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| 13771246528 | allegory | story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people, events, ideas, or qualities | 0 | |
| 13771253875 | alliteration | repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together | 1 | |
| 13771309024 | regiment | 2 | ||
| 13771309025 | remnant | 3 | ||
| 13771309026 | allusion | reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature, religion, politics, sports, science, or another branch of culture, an indirect reference to something usually from literature | 4 | |
| 13771387100 | ambiguity | deliberately suggesting 2 or more different, and sometimes conflicting meaning in a work, an event or situation that may be interpreted in more than one way which is done on purpose by the author, when it is not done on purpose, it is vagueness and detracts from the work | 5 | |
| 13771436033 | analogy | comparison made between two things to show how they are alike | 6 | |
| 13771439308 | anaphora | repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of 2 or more sentences in a row, a deliberate form of repetition and helps make the writer's point more coherent | 7 | |
| 13771517300 | anastrophe | inversion of the usual, normal, or logical order of the parts of a sentence, purpose is rhythm, emphasis, or euphony, same as inversion | 8 | |
| 13771547249 | anecdote | brief story, told to illustrate a point or serve as an example of something, often shows character of an individual | 9 | |
| 13771553944 | antagonist | opponent who struggles against or blocks the hero or protagonist in a story | 10 | |
| 13771588627 | antimetabole | repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical | 11 | |
| 13771599668 | antithesis | balancing words, phrases, or ideas that are strongly contrasted, often by means of grammatical structure | 12 | |
| 13771678711 | antihero | central character who lacks all the qualities traditionally associated w/ heroes, may lack courage, grace, intelligence, or moral scruples | 13 | |
| 13771726130 | anthropomorphism | attributing human characteristics to an animal or inanimate object (personification) | 14 | |
| 13771746321 | aphorism | brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life, principle, or accepted general truth | 15 | |
| 13771790891 | apostrophe | calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to a place, thing, or personified abstract idea | 16 | |
| 13771806680 | invocation | if the character is asking a god or goddess for inspiration, similar to apostrophe | 17 | |
| 13771825924 | apposition | placing in immediately succeeding order of two or more coordinate elements, the latter of which is an explanation, qualification, or modification of the first (often set off by a colon) | 18 | |
| 13771825925 | assonance | the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds especially in words that are together | 19 | |
| 13771825926 | asyndeton | commas used w/o conjunction to separate a series of words, thus emphasizing the parts equally: instead of x, y, and z uses x, y, z | 20 | |
| 13771829459 | balance | constructing a sentence so that both halves are about the same length and importance | 21 | |
| 13771829460 | characterization | the process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character | 22 | |
| 13771833268 | indirect characterization | the author reveals to the reader what the character is like by describing how the character looks and dresses, by what the character says, by revealing the character's private thoughts and feelings, revealing the character's effect on others (feel & behave), or showing a character in action, common in modern literature | 23 | |
| 13771833269 | direct characterization | the author tells us directly what the character is like, romantic style literature relied more heavily on | 24 | |
| 13771837759 | static character | one who does not change much in the course of a story | 25 | |
| 13771841917 | dynamic character | one who changes in some important way as a result of the story's actions | 26 | |
| 13771841918 | flat character | has one or two personality traits, 1-D, summed up in one phrase | 27 | |
| 13771841919 | round character | has more dimensions to their personalities, complex | 28 | |
| 13771845372 | chiasmus | In poetry, a type of rhetorical balance in which the second part is syntactically balanced against the first, but with the parts reversed | 29 | |
| 13771845387 | cliche | a word or phrase, often a figure of speech, that has become lifeless because of overuse, avoid | 30 | |
| 13771851629 | colloquialism | a word of phrase in everyday use in conservation and informal writing but is inappropriate for formal situations | 31 | |
| 13771851630 | comedy | a story that ends w/ a happy resolution of the conflicts faced by the main character or characters | 32 | |
