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| 2823630898 | Alliteration | A literary device in which words are linked together by having the same initial or beginning consonant | 0 | |
| 2823630899 | Allusion | A reference in literature to person, place, or event in another passage of literature | 1 | |
| 2823630900 | Anapest | A foot or unit of poetry consisting of two light syllables followed by a single stressed syllable | 2 | |
| 2823630901 | Anaphora | Repetition of a word or words in a systematic way for effect | 3 | |
| 2823630902 | Apostrophe | Act of addressing some obstruction or personification that is not physically present | 4 | |
| 2823630903 | Assonance | A literary device in which words are linked together by having similar vowel sounds | 5 | |
| 2823630904 | Ballad | A narrative poem consisting of quatrains of iambic tetrameter alternating with iambic trimeter | 6 | |
| 2823630905 | Blank verse | Unrhymed lines of 10 syllables each with the even number syllables bearing accents | 7 | |
| 2823630906 | Bildungsroman | German term for a coming of age story | 8 | |
| 2823630907 | Cacophony | The use of harsh, discordant sounds or words for effects | 9 | |
| 2823630908 | Caesura | A pause separating phrases within lines of poetry | 10 | |
| 2823630909 | Catharsis | The release of emotional tension during the resolution of the work of tragedy. There's always an element of grief | 11 | |
| 2823630910 | Colloquialism | A word or phrase used in plain and relaxed speech but rarely found in formal writing | 12 | |
| 2823630911 | Conceit | A comparison of two unlikely things that is drawn out within a piece of literature, in particular an extended metaphor within a poem | 13 | |
| 2823630912 | Connotation | An additional meaning a word carries beyond it's strict definition | 14 | |
| 2823630913 | Consonance | Alliteration in which the repeated consonants are marked by changes in intervening vowels | 15 | |
| 2823630914 | Convention | A common feature that has become traditional or expected | 16 | |
| 2823630915 | Couplet | Two lines of the same metrical length that end in a rhyme to form a complete unit | 17 | |
| 2823630916 | Dactyl | A three syllable foot consisting of a heavy stress and light stresses | 18 | |
| 2823630917 | Diction | The choice of a particular word as opposed to others | 19 | |
| 2823630918 | Didactic | Writing that seeks to overly convince a reader of a particular point or lesson | 20 | |
| 2823630919 | Dramatic monologue | A poem in which a poetic speaker dresses either the reader or an internal listener | 21 | |
| 2823630920 | Dialogue | The literary device that occurs when character speak to one another | 22 | |
| 2823630921 | Denotation | A word's dictionary definition | 23 | |
| 2823630922 | Euphemism | A milder term for something explicit and inappropriate | 24 | |
| 2823630923 | Euphony | The opposite of cacophony. It employs the use of soothing, pleasant words for effect | 25 | |
| 2823630924 | Elegy | A poem dealing with the subject matter common to early Greco-Roman poems | 26 | |
| 2823630925 | Explication | The act of making clear or removing obscurity for the meaning of a word or symbol | 27 | |
| 2823630926 | Foil | A character that serves by contrast to highlight or emphasize the opposing traits in another character | 28 | |
| 2823630927 | Foot | A basic unit of meter consisting of a set number of strong stresses and light stresses | 29 | |
| 2823630928 | Formulaic | Constituting or containing a verbal formula or set form of words | 30 | |
| 2823630929 | Free verse | Poetry based on the natural rhythms of phrases and normal pauses rather than constraints of meter | 31 | |
| 2823630930 | Hubris | Implying arrogance or excessive self pride | 32 | |
| 2823630931 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration or overstatement | 33 | |
| 2823630932 | Lamb | A unit or foot of poetry that consist of a lightly stressed syllable followed by heavy stressed syllable | 34 | |
| 2823630933 | Lambic pentameter | A lightly stress syllable followed by heavily stressed syllable, 5 feet long | 35 | |
| 2823630934 | Imagery | Sensory perceptions referred to through description, allusion, simile, and metaphor | 36 | |
| 2823630935 | Internal rhyme | A poetic device in which a word in the middle of a line rhymes with the word at the end | 37 | |
