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| 5898805780 | juxtaposition | act/instance of placing 2+ items side-by-side to showcase similarities/differences | 0 | |
| 5898813929 | metafiction | storytelling about storytelling | 1 | |
| 5898816146 | verisimilitude | quality of appearing to be true or real | 2 | |
| 5898818271 | polysyndeton | repetition of connectives/conjunctions in close succession for effect | 3 | |
| 5898819874 | paradox | statement/situation that seems impossible/oxymoronic but solves itself and reveals meaning | 4 | |
| 5898843416 | diction | word choice | 5 | |
| 5898843417 | syntax | ordering of words into meaningful verbal patterns | 6 | |
| 5898845870 | theme | central meaning/dominant idea in a literary work | 7 | |
| 5898847555 | thesis | sentence/group of sentences that directly expresses the author's opinion/purpose/meaning/position | 8 | |
| 5898857848 | tone | author's implicit attitude toward the reader or the people/places/events in a work | 9 | |
| 5898862940 | characterization | process by which a writer makes the character seem real | 10 | |
| 5898867480 | figurative language | purposefully departing from the literal meanings of words | 11 | |
| 5898869471 | imagery | word/phrase/figure of speech that addresses the senses | 12 | |
| 5898872722 | foil | character who serves to contrast with another (usually highlighting the protagonist) | 13 | |
| 5898876532 | first person narrator | "I" POV | 14 | |
| 5898880629 | third person omniscient | presents thoughts/actions of any/all characters | 15 | |
| 5898884749 | third person limited omniscient | presents thoughts of one character, actions of all others | 16 | |
| 5898890001 | mood | prevailing atmosphere or emotional aura of a work | 17 | |
| 5898893107 | verbal irony | words literally state the opposite of the speaker's meaning | 18 | |
| 5898910440 | situational irony | events turn out the opposite of what was expected | 19 | |
| 5898912947 | dramatic irony | facts/events are unknown to a character but are known to the reader/other characters | 20 | |
| 5898919636 | irony | contrast between the explicitly stated and what is meant | 21 | |
| 5898924772 | protagonist | main character | 22 | |
| 5898924773 | style/voice | evaluation of the sum of the author's diction, syntax, and other lit. devices | 23 | |
| 5898930773 | rhetoric | effective speaking or writing | 24 | |
| 5898933705 | ethos | appeals to trustworthiness/credibility of writer/speaker | 25 | |
| 5898950135 | logos | persuades through logic | 26 | |
| 5898952827 | pathos | emotional appeal | 27 | |
| 5898955710 | allegory | narration/description restricted to a single meaning | 28 | |
| 5898957516 | alliteration | repetition of same consonant sounds | 29 | |
| 5898959445 | allusion | brief reference to a person/place/thing/event/idea | 30 | |
| 5898966718 | ambiguity | allowing for 2+ simultaneous interpretations of a word/phrase/action/situation | 31 | |
| 5898971447 | analogy | similarity/comparison between two different things or the relationship between them | 32 | |
| 5898977214 | anaphora | repetition of words/phrases at the beginning of successive lines/sentences | 33 | |
| 5898984910 | antagonist | character/force that works against the protagonist | 34 | |
| 5901291646 | antecedent | word/phrase/clause referred to by a pronoun | 35 | |
| 5901343546 | apostrophe | address to someone absent or something nonhuman that cannot comprehend | 36 | |
| 5901348832 | archetype | universal symbols that evoke deep/unconscious responses in a reader | 37 | |
| 5901354165 | cacophony | language that is discordant and difficult to pronounce | 38 | |
| 5901357830 | caricature | description of a person using exaggeration of some characteristics and oversimplification of others | 39 | |
| 5901360277 | colloquial/colloquialism | slang or informal diction | 40 | |
| 5901362205 | connotation | associations and implications that go beyond the definition of a word | 41 | |
| 5901364309 | conceit | two vastly different objects are likened together using similes or metaphors | 42 | |
| 5901366209 | couplet | two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme | 43 | |
| 5901367719 | denotation | dictionary definition of a word | 44 | |
| 5901369713 | euphemism | substitution of a less offensive expression in place of another | 45 | |
| 5901373965 | euphony | soothing, pleasant sounds | 46 | |
| 5901373966 | exposition | initial part of the story in which the stage is set for the main action | 47 | |
| 5901377474 | extended metaphor | a metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in/throughout a work | 48 | |
| 5901381449 | genre | major category into which a literary work fits | 49 | |
| 5901383911 | homily | sermon or any serious talk/speech/lecture involving moral or spiritual advice | 50 | |
| 5901409841 | hyperbole | boldly exaggerated statement | 51 | |
| 5901411929 | inference/infer | to draw a reasonable conclusion from the information presented | 52 | |
| 5901413756 | metaphor | a comparison between two unlike things without using like or as | 53 | |
| 5901417883 | metonymy | the name of one object is substituted for that of another that is closely associated with it | 54 | |
| 5901422681 | motif | a recurring object, concept, or structure in a work | 55 | |
| 5901424390 | onomatopoeia | natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words | 56 | |
| 5901432804 | oxymoron | two contradictory words are used together | 57 | |
| 5901438122 | parallelism | structural organization of words/phrases/sentences/paragraphs to have similarity | 58 | |
| 5901446739 | parody | humorous imitation of a more serious work | 59 | |
| 5901448631 | pedantic | overly scholarly/academic, condescending | 60 | |
| 5901451175 | persona | a speaker created by the writer to tell a story | 61 | |
| 5901453874 | aside | a speech directed to the audience only | 62 | |
| 5901456441 | personification | human characteristics are attributed to nonhuman things | 63 | |
| 5901458582 | prose | not poetry | 64 | |
| 5901460291 | pun | a play on words that relies on a word's having more than one meeting/sounding like another word | 65 | |
| 5901463460 | satire | ridiculing a folly/vice in order to expose/correct it | 66 | |
| 5901466933 | semantics | branch of linguistics that studies the meaning of words, etc. | 67 | |
| 5901470149 | simile | explicit comparison between two things using like/as/than/appears/seems | 68 | |
| 5901475122 | soliloquy | a speech made by a character expressing their feelings | 69 | |
| 5901591195 | sonnet | fixed form of poetry (14 lines, iambic pentameter) | 70 | |
| 5901617716 | stanza | grouping of lines in poetry | 71 | |
| 5901638602 | tragic hero | the main bitch boy who always blows things out of proportions and then complains how he had nothing to do with his problems and loses all their friends | 72 | |
| 5901658691 | didactic literature | literary work designed to instruct/moralize | 73 | |
| 5901669847 | symbolism | d | 74 | |
| 5901694315 | synecdoche | d | 75 | |
| 5901694316 | understatement | d | 76 |
