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| 3580944772 | Plot | the series of events in a story | 0 | |
| 3580944773 | Exposition | the background information given early in a story | 1 | |
| 3580944774 | Internal Conflict | a struggle that occurs within the heart or mind of a character | 2 | |
| 3580944775 | External Conflict | a struggle that occurs between a character and an outside force | 3 | |
| 3580944776 | Complication | an additional problem that adds onto the main conflict | 4 | |
| 3580944777 | Rising Action | the part of the plot when suspense is building | 5 | |
| 3580944778 | Climax | the turning point in the action; the peak moment of reader interest | 6 | |
| 3580944779 | Falling Action | the events that take place after the climax | 7 | |
| 3580944780 | Resolution | the outcome of the conflict | 8 | |
| 3580944781 | Setting | the time and place of a story | 9 | |
| 3580944782 | Suspense | the quality of a literary work that make the reader tense about the outcome | 10 | |
| 3580944783 | Foreshadowing | hints or clues as to what will happen later in the story | 11 | |
| 3580944784 | Protagoinst | the character in whom we are most interested | 12 | |
| 3580944785 | Antagonist | the character or force against whom the protagonist is pitted | 13 | |
| 3580944786 | Symbol | an object or gesture that represents itself but also something more besides | 14 | |
| 3580944787 | Theme | a main idea that the author is trying to get across | 15 | |
| 3580944788 | Style | the way in which a piece of literature is written; the elements that the author chooses; how something is said | 16 | |
| 3580944789 | Tone | the author's attitude about his or her subject | 17 | |
| 3580944790 | Point of View | the person or vantage point through which the events of a story seem to be observed or presented to us | 18 | |
| 3580944791 | Situational Irony | when a situation turns out the opposite of what one expects | 19 | |
| 3580944792 | Verbal Irony | when the words spoken or read carry the opposite message | 20 | |
| 3580944793 | Dramatic Iron | when the audience or reader knows something that the character does not | 21 | |
| 3580944794 | Allegory | a symblic story with a symbolic plot and symbolic characters | 22 | |
| 3580944795 | Metaphor | a comparison of two unlike things without using "like" or "as" | 23 | |
| 3580944796 | Genre | a major type or kind of literature (i.e. poetry, novel, autobiography, etc.) | 24 | |
| 3580944797 | Colloquial | informal in regard to speech | 25 | |
| 3580944798 | Jargon | language tied into a particular job or occupation | 26 | |
| 3580944799 | Juxtapose | to place two things next to each other for purpose of comparison | 27 | |
| 3580944800 | Cliché | a worn out expression | 28 | |
| 3580944801 | Pedantic | overly emphasizing rules and education | 29 | |
| 3580944802 | Slave Narrative | an account of the experience of the antebellum African-American who had escaped and made his or her way to the North | 30 | |
| 3580944803 | Stock Character | possesses standard traits, is needed to advance the plot, and experiences minor character development | 31 | |
| 3580944804 | Scapegoat | someone selected to bear the sins of others (usually sacrificed) | 32 | |
| 3580944805 | Gothic style | a style of fiction characterized by use of medieval settings; a murky atmosphere of horror and gloom; macabre, mysterious, and violent incidents (18th - 19th centuries) | 33 | |
| 3580944806 | Diction | single word choice | 34 | |
| 3580944807 | Detail | the phrase choice an author uses to deliver message | 35 | |
| 3580944808 | Leitmotif | a series of repeated images that are meant to support theme | 36 | |
| 3580944809 | Novella | a short prose narrative that is longer and more complex than a short story (20,000 to 50,000 words) | 37 | |
| 3580944810 | Character Foil | a character created for the purpose of contrast with another character, most likely the protagonist | 38 | |
| 3580944811 | Understatement | the presentation of something as less important (urgent, awful, good, etc.) that it really is, an undershooting of the truth; saying less than is meant | 39 | |
| 3580944812 | Stereotyping | an unfair generalization about a group of people without taking into account their individual differences | 40 | |
| 3580944813 | Denotation | the basic direct meaning from the dictionary | 41 | |
| 3580944814 | Connotation | the emotional association that travels with a word | 42 | |
| 3580945458 | Epic | a long narrative poem written in an elevated style with a heroic character whose actions speak for a nation of people; hero has high status, epic has vast setting, hero does courageous superhuman deeds, supernatural forces in the poem | 43 | |
| 3580948722 | Epithet | a descriptive nickname for someone or something | 44 | |
| 3580949944 | Kenning | a compressed metaphor often substituted for a r noun in Anglo-Saxon poetry; miniature riddles | 45 | |
| 3580950608 | Epic Simile | a long comparison that usually runs for several lines; like or as not always employed | 46 | |
| 3580951963 | Alliteration | the repetition of initial consonant sounds | 47 | |
| 3580952191 | Assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds | 48 | |
| 3580952279 | Consonance | the repetition of final consonant sounds | 49 | |
| 3637845163 | Wit | a well-phrased, clever expression or striking observation that is meant to evoke laughter | 50 | |
| 3637849004 | Satire | a literary device that combines a critical eye with humor so that some human institution might be inspired to change. Horatian satire, named after Roman Horace, is gentle and smiling. Juvenalian satire, named after Juvenal, is biting and angry. | 51 | |
