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| 3182488474 | allegory | universal symbol or personified abstract | 0 | |
| 3182504321 | alliteration | repetition of a similar sound | 1 | |
| 3182506557 | allusion | reference to a literary or historical event, person, or place | 2 | |
| 3182511274 | anapestic | metrical foot in poetry that consists of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable | 3 | |
| 3182518290 | anaphora | regular repetition of the same word or phrase at start of successive lines | 4 | |
| 3182525563 | anecdote | brief story or tale by character in a piece of literature | 5 | |
| 3182528313 | antagonist | force that is in opposition to the main character | 6 | |
| 3182531108 | antithesis | juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced ideas | 7 | |
| 3182542795 | apostrophe | address or invocation to something that is inanimate | 8 | |
| 3182544345 | archtype | recurrent design that is identifiable in a wide range of literature | 9 | |
| 3182552041 | assonance | repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds | 10 | |
| 3182554706 | asyndeton | style where conjunctions are omitted | 11 | |
| 3182559638 | attitude | sense expressed by the tone of voice and the mood of a piece of writing | 12 | |
| 3182565315 | ballad | a narrative poem | 13 | |
| 3182567261 | ballad stanza | composed of a stanza of four lines | 14 | |
| 3182571526 | blank verse | verse form that most resemble common speech | 15 | |
| 3182575248 | caesura | pause in a line of verse | 16 | |
| 3182577553 | caricature | depiction where a character's features are exaggerated | 17 | |
| 3182583821 | chisamus | order of terms in first of two parallel clauses in reversed in the second | 18 | |
| 3182592261 | colloquil | ordinary language of a specific area | 19 | |
| 3182594307 | conciet | fanciful expression in writing or speech; an elaborate metaphor | 20 | |
| 3182598165 | connotation | image that a word suggests two rhyming lines of iambic pentameter | 21 | |
| 3182605446 | consonance | repetition of a sequence of two or more consonants, but with a change in the interviewing vowell | 22 | |
| 3182617761 | couplet | two rhyming lines of iambic pentameter | 23 | |
| 3182620876 | dactylic | metrical foot in poetry consisting of two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable | 24 | |
| 3182631221 | denotation | dictionary definition of a word | 25 | |
| 3182658614 | denoument | final resolution of the main play | 26 | |
| 3182659806 | dialect | language and speech idiosyncrasies of a area, region, or group of people | 27 | |
| 3182667209 | diction | choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing | 28 | |
| 3182676909 | dramatic monologue | poem in the form of a speech or narrative by an imagined person, in which the speaker inadvertently reveals aspects of their character while describing a particular situation or series of events | 29 | |
| 3182702687 | elegy | poetic lament upon the death of a particular person | 30 | |
| 3182705530 | enjambment | continuation of a sentence from one line or couplet to the next | 31 | |
| 3182715221 | epic | long narrative poem often concerned with founding of a nation or developing a culture, main character starts small and becomes the hero | 32 | |
| 3182724780 | exposition | sets the scene, introduces characters, and establishes situation | 33 | |
| 3182731425 | fable | short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral | 34 | |
| 3182734024 | farce | play or scene in a play or book characterized by broad humor, wild antics, and slapstick humor | 35 | |
| 3182747258 | flashback | earlier events are inserted into the normal chronology of the story | 36 | |
| 3182756181 | foreshadowing | hinting of events to come | 37 | |
| 3182758432 | formal diction | language that is lofty, dignified, and impersonal | 38 | |
| 3182772416 | free verse | poetry that has varying line lengths, lack of traditional meter and non-rhyming lines | 39 | |
| 3182787259 | genre | class of literature such as epic, narrative, or poetry | 40 | |
| 3182801934 | hyperbole | gross exaggeratoin | 41 | |
| 3182803446 | iambic | metrical foot in poetry containing an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable | 42 | |
| 3182807444 | idyll | short poem describing a country or pastoral scene, praising the simplicity and peace of rustic life | 43 | |
| 3182829461 | imagery | anything that involves any or all of the five senses | 44 | |
| 3182830928 | informal diction | everyday speech | 45 | |
| 3182832541 | in medias res | in the midst of things | 46 | |
| 3182835285 | irony | expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect | 47 | |
| 3182843412 | jargon | specialized or technical language of a trade, profession, or similar group | 48 | |
| 3182848448 | limited point of view | perspective confined to a single character | 49 | |
| 3182853808 | loose sentence | main idea is stated at the end of a sentence | 50 | |
| 3182856308 | lyric | any short poem in which speaker expresses intense personal emotion rather than describing a narrative or dramatic situation | 51 | |
| 3182874164 | message | misleading term used for theme | 52 | |
| 3182875356 | metaphor | comparison between two unlike things that omits use of like or as | 53 | |
| 3182883587 | meter | regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry | 54 | |
