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| 4756196250 | Anachronism | an event, object, custom, person or thing that is out of order of time or misplaced in time. Example " A clock strikes Julius Caesar" | 0 | |
| 4756200767 | Anadiplosis | the repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause. Example " Aboard my ship, excellent performance is standard. Standard performance is sub-standard." | 1 | |
| 4756206587 | Antimetabole/Chiasmus | the repetition of words, in clauses, in reverse grammatical order. Example " Mankind must put an end to war - or war will put an end to mankind." | 2 | |
| 4756213377 | Antithesis | establishing a contrasting relationship between two ideas by joining them together or juxtaposing them. Example " That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. " | 3 | |
| 4756223476 | Apologia | a defense or justification for some doctrine, piece of writing, cause, or action: also an apology. | 4 | |
| 4756226394 | Aposiopesis | stopping abruptly and leaving a statement unfinished. Example " Such a kid..." He repeats it. " young innocents..." | 5 | |
| 4756229788 | Apostrophe | a figure of speech in which an absent or dead person, an abstract quality, or something inanimate or nonhuman is addressed directly. Its most common purpose in prose is to give vent to or display intense emotion, which can no longer be held back. Example " O dark, musty platoon huts, with the iron bedsteads, the checkered bedding, the lockers and the stools! Even you can become the object of desire..." | 6 | |
| 4756246570 | Assonance | the repetition of similar vowel sounds in neighboring words. Example " Old King Cole was marry old soul. " | 7 | |
| 4756248206 | Asyndeton | the use of short and choppy sentences in direct contrast with long drawn out sentences to reinforce tone. ( Also involve listing without using conjunctions) Example " We will make ourselves comfortable and sleep, and eat as much as we can stuff into our bellies, and drink and smoke so that hours are not wasted. Life is short." | 8 | |
| 4756254439 | Caesura | a pause in a line or verse, break in a sentence or clause. Sometimes indicated with a slash(/) in the the middle of a poetic line. Or sometimes just an extra space. | 9 | |
| 4756258521 | Circumlocution | a roundabout or evasive speech or writing, in which many words are used but a few would have served. Example: when politicians avoid a question by changing the subject. | 10 | |
| 4756263559 | Conceit | a far-fetched metaphor presenting surprising parallels between two dissimilar things. When the image dominates and shapes the entire work, it is called controlling image. | 11 | |
| 4756267372 | Consonance | the repetition of identical or similar consonants whose vowel sounds are different. Example " A flock of sick, black-checkered ducks" the repetition of "ck" sound." | 12 | |
| 4756272812 | Denouement | loose ends tied up in a story after the climax, closure, conclusion. | 13 | |
| 4756276442 | Dialectics | formal debates usually over the nature of truth. | 14 | |
| 4756279398 | Dichotomy | split or break between two opposing things. | 15 | |
| 4756286122 | Dirge | funeral song of lamentation; short lyric of mourning. | 16 | |
| 4756287003 | Elegy | a mournful, melancholy poem, especially a funeral song or lament for the dead, sometimes contains general reflections on death, often with a rural or pastoral setting. | 17 | |
| 4756295741 | Enjambment | in poetry, the running over of a sentence from one verse or stanza into the next without stopping. When the sentence of meaning does stop at the end of the line it is called// END STOPPED LINE | 18 | |
| 4756308956 | Epigram | witty aphorism. Example " she knows the cost of everything, but the value of nothing." | 19 | |
| 4756308957 | Epigraph | the use of a quotation at the beginning of a work that hints at a theme. | 20 | |
| 4756308958 | Epistolary | a novel written in form of correspondence between two characters. Any novel that takes the form of a series of letters- either written by one character or several characters. The form allows an author to dispense with an omniscient point of view, but still switch between the viewpoints of several characters during the narrative. | 21 | |
| 4756316220 | Epitaph | any brief inscription in prose or verse on a tombstone; a short formal poem of commemoration often a credo written by the person who wishes it to be on his tombstone. | 22 | |
| 4756320666 | Euphemism | the use of an indirect, mild or vague word or expression for one thought to be coarse, offensive, or blunt. Example " Passed away for died." | 23 | |
| 4756323089 | Euphony | pleasing soothe of sounds and words spoken. Example " The very winds whispered in soothing accents... " | 24 | |
| 4756324651 | Evocative | a calling forth of memories and sensations; the suggestion or production through artistry and imagination of a sense of reality. | 25 | |
