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| 5622444283 | allusion | reference to person, place, thing, or another work | 0 | |
| 5622444284 | antihero | ordinary inglorious person | 1 | |
| 5622444285 | climax | greatest moment of tension | 2 | |
| 5622444286 | complication | new conflict | 3 | |
| 5622444287 | cosmic irony | fate frustrates human efforts | 4 | |
| 5622444288 | crisis | moment of high tension | 5 | |
| 5622444289 | denouement | final resolution... | 6 | |
| 5622444290 | diction | word choice | 7 | |
| 5622444291 | dramatic situation | person involved in conflict | 8 | |
| 5622444292 | epiphany | moment of discovery...character greatly altered | 9 | |
| 5622444293 | exposition | opening introductory portion of story | 10 | |
| 5622444294 | fable | brief story that sets forth truth | 11 | |
| 5622444295 | fairy tale | story in magic/enchanted world | 12 | |
| 5622444296 | fiction | partly imagined story | 13 | |
| 5622444297 | flashback | retrospect | 14 | |
| 5622444298 | hero | brave central character | 15 | |
| 5622444299 | in medias res | in the midst of things | 16 | |
| 5622444300 | interior monologue | thoughts arranged as if they were speech | 17 | |
| 5622444301 | ironic point of view | distinction between narrator and author | 18 | |
| 5622444302 | moral | message or lesson | 19 | |
| 5622451820 | motivation | sufficient reason for characters' behavior | 20 | |
| 5622454016 | naïve narrator | character who fails to understand implications | 21 | |
| 5622456978 | narrator | speaker | 22 | |
| 5622459374 | nonliterary fiction | fiction as a commercial product formula | 23 | |
| 5622471897 | omniscient narrator | one who sees into the minds of characters | 24 | |
| 5622475594 | plot | events in story | 25 | |
| 5622475718 | point of view | identification of, part played, and limits of the narrator | 26 | |
| 5622482203 | sarcasm | irony tinged with mockery | 27 | |
| 5622483949 | scene | vivid or dramatic moment | 28 | |
| 5622486791 | science fiction | scientific, realistic fantasy | 29 | |
| 5622488613 | short story | modern, relatively realistic tale | 30 | |
| 5622492365 | stream of consciousness | selective omniscience | 31 | |
| 5622494975 | style | characteristics of a piece of writing | 32 | |
| 5622499345 | suspense | pleasurable anxiety | 33 | |
| 5622501430 | tale | short story setting forth strange and wonderful events | 34 | |
| 5622505430 | tall tale | folk story; superhero story | 35 | |
| 5622508412 | theme | general idea | 36 | |
| 5622514267 | tone | reveals author's attitude | 37 | |
| 5622517496 | unreliable narrator | point of view of a character is deceptive | 38 | |
| 5622528939 | verbal irony | speaker's meaning is far from the usual meaning | 39 | |
| 5622535468 | antithesis | words/phrases/clauses/sentences placed side by side in contrast | 40 | |
| 5622543333 | ballad | narrative song/poem, quatrains with scheme abcd | 41 | |
| 5622548298 | cacophony | harsh, discordant sound or effect | 42 | |
| 5622555872 | closed form | form involving a pattern and lines that are regular and symmetrical | 43 | |
| 5622559796 | couplet | stanza, usually rhymed, of two lines of equal length | 44 | |
| 5622566472 | didactic poem | poem written to teach or state a message | 45 | |
| 5622575084 | dramatic monologue | poem written as a speech at a revealing moment | 46 | |
| 5622592852 | end rhyme | rhyme at ends of phrases | 47 | |
| 5622595019 | epic poem | long narrative tracing adventured of hero | 48 | |
| 5622598009 | epigram | short sententious statement | 49 | |
| 5622600896 | euphony | pleasing sound of words working together with meaning | 50 | |
| 5622605062 | free verse | poetry in open form | 51 | |
| 5622609281 | myths | traditional stories of immortal beings | 52 | |
| 5622613239 | open form | pattern-less form with long and short lines and white space in which the poet seeks to discover a fresh and individual arrangement for words | 53 | |
| 5622678365 | parallel | pair of words/phrases/clauses/sentences placed side by side in agreement | 54 | |
| 5622687188 | persona | fictitious character created by the poet | 55 | |
| 5622690211 | poetic foot | basic structure of poetic meter, usually 1 stressed and 1 or 2 unstressed syllables | 56 | |
| 5622701717 | prosody | study of metrical structures in poetry | 57 | |
| 5622705646 | quatrain | four-line stanza, often with lines of varying length | 58 | |
| 5622708416 | scansion | art of indicating stresses and poetic feet in a poem | 59 | |
| 5622711898 | tercet | three-line stanza that, if rhymed, keeps to one rhyme sound | 60 | |
| 5625797421 | zeugma | one word used to modify two ("food for thought and also for vultures") | 61 | |
| 5625804064 | asyndeton | omission or absence of conjunction | 62 | |
| 5625810243 | alliteration | occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent words | 63 | |
| 5625814351 | synecdoche | part is made to represent the whole | 64 | |
| 5625817363 | metonymy | attribute is made to represent the object ("suit" for "businessman") | 65 | |
| 5625824926 | litotes | use of double negatives to convey positive | 66 | |
| 5636368358 | Araby | story from first-person POV; themes include alienation, loneliness, and maturity | 67 | |
| 5636372888 | Story of an Hour | story about Louise Mallard and her husband "in the train wreck"; symbol of spring; theme is things aren't always what they seem | 68 | |
| 5636379327 | Guests of a Nation | Irish war story; structure effective because it deceived reader, as at first you thought the relationship was a friendship, then led to challenging decision; theme duty>friendship | 69 | |
| 5640121938 | Shiloh | story about Leroy and Norma Jean; setting of war ground ironic; third person point-of-view; theme inability to cope, inability to be satisfied, reversal of gender roles | 70 | |
| 5640146054 | A Rose for Emily | first person plural; theme disappearance of 'old south,' industrial progress; house symbol for isolation | 71 | |
| 5640160922 | Astronomer's Wife | main characters: plumber, wife, astronomer; themes of contrast (up/down, dreamer/realist, asleep/awake) | 72 | |
| 5734740223 | A&P | Story of Sammy, who works in grocery store, and girls in bathing suits; themes include desire, appearances, principles(standing out), and mystery of others minds | 73 | |
| 5745801497 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration | 74 | |
| 5745801498 | Apostrophe | Speaker breaks off and addresses third party | 75 | |
| 5745801499 | Image | Appeals to senses | 76 | |
| 5745801500 | Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds | 77 | |
| 5745801501 | Blank verse | Verse without rhyme | 78 | |
| 5745801502 | Enjambment | Continuation of sentence without pause | 79 | |
| 5745801503 | Paradox | Self-contradictory | 80 | |
| 5745801504 | Parody | Humorous imitation | 81 | |
| 5745801505 | Slant rhyme | Imperfect rhyme | 82 | |
| 5745801506 | Soliloquy | Monologue where speaker speaks their mind | 83 | |
| 5745801507 | Connotation | Feeling word invokes, and literal meaning | 84 | |
| 5745801508 | Denotation | Literal meaning | 85 |
