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| 4362351321 | Narrvative | A sequence of events that a narrator tells in story form | 0 | |
| 4362351322 | Narrator | A storyteller of any kind | 1 | |
| 4362351323 | Point of view | The perspective that a narrative takes toward the events it describes | 2 | |
| 4362351324 | First-person narration | A narrative in which the narrator tells the story from his/her own point of view and refers to him/herself as I | 3 | |
| 4362351325 | Third-person narration | The narrator remains outside the story and describes the characters in the story using proper banned and third-person pronouns "he," "she," "it," and "they" | 4 | |
| 4362351326 | Omniscient narration | The narrator knows all the actions, feelings, and motivations of all the characters | 5 | |
| 4362351327 | Limited omniscient narration | The narrator knows the actions, feelings, and motivations of only one or a handful of characters | 6 | |
| 4362351328 | Free indirect discourse | The narrator conveys a character's inner thoughts while staying in third person | 7 | |
| 4362351329 | Objective narration | A style in which the narrator reports neutrally on the outward behavior of the charades but offers no interpretation of their actions or inner states | 8 | |
| 4362351330 | Unreliable narration | The narrator is revealed over time to be an untrustworthy source of information | 9 | |
| 4362351331 | Stream-of-consciousness narration | The narrator conveys a subject's thoughts, impressions, and perceptions exactly as they occur, often in a disjointed fashion and without the logic and grammar of typical speech and writing | 10 | |
| 4362351332 | Character | A person, animal, or any other thing with a personality that appears in a story | 11 | |
| 4362351333 | Protagonist | The main character around whom the story revolves | 12 | |
| 4362351334 | Hero/heroine | An admirable protagonist | 13 | |
| 4362351335 | Antihero/antiheroine | A non admirable protagonist | 14 | |
| 4362351336 | Antagonist | The primary character or entity that acts to frustrate the goals of the protagonist | 15 | |
| 4362351337 | Stock character | A common character type that recurs throughout literature | 16 | |
| 4362351338 | Archetype | A stock character that holds a central place in a culture's folklore or consciousness | 17 | |
| 4362351339 | Foil | A character who illuminates the qualities of another character by means of contrast | 18 | |
| 4362351340 | Plot | The arrangement of events in a story, including sequences they are told in, the relative emphasis they're given, and causal connections between events | 19 | |
| 4362351341 | Conflict | The central struggle that moves the plot forward | 20 | |
| 4362351342 | Rising action | The early part of the narrative which builds momentum and develops the narrative's major conflict | 21 | |
| 4362351343 | Climax | The moment of highest tension when the conflict comes to a head | 22 | |
| 4362351344 | Falling action/denouement | The latter part of the narrative during which the protagonist responds to the events of the climax and various plot elements introduced in the rising action | 23 | |
| 4362351345 | Reversal/peripeteia | A sudden shift that sends the protagonist's fortunes from good to bad or vice versa | 24 | |
| 4362351346 | Resolution | An ending that satisfactorily answers all the questions raised over the course of the plot | 25 | |
| 4362351347 | Chronological plot | Events arranged in the sequence which they occur | 26 | |
| 4362351348 | Archronological plot | Events are not arranged in the sequence they occur | 27 | |
| 4362351349 | Climactic plot | All the actions focuses toward a single climax | 28 | |
| 4362351350 | Episodic plot | A series of loosely connected events | 29 | |
| 4362351351 | Non sequitur plot | Presents events without any clear sequence and characters without any clear motivations | 30 | |
| 4362351352 | Subplot | Less importance to the overall story but may serve as a point of contrast or comparison to the main plot | 31 | |
| 4362351353 | Setting | Location of a narrative in time and space | 32 | |
| 4362351354 | Atmosphere | Suggestive mood that the setting may create | 33 | |