| 4756326902 | Exposition | beginning of a story that sets forth facts, ideas, and/or characters, in a detailed explanation. | 26 | |
| 4756329216 | Farce | a boisterous comedy involving ludicrous action and dialogue. | 27 | |
| 4756330958 | Foil | a person or thing that, by contrast, makes another seem better or more prominent. | 28 | |
| 4756337147 | Incongruity | the deliberate joining of opposites or of elements that are not appropriate to each other, paradox, dichotomy. Example John and Lenina in Huxley's Brave New World. | 29 | |
| 4756340235 | In Media Res | " in the middle of things " a story begins in middle and flashbacks are used to fill in character, plot details. | 30 | |
| 4756342406 | Juxtaposition | the intentional placement of a word, phrase, sentences of paragraph to contrast with another nearby. | 31 | |
| 4756345506 | Litotes | an affirmation made indirectly by stating the opposite, usually with an effect of understatement. Example " I'd not be averse to a drink, not bad at all, you know, Einstein is not a bad mathematician. " | 32 | |
| 4756354944 | Magic(al) Realism | a genre developed in Latin America which juxtaposes the everyday with the marvelous or magical. | 33 | |
| 4756356984 | Metonymy | the technique of substituting a word for an object closely associated with it. Gives an abstract idea a concrete identity. Example " Pay tribute to the crown." " The White House has decided. " ( Met Life) | 34 | |
| 4756363593 | Mode of Discourse | argument (persuasion), narration, description, and exposition. | 35 | |
| 4756368546 | Motif | a recurring feature (name, image, or phrase) in a piece of literature. | 36 | |
| 4756370301 | Novelette/Novella | short story; short prose narrative, often satirical. | 37 | |
| 4756372312 | Omniscient Point of view | knowing all things, usually the third person. | 38 | |
| 4756374068 | Oxymoron | a figure of speech in which two contradicting words or phrases are combined to produce a rhetorical effect by means of a concise paradox | 39 | |
| 4756377408 | Paradox | a statement apparently self-contradictory or absurd but really containing a possible truth; an opinion contrary to generally accepted ideas. Example " Art is a form of lying in order to tell the truth." | 40 | |
| 4756383496 | Pedantry | a display of learning for its own sake. | 41 | |
| 4756384655 | Periodic Structure | a sentence in which the main clause ( and main idea) closes the sentence. Example " The proper place in the sentence for the word or group of words that the writer desires to make most prominent is usually the end." | 42 | |
| 4756393511 | Picaresque Novel | a novel with principal character who is a low born rogue who lives with his/her wits and who gets into one predicament after another. The genre has also heavily influenced episodic humorous novels. Example Don Quixote | 43 | |
| 4756399926 | Poignant | eliciting sorrow or sentiment. | 44 | |
| 4756402592 | Polysyndeton | stringing together several successive phrases with conjunctions or pronouns. Example " We have not power, nor influence , nor money, nor authority, but a willingness to persevere, and the hope that we shall conquer soon." | 45 | |
| 4756449070 | Requiem | any chant, dirge, hymn, or musical service for the dead. | 46 | |
| 4756452395 | Scansion | the analysis of verse in terms of meter. | 47 | |
| 4756453750 | Soliloquy | an extended speech, usually in a drama, delivered by a character alone on stage. | 48 | |
| 4756459968 | English sonnet | rhyme scheme ABAB ABAB EFEF GG | 49 | |
| 4756460772 | Italian sonnet | rhyme scheme ABBA ABBA CDE CDE | 50 | |
| 4756463955 | Stream of Consciousness | the style of writing that attempts to imitate the natural flow of a character's thoughts, feelings, reflections, memories, and mental images, as the character experiences them. | 51 | |
| 4756468934 | Syllogism | a form of logical reasoning with two premises and a conclusion. Example " Major premise: All mammals are warm-blooded. Minor premise: All black dogs are mammals. Conclusion: Therefore, all black dogs are warm-blooded." | 52 | |
| 4756475972 | Synesthesia | the description of one kind of sensation coupled with another. Example: how a color sounds, or how a smell looks "He is wearing loud shirt." " The scent of the rose rang like a bell through the garden. I caressed the darkness with cool fingers." | 53 | |
| 4756488698 | Tongue in Cheek | a type of humor in which the speaker feigns seriousness. Example "dry" or "dead pan". | 54 | |
| 4756491595 | Vernacular | literature written in the everyday speech of a particular time period or culture. | 55 | |
| 4756494263 | Zeitgeist | the spirit, preferences, fashions, and trends that characterize the intangible essence of a specific historical period or era. Example The "Roaring 20's " in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. | 56 |
