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| 11774294259 | Aesthetic | Pertaining to the value of art for its own sake or for form | 0 | |
| 11774303802 | Allegory | 1 | ||
| 11774315589 | Alliteration | The recurrence of initial consonant sounds (in poetry) | 2 | |
| 11774324685 | Allusion | A reference to a historical or literary figure, event or object. | 3 | |
| 11774332410 | Analogy | Comparison of two things that are alike in some respects | 4 | |
| 11774341506 | Anaphora | Repetition of a word or phrase in successive phrases | 5 | |
| 11774357029 | Anecdote | A brief story told by a character in a piece of literature | 6 | |
| 11774365616 | Antagonist | The character who opposes the protagonist | 7 | |
| 11774372375 | Antihero | protagonist who does not exemplify typical traits of hero | 8 | |
| 11774380841 | Antithesis | a contrast or opposition of ideas | 9 | |
| 11774389116 | Aphorism | a concise statement designed to make a point or illustrate a commonly held belief | 10 | |
| 11774398056 | Apostrophe | a person thing or quality is addressed | 11 | |
| 11774405250 | Appositive | A noun or phrase next to another noun for descriptive purposes "Mary, queen of the land, hosted the ball." | 12 | |
| 11774414753 | Assonance | The repetition of identical vowel sounds | 13 | |
| 11774422090 | Asyndeton | The absence of conjunctions "He was brave, fearless, afraid of nothing." | 14 | |
| 11774431197 | Bildungsroman | A novel or story whose theme is the moral or psychological growth of the main character | 15 | |
| 11774435522 | Canon | The works of an author accepted as authentic | 16 | |
| 11774447640 | Catharsis | Cleansing of the spirit through pity and terror (in tragedy ) | 17 | |
| 11774457589 | Chiasmus | figure of speech in which the order of the terms in the first of parallel clauses is reversed in the second. "Has the Church failed mankind, or has mankind failed the Church? " - TS Eliot | 18 | |
| 11774469414 | Colloquial | Ordinary language - vernacular | 19 | |
| 11774478797 | Connotation | What is implied by the words | 20 | |
| 11774487853 | Contradiction | A direct opposition between things compared | 21 | |
| 11774497968 | Deductive | a reasoning process - a conclusion is drawn from set of premises | 22 | |
| 11774508245 | Delayed sentence | The main idea is at the end. "Just as he bent to tie his shoe, a car hit him." | 23 | |
| 11774516591 | Denotation | The direct and specific meaning | 24 | |
| 11774525848 | Deus ex machina | a person or thing (as in fiction or drama) that appears or is introduced suddenly and unexpectedly and provides a contrived solution to an apparently insoluble difficulty. | 25 | |
| 11774537768 | Diction | word choice | 26 | |
| 11774547053 | Didactic | language intended to teach, | 27 | |
| 11774560716 | Doppelganger | ghostly counterpart of living person | 28 | |
| 11774569439 | Elegy | poem or prose or song lamenting the death of a person | 29 | |
| 12025482292 | Epiphany | A sudden insight or perception usually brought on by a simple experience | 30 | |
| 12025493296 | Epistolary | A piece of literature contained in or carried on by letters | 31 | |
| 12025502062 | Epitaph | A piece of writing in praise of a dead person | 32 | |
| 12025511581 | Epithet | an adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned. | 33 | |
| 12025522723 | Ethos | The speaker is perceived as credible | 34 | |
| 12025550657 | Eulogy | speech or writing in praise of a person or thing (dead) | 35 | |
| 12025560847 | Euphemism | use "nice" language for something blunt. "Passed away" for "dead" | 36 | |
| 12025573288 | Expletive | single word or phrase - usually set off by commas | 37 | |
| 12025590408 | Foil | a character who contrasts with another character - usually the protagonist— to highlight particular qualities of the other character. | 38 | |
| 12025603994 | Formal language | Language that is lofty, dignified, impersonal | 39 | |
| 12025629237 | Genre | literary form (tragedy, comedy, novel, essay) | 40 | |
| 12025634546 | Hyperbole | exaggeration | 41 | |
| 12025651487 | Imagery | sensory details (appealing to one of the five senses) | 42 | |
| 12025665990 | In media res | Opening a story in the middle of the action | 43 | |
| 12025675956 | Inductive | conclusion from part of class applied to whole class | 44 | |
| 12025686509 | Invective | angry and insulting language | 45 | |
| 12025696198 | Irony | A situation or statement where what is expected is different from what actually happens or is meant. | 46 | |
| 12025705770 | Juxtaposition | two things placed side by side to show contrast - so the differences are emphasized | 47 | |
| 12025716556 | Litotes | Form of understatement using the negative. "She is not a bad cook." | 48 | |
| 12025729502 | Metaphor | Comparing two things by stating one is the other. "The eyes are the windows of the soul." "Time is money." | 49 | |
| 12025746499 | Metonymy | a figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated. "The knights are loyal to the crown" | 50 | |
| 12025761255 | Onomatopoeia | A word that sounds like what it describes,"buzz" "hiss" | 51 | |
| 12025773452 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines two opposite elements, "jumbo shrimp" or "deafening silence" | 52 | |
| 12025786160 | Parallelism | Recurrent syntactical similarity | 53 | |
| 12025798039 | Paradox | A statement that seems contradictory - but is true. "What a pity that youth must be wasted on the young." - George Bernard Shaw. | 54 | |
| 12025825709 | Parody | A satirical imitation of a work of art for purpose of ridiculing its style or subject | 55 | |
| 12025836074 | Perspective | A character's view of the events or situation in a story | 56 | |
| 12025850864 | Point of view | the position from which something or someone is observed. | 57 | |
| 12025891936 | Propaganda | Information purposely spread in order to help or harm a person, group or institution | 58 | |
| 12025902625 | Prose | The ordinary form of written language (not poetry or verse). | 59 | |
| 12025914921 | Protagonist | The chief character in a work of literature | 60 | |
| 12025984884 | Sarcasm | A sharp caustic remark. "Nice catch" | 61 | |
| 12026004615 | Satire | A literary style used to make fun of or ridicule an idea or human vice or weakness | 62 | |
| 12026017689 | Simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" | 63 | |
| 12026023451 | Syllogism | A form of deduction | 64 | |
| 12026102188 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase that refers to a part of something is substituted to stand in for the whole, or vice versa. For example, the phrase "all hands on deck" is a demand for all of the crew to help, yet the word "hands"—just a part of the crew—stands in for the whole crew. | 65 | |
| 12026113990 | Syntax | The way words are put together to form phrases, clauses and sentences. | 66 | |
| 12026126128 | Theme | Main idea | 67 | |
| 12026138134 | Thesis | Focus statement of essay | 68 | |
| 12026180790 | Tone | The attitude a literary work takes towards its subject and theme. | 69 | |
| 12026191601 | Understatement | Makes an idea less important than it really is - "The hurricane disrupted traffic." | 70 | |
| 12026202401 | Utopia | An imaginary place of ideal perfection. | 71 | |
| 12026212615 | Voice | The speaker. A "person" telling the story or poem | 72 | |
| 12026224935 | Zeugma | can be used to create drama, add emotion, or produce a level of shock value. While there can still be an underlying sense of confusion, generally, a zeugma is used purposely. | 73 |
