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| 5208470932 | Allegory | A prose or poetic narrative in which the characters, behavior, and even setting demonstrate multiple levels of meaning and significance. | 0 | |
| 5208500011 | Alliteration | The sequential repetition of a similar initial sound, usually applied to consonants, usually heard in closely proximate stressed syllables. | 1 | |
| 5208524771 | Allusion | A reference to a literary or historical event, or place. | 2 | |
| 5208540989 | Anapestic | A metrical foot in poetry that consists of two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed. | 3 | |
| 5208556468 | Anaphora | The regular repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of a successive phrases or clauses. | 4 | |
| 5208567973 | Anecdote | A brief story or tale told by a character in a piece of literature. | 5 | |
| 5208579245 | Antagonist | Any force that is in opposition to the main character, or protagonist. | 6 | |
| 5208602735 | Anitithesis | The juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel words, phrases, grammatical, structure, or ideas. | 7 | |
| 5208621269 | Apostrophe | An address or invocation to something that is inanimate- such as an angry lover who might scream at the ocean in his or her despair. | 8 | |
| 5208646766 | Archetype | Recurrent designs, patterns of action, character types, themes or images which are identifiable in a wide range of literature. | 9 | |
| 5208677619 | Assonace | A repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, usually those found in stressed syllables or close proximity. | 10 | |
| 5208689555 | Asyndeton | A style in which conjunctions are omitted, usually producing a fast-paced, more rapid prose. | 11 | |
| 5208704433 | Attitude | The sense expressed by the tone of voice and/or the mood of a piece of writing. | 12 | |
| 5208722632 | Ballad | A narrative poem that is, or originally was, meant to be sung. | 13 | |
| 5208732677 | Blank verse | The verse from that most resembles common speech, blank verse consists of unrhymed lines in iambic pentameter. | 14 | |
| 5208763564 | Caesura | A pause in a line of verse, indicated by natural speech patterns rather than due to specific metrical patterns. | 15 | |
| 5208783216 | Chiasmus | A figure of speech by which the order of the terms in the first of two parallel clauses is reversed in the second. | 16 | |
| 5208793510 | Conceit | A comparison of two unlikely things that is drawn out within a piece of literature, in particular an extended metaphor within a poem. | 17 | |
| 5208812352 | Connotation | What is suggested by a word, apart from what it explicitly describes, often referred to as the implied meaning of a word. | 18 | |
| 5208825207 | Consonance | The repetition of a sequence of two or more consonants, but with a change in the intervening vowels. | 19 | |
| 5208838585 | Couplet | Two rhyming lines of iambic pentameter that together present a single idea or connection. | 20 | |
| 5208849430 | Dactylic | A metrical foot in poetry that consists of two stressed syllables followed by one unstressed syllable. | 21 | |
| 5208862840 | Denotation | A direct and specific meaning often referred to as the dictionary meaning of a word. | 22 | |
| 5208873395 | Dialect | The language and speech idiosyncrasies of a specific area, religion, or group of people. | 23 | |
| 5208892859 | Diction | The specific word choice an author uses to persuade or convey tone, purpose, or effect. | 24 | |
| 5208906298 | Elegy | A poetic lament upon the death of a particular person, usually ending in consolation. | 25 | |
| 5208915394 | Epic | A poem that celebrates, in a continuous narrative, the achievements of the mighty heroes and heroines. | 26 | |
| 5208928266 | Extended metaphor | A detailed and complex metaphor that extends over a long section of a work, also known as a conceit. | 27 | |
| 5208936256 | Fable | A legend or a short moral story often using animals as characters. | 28 | |
| 5208944982 | Foreshadowing | To hint at or to present an indication of the future beforehand. | 29 | |
| 5208952180 | Flashback | Retrospection, where an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronology of the narrative. | 30 | |
| 5210532902 | Free verse | Poetry that is characterized by varying line lengths, lack of traditional meter, and non-rhyming lines. | 31 | |
| 5210552318 | Genre | A type or class of literature such as epic or narrative or poetry or belles letter. | 32 | |
| 5210574096 | Iambic | Metrical foot in poetry that consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. | 33 | |
| 5210613517 | Imagery | Broadly defined, any sensory detail or evocation in a work. | 34 | |
| 5210642844 | Irony | A situation or statement characterized by significant difference between what is expected or understood and what actually happens or is meant. | 35 | |
| 5210692401 | Jargon | Specialized or technical language of a trade, profession, or similar group. | 36 | |
| 5210706174 | Juxtaposition | The location of one thing as being adjacent or juxtaposed with another. | 37 | |
| 5210728106 | Litote | A figure of speech that emphasizes its subject by conscious understatement. | 38 | |
| 5210795687 | Lyric | Originally designated poems meant to be sung to accompaniment of a lyre. | 39 | |
| 5210813069 | Metaphor | One thing pictured as if it were something else, suggesting a likeness or analogy between them. | 40 |
