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| 4720947177 | allgory | a representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning through concrete or material forms; figurative treatment of one subject under the guise of another. | 0 | |
| 4720948177 | alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of closely connected words. | 1 | |
| 4720948671 | allusion | an indirect or passing reference calling something to mind without explicitly mentioning it | 2 | |
| 4720949813 | anachronism | a thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than which it exists; old fashioned | 3 | |
| 4720951294 | anaphora | the use of a word referring to or replacing a word used earlier in a sentence to avoid repetition | 4 | |
| 4720951996 | antecedent | a thing or event that existed before or logically precedes another | 5 | |
| 4720953304 | antithesis | a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else | 6 | |
| 4720953537 | aphorism | a pithy observation that contains a general truth "if it ain't broke don't fix it" | 7 | |
| 4720954489 | apostrophe | a punctuation mark to indicate possession or omission of letters/numbers | 8 | |
| 4720954860 | archetype | a very typical example of a certain person or thing | 9 | |
| 4720955144 | aside | a remark by a character in a play intended to be heard by the audience but unheard by characters in the play | 10 | |
| 4720956356 | assonance | the repetition of the sound of a vowel in poetry | 11 | |
| 4720956843 | atmosphere | the tone or mood of a place, situation, or work of art. | 12 | |
| 4720957209 | ballad stanza | a 4 line stanza in iambic meter in which the first and third unrhymed lines have 4 metrical feet and the 2nd and 4th have 3 | 13 | |
| 4720958099 | bildungsrman | a novel dealing with one persons formative years or spiritual education | 14 | |
| 4720958472 | blank verse | verse without rhyme especially that which uses iambic pentameter | 15 | |
| 4720959018 | catharsis | the process of releasing and providing relief from strong repressed emotions | 16 | |
| 4720959484 | comic relief | comic episodes in a dramatic or literary work that offsets more serious sections | 17 | |
| 4720961919 | conceit | a fanciful expression in writing or speech; an elaborate metaphor | 18 | |
| 4720962504 | consonance | the recurrence of similar sounds especially consonants in close proximity | 19 | |
| 4720964062 | conventions | a way in which something is usually done | 20 | |
| 4720964378 | cosmic irony | the idea that fate, destiny, or god controls and toys with humans hope | 21 | |
| 4720964677 | dramatic irony | a literary technique used by which the full significance of words are clear to the audience but unknown to the characters | 22 | |
| 4720965863 | dramatic monolouge | a poem in the form of a speech or narrative by an imagined person speaker reveals aspects of their character while describing a situation | 23 | |
| 4720967963 | elegy | a sad poem | 24 | |
| 4720968235 | end-stopped lines | occurs when a line of poetry ends with a period each line is it own phrase | 25 | |
| 4720969225 | enjambment | the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line | 26 | |
| 4720969580 | envoi | a short stanza concluding a ballad. an authors concluding words | 27 | |
| 4720970375 | epigram | a pithy saying or remark expressing an idea in a clever or amusing way | 28 | |
| 4720970376 | epigraph | a short saying at the beginning of a book or chapter intended to suggest the theme | 29 | |
| 4720970571 | epilouge | a section or speech at the end of a book serving as a conclusion | 30 | |
| 4720972064 | epistolary novel | literary works in the form of letters | 31 | |
| 4720972065 | epitaph | a phrase or statement written in memory of someone who has died | 32 | |
| 4720972163 | epithet | an adjective expressing a quality characteristic of the thing mentioned | 33 | |
| 4720972164 | eulogy | a speech that praises someone highly usually one who has died | 34 | |
| 4720972258 | euphemism | an indirect word substituted for once considered to be too harsh or blunt referring to something unpleasant | 35 | |
| 4720972259 | extended metaphor | a metaphor introduced and then further developed throughout all or part of the literary work | 36 | |
| 4720972347 | fable | a short story intended to teach a lesson | 37 | |
| 4720972621 | figurative languge | uses words or expressions with meaning that is different from the literal meaning | 38 | |
| 4720972912 | free verse | poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter | 39 | |
| 4723725381 | grotesque | 40 | ||
| 4723725382 | epic simile | 41 | ||
| 4723725591 | hyperbole | 42 | ||
| 4723726245 | iambic pentameter | 43 | ||
| 4723726246 | imagery | 44 | ||
| 4723726634 | in meoias res | 45 | ||
| 4723727141 | internal rhyme | 46 | ||
| 4723727712 | intrusive narrator | 47 | ||
| 4723727713 | invocation | 48 | ||
| 4723728155 | litotes | 49 | ||
| 4723728330 | lyric | 50 | ||
| 4723728916 | metrication/meta drama | 51 | ||
| 4723728917 | metaphor | 52 | ||
| 4723729480 | metaphysical conceit | 53 |
