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| 4320469160 | allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one | 0 | |
| 4320471701 | alliteration | Repetition of consonant sounds | 1 | |
| 4320471702 | allusion | A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art. Allusions can be historical, literary, religious, topical, or mythical. There are many more possibilities, and a work may simultaneously use multiple layers of allusion. | 2 | |
| 4320473515 | ambiguity | An event or situation that may be interpreted in more than one way. | 3 | |
| 4320473516 | anachronism | Something that is not in its correct historical time; a mistake in chronology, such as by assigning a person or event to the wrong time period | 4 | |
| 4320477377 | analogy | A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way | 5 | |
| 4320477378 | anapest | unstressed, unstressed, stressed | 6 | |
| 4320478926 | anaphora | A rhetorical figure of repetition in which the same word or phrase is repeated in (and usually at the beginning of) successive lines, clauses, or sentences. | 7 | |
| 4320478927 | antagonist | A character or force in conflict with the main character | 8 | |
| 4320482080 | anticlimax | letdown in thought or emotion; something unexciting, ordinary, or disappointing coming after something important or exciting | 9 | |
| 4320483584 | anti-hero | a central character in a story, movie, or drama who lacks conventional heroic attributes. | 10 | |
| 4320483585 | apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. | 11 | |
| 4320485283 | archetype | A detail, image, or character type that occurs frequently in literature and myth and is thought to appeal in a universal way to the unconscious and to evoke a response | 12 | |
| 4320485284 | aside | A device in which a character in a drama makes a short speech which is heard by the audience but not by other characters in the play | 13 | |
| 4320488131 | assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds | 14 | |
| 4320488132 | ballad | A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas, characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style. | 15 | |
| 4320490550 | bildungsroman | A coming of age story | 16 | |
| 4320490551 | caesura | A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line. | 17 | |
| 4320492984 | catharsis | An emotional discharge that brings about a moral or spiritual renewal or welcome relief from tension and anxiety | 18 | |
| 4320492985 | climax | Most exciting moment of the story; turning point | 19 | |
| 4320494427 | closed form | A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme, line length, and metrical pattern. | 20 | |
| 4320501657 | conceit | A fanciful, particularly clever extended metaphor | 21 | |
| 4325339425 | colloquialism | informal words or expressions not usually acceptable in formal writing | 22 | |
| 4325339426 | Connotation | All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests | 23 | |
| 4325342598 | Consonance | Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity. | 24 | |
| 4325342599 | Dactyl | A metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables | 25 | |
| 4325344976 | Denotation | The dictionary definition of a word | 26 | |
| 4325346763 | Deus ex machina | In literature, the use of an artificial device or gimmick to solve a problem. | 27 | |
| 4325346764 | Diction | A writer's or speaker's choice of words | 28 | |
| 4325346765 | Elegy | a sorrowful poem or speech | 29 | |
| 4325348911 | Epithet | an adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned. | 30 | |
| 4325348912 | Foil | A character who contrasts and parallels the main character in a play or story. | 31 | |
| 4325348913 | Foot | A metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables. | 32 | |
| 4325349326 | Free verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme | 33 | |
| 4325351600 | Hyperbole | A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor | 34 | |
| 4325351601 | Iamb | A common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable. | 35 | |
| 4325351891 | Iambic pentameter | a line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable | 36 | |
| 4325353901 | Idiom | A common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally. | 37 | |
| 4325353902 | Image | Descriptive or figurative language in a literary work; the use of language to create sensory impressions. | 38 | |
| 4325353903 | Imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) | 39 | |
| 4325353904 | Irony | A contrast between expectation and reality | 40 | |
| 4325356404 | Lyric poem | A poem that does not tell a story but expresses the personal feelings or thoughts of a speaker | 41 | |
