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| 3285031850 | allegory | a story with two meanings, a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning | 0 | |
| 3285034140 | alliteration | the repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words | 1 | |
| 3285047463 | allusion | a brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or fictitious, or to a work of art | 2 | |
| 3285056739 | ambiguity | a word, phrase, or statement which contains more than one meaning | 3 | |
| 3285061272 | analogy | the comparison of two pairs which have the same relationship | 4 | |
| 3285065747 | anaphora | the deliberate repetition of a word or phase at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, or paragraphs | 5 | |
| 3285076943 | antagonist | a character or a group of characters which stand in opposition to the protagonist or the main character | 6 | |
| 3285081047 | anthropomorphism | the act of attributing human forms or qualities to an entities which are not human | 7 | |
| 3285090696 | aphorism | expresses a truth in a memorable way | 8 | |
| 3285096695 | apostrophe | when an absent person, an abstract concept, or an important object is directly addressed | 9 | |
| 3285102998 | archetype | a generic, idealized model of a person, object, or concept from which similar instances are derived, copied, or patterned, or emulated | 10 | |
| 3285112695 | assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds but not consonant sounds | 11 | |
| 3285116169 | ballad meter | four-lined stanzas usually rhyming abcb with the first and third lines carrying out four accented syllables and the second and fourth carrying three | 12 | |
| 3285130661 | blank verse | a literary device defined as unrhyming verse written in iambic pentameter | 13 | |
| 3285136724 | bildungsroman | a story in which the protagonist undergoes growth throughout the entire narrative | 14 | |
| 3285143824 | catastrophe | the "turning downward" of a plot in a classical tragedy | 15 | |
| 3285155246 | character | any person, animal, or figure represented in a literary work | 16 | |
| 3285159081 | characterization | the method used by a writer to develop a character | 17 | |
| 3285165993 | chiasm | A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed | 18 | |
| 3285172416 | action | everything that happens in a story | 19 |
