Terms : Hide Images
| 3680603009 | Allegory | A story, poem, or picture thay can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a mornal or political one | 0 | |
| 3680603010 | Alliteration | The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words | 1 | |
| 3680603011 | Allusion | An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference | 2 | |
| 3680603012 | Ambiguity | Uncertainty or in exactness of meaning in language | 3 | |
| 3680603013 | Anachronism | A thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, especially a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned | 4 | |
| 3680603014 | Analogy | A comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification | 5 | |
| 3680603015 | Arête | The aggregate of qualities or valor and virtue making up good characters. Constant striving for perfection but at the same time knowing it can not be reached | 6 | |
| 3680603016 | Anaphora | The use of a word referring to or replacing a word used earlier in a sentence, to avoid repetition | 7 | |
| 3680603017 | Anastrophe | A figure of speech in which the syntactically correct order of subject, verb and object is changed | 8 | |
| 3680603018 | Anthropomorphism | The attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object | 9 | |
| 3680603019 | Antithesis | The use of two contrasting meanings in close proximity to each other | 10 | |
| 3680603020 | Aphorism | A short saying that is often true | 11 | |
| 3680603021 | Aporia | A speaker may seem to be in doubt or confusion on a question, so the speaker will ask a rhetorical question. | 12 | |
| 3680603022 | Apostrophe | The speaker detaches himself from reality and addresses an imaginary character or idea | 13 | |
| 3680603023 | Archetype | A typical character or situation that represents such universal patters of human nature | 14 | |
| 3680603024 | Assonance | When words close together repeat the vowel sound but start with different consonants | 15 | |
| 3680603025 | Asyndeton | To eliminate conjunctions between sentences get keep grammatical sense | 16 | |
| 3680603026 | Ballad | A lyrical song/poem that praises a particular thing | 17 | |
| 3680603027 | Blank verse | Un-rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter | 18 | |
| 3680603028 | Cacophony | A mixture of harsh and Inharmonious sounds | 19 | |
| 3680603029 | Canto | One of the principal divisions of an epic or narrative poem | 20 | |
| 3680603030 | Caesura | A pause in a line of verse dictated by sense or natural speech rhythm rather than by metrics | 21 | |
| 3680603031 | Circumlocution | A rhetorical device that can be defined as an ambiguous or pardoned way of explaining ideas or things | 22 | |
| 3680603032 | Cogito ego lum | I think, therefore I am | 23 | |
| 3680603033 | Conflict | A literary that involves a struggle between two opposing forxes | 24 | |
| 3680603034 | Connotation | A certain negative or positive resonance that words carry. Implied meaning | 25 | |
| 3680603035 | Consonance | Repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase | 26 | |
| 3680603036 | Denotation | Literal or dictionary meanings of a word in contrast to its connotative meaning | 27 | |
| 3680603037 | Dactyl | A metrical foot, or a rest in a line in the order of accent/unaccent/unaccent | 28 | |
| 3680603038 | Didactic | An idea that different forms of art and must convey info or instruments along with emotional meaning | 29 | |
| 3680603039 | Denouement | The final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work | 30 | |
| 3680603040 | Digression | The act of an instance of digressing (turning away from a point) in a discourse or other organized literary work | 31 | |
| 3680603041 | Double entendre | Ambiguity of meaning arising from language that lends itself to more than one interpretation | 32 | |
| 3680603042 | Doppelgänger | A ghostly counterpart of a living person; a double | 33 | |
| 3680603043 | Elegy | A poem or song expressing sorrow or lamentation, especially for the dead | 34 | |
| 3680603044 | Ekphrastic | A form of writing, mostly poetry, wherein the author describes another work of art | 35 | |
| 3680603045 | Enjambment | To direct or impose by authoritative order or with urgent admonition | 36 | |
| 3680603046 | Emulation | Ambitious or envious rivalry | 37 | |
| 3680603047 | Epigram | A concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought. | 38 | |
