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| 6301737364 | allegory | a work that functions on a symbolic level | 0 | |
| 6301743365 | alliteration | the repetition of initial consonant sounds, such as "Peter Piper" | 1 | |
| 6301760366 | blank verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter | 2 | |
| 6301769405 | cacophony | harsh and discordant sounds in a line or passage of a literary work | 3 | |
| 6301792245 | catharsis | the release of emotion that the audience of a tragedy experiences | 4 | |
| 6301802053 | connotation | the interpretive level of a word based on its associated images rather than its literal meaning | 5 | |
| 6301818589 | denotation | the literal or dictionary meaning of a word | 6 | |
| 6301823805 | diction | the author's choice of words | 7 | |
| 6301828784 | euphony | the pleasant, mellifluous presentation of sounds in literary work | 8 | |
| 6301844508 | figurative language | the body of devices that enables the writer to operate on levels other than the literal one | 9 | |
| 6301853661 | hyperbole | extreme exaggeration | 10 | |
| 6301858187 | iamb | a metrical foot consisting of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one | 11 | |
| 6301885437 | metaphor | a direct comparison between dissimilar things | 12 | |
| 6301892068 | metonymy | a figure of speech in which a representative term is used for a larger idea | 13 | |
| 6301898590 | motif | the repetition or variations of an image or idea in a work which is used to develop theme or characters | 14 | |
| 6301911541 | oxymoron | an image of contradictory terms | 15 | |
| 6301917018 | pathos | the aspects of a literary work that elicit pity from the audience | 16 | |
| 6301927058 | simile | an indirect comparison that uses the words like or as | 17 | |
| 6301937243 | synecdoche | a figure of speech that utilizes a part as representative as a whole | 18 |
