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| 15274613102 | Alliteration | repeating consonant sound in close proximity to others | 0 | |
| 15274613103 | Allusion | a casual reference in literature to a person, place, event, or another passage of literature | 1 | |
| 15274613104 | Anapest | a foot or unit of poetry consisting of two light syllables followed by a single stressed syllable | 2 | |
| 15274613105 | Apostrophe | act of addressing some abstraction or personification that is not physically present | 3 | |
| 15274613106 | Assonance | repeating identical or similar vowels in nearby | 4 | |
| 15274613107 | Ballad | a narrative poem consisting of quatrains of iambic tetrameter alternating with iambic trimeter | 5 | |
| 15274613108 | Blank verse | unrhymed lines of ten syllables each with the even-numbered syllables bearing accents | 6 | |
| 15274613109 | Bildungrsroman | German term for a coming-of-age story | 7 | |
| 15274613110 | Caesura | a pause separating phrases within lines of poetry | 8 | |
| 15274613111 | Colloquialism | a word or phrase used in plain and relaxed speech but rarely found in formal | 9 | |
| 15274613112 | Conceit | an elaborate or unusual comparison using unlikely metaphors, simile, hyperbole, or contradiction | 10 | |
| 15274613113 | Connotation | additional meaning a word carries beyond its strict definition | 11 | |
| 15274613114 | Consonance | alliteration in which the repeated consonants are marked by changes in intervening vowels | 12 | |
| 15274613115 | Convention | a common feature that has become traditional or expected | 13 | |
| 15274613116 | Couplet | two lines of the same metrical length that end in a rhyme to form a complete unit | 14 | |
| 15274613117 | Dactyl | a three-syllable foot consisting of a heavy stress and two light stresses | 15 | |
| 15274613118 | Denotation | the minimal, strict definition of a word as found in a dictionary | 16 | |
| 15274613119 | Diction | the choice of a particular word as opposed to others | 17 | |
| 15274613120 | Didactic | writing that seeks to overtly convince a reader of a particular point or lesson | 18 | |
| 15274613121 | Dramatic monologue | a poem in which a poetic speaker addresses either the reader or an internal listener | 19 | |
| 15274613122 | Dramatic Poem | a poem containing emotional, spiritual, and detailed elements | 20 | |
| 15274613123 | Elegy | a poem dealing with the subject matter common to early Greco Roman poems | 21 | |
| 15274613124 | Epiphany | a sudden flare into revelation of an ordinary object or sense | 22 | |
| 15274613125 | Explication | the act of making clear or removing obscurity from the meaning of a word or symbol | 23 | |
| 15274613126 | Figurative language | the use of something other than the literal meaning of words to express an idea | 24 | |
| 15274613127 | Foil | a character that serves by contrast to highlight or emphasize opposing traits in another character | 25 | |
| 15274613128 | Foot | a basic unit of meter consisting of a set number of strong stresses and light stresses | 26 | |
| 15274613129 | Formulaic | consisting or containing a verbal formula or set of form of words | 27 | |
| 15274613130 | Free verse | poetry based on the natural rhythms of phrases and normal pauses rather than constraints of meter | 28 | |
| 15274613131 | Hubris | implying arrogance or excessive self-pride | 29 | |
| 15274613132 | Hyperbole | exaggeration or overstatement | 30 | |
| 15274613133 | Iamb | a unit or foot of poetry that consists of a lightly stressed syllable followed by a heavily stressed syllable | 31 | |
| 15274613134 | Iambic pentameter | a lightly stressed syllable followed by a heavily stressed syllable, five feet long | 32 | |
| 15274613135 | Imagery | sensory perceptions referred to through description, allusion, simile, and metaphor | 33 | |
| 15274613136 | Internal rhyme | poetic device in which a word in the middle of a line rhymes with a word at the end | 34 | |
| 15274613137 | Intrusive narrator | an omniscient narrator who reports on the events of a story and further, comments on it | 35 | |
| 15274613138 | Irony | saying one thing and meaning another, verbal dramatic, and situational irony | 36 | |
| 15274613139 | Leitmotif | used to designate a musical theme associated with a particular object, character, or emotion | 37 | |
| 15274613140 | Literal | a passage, story, or text intended only as a factual account of a real historic event | 38 | |
| 15274613141 | Litotes | a form of understatement using a negative statement | 39 | |
| 15274613142 | Lyric | a short poem often only a dozen lines long, often designed to be set to music | 40 | |
| 15274613143 | Metaphor | a comparison or analogy stated in a way as to imply that one object is another one | 41 | |
| 15274613144 | Meter | a recognizable, varying patter of stressed syllables alternating with syllables of less stress | 42 | |
