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| 10467540057 | a "normal" line of poetry with the expected number of syllables in each line | acatalectic | 0 | |
| 10467540058 | any writing or verse or prose that has a double meaning. ex: animal farm | allegory | 1 | |
| 10467540059 | the repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds, normally at the beginning of words | alliteration | 2 | |
| 10467540500 | a reference in a work of literature to something outside the work, especially to a well-known historical or literary event | allusion | 3 | |
| 10467540501 | a literary character or narrator who is a thinly disguised representation of the author, poet, or playwright creating a work | alter ego | 4 | |
| 10467542696 | placing an event, person, item, or verbal expression in the wrong time period | anachronism | 5 | |
| 10467543067 | repeating the last word of a clause at the beginning of the next clause | anadiplosis | 6 | |
| 10467543921 | moment in a play or other work when a character makes a critical discovery | anagnorisis | 7 | |
| 10467544246 | the repetition at the beginning of clauses | anaphora | 8 | |
| 10467544247 | inverted order of words or events as a rhetorical scheme | anastrophe | 9 | |
| 10467544720 | a protagonist who is a non-hero or in the antithesis of a traditional hero | antihero | 10 | |
| 10467545669 | artfully using a different part of speech to act as another in violation of the normal rules of grammar | anthimeria | 11 | |
| 10467547451 | the object or animal is actually doing something human | anthropomorphism | 12 | |
| 10467549486 | a figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas | antithesis | 13 | |
| 10467549487 | an original thought, spoken or written in a laconic and memorable form | aphorism | 14 | |
| 10467549488 | the deliberate act of talking about how one is unable to talk about something | aporia | 15 | |
| 10467550246 | a figure of speech in which someone, some abstract quality, or a nonexistent personage is directly addressed as though present | apostrophe | 16 | |
| 10467551538 | designed to ward off evil influence or malevolent spirits by frightening these forces away | apotropaic | 17 | |
| 10467567294 | a very typical example of a certain person or thing; a recurrent symbol or motif in literature, art, or mythology | archetype | 18 | |
| 10467567295 | in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in non-rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible | assonance | 19 | |
| 10467567296 | a poem or piece of music appropriate to the dawn or early morning | aubade | 20 | |
| 10467567851 | the voice of the author and is a part of that author's writing style | authorial voice | 21 | |
| 10467567852 | four-line stanzas usually rhyming abcb with the first and third lines carrying four accented syllables and the second and fourth carrying three | ballad meter | 22 | |
| 10467567853 | an effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous | bathos | 23 | |
| 10467568993 | a novel dealing with one person's formative years or spiritual education | bildungsroman | 24 | |
| 10467568994 | verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter | blank verse | 25 | |
| 10467569479 | cacophony | 26 | ||
| 10467569484 | cadence | 27 | ||
| 10467570072 | caesura | 28 | ||
| 10467570073 | catalogue | 29 | ||
| 10467571063 | catharsis | 30 | ||
| 10467571064 | chiasmus | 31 | ||
| 10467573571 | chivalry | 32 | ||
| 10467587778 | circumlocution | 33 | ||
| 10467591178 | climax | 34 | ||
| 10467591179 | colloquialism | 35 | ||
| 10467592213 | comedy | 36 | ||
| 10467592214 | comedy of manners | 37 | ||
| 10467592747 | comic relief | 38 | ||
| 10467592748 | conceit | 39 | ||
| 10467594532 | consonance | 40 | ||
| 10467594533 | couplet | 41 | ||
| 10467594534 | dialect | 42 | ||
| 10467595805 | dialogue | 43 | ||
| 10467595806 | devices of sound | 44 | ||
| 10467596873 | deus ex machina | 45 | ||
| 10467619906 | diction | 46 | ||
| 10467619907 | didactic poem | 47 | ||
| 10467620418 | dirge | 48 | ||
| 10467620419 | dramatic poem | 49 | ||
| 10467621092 | ekstasos | 50 | ||
| 10467621784 | elegy | 51 | ||
