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| 2868890614 | Old English | (400-1150) the language of the Anglo-Saxons, a highly inflected language with a largely Germanic vocabulary, very different from Modern English | 0 | |
| 2868892496 | Middle English | (1150-1500) refers to the dialects of the English language spoken in parts of the British Isles after the Norman conquest (1066); more heterogeneous with other languages mixed in (French) | 1 | |
| 2868894283 | Modern English | (1470-now) English language as it has been since about 1500; more heterogenous than Middle English | 2 | |
| 2868894554 | alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words; shared sound at the beginning of the word when words are in close proximity | 3 | |
| 2868897330 | assonance | in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in non-rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible | 4 | |
| 2868898613 | consonance | the recurrence of similar sounds, especially consonants, in close proximity | 5 | |
| 2868899176 | allusion | an implied or indirect reference to a person, event, or thing or to a part of another text | 6 | |
| 2868899598 | personification | attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form | 7 | |
| 2868902491 | anthropomorphism | attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object | 8 | |
| 2868902746 | prose | written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure | 9 | |
| 2868903387 | verse | poetry; writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme | 10 | |
| 2868903656 | literal language | means exactly what it says | 11 | |
| 2868903764 | figurative language | uses metaphors, similes, hyperbole, and personification to describe something often through comparison with something different | 12 | |
| 2868904699 | stanza | a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse | 13 | |
| 2868906547 | line | a single line of words in a poem | 14 | |
| 2868909047 | caesura | (in Greek and Latin verse) a break between words within a metrical foot | 15 | |
| 2868910299 | enjambment | (in verse) the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza | 16 | |
| 3001080352 | theme | central topic a text addresses; not the same as thesis | 17 | |
| 3001084032 | synesthesia | writing technique to present ideas, characters, or places in such a manner that they appeal to more than one senses like hearing, seeing, smell etc. at a given time; jumbling of senses | 18 | |
| 3001086578 | syntax | set of rules in a language that dictates how words from different parts of speech are put together in order to convey a complete thought | 19 | |
| 3001088730 | synecdoche | figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa; steel instead of saying sword | 20 | |
| 3001095624 | metonymy | substitution of the name of an attribute for that of the thing meant, but doesn't literally mean it | 21 | |
| 3001096938 | trope | a figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression; repeated, reusable thing in literature | 22 | |
| 3001098575 | embodiment | representation or expression of something in a tangible or visible form | 23 | |
| 3001099891 | emblem | a physical representation serving as a symbolic representation of a particular quality or concept | 24 | |
| 3001099892 | symbol | a thing that represents or stands for something else | 25 | |
| 3001101707 | metaphor | a thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else; figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable | 26 | |
| 3001103293 | content | all the stuff that goes into a work | 27 | |
| 3001103294 | form | the technical components that hold the work together | 28 | |
| 3001104985 | irony | technique in which the full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character | 29 | |
| 3001106595 | mood | feeling or vibe from a work; what emotion the characters and setting evokes | 30 | |
| 3001106596 | tone | attitude of speaker, narrator, or author in a work, plus the intensity of that attitude | 31 | |
| 3001108544 | narrator | the voice that the author takes on to tell a story; in prose | 32 | |
| 3001110272 | speaker | the person or thing talking at a certain moment; in poetry | 33 |