| 13771854370 | conceit | an elaborate metaphor that compares two things that are startlingly different, often an extended metaphor | 33 | |
| 13771854371 | confessional poetry | a 20th century term used to describe poetry that uses intimate material from the poet's life | 34 | |
| 13771857100 | conflict | struggle between opposing forces or characters in a story | 35 | |
| 13771857101 | external conflict | conflicts can exist between two people, a person and nature or a machine, or a person a whole society | 36 | |
| 13771857102 | internal conflict | a conflict can be internal, involving opposing forces w/n a person's mind | 37 | |
| 13771866566 | connotation | the associations & emotional overtones that have become attached to a word or phrase, in addition to its strict dictionary definition | 38 | |
| 13771872060 | couplet | two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme | 39 | |
| 13771872061 | dialect | a way of speaking that is characteristic of a certain social group or of the inhabitants of a certain geographical area | 40 | |
| 13771874807 | diction | a speaker's or writer's choice of words | 41 | |
| 13771874808 | didactic | form of fiction or nonfiction that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking | 42 | |
| 13771874809 | elegy | a poem of mourning, usually about someone who has died | 43 | |
| 13771878122 | epanalepsis | repetition in which the same expression (single word or phrase) is repeated both at the beginning and at the end of the line, clause, or sentence | 44 | |
| 13771878123 | epic | A long narrative poem, written in heightened language, which recounts the deeds of a heroic character who embodies the values of a particular society | 45 | |
| 13771878124 | epigraph | a quotation or aphorism at the beginning of a literary work suggestive of the theme | 46 | |
| 13771881128 | epsitrophe | repetition in which the same expression (single word or phrase) is repeated at the end of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences, opposite of anaphora | 47 | |
| 13771881129 | epithet | an adjective or descriptive phrase applied to a person or thing that is frequently used to emphasize a characteristic quality | 48 | |
| 13771886636 | argumentation | one of the four forms of discourse which uses logic, ethics, and emotional appeals (logos, ethos, pathos) to develop an effective means to convince the reader to think or act in a certain way | 49 | |
| 13771886637 | persuasion | relies more on emotional appeals than on facts | 50 | |
| 13771889169 | argument | form of persuasion that appeals to reason instead of emotion to convince an audience to think or act in a certain way | 51 | |
| 13771889170 | casual relationship | form of argumentation in which the writer claims that one thing results from another, often used as part of a logical argument | 52 | |
| 13771893000 | description | a form of discourse that uses language to create a mood or emotion | 53 | |
| 13771893001 | exposition | one of the four major forms of discourse, in which something is explained or "set forth" | 54 | |
| 13771896674 | narrative | the form of discourse that tells about a series of events | 55 | |
| 13771896675 | explication | act of interpreting or discovering the meaning of a text, usually involves close reading and special attention to figurative language | 56 | |
| 13771896676 | fable | a very short story told in prose or poetry that teachers a practical lesson how to succeed in life | 57 | |
| 13771896677 | farce | a type of comedy in which ridiculous & often stereotyped characters are involved in silly, far-fetched situations | 58 | |
| 13771902402 | figurative language | Words which are inaccurate if interpreted literally, but are used to describe, similes and metaphors are common forms | 59 | |
| 13771902403 | flashback | A scene that interrupts the normal chronological sequence of events in a story to depict something that happened at an earlier time | 60 | |
| 13771902404 | foil | A character who acts as a contrast to another character, often a funny sidekick to the dashing hero or villain contrasting the hero | 61 | |
| 13771902405 | foreshadowing | the use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot | 62 | |
| 13771905574 | free verse | poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme | 63 | |
| 13771905575 | hyperbole | a figure of speech that uses an incredible exaggeration or overstatement for effect | 64 | |
| 13771905576 | hypotactic | sentence marked by the use of connecting words between clauses or sentences, explicitly showing the logical or other relationships between them | 65 | |
| 13771913556 | hypotaxis | use of syntactic subordination of just one clause to another | 66 | |
| 13771916641 | imagery | the use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, a thing, a place, or an experience | 67 | |
