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| 6285486508 | denotation | dictionary meaning(s) of the word | 0 | |
| 6285486509 | connotation | suggested beyond what is expresses | 1 | |
| 6285486510 | imagery | representation through language of sense experience | 2 | |
| 6285486511 | auditory imagery | image that represents a sound | 3 | |
| 6285486512 | olfactory imagery | image that represents a smell | 4 | |
| 6285486513 | gustatory imagery | image that represents a taste | 5 | |
| 6285486514 | organic imagery | image that represents an internal sensation (hunger, thirst, nausea) | 6 | |
| 6285486515 | kinesthetic imagery | image that represents movement or tension | 7 | |
| 6285486516 | figure of speech | any way of saying something other than the ordinary way | 8 | |
| 6285486517 | figurative language | language using figures of speech | 9 | |
| 6285486518 | metaphor | an implied comparison | 10 | |
| 6285486519 | similie | a comparison using a word or phrase (like, as, than, similar to, resembles, seems) | 11 | |
| 6285486520 | personification | giving human attributes to an animal, object, or concepts | 12 | |
| 6285486521 | apostrophe | addressing someone or thing that cannot answer back (someone absent, dead, nonhuman) | 13 | |
| 6285486522 | synecdoche | use of part to describe the whole | 14 | |
| 6285486523 | metonymy | the use of something related for the thing actually meant | 15 | |
| 6285486524 | symbol | something that means more than what it is | 16 | |
| 6285486525 | allegory | a narrative or description that has a second meaning beneath the surface | 17 | |
| 6285486526 | paradox | an apparent contradiction that is true | 18 | |
| 6285486527 | overstatement | exaggeration (describing something as more than it actually is) | 19 | |
| 6285486528 | hyperbole (literary term) | exaggeration | 20 | |
| 6285486529 | understatement | saying less than one meant | 21 | |
| 6285486530 | verbal irony | saying the opposite of what one means | 22 | |
| 6285486531 | sarcasm | bitter or cutting speech | 23 | |
| 6285486532 | satire | ridicule of human folly or vice (formal term used in literature) | 24 | |
| 6285486533 | irony of situation | discrepancy exists between actual circumstances and those that would seem appropriate | 25 | |
| 6285486534 | dramatic irony | discrepancy between what speaker says and what poem means | 26 | |
| 6285486535 | allusion | a reference to something in history or previous literature | 27 | |
| 6285486536 | tone | writer's or speaker's attitude about the subject, audience, or self | 28 | |
| 6285486537 | alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounds (tried and true; safe and sound) | 29 | |
| 6285486538 | assonance | repetition of vowel sounds (mad as a hatter; time out of mind) | 30 | |
| 6285486539 | consonance | repetition of final consonant sounds (odds and ends; short and sweet) | 31 | |
| 6285486540 | rhyme | repetition of accented vowel sound and all succeeding sounds | 32 | |
| 6285486541 | masculine rhyme | rhyme sound involves only one syllable (decks and sex; retort and support) | 33 | |
| 6285486542 | feminine rhyme | rhyme sounds involve two or more syllables (turtle and fertile; spitefully and delightfully) | 34 | |
| 6285486543 | internal rhyme | when one or more rhyming words are within a line | 35 | |
| 6285486544 | end rhyme | when rhyming words are at the ends of lines | 36 | |
| 6285486545 | slant rhyme | words with any sound similarity | 37 | |
| 6285486546 | rhythm | wavelike recurrence of motion or sound | 38 | |
| 6285486547 | meter | kind of rhythm we can tap our foot to | 39 | |
| 6285486548 | verse | metrical language | 40 | |
| 6285486549 | prose | nonmetrical language | 41 | |
| 6285486550 | iamb | unstressed stressed | 42 | |
| 6285486551 | trochee | stresses unstressed | 43 | |
| 6285486552 | anapest | unstressed unstressed stressed | 44 | |
| 6285486553 | dactylic | stressed unstressed unstressed | 45 | |
| 6285486554 | spondee | stressed stressed | 46 | |
| 6285486556 | caesura | a pause in the middle of a line (due to punctuation or natural phrasing/syntax) | 47 | |
| 6285486560 | tetrameter | four feet | 48 | |
| 6285486561 | pentameter | five feet | 49 | |
| 6285486564 | octameter | eight feet | 50 | |
| 6285486566 | free verse | close to common speech | 51 | |
| 6285486567 | euphony | any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds | 52 | |
| 6285486568 | cacophony | harsh confusing disagreeable sounds | 53 | |
| 6285486569 | continuous form | lines follow each other without formal grouping | 54 | |
| 6285486570 | stanzas | repeated units having the same number of lines | 55 | |
| 6285486571 | fixed form | pattern that applies to whole poem | 56 | |
| 6285486572 | limerick | a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba | 57 | |
| 6285486573 | Italian (Petrarchan) sonnet | eight lines, six lines | 58 | |
| 6285486574 | octave | eight lines | 59 | |
| 6285486575 | sestet | six lines | 60 | |
| 6285486576 | english sonnet | three quatrains and a concluding couplet | 61 | |
| 6286039516 | antagonist | a character or force against which another character struggles | 62 | |
| 6286045077 | blank verse | a line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter | 63 | |
| 6286047078 | characterization | the means by which writers present and reveal character | 64 | |
| 6286048837 | climax | the turning point or greatest tension in a work | 65 | |
| 6286050780 | closed form | a type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme length, line length and metrical pattern | 66 | |
| 6286056275 | conflict | a struggle between opposing forces in a story or play | 67 | |
| 6286062218 | convention | a customary feature of a literary work | 68 | |
| 6286063730 | couplet | a pair of rhymed lines that may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem | 69 | |
| 6286071839 | denouement | the resolution of the plot of a literary work | 70 | |
| 6286072788 | dialogue | the conversation of characters in a literary work | 71 | |
| 6286074494 | diction | the selection of words in a literary work | 72 | |
| 6286076001 | enjambment | a run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next | 73 | |
| 6286078493 | epic | a long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero | 74 | |
| 6286081790 | epigram | a brief witty poem, often satirical | 75 | |
| 6286084072 | exposition | the first stage of a fictional or dramatic plot, in which necessary background information is provided - usually character, setting and conflict | 76 | |
| 6286087908 | falling action | in the plot of a story or play, the action following the climax of the work that moves it towards its denouement | 77 | |
| 6286090555 | fiction | an imagined story, whether in prose, poetry or drama | 78 | |
| 6286092764 | flashback | an interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action | 79 | |
| 6286095484 | foot | a metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables | 80 | |
| 6286098307 | foil | a character who contrasts and parallels the main character in a play or story | 81 | |
| 6286101664 | foreshadowing | hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story | 82 | |
| 6286102822 | irony | a contrast or discrepancy between what is said and what is meant or between what happens and what is expected to happen in life and in literature | 83 | |
| 6286106304 | literal language | meaning what your words denote | 84 | |
| 6286109295 | narrative poem | a poem that tells a story | 85 | |
| 6286110272 | narrator | the voice and implied speaker of a fictional work; not to be confused with the author | 86 | |
| 6286113762 | ode | a long, stately poem; usually exalting or praising a subject | 87 | |
| 6286116559 | onomatopoeia | the use of words to imitate the sound they describe | 88 | |
| 6286118077 | open form | a structure of poetry characterized by freedom from | 89 |