| 4362351355 | Figures of speech | Stretch words beyond literal meanings | 34 | |
| 4362351356 | Aposiopesis | A breaking off of speech because of rising emotion | 35 | |
| 4362351357 | Apostrophe | A direct address to an absent or dead person or to an object, quality or idea | 36 | |
| 4362351358 | Assonance | Repetition of similar vowel sounds | 37 | |
| 4362351359 | Cacophony | Clash of discordant or harsh sounds within a sentence or phrase | 38 | |
| 4362351360 | Chiasmus | Two phrases in which the syntax is the same but placement of words is reversed "whom I love, I love indeed" | 39 | |
| 4362351361 | Colloquialism | Informal expression or slang | 40 | |
| 4362351362 | Conceit | Parallel between two seemingly dissimilar objects or ideas | 41 | |
| 4362351363 | Epithet | Phrase that describes a prominent feature of a person or thing | 42 | |
| 4362351364 | Euphony | Pleading arrangement of sounds | 43 | |
| 4362351365 | Idiom | A common phrase whose meaning that differs from its literal meaning | 44 | |
| 4362351366 | Litotes | A statement is affirmed by its negating opposite (double negative) | 45 | |
| 4362351367 | Meiosis | Opposite of hyperbole | 46 | |
| 4362351368 | Metonymy | Substitute of one term for another that generally is associated with it. "Suits" instead of "businessmen" | 47 | |
| 4362351369 | Paradox | A statement that seems absurd or contradictory on its face but expresses a deeper truth | 48 | |
| 4362351370 | Paralipsis | Drawing attention to something by claiming not to mention it | 49 | |
| 4362351537 | Parallelism | Use of similar grammatical structures or word order to suggest a comparison or contrast | 50 | |
| 4362351538 | Pathetic faliacy | Human feeling or motivation to nonhuman object | 51 | |
| 4362351539 | Periphrasis | Elaborate manner of speech that uses more words than necessary | 52 | |
| 4362351540 | Pun | Play on words that exploits similarity in sound | 53 | |
| 4362351541 | Synaesthesia | Use one kind of sensory imagery to describe another | 54 | |
| 4362351542 | Synecdoche | Part of a whole "my wheels" to "my car" | 55 | |
| 4362351543 | Trope | Extend meanings of words by inviting a comparison to other words | 56 | |
| 4362351544 | Zeugma | Use of one word to modify two words in the sentence typically in two different ways | 57 | |
| 4362351545 | Anagnorisis | A moment of recognition or discovery | 58 | |
| 4362351546 | Bathos | Sudden drop from lofty to the trivial or excessively sentimental | 59 | |
| 4362351547 | Deus ex machina | Improbable plot twist that brings about a resolution | 60 | |
| 4362351548 | Invocation | A prayer for inspiration to a god or muse | 61 | |
| 4362351549 | Verbal irony | Sarcasm | 62 | |
| 4362351550 | Situational irony | One understanding of a situation stands in sharp contrast to another | 63 | |
| 4362351551 | Romantic irony | Author's reminding of his or her presence in the work | 64 | |
| 4362351552 | Dramatic irony | Reader knows something the character does not | 65 | |
| 4362351553 | Cosmic irony | Perception of fate or the universe as malicious or indifferent | 66 | |
| 4362351554 | Pathos | Invokes high emotion | 67 | |
| 4362351555 | Poetic diction | Use of uncommon phrases | 68 | |
| 4362351556 | Poetic license | Liberty authors take with syntax and grammar | 69 | |
| 4362351557 | Emblem | Concrete object representing something abstract; differs from symbol because it is a fixed object | 70 | |
| 4362351558 | Motif | Recurring structure that develops a work's major themes | 71 | |
| 4362351559 | Prosody | Study of elements of poetry | 72 | |
| 4362351560 | Accentuate meter | Number of stressed syllables is fixed but total number is not | 73 | |
| 4362351561 | Syllabic meter | Number of total fixed, stressed is not | 74 | |
| 4362351562 | Accuentual-syllabic meter | Both total and number of stressed syllables are fixed | 75 | |
| 4362351563 | Quantitative meter | Duration of each sound syllable determines meter | 76 | |
| 4362351564 | Caesura | Grand pause | 77 | |
| 4362351565 | Scansion | Process of analyzing number and type of feet | 78 | |
| 4362351566 | Iamb | Unstressed followed by stressed | 79 | |
