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| 5666166776 | anadiplosis | the last words or word of a line, phrase or clause are repeated as the first word or words in an immediately successive line, phrase or clause | 0 | |
| 5667138091 | anaphora | the exact repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive lines or sentences | 1 | |
| 5667145442 | apostrophe | the speaker directly and often emotionally addresses a person who is dead or absent, an imaginary or nonhuman entity, or a place or concept | 2 | |
| 5667151832 | chiasmus | certain words are reversed or repeated in reverse order | 3 | |
| 5667170911 | epistrophe | the exact repetition of words or phrases at the end of successive lines or sentences | 4 | |
| 5667266941 | ethos | appeals to character | 5 | |
| 5667281955 | logos | appeals to logic | 6 | |
| 5667282566 | pathos | appeals to emotion | 7 | |
| 5667283314 | rhetoric | the art of persuasion through speaking and writing | 8 | |
| 5667284817 | rhetorical question | a questions to provoke thought but not intended to be answered | 9 | |
| 5667288098 | conceit | an elaborate comparison between two apparently dissimilar things, often in the form of an extended metaphor | 10 | |
| 5667295641 | double entendre | a figure of speech that has multiple interpretations or two different meanings or that could be understood in two different ways. the first meaning in a double entendre is usually straightforward while the second meaning is usually ironic, risque or inappropriate | 11 | |
| 5667302790 | euphemism | inoffensive expression in place of a blunt one that is felt to be disagreeable or embarrassing | 12 | |
| 5667308133 | hyperbole | employing deliberate, emphatic exaggeration | 13 | |
| 5667312623 | metaphor | associates two distinct things without using like or as | 14 | |
| 5667315539 | metonymy | one thing is represented by another that is commonly and often physically associated with it | 15 | |
| 5669241118 | personification | human characteristics are bestowed upon anything nonhuman | 16 | |
| 5669245420 | simile | associates two distinct things using the connective words like or as | 17 | |
| 5669256105 | synechdoche | something is used to represent the whole | 18 | |
| 5669267033 | synesthesia | one kind of sensory stimulus is used to describe the experience of another | 19 | |
| 5669277045 | understatement | representing something less in magnitude that it really is | 20 | |
| 5669283580 | antagonist | a character pitted against the protagonist | 21 | |
| 5669294949 | characterization | the various means by which an author describes and develops the characters in a literary work | 22 | |
| 5669302536 | dialect | a way of speaking using a language that is particular to a geographic region or social group | 23 | |
| 5669308857 | dialogue | conversation between two people | 24 | |
| 5669313024 | flat character | a character that does not undergo any significant emotional, ideological, or spiritual transformation | 25 | |
| 5669318530 | foil | a character whose contrast with the protagonist serves to accentuate the protagonist's qualities | 26 | |
| 5669327827 | monologue | an extended narrative delivered uninterrupted and exclusively by one person | 27 | |
| 5669332712 | protagonist | the main character in a work, often a hero | 28 | |
| 5669335638 | round character | a character who undergoes significant emotional, ideological, or spiritual change | 29 | |
| 5669341129 | soliloquy | a monologue delivered by a character while alone that reveals inner thoughts, emotions or other information | 30 | |
| 5669348113 | antonym | words opposite in meaning | 31 | |
| 5669351032 | colloquialism | a word or phrase that is not formal in nature, typically used in normal conversation | 32 | |
| 5669358541 | connotation | implied meaning of a word or words | 33 | |
| 5669360796 | denotation | literal meaning of a word or words | 34 | |
| 5669363833 | diction | word choice | 35 | |
| 5669365592 | homonym | words that sound or are spelled the same but have different meanings | 36 | |
| 5669466224 | oxymoron | juxtaposes two opposite or apparently contradictory words to present an emphatic and dramatic paradox | 37 | |
| 5669528181 | pun | a play on words that capitalizes on a similarity in spelling and or pronunciation between words that have different meanings | 38 | |
| 5669539685 | synonym | words similar meaning | 39 | |
| 5669544456 | alliteration | the repetition of sounds in a sequence of words | 40 | |
| 5669547327 | assonance | alliteration with vowel sounds | 41 | |
| 5669550038 | cacophony | harsh, unpleasant, or discordant sounds | 42 | |
| 5669558311 | consonance | alliteration with consonant sounds | 43 | |
| 5669560414 | euphony | pleasing, harmonious sounds | 44 | |
| 5669562357 | iambic pentameter | a metrical foot in poetry that consists of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllables per line | 45 | |
| 5669575603 | meter | the regular rhythmic pattern of stresses and unstressed syllables in verse | 46 | |
| 5669580610 | onomatopoeia | wording that seems to signify meaning through sound effects | 47 | |
| 5669587967 | asyndeton | the omission of conjunctions in syntactic structure, often a stylistic | 48 | |
| 5669595784 | parallelism | sentences, clauses, or phrases with repetitive syntactic or grammatical structure | 49 | |
| 5669608279 | polysyndeton | the repetition of conjunctions in syntactic structure, often a stylistic choice | 50 | |
| 5669614162 | syntax | sentence structure | 51 | |
| 5669616721 | ballad | a poem that recounts a story in the form of a song | 52 | |
