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| 4986431757 | Exposition | A literary device used to introduce background information about events, settings, characters etc. to the audience or readers. | 0 | |
| 4986445852 | Rising action | A series of relevant incidents that create suspense, interest and tension in a narrative (including all decisions, characters' flaws, and background circumstances that together lead to climax). | 1 | |
| 4986460287 | Conflict | A literary element that involves a struggle between two opposing forces usually a protagonist and an antagonist. | 2 | |
| 4986467201 | Protagonist | The central character or leading figure in poetry, narrative, novel or any other story; the "hero" | 3 | |
| 4986476384 | Antagonist | A character or a group of characters which stand in opposition to the protagonist or the main character. | 4 | |
| 4986488734 | Foreshadowing | A writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story. | 5 | |
| 4986495518 | Foil | A character who contrasts with another character (usually the protagonist) in order to highlight particular qualities of the other character (in some cases, a subplot can be used as a foil to the main plot) | 6 | |
| 4986510472 | Climax | A structural part of a plot; a decisive moment or a turning point in a storyline at which the rising action turns around into a falling action. | 7 | |
| 4986522225 | Resolution/denouement | The part of the story's plot line in which the problem of the story is resolved or worked out. This occurs after the falling action and is typically where the story ends. | 8 | |
| 4992330722 | Thy/thine | your | 9 | |
| 4992333693 | Thee/thou | You | 10 | |
| 4992353788 | Ye | You (plural) | 11 | |
| 4992356304 | Allegory | A story with two levels of meaning. 1st: the surface of the story; 2nd: symbolic, deeper meaning that the surface represents | 12 | |
| 4992364162 | Allusion | A brief and indirect reference to something, but it doesn't describe the details of the thing it refers to. | 13 | |
| 4992370757 | Analogy | A comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it. Metaphors and similes are tools used to draw an analogy. | 14 | |
| 4992381660 | Anticlimax | A rhetorical device which can be defined as a disappointing situation or a sudden transition in discourse from an important idea to a trivial one. | 15 | |
| 4992391306 | Antithesis | A rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect. | 16 | |
| 4992397053 | Apostrophe | A term used when a speaker directly addresses someone or something that isn't present in the poem (like love, a person, a place, an idea, and such) | 17 | |
| 4992400566 | Circular reasoning | A logical fallacy in which the reasoner begins with what they are trying to end with (using one assertion to prove another assertion) | 18 | |
| 4992413596 | Assertion | A declaration made without proof | 19 | |
| 5249836004 | metonym | a word that is used to stand for something else that it has attributes of or is associated with---"the crown" referring to the king, "The pen is mightier than the sword." (pen reps writers and ideas, sword reps war) | 20 | |
| 5249844193 | euphemism | a word or phrase that takes the place of a harsh, unpleasant, or impolite reality--i.e., passed away for died, let go for fired | 21 | |
| 5249847400 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, as in Cleveland won by six runs (meaning "Cleveland's baseball team"). | 22 | |
| 5249876722 | litotes | Litotes is a figure of speech in which a statement is expressed by denying its opposite (e.g., you won't be sorry, meaning you'll be glad ). | 23 | |
| 5249880390 | onomatopoeia | words that sound how they're spelled--boom, splat | 24 |
