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| 14691899716 | Allegory | A narrative or description having a second meaning beneath the surface one | 0 | |
| 14691899717 | Alliteration | Repeating a consonant sound in close proximity to others, or beginning several words with the same vowel sound | 1 | |
| 14691899718 | Allusion | A reference, explicit or implicit, to something in previous literature or history | 2 | |
| 14691899719 | Anaphora | The intentional repetition of beginning clauses in order to create an artistic effect | 3 | |
| 14691899720 | Anastrophe | Inverted order of words or events as a rhetorical scheme | 4 | |
| 14691899721 | Anecdote | A short account of an interesting or humorous incident | 5 | |
| 14691899722 | Apostrophe | The act of addressing some abstraction or personification that is not physically present | 6 | |
| 14691899723 | Cacophony | A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds | 7 | |
| 14691899724 | Conceit | An elaborate or unusual comparison--especially one using unlikely metaphors, simile, hyperbole, and contradiction | 8 | |
| 14691899725 | Consonance | A special type of alliteration in which the repeated pattern of consonants is marked by changes in the intervening vowels--i.e., the final consonants of the stressed syllables match each other but the vowels differ | 9 | |
| 14691899726 | Euphony | A smooth, pleasant-sounding choice and arrangement of sounds | 10 | |
| 14691899727 | Imagery | The representation through language of a sensory experience | 11 | |
| 14691899728 | Juxtaposition | The arrangement of two or more ideas, characters, actions, settings, phrases, or words side by side or in a similar narrative moments for the purpose of comparison, contrast, rhetorical effect, suspense, or character development | 12 | |
| 14691899729 | Metaphor | A comparison or analogy stated in such a way as to imply that one object is another one, figuratively speaking | 13 | |
| 14691899730 | Metonymy | Using a vaguely suggestive, physical object to embody a more general idea | 14 | |
| 14691899731 | Onomatopoeia | The use of sounds that are similar to the noise they represent for a rhetorical or artistic effect | 15 | |
| 14691899732 | Oxymoron | Using contradiction in a manner that oddly makes sense on a deeper level | 16 | |
| 14691899733 | Periodic Sentence | A long sentence that is not grammatically complete (and hence not intelligible to the reader) until the reader reaches the final portion of the sentence | 17 | |
| 14691899734 | Personification | Giving human qualities to animals or objects | 18 | |
| 14691899735 | Tone | The writer's attitude toward his or her audience and subject | 19 | |
| 14691899736 | Setting | The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs | 20 | |
| 14691899737 | Symbol | Something that means more than what it is | 21 | |
| 14691899738 | Synecdoche | A rhetorical trope involving a part of an object representing the whole, or the whole of an object representing a part | 22 | |
| 14691899739 | Voice | The distinctive style or manner of expression of the writer or a character in a book | 23 | |
| 14691899740 | Antagonist | A character or force in a story who opposes the main character or protagonist | 24 | |
| 14691899741 | Character | Any of the people involved in a story or play | 25 | |
| 14691899742 | Characterization | The process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character | 26 | |
| 14691899743 | Deuteragonist | The second most important character, after the protagonist, often a foil or eventual antagonist | 27 | |
| 14691899744 | Direct Presentation of Character | A method of characterization in which the author, by exposition or analysis, tells us directly what a character is like, or has someone else in the story do so | 28 | |
| 14691899745 | Dynamic Character | A character who grows, learns, or changes as a result of the story's action | 29 | |
| 14691899746 | Flat Character | A character whose character is summed up in one or two traits | 30 | |
| 14691899747 | Foil | A character who contrasts with another character (usually the protagonist) in order to highlight particular qualities of the other character | 31 | |
| 14691899748 | Hubris | Overbearing pride or presumption | 32 | |
| 14691899749 | Indirect Presentation of Character | That method of characterization in which the author shows us a character in action, compelling us to infer what the character is like from what is said or done by the character | 33 | |
| 14691899750 | Protagonist | The main character in a literary work | 34 | |
| 14691899751 | Round Character | a character whose character is complex and many sided | 35 | |
| 14691899752 | Static Character | A character that does not change from the beginning of the story to the end | 36 | |
| 14691899753 | Stock Character | A stereotypical character | 37 | |
| 14691899754 | Tragic Flaw | A flaw in the character of the protagonist of a tragedy that brings the protagonist to ruin or sorrow | 38 | |
| 14691899755 | Colloquial | Informal, conversational language | 39 | |
| 14691899756 | Dialect | A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation | 40 | |
| 14691899757 | Euphemism | Substituting a mild, indirect, or vague term for a harsh, blunt, or offensive one | 41 | |
| 14691899758 | Figure of Speech | Broadly, any way of saying something other than the ordinary way; more narrowly, a way of saying one thing and meaning another | 42 | |
| 14691899759 | Hyperbole | A figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated for emphasis | 43 | |
| 14691899760 | Invective | Denunciatory or abusive language | 44 | |
| 14691899761 | Proverb | A short pithy saying in general use, stating a general truth or piece of advice | 45 | |
| 14691899762 | Slang | A kind of language especially occurring in casual or playful speech, usually made up of short-lived coinages and figures of speech deliberately used in place of standard terms | 46 | |
| 14691899763 | Understatement | a figure of speech that consists of saying less than one means, or of saying what one means with less force than the occasion warrants | 47 | |
| 14691899764 | Exposition | The part of a narrative that provides the background information needed to understand the characters and the actions | 48 | |
| 14691899765 | Conflict | A clash of actions, desires, ideas, or goals in the plot of a story or drama | 49 | |
| 14691899766 | Frame Narrative | The result of inserting one or more small stories within the body of a larger story that encompasses the smaller ones | 50 | |
| 14691899767 | Irony | A situation or use of language involving some kind of incongruity or discrepancy | 51 | |
| 14691899768 | Dramatic Irony | Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play | 52 | |
| 14691899769 | Irony of Situation | A situation in which there is an incongruity between appearance and reality, or between expectation and fulfillment, or between the actual situation and what would seem appropriate | 53 | |
| 14691899770 | Verbal Irony | A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant | 54 | |
| 14691899771 | Anticlimax | A sudden descent from the impressive or significant to the ludicrous or inconsequential | 55 | |
| 14691899772 | Dilemma | A situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two or more alternatives, especially equally undesirable ones | 56 | |
| 14691899773 | Inversion | A reversal in order, nature, or effect | 57 | |
| 14691899774 | Motivation | A character's incentive or reason for behaving in a certain manner; that which impels a character to act | 58 | |
| 14691899775 | Paradox | A statement or proposition containing apparently contradictory or incompatible elements | 59 |
