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| 7220197444 | Allegory | A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one | 0 | |
| 7220197445 | Alliteration | the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words | 1 | |
| 7220197446 | Allusion | an indirect reference | 2 | |
| 7220197447 | Anachronism | something out of place in time | 3 | |
| 7220197448 | Analogy | A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them. | 4 | |
| 7220197449 | Anecdote | a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person | 5 | |
| 7220197450 | Antecedent | a thing or event that existed before or logically precedes another | 6 | |
| 7220197451 | Anthropomorphism | the attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object. | 7 | |
| 7220197452 | Anticlimax | a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events | 8 | |
| 7220197453 | Antihero | a central character in a story, movie, or drama who lacks conventional heroic attributes. | 9 | |
| 7220197454 | Aphorism | a short, pithy statement of a generally accepted truth or sentiment | 10 | |
| 7220197455 | Apostrophe | A locution that addresses a person or personified thing not present. | 11 | |
| 7220197456 | Aside | A short remark or set of lines that are spoken by a character directly to the audience | 12 | |
| 7220197457 | Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds | 13 | |
| 7220197458 | Ballad | a songlike narrative about an adventure or a romance | 14 | |
| 7220197459 | Cacophony | A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds | 15 | |
| 7220197460 | Cadence | a modulation or inflection of the voice | 16 | |
| 7220197461 | Catharsis | a release of emotional tension | 17 | |
| 7220197462 | Colloquialism | the use of informal words, phrases or even slang in a piece of writing. | 18 | |
| 7220197463 | Conceit | A fanciful, particularly clever extended metaphor | 19 | |
| 7220197464 | Connotation | an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning. | 20 | |
| 7220197465 | Consonance | agreement or compatibility between opinions or actions. | 21 | |
| 7220197466 | Denotation | The dictionary definition of a word | 22 | |
| 7220197467 | Diction | word choice | 23 | |
| 7220197468 | Dissonance | discord; lack of harmony | 24 | |
| 7220197469 | dramatic irony | when the audience knows something the characters do not | 25 | |
| 7220197470 | dramatic monologue | A type of poem in which a speaker addresses a silent listener | 26 | |
| 7220197471 | Elegy | a sad or mournful poem | 27 | |
| 7220197472 | Enjambment | the continuation of a sentence or clause over a line-break | 28 | |
| 7220197473 | Epic | a long poem that records the deeds of a legendary or real hero | 29 | |
| 7220197474 | epitaph | a brief statement written on a tomb or gravestone | 30 | |
| 7220197475 | Euphemism | An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant | 31 | |
| 7220197476 | Euphony | pleasant, harmonious sound | 32 | |
| 7220197477 | Foot | a group of syllables forming a unit of verse - the basic unit of 'meter' | 33 | |
| 7220197478 | free verse | poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter. | 34 | |
| 7220197479 | Hubris | Excessive pride or self-confidence | 35 | |
| 7220197480 | Hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. | 36 | |
| 7220197481 | in medias res | in or into the middle of a plot; into the middle of things | 37 | |
| 7220197482 | Inversion | the action of inverting something or the state of being inverted. | 38 | |
| 7220197483 | Irony | the use of words to express something other than the literal meaning | 39 | |
| 7220197484 | Metaphor | a figure of speech that compares unlike objects | 40 | |
| 7220197485 | Metonymy | substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it | 41 | |
| 7220197486 | Motif | a distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition | 42 | |
| 7220197487 | Onomatopoeia | the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named | 43 | |
| 7220197488 | Opposition | resistance or dissent, expressed in action or argument. | 44 | |
| 7220197489 | Oxymoron | a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction | 45 | |
| 7220197490 | Parable | A simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson | 46 | |
| 7220197491 | Paradox | a contradiction or dilemma | 47 | |
| 7220197492 | Parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 48 | |
| 7220197493 | Parody | a work which imitates another in a ridiculous manner | 49 | |
| 7220197494 | Pastoral | A work of literature dealing with rural life | 50 | |
| 7220197495 | Personification | Attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or idea | 51 | |
| 7220197496 | point of view | The perspective from which a story is told | 52 | |
| 7220197497 | Refrain | stop oneself from doing something | 53 | |
| 7220197498 | Requiem | A song of prayer for the dead. | 54 | |
| 7220197499 | Rhapsody | Speech or writing expressing great pleasure or enthusiasm | 55 | |
| 7220197500 | Satire | using humor to expose something or someone to ridicule | 56 | |
| 7220197501 | Simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" | 57 | |
| 7220197502 | Soliloquy | A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage | 58 | |
| 7220197503 | stream of consciousness | a person's thoughts and conscious reactions to events, perceived as a continuous flow | 59 | |
| 7220197504 | Symbolism | the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities | 60 | |
| 7220197505 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 61 | |
| 7220197506 | Theme | the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic. | 62 | |
| 7220197507 | tragic flaw | It is the force that causes the downfall of the hero | 63 | |
| 7220197508 | unreliable narrator | a narrator whose credibility has been seriously compromised | 64 |