| 4325356405 | Magical realism | A genre of fiction in which elements of fantasy, myth, or the supernatural are included in a narrative that is otherwise objective and realistic. | 42 | |
| 4325358623 | Metaphor | A comparison without using like or as | 43 | |
| 4339928989 | Meter | Measure | 44 | |
| 4339935706 | Iambie, trochaic, etc | forms of stressed and unstressed | 45 | |
| 4339938847 | Monometer, dimeter, etc | forms of measurements in poetry | 46 | |
| 4339938848 | Monologue | A long speech made by one performer or by one person in a group. | 47 | |
| 4339941595 | Narrative poem | a poem that tells a story | 48 | |
| 4339941596 | Narrator | Person telling the story | 49 | |
| 4339944445 | Nemesis | Enemy | 50 | |
| 4339944446 | Octave | 8 line stanza | 51 | |
| 4339948740 | Onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. | 52 | |
| 4339948741 | Open form | A type of structure or form in poetry characterized by freedom from regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme, line length, metrical pattern, and overall poetic structure. | 53 | |
| 4339950792 | Paradox | A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. | 54 | |
| 4339953171 | Parallelism | Phrases or sentences of a similar construction/meaning placed side by side, balancing each other | 55 | |
| 4339955598 | Pastoral | A work of literature dealing with rural life | 56 | |
| 4339957459 | Petrarchan sonnet | a sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd | 57 | |
| 4339957460 | Plot | Sequence of events in a story | 58 | |
| 4339959973 | Point of view | The perspective from which a story is told | 59 | |
| 4339962305 | Protagonist | Main character | 60 | |
| 4339963810 | Quatrain | A four line stanza | 61 | |
| 4339963811 | Rhyme | Repetition of sounds at the end of words | 62 | |
| 4339966474 | Rhythm | A regularly recurring sequence of events or actions. | 63 | |
| 4339966475 | Satire | A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies. | 64 | |
| 4339975282 | Scansion | Analysis of verse into metrical patterns | 65 | |
| 4339975283 | Sestet | 6 line stanza | 66 | |
| 4339978801 | Shakespearean sonnet | a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg | 67 | |
| 4339978802 | Simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" | 68 | |
| 4339981038 | Soliloquy | A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage | 69 | |
| 4339981039 | Sonnet | 14 line poem | 70 | |
| 4339981040 | Italian | A sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd | 71 | |
| 4339985519 | Shakespearean | a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg | 72 | |
| 4339985520 | Spondee | Stressed, stressed | 73 | |
| 4339987547 | Stanza | A group of lines in a poem | 74 | |
| 4339989280 | Stream of consciousness | a style of writing that portrays the inner (often chaotic) workings of a character's mind. | 75 | |
| 4339989281 | Symbol | A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract. | 76 | |
| 4339991172 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 77 | |
| 4339992519 | Syntax | Sentence structure | 78 | |
| 4339992520 | Tercet | 3 line stanza | 79 | |
| 4339994748 | Terza rima | a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc. | 80 | |
| 4339994749 | Theme | Central idea of a work of literature | 81 | |
| 4339994750 | Tone | A writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization on the sentence and global levels. | 82 | |
| 4339997631 | Tragic flaw | A weakness or limitation of character, resulting in the fall of the tragic hero. | 83 | |
| 4339997632 | Trochee | Stressed, unstressed | 84 | |
| 4339999489 | Villanelle | A 19 line form using only two rhymes and repeating two of the lines according to a set pattern | 85 | |
| 4340001223 | Volta | The potential difference measured in volts. The amount of work to be done to move a charge from one point to another along an electric circuit. | 86 | |
| 4381264882 | Sun | Energy, creativity, thinking, enlightenment, wisodom | 87 | |
| 4381270740 | Red | Love, passion, hate | 88 | |
| 4381273909 | Green | Birth, death, fertility, hope, jealously | 89 | |
| 4381277314 | Blue | Sadness, truth | 90 | |
| 4381278467 | Black | Power, doom, death, darkness, mystery | 91 | |
| 4381285240 | White | Purity, innocence | 92 | |
| 4381305104 | Circle | Unity, forevwr | 93 | |
| 4381306731 | Egg | Mystery of life and the forces of regeneration | 94 | |
| 4381309151 | Snake | Evil, corrupt, wisdom | 95 | |
| 4381311017 | Dark Bird | Death, hate | 96 | |
| 4381313503 | Light Bird | Peace, love, life | 97 | |
| 4381323864 | Three | Unity, spiritual awareness | 98 | |
| 4381326731 | Seven | Luck | 99 | |
| 4381326801 | Four | Cycle of life | 100 |
