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| 7271030243 | Epic Poetry | A long, serious, poetic narrative about a significant event, often featuring a hero. | 0 | |
| 7271033673 | Sonnet | A poem of 14 lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line. | 1 | |
| 7271041513 | Lyric | Expressing the writer's emotions, usually briefly and in stanzas or recognized forms. | 2 | |
| 7271046370 | Ballad | A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. Traditional ballads are typically of unknown authorship, having been passed on orally from one generation to the next as part of the folk culture. | 3 | |
| 7271050125 | Allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. | 4 | |
| 7271052870 | Diction | the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing. | 5 | |
| 7271058787 | Syntax | the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. | 6 | |
| 7271061710 | Tone | the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc. | 7 | |
| 7271061711 | Mood | is a literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions. | 8 | |
| 7271068179 | Simile | a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g., as brave as a lion, crazy like a fox ). | 9 | |
| 7271078368 | 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. "I had fallen through a trapdoor of depression," | 10 | |
| 7271084528 | Personification | the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form. | 11 | |
| 7271088690 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, as in Cleveland won by six runs (meaning "Cleveland's baseball team"). | 12 | |
| 7271093383 | Metonymy | the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example suit for business executive, or the track for horse racing. | 13 | |
| 7271096783 | Hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. | 14 | |
| 7271098971 | Understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. | 15 | |
| 7271101835 | Paradox | a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true. | 16 | |
| 7271107217 | Oxymoron | a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g., faith unfaithful kept him falsely true ). | 17 | |
| 7271114245 | Apostrophe | a figure of speech sometimes represented by exclamation "O". A writer or a speaker, using an apostrophe, detaches himself from the reality and addresses an imaginary character in his speech. | 18 | |
| 7271414597 | Litotes | ironic 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" ). | 19 | |
| 7271122802 | Sound Patterns | The kind of repetition that most people associate with poetry is the repetition of sounds, in particular in rhyme. Apart from rhyme, there are other sound patterns in poetry which create additional meaning, such as alliteration, assonance and onomatopoeia. | 20 | |
| 7271125778 | Alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. | 21 | |
| 7271127784 | 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 ). | 22 | |
| 7271133090 | Blank verse | verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter. | 23 | |
| 7271138403 | Consonance | the recurrence of similar sounds, especially consonants, in close proximity | 24 | |
| 7271142028 | Euphony | the quality of being pleasing to the ear, especially through a harmonious combination of words. | 25 | |
| 7271144744 | Cacophony | a harsh, discordant mixture of sounds. | 26 | |
| 7271147970 | Onomatopoeia | the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g., cuckoo, sizzle ). | 27 | |
| 7271151741 | Rhyme | correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry. | 28 | |
| 7271154728 | Rhythm | a literary device which demonstrates the long and short patterns through stressed and unstressed syllables particularly in verse form. | 29 | |
| 7271159897 | Anaphora | the use of a word referring to or replacing a word used earlier in a sentence, to avoid repetition, such as "do" in "I like it and so do they." | 30 | |
| 7271165972 | Pun | a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings. Basically just talk to Diego for over 5 minutes to experience around 7... | 31 | |
| 7271170292 | Allusion | an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference. | 32 | |
| 7271173972 | Imagery | visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work. | 33 | |
| 7271406238 | Analogy | a comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification. | 34 | |
| 7271176172 | Symbolism | the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities. | 35 | |
| 7271178385 | Flashback | a scene set in a time earlier than the main story. | 36 | |
| 7271182448 | Foreshadow | a warning or indication of (a future event). | 37 | |
| 7271183933 | Dialect | a particular form of a language that is peculiar to a specific region or social group. | 38 | |
| 7271188055 | Suspense | is the intense feeling that an audience goes through while waiting for the outcome of certain events. | 39 | |
| 7271199292 | Plot | the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence. | 40 | |
| 7271193668 | Characterization | the creation or construction of a fictional character. Protagonist being the main hero, Antagonist being the rival/enemy the hero most face to let the plot resolve in a "Happy Ending" | 41 | |
| 7271201772 | Theme | the central topic a text treats. | 42 | |
| 7271204185 | Motif | a distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition. | 43 | |
| 7271208955 | Point of View | the narrator's position in relation to the story being told. First person - 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. Third Person Limited - the narrator only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character. Third Person Omniscient - narrator knows all the thoughts, actions, and feelings of all characters. | 44 | |
| 7271222705 | Narrator | a person who narrates something, especially a character who recounts the events of a novel or narrative poem. | 45 | |
| 7271229439 | Flat Character | two-dimensional in that they are relatively uncomplicated and do not change throughout the course of a work. | 46 | |
| 7271232363 | Round Character | extremely realistic, behaving and speaking in a "real life" manner. The character is complex and increases in complexity throughout the story. | 47 | |
| 7271239302 | Soliloquy | an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play. | 48 | |
| 7271243626 | Monologue | an extended speech by one person. | 49 |
