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| 5842384558 | allegory | a short moral story (hidden meaning) | 0 | |
| 5842444924 | allusion | an indirect reference to something. ex: Hamlet alluded to Greek myths | 1 | |
| 5842500933 | conceit | an extended metaphor | 2 | |
| 5842503854 | catastrophe | a change of fortune | 3 | |
| 5842517117 | caesura | break/pause in middle of verse line | 4 | |
| 5842523457 | blank verse | unrhymed verse (usually in pentameter) | 5 | |
| 5842534877 | ballad | a narrative poem of popular orgin | 6 | |
| 5842546360 | aside | a short speech delivered to audience or another character that others on stage can't hear | 7 | |
| 5842611152 | apostrophe | addressing something non-human as if it were human | 8 | |
| 5842661552 | consonance | repetition of words with vowel sounds | 9 | |
| 5842664338 | assonance | repetition of words with constant sounds | 10 | |
| 5842693755 | anaphora | repetition of words at the beginning of consecutive sentences | 11 | |
| 5842738142 | connotation | the direct meaning of a word/expression | 12 | |
| 5842742720 | denotation | an idea that is applied or suggested | 13 | |
| 5842753083 | couplet | a stanza consisting of 2 successive lines of verse | 14 | |
| 5842783225 | chorus | dictates what the audience thinks | 15 | |
| 5843261415 | diction | a writers/speakers choice of words | 16 | |
| 5843286427 | elegy | a mournful poem | 17 | |
| 5843334908 | end stop | verse with rhetoric pause at the end of each line | 18 | |
| 5843338554 | enjambment | continuation from one line of verse into another | 19 | |
| 5843343559 | exposition | introduces background events to audience | 20 | |
| 5843347116 | foil | a character whose attitude sharply contrasts with another | 21 | |
| 5843506190 | free verse | poem without rhyme or regular meter | 22 | |
| 5843511098 | heroic couplet | couplet w/ 2 rhymed lines in iambic pentameter written in elevated style | 23 | |
| 5843520344 | hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration | 24 | |
| 5843535409 | lyric | poem that expresses emotion | 25 | |
| 5843716691 | masculine rhyme | a rhyme of final stressed syllables | 26 | |
| 5843718918 | meter | pattern of stressed and unstressed | 27 | |
| 5843805456 | metonymy | referring to something by using the name of something associated with it | 28 | |
| 5843811119 | monologue | speech given by one person | 29 | |
| 5843812678 | mood | a characteristic state of feeling | 30 | |
| 5843814474 | ode | a long lyrical poem typically serious | 31 | |
| 5843819578 | parable | simple story with a moral lesson | 32 | |
| 5844054874 | petrachan sonnet | Italian 14 line poem w/ an octave | 33 | |
| 5844061798 | prose | ordinary writing w/o rhyme or meter | 34 | |
| 5844083334 | quatrain | a stanza of 4 lines | 35 | |
| 5844088061 | refrain | regularly repeated line/group of lines in a poem/song | 36 | |
| 5844097511 | rhythm | long and short patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables | 37 | |
| 5844125617 | shakespearean sonnet | 3 quatrains and couplet in iambic pentameter | 38 | |
| 5844146900 | soliloquy | speech given by a character alone in space | 39 | |
| 5844150003 | symbol | something visible that represents something invisible | 40 | |
| 5844158080 | synecdoche | using the name of a part for that whole or the whole for the part | 41 | |
| 5844160487 | syntax | sentence structure | 42 | |
| 5844162824 | tragedy | work where protagonist is faced w/ significant struggle that ends in destruction | 43 | |
| 5844167416 | catastrophe | a change of fortune | 44 | |
| 5844190636 | resolution | caused by preceding events but does not lead to other incidents | 45 | |
| 5844204508 | incentive moment | starts cause and effect chain | 46 | |
| 5844205788 | tragic hero | character of high repute who suffers a fall from glory due to tragic flaw | 47 | |
| 5844215338 | arête | virtue/pursuit of excellence | 48 | |
| 5844216843 | koros | excessive pride and self reliance | 49 | |
| 5844220288 | hubris | excessive self pride | 50 | |
| 5844223487 | ate | disaster resulting from recklessness;madness | 51 | |
| 5844226343 | catharsis | purification or purging of emotions | 52 | |
| 5844231578 | moria | fate | 53 | |
| 5844233224 | hamartia | tragic flaw | 54 | |
| 5844238769 | verse | a piece of poetry | 55 | |
| 5844242217 | volta | shift/change of dramatic change in a poem | 56 |
