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| 13590064877 | Aesthetic | beauty/looks - beautiful image | 0 | |
| 13590064878 | Allegory | ex allegory of plato's cave (a narrative that expresses a certain lesson or idea) | 1 | |
| 13590064879 | Alliteration | Repetition of the same first letter in a phrase | 2 | |
| 13590064880 | Ambiguity | Sense of confusion | 3 | |
| 13590064881 | Allusion | A reference to something or someone from a famous piece of literature | 4 | |
| 13590064882 | Aphorsim | A small saying, short statement of principle | 5 | |
| 13590064883 | Apostrophe | Addressing something that cannot respond back | 6 | |
| 13590064884 | Assonance | Alliteration with vowels | 7 | |
| 13590064885 | Asyndeton | The omission of a conjunction between parts of a sentence | 8 | |
| 13590064886 | Anachronism | Has to do with time, in the wrong time | 9 | |
| 13590064887 | Analogy | Associations between two relationships | 10 | |
| 13590064888 | Anaphora | Repetition of a phrase | 11 | |
| 13590064889 | Anthimeria | Creation of a new work by shifting a words part of speech | 12 | |
| 13590064890 | Antithesis | Opposites - contrasting elements —> "It was the best of times. It was the worst of times" | 13 | |
| 13590064891 | Archaic Diction | Old language | 14 | |
| 13590064892 | Asyndeton | Lack of conjunctions | 15 | |
| 13590064893 | Ballad | Poetic form. Has a narrative. Often sung. May have refrain (repetitive elements) | 16 | |
| 13590064894 | Blank Verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter | 17 | |
| 13590064895 | Catharsis | Drama Term. Release of emotion. When the audience experiences a string release of emotion due to the characters behavior (climax and falling action) | 18 | |
| 13590064896 | Cacophany | Style of writing that produces harsh/bad sounds | 19 | |
| 13590064897 | Caesura | Poetry only. A pause at the end of a line | 20 | |
| 13590064898 | Chiasmus | Grammatical constructions repeated in reverse order "ask not what your country can do, but what you can do for your country" | 21 | |
| 13590064899 | Cliché | Overused expression | 22 | |
| 13590064900 | Colloquialism | Regional slang ("so like...howdy") | 23 | |
| 13590064901 | Conceit | Unlikely comparisons between two things | 24 | |
| 13590064902 | Connotation | Thoughts, feelings, ideas associated with a word around its meaning | 25 | |
| 13590064903 | Consonance | Beginning multiple words in a line with the same consonant sound | 26 | |
| 13590064904 | Couplet | A two line stanza that rhymes | 27 | |
| 13590064905 | Denotation | Dictionary definition | 28 | |
| 13590064906 | Dialect | Reflection of local color in language | 29 | |
| 13590064907 | Didactic | Teaching especially for moral purpose | 30 | |
| 13590064908 | Digression | Going off topic or task | 31 | |
| 13603378139 | double Entendre | Double meaning, words often have risqué interpretation | 32 | |
| 13603378140 | Dramatic monologue | A poem spoken by a single person who reveals his personality through the piece (Porphyria's lover) | 33 | |
| 13603378141 | Ellipsis | Name of three little dots | 34 | |
| 13603378142 | Euphemism | Saying something that is less harsh sounding than the real thing | 35 | |
| 13603378143 | Extended metaphor | A metaphor that extends for the entire story | 36 | |
| 13603378144 | Enjambment | A continuation between lines without a stop | 37 | |
| 13603378145 | End stop | Occurs when a line of poetry ends with a period or definite punctuation mark, such as a colon | 38 | |
| 13603378146 | Epigram | Short statement or poem, especially one with a witty feel (ex. Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say but they say it so charmingly) | 39 | |
| 13603378147 | Epiphany | (Agnorisis) sudden realization of true situation | 40 | |
| 13603378148 | Epithet | Phrase expressing a quality (ex. "Dirty old man" racial epithet) | 41 | |
| 13603378149 | Epizeuxis | Repetition of a word or phrase (with no words in between) for emphasis (ex. I slowly, slowly walked to the door) (Josh does it a lot in Drake and Josh) | 42 | |
| 13622241197 | Euphony | Pleasant, pleasing sounds | 43 | |
| 13622241198 | Figurative Language | Something not literal; basically anything used to hint at something it is not | 44 | |
| 13622241199 | Foreshadowing | Hinting to what it to come | 45 | |
