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| 6739088917 | anagnorisis | discovery; hero suddenly becoming aware of a situation or true character | 0 | |
| 6739094692 | ballad | relatively short narrative poem written in song-like stanza form | 1 | |
| 6739100762 | bildungsroman | novel tracing the spiritual, moral, psychological, or social development and growth of the main character usually from childhood to maturity | 2 | |
| 6739105247 | canon | works of a writer, or groups of writers | 3 | |
| 6739113194 | comedy of manners | play that satirizes the manners and affectations of a social class, often using stereotypes | 4 | |
| 6739116337 | conceit | extended metaphor that compares two seemingly dissimilar things | 5 | |
| 6739120523 | deus ex machina | literally "god out of a machine;" sudden artificial or improbable resolution to a story, often implying a lack of skill on the part of the writer | 6 | |
| 6739138117 | diction | conscious word choice | 7 | |
| 6739141249 | dramatic monologue | poem in which a character delivers a speech explaining his/her feelings, actions, or motives | 8 | |
| 6739147878 | elegy | sad, mournful, melancholic poem | 9 | |
| 6739156118 | enjambment | continuation of one line of poetry into the next with no punctuation at the end of a line | 10 | |
| 6739168776 | epigraph | short saying at the beginning of a work, often alluding to various themes contained within the work | 11 | |
| 6739175864 | foil | character that contrasts with another character, usually the protagonist, to emphasize the other character's traits | 12 | |
| 6739182410 | foreshadowing | event or statement that suggests or hints at a future event | 13 | |
| 6739186690 | hamartia | fatal flaw of a tragic hero | 14 | |
| 6739189673 | hubris | excessive pride that leads to a hero's downfall | 15 | |
| 6739196297 | motif | recurring or dominant element of a poem or story | 16 | |
| 6739201093 | objectivity | impersonal view of events | 17 | |
| 6739204456 | subjectivity | personal view of events | 18 | |
| 6739207457 | paradox | seemingly apparent contradiction which is accurate on closer inspection | 19 | |
| 6739211832 | pastoral | a work that highlights the simple life of shepherds, farmers, or the country | 20 | |
| 6739219169 | peripeteia | reversal of fortune or character | 21 | |
| 6739225117 | satire | genre which ridicules its subject by exposing flaws, often to provoke or prevent change | 22 | |
| 6739248493 | epithet | an adjective or adjective phrase applied to a person or thing that is frequently used to emphasize a characteristic quality. "Father of our country" and "the great Emancipator" are examples. | 23 | |
| 6739258151 | farce | a type of comedy in which ridiculous and often stereotyped characters are involved in silly, far-fetched situations. | 24 | |
| 6739266507 | juxtaposition | poetic and rhetorical device in which normally unassociated ideas, words, or phrases are placed next to one another, creating an effect of surprise and wit. | 25 | |
| 6739276983 | litotes | a form of understatement in which the positive form is emphasized through the negation of a negative form | 26 | |
| 6739287415 | mood | atmosphere created by the author's diction choices and details | 27 | |
| 6739298146 | romance | in general, a story in which an idealized hero or heroine undertakes a quest and is successful. | 28 | |
| 6739304008 | soliloquy | an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play | 29 | |
| 6739316785 | tone | the attitude a writer takes toward the subject of a work, the characters in it, or the audience, revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization. | 30 | |
| 6739334298 | epistolary | a novel that tells its story through letters written from one character to another. | 31 | |
| 6739342975 | in medias res | A story that begins in the middle of the action | 32 |
