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| 7383985742 | polysyndeton | a literary technique in which conjunctions (e.g. and, but, or) are used repeatedly in quick succession, often with no commas, even when the conjunctions could be removed | 0 | |
| 7386585210 | asyndeton | a device used to intentionally eliminate conjunctions between the phrases and in the sentence, yet maintain the grammatical accuracy | 1 | |
| 7386599515 | foil | a character that shows qualities that are in contrast with the qualities of another character with the objective to highlight the traits of the other character | 2 | |
| 7386605950 | cliche | an expression that has been overused to the extent that it loses its original meaning or novelty | 3 | |
| 7386612257 | juxtaposition | a literary technique in which two or more ideas, places, characters and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts | 4 | |
| 7386647318 | allusion | a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance | 5 | |
| 7386651959 | diction | style of speaking or writing determined by the choice of words by a speaker or a writer | 6 | |
| 7386665102 | colloquialism | the use of informal words, phrases or even slang in a piece of writing | 7 | |
| 7386669809 | antagonist | a character or a group of characters which stand in opposition to the main character | 8 | |
| 7386677805 | protagonist | the central character or leading figure in poetry, narrative, novel or any other story | 9 | |
| 7386683181 | hubris | extreme pride and arrogance shown by a character that ultimately brings about his downfall | 10 | |
| 7386689903 | archetype | a typical character, an action or a situation that seems to represent such universal patterns of human nature | 11 | |
| 7386695858 | ambiguity | a word, phrase, or statement which contains more than one meaning | 12 | |
| 7386702227 | catharsis | an emotional discharge through which one can achieve a state of moral or spiritual renewal or achieve a state of liberation from anxiety and stress | 13 | |
| 7386710711 | aphorism | a statement of truth or opinion expressed in a concise and witty manner | 14 | |
| 7836022078 | round character | a character with a complex personality, has depths and feelings and passions; has many layers of personality | 15 | |
| 7836038635 | flat character | two dimensional character that is uncomplicated; has no emotional depth | 16 | |
| 7836062648 | anachronism | an error of chronology or timeline in a literary piece; anything that is out of time and place | 17 | |
| 7836077779 | bildungsroman | a novel that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the main character from youth to adulthood | 18 | |
| 7836089913 | anecdote | a short or interesting story, often amusing, to support or demonstrate a point | 19 | |
| 7836102865 | cacophony | a mixture of harsh and inharmonious sounds; the use of words with harsh, sharp, hissing and unmelodious sounds | 20 | |
| 7836132559 | couplet | two successive rhyming lines with the same meter | 21 | |
| 7836146836 | prosthesis | the addition of an extra sound or syllable to the beginning of word making it easier to pronounce | 22 | |
| 7836158927 | flashback | an interruption with a past event inserted into the current events of a narrative in order to provide background or context | 23 | |
| 7836189322 | caricature | used in descriptive writing to exaggerate certain aspects of a subject in order to make an impression often for humor | 24 | |
| 8866613179 | ethos | represents credibility, or an ethical appeal, which involves persuasion; a means of convincing others of the character or credibility of the persuader | 25 | |
| 8866624164 | doppleganger | an apparition or double of a living person | 26 | |
| 8866629859 | ballad | a type of poem that mimics a song; has simple and easy-to-understand language; tells a story about hardships, tragedies, love, and romance | 27 | |
| 8866646285 | anaphora | deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect | 28 | |
| 8866650567 | tragedy | a type of drama that presents a serious subject matter about human suffering and corresponding terrible events in a dignified manner | 29 | |
| 8866654631 | reductio ad absurdum | a manner of arguing something for one's own position by showing the absurdity of the position of his opponent; makes a situation ridiculous or extremely absurd; often used to point out the flaws of an original claim that is untenable or false | 30 | |
| 8866671315 | aporia | a figure of speech wherein a speaker expresses doubt or perplexity regarding a question (often feigned), and asks the audience how he ought to proceed; causes uncertainty, and makes the audience discover the certainty through subsequent statements of the speaker; the main objective is to provide the audience a chance to analyze and judge the situation. | 31 | |
| 8866692122 | exemplum | a brief story with a moral to be used as an example or model | 32 | |
| 8866700566 | cadence | the rising and falling of the voice when reading a literary piece; in poetry, it is the momentary changes in rhythm and pitch; cadences help set the rhythmic pace of a literary piece; a musical movement, marked by melodic, rhythmic, or harmonic characteristics | 33 | |
| 8866713221 | half rhyme | a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of ending consonants match, however the preceding vowel sounds do not match | 34 | |
| 9459717905 | ellision | removal of an unstressed syllable, consonants, or letters from a word or phrase to decrease the number of letters or syllables; sometimes an apostrophe replaces the missing letters | 35 | |
| 9459729158 | antithesis | a device where two opposite ideas are placed together in a sentence to create a contrasting effect; the contrast is emphasized by parallel structure of the contrasted ideas | 36 | |
| 9459851663 | panegyric | a speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something; it is delivered in high praise without criticism | 37 | |
| 9459858870 | affective fallacy | an error of judging or evaluating a text based on its emotional effects on the reader instead of its literary merit | 38 | |
| 9459863652 | parallelism | use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same or similar in construction, sound, meaning, or meter | 39 | |
| 9459874879 | euphemism | a term used to describe the use of polite, indirect expressions instead of words and phrases that are considered harsh and impolite or which suggest something unpleasant | 40 | |
| 9459884574 | onomatopoeia | a word that imitates the natural sound of something; the word creates a sound effect that mimics the thing being described | 41 | |
| 9459890137 | soliloquy | typically in a play, when a character speaks to himself in order to reveal his/her innermost thoughts to the audience alone so as to keep these thoughts secret from the rest of the characters | 42 | |
| 9459898934 | dramatic irony | a term used in drama to indicate when a situation or truth is understood by the audience but not understood by the characters in the play | 43 | |
| 9459906897 | internal rhyme | a poetic device where words in the middle of the line rhyme with the end words of the same line | 44 | |
| 9716388410 | synechdoche | a literary device in which a part of something represents the whole, or it may use a whole to represent a part | 45 | |
| 9716399232 | leitmotif | a recurrent theme in a literary work associated with a particular character, idea, or situation | 46 | |
| 9716423486 | paradox | a statement that appears to be self-contradictory or silly, but which may include a latent truth; it is also used to illustrate an opinion or statement contrary to accepted traditional ideas | 47 | |
| 9716432826 | litotes | ironic understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary | 48 | |
| 9716453044 | apostrophe | a figure of speech sometimes represented by an exclamation; a writer or speaker speaks directly to someone who is not present or is dead, or speaks to an inanimate object | 49 | |
| 9716473017 | abstract diction | language (words and phrases) used to describe qualities that cannot be perceived with the five senses (sight, touch, smell, taste and hearing); ideas or thoughts with no physical referents | 50 | |
| 9716523842 | concrete diction | words that appeal to our senses; words with a set definition | 51 | |
| 9716566372 | verisimilitude | likeness to the truth, such as the resemblance of a fictitious work to a real event | 52 | |
| 9716573567 | in medias res | beginning a narrative by plunging into a crucial situation that is part of a related chain of events; the situation is an extension of previous events and will be developed in later action; starting in the middle | 53 | |
| 9716599391 | peripeteia | a sudden or unexpected reversal of circumstances or situation especially in a literary work | 54 |
