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| 5289011971 | metaphor | one thing pictured as if it were something else, suggesting a likeness or analogy between them | 0 | |
| 5289018864 | meter | the more or less regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry | 1 | |
| 5289023882 | metonymy | a figure of speech in which an attribute or commonly associated feature is used to name or designate something | 2 | |
| 5289031648 | mood | a feeling or ambiance, resulting from the tone of a piece as well as the writer/narrator's attitude and point of view | 3 | |
| 5289038157 | motif | a recurrent device, formula, or situation that often serves as a signal for the appearance of a character or event | 4 | |
| 5289048084 | narrator | the "character" who "tells" the story, or in poetry, the persona | 5 | |
| 5289053732 | ode | a lyric poem that is somewhat serious in subject and treatment, elevated in style and sometimes uses elaborate stanza structure | 6 | |
| 5289091681 | omniscient point of view | also called unlimited: a perspective that can be seen from one character's view, then another's, then another's or can be moved in or out of the mind of any character at any time | 7 | |
| 5289105226 | oxymoron | a figure of speech that combines two apparently contradictory elements, sometimes resulting in a humorous image or statement | 8 | |
| 5289117317 | parable | a short fiction that illustrates an explicit moral lesson through the use of analogy | 9 | |
| 5289127092 | paradox | a statement that seems contradictory but may actually be true | 10 | |
| 5289131934 | parallel structure | the use of similar forms in writing for nouns, verbs, phrases, or thoughts | 11 | |
| 5289138313 | pastoral | a work that describes the simple life of country folk, usually shepherds who live a timeless, painless life in a world full of beauty, music, and love | 12 | |
| 5289152864 | persona | the voice or figure of the author who tells and structures the story and who may or may not share the values of the actual author | 13 | |
| 5289163590 | personification | treating an abstraction or nonhuman object as if it were a person by endowing it with human qualities | 14 | |
| 5289177350 | petrarchan sonnet | a sonnet that divides the poem into one section of eight lines and a second section of six lines | 15 | |
| 5289186341 | plot | the arrangement of the narration based on the cause-effect relationship of the events | 16 | |
| 5289191935 | protagonist | the main character in a work, who may or may not be heroic | 17 | |
| 5289194993 | quatrain | a poetic stanza of four lines | 18 | |
| 5289197162 | realism | the practice in literature of attempting to describe nature and life without idealization and with attention to detail | 19 | |
| 5289206587 | refrain | a repeated stanza or line(s) in a poem or song | 20 | |
| 5289212469 | rhetorical question | a question that is asked simply for stylistic effect and is not expected to be answered | 21 | |
| 5289221109 | rhyme | the repetition of the same or similar sounds, most often at the end of lines | 22 | |
| 5289223836 | rhythm | the modulation of weak and strong elements in the flow of speech | 23 | |
| 5289227496 | scansion | the analysis of verse to show its meter | 24 | |
| 5289230127 | setting | the time and place of the action in a story, poem, or play. | 25 | |
| 5289236524 | Shakespearean sonnet | a sonnet that divides the poem into three units of four lines each and a final unit of two lines | 26 | |
| 5289243335 | simile | a direct, explicit comparison of one thing to another, usually using the words like or as to draw the connection | 27 | |
| 5289256749 | soliloquy | a monologue in which the character in a play is alone and speaking only to himself or herself | 28 | |
| 5289264090 | speaker | the person, not necessarily the author, who is the voice of a poem | 29 | |
| 5289267837 | stanza | a section of a poem demarcated by extra line spacing | 30 | |
| 5289274135 | stereotype | a characterization based on conscious or unconscious assumptions that some one aspect, such as gender, age, ethnic or national identity, religion, occupation, marital status, and so on, are predictably accompanied by certain character traits, actions, even values | 31 | |
| 5289298225 | stock character | one who appears in a number of stories or plays such as the cruel stepmother, the femme fatale, etc | 32 | |
| 5289303778 | style | a distinctive manner of expression | 33 | |
| 5289305943 | symbolism | a person, place, thing, event, or pattern in a literary work that designates itself and at the same time figuratively represents or "stands for" something else | 34 | |
| 5289319273 | synecdoche | when a part is used to signify a whole, as in "all hands on deck!" | 35 | |
| 5289329324 | syntax | the way words are put together to form phrases, clauses, and sentences | 36 | |
| 5289333881 | theme | a generalized, abstract paraphrase of the inferred central or dominant idea or concern of a work | 37 | |
| 5289338533 | tone | the attitude a literary work takes toward its subject and theme | 38 | |
| 5289343459 | tragedy | a drama in which a character is brought to a disastrous end in his or her confrontation with a superior force | 39 | |
| 5289351777 | trochaic | a metrical foot in poetry that is the opposite of iambic | 40 | |
| 5289356417 | turning point | the third part of plot structure, the point at the which the action stops rising and begins falling or reversing | 41 | |
| 5289362433 | villanelle | a verse form consisting of nineteen lines divided into six stanzas- five tercets and one quatrain | 42 | |
| 5289373282 | voice | the acknowledged or unacknowledged source of the words of the story | 43 |
