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| 7227529074 | Accent | Refers to the stressed portion of a word | 0 | |
| 7227529395 | Allegory | A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself. | 1 | |
| 7227530027 | Anachronism | Derived from Greek, meaning "misplaced in time." | 2 | |
| 7227530765 | antecedent | Word, phrase, or clause that a pronoun refers to or replaces. "The principal asked the children where they were going." "They" is the pronoun and "children" is the antecedent. | 3 | |
| 7227531644 | anthropomorphism | When inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomenons are given human characteristics, behavior, or motivation. | 4 | |
| 7227534661 | anticlimax | When the action produces a far smaller result than one had been led to expect | 5 | |
| 7227534964 | aphorism | A short and usually witty saying | 6 | |
| 7227535224 | apostrophe | an address to someone not present or to a personified object or idea | 7 | |
| 7227539435 | archaism | The deliberate use of old-fashioned language | 8 | |
| 7227539663 | aside | a speech made by an actor to the audience | 9 | |
| 7227540482 | assonance | repeated use of vowel sounds | 10 | |
| 7227543653 | ballad | a long, narrative poem usually in a very regular meter and rhyme. Usually has a naive folksy quality | 11 | |
| 7227545894 | black humor | Use of disturbing themes in comedy | 12 | |
| 7227546006 | bombast | this is pretentious, exaggeratedly learned language | 13 | |
| 7227546798 | burlesque | Is broad parody, one that takes the form such as a tragic drama and exaggerates it into ridiculousness | 14 | |
| 7227547584 | cacophony | in poetry, it is the deliberate use of harsh, awkward sounds | 15 | |
| 7227548331 | cadence | the beat of rhythm of poetry in a general sense, such as iambic pentameter | 16 | |
| 7227549166 | canto | the name for a section division in a long work of poetry | 17 | |
| 7227549707 | caricature | a verbal portrait that exaggerates a facet of personality | 18 | |
| 7227551793 | catharsis | refers to the cleansing of emotion an audience member experiences having lived through the experiences presented on stage | 19 | |
| 7227553761 | coinage (neologism) | It is a new word, usually one invented on the spot. | 20 | |
| 7227553992 | colloquialism | A word or phrase used in everyday conversational english that isn't a part of accepted "schoolbook" english | 21 | |
| 7227557731 | conceit / controlling image | Refers to a startling or unusual metaphor, or one developed and expanded upon over several lines | 22 | |
| 7227558239 | connotation/denotation | everything that a word suggests or implies | 23 | |
| 7227558984 | consonance | repetition of consonant sounds within words | 24 | |
| 7227559271 | decorum | a characters speech must be styled according to her social station and in accordance with the occasion. | 25 | |
| 7227560357 | dirge | a song for the dead | 26 | |
| 7227560623 | dissonance | the grating of incompatible sounds | 27 | |
| 7227561629 | doggerel | crude, simplistic verse, often in a sing-song rhyme | 28 | |
| 7227561912 | elegy | a type of poem that meditates on death or mortality in a serious, thoughtful manner | 29 | |
| 7227562648 | epic | simply a very long narrative poem on a serious them and in a dignified style. | 30 | |
| 7227563289 | epitaph | lines that commemorate the dead at their burial place | 31 | |
| 7227564002 | euphemism | a word of phrase that takes the place of a harsh, unpleasant, or impolite reality | 32 | |
| 7227564697 | farce | Today it refers to extremely broad humor. In earlier times it was more neutral term, meaning simply a funny place | 33 | |
| 7227565639 | feminine rhyme | lines rhymed by their final two syllables | 34 | |
| 7227565892 | foil | a secondary character whose purpose is to highlight the main character | 35 | |
| 7227566607 | foot | the basic rhythmic unit of a line of poetry | 36 | |
| 7227568633 | hubris | the excessive pride or ambition that leads to the main character's downfall | 37 | |
| 7227570688 | interior monologue | Refers to the writing that records the mental talking that goes on inside a characters head | 38 |