| 13622241200 | Foil | Used in drama, character is in contrast to something else, kind of like Megan in Drake and Josh | 46 | |
| 13622241201 | Foot/feet | One element of individual meter pattern | 47 | |
| 13622241202 | Free verse | Has no meter or rhyme pattern (modern) | 48 | |
| 13622241203 | Genre | Group of similar pieces of literature; can have smaller genres (ex. Poetry and romantic poetry) | 49 | |
| 13622241204 | Hamartia | Tragic flaw (Greek term) | 50 | |
| 13622241205 | Heroic couplet | Rhymes, iambic pentameter | 51 | |
| 13622241206 | Hyperbole | An extreme exaggeration | 52 | |
| 13622241207 | Idiom | A phrase that does not translate (ex. "It was raining cats and dogs") (specific to a certain language) | 53 | |
| 13622241208 | Imagery | Words/phrases that paint a picture | 54 | |
| 13622241209 | Imperative | Type of sentence that gives a command | 55 | |
| 13622241210 | Invective | Insulting words or phrases | 56 | |
| 13622241211 | In media res | Story or plot starts in the middle (ex. Odysseus) | 57 | |
| 13622241212 | Irony (Dramatic) | Audience/reader knows something the characters don't (ex. Iago in Othello) | 58 | |
| 13622241213 | Irony (Verbal) | You say one thing but mean the opposite | 59 | |
| 13622241214 | Irony (Situational) | Opposite event happens from what it expected | 60 | |
| 13622241215 | Jargon | Words or phrases particular to a sport or career | 61 | |
| 13622241216 | Juxtaposition | The placement of things side by side (ex. White paper against black ink symbolizes...) | 62 | |
| 13622241217 | Litote | Extreme understatement | 63 | |
| 13622241218 | Local color | Regionalism ("I've been a climbin' on") | 64 | |
| 13622241219 | Lyric | Poem focusing on emotion or idea, musical quality | 65 | |
| 13622241220 | Metanoia | Conversion of the heart | 66 | |
| 13622241221 | Meter | **Iambic: unstressed/ stressed (When I) invite **Trochaic: stressed/ unstressed (once upon) deadline (Poe's "The Raven") Anapestic: unstressed/ unstressed/ stressed (to the beach) Dactylic: stressed / unstressed / unstressed (frequently) Spondaic: unstressed / unstressed (equally stressed) true blue | 67 | |
| 13622241222 | Metonymy | Using a word that describes an attribute to represent something else (saying "The Crown" when referring to the Queen of England) | 68 | |
| 13622241223 | Mood | Literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions; atmosphere of the piece | 69 | |
| 13622241224 | Motif | An idea, an object, a concept, a character archetype, the weather, a color, or even a statement; used to establish a theme or a certain mood | 70 | |
| 13622241225 | Neologism | New words or a new use for an old word, or the act of making up new words; comedian coining new terms on a TV show like Stephen Colbert's creation of the term "truthiness" | 71 | |
| 13622241226 | Ode | Form of lyric poetry expressing praise; it's usually addressed to someone or something | 72 | |
| 13622241227 | Omniscient | Technique of writing a narrative in third person, in which the narrator knows the feelings and thoughts of every character in the story | 73 | |
| 13622241228 | Onomatopoeia | The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (ex. Cuckoo, sizzle, drip drop) | 74 | |
| 13622241229 | Oxymoron | Contradictory descriptors (ex. Jumbo shrimp) | 75 | |
| 13622241230 | Parable | Presents a short story typically with a moral lesson at the end (many in Bible) | 76 | |
| 13622241231 | Paradox | Statement that may seem absurd or contradictory but can be true or at least make sense; contrary to what is believed (jumbo shrimp) | 77 | |
| 13622241232 | Parallelism | Parts of the sentence are grammatically the same, or are similar in construction; can be a word, a phrase, or an entire sentence repeated ("I Have A Dream") | 78 | |
| 13622241233 | Parody | An imitation of a style of writing, a movie, a song, another person, etc./a humorous exaggeration | 79 | |
| 13622619113 | Pastoral | Anything about a pasture; cows and stuff | 80 | |
| 13622619114 | Personification | Giving human characteristics to an inhuman object | 81 | |
