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| 4044102130 | aliteration | the repetition of sounds in close succession | 0 | |
| 4044103772 | allusion | a reference to a well known work of literature, person, or historical event | 1 | |
| 4044108842 | antagonist | the force working against the protagonist in a work of literature | 2 | |
| 4044112105 | apostrophe | a figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something non-human is addressed as if it were present | 3 | |
| 4044116665 | archetype | the original pattern or type after which all others are patterned | 4 | |
| 4044121882 | aside | in drama, a comment by a character directed to the audience or another character, not heard by others on stage | 5 | |
| 4044126102 | assonance | the repetition at close intervals of vowel sounds | 6 | |
| 4044128515 | blank verse | verse written in unrhymed iambic pentameter | 7 | |
| 4044132942 | climax | the turning point in the plot of a literary work | 8 | |
| 4044134673 | colloquial | the characteristic of informal, spoken, language or conversation | 9 | |
| 4044642776 | comic relief | a humorous scene that takes place in the course of a tragic literary work | 10 | |
| 4044645494 | consonance | the repetition of a consonant sound | 11 | |
| 4044651981 | connotation | the feelings or associations a word suggests beyond its literal meaning | 12 | |
| 4044654569 | dennotation | the direct, specific meaning of a word | 13 | |
| 4044665262 | denouement | action occurring after the climax | 14 | |
| 4044666442 | diction | the style of speaking and writing as reflected in the choice and use of words | 15 | |
| 4044669786 | drama | literature that is meant to be preformed for an audience | 16 | |
| 4044671811 | elegy | a somber poem, often about the loss of a loved one | 17 | |
| 4044674452 | enjambent | a technique in poetry whereby a sentence is carried over to the next line without pause | 18 | |
| 4044677961 | epiphany | a sudden revelation or insight | 19 | |
| 4044681972 | figurative language | language that cannot be taken only literally | 20 | |
| 4044683410 | first person | the point of view told from the narrator's perspective | 21 | |
| 4044685035 | flashback | an interruption of the chronological order of events in a story in order to present events that took place before the story | 22 | |
| 4044689776 | foil | the use of one character to bring out the qualities of another | 23 | |
| 4044692142 | foreshadowing | a technique which hints about what will occur later in the story | 24 | |
| 4044694561 | free verse | verse that has no set rhyme or meter | 25 | |
| 4044695811 | genre | a distinct category into which literature is grouped | 26 | |
| 4044698384 | hyperbole | a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used in service of the truth | 27 | |
| 4044702240 | iambic pentameter | a pattern of 10 unstressed/stressed syllables | 28 | |
| 4044704145 | image | written details that appeal to the reader's senses | 29 | |
| 4044706875 | irony | the contrast between what is expected and what occurs | 30 | |
| 4044709132 | verbal irony | a character says one thing but means another | 31 | |
| 4044713951 | situational irony | the reader expects one thing and another happens | 32 | |
| 4044715565 | dramatic irony | the audience or reader is aware of something a character is not aware of | 33 | |
| 4044719374 | juxtaposition | the arrangement of two or more ideas, actions, settings, phrases, or words side-by-side or in a similar narrative moments for the purpose of comparison or contrast | 34 | |
| 4044724566 | metaphor | a figure of speech in which an implicit comparison is made between two things essentially unlike | 35 | |
| 4044729769 | metafiction | a literary device used self-consciously and systematically to draw attention to a work's status as an artifact | 36 | |
| 4044733114 | mood | the feeling that the writer creates for the reader | 37 | |
| 4044735802 | narrator | the teller of the story | 38 | |
| 4044737345 | onomatopoeia | the use of words that mimic their actual meaning in their sound | 39 | |
| 4044740016 | oxymoron | a compact paradox in which two successive words apparently contradict each other | 40 | |
| 4044743860 | paradox | a statement or situation containing apparently contradictory or incomparable elements which contains the truth | 41 | |
| 4044748029 | personification | a figure of speech in which human characteristics are attributed to an animal, concept or object | 42 | |
| 4044751466 | plot | the sequence of events in a literary work | 43 | |
| 4044752547 | point of view | the perspective from which a story is told | 44 | |
| 4044754870 | protagonist | the main character in a literary work | 45 | |
| 4044755924 | repetition | the literary technique which a word or group of words are repeated for emphasis throughout a selection | 46 | |
| 4044759927 | sarcasm | bitter or cutting speech that is intended by its speaker to give pain to the person addressed | 47 | |
| 4044769308 | satire | a kind of literature that ridicules human folly or vice with the purpose of bringing about reform | 48 | |
| 4044772615 | setting | the time and place in which the story occurs | 49 | |
| 4044774045 | simile | a figure of speech in which a comparison is made between two things essentially unlike by using like or as | 50 | |
| 4044777713 | sonnet | a poem that has 14 lines, iambic pentameter, and a rhyme scheme | 51 | |
| 4044780252 | speaker | the narrative voice in a poem | 52 | |
| 4044781467 | stanza | a group of lines in a poem separated by a space | 53 | |
| 4044784730 | symbol | a figure of speech in which something concrete is used to stand for an abstract idea | 54 | |
| 4044788137 | syntax | the rules and principals which govern sentence structure | 55 | |
| 4044790422 | theme | a central idea of a literary work, the insight about life or human nature the writer presents to the reader | 56 | |
| 4044794723 | third person omniscient | the point of view which is all knowing and considers the perspective of many characters | 57 | |
| 4044799119 | third person | the point of view which is not first person but considers the perspective of one character | 58 | |
| 4044803757 | tone | the writer or speaker's attitude toward the subject, the emotional coloring or emotional meaning or a work | 59 | |
| 4044806712 | tragedy | a drama which begins peacefully and ends violently, often with the death or destruction of the protagonist | 60 |
