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| 7222509357 | allegory | A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself. | 0 | |
| 7222509358 | alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds | 1 | |
| 7222509359 | allusion | A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art | 2 | |
| 7222509360 | ambiguity | uncertainty or inexactness of meaning in language | 3 | |
| 7222509361 | anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | 4 | |
| 7222509362 | antagonist | A character or force in conflict with the main character | 5 | |
| 7222509363 | analogy | A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way | 6 | |
| 7222509364 | apostrophe | A locution that addresses a person or personified thing not present. | 7 | |
| 7222509365 | archetype | a very typical example of a certain person or thing | 8 | |
| 7222509366 | aside | A short remark or set of lines that are spoken by a character directly to the audience | 9 | |
| 7222509367 | assonance | Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity | 10 | |
| 7222509368 | asyndeton | omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words | 11 | |
| 7222509369 | ballad | longer song that tells a story; usually sad. | 12 | |
| 7222509370 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | 13 | |
| 7222509371 | cacophony | A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds | 14 | |
| 7222509372 | caesura | a speech pause occurring within a line; sometimes marked by punctuation; a breath | 15 | |
| 7222509373 | catharsis | Release of emotion that brings relief or renewal | 16 | |
| 7222509374 | character / flat, round | uncomplicated character that doesn't change vs. complex character that develops and evolves | 17 | |
| 7222509375 | cliche | An overused expression | 18 | |
| 7222509376 | conceit | A fanciful, particularly clever extended metaphor | 19 | |
| 7222509377 | connotation | an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning. | 20 | |
| 7222509378 | colloquial diction | everyday usage that may contain terms accepted in a group but not universally acceptable | 21 | |
| 7222509379 | comedy | A humorous work of drama | 22 | |
| 7222509381 | consonance | Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity. (ex. pitter patter) | 23 | |
| 7222509382 | couplet | Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme | 24 | |
| 7222509383 | denotation | The dictionary definition of a word | 25 | |
| 7222509384 | diction | the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing. | 26 | |
| 7222509385 | dramatic monologue | a long speech or poem in which one person speaks reflecting on a problem or situation. | 27 | |
| 7222509386 | elegy | a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead. | 28 | |
| 7222509387 | enjambment | the continuation of a sentence or clause over a line-break | 29 | |
| 7222509388 | epigram | a witty saying expressing a single thought or observation | 30 | |
| 7222509389 | epic | A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds | 31 | |
| 7222509390 | epiphany | A moment of sudden revelation or insight | 32 | |
| 7222509391 | euphony | pleasant, harmonious sound | 33 | |
| 7222509392 | existential character/hero | he or she who can will, or create, his or her meaning in these absurd, doomed situations, and then still act in accordance to an internal morality | 34 | |
| 7222509393 | exposition | Background information presented in a literary work. | 35 | |
| 7222509394 | farce | a play filled with ridiculous or absurd happenings | 36 | |
| 7222509395 | flashback/forward | scenes from past or future inserted into present action | 37 | |
| 7222509396 | foil | A character who acts as a contrast to another character | 38 | |
| 7222509397 | foreshadowing | a warning or indication of a future event | 39 | |
| 7222509398 | free verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme | 40 | |
| 7222509399 | heroic couplet | two lines of rhyming iambic pentameter | 41 | |
| 7222509400 | hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. | 42 | |
| 7222509401 | imagery | the use of figures of speech to create vivid images that appeal to one or more of the senses | 43 | |
| 7222509402 | iambic pentameter | A line of poetry that contains five iambic feet | 44 | |
| 7222509404 | irony (dramatic, situational, verbal) | a state of affairs, language, or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result | 45 | |
| 7222509405 | lyric | a short poem of song-like quality that expresses the feelings of a single speaker | 46 | |
| 7222509406 | metaphor (stated, implied, extended) | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable | 47 | |
| 7222509407 | meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry | 48 | |
| 7222509408 | metonymy | substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it (ex. the White House instead of the president's name) | 49 | |
| 7222509409 | motif | A recurring theme, subject or idea | 50 | |
| 7222509410 | myth | Symbolic stories that express a spiritual truth or a basic belief about God | 51 | |
| 7222509411 | narrative structure | how a story is organized; how the plot is structured by the writer | 52 | |
| 7222509412 | octave | 8 line stanza | 53 | |
| 7222509413 | ode | a lyric poem that expresses strong emotions about a specific person, thing, or life | 54 | |
| 7222509414 | onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. | 55 | |
| 7222509415 | overstatement | the action of expressing or stating something too strongly in an effort to underscore the truth; exaggeration | 56 | |
| 7222509416 | oxymoron | a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction | 57 | |
| 7222509417 | parable | A simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson | 58 | |
| 7222509418 | paradox | a statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true | 59 | |
| 7222509419 | parallelism | The repetition of similar grammatical or syntactical patterns. | 60 | |
| 7222509420 | parody | a work which imitates another in a ridiculous manner | 61 | |
| 7222509421 | pastoral | A literary work that idealizes country and rural life | 62 | |
| 7222509422 | persona | the role, attitude, personality a writer assumes in order to achieve a literary purpose | 63 | |
| 7222509423 | personification | the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea | 64 | |
| 7222509424 | point of view | the method of narration; the lens through which the reader sees the action | 65 | |
| 7222509425 | polysyndeton | the repetition of conjunctions in a series of coordinate words, phrases, or clauses | 66 | |
| 7222509426 | protagonist | The central character in a work of literature | 67 | |
| 7222509427 | quatrain | A four line stanza | 68 | |
| 7222509428 | realism | Attempting to describe nature and life without idealization and with attention to detail | 69 | |
| 7222509429 | rhythm | A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound. | 70 | |
| 7222509430 | rhyme | Words that end in the same sound, end rhyme | 71 | |
| 7222509431 | romantic | fanciful, impractical, unrealistic; dominated by idealism | 72 | |
| 7222509432 | rite of passage | a ritual marking the symbolic transition from one social position to another | 73 | |
| 7222509433 | sarcasm | the use of irony to mock or convey contempt | 74 | |
| 7222509434 | satire | A literary style used to make fun of or ridicule an idea or human vice or weakness | 75 | |
| 7222509435 | scan | The act of determining the meter of a poetic line. | 76 | |
| 7222509436 | sestet | 6 line stanza | 77 | |
| 7222509437 | simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" | 78 | |
| 7222509438 | soliloquy | a speech in a play delivered by one character while he or she is alone on stage | 79 | |
| 7222509439 | sonnet | a fourteen line poem with a precise rhyme scheme and meter | 80 | |
| 7222509440 | stream of consciousness | writing that imitates the sometimes unpredictable workings of the mind | 81 | |
| 7222509443 | symbol | anything that stands for or represents something else | 82 | |
| 7222509444 | synecdoche | using one part of an object to represent the entire object | 83 | |
| 7222509445 | syntax | The way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences. | 84 | |
| 7222509446 | tercet | a three-line stanza | 85 | |
| 7222509448 | tone | Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character | 86 | |
| 7222509449 | tragedy | A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character | 87 | |
| 7222509450 | understatement | A statement which lessens or minimizes the importance of what is meant | 88 | |
| 7222509451 | unreliable narrator | an untrustworthy or naive commentator on events and characters in a story | 89 |
