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| 6444202333 | active voice | any sentence with an active verb. expresses more energy than passive voice. subject before verb. | 0 | |
| 6444202334 | allegory | extended narrative (in poetry or prose) in which the characters and actions (sometimes setting) aew contrived to make sense on the literal level and at the same time signify a second, correlated order of characters, concepts, and events. in other words, allegory carries a second, deeper meaning, as well as its surface story. | 1 | |
| 6444202335 | Alliteration | Repetition of consonant sounds | 2 | |
| 6444202336 | Allusion | an indirect reference | 3 | |
| 6444202337 | analogy | signifies a comparison of or similarity between two objects or ideas | 4 | |
| 6444202338 | Anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | 5 | |
| 6444202339 | Aphorism | a concise statement of a truth or principle | 6 | |
| 6444202340 | Apostrophe | A locution that addresses a person or personified thing not present | 7 | |
| 6444202341 | Assonance | repetition of vowel sounds | 8 | |
| 6444202342 | blank verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter | 9 | |
| 6444202343 | Caesura | a pause near the middle of a line | 10 | |
| 6444202344 | carpe diem | seize the day | 11 | |
| 6444202345 | Connotation | an implied meaning of a word | 12 | |
| 6444202346 | Consonance | Repetition of consonant sounds | 13 | |
| 6444202347 | Couplet | Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme | 14 | |
| 6444202348 | Denotation | The dictionary definition of a word | 15 | |
| 6444202349 | Dialect | A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation. | 16 | |
| 6444202350 | Diction | word choice | 17 | |
| 6444202351 | elegy | a sad or mournful poem | 18 | |
| 6444202352 | Ellipses | ... | 19 | |
| 6444202353 | Epistrophe | the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences | 20 | |
| 6444202354 | Euphemism | An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant | 21 | |
| 6444202355 | foil | A character who contrasts and parallels the main character in a play or story. | 22 | |
| 6444202356 | foot | combination of stressed and unstressed syllables | 23 | |
| 6444202357 | free verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme | 24 | |
| 6444202358 | hyperbole | extreme exaggeration | 25 | |
| 6444202359 | imagery | language that appeals to the senses | 26 | |
| 6444202360 | irony | the contrast between what is expected and what actually occurs | 27 | |
| 6444202361 | jargon | nonsensical talk; specialized language | 28 | |
| 6444202362 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts | 29 | |
| 6444202363 | lyric | A type of poetry that explores the poet's personal interpretation of and feelings about the world. | 30 | |
| 6444202364 | Malapropism | an obvious misuse of a word caused by confusion with a word of similar sound | 31 | |
| 6444202365 | metaphor | A comparison that establishes a figurative identity between objects being compared. | 32 | |
| 6444202366 | meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry | 33 | |
| 6444202367 | metonymy | the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant | 34 | |
| 6444202368 | metric line | line named according to number of feet composing it | 35 | |
| 6444202369 | ode | A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject. | 36 | |
| 6444202370 | Onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. | 37 | |
| 6444202371 | paradox | A statement that contradicts itself | 38 | |
| 6444202372 | Parallelism | Phrases or sentences of a similar construction/meaning placed side by side, balancing each other | 39 | |
| 6444202373 | panegyric | an expression of praise | 40 | |
| 6444202374 | passive voice | used when something happens to someone | 41 | |
| 6444202375 | pastoral | relating to a simple country way of life | 42 | |
| 6444202376 | Personification | giving human qualities to non-human things | 43 | |
| 6444202377 | ploce | repeating a word within the same line or clause | 44 | |
| 6444202378 | point of view | The perspective from which a story is told | 45 | |
| 6444202379 | pun | A play on words | 46 | |
| 6444202380 | refrain | A line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem. | 47 | |
| 6444202381 | repetition | Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis | 48 | |
| 6444202382 | rhyme | Repetition of sounds at the end of words | 49 | |
| 6444202302 | rhythm | A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry | 50 | |
| 6444202303 | satire | A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies. | 51 | |
| 6444202304 | shift | Change in tone, mood, or perspective | 52 | |
| 6444202305 | simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" | 53 | |
| 6444202306 | Soliloquy | A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage | 54 | |
| 6444202307 | sonnet | A 14 line poem, usually written in iambic pentameter | 55 | |
| 6444202308 | stanza | A group of lines in a poem | 56 | |
| 6444202309 | symbol | Something that stands for or represents something else | 57 | |
| 6444202310 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 58 | |
| 6444202311 | theme | Central idea of a work of literature | 59 | |
| 6444202312 | verse | A single line of poetry | 60 | |
| 6541384801 | situational irony | An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected | 61 | |
| 6599111075 | Verbal Irony | A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant | 62 | |
| 6599111076 | dramatic irony | the contrast between what a character expects and what the audience knows is true | 63 |
