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| 7764001371 | Aesthetic | pertaining to beauty | 0 | |
| 7764011683 | Allegory | A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself. | 1 | |
| 7764015346 | Alliteration | Repetition of consonant sounds | 2 | |
| 7764019251 | Allusion | A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art | 3 | |
| 7764023404 | Analogy | A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way |  | 4 |
| 7764026506 | Anecdote | A brief narrative that focuses on a particular incident or event. | 5 | |
| 7764034372 | Aside | A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage | 6 | |
| 7764038505 | Atmosphere | The emotional tone or background that surrounds a scene. | 7 | |
| 7764045754 | Cadence | Rhythmic flow of a sequence of sounds or words | 8 | |
| 7764051280 | Catharsis | Drawn from Aristotle's writings on tragedy. Refers to the "cleansing" of emotion an audience member experiences during a play | 9 | |
| 7764061458 | Colloquialism | A word or phrase used in everyday conversational English that isn't a part of accepted "school-book" English. | 10 | |
| 7764067972 | Connotation | the implied or associative meaning of a word | 11 | |
| 7764071695 | Couplet | Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme | 12 | |
| 7764071696 | Denotation | The dictionary definition of a word | 13 | |
| 7764073479 | Diction | word choice | 14 | |
| 7764073480 | Dramatic Monologue | a long speech or poem in which one person speaks reflecting on a problem or situation. | 15 | |
| 7764081743 | Enjambment | The continuation of reading one line of a poem to the next with no pause, a run-on line. | 16 | |
| 7764086744 | Epic | A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds | 17 | |
| 7764086745 | Euphemism | An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant | 18 | |
| 7764086746 | Foil | to thwart, frustrate, defeat | 19 | |
| 7764092055 | Foreshadowing | suggesting, hinting, indicating, or showing what will occur later in a narrative | 20 | |
| 7764092056 | Free verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme | 21 | |
| 7764093582 | Genre | Type of literature | 22 | |
| 7764093583 | Hubris | Excessive pride | 23 | |
| 7764101424 | Hyperbole | An exaggeration | 24 | |
| 7764101425 | Irony | the opposite of what one expects | 25 | |
| 7764103966 | Metaphor | A comparison without using like or as | 26 | |
| 7764103967 | Objectivity | neutral, fact-based approach | 27 | |
| 7764113332 | Onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. | 28 | |
| 7764113333 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. | 29 | |
| 7764115705 | Parable | A simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson | 30 | |
| 7764115706 | Paradox | a contradiction or dilemma | 31 | |
| 7764124998 | Parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 32 | |
| 7764124999 | Parody | a work which imitates another in a ridiculous manner | 33 | |
| 7764126413 | Pastoral | Having to do with the country | 34 | |
| 7764133064 | Persona | An individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting. | 35 | |
| 7764133065 | Personification | the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea | 36 | |
| 7764135494 | Point of View | The perspective from which a story is told | 37 | |
| 7764135495 | Protagonist | Main character | 38 | |
| 7764137566 | Pun | A play on words | 39 | |
| 7764147803 | Satire | A literary style used to make fun of or ridicule an idea or human vice or weakness | 40 | |
| 7764147804 | Simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" | 41 | |
| 7764150401 | Soliloquy | A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage | 42 | |
| 7764155403 | Stanza | A group of lines in a poem |  | 43 |
| 7764155404 | Subjectivity | Expressions of the individuality and personal experiences and perceptions of an artist | 44 | |
| 7764166143 | Symbolism | A device in literature where an object represents an idea. | 45 | |
| 7764166144 | Syntax | Sentence structure | 46 | |
| 7764168084 | Tragic Flaw | A weakness or limitation of character, resulting in the fall of the tragic hero. | 47 | |
| 7764168085 | Unreliable narrator | an untrustworthy or naive commentator on events and characters in a story | 48 | |
| 7764169571 | Utopia | an ideal society | 49 |
