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| 5920338197 | Enjambment | In poetry it means moving over from one line to another without a terminating punctuation mark. It can be defined as a thought or sense, phrase or clause in a line of poetry that does not come to an end at the line break but moves over to the next line. In simple words, it is the running on of a sense from one couplet or line to the next without a major pause or syntactical break. | 0 | |
| 5920347929 | Chiasmus | A rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form; e.g. 'Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.' | 1 | |
| 5920350115 | Conceit | A kind of metaphor that compares two very unlike things in a surprising and clever way. Often are extended metaphors that dominate an entire passage or poem. | 2 | |
| 5920372602 | Elegy | A mournful poem, usually written in remembrance of a lost one for a funeral or as a lament. Tells the tragic story of an individual, or an individual's loss, rather than the collective story of a people, which can be found in epic poetry. Generally combines three stages of loss: first there is grief, then praise of the dead one, and finally consolation. | 3 | |
| 5920372603 | Foil | A character who contrasts with another character (usually the protagonist) in order to highlight particular qualities of the other character. | 4 | |
| 5920378455 | Litotes | A figure of speech which employs an understatement by using double negatives or, in other words, positive statement is expressed by negating its opposite expressions. | 5 | |
| 5920380813 | Metonymy | The substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example suit for business executive, or the track for horse racing. | 6 | |
| 5920380868 | Refrain | A regularly recurring phrase or verse, especially at the end of each stanza or division of a poem or song. | 7 | |
| 5920384603 | Soliloquy | A speech that a character makes in a work of drama only to him or herself. | 8 | |
| 5920386525 | Synecdoche | A literary device in which a part of something represents the whole or it may use a whole to represent a part. It may use larger groups to refer to smaller groups. | 9 | |
| 5920389696 | Caesura | A rhythmical pause in a poetic line or a sentence. It often occurs in the middle of a line, or sometimes at the beginning and the end. At times, it occurs with punctuation; however, at other times it does not. | 10 | |
| 5920393921 | Villanelle | A poetic device which requires a poem to have 19 lines and a fixed form. It has five tercets (first 15 lines), a quatrain (last four lines), and a couplet at the end of the quatrain. | 11 | |
| 5920397305 | Apostrophe | When a character in a literary work speaks to an object, an idea, or someone who doesn't exist as if it is a living person. This is done to produce dramatic effect and to show the importance of the object or idea. | 12 | |
| 5920400307 | Asyndeton | A stylistic device used in literature and poetry to intentionally eliminate conjunctions between the phrases and in the sentence, yet maintain the grammatical accuracy. | 13 | |
| 5920402198 | Catharsis | An emotional discharge through which one can achieve a state of moral or spiritual renewal or achieve a state of liberation from anxiety and stress. | 14 | |
| 5920402199 | Existentialism | A movement in philosophy and literature that emphasizes individual existence, freedom and choice. It began in the mid-to-late 19th Century, but reached its peak in mid-20th Century France. | 15 | |
| 5920405859 | Anaphora | The repetition of a certain word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines of writing or speech. It can be used in novels and short stories, but it's most commonly seen in poetry, essays, and formal speeches. | 16 | |
| 5920405860 | Antimetabole | A literary and rhetorical device in which a phrase or sentence is repeated, but in reverse order. Writers or speakers use this for effect-calling attention to the words, or demonstrating that reality is not always what it seems by using the reversal of words. | 17 | |
| 5920408852 | Polysyndeton | A stylistic device in which several coordinating conjunctions are used in succession in order to achieve an artistic effect. | 18 | |
| 5920413268 | Romanticism | A movement in art and literature in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in revolt against the Neoclassicism of the previous centuries.The German poet Friedrich Schlegel, who is given credit for first using the term to describe literature, defined it as "literature depicting emotional matter in an imaginative form." | 19 | |
| 5920415263 | Transcendentalism | A movement in nineteenth-century American literature and thought. It called on people to view the objects in the world as small versions of the whole universe and to trust their individual intuitions. | 20 | |
| 5920552520 | Naturalism | A literary genre that started as a literary movement in late nineteenth century in literature, film, theater and art. It is a type of extreme realism. This movement suggested the role of family background, social conditions and environment in shaping human character. | 21 | |
| 5920557716 | Antithesis | A rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect. | 22 | |
| 5920560427 | Inversion | A literary technique in which the normal order of words is reversed in order to achieve a particular effect of emphasis or meter. | 23 | |
| 5920560428 | Loose Sentence | Also called a cumulative sentence, begins with a main clause that is followed by phrases and/or clauses that modify the main clause. These phrases or clauses add information to the main or independent clause. | 24 |
