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| 6743288183 | allegory | a form of extended metaphor, in which objects, persons, and actions are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative; the underlying meaning has moral, social, religious, or political significance | 0 | |
| 6743308043 | allusion | a direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art; can be historical, literary, religious, topical, or mythical | 1 | |
| 6743318240 | ambiguity | the multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage (lends a deeper meaning to the work) | 2 | |
| 6743324821 | analogy | a similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them; can explain something unfamiliar by associating it with or pointing out its similarity to something more familiar | 3 | |
| 6743378196 | antithesis | the opposition or contrast of ideas, the direct opposite | 4 | |
| 6743380660 | aphorism | a terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or moral principle; can be memorable summation of the author's point | 5 | |
| 6743387508 | apostrophe | a figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction; an address to someone/something that cannot answer | 6 | |
| 6743392895 | atmosphere | the emotional nod created by the entirety of a literary work, established partly by the setting and partly by the author's choice of objects that are described; even such elements as a description of the weather can contribute to the atmosphere | 7 | |
| 6743420894 | conceit | a fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects; displays intellectual cleverness as a result of the unusual comparison being made | 8 | |
| 6743431126 | connotation | the non-literal, associative meaning of a word, the implied, suggested meaning; may involve ideas, emotions, or attitudes | 9 | |
| 6743436904 | denotation | the strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word, devoid of any emotion, attitude, or color | 10 | |
| 6743442346 | diction | related to style, refers to the writer's word choices, especially with regard to their correctness, clearness, or effectiveness | 11 | |
| 6743451235 | didactic | from the Greek, literally means "teaching" and has the primary aim of teaching or instructing; especially the teaching of moral and ethical principles | 12 | |
| 6743471063 | digression | to turn aside from the main subject | 13 | |
| 6743472924 | extended metaphor | a metaphor developed at a great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work | 14 | |
| 6743476220 | figurative language | writing or speech that is not intended to carry literal meaning and is usually meant to be imaginative and vivid (imagery, simile, metaphor, alliteration, personification, onomatopoeia, hyperbole) | 15 | |
| 6743487968 | homily | a sermon involving moral or spiritual advice | 16 | |
| 6743491554 | hyperbole | exaggeration or overstatement; produces irony, comic effect, serious effect is passive | 17 | |
| 6743504214 | imagery | the sensory details or figurative language used to describe, accuse emotion, or represent abstractions; can be used complexly which simultaneously employing other figures of speech | 18 | |
| 6743510059 | invective | an emotional violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language | 19 | |
| 6743513559 | litotes | a form of understatement that usually contains a double negative | 20 | |
| 6743516342 | metonymy | means "changed label" or "substitute name," it is a figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it; linked to the concept | 21 | |
| 6743534265 | paradox | a statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity | 22 | |
| 6743548004 | personification | a figure of speech in which the author presents or describes concepts, animals, or inanimate objects by endowing them with human attributes or emotions | 23 | |
| 6743552451 | repetition | the duplication, either exact or approximate, of any element of language, such as a sound, word, phrase, clause, sentence, or grammatical pattern | 24 | |
| 6743558875 | sarcasm | involves bitter, caustic language that is meant to built or ridicule someone or something, but is not an invective | 25 | |
| 6743565883 | symbol | anything that represents itself and stands for something else; usually, something concrete that represents something more abstract | 26 | |
| 6743578686 | synechdoche | a figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent the whole or, occasionally, either by naming only some part of it or a group | 27 | |
| 6743585668 | synestheia | when one kind of sensory stimulus evolves the subjective experience of another | 28 | |
| 6743599280 | syntax | the way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences; groups of words that produce effects | 29 | |
| 6743603309 | tone | similar to mood, describes the author's attitude toward his material, the audience, or both | 30 | |