| 4362351567 | Trochee | A stressed followed by unstressed | 80 | |
| 4362351568 | Dactyl | One stressed followed by two unstressed | 81 | |
| 4362351569 | Anapest | Two unstressed follow by a stressed | 82 | |
| 4362351570 | Spondee | Two strongly stressed | 83 | |
| 4362351571 | Pyrrhic | Two lightly stressed | 84 | |
| 4362351572 | Blank verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter | 85 | |
| 4362351573 | Ballad | Alternating tetrameter and trimeter, usually iambic and rhyming | 86 | |
| 4362351574 | Masculine rhyme | Single stressed syllable rhyme "man" and "can" | 87 | |
| 4362351575 | Feminine rhyme | A rhyme consisting of a stressed followed by an unstressed "mother" and "brother" | 88 | |
| 4362351576 | Couplet | Two successive rhymed lines equal in length | 89 | |
| 4362351577 | Quatrain | Four line stanza | 90 | |
| 4362351578 | Tercet | A group of 3 lines often with a single rhyme | 91 | |
| 4362351579 | Terza rima | Interlaced tercets linked by rhymes | 92 | |
| 4362351580 | End stopped | Punctuation at end of line | 93 | |
| 4362351581 | Enjambment | Sentence runs into the next line with no pause | 94 | |
| 4362351582 | Refrain | A group of lines repeated at significant moments | 95 | |
| 4362351583 | Haiku | 5 7 5 | 96 | |
| 4362351584 | Limerick | Fanciful 5 line poem with AABBA rhyme scheme; lines 1, 2, and 5 have 3 feet and lines 3 and 4 have two feet | 97 | |
| 4362351585 | Ottava rima | Eight line stanza with iambic pentameter and rhyme scheme ABABABCC | 98 | |
| 4362351586 | Sestina | Six 6 line stanzas followed by a 3 line stanza | 99 | |
| 4362351708 | Sonnet | Fourteen lines of iambic pentameter | 100 | |
| 4362351709 | Italian or Petrarchan sonnet | ABBAABBACDECDE or ABBACDDCCDCCDC | 101 | |
| 4362351710 | Shakespearean sonnet | Three quatrains and a couplet ABAB CDCD EFEF GG | 102 | |
| 4362351711 | Spenserian sonnet | ABAB BCBC CDCD EE | 103 | |
| 4362351712 | Villanelle | 19 line poem made of 5 tercets and a quatrain and uses two refrains | 104 | |
| 4375663089 | Allegory | Literal meaning corresponds directly to symbolic meaning | 105 | |
| 4375663090 | Aphorism | Concise expression of insight or wisdom | 106 | |
| 4375663091 | Black comedy | Disturbing or absurd material presented in a humorous manner intended to confront uncomfortable truths | 107 | |
| 4375663092 | Burlesque | Humorous imitation of serious literature | 108 | |
| 4375663093 | Confessional poetry | Author discusses personal subject frankly | 109 | |
| 4375663094 | Didactic literature | Intended to instruct | 110 | |
| 4375663095 | Dirge | Short poem of grief | 111 | |
| 4375663096 | Eclogue | Short pastoral poem in the form of a soliloquy or between two shepherds | 112 | |
| 4375663097 | Elegy | Poem that laments death of another | 113 | |
| 4375663098 | Epigram | Witty statement often in verse | 114 | |
| 4375663099 | Fable | Short prose that illustrates a moral | 115 | |
| 4375663100 | Lyric | Short poetic composition that describes thoughts of a single speaker | 116 | |
| 4375663101 | Metafiction | Fiction that concerns the nature of fiction itself | 117 | |
| 4375663102 | Noir | Cynical, disillusioned, loner protagonist | 118 | |
| 4375663103 | Bildungsroman | A novel about development into maturity | 119 | |
| 4375663104 | Epistolary novel | Novel written in the form of letters | 120 | |
| 4375663105 | Picaresque novel | A realistic novel detailing a scoundrel's exploits | 121 | |
| 4375663106 | Verse novel | Full length novel written in verse | 122 | |
| 4375663107 | Ode | A serious lyric poem | 123 | |
| 4375663108 | Parable | Short narrative that illustrates a moral with allegory | 124 | |
| 4375663109 | Pastiche | Work that imitates another author or work | 125 | |
| 4375663110 | Pastoral | Celebration of life of shepherds and rustic life | 126 | |
| 4375663111 | Farce | A high energy comedy play on confusions and deceptions and it's fast paced | 127 | |
| 4375663112 | Prose poem | Strong rhythms like free verse but written in form of prose | 128 | |
| 4375663113 | Romance | Nonrealistic story about idealized characters | 129 | |
| 4375663114 | Satire | A work that exposes to ridicule the shortcomings of others | 130 |
