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| 12283263436 | tone | Attitude a writer conveys toward his or her subject and audience | 0 | |
| 12283263437 | theme | Central idea of a work of literature | 1 | |
| 12283263438 | mood | emotional content of a scene or setting | 2 | |
| 12283263439 | analogy | a comparison between 2 things | 3 | |
| 12283263440 | conceit | an imaginative figure of speech drawing an analogy between 2 things | 4 | |
| 12283263441 | metaphor | comparison between 2 unlike things without using like or as | 5 | |
| 12283263442 | simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" | 6 | |
| 12283263443 | epic simile | an extended simile | 7 | |
| 12283263444 | oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. | 8 | |
| 12283263445 | paradox | A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. | 9 | |
| 12283263446 | irony | a discrepancy between appearances and reality | 10 | |
| 12283263447 | verbal irony | what is said is the opposite of what is meant | 11 | |
| 12283263448 | dramatic irony | The audience knows something the characters do not | 12 | |
| 12283263449 | situational irony | a discrepancy between the expected result and actual results | 13 | |
| 12283263450 | allusion | a reference in literature to an event or person in history, myth, other piece of literature | 14 | |
| 12283263451 | symbol | when a character, object, name or incident maintains its literal meaning while suggesting other meanings | 15 | |
| 12283263452 | metonymy | something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it | 16 | |
| 12283263453 | Synecdoche | a part of a thing represents that thing itself | 17 | |
| 12283263454 | Personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes | 18 | |
| 12283263455 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction | 19 | |
| 12283263456 | pun | A play on words | 20 | |
| 12283263457 | Euphemism | An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant | 21 | |
| 12283263458 | Hyperbole | exaggeration | 22 | |
| 12283263459 | Understatement | A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means | 23 | |
| 12283263460 | litotes | A form of understatement that involves negating it (making it negative) | 24 | |
| 12283263461 | Alliteration | Repetition of some consonant sounds at the beginning of words | 25 | |
| 12283263462 | consonance | neighboring words repeat the same consonant sound not at the beginning of the word but at middle or end | 26 | |
| 12283263463 | Assonance | repetition of the internal vowel sounds | 27 | |
| 12283263464 | Onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. | 28 | |
| 12283274811 | parallelism | balance in syntactical expression; repeated grammatical patterns in phrases | 29 | |
| 12283274812 | Anithesis | a direct opposite, a contrast | 30 | |
| 12283274813 | inverted syntax | Reversal in the expected order of words | 31 | |
| 12283274814 | cumulative sentence | a sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on | 32 | |
| 12283274815 | periodic sentence | sentence that begins with details, qualifications and builds toward the main clause | 33 | |
| 12283274816 | declarative sentence | a sentence that makes a statement and ends with a period | 34 | |
| 12283274817 | interrogative sentence | a sentence that asks a question and ends with a question mark | 35 | |
| 12283274818 | exclamatory sentence | a sentence expressing strong feeling, usually punctuated with an exclamation mark | 36 | |
| 12283274819 | imperative sentence | gives a direct command | 37 | |
| 12283274820 | subject | A noun that performs the action of the verb | 38 | |
| 12283274821 | direct object | a word representing the person or thing upon which the action of a verb is performed or toward which it is directed | 39 | |
| 12283274822 | indirect object | a word representing the person or thing with reference to which the action of a verb is performed, rephrased as prepositional phrase | 40 | |
| 12283274823 | Appositive | A noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it, often are set off by commas, parentheses or dashes | 41 | |
| 12283274824 | abstract | lacks vivid detail | 42 | |
| 12283274825 | concrete | specific detail, appeals to 5 senses | 43 | |
| 12283274826 | Conntotation | the range of secondary or associated significances and feelings which a word or phrase commonly suggests or implies | 44 | |
| 12283274827 | Imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) | 45 | |
| 12283274828 | Dialect | local or regional characteristics of a language | 46 | |
| 12283274829 | diction | word choice | 47 | |
| 12283274830 | anecdote | short story | 48 | |
| 12283274831 | Epithet | an adjective or phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing | 49 | |
| 12283274832 | motif | a pattern of identical or similar images, actions or ideas throughout a passage | 50 | |
