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| 8607667950 | allusion | a reference within a work to something outside the work | 0 | |
| 8607672709 | colloquialism | the use of informal words, phrases or even slang in a piece of writing. | 1 | |
| 8607699918 | allegory | story in which people, things, or events have another--often symbolic meaning | 2 | |
| 8607702565 | alliteration | the repetition of initial consonant sounds in neighboring words for a sound effect | 3 | |
| 8607706315 | analogy | is a comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it. | 4 | |
| 8607709651 | anaphora | 1. the use of a word referring to or replacing a word used earlier in a sentence 2. the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses. | 5 | |
| 8607712146 | apostrophe | direct address; usually to a person or personified idea that is not present | 6 | |
| 8607717357 | euphemism | a figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness | 7 | |
| 8608289166 | antithesis | -a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else. -a figure of speech in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words that are the opposites | 8 | |
| 8608298429 | burlesque | a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects. | 9 | |
| 8608397728 | conceit | a figure of speech in which two vastly different objects are likened together with the help of similes or metaphors. | 10 | |
| 8608411245 | stream of consciousness | a literary style in which a character's thoughts, feelings, and reactions are depicted in a continuous flow uninterrupted by objective description or conventional dialogue. | 11 | |
| 8608419001 | onomatopoeia | term referring to words whose very sound is very close to the sound they are meant to depict. | 12 | |
| 8608424193 | kenning | related to works in Old English poetry where the author would use a twist of words, figure of speech or magic poetic phrase or a newly created compound sentence or phrase | 13 | |
| 8608428628 | assonance | the repetition of the sound of a vowel in non-rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be detectable | 14 | |
| 8608432036 | consonance | refers to repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase. This repetition often takes place in quick succession. | 15 | |
| 8608435071 | double entendre | A word or phrase open to two interpretations, one of which is usually risque or indecent. | 16 | |
| 8608439665 | euphony | The use of words and phrases that are distinguished as having a wide range of noteworthy melody or loveliness in the sounds they create | 17 | |
| 8608443732 | hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally | 18 | |
| 8608446636 | personification | the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form. | 19 | |
| 8608449720 | idiom | refers to a set expression or a phrase comprising two or more words. The phrase is understood as to mean something quite different from what individual words of the phrase would imply. | 20 | |
| 8608452399 | cacophony | Intentional use of words with sharp, harsh, hissing, awkward, and unmelodious sounds in poetry | 21 | |
| 8608467353 | amplification | a literary practice wherein the writer embellishes the sentence by adding more information to it in order to increase its worth and understand-ability. | 22 | |
| 8608472571 | asyndeton | a practice in literature whereby the author purposely leaves out conjunctions in the sentence, while maintaining the grammatical accuracy of the phrase. | 23 | |
| 8608478768 | pathetic fallacy | a type of literary device whereby the author ascribes the human feelings of one or more of his or her characters to nonhuman objects or nature or phenomena. It is a type of personification. | 24 | |
| 8608484374 | adage | a short, pointed, and memorable saying that is based on facts, and which is considered a veritable truth by the majority of people. | 25 | |
| 8608486993 | anagram | popular form of literary device wherein the writer jumbles up parts of the word to create a new word. | 26 | |
| 8608490498 | parable | a figure of speech, which presents a short story typically with a moral lesson at the end. | 27 | |
| 8608493658 | cliche | an expression that has been overused to the extent that it loses its original meaning or novelty. | 28 | |
| 8608518511 | satire | is a technique used by writers to expose and criticize foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society by using humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule | 29 | |
| 8608520625 | oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. | 30 | |
| 8608558521 | archetype | A typical character, an action or a situation that seems to represent such universal patterns of human nature. | 31 | |
| 8608566105 | connotation | refers to a meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing which it describes explicitly. | 32 | |
