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| 4923387888 | conceit | an elaborate metaphor that compares two things that are startlingly different. Often an extended metaphor. | 0 | |
| 4923390258 | confessional poetry | a twentieth century term used to describe poetry that uses intimate material from the poet's life. | 1 | |
| 4923425354 | conflict | the struggle between opposing forces or characters in a story. | 2 | |
| 4923427654 | external conflict | conflicts can exist between two people, between a person and nature or a machine or between a person a whole society. | 3 | |
| 4923429388 | internal conflict | a conflict can be internal, involving opposing forces within a person's mind. | 4 | |
| 4923431260 | connotation | the associations and emotional overtones that have become attached to a word or phrase, in addition to its strict dictionary definition. | 5 | |
| 4923444452 | couplet | two consecutive rhyming lines of poetry. | 6 | |
| 4923445982 | dialect | a way of speaking that is characteristic of a certain social group or of the inhabitants of a certain geographical area. | 7 | |
| 4923447365 | diction | a speaker or writer's choice of words. | 8 | |
| 4923449885 | didactic | form of fiction or nonfiction that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking. | 9 | |
| 4923451838 | elegy | a poem of mourning, usually about someone who has died. | 10 | |
| 4923454802 | epanalepsis | device of repetition in which the same expression (single word or phrase) is repeated both at the beginning and at the end of the line, clause, or sentence. Voltaire: "Common sense is not so common." | 11 | |
| 4923457516 | epic | a long narrative poem, written in heightened language , which recounts the deeds of a heroic character who embodies the values of a particular society. | 12 | |
| 4923460412 | epigraph | a quotation or aphorism at the beginning of a literary work suggestive of the theme. | 13 | |
| 4923462343 | epistrophe | Device of repetition in which the same expression (single word or phrase) is repeated at the end of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences (it is the opposite of anaphora). | 14 |