| 3795069657 | Mockery | making fun of something | 52 | |
| 3795071488 | Sarcasm | harsh, personally directed comment; using praise to mock someone; usually aims to hurt | 53 | |
| 3795078645 | Overstatement | saying more than is meant; exagerration | 54 | |
| 3795084844 | Parody | imitation of a specific known person, literary work, movie, event; often involves mocking | 55 | |
| 3795088563 | Irony | saying one thing and meaning another | 56 | |
| 3795095912 | Bathos | going from the serious to the ridiculous quickly | 57 | |
| 3637857288 | Exaggeration | making too much of something and not making enough of something are part of exagerration. A big nose or big ears are examples of physical exaggeration. Exaggerated personality traits can make people laugh. | 58 | |
| 3637863275 | Anticipation | looking forward to a laugh because you can see a situation developing is part of comedy. | 59 | |
| 3637869389 | Ambiguity | double meaning, puns and word play can also elicit laughter. | 60 | |
| 3637871890 | Farce | is a subcategory of low comedy. It is a type of humor based on improbable characters, implausible coincidences and events. Readers should expect to read about clowning, physical indignities and chase scenes. | 61 | |
| 3637880727 | Puns | are jokes based on two words with a similar sound OR on a single word with two meanings. | 62 | |
| 3696564321 | Ballads | narrative poems usually about a single incident with themes of love, jealousy, revenge, disaster, and deeds of daring. There is slight attention to characterization, use of refrain, and they're musical in nature and have nonsense words due to oral tradition. They are 4 line stanzas with rhyme pattern (2nd and 4th line) | 63 | |
| 3795041234 | Sentence length | telegraphic (shorter than five words), medium (approximately eighteen words in length), and long (thirty or more words) | 64 | |
| 3795024499 | Periodic sentence | organized into at least two parts and expresses a complex thought not brought to completion until close | 65 | |
| 3795021453 | Cumulative (loose) sentence | containing two independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction or by a semicolon | 66 | |
| 3795032139 | Polysyndeton | placing a conjunction after every term except the last | 67 | |
| 3795034503 | Asyndeton | using no conjunctions and separates terms of the series with commas | 68 | |
| 3795016599 | Syntax | word order; the way sentences are structured | 69 | |
| 3795116628 | Cacophony | the harsh or unpleasant choice and arrangement of sounds; created by b,d,g,k,p, and t | 70 | |
| 3795120687 | Euphony | the pleasant choice and arrangement of sounds; created by l,m,n,r,v,f,w, and y | 71 | |
| 3871520358 | Paradox | a statement that seems to be contradictory or ridiculous but which is actually true | 72 | |
| 3871521926 | Oxymoron | a linking of two contradictory terms which may seem at first ridiculous, but upon examination contains truth | 73 | |
| 3871523132 | Rhyme Scheme | the pattern of rhymes at the end of lines | 74 | |
| 3871523605 | Approximate (or Slant) Rhyme | close rhyme but not perfect | 75 | |
| 3992528319 | Sonnet | 14 line poem written in iambic pentameter | 76 | |
| 3992533796 | Petrarchan/Italian Sonnet | ABBA ABBA CDECDE/CDCDCD/CDEEDC | 77 | |
| 3993561159 | Shakespearean/English Sonnet | ABAB CDCD EFEF GG | 78 | |
| 3993564519 | Octave | ABBA ABBA | 79 | |
| 3993566767 | Sestet | CDECDE/CDCDCD/CDEEDC | 80 | |
| 3993570572 | Quatrain | ABAB/CDCD/EFEF | 81 | |
| 3993572846 | Couplet | GG | 82 | |
| 4239997763 | Tercet | a three-line stanza | 83 | |
| 3993572847 | Speaker | the voice that delivers a poem | 84 | |
| 3993575113 | Carpe Diem | a philosophy that tells us "seize the day" | 85 | |
| 4024353169 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which the name of a part is used to refer to a whole | 86 | |
| 4024355359 | Metonomy | using an object closely associated with the word in mind for the word itself | 87 | |
| 4024359103 | Lyric poem | a poem in which one speaker expresses their feelings | 88 | |
| 4061389972 | Elegy | a tribute to something that is gone and missed (can be a sub-type of lyric poem) | 89 | |
| 4061394501 | Pastoral | a poem that glorifies the country life of the shepherd | 90 | |
| 4061397437 | Metaphysical Poetry | appeals primarily to the mind rather than the emotions. In some cases, metaphysical is synonymous with philosophical. it is typically dense with meaning and uses conceit | 91 | |
| 4239997764 | End-stopped Line | a poetic device in which a pause comes at the end of synthetic unit. it can be created by a colon, semicolon, or period | 92 | |
| 4240010189 | Enjambent | the continuation of the sense and grammatical construction of one line of poetry onto the next | 93 | |
| 4254625243 | Ode | a complex lyric poem, written for a specific person that develops one dignified theme; odes often praise people, natural scenes, or abstract ideas | 94 | |
| 4254634341 | Onomatopoeia | defined as a word, which imitates the natural sounds of a thing. it creates a sound effect that mimics the thing described, making the description more expressive and interesting | 95 | |
| 4363301071 | Stream of conciousness | the literary representation of a character's free-flowing thoughts, feelings, and memories | 96 | |
| 4443807755 | Soliloquy | an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud on stage with the idea that no other actors can hear | 97 | |
| 4443812884 | Hendiadys | the expression of a single thought with two nouns (law and order, house and home) | 98 |
