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| 4741844193 | allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. | 0 | |
| 4741844194 | alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. | 1 | |
| 4741844195 | allusion | an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference. | 2 | |
| 4741844196 | antagonist | a person or a group of people who opposes a protagonist. | 3 | |
| 4741844197 | assonance | in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible (e.g., penitence, reticence ). | 4 | |
| 4741844198 | audience | the assembled spectators or listeners at a public event, such as a play, movie, concert, or meeting | 5 | |
| 4741844199 | climax | the most intense, exciting, or important point of something; a culmination or apex. | 6 | |
| 4741844200 | connotation | an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning. | 7 | |
| 4741844201 | consonance | agreement or compatibility between opinions or actions. | 8 | |
| 4741844202 | couplet | two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit. | 9 | |
| 4741844203 | denotation | the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the | 10 | |
| 4741844204 | diction | the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing. | 11 | |
| 4741844205 | epic | a long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures or the history of a nation. | 12 | |
| 4741844206 | exposition | a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory. | 13 | |
| 4741844207 | figurative language | language that uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation. When a writer uses literal language, he or she is simply stating the facts as they are. | 14 | |
| 4741844208 | first person | person narrative is a point of view (who is telling a story) where the story is narrated by one character at a time. This character may be speaking about him or herself or sharing events that he or she is experiencing.Jun 29, 2015 | 15 | |
| 4741844209 | foil | In fiction, a foil is a character who contrasts with another character (usually the protagonist) in order to highlight particular qualities of the other character. In some cases, a subplot can be used as a foil to the main plot. | 16 | |
| 4741844210 | foreshadowing | be a warning or indication of (a future event). | 17 | |
| 4741844211 | free verse | poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter | 18 | |
| 4741844212 | hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally | 19 | |
| 4741844213 | iambic pentameter | line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable, for example Two households, both alike in dignity. | 20 | |
| 4741844214 | imagery | visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work. | 21 | |
| 4741844215 | irony | a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result | 22 | |
| 4741844216 | litotes | ironical understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary (e.g., you won't be sorry, meaning you'll be glad ). | 23 | |
| 4741844217 | metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. | 24 | |
| 4741844218 | narrator | a person who narrates something, especially a character who recounts the events of a novel or narrative poem | 25 | |
| 4741844219 | omniscient | Definition: Third person omniscient is a method of storytelling in which the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in the story, as opposed to third person limited, which adheres closely to one character's perspective. | 26 | |
| 4741844220 | oxymoron | a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g., faith unfaithful kept him falsely true ) | 27 | |
| 4741844221 | paradox | a statement or proposition that, despite sound (or apparently sound) reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory | 28 | |
| 4741844222 | parody | an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect. | 29 | |
| 4741844223 | persona | the aspect of someone's character that is presented to or perceived by others | 30 | |
| 4741844224 | personification | the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form. | 31 | |
| 4741844225 | plot | plan made in secret by a group of people to do something illegal or harmful | 32 | |
| 4741844226 | point of view | (in fictional writing) the narrator's position in relation to the story being told. | 33 | |
| 4741844227 | protagonist | the leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text. the main figure or one of the most prominent figures in a real situation. | 34 | |
| 4741844228 | purpose | the reason for which something is done or created or for which something exists. | 35 | |
| 4741844229 | resolution | Definition: Resolution is the part of the story's plot line in which the problem of the story is resolved or worked out. This occurs after the falling action and is typically where the story ends. | 36 | |
| 4741844230 | rhyme | correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry. | 37 | |
| 4741844231 | rhythm | a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound. | 38 | |
| 4741844232 | romantic | movement originating in the 18th century, characterized chiefly by a reaction against neoclassicism and an emphasis on the imagination and emotions, and marked especially in English literature by sensibility and the use of autobiographical material, an ... | 39 | |
| 4741844233 | satire | the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. | 40 | |
| 4741844234 | simile | form of comparison-using like or as typically | 41 | |
| 4741844235 | soliloquy | an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play | 42 | |
| 4741844236 | speaker | In poetry, the speaker is the voice behind the poem—the person we imagine to be saying the thing out loud. | 43 | |
| 4741844237 | stream of consciousness | a literary style in which a character's thoughts, feelings, and reactions are depicted in a continuous flow uninterrupted by objective description or conventional dialogue. James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Marcel Proust are among its notable early exponents. | 44 | |
| 4741844238 | symbol | thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract | 45 | |
| 4741844239 | syntax | the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language | 46 | |
| 4741844240 | theme | theme is the central topic a text treats. Themes can be divided into two categories: a work's thematic concept is what readers "think the work is about" and its thematic statement being "what the work says about the subject". | 47 | |
| 4741844241 | tone | in written composition, is an attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience. Tone is generally conveyed through the choice of words or the viewpoint of a writer on a particular subject. | 48 | |
| 4741844242 | unreliable narrator | An unreliable narrator is a narrator, whether in literature, film, or theatre, whose credibility has been seriously compromised. The term was coined in 1961 by Wayne C. Booth in The Rhetoric of Fiction. | 49 |
