3702607767 | Complication | Builds up the conflict | 0 | |
3702607768 | Denouement | The resolution | 1 | |
3702607769 | Allusion | Reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of significance | 2 | |
3702607770 | Allegory | Story with two meanings, literal and symbolic | 3 | |
3702607771 | Suspense | Intense feeling audience goes through while waiting for an outcome | 4 | |
3702607772 | Irony | Contrast with literal and deeper meaning | 5 | |
3702607773 | Stanza | Group of lines | 6 | |
3702607774 | Speaker | Voice expressing meaning in the poem | 7 | |
3702607775 | Tone | Attitude towards the subject | 8 | |
3702607776 | Formal diction | Elevated/high, elegant words, dignified, sophisticated | 9 | |
3702607777 | Neutral diction | Ordinary, everyday, standard vocabulary | 10 | |
3702607778 | Informal diction | Low, slang, shorthand, dialog | 11 | |
3702607779 | Specific | My dog Eric is... | 12 | |
3702607780 | General | My dog is... | 13 | |
3702607781 | Concrete | Very specific meanings, very cold day | 14 | |
3702607782 | Abstract | 'Good' is... | 15 | |
3702607783 | Denotation | Words literal meaning | 16 | |
3702607784 | Connotation | Words implied meaning | 17 | |
3702607785 | Hyperbole | Extreme exaggeration | 18 | |
3702607786 | Oxymoron | Combine opposite terms | 19 | |
3702607787 | Paradox | Self contradictory statement that has larger meaning 'fair is foul and foul is fair' | 20 | |
3702607788 | Synecdoche | Using a part to signify the whole (new set of wheels) | 21 | |
3702607789 | Metonymy | Substitute an attribute for the thing itself (Wall Street is a bunch of suits) | 22 | |
3702661499 | Anaphora | Repetition of first part of sentence | 23 | |
3702607790 | Apostrophe | Calling out to an imaginary/dead person | 24 | |
3702607791 | Invocation | Calling out to a God | 25 | |
3702607792 | Understatement | Say less than what is meant | 26 | |
3702607793 | Water | Rebirth, cleanse | 27 | |
3702607794 | Lamb | Youth, Jesus, innocence, purity | 28 | |
3702607795 | Road | Journey, life | 29 | |
3702607796 | Green | New, fresh, envy, jealousy, youth, vitality | 30 | |
3702607797 | River | Always moving, change | 31 | |
3702607798 | Overcast sky | Foreboding, ominous | 32 | |
3702607799 | Snake | Evil, temptation | 33 | |
3702607800 | White | Purity, innocence | 34 | |
3702607801 | Black | Death | 35 | |
3702607802 | Eagle | Freedom | 36 | |
3702607803 | Red | Passion, love, lust, evil | 37 | |
3702607804 | Sunrise/sunset or seasons | Life cycle | 38 | |
3702607805 | Syntax | Arrangement of words in sentence or phrase | 39 | |
3702607806 | Refrain | Word, phrase, line, lines repeated for effect | 40 | |
3702607807 | Asyndeton | Commas without conjunctions (x,y,z) makes it faster | 41 | |
3702607808 | Polysyndeton | Conjunctions without commas (x and y and z) makes length | 42 | |
3702607809 | Alliteration | Repetition of consonant sounds | 43 | |
3702661500 | Assonance | Repetition of similar vowel sounds | 44 | |
3702661501 | Euphonious | Pleasant sounds, MNLS | 45 | |
3702661502 | Cacaphonious | Harsh, displeasing sounds, KTG | 46 | |
3703698091 | Conditional Clause | If... | 47 | |
3703698092 | Ellipses | Omission '...' | 48 | |
3703698093 | Supercilious | Naughty | 49 | |
3703698094 | Fawning | Flattery | 50 | |
3703698095 | Disingenuous | Not sincere | 51 | |
3703698096 | Rancorous | Malevolent | 52 | |
3703698097 | Artless | Crafty | 53 | |
3703698098 | Euphemism | Pass away instead of die, take something bad and say it nicely | 54 |
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