| 8608570625 | parody | An imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect. | 33 | |
| 8608573754 | paradox | a statement that appears to be self-contradictory or silly but may include a latent truth. | 34 | |
| 8608577220 | sonnet | A form of poetry that consists of fourteen lines of iambic pentameter and conforms to one of two patterns of end rhyme. | 35 | |
| 8608581635 | anti-hero | A protagonist/hero in a story, movie, or drama who doesn't have many normal hero characteristics like moral goodness, altruism, and bravery. | 36 | |
| 8608585557 | villanelle | it is defined as a poetic device which requires a poem to have 19 lines and a fixed form. It has five tercets (first 15 lines), a quatrain (last four lines), and a couplet at the end of the quatrain. | 37 | |
| 8608598756 | hyperbaton | a literary device wherein the author plays with the regular positioning of words and phrases and creates a differently structured sentence to convey the same meaning. | 38 | |
| 8608602155 | bibliomancy | This term refers to the practice of basing a plot happening or event and anticipating the results it will have on a faction of the Bible. | 39 | |
| 8608606596 | 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. | 40 | |
| 8608609935 | hubris | An extreme pride and arrogance shown by a character that ultimately brings about his/her downfall. | 41 | |
| 8608612382 | non sequiturs | Literary devices which include the statements, sayings and conclusions that do not follow the fundamental principles of logic and reason. | 42 | |
| 8608616071 | periphrasis | The use of excessive language and surplus words to convey a meaning that could otherwise be conveyed with fewer words and in more direct a manner. | 43 | |
| 8608619824 | deus ex machina | an unexpected power or event saving a seemingly hopeless situation, especially as a contrived plot device in a play or novel. | 44 | |
| 8608623960 | foot | the smallest repeated pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poetic line | 45 | |
| 8608625934 | iambic | an unstressed followed by a stressed syllable | 46 | |
| 8608628136 | trochaic | a stressed followed by an unstressed syllable | 47 | |
| 8608639015 | spondaic | two stressed syllables | 48 | |
| 8608642284 | verse | a metric line of poetry. It is named according to the kind and number of feet composing it. | 49 | |
| 8608644732 | monometer | one foot | 50 | |
| 8608647320 | dimeter | two feet | 51 | |
| 8608649522 | trimeter | three feet | 52 | |
| 8608653570 | tetrameter | four feet | 53 | |
| 8608657521 | pentameter | five feet | 54 | |
| 8608660713 | hexameter | six feet | 55 | |
| 8608663883 | heptameter | seven feet | 56 | |
| 8608665936 | octometer | eight feet | 57 | |
| 8608668464 | masculine rhyme | a rhyme of final stressed syllables | 58 | |
| 8608672747 | feminine rhyme | a rhyme between stressed syllables followed by one or more unstressed syllables . | 59 | |
| 8608678629 | epistolary | a literary genre pertaining to letters, in which writers use letters, journals and diary entries in their works, or they tell their stories or deliver messages through a series of letters | 60 | |
| 8608682219 | portmanteau | a literary device in which two or more words are joined together to coin a new word. | 61 | |
| 8608684743 | trope | the generic name for a figure of speech such as image, symbol, simile, and metaphor | 62 | |
| 8608687073 | illocution | language that avoids meaning of the words and expresses two stories, one of which is not apparent to the characters, but is apparent to the reader. | 63 | |
| 8608699967 | zeugma | a figure of speech in which a word, usually a verb or an adjective, applies to more than one noun, blending together grammatically and logically different ideas. | 64 | |
| 8608706983 | gratuitous act | an act which has no motivation or cause | 65 | |
| 8608713897 | irony | a figure of speech which is a contradiction or incongruity between what is expected and what actually occurs. | 66 | |
| 8608717567 | verbal irony | the use of words to mean something different from what a person actually says. | 67 | |
| 8608720766 | dramatic irony | It occurs when the audience is aware of something that the characters in the story are not aware of. | 68 | |
| 8608725825 | situational irony | It involves a discrepancy between what is expected to happen and what actually happens. It occurs when the exact opposite of what is meant to happen, happens. | 69 | |
| 8608780479 | approximate rhyme | a term used for words in a rhyming pattern that have some kind of sound correspondence but are not perfect rhymes | 70 | |
| 8608789965 | enjambment | poetry means moving over from one line to another without terminating punctuation marks | 71 | |
| 8608797322 | end-stopped line | poetic device pause comes at the end of a syntactic unit | 72 | |
