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| 6583545800 | Alliteration | Recurrence of initial consonant sounds | 0 | |
| 6583558506 | Allusion | A casual and brief reference to a famous historical or literary figure or event | 1 | |
| 6598830712 | Anastrophe | Putting words in a different order like Yoda. Ex.-Something there is that doesn't love a wall. It emphasizes something. | 2 | |
| 6598842052 | analogy | comparing two things which are alike in several respects - used to clarify or explain; simile is more artistic than an analogy while analogy serves more of a practical purpose: analogy is usually longer than a simile | 3 | |
| 6598861432 | anaphora | repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive phrases and or clauses, etc.--commonly used in conjunction with climax and parallelism | 4 | |
| 6598869732 | antithesis | establishes a clear, contrasting relationship between two clearly contrasting ideas by joining them together or juxtaposing them -- usually with parallel structure. | 5 | |
| 6598872922 | apostrophe | interrupts the discussion or discourse and address directly a person or personified thing | 6 | |
| 6599044202 | Blank Verse | iambic pentameter that does not rhyme. Ex.-Shakespeare's plays | 7 | |
| 6599140881 | Caesura | A pause near the middle of a sentence, only in poetry, not a poem. | 8 | |
| 6599145685 | Petrachan Sonnet | 14 lines that do not rhyme | 9 | |
| 6599151611 | End-Stopped | The end of each line has punctuation, be it a comma, period | 10 | |
| 6599154127 | Enjambment | Poetry continues from one line to the next without any stop | 11 | |
| 6599155953 | Free Verse | NO rhyme, not rhythm, no set number of syllables in each rhyme. Most modern poetry is this | 12 | |
| 6599163266 | Iamb | One stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable | 13 | |
| 6599169813 | Iambic Pentameter | 10 Syllables in which 5 syllables are stressed | 14 | |
| 6599171019 | Masculine Rhyme | One-Syllable Rhyme | 15 | |
| 6599172903 | Oxymoron | Contradictory terms-like two opposite things | 16 | |
| 6599176885 | Sonnet | 14 lines | 17 | |
| 6599179285 | Shakespearean Sonnet | A sonnet where the last two lines rhyme | 18 | |
| 6599180905 | Quatrain | A stanza of four lines | 19 | |
| 6616869791 | Extended Metaphor | Ex-Mother to son. A metaphor that is continuous | 20 | |
| 6616874903 | Narrative Poetry | Tells a story | 21 | |
| 6616878708 | Lyrical Poem | Expresses the thought and feeling of the speaker or poet | 22 | |
| 6616881074 | Juxtaposition | Two things side by side, shows contrast. Ex-The Good, the Bad, and the ugly. Good and bad contrasts. | 23 | |
| 6616888074 | Litote | An understatement. Ex-If you come with sweatpants and a hoodie and someone says that you are looking really nice | 24 | |
| 6616897627 | Chiasmus | Reversal of wordsEx. Feel the love, love the feel | 25 | |
| 6616904596 | Aphorism | A short saying that expresses the truth. Ex-If it ain't broke, don't fix it. | 26 | |
| 6616908570 | Foil | A character who contrasts another character to enhance, highlight the qualities. Ex-Hamlet has lost their father and meets two people who have experienced the same. Hamlet doesn't know what to do, but the other two characters have taken on responsibilities, emphasizing Hamlet's indecision. | 27 | |
| 6616955519 | Assonance | repetition of the same vowel sound in words close to each other containing different consonants | 28 | |
| 6616955520 | Asyndeton | Omits conjunctions between words or phrases or clauses. EFFECT: unpremeditated multiplicity; extemporaneous rather than labored | 29 | |
| 6616990233 | Cacophony | Harsh Sounds | 30 | |
| 6616998562 | Character | a person or animal who takes part in the action of a literary work | 31 | |
| 6616999676 | Characterization | the act of creating or describing a character, by showing what they say, do and think, showing what physical features, dress, and personality they display | 32 | |
| 6617010595 | Coming-of-Age Story | a tale in which a young person makes a discovery about himself or herself or about the world. It also allows different generations to learn about each other. | 33 | |
| 6617024622 | Euphemism | substitution of an agreeable term for a less offensive term | 34 | |
| 6617031487 | Feminine rhyme | When the next-to-last syllable makes a rhyming sound with the next-to-last syllable from another word. | 35 | |
| 6617046454 | First person | narrator (person telling the story) takes part in the action and refers to himself or herself using words such as we and I | 36 | |