| 6743606645 | understatement | the ironic minimizing of fact, represents something as less significant than it is | 31 | |
| 6743616704 | anaphora | repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row; deliberate form of repetition that makes writer's point more coherent | 32 | |
| 6743621707 | anastrophe | the order of the noun and the adjective in the sentence is exchanged to crate a dramatic impacts | 33 | |
| 6743626951 | asyndeton | commas used without conjunction to separate a series of words, thus emphasizing the parts equally | 34 | |
| 6743631817 | bildungsroman | a novel of someone's growth from childhood to maturity | 35 | |
| 6743634383 | polysyndeton | a sentence which uses a conjunction with NO commas to separate the items in a series | 36 | |
| 6745706013 | alliteration | the repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words, it is used to catch the reader's eye and to focus attention | 37 | |
| 6745707668 | apostrophe | an address to the dead as if living; to the inanimate as if animate; to the absent as if present; to the unborn as if alive | 38 | |
| 6745714585 | assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds, but not consonants; used to add organization and keeps the readers interest | 39 | |
| 6745717492 | aubade | poem written to celebrate the dawn | 40 | |
| 6745718205 | ballad | normally refers to either a simple song or to a narrative poem (often with a tragic ending) | 41 | |
| 6745719449 | cacophony | a harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds or tones; the author may use this to communicate or invoke negative emotions | 42 | |
| 6745721406 | caesura | a pause in a line of verse dictated by sense or natural speech rhythm rather than by metrics; used to indicate when there is a pause in the poem | 43 | |
| 6745723174 | cinquain | a five line poem based on japanese forms such as haiku; line one is one word (the title); line two is two words that describe the title; line three is three words that tell the action; line four is four words that express the feeling; and line five is one word that recalls the title | 44 | |
| 6745726304 | conceit | very elaborate comparisons between unlikely objects | 45 | |
| 6745726853 | consonance | the repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels; used for emphasis and to attract attention to the subject | 46 | |
| 6745730890 | elegy | a formal sustained poem lamenting the death of a particular person | 47 | |
| 6745731614 | end rhyme | rhyme which occurs at the end of the sentence rather than the middle | 48 | |
| 6745733832 | enjambment | the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line or couplet of a poem to the next with no pause; run on lines can form groups, or they can simply act to increase the fluidity of the poetry by decreasing the importance of the verse boundaries | 49 | |
| 6745736644 | epigram | a very short, satirical and witty poem usually written as a brief couplet or quatrain | 50 | |
| 6745739289 | euphony | a style in which combinations of words pleasant to the ear dominate; used to bring about pleasant, peaceful feelings in the reader | 51 | |
| 6745740908 | euphemism | an inoffensive word used to replace a more vulgar or offensive word | 52 | |
| 6745742624 | eye rhyme | a rhyme that appears as if it will rhyme based on spelling, but it is actually a half-rhyme or slant-rhyme due to pronunciation | 53 | |
| 6745743823 | haiku | miniature japanese poem consisting of 17 syllables (five in first line, seven in second line, five in last line); no rhyme or meter scheme is employed when writing haiku | 54 | |
| 6745747089 | iambic pentameter | a line of ten syllables using the pattern of unstressed/stressed | 55 | |
| 6745749316 | idyll | either short poems depicting a peaceful, idealized country scene (farming, agriculture) or long poems that tell a story about ancient heroes | 56 | |
| 6745750776 | internal rhyme | a rhyme that occurs within a line rather than at the end, used to link or connect similar concepts in poetry | 57 | |
| 6745752707 | lyric | verses that were written to be sung; however, more recently the term has been used to refer to short poems where the poet expresses his or her feelings | 58 | |
| 6745756490 | meiosis | the presentation of a thing with under emphasis especially in order to achieve a greater effect; intentionally understating something in order to lessen the effect of its largeness or acuteness | 59 | |
| 6745759605 | ode | long poems which are serious in nature and written to a set structure | 60 | |
| 6745761483 | onomatopoeia | a word that imitates the sound it represents, it is used to create a mood or to produce an effect to make a sentence more interesting | 61 | |
| 6745763339 | pastoral | a poem that depicts rural life in a peaceful, idealized way for example of shepherds or country life | 62 | |
