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| 11579868479 | Apostrophe | figure of speech used to address an imaginary character | 0 | |
| 11579882214 | Internal rhyme | a word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same lines | 1 | |
| 11579897850 | Symbol | a thing that represents or stands for something else | 2 | |
| 11579909425 | Omniscient point of view | the point of view where the narrator knows everything about the characters and their problems - told in the 3rd person | 3 | |
| 11579946585 | Meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry | 4 | |
| 11579962428 | Narrator | Person telling the story | 5 | |
| 11579970386 | Falling action | events after the climax, leading to the resolution | 6 | |
| 11579993454 | Round characters | character who has complex personality: contradicted person | 7 | |
| 11580015839 | Rhyme scheme | A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem | 8 | |
| 11598565069 | Direct presentation of character | Author telling the reader how a character is and what actions it will do further in the story | 9 | |
| 11598592710 | Assonance | repetition of vowel sounds | 10 | |
| 11599043478 | Allusion | indirect of passing reference | 11 | |
| 11599063246 | Characterization | process of revealing characters personality | 12 | |
| 11599073514 | Syllabic verse | verse measured by the number of syllables rather than the number of feet per line | 13 | |
| 11599098908 | Verbal irony | a figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant | 14 | |
| 11599113350 | Connotation | secondary meaning to a word | 15 | |
| 11638136119 | Euphony | smooth choice and arrangement of sounds | 16 | |
| 11638147143 | Stanza | a group of lines in a poem | 17 | |
| 11638159470 | Couplet | two rhyming lines in a verse | 18 | |
| 11638169474 | Rhythm | a regularly recurring sequence of events or actions | 19 | |
| 11638184567 | Protagonist | main character | 20 | |
| 11638191750 | Didactic writing | writing with a primary purpose to teach or preach | 21 | |
| 11638206854 | Third person limited point of view | narrator tells the story from only one character's pov | 22 | |
| 11638218318 | Deus ex machina | resolution of a plot by chance or coincidence | 23 | |
| 11638231496 | End stopped line | line ending in regular punctuation | 24 | |
| 11638244337 | Irony | a contrast between expectation and reality | 25 | |
| 11638253637 | Synesthesia | describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound") | 26 | |
| 11643930223 | Approximate rhyme | words in rhyming pattern that sound alike | 27 | |
| 11643951321 | Double rhyme | rhyme where the repeated vowel is in the second last syllable of words involved (ex; born scorn) | 28 | |
| 11644012699 | Flat character | story character who have no depth, usually has one personality or characteristic | 29 | |
| 11644029956 | Plot | sequence of events in a story | 30 | |
| 11644040101 | First person point of view | a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself | 31 | |
| 11644056567 | Consonance | repetition of same consonant in words close together | 32 | |
| 11644080361 | Masculine rhyme | a rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable | 33 | |
| 11644096211 | Blank verse | poetry written in meter without an ending rhyme | 34 | |
| 11644112039 | Paraphrase | a restatement of a text or passage in your own words | 35 | |
| 11644144038 | Metonymy | a figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it | 36 | |
| 11644170196 | Italian Sonnet | a sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd | 37 | |
| 11644196369 | Truncation | utilizing a melody with part of the end omitted | 38 | |
| 11644215920 | Sarcasm | the use of irony to mock or convey contempt | 39 | |
| 11644224849 | Denotation | the literal meaning of a word | 40 | |
| 11644255927 | Aside | when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by other actors on the stage | 41 | |
| 11644283780 | Foot | basic unit in the scansion or measurement of verse, stressed and unstressed syllables | 42 | |
| 11644340487 | Dramatic irony | irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play | 43 | |
| 11644386442 | Metaphor | a comparison without using like or as | 44 | |
| 11644413635 | Melodrama | a play based upon a dramatic plot and developed sensationally | 45 | |
| 11644431752 | Motivation | a need or desire that energizes and directs behavior | 46 | |
| 11644452380 | End rhyme | rhymes occurring at the end of line | 47 | |
| 11644459830 | Comedy | drama that is amusing or funny | 48 | |
| 11644481811 | Catharsis | The release of emotions through art (emotional cleanse) | 49 | |