| 15274613145 | Metonymy/synecdoche | a specific physical object used as a vague suggestive symbol for a more general idea | 43 | |
| 15274613146 | Monologue | a character speaking aloud to himself, narrating an account for the audience alone | 44 | |
| 15274613147 | Mood | feeling, emotional state, or disposition of mind | 45 | |
| 15274613148 | Motif | a conspicuous recurring element such as an incident, device, reference or verbal formula | 46 | |
| 15274613149 | Narrative poem | a poem that has a plot including epics, ballads, idylls, and lays | 47 | |
| 15274613150 | Narrator | the voice that speaks or tells a story | 48 | |
| 15274613151 | Octave | a set of eight lines that rhyme according to the pattern ABBAABBA | 49 | |
| 15274613152 | Ode | a long, elaborate poem of varying line lengths with a serious subject matter | 50 | |
| 15274613153 | Onomatopoeia | The use of sounds that are similar to the noise they represent for a rhetorical or artistic effect | 51 | |
| 15274613154 | Oxymoron | a figure of speech that produces an incongruous seemingly self-contradictory effect | 52 | |
| 15274613155 | Parable | a story or short narrative designed to reveal allegorically some religious principle, lesson, or truth | 53 | |
| 15274613156 | Paradox | Using contradiction in a manner that oddly makes sense on a deeper level | 54 | |
| 15274613157 | Paraphrase | a brief restatement in one's own words of all or part of a literary or critical work | 55 | |
| 15274613158 | Parody | a parody imitates the manner and characteristic features of a particular work in order to mock it | 56 | |
| 15274613159 | Pathos | elements used to inspire an emotional reaction | 57 | |
| 15274613160 | Persona | an external representation of oneself which might or might not accurately reflect one's inner self | 58 | |
| 15274613161 | Personification | a device through which animals, ideas, and inanimate objects are given human characteristics | 59 | |
| 15274613162 | Prosody | the mechanics of verse poetry - sounds, rhythms, scansion, meter, stanzaic form, alliteration, rhyme | 60 | |
| 15274613163 | Pun | a play on two words similar in sound but different in meaning | 61 | |
| 15274613164 | Quatrain | a stanza of four lines, often rhyming in an ABAB pattern | 62 | |
| 15274613165 | Refrain | A line or set of lines at the end of a stanza or section of a longer poem, repeated at regular intervals | 63 | |
| 15274613166 | Rhyme | a matching similarity of sounds in two or more words | 64 | |
| 15274613167 | Rhyme scheme | the pattern of rhyme | 65 | |
| 15274613168 | Rhythm | the varying speed, loudness, pitch, elevation, intensity, and expressiveness of speech or poetry | 66 | |
| 15274613169 | Satire | An attack on or criticism of any stupidity or vice in the form of scathing humor, or a critique | 67 | |
| 15274613170 | Scansion | the act of scanning a poem to determine its meter | 68 | |
| 15274613171 | Sestet | six lines that rhyme with a varying pattern such as CDECDE or CDCCDC | 69 | |
| 15274613172 | Soliloquy | a monologue spoken by an actor at a point in the play when the character believes to be alone | 70 | |
| 15274613173 | Sonnet | a lyric poem of fourteen lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with the rhymes arranged according to pattern | 71 | |
| 15274613174 | Spondee | a metrical foot consisting of two successive strong beats | 72 | |
| 15274613175 | Stanza | an arrangement of lines of verse in a pattern usually repeated throughout the poem | 73 | |
| 15274613176 | Stress | the emphasis, length and loudness that mark one syllable as more pronounced than another | 74 | |
| 15274613177 | Style | the author's words and the characteristic way that writer uses language to achieve certain effects | 75 | |
| 15274613178 | Subplot | A minor or subordinate secondary plot | 76 | |
| 15274613179 | Symbol | A word, place, character, or object that means something beyond what it is on a literal level | 77 | |
| 15274613180 | Symbolism | the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities | 78 | |
| 15274613181 | Syntax | the standard word order and sentence structure of a language | 79 | |
| 15274613182 | Theme | A central idea or statement that unifies and controls an entire literary work | 80 | |
| 15274613183 | Tone | The means of creating a relationship or conveying an attitude or mood | 81 | |
| 15274613184 | Trochee | A two-syllable unit or foot of poetry consisting of a heavy stress followed by a light stress | 82 | |
| 15274613185 | Verse | A line of metrical writing, a stanza, or, a piece written in meter | 83 | |
| 15274613186 | End rhyme | rhyme in which the last word at the end of each verse is the word that rhymes | 84 | |
| 15274613187 | Allegory | A literary work in which characters, objects, or actions represent abstractions | 85 | |
