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| 7851193597 | alliteration | The repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds, normally at the beginnings of words. Ex: Peter piper picked a pepper. | 0 | |
| 7851193598 | Allusion | A reference in a work of literature to something outside the work, especially to a well-known historical or literary event, person, or work. Ex: "The lord giveth, and the lord taketh" said Billy. | 1 | |
| 7851193599 | Antithesis | A figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas. Ex: The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jury-men may dine. | 2 | |
| 7851193600 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech in which someone uses some abstract quality, or a nonexistent personage is directly addressed as though present. Ex: If only George Washington were here. | 3 | |
| 7851193601 | Assonance | The repitition of identical or similar vowel sounds. Ex: A land laid waste with all its young men slain. | 4 | |
| 7851193602 | Black Verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter. Ex: Meter in Shakespeare's plays. | 5 | |
| 7851193603 | Cacophony | A harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds or tones. sometimes a result of a flaw. Ex: Irks care the crop-full bird. | 6 | |
| 7851193604 | Devices of Sound | The techniques of deploying the sound of words, especially in poetry. Ex: Alliteration, rhyme, onomatopoeia, etc. | 7 | |
| 7851193605 | Diction | The use of words in a literary work. Ex: Polite, formal, informal, etc. | 8 | |
| 7851193606 | Enjambment | The continuation of the sense and grammatical construction from one line of poetry to the next. Ex: AAAA AAA AAAA AAAA AAAAAA AAA A AA AAAA AA AAAA AAAAAAAA. | 9 | |
| 7851193607 | Figurative Language | Writing that uses figures of speech such as metaphor, irony, and simile. Uses words to mean something other than their literal meaning. Ex: Metaphor, simile, irony. | 10 | |
| 7851193608 | Free Verse | Poetry which is not written in a traditional meter but is still rhythmical. Ex: AAAAA AAA AAAAA AAA AAAAAAA AAAAA AAA AAA AAA. | 11 | |
| 7851193609 | Heroic Couplet | Two ended-stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, cc with the though usually completed in the two-line unit. Ex: But when o mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill! | 12 | |
| 7851193610 | Hyperbole | A deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration. It may be used seriously or for comic effect. | 13 | |
| 7851193611 | Imagery | The images of a literary work; the sensory details of a work. Two main forms are auditory and tactile. Ex: This bag weighs a million pounds. | 14 | |
| 7851252147 | Irony | The contrast between actual meaning and the suggestion of another meaning. Verbal irony is a figure of speech in which the intent is expressed in words which carry the opposite meaning. Ex: His hair was black, soft, and smelled of cherry blossoms. | 15 | |
| 7851266498 | Metaphor | A figurative use of language in which a comparison is expressed without the use of like, or, and than. Ex: The black bat night. | 16 | |
| 7851283039 | Meter | The repetition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line of poetry. Emphasizes the musical quality of language and relates to subject. Each unit is a foot. Ex: AA, BB, CC, AA, BB, CC. | 17 | |
| 7851300157 | Metonymy | A figure of speech which is characterized by the substitution of a term naming an object closely associated with the word in mind for the word itself. Ex: Crown = King. | 18 | |
| 7851311167 | Paradox | A situation, action, or feeling that appears to be contradictory but on inspection turns out to be true or at least make sense. Ex: Pinocchio tells you he can forcefully make his nose grow, will it grow? | 19 | |
| 7851324288 | Parallelism | A similar grammatical structure within a line or lines of poetry. Ex: Till I leave, till I die, till I'm damned I shall not leave. | 20 | |
| 7851332207 | Personification | A kind of metaphor that gives an inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics. Ex: The tree swayed like a Peruvian flute player. | 21 | |
| 7851343811 | Pun | A play on words that are identical or similar in sound, but have sharply diverse meanings. They can be either serious or humorous. Ex: They went and told the sexton and the sexton tolled the bell. | 22 | |
| 7851356078 | Rhyme | Close similarity or identity of sound between accented syllables occupying corresponding positions in two or more lines of a verse. For a true rhyme the vowels must be preceded by different consonants. Ex: He ran to the fan. | 23 | |
| 7851375440 | Satire | Writing that seeks to arouse a reader's disapproval of an object by ridicule. Usually a comedic form that exposes errors with an eye to correct vice and folly. Ex: Many comedy shows. | 24 | |
| 7851389084 | Simile | A directly expressed comparison; a figure of speech comparing two objects, using like, as, and than. Ex: He was as quick as a cheetah. | 25 | |
| 7851400262 | Symbol | Something that is simultaneously itself and a sign of something else. Ex: A cross. | 26 | |
| 7851406494 | Syntax | The ordering of words into patterns or sentences. If an author shifts words from a usual order , it is most likely an older work. Ex: | 27 | |
| 7851418757 | Theme | The main thought expressed by a work. Usually represented by a person, action, or image. Ex: Greed, compassion, etc. | 28 | |
| 7851428657 | Tone | The manner in which an author expresses their attitude; the intention of the voice that expresses meaning. Ex: The author wrote with an angered tone. | 29 | |
| 7851436708 | Understatement | The opposite of a hyperbole. It is a kind of irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is. Ex: Macbeth telling Lennox,"Twas a rough night" after he killed Duncan. | 30 |
