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| 2580763670 | terza rima | a verse form consisting of three-line stanzas in which the second line of each rhymes with the first and third of the next | 0 | |
| 2580763671 | rhythm | the modulation of weak and strong (stressed and unstressed) elements in the flow of speech | 1 | |
| 2580765549 | paradox | a statement that seems contradictory but may actually be true | 2 | |
| 2580765550 | sestina | a highly structured poem consisting of six six-line stanzas followed by a tercet; the same set of six words ends the lines of each of the six-line stanzas, but in a different order each time | 3 | |
| 2580766861 | tragedy | a drama in which a character, usually of noble or high rank, is brought to a disastrous end in confrontation with a superior force | 4 | |
| 2580767746 | setting | the time and place of the action in a story, poem, or play | 5 | |
| 2580767747 | Petrachan sonnet | a sonnet form divided into an octave and a sestet; also called an Italian sonnet | 6 | |
| 2580769067 | symbolism | a person, place, thing, event, or pattern in a literary work that designates itself and at the same time figuratively represents something else | 7 | |
| 2580769068 | speaker | the person, not necessarily the author, who is the voice of the poem | 8 | |
| 2580770041 | onomatopoeia | a work capturing the sound of what it describes | 9 | |
| 2580771204 | Shakespearean sonnet | a sonnet form divided into three quatrains and one couplet; also called an English sonnet | 10 | |
| 2580771205 | personification | treating an abstraction or nonhuman object as if it were a person by endowing it with human qualities | 11 | |
| 2580772666 | assonance | repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, usually those found in stressed syllables of close proximity | 12 | |
| 2580772667 | protagonist | the main character in a work who may or may not be heroic | 13 | |
| 2580774112 | solioquy | the character in a play is alone and speaking only to himself or herself | 14 | |
| 2580776221 | simile | a direct, explicit comparison of two things, usually using like or as to draw the connection | 15 | |
| 2580778081 | rhyme | the repetition of the same or similar sounds, most often at the ends of lines | 16 | |
| 2580778082 | quatrain | a poetic stanza of four lines | 17 | |
| 2580778833 | refrain | a repeated stanza or line(s) in a poem or song | 18 | |
| 2580778834 | archetype | recurrent designs, patterns of action, character types, themes, or images which are identifiable in a wide range of literature | 19 | |
| 2580780011 | persona | the voice or figure of the author who tells and structures the story and who may or may not share the values of the actual author | 20 | |
| 2580780012 | parallel structure | the use of similar forms in writing for nouns, verbs, phrases, or thoughts; maintains balance and symmetry | 21 | |
| 2580781165 | structure | the organization or arrangement of the various elements in a work | 22 | |
| 2580781166 | ancedote | a brief story or tale told by a character in a piece of literature | 23 | |
| 2580783230 | juxtaposition | the location of one thing as being adjacent with another; this placement of two items side by side creates a certain effect, reveals an attitude, or accomplishes some purpose of the writer | 24 | |
| 2580783231 | realism | the practice in literature of attempting to describe nature and life without idealization and with attention to detail | 25 | |
| 2580785070 | parable | a short fiction that illustrates an explicit moral lesson through the use of analogy | 26 | |
| 2580785071 | oxymoron | a figure of speech that combines two apparently contradictory elements, sometimes resulting in a humorous image or statement | 27 | |
| 2580786140 | omniscient | also called unlimited focus; a perspective that can be seen from multiple characters | 28 | |
| 2580786938 | connotation | what is suggested by a word, apart from what it explictly describes | 29 | |
| 2580788524 | narrator | the character who tells the story | 30 | |
| 2580788525 | narrative structure | a textual organization based on sequences of connected events, usually presented in a straightforward, chronological framework | 31 | |
| 2580789989 | tone | the attitude a literary work takes toward its subject and theme | 32 | |
| 2580789990 | allegory | a prose or poetic narrative in which the characters, behavior, and even the setting demonstrates multiple levels of meaning and significance; often is a universal symbol or personified abstraction | 33 | |
| 2580791281 | villanelle | a verse form consisting of nineteen lines divided into six stanzas- five tercets and one quatrain; the first and third line of the first tercet rhyme, and this rhyme is repeated through each of the next four tercets and in the last two lines of the concluding quatrain | 34 | |
| 2580792589 | metaphor | one thing pictured as if it were something else, suggesting a likeness or analogy between them; an implicit comparison of two unlike things | 35 | |
| 2580792590 | mood | a feeling or ambiance resulting from the tone of a piece as well as the writer/narrator's attitude and point of view | 36 | |
| 2580793751 | consonance | the repetition of a sequence of two or more consonants, but with a change in the intervening vowels | 37 | |