| 3680603048 | Eponym | One for whom or which something is or is believed to be named | 39 | |
| 3680603049 | Epiphany | The moment in a story when a character achieves realization or awareness | 40 | |
| 3680603050 | Epistle | A literary composition in the form of a letter | 41 | |
| 3680603051 | Epithet | Describes a place, thing, or person in a way that makes their characteristics more prominent | 42 | |
| 3680603052 | Etymology | Refers to the origin of derivation of a word. | 43 | |
| 3680603053 | Euphemism | Refers to polite, indirect expressions to replace harsher, unpleasant phrases | 44 | |
| 3680603054 | Euphony | Words or phrases that are distinguished as having a loneliness in the sounds they create | 45 | |
| 3680603055 | Fable | Short story that teaches a moral leason | 46 | |
| 3680603056 | Flashback | Interruptions that writers do to insert past events in order to provide background | 47 | |
| 3680603057 | Foil | Character that shows qualities that are in contrast with the qualities of another character | 48 | |
| 3680603058 | Foreshadowing | To include subtle hints of what may come in the future | 49 | |
| 3680603059 | Free verse | A poetic style that lacks regular meter or rhythm | 50 | |
| 3680603060 | Grotesque | Comically or repulsively ugly or distorted | 51 | |
| 3680603061 | Hamartia | A fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine | 52 | |
| 3680603062 | Heroic couplet | A pair of rhyming iambic pentameters, used by 17th or 18th century poets | 53 | |
| 3680603063 | Homily | A religious discourse that is intended primarily for spiritual edification rather than doctoral instruction | 54 | |
| 3680603064 | Hubris | A personality flaw of a character who enjoys a powerful position, which ends up becoming their demise | 55 | |
| 3680603065 | Hyperbole | An exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis | 56 | |
| 3680603066 | Iamb | a metrical foot used in various types of poetry. | 57 | |
| 3680603067 | Imagery | Figurative language to represent object or ideas In a way that appeals to our physical senses | 58 | |
| 3680603068 | Internal rhyme | Metrical lines in which its middle words and end words rhyme with each other | 59 | |
| 3680603069 | Invective | Denotes speech or writing that attacks, insults, or denounces a person, topic, or institution. This negativity is typically employed in both poetry and prose to reiterate the significance of the emotions of the writer. | 60 | |
| 3680603070 | Dramatic irony | An important stylistic device that is commonly found in plays, movies, theaters, and sometimes in poetry | 61 | |
| 3680603071 | Situational irony | A literary device that you can easily identify in literary works. It happens when the outcome is not what the audience expected | 62 | |
| 3680603072 | Juxtaposition | A literary technique in which two or more ideas, places, characters, and their actions are placed side by side In a narrative or a poem for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts | 63 | |
| 3680603073 | Lyrical | Something, a form of literature, that is typically accompanied by music. | 64 | |
| 3680603074 | Malapropism | A use of an incorrect word in place of a similar sounding word that results in a nonsensical and humorous expression | 65 | |
| 3680603075 | Metaphor | A figure of speech which makes an implicit, implied, or hidden comparison between two things or objects that are poles apart from each other but have some characteristics in common between them | 66 | |
| 3680603076 | Metonymy | A figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely related | 67 | |
| 3680603077 | Motif | An object or idea that repeats itself throughout a literary work | 68 | |
| 3680603078 | Mood | A literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers | 69 | |
| 3680603079 | Nemesis | A literary device that refers to a situation of poetic justice where the good characters are rewarded for their virtues and the evil characters are punished for their vices | 70 | |
| 3680603080 | Neologism | A newly coined word or phrase | 71 | |
| 3680603081 | Novella | A short novel or a long story | 72 | |
| 3680603082 | Onomatopoeia | A word which imitates the natural sounds of a thing | 73 | |
| 3680603083 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect | 74 | |
| 3680603084 | Parable | A short story which presents a short story with a moral lesson at the end | 75 | |