| 13771919597 | inversion | the reversal of the normal word order in a sentence or phrase | 68 | |
| 13771925773 | irony | a discrepancy between appearances and reality | 69 | |
| 13771925774 | verbal irony | occurs when someone says one thing but really means something else | 70 | |
| 13771925775 | situational irony | takes place when there is a discrepancy b/w what is expected to happen, or what would be appropriate to happen, and what really does happen. | 71 | |
| 13771928729 | dramatic irony | often used on stage, a character in the play or story thinks one thing is true, but the audience or reader knows better | 72 | |
| 13771928730 | juxtaposition | poetic and rhetorical device in which normally unassociated ideas, words, or phrases are placed next to one another, creating an effect of surprise and wit, a form of contrast by which writers call attention to dissimilar ideas, images, or metaphors | 73 | |
| 13771933499 | litotes | a form of understatement in which the positive form is emphasized through the negation of a negative form | 74 | |
| 13771933500 | local color | a term applied to fiction or poetry which tends to place special emphasis on a particular setting, including its customs, clothing, dialect, & landscape | 75 | |
| 13771933501 | loose sentence | one in which the main clause comes first, followed by further dependent grammatical units | 76 | |
| 13771936555 | maxium | statements that reveals a truth | 77 | |
| 13771939410 | lyric poem | a poem that does not tell a story but expresses the personal feelings or thoughts of a speaker | 78 | |
| 13771939411 | ballad | a poem that does tell a story | 79 | |
| 13771939412 | metaphor | a figure of speech that makes a comparison b/w two unlike things w/o the use of such specific words of comparison as like, as, than, or resembles | 80 | |
| 13771939413 | implied metaphor | does not state explicitly the two terms of the comparison | 81 | |
| 13771943811 | extended metaphor | a metaphor that is extended or developed as far as the writer wants to take it | 82 | |
| 13771955581 | dead metaphor | a metaphor that has been used so often that the comparison is no longer vivid | 83 | |
| 13771955582 | mixed metaphor | a metaphor that has gotten out of control & mixes its terms so that they are visually or imaginatively incompatible | 84 | |
| 13771955583 | metonymy | a figure of speech in which a person, place, or thing is referred to by something closely associated with it | 85 | |
| 13771955584 | mood | An atmosphere created by a writer's diction and the details selected | 86 | |
| 13771958612 | motif | a recurring image, word, phrase, action, idea, object, or situation used throughout a work (or in several works by one author), unifying the work by tying the current situation to previous ones, or new ideas to the theme | 87 | |
| 13771958613 | motivation | the reasons for a character's behavior | 88 | |
| 13771958614 | onomatopoeia | the use of words whose sounds echo their sense | 89 | |
| 13771958615 | oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase | 90 | |
| 13771963228 | parable | a relatively short story that teaches a moral, or lesson about how to lead a good life | 91 | |
| 13771963229 | paradox | A statement that appears self-contradictory, but that reveals a kind of truth | 92 | |
| 13771963230 | koan | a paradox used in Zen Buddhism to gain intuitive knowledge | 93 | |
| 13771963231 | parody | a work that makes fun of another work by imitating some aspect of the writer's style | 94 | |
| 13771966240 | periodic | Sentence that places the main idea or central complete thought at the end of the sentence, after all introductory elements | 95 | |
| 13771966241 | parallel structure | the repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures | 96 | |
| 13771973251 | paratactic structure | simply juxtaposes clauses or sentences | 97 | |
| 13771973252 | personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes | 98 | |
| 13771973253 | plot | the series of related events in a story or play, sometimes called the storyline. | 99 | |
| 13771976102 | exposition | introduces characters, situation, and setting | 100 | |
| 13771984791 | rising action | complications in conflict and situations (may introduce new ones as well) | 101 | |
| 13771984792 | climax | that point in a plot that creates the greatest intensity, suspense, or interest | 102 | |
| 13771984793 | resolution | the conclusion of a story, when all or most of the conflicts have been settled; often called the denouement | 103 | |
| 13771984824 | point of view | the vantage point from which the writer tells the story | 104 | |
| 13771989658 | first person point of view | one of the characters tells the story | 105 | |
