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| 4795081762 | kenning | picturesque metaphorical compound | 0 | |
| 4795081763 | caesura | a pause in the middle of a line of poetry | 1 | |
| 4795081764 | aphorism | a principal expressed tersely in a few telling words | 2 | |
| 4795081765 | irony | appearance differs from reality | 3 | |
| 4795081766 | understatement | the magnitude of what is stated falls detectably short of reality | 4 | |
| 4795081767 | meter | rhythmic pattern of poetry by reoccurring units of sound | 5 | |
| 4795081768 | foot | unit of sounds that consists of a combination of stressed/unstressed syllables | 6 | |
| 4795081769 | (anti)strophe | 2 of the 3 stanzaic forms of the Greek choral ode | 7 | |
| 4795081770 | in media res | in the midst of things | 8 | |
| 4795081771 | characterization | how the author shapes/reveals a character to the reader | 9 | |
| 4795081772 | satire | blending censure with humor to improve humanity | 10 | |
| 4795081773 | sarcasm | caustic, bitter expression of disapproval | 11 | |
| 4795081774 | enjambment | poetry that has one line flowing to the next without punctuation | 12 | |
| 4795081775 | catharsis | purging of guilt as a result of going through tragic drama | 13 | |
| 4795081776 | hubris | arrogant pride of the protagonist | 14 | |
| 4795081777 | hamartia | fatal misstep that leads to the downfall of a character in a tragedy | 15 | |
| 4795081778 | foil | a character who's qualities emphasize the protagonist | 16 | |
| 4795081779 | monologue | extended speech uttered to one speaker, to others as if alone | 17 | |
| 4795081780 | soliloquy | speech utter by one person, to others as if alone | 18 | |
| 4795081781 | apostrophe | figure of speech in which someone, some abstract figure, or nonexistent person is directly expressed as if present | 19 | |
| 4795081782 | ambiguity | the state of having more than one meaning of interpretation | 20 | |
| 4795081783 | synecdoche | the part represents the whole | 21 | |
| 4888096378 | imagery | when the author makes pictures through the senses | 22 | |
| 4888113557 | point of view | vantage from which the story is told | 23 | |
| 4888113558 | dystopia | undesirable image of society | 24 | |
| 4888113559 | utopia | desirable image of society | 25 | |
| 4888113560 | theme | the message an author wants to express to the reader | 26 | |
| 4888113561 | novella | short story around 100 pages | 27 | |
| 4888113562 | plot | series of related events that create a story | 28 | |
| 4888205496 | feud ex machina | the plot is resolved by the use of a highly improbable chance that solves a difficult problem | 29 | |
| 4888205497 | synaethesia | description of one sense impression using words that normally describe another | 30 | |
| 4888205498 | style | writers way of stating things | 31 | |
| 4888205499 | tone | authors attitude towards the subject | 32 | |
| 4888205500 | mood | the feeling the audience gets from a piece | 33 | |
| 4888205501 | connotation | range of further associations in addition to the dictionary meaninh | 34 | |
| 4888205502 | juxtaposition | placing words/things side by side intentionally for effect | 35 | |
| 4888205503 | malapropism | the comic substitution of one word for another that's similar in sound, but has another meaning, making them look ignorant | 36 | |
| 4888205504 | voice | the sense a writers work conveys about the author | 37 | |
| 4888205505 | motif | reoccurring image, word, or phrase that appears throughout the work | 38 | |
| 4888476450 | anachronism | an event, object, custom, person, or thing that is out of its natural order of time | 39 | |
| 4888476451 | metonymy | figure of speech in which a representative term is used for a larger idea | 40 | |
| 4888476452 | narrator | the teller of the story | 41 | |
| 4888476453 | dissonance | harshness of sound and/or rhyme, either inadvertent or deliberate | 42 | |
| 4888476454 | euphory | a pleasing soothness of sound, perceived by the ease with which the words can be spoken in combination | 43 | |
| 4888476455 | litotes | figure of speech where an affirmation is made indirectly by saying its opposite, usually with an effect of understatement | 44 | |
| 4888476456 | euphemism | substituting a mild term in place of an offensive or hurtful term for effect | 45 |