| 10467622465 | ellipsis | 52 | ||
| 10467622466 | end stopped | 53 | ||
| 10467622929 | enjambment | 54 | ||
| 10467622930 | epigram | 55 | ||
| 10467623491 | epilogue | 56 | ||
| 10467623492 | epiphany | 57 | ||
| 10467624048 | epistle | 58 | ||
| 10467624049 | epistrophe | 59 | ||
| 10467624463 | epithet | 60 | ||
| 10467635030 | etymology | 61 | ||
| 10467635031 | euphemism | 62 | ||
| 10467635994 | euphony | 63 | ||
| 10467635995 | extended metaphor | 64 | ||
| 10467638487 | exitentialism | 65 | ||
| 10467638488 | eye rhyme | 66 | ||
| 10467639112 | fable | 67 | ||
| 10467639113 | farce | 68 | ||
| 10467642090 | feminine rhyme | 69 | ||
| 10467642091 | figurative language | 70 | ||
| 10467642825 | flashback | 71 | ||
| 10467642826 | fool | 72 | ||
| 10467642830 | frame narrative | 73 | ||
| 10467644207 | free indirect discourse | 74 | ||
| 10467645224 | free verse | 75 | ||
| 10467646781 | gothic literature | 76 | ||
| 10467646782 | hamartia | 77 | ||
| 10467647665 | heroic couplet | 78 | ||
| 10467647666 | hubris | 79 | ||
| 10467647937 | hyperbole | 80 | ||
| 10467647938 | imagery | 81 | ||
| 10467649817 | imperatives | 82 | ||
| 10467649818 | implied audience | 83 | ||
| 10467652131 | irony | 84 | ||
| 10467652132 | in media res | 85 | ||
| 10467652719 | internal rhyme | 86 | ||
| 10467652720 | invective | 87 | ||
| 10467652757 | kenning | 88 | ||
| 10467653364 | lament | 89 | ||
| 10467659453 | leit motif | 90 | ||
| 10467659454 | litote | 91 | ||
| 10467659479 | lyric poem | 92 | ||
| 10467661625 | malapropism | 93 | ||
| 10467661626 | masculine rhyme | 94 | ||
| 10467662020 | masque | 95 | ||
| 10467662021 | memoir | 96 | ||
| 10467663067 | metadrama | 97 | ||
| 10467663068 | metaphor | 98 | ||
| 10467663069 | meter | 99 | ||
| 10467664028 | metonymy | 100 | ||
| 10467666216 | mixed metaphors | 101 | ||
| 10467666217 | monologue | 102 | ||
| 10467666218 | motif | 103 | ||
| 10467667111 | narrative poem | 104 | ||
| 10467667555 | nostos | 105 | ||
| 10467667556 | novel of manners | 106 | ||
| 10467667557 | octave | 107 | ||
| 10467668584 | ode | 108 | ||
| 10467668585 | onomatopoeia | 109 | ||
| 10467680735 | othering | 110 | ||
| 10467682034 | oxymoron | 111 | ||
| 10467682035 | parable | 112 | ||
| 10467683050 | paradox | 113 | ||
| 10467683061 | parallelism | 114 | ||
| 10467683763 | paraphrase | 115 | ||
| 10467683764 | parody | 116 | ||
| 10467683765 | pastoral | 117 | ||
| 10467687993 | pathetic fallacy | 118 | ||
| 10467688007 | personification | 119 | ||
| 10467689117 | peripeteteia | 120 | ||
| 10467689118 | periphrasis | 121 | ||
| 10467689652 | poetic foot | 122 | ||
| 10467690632 | polysyndenton | 123 | ||
| 10467690633 | propaganda | 124 | ||
| 10467691621 | pun | 125 | ||
| 10467691622 | quatrain | 126 | ||
| 10467691639 | refrain | 127 | ||
| 10467693255 | rhyme | 128 | ||
| 10467693256 | rhythm | 129 | ||
| 10467693745 | sarcasm | 130 | ||
| 10467693746 | satire | 131 | ||
| 10467694364 | scansion | 132 | ||
| 10467694365 | sestet | 133 | ||
| 10467694872 | simile | 134 | ||
| 10467694873 | sonnet | 135 | ||
| 10467696097 | soliloquy | 136 | ||
| 10467696098 | spoonerism | 137 | ||
| 10467696624 | stanza | 138 | ||
| 10467696625 | stock character | 139 | ||
| 10467697137 | strategy | 140 | ||
| 10467697138 | stream of consciousness | 141 | ||
| 10467697766 | structure | 142 | ||
| 10467697767 | style | 143 | ||
| 10467697768 | sublime | 144 | ||
| 10467700274 | suspense | 145 | ||
| 10467702026 | syllepsis | 146 | ||
| 10467702027 | symbol | 147 | ||
| 10467702416 | synecdoche | 148 | ||
| 10467702417 | synesthesia | 149 | ||
| 10467703775 | syntax | 150 | ||
| 10467703776 | tercet | 151 | ||
| 10467704690 | terza rima | 152 | ||
| 10467704691 | theme | 153 | ||
| 10467705317 | tone | 154 | ||
| 10467705318 | tragedy | 155 | ||
| 10467706021 | tragic hero | 156 | ||
| 10467706022 | tragicomedy | 157 | ||
| 10467707209 | transcendentalism | 158 | ||
| 10467707210 | trope | 159 | ||
| 10467708401 | verisimilitude | 160 | ||
| 10467708408 | vernacular | 161 | ||
| 10467709697 | vignette | 162 | ||
| 10467709698 | wit | 163 | ||
| 10467710250 | zeitgeist | 164 | ||
| 10467717840 | zeugma | 165 |