| 6617051901 | Foreshadowing | the act of hinting at events that will happen later in a literary work | 37 | |
| 6617055258 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration for rhetorical effect | 38 | |
| 6617063136 | Image | language that creates a concrete representation of an object or an experience | 39 | |
| 6617065955 | Imagery | the images in a poem or passage considered all together | 40 | |
| 6617068511 | Inciting Incident | the event that introduces the central conflict or struggle, in a poem, story, or play | 41 | |
| 6617072240 | Inimitable | reverses the order of repeated words-- effect is intensify the formulation; to preset alternatives or show contrast | 42 | |
| 6617081680 | Irony | expression of something which is contrary to the intended meaning | 43 | |
| 6617083408 | Internal Conflict | a struggle that takes place inside the mind of the character | 44 | |
| 6618558901 | Masculine rhyme | when the rhyme is on the final syllable of the two rhyming words For example, cook and book | 45 | |
| 6619078631 | Metaphor | a figure of speech that is spoken or written about as if it were another | 46 | |
| 6619081146 | Metonym | a word, name, or expression used as a substitute for something else with which it is closely associated. For example, Washington for the federal government of the US. | 47 | |
| 6618555334 | Mood | the feeling or emotion that the writer creates in a literary | 48 | |
| 6619092617 | Motif | anything that appears repeatedly in one or more of literature, art, or music Ex-religion in Under the feet of Jesus | 49 | |
| 6619094638 | Motivation | a force that moves a character to think, feel, or behave in a certain way | 50 | |
| 6619102337 | Motive | a reason for acting in a certain way | 51 | |
| 6619103643 | Myth | a story that explains the beginning of things or events in the natural world. These objects are explained as being caused by some supernatural force or being, often a god. | 52 | |
| 6619106883 | One-dimensional characher | flat character who reveals only one quality or character trait | 53 | |
| 6619108733 | Onomatopoeia | use of words to imitate sounds | 54 | |
| 6619118468 | Paradox | a seemingly contradictory statement that, upon reflection, reveals a truth. Ex-Less is more | 55 | |
| 6619121260 | Parallelism | the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc | 56 | |
| 6619124574 | Parenthesis | a word, phrase, or an entire sentence inserted as an aside in the middle of another sentence. | 57 | |
| 6619128647 | Personification | a figure of speech in which something not human is described as if it were human | 58 | |
| 6619130335 | Polysyndeton | use of a conjunction between each word or phrase or clause. EFFECT: multiplicity, energetic enumeration and building up | 59 | |
| 6619139990 | Repetition | more than one use of a sound, word, or group of words | 60 | |
| 6619141415 | Resolution | the point in a poem, story, or play at which the central conflict or struggle ends | 61 | |
| 6619142744 | Rhetorical Question | a question that is not answered by the reader. EFFECT: emphasis, provocation | 62 | |
| 6619145851 | Rhythm | the pattern of beats in a line poetry or prose | 63 | |
| 6619147592 | Sensory Details | words or phrases that describe how things look, sound, smell, taste or feel | 64 | |
| 6619149966 | Sententia | quoting a maxim or wise saying to apply a general truth to the situation | 65 | |
| 6619151750 | Setting | the time and place in which a literary work happens | 66 | |
| 6619151953 | Simile | comparison using like or as | 67 | |
| 6619175124 | Slant Rhyme | type of rhyme formed by words with similar but not identical sounds Ex-Bridge and Grudge | 68 | |
| 6619180823 | Symbol | a thing that stands for or represents both itself and something else | 69 | |
| 6619183727 | Synecdoche | a form of metaphor in which the part stands for the whole, the whole for the part or any portion, section, or main quality for the whole thing or vice-versa | 70 | |
| 6619197555 | Tercet | a set or group of three lines of verse rhyming together or connected by rhyme | 71 | |
| 6619200247 | Third-person point of view | in a story, when the narrator does not take part in the action and tells the story using words such as he and she and avoiding the use of I and we | 72 | |
| 6619212687 | Tone | the manner in which a character speaks in literature | 73 | |
| 6619215156 | Understatement | intentionally represents something as less than it is, either for ironic emphasis or for politeness and tact | 74 |
