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| 14893198061 | Allegory | A narrative having a second meaning | 0 | |
| 14893198062 | Allusion | A reference to something in previous literature | 1 | |
| 14893198063 | Anecdote | A short interesting or humorous incident | 2 | |
| 14893198064 | Artistic Unity | Literary elements work together for the achievement of its central purpose | 3 | |
| 14893198065 | Cacophony | A unpleasant-sounding choice | 4 | |
| 14893198066 | Euphony | A pleasant-sounding choice | 5 | |
| 14893198067 | Genre | A type of class | 6 | |
| 14893198068 | Imagery | representation through language of a sensory experience | 7 | |
| 14893198069 | Mood | The impression of a work | 8 | |
| 14893198070 | Morality | A rule of a conduct | 9 | |
| 14893198071 | Prose | Non-metrical language | 10 | |
| 14893198072 | Theme | The main idea of a literary work. | 11 | |
| 14893198073 | Tone | The writer's or speaker's attitude | 12 | |
| 14893198074 | Topic | The subject matter of a literary work. | 13 | |
| 14893198075 | Setting | The time and place in which the actions of the story occurs | 14 | |
| 14893198076 | Symbol | Something that means more than what it is | 15 | |
| 14893198077 | Verse | Metrical language | 16 | |
| 14893198078 | Voice | The distinctive style of an author or character in a book. | 17 | |
| 14893198079 | Antagonist | Character in a story who opposes the main character | 18 | |
| 14893198080 | Character | Any of the persons involved in a story or play | 19 | |
| 14893198081 | Characterization | The process of conveying information about characters | 20 | |
| 14893198082 | Deuteragonist | a foil or eventual antagonist | 21 | |
| 14893198083 | Direct Presentation of Character | A method of characterization in which the author tells us directly what a character is like | 22 | |
| 14893198084 | Dynamic Character | A character who undergoes a permanent change | 23 | |
| 14893198085 | Flat Character | A character is summed up in one or two traits | 24 | |
| 14893198086 | Foil | a character who contrasts with another character to highlight features of the other character's personality | 25 | |
| 14893198087 | Hero | A man who is endowed with great courage | 26 | |
| 14893198088 | Hubris | Overbearing and excessive pride | 27 | |
| 14893198089 | Indirect Presentation of Character | When the author shows us a character in action | 28 | |
| 14893198090 | Protagonist | main character | 29 | |
| 14893198091 | Round Character | A character is complex and many sided. | 30 | |
| 14893198092 | Static Character | A character who is the same sort of person at the end of a story as at the beginning | 31 | |
| 14893198093 | Stock Character | A stereotyped character. | 32 | |
| 14893198094 | Tragic Flaw | A flaw in the character of the protagonist | 33 | |
| 14893198095 | Aside | When the character turns from the person being addressed to speak directly to the audience | 34 | |
| 14893198096 | Colloquial | Informal, conversational language | 35 | |
| 14893198097 | Dialogue | Conversation between characters in a narrative. | 36 | |
| 14893198098 | Dialect | A regional variety of a language distinguished by pronunciation | 37 | |
| 14893198099 | Diction | Word choice | 38 | |
| 14893198100 | Euphemism | Substituting a mild term for an offensive one | 39 | |
| 14893198101 | Figure of Speech | Any way of saying something other than the ordinary way | 40 | |
| 14893198102 | Hyperbole | A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used | 41 | |
| 14893198103 | Invective | Abusive language. | 42 | |
| 14893198104 | Monologue | A dramatic soliloquy | 43 | |
| 14893198105 | Proverb | A short saying that expresses a basic truth | 44 | |
| 14893198106 | Pun | A play on words | 45 | |
| 14893198107 | Sarcasm | Bitter or cutting speech | 46 | |
| 14893198108 | Soliloquy | a device often used in drama where by a character relates his or her thoughts and feelings to him/herself | 47 | |
| 14893198109 | Slang | A kind of language that is very casual | 48 | |
| 14893198110 | Understatement | A figure of speech that consists of saying less than one means | 49 | |
| 14893198111 | Exposition | The part of literature that provides the information needed. | 50 | |
| 14893198112 | Conflict | A clash of actions or desires in the plot of a story | 51 | |
| 14893198113 | Rising Action | That development of plot in a story that precedes and leads up to the climax | 52 | |
| 14893198114 | Climax | The turning point of a plot | 53 | |
| 14893198115 | Falling Action | immediately follows the climax and shows the aftereffects of the events in the climax | 54 | |
| 14893198116 | Denouement | Resolution; Conflicts are resolved | 55 | |
| 14893198117 | Irony | A situation involving some kind of incongruity or discrepancy. | 56 | |
| 14893198118 | Dramatic Irony | An incongruity of discrepancy between what a character says and what the reader knows to be true | 57 | |
| 14893198119 | Irony of Situation | A situation in which there is an incongruity between appearance and reality | 58 | |
| 14893198120 | Verbal Irony | When what is said is the opposite of what is meant | 59 | |