| 15274613188 | Slippery Slope | Event X occured, therefore Y will inevitably happen. Assuming something is wrong because it is next, or could slide toward, something that is wrong. An old saying - "if you allow a camel to poke his nose into the tent, soon the whole camel will follow." | 86 | |
| 15274613189 | Simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" | 87 | |
| 15274613190 | Straw Man | Ignoring a person's actual position, attacking an exaggerated version of an opponent's position. | 88 | |
| 15274613191 | Imagery | language that appeals to the senses | 89 | |
| 15274613192 | Red Herring | Using an irrelevant topic to divert attention, avoiding having to defend a claim or follow up on a promise. | 90 | |
| 15274613193 | Inference | A conclusion one can draw from the presented details. | 91 | |
| 15274613194 | Hasty Generalization | X% of all As are Bs, therefore, all As are Bs. A person draws a conclusion about a population based on a sample that is not large enough. | 92 | |
| 15274613195 | Verbal Irony | sarcasm | 93 | |
| 15274613196 | Post Hoc | A occurs before B, therefore A causes B. An assumption that the first thing caused the second simply because of the sequence of the two things that happened. | 94 | |
| 15274613197 | Situational Irony | An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected | 95 | |
| 15274613198 | Contradictory Premises | When the premises of the argument contradict one another, therefore creating no argument. | 96 | |
| 15274613199 | Dramatic Irony | when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't | 97 | |
| 15274613200 | Ad Misericordiam | sometimes called "The Galileo Argument"- the speaker wants you to know that he/she is suffering enough, therefore you should agree with him/her. | 98 | |
| 15274613201 | Point of View | the perspective from which a story is told | 99 | |
| 15274613202 | False Analogy | comparison of two situations that have nothing to do with one another. The arguer claims the situations are highly similar, but they aren't. | 100 | |
| 15274613203 | Setting | The time and place of a story | 101 | |
| 15274613204 | Hypothesis Contrary | Arguing from something that might have happened, but didn't. Using the "What if _" statement. | 102 | |
| 15274613205 | Poisoning the Well | Discrediting a person's claim by presenting unfavorable information (true or false) about the person. Person B attacking person A before Person A can make his/her claim. | 103 | |
| 15274613206 | Ad Hominem | An argument based on emotion rather than logic where the arguer attacks irrelevant fact about the person instead of his/her argument. | 104 | |
| 15274613207 | Equivocation | ambiguous and misleading language. Using a word to mean one thing, and then later using it to mean something else. | 105 | |
| 15274613208 | Circular Reasoning | An argumentative ploy where the arguer sidesteps the question or conflict by reasoning in a circle. The thing to be proved is used as one of your assumptions. | 106 | |
| 15274613209 | Deductive Reasoning | A method of argument by which specific statements and conclusions are drawn from general principles: movement from the general to the specific. | 107 | |
| 15274613210 | Inductive Reasoning | Arguments moving from the specific to the general | 108 | |
| 15274613211 | Ad Populum | a misconception that a widespread occurrence of something is assumed to make an idea true or right | 109 | |
| 15274613212 | Begging the Question | taking for granted something that really needs proving, considered a form of circular reasoning as the truth of the conclusion is assumed as part of the response | 110 | |
| 15274613213 | Either/Or Reasoning | the tendency to see an issue as having only two sides | 111 | |
| 15274613214 | Non Sequitur | an inference or conclusion that does not logically follow established premises or evidence that preceded it | 112 | |
| 15274613215 | Dicto Simpliciter | an argument based on an unqualified or sweeping generalization in which a general rule is applied to a situation and acceptable exceptions are ignored | 113 | |
| 15274680856 | Warrant | to justify | 114 | |
| 15274692437 | Homily | a sermon | 115 | |
| 15274703341 | Invective | abusive language | 116 | |
| 15274706024 | Metonymy | substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it | 117 | |
| 15274710969 | Parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 118 | |
| 15274713623 | Pendantic Language | Narrow focus on the trivial aspects to try to impress people | 119 | |
| 15274724365 | Ambiguous Language | words that can have more than one meaning | 120 | |
| 15274724366 | Analogy | comparison | 121 | |
| 15274727502 | Aphorism | a concise statement of a truth or principle | 122 | |
| 15274730944 | Syllogism | three-part deduction | 123 |
