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| 13817680195 | Apostrophe | This occurs when a character or speaker calls out to a person (either absent or dead) or inanimate object as if it could respond. | 0 | |
| 13817680267 | Anecdote | A short story or joke told at the beginning of a speech to gain the audience's attention. | 1 | |
| 13817680217 | assonance | repetition of vowel sounds |  | 2 |
| 13817680213 | anaphora | Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines in a poem. |  | 3 |
| 13817680210 | allegory | story or poem that can be used to reveal a hidden meaning |  | 4 |
| 13817680189 | antithesis | Direct opposite | 5 | |
| 13821160024 | asyndeton | a series of words separated by commas | 6 | |
| 13817680266 | Ambiguity | open to more than one interpretation | 7 | |
| 13817680215 | approximate rhyme | words in rhyming pattern that sound alike |  | 8 |
| 13817680186 | assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds | 9 | |
| 13817680185 | alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words | 10 | |
| 13817680273 | Convention | An understanding between a reader and a writer about certain details of a story that does not need to be explained | 11 | |
| 13817680207 | Contemporary | free verse, written so ordinary reader can understand, after 1920's, Maya Angelou, Elizabeth Bishop | 12 | |
| 13817680187 | consonance | Repetition of consonant sounds shush wish cushion squash | 13 | |
| 13817680221 | catharsis | release of emotions |  | 14 |
| 13817680219 | cacophony | blend of unharmonious sounds because cause |  | 15 |
| 13817680271 | Conceit | An elaborate metaphor that compares two things that are startlingly different. | 16 | |
| 13817680204 | Confessional | personal experience, 1950's, Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, Mark Doty | 17 | |
| 13817680196 | caesura | a pause in the middle of a line of poetry. Often is signified with a comma or period. | 18 | |
| 13817680228 | double rhyme | rhyme where the repeated vowel is in the second last syllable of words involved (ex; born scorn) | 19 | |
| 13817680225 | denouement | final outcome of the story |  | 20 |
| 13817680224 | denotation | the literal meaning of a word |  | 21 |
| 13817680176 | Elegy | a sad or mournful poem | 22 | |
| 13817680198 | enjambment | When a thought in poetry does not stop at the end of a line break; it merely continues on in the following line. | 23 | |
| 13817680277 | Epistolary | Used to describe a novel that tells its story through letters written from one character to another. | 24 | |
| 13817680279 | Euphemism | The act of substituting a harsh, blunt, or offensive comment for a more politically accepted or positive one | 25 | |
| 13817680278 | Epithet | A word or phrase preceding or following a name which serves to describe the character. Ex: Alexander the Great. | 26 | |
| 13817680276 | Epic | A long narrative poem, written in heightened language, which recounts the deeds of a heroic character who embodies the values of a particular society | 27 | |
| 13817680234 | extended figure | A figure of speech sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem. |  | 28 |
| 13821140300 | epistrophe | repetition of a word at the end of successive lines | 29 | |
| 13817680233 | euphony | smooth choice and arrangement of sounds |  | 30 |
| 13817680173 | english (shakespearean) sonnet | 14 lines, 3 stanzas of 4 lines, 2 line stanza at end that rhymes | 31 | |
| 13817680208 | Free Verse | without rhyme and rhythm, Walt Whitman | 32 | |
| 13817680280 | Hubris | used in Greek tragedies, refers to excessive pride that usually leads to a hero's downfall | 33 | |
| 13817680282 | In medias res | A story that begins in the middle of things | 34 | |
| 13817680174 | italian (petrarchan) sonnet | 14 line, iambic pentameter, flexible rhyme scheme, 8 lines + 6 lines | 35 | |
| 13817680191 | juxtaposition | placing two elements side by side to present a comparison or contrast | 36 | |
| 13817680181 | laudatory | expressing praise | 37 | |
| 13817680285 | Litotes | Litotes is the opposite of hyperbole. Examples: "Not a bad idea," "Not many," "It isn't very serious. I have this tiny little tumor on the brain" | 38 | |
| 13817680178 | Lyrical poem | focuses on individual and thoughts/feelings | 39 | |
| 13817680192 | metonymy | Associating an object with another word very similar to it calling someone a scrooge because of their attitude | 40 | |
| 13817680188 | Onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. | 41 | |
| 13817680190 | oxymoron | conjoining contradictory terms (as in 'deafening silence') | 42 | |
| 13817680289 | Oblique Ryhme | Imperfect rhyme scheme | 43 | |
| 13817680175 | ode | usually praising/celebrating something | 44 | |
| 13817680184 | profundity | deep insight and knowledge | 45 | |
| 13817680291 | Parable | A simple story that illustrates a moral or religious lesson | 46 | |
| 13817680248 | paradox | contradiction |  | 47 |
| 13817680193 | polysyndenton | The use of many conjunctions to slow the pace | 48 | |
| 13817680180 | refrains | a verse or phrase that is repeated at intervals throughout poem | 49 | |
| 13817680205 | Romantic | emotional, self-expression, individual feeling, religious response to nature, end of 18th century, Elizabeth Barret Browning, William Wordsworth, William Blake | 50 | |
| 13817680294 | Rhetoric | From the Greek for "orator," this term describes the principles governing the art of writing effectively, eloquently, and persuasively. | 51 | |
| 13817680194 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole the white house represents government | 52 | |
| 13817680172 | sestina | 663 | 53 | |
| 13817680183 | sublimity | transcends greatness | 54 | |
| 13817680182 | surreptitiously | secretive | 55 | |
| 13817680209 | slant rhyme | consonant rhyme near and bear | 56 | |
| 13817680253 | sestet | 6 line stanza |  | 57 |
| 13817680255 | soliloquy | A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage |  | 58 |
| 13817680260 | synesthesia | describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound") |  | 59 |
| 13817680206 | Transcendentalist | stressed the relationship between human beings and nature, spiritual things over material things, and the importance of the individual conscience, 19th century, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman | 60 | |
| 13817680265 | vilanelle | a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain. |  | 61 |
