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| 596344907 | Allegory | A story illustrating an idea or a moral principle in which objects take on symbolic meanings. | 0 | |
| 596344908 | Anachronism | A word derived from the Greek that literally means 'misplaced in time.' | 1 | |
| 596344909 | Anaphora | The repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences Ex: In the poem of Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou, the phrase "Phenomenal Woman" is a repetition. | 2 | |
| 596344910 | Antecedent | The word or phrase to which a pronoun refers. It often precedes a pronoun in prose or in poetry. EX: Tom wants to study Political Science; he finds it interesting | 3 | |
| 596344911 | Anthropomorphism | In literature, when inanimate objects, animals or natural phenomena are given human characteristics, behavior or motivation. Often used with animal to give them human characteristics. EX: The chronicle of Narnia is a great example of a movie that has Anthropomorphism of animals talking. | 4 | |
| 596344912 | Anticlimax | An often disappointing, sudden end to an intense situation. | 5 | |
| 596344913 | Aphorism | A brief statement which expresses an observation on life, usually intended as a wise observation. | 6 | |
| 596344914 | Apostrophe | Figure of speech in which one directly addresses an imaginary person or some abstraction. | 7 | |
| 596344915 | Archaism | The use of deliberately old-fashioned language. | 8 | |
| 596344916 | Archetype | A character, situation or symbol that is familiar to people from all cultures because it occurs frequently in literature, myth, religion or folklore. | 9 | |
| 596344917 | Ballad | A story in poetic form, often about tragic love and usually sung. Ballads were passed down from generation to generation by singers. | 10 | |
| 596344918 | Black Humor | The use of disturbing themes in comedy. | 11 | |
| 596344919 | Blank Verse | A poem written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. | 12 | |
| 596344920 | Cacophony/ Euphony | Cacophony is an unpleasant combination of sounds. Euphony, the opposite, is a pleasant combination of sounds. These sound effects can be used intentionally to create an effect, or they may appear unintentionally. | 13 | |
| 596344921 | Canto | A subdivision of an epic poem. | 14 | |
| 596344922 | Chiasmus | A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed. | 15 | |
| 596344923 | Colloquialism | A word or phrase used in everyday conversational English that isn't a part of the accepted 'formal' English. EX: Soft Drink is referred to as Soda or Pop | 16 | |
| 596344924 | Conceit | An unusual metaphor or metaphor that is developed in detail in a paragraph (for a novel) or over several lines (for poetry). | 17 | |
| 596344925 | Connotation | The associations a word calls to mind. The more connotative a literary work is, the less objective its interpretation becomes. | 18 | |
| 596344926 | Denotation | The dictionary or literal meaning of a word or phrase. | 19 | |
| 596344927 | Denouement | The outcome or clarification at the end of a story that follows the climax and leads to the resolution. | 20 | |
| 596344928 | Didactic | A didactic story, speech, essay or play is one in which the author's primary purpose is to instruct, teach or moralize. | 21 | |
| 596344929 | Enjambment | The continuation of a syntactic unit from one line or couplet of a poem to the next with no pause. | 22 | |
| 596344930 | Epigram | A short, clever poem or statement with a witty turn of thought. | 23 | |
| 596344931 | Epigraph | A brief quotation found at the beginning of a literary work, reflective of the work's theme. | 24 | |
| 596344932 | Epistolary novel | A novel in letter form written by one or more of the characters. The novelist can use this technique to present varying first person viewpoints and does not need a narrator. | 25 | |
| 596344933 | Exposition | The presentation of essential information regarding what has occurred prior to the beginning of the work. | 26 | |
| 596344934 | Euphemism | A mild word of phrase which substitutes for another word or phrase which would be undesirable because it is too direct, unpleasant, harsh, or offensive. | 27 | |
| 596344935 | Farce | A kind of comedy that depends on exaggerated or improbable situations, physical disasters, and sexual innuendo to amuse the audience. | 28 | |
| 596344936 | Hubris | Insolence, arrogance or pride | 29 | |
| 596344937 | Hyperbole | A wild exaggeration or an overstatement for literary effect that is not meant to be interpreted literally. | 30 | |
| 596344938 | Inference | A judgment based on reasoning rather than on direct or explicit statement. | 31 | |
| 596344939 | Inversion | A reversal of normal word order | 32 | |
| 596344940 | Irony | Situational: situation that is the opposite of what you'd expext Verbal: when a writer or speaker says one thing, but really means something completely different. Dramatic: when the reader or audience knows something that the character does not. There is a contrast between what the character says, thinks or does and the true situation. Tragic: dramatic irony that occurs in a tragedy | 33 | |
| 596344941 | Litotes | A type of understatement in which the speaker or writer uses a negative of a word ironically, to mean the opposite | 34 | |
| 596344942 | Metonym | Substituting the name of one object for another closely associated with it | 35 | |
| 596344943 | Parable | A short story illustrating a moral or religious lesson. | 36 | |
| 596344944 | Paradox | A statement or situation that at first seems impossible, but on closer inspection solves itself and reveals meaning. | 37 | |
| 596344945 | Parody | A literary work that imitates the style of another literary work. A parody can be simply amusing or it can be meant to ridicule the author or his work. | 38 | |
| 596344946 | Pastoral | A poem, play or story that celebrates and idealizes the simple life of shepherds and shepherdesses. The form was popular until the late 18th century. | 39 | |
| 596344947 | Pathos | The quality of a literary work or passage which appeals to the reader's or viewer's emotions—especially pity, compassion and sympathy. | 40 | |
| 596344948 | Pun | Humorous play on words that have several meanings or words that sound the same but have different meanings. | 41 | |
| 596344949 | Saga | A story of the exploits of a hero, or the story of a family told through several generations. | 42 | |
| 596344950 | Structure | Refers to how the parts of a work are organized and arranged | 43 | |
| 596344951 | Syllepsis | • A construction in which one word is used in two different senses. • The meaning of a verb cleverly changes halfway through a sentence but remains grammatically correct. | 44 | |
| 596344952 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech where one part of something represents the whole thing. | 45 | |
| 596344953 | Syntax | The way in which words, phrases and sentences are ordered and connected. Syntax results in various sentence types used for a variety of rhetorical effects. | 46 |
