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| 13827893897 | Allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. | 0 | |
| 13827907181 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds | 1 | |
| 13827910768 | allusion | A reference to another work of literature, person, or event | 2 | |
| 13827913640 | antagonist | A character or force in conflict with the main character | 3 | |
| 13827917550 | aside | a line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage | 4 | |
| 13827919401 | character | A person in a story | 5 | |
| 13827921413 | climax | the turning point of the story | 6 | |
| 13827921414 | comedy | light and humorous drama with a happy ending | 7 | |
| 13827923816 | conflict | A struggle between opposing forces | 8 | |
| 13827923817 | diction | A writer's or speaker's choice of words | 9 | |
| 13827926408 | drama | a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage | 10 | |
| 13827926409 | elegy | a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead. | 11 | |
| 13827929091 | figurative language | Writing or speech that is not intended to carry literal meaning and is usually meant to be imaginative and vivid. | 12 | |
| 13827929092 | foil | A character who acts as a contrast to another character | 13 | |
| 13827932741 | foreshadowing | A narrative device that hints at coming events; often builds suspense or anxiety in the reader. | 14 | |
| 13827932742 | genre | A category or type of literature (or of art, music, etc.) characterized by a particular form, style, or content. | 15 | |
| 13827941886 | imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) | 16 | |
| 13827945974 | verbal irony | irony in which a person says or writes one thing and means another, or uses words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning. | 17 | |
| 13827949318 | situational irony | An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected | 18 | |
| 13827951566 | dramatic irony | Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play. | 19 | |
| 13827954505 | metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. | 20 | |
| 13827956206 | motive | a reason for doing something | 21 | |
| 13827956207 | narrative | The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events. | 22 | |
| 13827956208 | narrator | Person telling the story | 23 | |
| 13827958428 | novel | a fictitious prose narrative of book length, typically representing character and action with some degree of realism. | 24 | |
| 13827960710 | oxymoron | conjoining contradictory terms (as in 'deafening silence') | 25 | |
| 13827963389 | paradox | A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. | 26 | |
| 13827963390 | pastoral | A work of literature dealing with rural life | 27 | |
| 13827966516 | personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes | 28 | |
| 13827966517 | plot | Sequence of events in a story | 29 | |
| 13827969233 | poetry | literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm; poems collectively or as a genre of literature. | 30 | |
| 13827969234 | prose | written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure. | 31 | |
| 13827971281 | protagonist | Main character in a story | 32 | |
| 13827973608 | parody | A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule. | 33 | |
| 13827976148 | pun | a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings. | 34 | |
| 13827976149 | satire | the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues, with the intent of fixing an issue | 35 | |
| 13827980607 | setting | The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs. | 36 | |
| 13827980608 | simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" | 37 | |
| 13827983158 | soliloquy | A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage | 38 | |
| 13827983159 | sonnet | a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line. | 39 | |
| 13827985545 | symbol | A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract. | 40 | |
| 13828000896 | theme | Central thesis of a work of literature, not just a topic | 41 | |
| 13828003607 | tone | Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character | 42 | |
| 13828005867 | tragedy | A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character | 43 | |
| 13828005868 | verse | A single line of poetry | 44 |
