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| 6431837406 | External Conflict | External struggle between opposing forces in a story (man v. man, man v. nature, man v. society) | 0 | |
| 6431837407 | Internal Conflict | Internal struggle involving opposing forces within a person's mind | 1 | |
| 6431837408 | Conceit | Elaborate metaphor that compares two things that are startlingly different - often an extended metaphor | 2 | |
| 6431837409 | Epithet | Adjective or adjective phrase applied to a person or thing that is frequently used to emphasize a character quality. | 3 | |
| 6431837410 | Foil | A character who acts as a contrast to another character. Often a funny side kick to the dashing hero, or a villain contrasting the hero. | 4 | |
| 6431837411 | Verbal Irony | A discrepancy between what is said and reality; saying one thing but really meaning something else. | 5 | |
| 6431837412 | Dramatic Irony | Used often on stage. A character in the play or story thinks one thing is true, but the audience or reader knows better. | 6 | |
| 6431837413 | Situational Irony | A direct contradiction between what is expected to happen, or what would be appropriate to happen, and what really does happen. | 7 | |
| 6431837414 | Protagonist | The central character in the story who initiates or drives the action | 8 | |
| 6431837415 | Tragic Hero | Protagonist with a tragic flaw | 9 | |
| 6431837416 | Hamartia | The tragic flaw that leads to a character's downfall | 10 | |
| 6431837417 | Pun | A "play on words" based on multiple meanings of a single word or on words that sound alike but mean different things. | 11 | |
| 6431837418 | Soliloquy | A long speech made by a character in a play while no other characters are on stage. | 12 | |
| 6431837419 | Theme | The insight about human life that is revealed in a literary work. | 13 | |
| 6431837420 | Tragedy | In general, a story in which a heroic character either dies or comes to some other unhappy end. | 14 | |
| 6431837421 | Ambiguity | Deliberately suggesting two or more different, and sometimes conflicting, meanings in a work. | 15 | |
| 6431837422 | Antagonist | The opposing force in a story that struggles against or blocks the protagonist. | 16 | |
| 6431837423 | Aphorism | Brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life or of a principle or accepted general truth. (Also known as a maxim or epigram) | 17 | |
| 6431837424 | Didactic | Form of fiction or nonfiction that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking. | 18 | |
| 6431837425 | Flashback | A scene that interrupts the normal chronological sequence of events in a story to depict something that happened at an earlier time. | 19 | |
| 6431837426 | Apostrophe | Calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to a place or thing, or a personified abstract idea. | 20 | |
| 6431837427 | Couplet | Two consecutive rhyming lines of poetry | 21 | |
| 6431837428 | Foreshadowing | The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot | 22 | |
| 6431837429 | Inversion | The reversal of the normal word order in a sentence or a phrase | 23 | |
| 6431837430 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which a person, place, or thing is referred to by something closely associated with it (e.g. The crown = the monarch) | 24 | |
| 6431837431 | Indirect characterization | The author develops a character through his speech, appearance, thoughts, actions, and others' reactions to him. Showing, rather than directly telling what a character is like. | 25 | |
| 6431837432 | Direct characterization | The author tells us directly what a character is like: sneaky, generous, mean. Romantic literature relies more heavily on this form of characterization. | 26 | |
| 6431837433 | Static character | A character who does not change much (emotionally) in the course of a story. | 27 | |
| 6431837434 | Dynamic character | A character who changes (emotionally) in some important way as a result of the story's actions. | 28 | |
| 6431837435 | Flat character | A character who has one or two personality traits. They are one dimensional and can be summed up in one phrase. | 29 | |
| 6431837436 | Round character | A character who has more dimensions to his personality. They are complex, just like real people. | 30 | |
| 6431837437 | Stream of consciousness | A style of writing that portrays the inner (often chaotic) workings of a character's mind. | 31 | |
| 6431837438 | Allegory | Hidden meanings through symbolic figures, actions, imagery, and/or events, which together create the moral, spiritual, or political meaning the author wishes to convey | 32 | |
| 6431837439 | Elegy | A poem of mourning, usually about someone who has died. | 33 | |
| 6431837440 | Mood | An atmosphere (feeling) created by a writer's diction and the details selected. | 34 | |
| 6431837441 | Suspense | A feeling of uncertainty and curiosity about what will happen next in a story | 35 | |
| 6431837442 | Symbol | A person, place, thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself. | 36 |