| 13622619115 | Point of View | First Person: Using "I" or "me" as the pronoun Second Person: Using "you" or "yourself" as the pronoun Third Person Limited: Using "he," "she," or "it" and the narrator can only see into certain people's thoughts Third Person Omniscient: Using "he," "she," or "it" and the narrator can see into everyone's thoughts | 82 | |
| 13622619116 | Poetic License | Artistic right to break poetic structure for effect | 83 | |
| 13622619117 | Polysyndeton | A list which has conjunctions between each separate idea (used for effect) | 84 | |
| 13622619118 | Prose | Form of language that has no formal metrical structure; applies a natural flow of speech, and ordinary grammatical structure, rather than rhythmic structure (not poetry closest to normal human speech) | 85 | |
| 13622619119 | Regionalism | Literature focused on the characters, dialect, customs, topography and other features particular to a specific region | 86 | |
| 13622619120 | Rhyme | repetition of the same or similar sounds occurs in two or more words, usually at the end of lines in poems or songs End: ending words sound the same (star light, star bright) Near/Slant: stressed syllables of ending consonants match; preceding vowel does not (poem and goin') Eye: similarity between words in spelling but not sound (enough and cough)/ Internal: word in the middle of a line and another at the end or middle of next line rhyme | 87 | |
| 13622619121 | Realism | Movement to portray life as it really is | 88 | |
| 13622619122 | Romanticism | Movement in the late 1700s (Europe) characterized by interest in nature, emphasis on the individuals expression of emotion and imagination, departure from the attitudes and forms of class, and rebellion against established social rules | 89 | |
| 13622619123 | Satire | Making fun of something by pretending to be serious about it | 90 | |
| 13622619124 | Scansion | Scanning a line to determine its rhym | 91 | |
| 13622619125 | Sestine | Six stanzas with six lines each and three line ending; the words that end each line of the first stanza are used as line endings in each of the following stanzas, rotated in a set pattern | 92 | |
| 13622619126 | Soliloquy | Speaking ones thought aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character alone on stage | 93 | |
| 13622619127 | Sonnet | 14 lines English: (Shakespearean) 3 quatrains followed by a couplet Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gg Italian: (Petrachan) octave followed by a sestet Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cdecde (or cdcdcd) | 94 | |
| 13622619128 | Stream of Consciousness | Narrative mode or method that attempts "to depict the multitudinous thoughts and feelings which pass through the mind" | 95 | |
| 13622619129 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, as in Cleveland won by six runs (meaning "Clevelands baseball team") | 96 | |
| 13622619130 | Syntax | sentence structure; the way in which words and sentences are placed together | 97 | |
| 13622619131 | Synesthesia | Using terms for one sense to describe something not of that sense (she had laughing eyes) | 98 | |
| 13622619132 | Tension | Balance maintained between two opposing forces or elements; controlled dynamic quality | 99 | |
| 13622619133 | Tercet | A stanza with three lines | 100 | |
| 13622619134 | Tone | Attitude of a writer towards a subject or an audience; conveyed through word choice or viewpoint of the author/speaker | 101 | |
| 13622619135 | Tragic hero | Protagonists of a tragedy; Aristotle strictly defines the place that the tragic hero must play and the kind of man he must be | 102 | |
| 13622619136 | Transcendentalism | Social and literary movement in which divinity lies in nature | 103 | |
| 13622619137 | Quatrain | A stanza with four lines | 104 | |
| 13622619138 | Understatement | Figure of speech used to intentionally make a situation seem less important | 105 | |
| 13622619139 | Utopia/Dystopia | Characteristics of science fiction and fantasy and both are usually set in a future in which technology has been used to create perfect living conditions - Utopia: perfect society - Dystopia: opposite of utopia | 106 | |
| 13622619140 | Villanelle | 19 lines organized into tercetos (3 lines each stanza); last stanza has 4 lines | 107 | |
| 13622619141 | Voice | The authors style, the quality that makes his or her writing unique, and which conveys the authors attitude, personality, and character | 108 |
