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| 5721806100 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial sounds of words, usually consonants. | 0 | |
| 5721806101 | Apostrophe | An address to someone not present. | 1 | |
| 5721806102 | Assonance | Repetition without rhyme of vowel sounds in stressed syllables, sometimes used instead of direct rhyme. | 2 | |
| 5721806103 | Consonance | A pair or group of words in which the final consonants of the stressed syllables agree but the vowels differ. | 3 | |
| 5721806104 | Couplet | A couple, or pair, of lines of poetry, usually rhymed. | 4 | |
| 5721806105 | Ode | An ancient form, a song (from Greek word aeidein- to sing) invented by Pindar nearly 2,500 years ago in Greece that exalts and often addresses a person or a dignified theme. In more recent literature, poets have discarded many aspects of formality and structure but have kept the intensity and sense of exaltation. Pablo Neruda, in his Odas Elementales (Odes to Simple Things), uses exalted, spontaneous language to celebrate ordinary objects: lemons, watermelons, fleas, socks, etc. | 5 | |
| 5721806106 | Personification | To give human attributes to a thing or an idea | 6 | |
| 5721806107 | Rhyme | The repetition of identical or similar concluding syllables in different words, most often at the ends of lines. | 7 | |
| 5721806108 | Simile | A comparison between two images or ideas using "like" or "as" | 8 | |
| 5721806109 | Slant Rhyme | Nearly rhyming words that have similar vowels or similar consonants, but not both | 9 | |
| 5721806110 | Sonnet | A lyric poem with fourteen lines written in iambic pentameter. Usually three quatrains and a couplet, or an octet and a sestet. | 10 | |
| 5721806111 | Stanza | Lines of verse grouped so as it compose a pattern that is usually repeated in the poem. | 11 | |
| 5721806112 | Symbol | A word or an image that signifies something other than what it represents and that, even when denoting a physical, limited thing, carries enlarging connotations so that it has the reality, vivid yet ambiguous, the emotional power, and the suggestiveness of a compelling dream or an archetypal myth. | 12 | |
| 5721806113 | Tone | The feature of a poem that shows the poet's attitude toward a theme, speaker, person addressed in the poem, or reader | 13 | |
| 5781811410 | Plot | An author's selection and arrangement of incidents in a story to shape the action and give the story a particular focus. | 14 | |
| 5781814751 | In Medius Res | A term used to describe the common strategy of beginning a story in the middle of the action. | 15 | |
| 5781815473 | Flashback | A narrated scene that marks a break in the narrative in order to inform the reader or audience member about events that took place before the opening scene of a work. | 16 | |
| 5781817117 | Character | a person presented in a dramatic or narrative work | 17 | |
| 5781818328 | Conflict | The struggle within the plot between opposing forces | 18 | |
| 5781819519 | Foreshadowing | The introduction early in a story of verbal and dramatic hints that suggest what is to come later. | 19 | |
| 5781820750 | Protagonist | The main character of a narrative; its central character who engages the reader's interest and empathy. | 20 | |
| 5781822054 | Antagonist | The character, force, or collection of forces in fiction or drama that opposes the protagonist and gives rise to the conflict of the story; an opponent of the protagonist. | 21 | |
| 5781823902 | Suspense | The anxious anticipation of a reader or an audience as to the outcome of a story, especially concerning the character or characters with whom sympathetic attachments are formed; helps to secure and sustain the interest of the reader or audience throughout a work. | 22 | |
| 5781827871 | Climax | the moment of greatest emotional tension in a narrative, usually marking a turning point in the plot at which the rising action reverses to become the falling action. | 23 | |
| 5781828638 | Resolution | The conclusion a plot's conflicts and complications; also known as the falling action, follows the climax in the plot. | 24 | |
| 5781881388 | Dynamic Character | A character who undergoes some kind of change because of the action in the plot. | 25 | |
| 5781882176 | Static Character | A character who does not change throughout the work, and the reader's knowledge of that character does not grow. | 26 | |
| 5781884533 | Flat Character | A character who embodies one or two qualities, ideas, or traits that can be readily described in a brief summary | 27 | |
| 5781885229 | Stock Character | A character embodies stereotypes such as the "dumb blonde" or the "mean stepfather;" become types rather than individuals | 28 | |
| 5781886257 | Round Character | A character who is more complex; often display the inconsistencies and internal conflicts found in most real people; they are more fully developed, and therefore are harder to summarize. | 29 | |
| 5781888769 | Character Foil | helps to reveal by contrast the distinctive qualities of another character. | 30 | |
| 5781891687 | Setting | The physical and social context in which the action of a story occurs; major elements include: time, place, and the social environment that frames the characters. | 31 | |
| 5781893947 | Third Person Omniscient Narrator | The point of view in which the narrator knows all the thoughts, feelings, and actions of the characters. | 32 | |
| 5781897143 | Third Person Limited Omniscient Narrator | The point of view in which the narrator only know the thoughts, feelings, and actions of one of the characters. | 33 | |
| 5781898758 | Stream of Consciousness Technique | Takes a reader inside a character's mind to reveal perceptions, thoughts, and feelings on a conscious or unconscious level. | 34 | |
| 5781900803 | Objective Point of View | The point of view in which a third person narrator does not see into the mind of any character. | 35 | |
| 5781903918 | First Person Narrator | the 'I' in the story presents the point of view of only one character; the reader is restricted to the perceptions, thoughts, and feelings of that single character. | 36 | |
| 5781905671 | Allegory | A narration or description usually restricted to a single meaning because its events, actions, characters, settings, and objects represent specific abstractions or ideas. | 37 | |
| 5781906936 | Style | The distinctive and unique manner in which a writer arranges words to achieve particular effects; essentially combines the idea to be expressed with the individuality of the author. | 38 | |
| 5781909491 | Diction | A writer's choice of words, phrases, sentence structures, and figurative language, which combine to help create meaning. | 39 | |
| 5781910355 | Verbal Irony | A figure of speech that occurs when a person says one thing but means the opposite. | 40 | |
| 5781913008 | Situational Irony | Exists when there is an incongruity between what is expected to happen and what actually happens due to forces beyond human comprehension or control. | 41 | |
| 5781914410 | Dramatic Irony | Creates a discrepancy between what a character believes or sys and what the reader or audience member knows to be true. | 42 |
