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| 7692520010 | Allegory | A story in which the narrative or characters carries an underlying symbolic or metaphorical meaning | 0 | |
| 7692547440 | Alliteration | The repetition of one or more initial consonants in a group of words or lines of poetry or prose. Writers use this for ornament, emphasis, or aesthetics | 1 | |
| 7692681200 | Allusion | A reference to a person, place, or event meant to create an effect or enhance the meaning of an idea. | 2 | |
| 7692684121 | Ambiguity | A vagueness of meaning; a conscious lack of clarity meant to evoke multiple meanings and interpretations | 3 | |
| 7692693561 | Analogy | A comparison that points out similarities between two dissimilar things. It may be a metaphor, simile, allegory, or parable. | 4 | |
| 7692696198 | Anaphora | The deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive lines | 5 | |
| 7692763607 | Antithesis | A rhetorical contrast or of ideas by means of a grammatical arrangement of words, clauses, or sentences | 6 | |
| 7692767920 | Apostrophe | An address to someone not present or to a personified object or idea | 7 | |
| 7692769802 | Aphorism | A brief statement of elemental truth | 8 | |
| 7692772541 | Archetype | An abstract or ideal conception of a type; a perfectly typical example | 9 | |
| 7692776468 | Assonance | The repeated use of vowel sounds | 10 | |
| 7692777359 | Aside | A speech made by an author to the audience, as though momentarily stepping out of the action on stage | 11 | |
| 7692783768 | Ballad | A long, narrative poem that tells a story different from epic poetry | 12 | |
| 7692792148 | Bildungsroman | A novel of formation, education, culture; a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood | 13 | |
| 7692796900 | Black Humor | Comedy which makes light of serious and often taboo subject matter that can be used for exploring vulgar issues, provoking discomfort, serious thought, and amusement | 14 | |
| 7692800809 | Blank Verse | Poetry written in regular meter which does not rhyme | 15 | |
| 7692808864 | Cacophony | The use of deliberately harsh, awkward, inharmonious sounds | 16 | |
| 7692810676 | Caesura | A pause within a line of poetry in order to make the meaning clear or to follow the natural rhythm of speech | 17 | |
| 7692814505 | Cadence | The beat or rhythm of poetry in a general sense | 18 | |
| 7692815696 | Caricature | A portrait that exaggerates a facet of personality | 19 | |
| 7692818430 | Carpe Diem | Seize the Day | 20 | |
| 7692819283 | Colloquialism | A word or phrase that is used in everyday conversational English that isn't a part of formal English | 21 | |
| 7692822117 | Conceit/Controlling Image | Refers to a startling or unusual metaphor, or one developed and expanded on several lines | 22 | |
| 7692826706 | Connotation | The figurative, emotive, or associative meaning of a word/phrase | 23 | |
| 7692848051 | Consonance | The repetition of consonant sound within words (rather than at their beginning) | 24 | |
| 7692850182 | Couplet | A pair of lines that end in rhyme | 25 | |
| 7692851391 | Denotation | The dictionary definition of a term; contrasted with connotation | 26 | |
| 7692855301 | Denouement | The final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or solved | 27 | |
| 7692877051 | Dialect | A regional speaking pattern which is used to make passages feel personal and authentic | 28 | |
| 8234043026 | Diction | The choice of words in speech and writing. An author's diction serves to create meaning, portray characters, convey tone, develop themes, and much more. | 29 | |
| 8234060229 | Dramatic Irony | A circumstance in which the audience or reader knows more about a situation than a character. | 30 | |
| 8234065950 | Elegy | A poem or prose selection that laments or meditates on the passing or death of something or someone of value. | 31 | |
| 8234069108 | Ellipsis | In poetry, the omission of words whose absence does not impede the reader's ability to understand the expression. | 32 | |
| 8234081044 | Enjambment | The continuation of a syntactic unit from one line or couplet of a poem to the next without pause. | 33 | |
| 8234086461 | Epistrophe | The ending of a series of lines, phrases, or sentences with the same word or words (opposite of anaphora). | 34 | |
| 8234088843 | Euphemism | To use an inoffensive or more socially acceptable word for something that could be inappropriate or offensive to some. | 35 | |
| 8234230348 | Feet | Iamb: unstressed + stressed Trochee: stressed + unstressed Spondee: stressed + stressed Dactyl: three-syllable, stressed + unstressed + unstressed (sort of like triplets in music) Anapest: three-syllable, unstressed + unstressed + stressed | 36 |
