect a word has. | 3 | |
| 7309549723 | Tone | Expresses the author's attitude toward the subject. Tones in literature often reflect tones of voice in real-world relationships or situations.Tone also helps to establish mood. | 4 | |
| 7309562937 | Rhetoric | The art of speaking or writing effectively or eloquently. | 5 | |
| 7309567209 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration for effect, emphasis, or to serve the truth. Also called over-statement. | 6 | |
| 7309574028 | Understatement | A figure of speech that consists of saying less than one means, or of saying what one means with less force than what seems warranted. | 7 | |
| 7309590219 | Parallelism | A repetition of syntactical similarities closely related for rhetorical effect. The repetitive structure lends wit or emphasis to the meaning of separate clauses, making this particularly effective in antithesis. | 8 | |
| 7309610232 | Antithesis | Figure of speech in which one thought is balanced with a contrasting thought in a parallel arrangements of words of phrases. | 9 | |
| 7309626166 | Repetition | The author's use of a repeated word, phrase, image, or event to place emphasis on an element of the story. Repetition becomes more important as the story unfolds. | 10 | |
| 7309642119 | Alliteration | The repetition of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the consonant sound or vowel sound. Can serve poetic rhythm. | 11 | |
| 7309658749 | Allusion | Figure of speech in which a literary work makes reference to a historical figure, event, or object, or to a character or theme found in another literary work. | 12 | |
| 7309678771 | Analogy | The comparison of two things, which are alike in several respects, for the purpose of explaining some unfamiliar idea by showing how the idea is similar to a familiar one. | 13 | |
| 7309702504 | Bombast | Speech that comes off as pompous or pretentious. | 14 | |
| 7309711040 | Colloquialism | Expressions- informal, not always grammatically correct that find acceptance in certain geographical areas and within certain groups of people. | 15 | |
| 7309726757 | Local color | The descriptions of the setting, people, dialect,etc of a particular region. | 16 | |
| 7309737214 | Idioms | An expression whose meaning is not predictable from the meanings of its parts ("kick the bucket"=dying);also a language, dialect, or speaking, or speaking style peculiar to a group of people. | 17 | |
| 7309759927 | Vernacular and Dialect | Expressed or written in the native language of a place or a time. | 18 | |
| 7309792491 | Metaphor | A figure of speech wherein a comparison is made between two unlike elements not using "like" or "as". | 19 | |
| 7309803698 | Extended metaphor | A metaphor introduced and then further developed throughout a literary work; especially prevalent in poetry. | 20 | |
| 7309814478 | Mixed metaphor | A metaphor whose elements are either incongruent or contradictory. | 21 | |
| 7309828780 | Conceit | An extended metaphor where two unlike things are compared in several different and sophisticated ways. | 22 | |
| 7309833328 | Symbol | Something that means more than what it is. Therefore it symbols can be read figuratively or metaphorically. | 23 | |
| 7309841174 | Allegory | A narrative or description having a second meaning below the surface; a story in which each aspect carries symbolic meaning beyond the tale itself, a common trait of fairytales. | 24 | |
| 7309860121 | Crisis | The climax or turning point of a story or play (there may be more than one crisis when there are multiple almost-equal major characters) | 25 | |
| 7309875582 | Denouement | A French word for a plot's resolution that has found it's way into English usage. (lit device) | 26 | |
| 7309882965 | Dynamic character | A character that changes over the course of the story. Often a feature of a protagonist and often connected to a story's theme. | 27 | |
| 7309893167 | Hero | A protagonist who has strength and/or moral character. | 28 | |
| 7309898048 | Anti-hero | A protagonist who is the antithesis of the hero. | 29 | |
| 7309903188 | Foil | A character who provides a contrast to another character, thus emphasizing the other's traits; a character in a play who sets off the main character by comparison. | 30 | |
| 7309930637 | Grotesque | Can be used as either an adjective or noun. Focuses on physically or mentally impaired characters. Can be heroic or not. | 31 | |
| 7309938109 | Irony | A situation or use of language involving some kind incongruity or discrepancy. | 32 | |
| 7309950631 | Verbal Irony | When what is meant is the opposite of what is said. | 33 | |
| 7309985660 | Situational Irony | A situation in which there is incongruity between actual circumstances and what seems to be appropriate or what is anticipated and what actually happens. | 34 | |
| 7309999934 | Dramatic Irony | (1) A device by which an author implies a different meaning from that intended by the speaker in a literary work. (2) A moment when the audience has information that characters in a story lack. (lit device) | 35 | |
| 7310015018 | Motif | A recurring concept or story element. It includes concepts such as recurring types of incidents or situations, plot devices, patterns of imagery, or character types and archetypes. | 36 | |
| 7310055619 | Montage | A series of images that appear one after the other with an intended progression, often meant to suggest a theme. | 37 | |
| 7310061625 | Archetype | The original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based; an original model or first form. | 38 | |
| 7310070478 | Apollonian | Refers to the noble qualities of humans and nature as opposed to the more savage or destructive forces. | 39 | |
| 7310091363 | Dionysian | Pertaining to the base, corrupt, or coarse side of man. Inspired by the God Dionysus. | 40 | |
| 7310104875 | Apotheosis | A larger-than-life presence; a godlike paragon worthy of respect and reverence. | 41 | |
