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| 2336965239 | Rhetorical Question | A question asked to produce an effect rather than to elicit a reply | 0 | |
| 2336965240 | Rhyme Scheme | A pattern of rhymes often indicated by letters | 1 | |
| 2336965241 | End Rhyme | Rhymes at the end of lines | 2 | |
| 2336965242 | Feminine Rhyme | Rhymes with two or more syllables where the final syllable or syllables are unstressed | 3 | |
| 2336965243 | Masculine Rhyme | The final syllable is stressed | 4 | |
| 2336965244 | Half Rhyme/Slant Rhyme | Words that sound the same/close but don't exactly rhyme. | 5 | |
| 2336965245 | Internal Rhyme | Rhymes within the lines, not just at the end | 6 | |
| 2336965246 | Rhymed Couplet | Two lines that rhyme and have the same meter usually at the end of a verse | 7 | |
| 2336965247 | Rhymed Verse | Poetry that rhymes and usually includes meter | 8 | |
| 2336965248 | Rhythm | The pattern of stressed/unstressed syllables that create a beat | 9 | |
| 2336965249 | Rising Action | Series of events in a plot that lead to the climax or point of no return | 10 | |
| 2336965250 | Romance | When the piece depicts imaginary, fantastical, or deeds of pageantry | 11 | |
| 2336965251 | Romanticism | Era of literature dealing with the imaginary, fantastical. Focus is often God in nature | 12 | |
| 2336965252 | Run-on Line | In poetry, when the thought carries over to the next line | 13 | |
| 2336965253 | Sarcasm | Saying one thing and meaning the opposite to create a tone intended to ridicule | 14 | |
| 2336965254 | Satire | Ridiculing in a funny manner in order to correct a problem | 15 | |
| 2336965255 | Scansion | The process of figuring out the stress in a line of poetry in order to figure out the metrical pattern | 16 | |
| 2336965256 | Sentimentality | Effort by the writer to include emotional response that exceed what the situation warrants | 17 | |
| 2336965257 | Sestet | A stanza with six lines | 18 | |
| 2336965258 | Setting | Time period and location of story | 19 | |
| 2336965259 | Short Story | A piece that is not long enough to be a novel but has significant plot structure | 20 | |
| 2336965260 | Situational Irony | When what happens is the opposite of what you expect | 21 | |
| 2336965261 | Social Protest | A declaration against something a person is often powerless to prevent | 22 | |
| 2336965262 | Soliloquy | When a character speaks his/her thoughts alone on stage | 23 | |
| 2336965263 | Sonnet | A poem of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter. English form and Italian form | 24 | |
| 2336965264 | Spondee | A foot of two syllables, both of which are stressed | 25 | |
| 2336965265 | Stanza | An arrangement of a certain number of lines in poetry | 26 | |
| 2336965266 | Stock Characters | A character that is so common in literature that it requires no development on the part of the author (the cowboy, the evil step-mother) | 27 | |
| 2336965267 | Stream of Consciousness | A genre of writing where the narrator speaks only in interior monologue; you follow every thought they have | 28 | |
| 2336965268 | Stress | Where the accent is strongest in a foot of poetry | 29 | |
| 2336965269 | Structure | The organization of all parts and how they are arranged | 30 | |
| 2336965270 | Style | A particular or distinctive mode or manner of writing | 31 | |
| 2336965271 | Subplot | A secondary/subordinate plot to the main one | 32 | |
| 2336965272 | Syllogism | An extremely subtle and sophisticated argument (often descriptive) | 33 | |
| 2336965273 | Symbol | When something stands for something in else in a particular work | 34 | |
| 2336965274 | Synesthesia | Describing one kind of sensation in terms of another (a loud color, a sweet sound) | 35 | |
| 2336965275 | Synecdoche | When part of something represents the whole. "Ten sails" is used to talk about ten ships, "wagging tongue" is used to describe a person who talks too much, etc. | 36 | |
| 2336965276 | Syntax | The patterns and formations of sentences or phrases | 37 | |
| 2336965277 | Terza Rima | Italian form of iambic verse | 38 | |
| 2336965278 | Theme | The over-all meaning of a piece, it's message | 39 | |
| 2336965279 | Thesis | The primary position taken by a writer or speaker | 40 | |
| 2336965280 | Tone | The feeling that writer creates towards the subject | 41 | |
| 2336965281 | Tragedy | When the protagonist is engaged in a struggle and which often ends in ruin | 42 | |
| 2336965282 | Tragic/Fatal Flaw | A character defect that causes the downfall of the protagonist | 43 | |
| 2336965283 | Transcendentalism | An Era of writing that focused on personal and intuitive thought to discover truth | 44 | |
| 2336965284 | Trochaic/Trochee | A foot of two syllables, stressed/unstressed | 45 | |
| 2336965285 | Travesty | A composition so inferior in quality that it is seen as a grotesque imitation of its model | 46 | |
| 2336965286 | Trope | A commonly recurring motif, not quite as bad as a cliché | 47 | |
| 2336965287 | Truncation | The omission of one or more unaccented syllables at the beginning or end of a line | 48 | |
| 2336965288 | Verbal Irony | When you say one thing and mean the opposite (close to sarcasm) | 49 | |
| 2336965289 | Verisimilitude | The appearance of truth only | 50 | |
| 2336965290 | Voice | The expression given to a piece | 51 | |
| 2336965291 | Zeugma | The use of a word to modify two or more words when it modifies them in different ways. (On his fishing trip, he caught three trout and a cold.) | 52 |