| 6745765582 | posopopoeia | a form of personification in which an inanimate object gains the ability to speak | 63 | |
| 6745767545 | pun | a form of word play, which proposes two or more meaning by utilizing multiple meanings of words; used to add a humorous effect | 64 | |
| 6745769691 | rime royal | a seven-line stanza form invented by Chaucer in the fourteenth century; the stanzas are written in iambic pentameter in a fixed rhyme scheme | 65 | |
| 6745771950 | sibilance | a special form of alliteration using the softer consonants that create hissing sounds, or sibilant sounds | 66 | |
| 6745773967 | sonnet | a poetic form customarily of 14 line written in iambic pentameter | 67 | |
| 6745776295 | synechdoche | a literal part of something is used to stand for the whole | 68 | |
| 6745777036 | synesthesia | a sensation produced in one state when a stimulus is applied to another state, as when the hearing of a certain sound induces the visualization of a certain color | 69 | |
| 6745780694 | villanelle | a poetic form in which the first and third lines of the first stanza come back in refrain, with a rhyme scheme of ABA for four tercets and ABAA in the final quatrain | 70 | |
| 6745782899 | zeugma | the use of a word to govern two or more words, either in such a way that it applies to all in a different sense, or makes sense with only one | 71 | |
| 6752929514 | sestet | six-line stanza | 72 | |
| 6752931751 | tercet | stanza of three lines | 73 | |
| 6752934760 | blank verse | literary device defined as un-rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter | 74 | |
| 6752942140 | free verse | a literary device that can be defined as poetry that is free from limitations of regular meter or rhythm and does not rhyme with fixed forms | 75 | |
| 6752949452 | verse | denotes a single line of poetry; refers to a stanza or other parts of poetry | 76 | |
| 6752951858 | iamb | a foot containing unaccented and short syllables followed by a long and accented syllable in a single line of a poem | 77 | |
| 6752955696 | pentameter | a literary device that can be define as a line verse or poetry that has five strong metrical feet or beats | 78 | |
| 6752964071 | selection of detail | the authors choice of specific events, words, incidents, ect which are used to make or create a narrative/scene | 79 | |
| 6752968817 | first person point of view | involves the narrator as part of the story, and usually features the following pronouns | 80 | |
| 6752984565 | second person point of view | very rare in literature; treats the reader as the main character in the story; descriptions are based on what you would see if you were in that situation | 81 | |
| 6752995440 | third person point of view | told by a narrator who is not part of the story and generally uses pronouns such as: he, she, it, they, them, him, her, its, ect | 82 | |
| 6753021657 | third person omniscient | occurs when a story is told by a narrator who is not part of the story but knows the thoughts and feelings of all the characters in the story | 83 | |
| 6753026504 | third person limited | the narrator only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character | 84 | |
| 6753036248 | irony | referring to how a person, situation, statement, or circumstances is not as it would actually seem | 85 | |
| 6753047027 | verbal irony | the use of words to mean something different from what a person actually says; overstatement exaggerates the character and understatement puts down the character | 86 | |
| 6753058393 | dramatic irony | occurs when the audience is aware of something that the characters in the story are not aware of | 87 | |
| 6753072832 | situation irony | when the exact opposite of what is meant to happen, happens | 88 | |
| 6753075639 | cosmic irony | occurs when a situation, action, or event thought to have a positive outcome results in a negative outcome | 89 | |
| 6753091467 | visual imagery | the most frequent type of imagery used to recreate a certain image | 90 | |
| 6753093440 | auditory imagery | the mental representation of any sound and it is vital in imagining and feeling a situation | 91 | |
| 6753104666 | kinesthetic imagery | a broader term used to describe the sense of movement or tension | 92 | |
| 6753107655 | olfactory imagery | related to smell and this imagery helps summon and deliver the smells to the reader | 93 | |
| 6753111614 | gustatory imagery | illustrates and recreates the tastes, of food or many other things | 94 | |
| 6753116258 | tactile imagery | appeals to the sense of touch by presenting attributes like hardness, softness, or hot and cold sensations | 95 | |
| 6753128116 | organic imagery | concentrates on recreating internal sensations like hunger, thirst, fear or fatigue | 96 | |
| 6753133799 | vulgar diction | language deficient in taste and refinement; coarse, base (any swear word) | 97 | |
| 6753137195 | slang diction | refers to a group of recently coined words; momentary and exclusive | 98 | |