| 3680603085 | Parody | An imitation of a particular writer, artists, or a genre, exaggerating it deliberately to produce a comic effect | 76 | |
| 3680603086 | Paradox | Contrary to expectations, existing belief, or performed opinion | 77 | |
| 3680603087 | Pentameter | A literary device that can be defined as a line or verse that has five strong metrical feet or beats | 78 | |
| 3680603088 | Primogeniture | The fact that children were meant to inherit all properly and others from their parents | 79 | |
| 3680606699 | Personification | A figure of speech in which a thing, an idea, or an animal is given human attributes | 80 | |
| 3680607541 | Point of View | The angle of considering things, which shows us the opinion, or feelings of the individuals involved in a situation | 81 | |
| 3680609649 | Polysyndeton | A stylistic device in which several coordinating conjunctions are used in succession in order to achieve an artistic effect | 82 | |
| 3680613102 | Portmanteau | A literary device in which two or more words are joined together to coin a new word | 83 | |
| 3680614407 | Prologue | An opening of a story that establishes the setting and gives background details | 84 | |
| 3680616584 | Prosody | The study of meter, intonation, and rhythm of a poetic work | 85 | |
| 3680617896 | Quatrain | A type of stanza, or a complete poem, consisting of four lines | 86 | |
| 3680619723 | Repartee | A conversation or speech characterized by quick, witty comments or replies | 87 | |
| 3680621011 | Roman a clef | A novel in which real people or events appear with invented names | 88 | |
| 3680622353 | Rhetorical Question | A question that you ask without expecting an answer | 89 | |
| 3680623363 | Reliability | A quality of some fictional narratives whose word the reader can trust | 90 | |
| 3680624475 | Syllogism | A form of reasoning in which two statements are made and a conclusion is drawn from them | 91 | |
| 3680625486 | Satire | A literary work in which humans vice or folly is attacked through irony, derision, or wit. | 92 | |
| 3680628628 | Setting | An environment or surrounding in which an event or story takes place. | 93 | |
| 3680629662 | Simile | A figure of language used to compare two things with 'like' or 'as' | 94 | |
| 3680630807 | Sonnet | A poem with 14 lines, written in Iambic pentameter | 95 | |
| 3680631527 | Stanza | A division of four or more lines having fixed length, meter, or rhyming scheme. | 96 | |
| 3680632655 | Stream of Consciousness | A method of narration that describes in words the flow of thoughts in the minds of the characters | 97 | |
| 3680635225 | Sublime | English Romantics began to view the sublime as referring to a 'realm of experience beyond the measure' that is beyond definition. | 98 | |
| 3680637935 | Synecdoche | A literary device in which a part of something represents the whole or it may use a whole to represent a part. | 99 | |
| 3680639240 | Synesthesia | A technique adopted by writers to present ideas, characters, or places in such a manner that they appeal to more than one sense like hearing, seeing, smell, etc at a given time | 100 | |
| 3680642108 | Syntax | A set of rules in a language | 101 | |
| 3680643145 | Tabula Rosa | The idea that humanist is born completely innocent, without any initial predispositions, attitudes, or beliefs. | 102 | |
| 3680644350 | Terza Rima | A rhyming verse stanza form that consists of an interlocking three-line rhyme scheme. | 103 | |
| 3680645949 | Tetrameter | A line of four metrical feet | 104 | |
| 3680648961 | Triplet | A rather rare stanza form in poetry and is basically three lines that rhyme | 105 | |
| 3680649641 | Theme | A main idea or underlying meaning of a literary work that may be stated directly or indirectly. | 106 | |
| 3680650757 | Tone | An attitude of a writer toward a subject or audience | 107 | |
| 3680652916 | Tragedy | A kind of drama that presents a serious subject matter about human suffering and corresponding terrible events in a dignified manner. | 108 | |
| 3680656039 | Understatement | A figure of speech employed by writers or speakers to intentionally make a situation seem less important than it really is. | 109 | |
| 3680657189 | Verisimilitude | Likeness to the truth i.e. resemblance of a fictions work to a real event even if it is a far-fetched one | 110 | |
| 3680661027 | Versification | The change from prose into metrical form | 111 |
