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| 636563971 | Abstract Language | Language describing ideas and qualities rather than observable or specific things, people, or places. | 0 | |
| 636563972 | Allegory | an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances | 1 | |
| 636563973 | Alliteration | use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse | 2 | |
| 636563974 | Allusion | a reference to another work of literature, person, or event | 3 | |
| 636563975 | Ambiguity | unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning | 4 | |
| 636563976 | Antecedent | a preceding occurrence or cause or event | 5 | |
| 636563977 | Apostrophe | address to an absent or imaginary person | 6 | |
| 636563978 | Anachronism | something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred | 7 | |
| 636563979 | Anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase as the beginning of successive clauses | 8 | |
| 636563980 | Antagonist | the character that the main character (protagonist) struggles against. | 9 | |
| 636563981 | Anticlimax | a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one | 10 | |
| 636563982 | Antithesis | the juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance | 11 | |
| 636563983 | Apostrophe | a figure of speech in which one directly addresses an absent or imaginary person, or some abstraction | 12 | |
| 636563984 | Archetype | the original pattern or model; a perfect example | 13 | |
| 636563985 | Argument, Literary | the thesis of a piece of literature | 14 | |
| 636563986 | Aside | a message that departs from the main subject, a line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage | 15 | |
| 636563987 | Assonance | the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words | 16 | |
| 636563988 | Asyndeton | lack of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses or words | 17 | |
| 636563989 | Attitude | the relationship an author has toward his or her subject, and/or his or her audience | 18 | |
| 636563990 | Balanced Sentence | a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast (George Orwell: "If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.") | 19 | |
| 636563991 | Ballad Meter | a four-line stanza rhymed abcd with four feet in lines one and three and three feet in lines two and four. | 20 | |
| 636563992 | Blank Verse | unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter) | 21 | |
| 636563993 | Cacophony | loud confusing disagreeable sounds | 22 | |
| 636563994 | Caesura | a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line | 23 | |
| 636563995 | Caricature | a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect | 24 | |
| 636563996 | Catharsis | an emotional or psychological cleansing that brings relief or renewal | 25 | |
| 636563997 | Characterization | the act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features | 26 | |
| 636563998 | Chiasmus | a statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed | 27 | |
| 636563999 | Clause | (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence | 28 | |
| 636564000 | Climax | most exciting moment of the story; turning point | 29 | |
| 636564001 | Comedy | light and humorous drama with a happy ending | 30 | |
| 636564002 | Comedy of Manners | Concerned with the intrigues, regularly amorous, of witty and sophisticated members of an aristocratic society. | 31 | |
| 636564003 | Comic Relief | A humorous scene or speech intended to lighten the mood within an otherwise serious situation | 32 | |
| 636564004 | Complaint | an expression of grievance or resentment | 33 | |
| 636564005 | Conceit | a fanciful, particularly clever extended metaphor | 34 | |
| 636564006 | Concrete Language | Language that describes specific, observable things, people, or places, rather than ideas or qualities. | 35 | |
| 636564007 | Conflict | a state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests | 36 | |
| 636564008 | Connotation | refers to the implied or suggested meanings associated with a word beyond its dictionary definition | 37 | |
| 636564009 | Convention | something regarded as a normative example | 38 | |
| 636564010 | Couplet | a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse | 39 | |
| 636564011 | Dactyl | a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables | 40 | |
| 636564012 | Denotation | the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression | 41 | |
| 636564013 | Denouement | the final resolution of the main complication of a literary or dramatic work | 42 | |
| 636564014 | Details | pieces of information that support or tell more about the main idea | 43 | |
| 636564015 | Devices of Sound | The techniques of deploying the sound of words, especially in poetry | 44 | |
| 636564016 | Diction | a writer's or speaker's choice of words | 45 | |
| 636564017 | Didactic | author attempts to educate or instruct the reader, usually excessively so | 46 | |
| 636564018 | Digression | a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern) | 47 | |
| 636564019 | Dramatic Irony | occurs when another character(s) and/or the audience know more than one or more characters on stage about what is happening | 48 | |
| 636564020 | Dramatic Monologue | a poem in which a speaker addresses a silent listener | 49 | |
| 2805503605 | Consonance | repetition of consonant sounds within successive words | 50 | |
| 2805505674 | Stereotype | a generalization made about a group of people; Example: People who wear all black clothing are considered to be Goth. | 51 | |
| 2805526343 | Juxtaposition | placing two things side by side to present a comparison or contrast | 52 |