| 6753148310 | jargon diction | consists of words and expressions characteristic of a particular trade, profession, or pursuit | 99 | |
| 6753156890 | cliche diction | figurative language used so often it has lost its freshness and clarity | 100 | |
| 6753159003 | dialect diction | is a nonstandard subgroup of a language with its own vocabulary and grammatical features; elaborates the geographic and social background of any character of any character | 101 | |
| 6753170236 | informal/standard diction | language grammatically correct, but conversational; used in casual situations, but still states accurate facts | 102 | |
| 6753174890 | formal diction/elevated language | appropriate for more formal occasions; often more abstract and more figurative | 103 | |
| 6753185722 | concrete diction | language tangible to our five senses | 104 | |
| 6753188708 | abstract diction | language that is conceptual and philosophical | 105 | |
| 6753197114 | active diction | conveys action; the person that performed the action will function as the subject of that sentence | 106 | |
| 6753207420 | passive diction | will be construction using a verb of being | 107 | |
| 6753210796 | objective diction | impersonal and unemotional | 108 | |
| 6753212503 | subjective diction | personal and emotional language | 109 | |
| 6753215429 | denotation diction | language with exact meaning | 110 | |
| 6753215488 | connotation diction | suggested emotional meaning | 111 | |
| 6753217748 | literal diction | accurate language without embellishment | 112 | |
| 6753219453 | figurative diction | comparative language for a pictorial effect | 113 | |
| 6753224951 | pedestrian diction | layman's terms | 114 | |
| 6753224952 | pedantic diction | boring, inflated language intending to display importance | 115 | |
| 6753230673 | lyric poetry | any poem with one speaker who expresses strong thoughts and feelings; typically modern poems | 116 | |
| 6753238165 | narrative poem | any poem that tells a story; the structure resembles the plot line of a story | 117 | |
| 6753241226 | descriptive poem | poem that describes the world that surround the speaker; elaborate imagery and adjectives | 118 | |
| 6753251321 | marxist criticism | focuses on economic and cultural theories of karl marx, explains the literature by revealing economic class and how the author writes | 119 | |
| 6753276846 | deconstruction criticism | criticizing with reason | 120 | |
| 6753278775 | formalism criticism | anytime you use literary techniques to discuss literature | 121 | |
| 6753280451 | reader response criticism | anytime you analyze a text by connection either text to text, text to self, or text to world | 122 | |
| 6753283480 | feminist criticism | holds the belief that society is prejudice towards women, society is patriarchal, women lack strong roles in literature, highlights relationships between genders in literature, how inequality affects literature | 123 | |
| 6753304411 | moral criticism | literature used to demonstrate morality and philosophical issues | 124 | |
| 6753308527 | historical criticism | understanding the historical context of the setting of text and how it affects the text; effects overall disposition | 125 | |
| 6753319192 | psychological criticism freud | psychological motivation, author uses text to express himself, expresses ego, all human behavior is motivated by sexuality | 126 | |
| 6753322059 | psychological criticism jung | process of discovering what makes one unique, myhtical, parts of self, goal of all humans is to achieve individuation | 127 | |
| 6753329685 | archetypal criticism | collection of symbols, images, characters, and motifs | 128 | |
| 6753350170 | adage | a saying or proverb containing a truth based on experience and often couched in metaphorical language | 129 | |
| 6753353588 | anachronism | a person, scene, event, or element in literature that fails to correspond with the time or era in which the work is set | 130 | |
| 6753358752 | apollonian | refers to the most noble, godlike qualities of human nature and behavior | 131 | |
| 6753362903 | bathos | the use of insincere or overdone sentimentality | 132 | |
| 6753366838 | belle-lettres | french term for the world of books, criticism, and literature in general | 133 | |
| 6753370301 | bombast | inflated, pretentious language used for trivial subjects | 134 | |
| 6753375345 | chiasmus | a rhetorical device in which two or more clauses are balanced against each other by the reversal of their structures in order to produce an artistic effect | 135 | |
| 6753380242 | antimetabole | the word order in a sentence is reversed to contrast the meanings | 136 | |
| 6753383252 | stichomythia | a technique in drama in which sequences of single alternating lines, or half-lines or two-line speeches are given to alternating characters; typically features repetition and antithesis | 137 |