| 3182886644 | metonymy | figure of speech in which a commonly associated feature is use to name or designate something | 55 | |
| 3182906279 | mood | figure of speech that emphasizes by conscious understatement | 56 | |
| 3182914758 | motif | recurrent thematic element in an artistic or literary work a dominant theme or central idea | 57 | |
| 3182924622 | narrative structure | literary element, described as the structural framework that underlies the order and manner in which a narrative is presented to a reader, listener, or viewer | 58 | |
| 3182933960 | narrator | account of connected events, presented to a reader or listener in a sequence of written or spoken words | 59 | |
| 3182938608 | ode | lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter | 60 | |
| 3182950222 | onomatopoeia | words that phonetically imitates or suggests the source of the sound that it describes | 61 | |
| 3182954875 | overstatement | use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech | 62 | |
| 3182958181 | oxymoron | figure of speech that combines contradictory terms | 63 | |
| 3182961141 | parable | succinct story, in prose or verse, which illustrates one or more instructive principles, or lessons, or (sometimes) a normative principle | 64 | |
| 3182967676 | paradox | statement or proposition that despite sound reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory | 65 | |
| 3182980324 | parallel structure | refers to having the same grammatical structure each part is equal | 66 | |
| 3182987496 | parody | piece or writing or music that deliberately copies another work in a comic or satirical way | 67 | |
| 3183009223 | pastoral | relates to the countryside with an idealized image of rural life and nature | 68 | |
| 3183011184 | periodic sentence | complex sentence in which the main clause is left unfinished until the end in order to create the effect of anticipation or suspense | 69 | |
| 3183011185 | persona | identity or role that somebody assumes | 70 | |
| 3183012891 | personification | giving life-like qualities to inanimate objects | 71 | |
| 3183014597 | petrarchan sonnet | 14 line poem that has an eight-line stanza with the rhyming scheme abbaabba followed by six lines with various rhyme schemes, cd cd cd or cde cde | 72 | |
| 3183014598 | plot | story or sequence of events in a novel, play, or movie | 73 | |
| 3183017987 | protagonist | the central (main) character | 74 | |
| 3183017988 | quatrain | verse of poetry consisting of four lines | 75 | |
| 3183019087 | realism | practical understanding and acceptance of the actual nature of the world, rather than an idealized or pastoral view | 76 | |
| 3183020701 | refrain | line or group of lines that recurs at regular intervals in a poem, especially at the ends of verses | 77 | |
| 3183020702 | rhetorical question | question asked for effect that neither expects | 78 | |
| 3183025956 | rhyme | similarity in the sound of word endings, especially in poetry | 79 | |
| 3183025957 | rhythm | in poetry, the pattern formed by stressed and unstressed syllables | 80 | |
| 3183028805 | omniscient point of view | narrator tells the story of several different characters | 81 | |
| 3183028806 | occasional poem | written for/or about a particular occasion | 82 | |
| 3183030690 | litote | negative statement to say something else | 83 | |
| 3183030691 | falling action | transition from the climax of the story that leads to a resolution | 84 | |
| 3183039820 | extended metaphor | metaphor that's comparison is spread out throughout a paragraph rather than within a sentence | 85 | |
| 3242895131 | rising action | part of the story where the conflicts become more intense | 86 | |
| 3242911600 | sarcasm | another form of irony, mockery or scorn of another | 87 | |
| 3242916077 | satire | use of wit to criticize faults | 88 | |
| 3242938905 | scansion | analysis of verse according to its metrical structure | 89 | |
| 3242963761 | setting | time and place a narrative occurs | 90 | |
| 3242967301 | shakespearean sonnet | sonnet form used by shakespeare, composed of three quatrains and a terminal couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern ababab cdcdcd efefef gg | 91 | |
| 3242977445 | shaped verse | poetry in which the typographical arrangement of words, is as important in conveying the intended effect as the conventional elements of the poem, such as meaning of words, rythm, rhyme, and so on | 92 | |
| 3243015238 | simile | comparison between two different things, containing "like" or "as" | 93 | |
| 3243025844 | soliloquy | act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play | 94 | |
| 3243046329 | speaker | person who speaks formally before an audience; lecture, orator | 95 | |
| 3243051342 | stanza | group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse | 96 | |
| 3243059489 | stereotype | a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing | 97 | |
| 3243068601 | stock character | stereotypical person whom audiences readily recognize from frequent recurrences in a particular literary tradition | 98 | |
| 3243089689 | structure | framework of a work of literature; the organization or over-all design of a work | 99 | |
| 3243106668 | symbolism | figure of speech where an object, person, or situation has another meaning other than its liberal meaning | 100 |