| 11644492140 | Satire | a literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies | 50 | |
| 11644525004 | Simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" | 51 | |
| 11644533021 | Epiphany | when a character receives a spiritual insight into there life | 52 | |
| 11644570102 | Solilquy | a long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage | 53 | |
| 11644578054 | Theme | central idea of a work of literature | 54 | |
| 11644586127 | Free verse | poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme | 55 | |
| 11644604921 | Setting | the context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs | 56 | |
| 11644619033 | Anaphora | repetition in first part of a sentence, to have an artistic meaning | 57 | |
| 11644638353 | Point of view | the perspective from which a story is told | 58 | |
| 11644643193 | Sestet | 6 line stanza | 59 | |
| 11644652874 | Hyperbole | a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor | 60 | |
| 11644707551 | Personification | a figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes | 61 | |
| 11644722987 | Extended figure | a figure of speech sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem | 62 | |
| 11644751596 | Objective point of view | a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story, with no comment on any characters or events | 63 | |
| 11644773017 | Tone | Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character | 64 | |
| 11655135529 | Denouement | final outcome of the story | 65 | |
| 11655138523 | Irony of situation | refers to an occurrence that is contrary to what is expected or intended | 66 | |
| 11655150084 | Tragedy | a serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character | 67 | |
| 11655164627 | Figure of speech | a way of saying something other than the ordinary way | 68 | |
| 11655178845 | Paradox | a contradiction or dilemma | 69 | |
| 11655209768 | Hamartia | tragic flaw which causes a character's downfall | 70 | |
| 11655228692 | Scansion | analysis of verse into metrical patterns | 71 | |
| 11655246684 | Allegory | story or poem that can be used to reveal a hidden meaning | 72 | |
| 11655274746 | Quatrain | a four line stanza | 73 | |
| 11655281403 | Oxymoron | a figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase | 74 | |
| 11655310120 | Sonnet | 14 line poem | 75 | |
| 11655330955 | Dynamic character | changes throughout the story, through major conflict | 76 | |
| 11655341915 | Climax | point where conflict hits its highest point | 77 | |
| 11655362163 | Tercet | 3 line stanza | 78 | |
| 11655370500 | Antagonist | a hostile person who is opposed to another character | 79 | |
| 11655422147 | Stream of consciousness | private thoughts of a character without commentary | 80 | |
| 11655439964 | Imagery | description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) | 81 | |
| 11655456939 | Villanelle | a ninteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain | 82 | |
| 11655516420 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 83 | |
| 11655539983 | Alliteration | beginning of same letter or sound in closely connected words | 84 | |
| 11655553812 | Figurative language | language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling | 85 | |
| 11655567307 | Static character | person who doesn't change throughout story keeps same personality | 86 | |
| 11655578297 | Conflict | struggle between opposing forces | 87 | |
| 11655585865 | Terza rima | a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc | 88 | |
| 11655593701 | Understandment | the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis | 89 | |
| 11655604102 | Cacophony | blend of unharmonious sounds | 90 | |
| 11655619259 | Indirect presentation of character | the personality of a character is revealed by what he or she does or says | 91 | |
| 11655629944 | Dramatic exposition | prose commentaries, to provide background information about the characters and their world | 92 | |
| 11655639164 | Caesura | pause in the middle of a line | 93 | |
| 11655651937 | Onomatopoeia | a word that imitates the sound it represents | 94 | |
| 11655661313 | Verse | a single line of poetry writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme | 95 | |
| 11655676504 | Form | external pattern or shape of a poem | 96 | |
| 11655685819 | Feminine rhyme | lines rhymed by their final two syllables | 97 | |
| 11655688448 | Octave | 8 line stanza | 98 | |
| 11655696210 | Rising action | events leading up to the climax | 99 | |
| 11655704192 | English sonnet | a sonnet rhyming ababcdcdededgg | 100 |
