3350382674 | Enlightment | Potential of knowledge and reason to understand and change the world | 0 | |
3350382675 | Epic | Tell a story of societies and heros | 1 | |
3350382676 | Epigram | Memorable brief satirical statement | 2 | |
3350382677 | Exposition | Introduce background information about events,settings, characters, etc | 3 | |
3350382678 | Euphemism | Idiomatic expression which loses its literal meaning and refers to something else in order to hide its unpleasantness | 4 | |
3350382679 | Euphony | Use of words and phrases to create loveliness in the sounds they create | 5 | |
3350382680 | Farce | Highly exaggerated and funny situations aimed at entertaining the audience | 6 | |
3350382681 | Foreshadowing | Writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story | 7 | |
3350382682 | Free verse | Doesn't rhyme with fixed forms | 8 | |
3350382683 | Gothic | Mystery and supernatural horror | 9 | |
3350397602 | Colloquialism | Use of informal words | 10 | |
3350399186 | Conceit | Extended metaphor | 11 | |
3350400431 | Connotation | Implied meaning | 12 | |
3350402573 | Denotation | Dictionary meaning | 13 | |
3350406363 | Consonance | Consonant sound is repeated | 14 | |
3350409068 | Couplet | Pair of lines in poem | 15 | |
3350411139 | Dialect | Language used/how you talk | 16 | |
3350415514 | Diction | Choice of words and style | 17 | |
3350417498 | Dramatic monologue | Characters speaks to a silent listener | 18 | |
3350419642 | Elegy | Mournful poem | 19 | |
3350422597 | Enjambment | Moving over from one line to another without a terminating punctuation mark | 20 | |
3350439286 | Assonance | Resemblance of sounds | 21 | |
3350441472 | Asyndeton | Conjunctions are omitted in a series of words | 22 | |
3350444380 | Attitude | Way in which authors approach subject and situations | 23 | |
3350446886 | Ballad | Narrative poem created by a poet in imitation of the old anonymous folk | 24 | |
3350455022 | Bildungsroman | Novel that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of its main characters | 25 | |
3350464355 | Blank verse | A verse that has no rhyme scheme but does have a regular meter | 26 | |
3350468434 | Cacophony | Harsh or discordant sounds | 27 | |
3350471648 | Caricature | Description of a person using exaggeration of some characters and over simplification of others | 28 | |
3350480613 | Chiasmus | Reversing the order of words in the sound of a two parallel phrases | 29 | |
3350485219 | Classicism | Style of writing that consciously emulates the forms and subject matter of classical antiquity | 30 | |
3350514564 | Aesthetics | Literary work dealing with the mind and emotions in relation to the sense of beauty | 31 | |
3350519606 | Allegory | Using materials forms to represent an abstract or spiritual meaning | 32 | |
3350523283 | Alliteration | Same consonant sounds repeated in a sentence or words starting with the same letter multiple times | 33 | |
3350529035 | Allusion | Referencing another literary work in a writing | 34 | |
3350531923 | Anaphora | Using the same combination of words to start sentences in a row | 35 | |
3350536708 | Ancedote | A short story in a writing | 36 | |
3350538328 | Antagonist | A character that does against the main character in writing | 37 | |
3350545221 | Antithesis | Words that are opposite of each other that are next to each other | 38 | |
3350549491 | Apostrophe | When a character of a poem says something to someone who is not there | 39 | |
3350553579 | Archetype | An original work that writers go of on to write their own writing | 40 |
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