| 14893198121 | Epistolary novel | a novel written as a series of documents. | 60 | |
| 14893198122 | First Person Point of View | The story is told by one of its characters, using the first person | 61 | |
| 14893198123 | Flashback | A literary device in which an earlier event is inserted into a narrative. | 62 | |
| 14893198124 | Flashforward | A literary device in which an later event is inserted into a narrative. | 63 | |
| 14893198125 | In Medias Res | (into the middle of things) is a Latin phrase denoting the literary and artistic narrative technique where the story begins at the mid point or end. | 64 | |
| 14893198126 | Limited Omniscient Point of View | Using the third person, the author tells us only what that one character thinks, feels, sees, or hears. | 65 | |
| 14893198127 | Linear Structure | a plot that is in chronological order | 66 | |
| 14893198128 | Objective Point of View | Using the third person, the author is limited to reporting what the characters say or do | 67 | |
| 14893198129 | Omniscient Point of View | Using third person, the author knows all and is free to tell us anything | 68 | |
| 14893198130 | Narrator | the speaker of a written work. | 69 | |
| 14893198131 | Nonlinear Structure | when the plot is in any manner that is not chronological | 70 | |
| 14893198132 | Point of View | The angle of vision from which a story is told. | 71 | |
| 14893198133 | Stream of Consciousness | Narrative which presents the private thoughts of a character without commentary by the author | 72 | |
| 14893198134 | Unreliable Narrator | a narrator whose credibility has been seriously compromised | 73 | |
| 14893198135 | Anticlimax | A sudden descent from the impressive or significant to the ludicrous | 74 | |
| 14893198136 | Catastrophe | The concluding action of a classical tragedy containing the resolution of the plot | 75 | |
| 14893198137 | Comic Relief | A humorous incident introduced to relieve dramatic tension | 76 | |
| 14893198138 | Dilemma | A situation in which a character must choose between two undesirable courses of action | 77 | |
| 14893198139 | Deus Ex Machina | (god from the machine) The resolution of a plot by use of a highly improbable chance or coincidence | 78 | |
| 14893198140 | Indeterminate Ending | An ending in which the conflict is left unresolved | 79 | |
| 14893198141 | Inversion | A reversal in order, nature, or effect | 80 | |
| 14893198142 | Motivation | An emotion that acts as an incitement to action | 81 | |
| 14893198143 | Mystery | An unusual set of circumstances for which the reader craves an explanation | 82 | |
| 14893198144 | Paradox | A statement or situation containing apparently contradictory elements | 83 | |
| 14893198145 | Plot | The sequence of incidents or events of which a story is composed | 84 | |
| 14893198146 | Plot Manipulation | A situation in which an author gives the plot a twist | 85 | |
| 14893198147 | Plot Device | An object, character, or event whose only reason for existing is to advance the story | 86 | |
| 14893198148 | Prologue | An introduction or a preface | 87 | |
| 14893198149 | Red Herring | a literary tactic of diverting attention away from a person of significance | 88 | |
| 14893198150 | Scene | In which the setting is fixed and the time continuous | 89 | |
| 14893198151 | Suspense | That quality in a story that makes the reader eager to discover what happens next | 90 | |
| 14893198152 | Suspension of Disbelief | to suspend one's critical faculties and believe the unbelievable | 91 | |
| 14893198153 | Subplot | A plot subordinate to the main plot of a literary work | 92 | |
| 14893198154 | Surprise | An unexpected turn in the development of a plot | 93 | |
| 14893198155 | Comedy | A type of drama that emphasises human limitation rather than human greatness. | 94 | |
| 14893198156 | Comedy of Manners | Comedy that ridicules the manners of a certain segment of society | 95 | |
| 14893198157 | Satire | A kind of literature that uses mockery to expose people's stupidity | 96 | |
| 14893198158 | Scornful Comedy | A type of comedy whose main purpose is to expose and ridicule human folly. | 97 | |
| 14893198159 | Romantic Comedy | A type of comedy whose likable and sensible main characters are placed in difficulties | 98 | |
| 14893198160 | Farce | A type of comedy that relies on unrealistic situations | 99 | |
| 14893198161 | Escapist Literature | Literature written purely for entertainment. | 100 | |
| 14893198162 | Fable | A short narrative making an edifying or cautionary point. | 101 | |
| 14893198163 | Fantasy | A kind of fiction that goes beyond the boundaries of known reality | 102 | |
| 14893198164 | Interpretive literature | Literature that provides valid insights into the nature of human life | 103 | |
| 14893198165 | Myth | any story that attempts to explain how the world was created | 104 | |
| 14893198166 | Novel | a book of long narrative in literary prose. | 105 | |
| 14893198167 | Novella | A prose narrative longer than a novelette but shorter than a novel. | 106 | |
| 14893198168 | Parable | A simple story illustrating a moral lesson | 107 | |
| 14893198169 | Tragedy | When the protagonist falls to ruin | 108 |