| 2823630936 | Intrusive narrator | And omniscient narrator who reports on the events of the story and further comments on it | 38 | |
| 2823630937 | Irony | Saying one thing and meaning another | 39 | |
| 2823630938 | Leitmotif | Used to designate a musical theme associated with a particular object, character, or emotion | 40 | |
| 2823630939 | Literal | A passage, story, or text intended only as a factual account of a real historical event | 41 | |
| 2823630940 | Litotes | A form of understatement using a negative statement | 42 | |
| 2823630941 | Metaphor | A comparison stated in a way as to imply that one object is like another one | 43 | |
| 2823630942 | Meter | A recognizable, varying pattern of stressed syllables alternating with syllables of less stress | 44 | |
| 2823630943 | Metonymy/synecdoche | A specific physical object used as a vague so just a symbol for a more general idea | 45 | |
| 2823630944 | Monologue | A character speaking aloud to himself, narrating an account for the audience alone | 46 | |
| 2823630945 | Mood | A feeling, emotional state, or disposition of mind | 47 | |
| 2823630946 | Motif | A conspicuous recurring elements such as an incident, device, references, or verbal formula | 48 | |
| 2823630947 | Narrator | The voice that speaks or tells a story | 49 | |
| 2823630948 | Ode | A long, elaborate poem of varying line lengths with a serious subject matter | 50 | |
| 2823630949 | Onomatopoeia | The use of sounds that are similar to the noise they represent for rhetorical or artistic effect | 51 | |
| 2823630950 | Oxymoron | A compressed paradox containing two contradictory ideas | 52 | |
| 2823630951 | Parable | A short narrative or story designed to reveal allegorically some religious principle, lesson, or truth | 53 | |
| 2823630952 | Paradox | A self-contradictory statement this is somehow still true | 54 | |
| 2823630953 | Paraphrase | A brief restatement in one's own words of all or part of a literary or critical work | 55 | |
| 2823630954 | Parody | It imitates the manner and characteristic features of a particular work in order to mock it | 56 | |
| 2823630955 | Pathos | Elements used to inspire and emotional reaction | 57 | |
| 2823630956 | Persona | External representation of oneself which might or might not accurately reflect one's inner self | 58 | |
| 2823630957 | Personification | A literary device through which animals, ideas, and inanimate objects are given human characteristics | 59 | |
| 2823630958 | Prosody | The mechanics of verse poetry - sounds, rhythms, meter, alliteration, rhyme | 60 | |
| 2823630959 | Pun | A play on two words similar in sound but different in meaning | 61 | |
| 2823630960 | Quatrain | A stanza of four lines | 62 | |
| 2823630961 | Refrain | A line or set of lines at the end of a stanza or section of a longer poem, repeated at regular intervals | 63 | |
| 2823630962 | Rhyme | A matching similarity of sounds in two or more words | 64 | |
| 2823630963 | Scansion | The action of scanning a poem to determine its meter | 65 | |
| 2823630964 | Sestet | Six lines that rhyme with a varying pattern | 66 | |
| 2823630965 | Soliloquy | A monologue spoken by an actor at a point in the play when the character believes to be alone | 67 | |
| 2823630966 | Sonnet | A lyric poem of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with rhymes arrange according to pattern | 68 | |
| 2823630967 | Spondee | A metrical foot consisting of two successive strong beats | 69 | |
| 2823630968 | Stanza | An arrangement of lines of verse in a pattern usually repeated throughout the poem | 70 | |
| 2823630969 | Stress | The emphasis, length, and loudness that mark one syllable as more pronounced than another | 71 | |
| 2823630970 | Syntax | The standard word order and sentence structure of a language | 72 | |
| 2823630971 | Theme | A central idea or statement that unifies and controls an entire literary work | 73 | |
| 2823630972 | Tone | The means of conveying an attitude or mood | 74 | |
| 2823630973 | Trochee | A two syllable unit or foot of poetry consisting of a heavy stress followed by a light stress | 75 | |
| 2823630974 | Simile | A comparison of two different objects using like or as | 76 | |
| 2823630975 | Allegory | 77 |
