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| 7850892088 | narrator | the "character" who "tells" the story, or in poetry the persona. |  | 0 |
| 7850892089 | Ode | a lyric podem that is somewhat serious in subject and treatment, elevated in style and sometimes uses elaborate stanza structure, which is odten patterned in sets of three | 1 | |
| 7850911907 | Omniscient point of view | also called unlomited focus: a perspective that can be seen from one character's view, then another's then another's or can be moved in or out of the mind of any character at any time. | 2 | |
| 7850911908 | Onomatopoeia | "buzz" | 3 | |
| 7850913612 | Oxymoron | figure of speech that combines two apparently contradictory elements, sometimes resulting in a humorous image or statement. "Jump Shrimp" | 4 | |
| 7850913613 | Parable | short fiction, that illustrates an explicit moral lesson through the use of analogy. | 5 | |
| 7850913614 | Paradox | a statement that seems contradictory but may be true, time walker | 6 | |
| 7850916070 | Pastoral | simple life of country folk past, usually shepherd who live a timeless, life. | 7 | |
| 7850916071 | Personification | Water whispered | 8 | |
| 7850917605 | Petrarchan Sonnet | Italian sonnet,divides the poem onto one section of eight lines. | 9 | |
| 7850917606 | Plot | the arranpement of the narration based on the cause-effect relationship of event | 10 | |
| 7850917607 | Protagonist | main character | 11 | |
| 7850917608 | Quatrain | poetic stanza of 4 lines | 12 | |
| 7850919422 | Realism | attempting to describe nature and life without idealization and with real attention to detail | 13 | |
| 7850921941 | Refrain | refeated stanza or line(s) in a poem or song | 14 | |
| 7850921942 | Rhetorical question | a question that is asked simply for stylistic effect and is not expected to be answered | 15 | |
| 7911202042 | Rhyme | repetition of similar words | 16 | |
| 7911217857 | Scansion | scanning the verse to show its meter | 17 | |
| 7911221110 | Setting | time and place in a poem, story, or play | 18 | |
| 7850940270 | Shakespearean Sonnet | an English sonnet | 19 | |
| 7850941940 | Simile | comparing one thing to another usually using like or as | 20 | |
| 7850943469 | Soliloquy | monologue in which the character in a play is in solilude or alone and speaking only to himself | 21 | |
| 7850943470 | Speaker | the voice | 22 | |
| 7850943471 | Stanza | staction of a poem demarcated by extra line spacing | 23 | |
| 7850943472 | Stereotype | characterization based on conscious or unconscious assumptions like race and gender | 24 | |
| 7850946123 | Stock Character | character that appears in a number of stories or plays such as the cruel stepmother | 25 | |
| 7850946124 | Style | a distinctive manner of expression, each author's style is expressed through his or her diction, rhythm, imagery, and so on. | 26 | |
| 7850946125 | Symbolism | something that represents something else | 27 | |
| 7850948365 | Synecdoche | When a part is used to signify a whole, as in All hands on deck! and the syn rustler bragged he'd absconded with five hundred head of longhorns. | 28 | |
| 7850948366 | Syntax | the way words are put together to form phrases, clauses, and sentences. Syntax is sentence structure and how it influences the way the reader receives a particular piece of writing. | 29 | |
| 7850948367 | Theme | generalized, abstract paraphrase of theme inferred central or dominant idea or concern of a work | 30 | |
| 7850948368 | Tone | the attitude a literary work taks toward its subject and theme, the tone of a piece of writing is based on particular stylistic devises. | 31 | |
| 7850948369 | Tragedy | death of a character | 32 | |
| 7850950070 | Trochaic | a metric foot in poetry that is the opposite of iambic | 33 | |
| 7850954722 | Turning Point | The point where the action turns from rising to falling | 34 | |
| 7850954723 | Villanelle | a verse form consisting of nineteen lines divided into six stanzas | 35 | |
| 7850954724 | Voice | the words the speaker says | 36 |