| 5669620657 | blank verse | any unrhymed verse, but usually referring to unrhymed iambic pentameter | 53 | |
| 5669630497 | confessional poem | a contemporary poetic mode in which poets discuss matters relating to their private lives | 54 | |
| 5669636821 | couplet | two successive lines of rhyming verse | 55 | |
| 5669640143 | end rhyme | rhyme that occurs at the end of lines of verse | 56 | |
| 5669646438 | enjambment | a line in a poem that does not end with grammatical breaks and their sense is not complete without the following line | 57 | |
| 5669652416 | free verse | poetry that lacks a regular meter, does not rhyme, and uses irregular line lengths | 58 | |
| 5669668029 | heroic couplet | a pair of rhymed lines written in iambic pentameter | 59 | |
| 5669672677 | internal rhyme | rhyme that occurs within a line of verse | 60 | |
| 5669677993 | ode | a relatively long, serious, and usually meditative poem that treats a noble or otherwise elevated subject in a dignified and calm manner | 61 | |
| 5669696597 | Petrarchan/Italian sonnet | a poem consisting of fourteen lines with two segments: one eight line with abbabba rhyme and the following six in cdecde rhyme pattern | 62 | |
| 5669712181 | prose poem | a brief, rhythmic composition blending prose and verse: these poems are written in sentences, without the line breaks characteristic of poetry, but are heavily marked by the use of poetic devices | 63 | |
| 5669727605 | quatrain | a stanza containing four lines | 64 | |
| 5669734859 | refrain | a phrase, line, or lines that recur throughout a poem or song | 65 | |
| 5669743696 | Shakespearean/English sonnet | a poem consisting of fourteen lines: three quatrains and a couplet, usually in iambic pentameter | 66 | |
| 5669763222 | slant rhyme | refers to words that almost rhyme or visually appear to rhyme | 67 | |
| 5669767341 | speaker | the person narrating a poem | 68 | |
| 5669770561 | stanza | a grouped set of lines in a poem, usually physically separated from others such as clusters by a blank verse | 69 | |
| 5669780482 | tercet | a group of three lines of verse | 70 | |
| 5669783647 | expostition | the weaving into the plot of essential prior matters, such as past events. Helps to develop context | 71 | |
| 5669791187 | foreshadowing | the technique of introducing material that prepares the reader for future events, actions, or revelations | 72 | |
| 5670126458 | motif | a recurrent, unifying element in a work, such as an image, symbol, character type, action, idea, object, or phrase | 73 | |
| 5670136585 | point of view | the vantage point from which a narrative is told | 74 | |
| 5670141966 | first person | refers to him/herself as "I" | 75 | |
| 5670147687 | second person | perspective or "you" | 76 | |
| 5670154690 | third person objective | "he, she, it" with no character thoughts expressed | 77 | |
| 5670167066 | third person limited | "he, she, it" with knowledge of a single characters thoughts | 78 | |
| 5670175039 | third person omniscient | "he, she, it" with many or all characters thoughts expressed | 79 | |
| 5670181447 | setting | the combination of place, historical time, and social milieu that provides the general background for a plot of work | 80 | |
| 5670192863 | theme | the statements, expressed or implied, that a work seems to be making about its subject | 81 | |
| 5670200310 | allusion | an indirect reference, often to a person, event, statement, theme, or work | 82 | |
| 5670209163 | ambiguity | lack of clarity or uncertainty in meaning. A word, phrase, statement, or passage is ambiguous when it can be understood or interpreted in more than one way | 83 | |
| 5670224771 | anachronism | something outside of its proper historical time period | 84 | |
| 5670230247 | analogy | essentially, when a comparison is being made to clarify understanding | 85 | |
| 5670238067 | anthropomorphism | when nonhuman living organisms, inanimate objects or abstract concepts are given literal human traits | 86 | |
| 5670252160 | archetype | images, figures, character types, settings and story patterns that are universally shared by people across cultures and time | 87 | |
| 5670266550 | imagery | refers to the corpus of images used in text and the language used to convey a visual picture | 88 | |
| 5670272984 | irony | a contradiction or incongruity between appearance or expectation and reality: verbal or structural | 89 | |
| 5670281936 | juxtaposition | two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect which often reveals an existing dichotomy | 90 | |
| 5670291339 | microcosm | when something large is represented by something smaller, a kind of symbol | 91 | |
| 5670297520 | mood | the prevailing emotions of a work | 92 | |
| 5670299786 | objectivity | associated with external reality, and thus with empirical fact and absolute truth | 93 | |
| 5670312465 | paradox | a statement that seems self-contradictory or nonsensical on the surface but that, upon closer examination, may express an underlying truth | 94 | |
| 5670324838 | style | the way in which a literary work is written | 95 | |
| 5670329572 | subjectivity | associated with the internal mind, and thus with bias and relative truth | 96 | |
| 5670335046 | symbolism | when something stands for or suggests something larger and more complex: often an idea or range of interrelated ideas, attitudes, and practices | 97 | |
| 5670346557 | tone | the attitude of the author toward the reader, audience, or subject matter | 98 | |
| 5670371287 | portmanteau | a word coined by combining two other words, encompassing the original meanings of both component parts | 99 |