| 8608803825 | caesura | literary device involves creating a fracture of sorts within a sentence where two separate parts are distinguishable yet linked to one another. | 73 | |
| 8608818831 | haiku | poem originating from Japan that has 3 lines with 5 syllables-7 syllables-5 syllables. | 74 | |
| 8608834131 | denotation | refers to the literal meaning of a word or phrase; a precise literal destination found in dictionary | 75 | |
| 8608854586 | metonymy | a figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated | 76 | |
| 8608862786 | syncedote | a literary device in which a part of something represents the whole or it may use a whole to represent a part | 77 | |
| 8753457601 | didacticism | a term that refers to a particular philosophy in art and literature that emphasizes the idea that different forms of art and literature ought to convey information and instructions along with pleasure and entertainment. | 78 | |
| 8753464449 | dissonance | the use of impolite, harsh-sounding, and unusual words in poetry. In other words, it is a deliberate use of inharmonious words, phrases, or syllables intended to create harsh sounding effects. | 79 | |
| 8753477362 | refrain | a repeated part of a poem, particularly when it comes either at the end of a stanza or between two stanzas | 80 | |
| 8753888801 | anapest | a poetic device defined as a metrical foot in a line of a poem that contains three syllables wherein the first two syllables are short and unstressed, followed by a third syllable that is long and stressed. | 81 | |
| 8820475941 | In Medias Res | a narrative work beginning or opening in the midst of action. Often, exposition is bypassed and filled in gradually, either through dialogue, flashbacks or description of past events. | 82 | |
| 8820487257 | anthropomorphism | the act of lending a human quality, emotion or ambition to a non-human object or being. This act of lending a human element to a non-human subject is often employed in order to endear the latter to the readers or audience and increase the level of relativity between the two while also lending character to the subject. | 83 | |
| 8820500606 | dystopia | a community or society that is undesirable or frightening. It is translated as "not-good place" and often characterized by dehumanization, totalitarian governments, environmental disaster, or other characteristics associated with a cataclysmic decline in society. | 84 | |
| 8820527752 | scansion | means to divide the poetry or a poetic form into feet by pointing out different syllables based on their lengths as well as working out meter. | 85 | |
| 8901202636 | hamartia | is a personal error in a protagonist's personality, which brings about his tragic downfall in a tragedy. | 86 | |
| 8901228727 | stanza | in poetry, these are visual groupings of lines | 87 | |
| 8901238099 | couplet | stanza with two lines | 88 | |
| 8901242102 | tercet | stanza with three lines | 89 | |
| 8901244725 | quatrain | stanza with four lines | 90 | |
| 8901248000 | quintet | stanza with five lines | 91 | |
| 8901251041 | sestet | stanza with six lines | 92 | |
| 8901253755 | octave | stanza with eight lines | 93 | |
| 8901265542 | parallelism | the use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or similar in their construction, sound, meaning, or meter. | 94 | |
| 8979267285 | verisimilitude | means 'the quality of resembling reality' and a work of art, or any part of a work of art, has this quality if it seems believably realistic. | 95 | |
| 8979280465 | vignette | a short scene that captures a single moment or a defining detail about a character, idea, or other element of the story. It is a small parts of a larger work, and can only exist as pieces of a whole story. | 96 | |
| 8979298898 | homage | a work created in honor of something or someone, generally to show one's respect. | 97 | |
| 8979327387 | inference | the process of drawing a conclusion from supporting evidence. It's when you go beyond the evidence and reach some further conclusion. | 98 | |
| 9052691708 | ambiguity | a word, phrase, or statement which contains more than one meaning. These lead to vagueness and confusion, and shape the basis for instances of unintentional humor. | 99 | |
| 9052703768 | bathos | the act of a writer or a poet falling into inconsequential and absurd metaphors, descriptions, or ideas in an effort to be increasingly emotional or passionate. | 100 | |
| 9052710377 | aporia | an expression of insincere doubt. It's when the writer or speaker pretends, briefly, not to know a key piece of information or not to understand a key connection. After raising this doubt, the author will either respond to the doubt, or leave it open in a suggestive or "hinting" manner. | 101 | |
| 9137193699 | tautology | defining or explaining something by saying exactly the same thing again in different words. | 102 | |