| 7310118959 | Pathos | Deep emotion, passion, or suffering. In literature its meaning usually refers to tragic emotions such as sympathy, pity, or sorrow that move the audience. | 42 | |
| 7310127104 | Bathos | An unintended anticlimax; overly elevated language inappropriately used for common matters; pathos overdone to the point of seeming ridiculous. | 43 | |
| 7310143111 | Tragic hero | Aristotle's idea of someone highly renowned and prosperous, who falls from tremendous good fortune, eliciting feelings of pity and fear from the audience. | 44 | |
| 7310160573 | Tragic flaw | A tragic hero's error of judgement, or fundamental character weakness, such as destructive pride, ruthless ambition, or obsessive jealously. The hero is responsible for their downfall. By the end the hero must recognize their flaw and accept the consequences. | 45 | |
| 7310192764 | Catharsis | Aristotle's term for emotional purging; a pleasurable sense of emotional release we experience after watching a great tragedy. | 46 | |
| 7310199684 | Hubris | The pride or overconfidence which often leads a hero to overlook divine warning or to break a moral law, leading to the hero's fall. | 47 | |
| 7310210593 | Anthropomorphism | Ascribing human form or traits to a non-human being or thing, such as deities and fairy tale characters. | 48 | |
| 7310220092 | Personification | Tends to be more figurative and anthropomorphism is more real. | 49 | |
| 7310249176 | Verisimilitude | The degree to which a writer creates the appearance of truth or realness. | 50 | |
| 7310258241 | Bildungsroman | A novel showing the development of its central character from childhood to maturity. "coming of age" story. | 51 | |
| 7310263332 | Satire | Ridiculing human folly or vice with the intention of revealing truth, providing social criticism, bringing about reform, or preventing others from falling to the same folly or vice. | 52 | |
| 7310276535 | Farce | Extremely broad, often physical humor; humor pushed to ridiculousness, sometimes to make a point. | 53 | |
| 7310285353 | Black comedy | A story having elements of comedy and tragedy, often involving gloomy or morbid satire. | 54 | |
| 7310291847 | Deus ex machina | Literally " God from a machine";an unexpected, artificial, or improbable character, device, or event introduced suddenly to resolve a seemingly insolvable situation, often to save hero. | 55 | |
| 7310308048 | Didactic | Language that preaches or teaches. The writer places emphasis on the lesson being taught rather than artistic quality. | 56 | |
| 7310365631 | False dichotomy | Only. two extremes are offered in a continuum of intermediate possibilities. | 57 | |
| 7310370836 | Frame | A narrative constructed so that one or more stories is embedded within another story. | 58 | |
| 7310376494 | Pathetic fallacy | Writing that shows nature mirroring what happens in human life. | 59 | |
| 7310383247 | Assonance | In poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel in stressed syllables near enough to each other for the sound echo to be discernible. | 60 | |
| 7310391147 | Consonance | Refers to repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase. | 61 | |
| 7310398412 | Euphony | The quality of being pleasing to the ear, esp. Through a harmonious combination of words. | 62 | |
| 7310406275 | Cacophony | A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds. | 63 | |
| 7310408373 | Verse | Metrical language; opposite of prose. | 64 | |
| 7310411777 | Meter | The rhythmical pattern of a poem;the measurable repetition of accented and unaccented syllables in poetry. | 65 | |
| 7310420049 | Foot | A unit of meter;a metrical foot can have two or three syllables. | 66 | |
| 7310429233 | Iambic pentameter | The most widely used meter; makes a 10 syllable line. | 67 | |
| 7310433275 | Line | A unit of poetic verse. When writing verse within prose, as in an essay, use a / to indicate when line changes. | 68 | |
| 7310438985 | Rhyme | Similarity of sound, particularly with vowel sounds; rhyme may be internal or at the end of lines of a verse. | 69 | |
| 7310444221 | Blank verse | Unrhymed iambic parameter; metrical verse with no ending rhyme. | 70 | |
| 7310447570 | Free verse | Unrhymed poetry with lines of varying length and no specific metrical pattern. | 71 | |
| 7310459710 | Masculine rhyme | Also known as single rhymes rhyme in which the accented repeated vowel sound is in the last syllable. | 72 | |
| 7310464959 | Feminine rhyme | A rhyme in which the repeated accented vowel is either the second or third to last syllable of the words involved. | 73 | |
| 7310472240 | Refrain | A phrase or line usually pertinent to a central theme that repeats at regular intervals in poetry, usually at the end of a stanza. | 74 | |
| 7310484767 | Elegy | Lyrical poem about death, often to express grief. | 75 | |
| 7310487936 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present could reply. | 76 | |
| 7310494463 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part of something stands for the whole or the whole for apart, as wheels for an automobile. | 77 | |
| 7310506058 | Metonymy | Substituting a word naming an object for another word closely associated. | 78 | |
| 7310514503 | Juxtaposition | The positioning of ideas side by side for emphasis or to show contrast. | 79 | |
| 7310519796 | Paradox | A statement or situation containing apparently contradictory or incompatible elements that are still seemingly true. | 80 | |
| 7310527895 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction often for contrast and ironic effect. | 81 | |
| 7310533671 | Prose meaning | The part of a poem's total meaning that can be separated out and expressed through paraphrasing the poem's lines. | 82 | |
| 7310541276 | Total meaning | The total experience communicated by a poem-sensuous, emotional, imaginative, and intellectual- that can be communicated in no other words that of the poem itself. | 83 |