| 13771989659 | third person point of view | an unknown narrator, tells the story, but this narrator zooms in to focus on the thoughts and feelings of only one character | 106 | |
| 13771993646 | omniscient point of view | an omniscient or all knowing narrator tells the story, also using the third person pronouns, instead of focusing on one character only, often tells us everything about many characters | 107 | |
| 13771993647 | objective point of view | a narrator who is totally impersonal & objective tells the story, w/ no comment on any characters or events | 108 | |
| 13771993648 | polysyndeton | sentence which uses a conjunction with NO commas to separate the items in a series, instead of X, Y, and Z, results are X and Y and Z | 109 | |
| 13771996904 | protagonist | the central character in a story, the one who initiates or drives the action | 110 | |
| 13772000263 | anti-hero | a protagonist who lacks the characteristics that would make him a hero (or her a heroine) | 111 | |
| 13772000264 | tragic hero | A literary character who makes an error of judgment or has a fatal flaw that, combined with fate and external forces, brings on a tragedy | 112 | |
| 13772000265 | hamartia | tragic flaw | 113 | |
| 13772006773 | tragic flaw | the character flaw or error of a tragic hero that leads to his downfall | 114 | |
| 13772011526 | pun | a "play on words" based on multiple meanings of a single word or on words that sound alike but mean different things | 115 | |
| 13772011527 | quatrain | a poem consisting of four lines, or four lines of a poem that can be considered as a unit | 116 | |
| 13772011528 | refrain | a word, phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated, for effect, several times in a poem | 117 | |
| 13772015457 | rhythm | a rise and fall of the voice produced by the alteration of stressed and unstressed syllables in language | 118 | |
| 13772015458 | rhetoric | Art of effective communication, especially persuasive discourse | 119 | |
| 13772026903 | rhetorical question | a question asked for an effect, not actually requiring an answer | 120 | |
| 13772026904 | romance | a story in which an idealized hero or heroine undertakes a quest & is successful | 121 | |
| 13772026905 | satire | a type of writing that ridicules the shortcomings of people or institutions in an attempt to bring about a change | 122 | |
| 13772031851 | similie | a figure of speech that makes an explicitly comparison between two unlike things, using words such as like, as , than, or resembles | 123 | |
| 13772031852 | soliloquy | a long speech made by a character in a play while no other characters are on stage | 124 | |
| 13772037038 | stereotype | a fixed idea or conception of a character or an idea which does not allow for any individuality, often based on religious, social, or racial prejudices | 125 | |
| 13772037039 | stream of consciousness | 126 | ||
| 13772039804 | style | 127 | ||
| 13772039805 | suspense | 128 | ||
| 13772039806 | symbol | 129 | ||
| 13772039807 | synecdoche | 130 | ||
| 13772048335 | syntactic fluency | 131 | ||
| 13772048336 | syntactic permutation | 132 | ||
| 13772051378 | tall tale | 133 | ||
| 13772051379 | telegraphic sentence | 134 | ||
| 13772051380 | theme | 135 | ||
| 13772051381 | tone | 136 | ||
| 13772054075 | tragedy | 137 | ||
| 13772054076 | tricolon | 138 | ||
| 13772054077 | understatement | 139 | ||
| 13772057794 | unity | 140 | ||
| 13772057795 | vernacular | 141 | ||
| 13772057796 | impressionism | 142 | ||
| 13772061023 | modernism | 143 | ||
| 13772061024 | naturalism | 144 | ||
| 13772065153 | plain style | 145 | ||
| 13772065154 | puritanism | 146 | ||
| 13772069076 | rationalism | 147 | ||
| 13772069077 | neoclassicism | 148 | ||
| 13772069078 | age of reason | 149 | ||
| 13772071856 | realism | 150 | ||
| 13772071857 | regionalism | 151 | ||
| 13772071858 | romanticism | 152 | ||
| 13772074907 | surrealism | 153 | ||
| 13772074908 | symbolism | 154 | ||
| 13772074909 | transcendentalism | 155 | ||
| 13772078334 | puritanism | 156 | ||
| 13772078335 | neoclassical | 157 | ||
| 13772083669 | romanticism | 158 | ||
| 13772083670 | realism | 159 | ||
| 13772083671 | regionalism | 160 | ||
| 13772091693 | naturalism | 161 | ||
| 13772091694 | modernism | 162 | ||
| 13772094360 | post-modernism | 163 | ||
| 13875739110 | eulogy | great praise or commendation, a laudatory speech, often about someone who has died | 164 | |
| 13876011523 | Homeric epithet | compound adjective used with a person or thing | 165 | |
| 13876044094 | essay | a short nonfiction prose in which the writer discusses some aspect of a subject | 166 | |
| 13877212508 | Conceit Metaphor | An elaborate metaphor that compares two things that are extremely different from each other | 167 | |
| 13877742449 | parallelism | phrases or sentences of a similar construction/meaning placed side by side, balancing each other | 168 |