| 12283322913 | exposition | The essential background information at the beginning of a literary work | 51 | |
| 12283325570 | inciting incident | starts the action or sets the plot | 52 | |
| 12283328810 | rising action | The development of a conflict | 53 | |
| 12283331058 | climax | the turning point of the story | 54 | |
| 12283337471 | anticlimax | serious to trivial to achieve a comic, satiric or ironic effect | 55 | |
| 12283343429 | denouement | the resolution | 56 | |
| 12283344961 | setting | The time AND place of a story | 57 | |
| 12283344990 | in media res | in the middle of things | 58 | |
| 12283347062 | deus ex machina | god from the machine superhuman force resolves a conflict | 59 | |
| 12283351287 | flashback | interrupts the chronological flow by relating events from the past | 60 | |
| 12283357990 | frame narrative | a story within a story | 61 | |
| 12283359729 | Foreshadowing | A warning or indication of a future event | 62 | |
| 12283362744 | epiphany | A moment of sudden revelation or insight | 63 | |
| 12283362745 | Catharsis | Emotional release of fear or pity | 64 | |
| 12283366552 | Protagonist | main character | 65 | |
| 12283366553 | hero | traditional qualities of a true hero | 66 | |
| 12283368750 | byronic hero | Anti hero who is a romanticized but wicked character | 67 | |
| 12283370530 | antihero | protagonist who lacks typical moral characteristics of a true hero | 68 | |
| 12283376649 | tragic hero | brings his own downfall | 69 | |
| 12283383971 | Antagonist | The character opposing the main character | 70 | |
| 12283383972 | dynamic charcater | character that changes as a result of the stories events | 71 | |
| 12283387961 | static character | A character who does not change during the story | 72 | |
| 12283391361 | flat character | lacks complexity, may be a stereotype | 73 | |
| 12283395273 | round character | multi-dimensional character | 74 | |
| 12283397735 | Hamartia | tragic flaw | 75 | |
| 12283397736 | foil | A character who acts as a contrast to another character | 76 | |
| 12283399459 | archetype / stereotype/ stock character | character does not grow or change | 77 | |
| 12283404270 | speaker | The voice talking in a poem | 78 | |
| 12283407756 | Narrator | Person telling the story | 79 | |
| 12283407757 | first person point of view | a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself. uses me, my, I | 80 | |
| 12283411682 | unrealiable narrator | may be biased, cannot trust his/her views | 81 | |
| 12283415274 | limited 3rd person point of view | reader's info is limited to what only one character feels, thinks, and observes | 82 | |
| 12283419434 | Omniscient 3rd Person point of view | a narrator is all-knowing and knows the feelings and thoughts of every character in the story | 83 | |
| 12283421496 | interior monologue | writing that records the conversation that occurs inside a character's head, half thoughts | 84 | |
| 12283424780 | dramatic monologue | when a single speaker in literature says something to a silent audience | 85 | |
| 12283427208 | Soliquoy | a long speech in a drama that is spoken by a character alone on stage | 86 | |
| 12283429026 | chorus | A group of characters in Greek tragedy (and in later forms of drama), who comment on the action of a play without participation in it. | 87 | |
| 12283430956 | stream of consciousness | A literary technique that presents the thoughts and feelings of a character as they occur. | 88 | |
| 12283432877 | prose | stories, essays, novels, plays | 89 | |
| 12283437178 | verse | poetry | 90 | |
| 12283437229 | Narrative | story line | 91 | |
| 12283438980 | Allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. | 92 | |
| 12283441077 | Bildungsroman | A coming of age story, main character recognizes his or her place and role in the world | 93 | |
| 12283445233 | comedy | A humorous work of drama | 94 | |
| 12283447392 | satire | belittling a subject by making it ridiculous | 95 | |
| 12283449370 | comedy of manners | Makes fun of high society | 96 | |
| 12283453303 | farce | ridiculous situations, horseplay, crude dialogue | 97 | |
| 12283457048 | parody | A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule. | 98 | |
| 12283458881 | dystopian | a futuristic society that is imperfect | 99 | |
| 12283460729 | utopian | idealistic or visionary, usually used to describe a perfect society | 100 | |
| 12283462236 | epic | A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds | 101 | |
| 12283463859 | fable | A brief story that leads to a moral, often using animals as characters | 102 | |
| 12283466092 | Tragedy | A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character | 103 | |
| 12283467647 | Existentialism | individuals have free will and are entirely responsible for their actions | 104 |
