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| 4920806509 | Alliteration | repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together ; specifically at the beginning of the phrase (right at the front) | 0 | |
| 4920815581 | Allusion | reference to someone/something that is known f/r history, lit., religion, politics, sports, science or any other branch of culture ; indirect ref. to something | 1 | |
| 4920871094 | Anachronism | "misplaced in time" ; something out of its proper historical time ; error of putting something in the wrong historical time ; "like a Puritan on a motorcycle." | 2 | |
| 4920875502 | Analogy | comparison b/w 2 things to show how they are alike | 3 | |
| 4921929036 | Anaphora | deliberate rep of a word/phrase/clause @ beginning of two or more consecutive sentences ; helps make the point of the writer more coherent ; forceful | 4 | |
| 4921934654 | Antagonist | opponent who struggles against or blocks the hero, usually the protagonist, in a story ; another character, society, force of nature, or conflicting impulse within protagonist like guilt | 5 | |
| 4921957788 | Anticlimax | unsatisfying and trivial turn of events in a literary work that occurs in place of a genuine climax ; often involves a surprising shift in tone | 6 | |
| 4921960709 | Antihero | central character who lacks all the qualities traditionally associated w/ heroes ; may lack courage, grace, intelligence, or moral scruples | 7 | |
| 4921982514 | Antithesis | statement in which 2 opposing ideas are balanced ; words/phrases/clauses set in deliberate contrast to one another ; balances opposing ideas, feelings, tones, or structures giving crisp expressions to their pairing and heightening its effect ; "it was the best of times and the worst of times" | 8 | |
| 4921987609 | Aphorism | brief, witty statement of principle or general truth | 9 | |
| 4921987610 | Apostrophe | a locution that addresses a person or personified thing not present ; calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to a place or thing, or a personified abstract idea ; figure of speech wherein the speaker talks directly to something that is nonhuman | 10 | |
| 4922001223 | Apotheosis | elevating someone to the level of a god ; the high point or climax | 11 | |
| 4922003521 | Archetype | a character, situation, or symbol that is familiar to people from all cultures because of it occurs frequently in literature, myth, religion, or folklore ; an original model or type after which other similar things are patterned; a prototype | 12 | |
| 4922007436 | Aside | a short speech, delivered to the audience or to another character, that others onstage are not supposed to hear | 13 | |
| 4922009276 | Assonance | repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds especially in words that are together ; Consanance with vowels | 14 | |
| 4922012236 | Asyndeton | commas used without conjunction to separate a series of words, thus emphasizing the parts equally ; when conjunctions that would normally connect a string of words, phrases, or clauses are omitted from a sentence | 15 | |
| 4922013450 | Aubade | a poem or song about lovers who must leave one another in the early hours of the morning | 16 | |
| 4922018897 | Ballad | a folk song or poem passed down orally that tells a story which may be derived from an actual incident or from legend ; any popular narrative poem, often with epic subject and usually in lyric form | 17 | |
| 4922022470 | Bathos | the use of insincere or overdone sentimentality | 18 | |
| 4922024462 | Bildungsroman | a German word referring to a novel structured as a series of events that take place as the hero travels in quest of a goal ; coming of age | 19 | |
| 4922050607 | Blank Verse | poetry written in iambic pentameter; unrhymed poetry that has a regular rhythm and line length ; favored technique of Shakespeare (five feet of two syllables each—unstressed and stressed) | 20 | |
| 4922053331 | Cacophony | harsh, discordant sounds that are unpleasant to the ear; used deliberately in poetry or prose | 21 | |
| 4922056722 | Caesura | a pause, usually near the middle of a line of verse, usually indicted by the sense of the line, and often greater than the normal pause ; | 22 | |
| 4922059733 | Carpe diem | latin for "seize the day" ; frequently used in 16 th and 17 th century poetry expresses the idea that you only live once ; genre of poem | 23 | |
| 4922062665 | Catharsis | emotional release which brings about renewal of the self or welcome relief from anxiety, tension, etc. | 24 | |
| 4922067447 | Chiasmus | figure of speech that reverse the order of words in phrases that would otherwise be structured the same ; in poetry, type of rhetorical balance in which the second part is syntactically balanced against the first, but with the parts reversed | 25 | |
| 4922071468 | Climax | most exciting moment of the story; turning point | 26 | |
| 4922073512 | Colloquial | conversational, informal in language | 27 | |
| 4922090372 | Conceit | an elaborate metaphor that compares two things that are startlingly different. Often an extended metaphor ; a far-fetched comparison b/w two seemingly unlike things ; goes from beginning of poem to the end | 28 | |
| 4922091808 | Connotation | what a word suggests beyond its surface definition | 29 | |
| 4922093842 | Consonance | the repetition of two or more consonant sounds in a group of words or a line of poetry | 30 | |
| 4922097734 | Couplet | a pair of rhyming lines in a poem | 31 | |
| 4922101463 | Denotation | the dictionary or exact/literal definition of a word | 32 | |
| 4922106453 | Denouement | an outcome, solution, or clarification at the end of the story or play ; the unraveling of a plot ; the untieing of the knot | 33 | |
| 4922112820 | Deus Ex Machina | literally, when gods intervene at a story's end to resolve a seemingly impossible conflict ; an unexpected power or event saving a seemingly hopeless situation | 34 | |
| 4922114376 | Diction | simple, sophisticated, colloquial, formal, informal... - the deliberate choice of a style of language for a desired effect or tone ; words chosen to achieve a particular effect that is formal, informal, or colloquial | 35 | |
| 4922115944 | Didactic Verse | intended to teach ; form of fiction or nonfiction that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking | 36 | |
| 4922117853 | Dramatic Irony | when in which the audience or reader knows more about a situation than a character | 37 | |
| 4922119435 | Dramatic Monologue | when a single speaker in literature says something to a silent audience | 38 | |
| 4922121095 | Dramatic Verse | employs dramatic form or element | 39 | |
| 4922121727 | Elegy | a poem of mourning, usually about someone who has died ; eulogy = great praise or commendation often about someone who has died | 40 |