| 2580793752 | lyric | any short poem in which the speaker expresses intense personal emotion rather than desciribing a narrative or dramatic situation; a sonnet and ode are two examples | 38 | |
| 2580795270 | irony | a situation or statement characterized by a significant difference between what is expected or understood and what actually happens or is meant | 39 | |
| 2580795271 | informal diction | language that is not as lofty or impersonal as formal diction; similar to everyday speech | 40 | |
| 2580796866 | imagery | broadly defined, any sensory detail or evocation in a work; more narrowly, the use of figurative language to evoke a feeling, to call to mind an idea, or to describe an object | 41 | |
| 2580796867 | dramatic monologue | also, a soliloquy; a monologue set in a specific situation and spoken to an imaginary audience | 42 | |
| 2580798254 | motif | a recurrent device, formula, or situation that often serves as a signal for the appearance of a character or event | 43 | |
| 2580798255 | conceit | a comparison of two unlikely things that is drawn out within a piece of literature; in particular, an extended metaphor within a poem | 44 | |
| 2580799173 | iambic | a metrical foot in poetry that consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable | 45 | |
| 2580799995 | hyperbole | overstatement characterized by exaggerated language | 46 | |
| 2580799996 | genre | a type or class of literature such as epic or narrative or poetry | 47 | |
| 2580801163 | free verse | poetry that is characterized by varying line lengths, lack of traditional meter, and non-rhyming lines | 48 | |
| 2580801164 | style | a distinctive manner of expression expressed through an author's diction, rhythm, imagery, and more | 49 | |
| 2580803595 | alliteration | the sequential repetition of similar initial sound, usually applied to consonants, usually heard in closely proximate stressed syllables | 50 | |
| 2580805022 | satire | a literary work that holds up human failing to ridicule | 51 | |
| 2580805023 | exposition | that part of the structure of a plot that sets the scene, introduces and identifies characters, and establishes the situation at the beginning of a story or play | 52 | |
| 2580806163 | formal diction | language that is lofty, dignified, and impersonal | 53 | |
| 2580806164 | in-medis-res | refers to opening a story in the middle of the action, necessitating filing in past details by exposition or flashback; literally, "in the midst of things" | 54 | |
| 2580807619 | farce | a play or scene in a play or book that is characterized by broad humor, wild antics, and often slapstick and physical humor | 55 | |
| 2580807620 | extended metaphor | a detailed and complex metaphor that extends over a long section of a work; also called a conceit | 56 | |
| 2580808973 | allusion | a reference to a literary or historical event, person, or place | 57 | |
| 2580808974 | epic | a poem that celebrates, in a continuou narrative, the achievements of mighty heroes and heroines, often concerned with the founding of a nation or developing of a culture | 58 | |
| 2580810180 | elegy | a poetic lament upon the death of a particular person, usually ending in consolation | 59 | |
| 2580810181 | flashback | retrospection, where an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronology of the narrative | 60 | |
| 2580811142 | syntax | the way words are put together to form phrases, clauses, and sentences | 61 | |
| 2580811143 | diction | the specific word choice an author uses to persuade or convey tone, purpose, or effect | 62 | |
| 2580812666 | synechdoche | the language and speech idiosyncrasies of a specific area, region, or group of people | 63 | |
| 2580812667 | dialect | the language and speech idiosyncrasies of a specific area, region, or group of people | 64 | |
| 2580814013 | couplet | two rhyming lines of iambic pentameter that together present a single idea or connection | 65 | |
| 2580814916 | theme | the dominant abstract idea or concern of a work | 66 | |
| 2580814917 | colloquial | ordinary language, the vernacular | 67 | |
| 2580816483 | antagonist | any force that is in opposition to the main character | 68 | |
| 2580816484 | caesura | pause in a line of verse, indicated by natural speech patterns rather than due to specific metrical patterns | 69 | |
| 2580817942 | blank verse | the verse form consisting of unrhymed lines in iambic pentameter | 70 | |
| 2580817943 | denotation | a direct and specific meaning, often dictionary | 71 | |
| 2580819250 | apostrophe | an address or invocation to something that is inanimate | 72 | |
| 2580819251 | antithesis | the juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel words, phrases, grammatical structure, or ideas | 73 | |
| 2580820983 | ode | a lyric poem that is somewhat serious in subject and treatment, elevated in style and sometimes uses elaborate stanza structure, which is often patterned in sets of three | 74 | |
| 2580820984 | pastoral | a work that describes the simple life of country folk who live in a timeless, painless life in a world full of beauty, music and love; bucolic, idyll | 75 | |
| 2580824729 | enjambment | the continuation of a sentence from one line of a poem to the next | 76 | |
| 2580824730 | foreshadowing | to hint at or to present an indication of the future beforehand | 77 |