| 9137201591 | intertextuality | is not a literary or rhetorical device, but rather a fact about literary texts - the fact that they are all intimately interconnected. | 103 | |
| 9137211712 | vernacular | is everyday speech. It's just the way people talk in day-to-day life. | 104 | |
| 9137219843 | anthimeria | is the usage of a word in a new grammatical form, most often the usage of a noun as a verb. | 105 | |
| 9220890802 | rhetorical modes | This flexible term describes the variety, the conventions, and the purposes of the major kinds of writing. | 106 | |
| 9220895010 | exposition or expository writing | writing to explain and analyze information by presenting an idea, relevant evidence, and appropriate discussion. | 107 | |
| 9220901973 | argumentation or persuasive writing | writing to prove the validity of an idea, or point of view, by presenting sound reasoning, discussion, and argument that thoroughly convince the reader. | 108 | |
| 9220907546 | description or descriptive writing | writing to recreate, invent, or visually present a person, place, event or action so that the reader can picture it. | 109 | |
| 9220915124 | narration or narrative writing | writing to tell a story or narrate an event or series of events. | 110 | |
| 9220928046 | pleonasm | a rhetorical device that can be defined as the use of two or more words (a phrase) to express a redundant idea. | 111 | |
| 9220940565 | slant rhyme | is a type of rhyme formed by words with similar but not identical sounds. In most instances, either the vowel segments are different while the consonants are identical, or vice versa. Also called half rhyme or imperfect rhyme, sometimes called near-rhyme or lazy rhyme. | 112 | |
| 9220954945 | adynaton | a rhetorical device that is a form of hyperbole in which exaggeration is taken to a great extreme where it seems impossible. In other words, when hyperbole is magnified to such an extent that it is completely unfeasible. | 113 | |
| 9566286151 | polysyndeton | sentence which uses a conjunction with NO commas to separate the items in a series. | 114 | |
| 9566299860 | antimetabole | Repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order. | 115 | |
| 9566315180 | chiasmus | In poetry, a sentence repeated inversely and the two clauses in the phrase are opposite in meaning. | 116 | |
| 9566340586 | tricolon | a rhetorical term that consists of three parallel clauses, phrases, or words, which happen to come in quick succession without any interruption. | 117 | |
| 9648468286 | zoomorphism | a literary technique in which animal attributes are imposed upon non-animal objects, humans, and events; and animal features are ascribed to humans, gods, and other objects. | 118 | |
| 9648481183 | explication | a literary technique in criticism and research, used for a close analysis of an excerpt or text taken from a lengthy piece of work. | 119 | |
| 9726496861 | soliloquy | a popular literary device often used in drama to reveal the innermost thoughts of a character. It is a great technique used to convey the progress of action of the play, by means of expressing a character's thoughts about a certain character or past, present, or upcoming event, while talking to himself without acknowledging the presence of any other person. | 120 | |
| 9726516901 | antistrophe | a rhetorical device that involves the repetition of the same words at the end of consecutive phrases, clauses, sentences, and paragraphs. | 121 | |
| 9726531653 | monologue | a literary device that is the speech or verbal presentation given by a single character in order to express his or her collection of thoughts and ideas aloud. Often such a character speaks directly to audience, or to another character. | 122 | |
| 9726553625 | interior monologue | a character externalizes his thoughts, so that the audience can experience his internal thoughts. Often found in plays, movies, and novels, this technique is also called a "stream of consciousness." | 123 | |
| 9726562572 | direct interior monologue | a device where an author does not show his/her presence, and directly reveals the character's internal thoughts. | 124 | |
| 9726571683 | indirect interior monologue | a device where an author appears as a commentator, guide, presenter, and selector in order to reveal the character's internal thoughts. | 125 | |
| 9726616470 | dramatic monologue | In this type of monologue, a character speaks to the silent listener. This type has theatrical qualities and is frequently used in dramas and poetry. | 126 | |
| 9726661595 | aside | an actor speaks to the audience which other actors on the stage cannot hear. Sometimes the actor cups his mouth toward the audience or turns away from the other actors. It serves to reveal a character's thoughts or concerns to the audience without revealing them to other characters in a play. | 127 |
