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| 10844864489 | Alliteration | the occurrence of the same consonant or vowel at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words or stressed syllables. | 0 | |
| 10844864490 | Antagonist | a person who is opposed to, struggles against, or competes with another; opponent; adversary. | 1 | |
| 10844868654 | Aside | a part of an actor's lines supposedly not heard by others on the stage and intended only for the audience. | 2 | |
| 10844869108 | Assonance | rhyme in which the same vowel sounds are used with different consonants in the stressed syllables of the rhyming words (as in "penitent" and "reticence") | 3 | |
| 10844872914 | Ballad | any light, simple song or narrative composition, especially one of sentimental or romantic character, having two or more stanzas all sung to the same melody. | 4 | |
| 10844872915 | Climax | a decisive moment that is of maximum intensity or is a major turning point in a plot | 5 | |
| 10844875774 | Conflict | the opposition of persons or forces that gives rise to the dramatic action in a drama or fiction; antagonistic state or action | 6 | |
| 10844875775 | Consonance | the correspondence of consonants, especially those at the end of stressed syllables, in a passage of prose or verse; the use of the repetition of consonants or consonant patterns as a rhyming device. | 7 | |
| 10844880065 | Couplet | a pair of successive lines of verse, especially a pair that rhyme and are of the same length. | 8 | |
| 10844883522 | Dramatic Irony | irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play. | 9 | |
| 10858879303 | Dynamic Character | a literary or dramatic character who undergoes an important inner change, as a change in personality or attitude | 10 | |
| 10844883959 | End Rhyme | rhyme of the terminal syllables of lines of poetry | 11 | |
| 10844887226 | Enjambment | a thought or sense, phrase or clause, in a line of poetry that does not come to an end at the line break, but moves over to the next line; running on from one couplet or line to the next without a major pause or syntactical break. | 12 | |
| 10844887227 | Epic | a long narrative poem in elevated style recounting the deeds of a legendary or historical hero | 13 | |
| 10844887830 | Essay | A short literary composition on a particular theme or subject, usually in prose and generally analytic, speculative, or interpretative and usually has a personal point of view. | 14 | |
| 10844890853 | Exposition | (in a play, novel, etc) dialogue, description, etc that gives the audience or reader the background of the characters and the present situation; a setting forth of the meaning or purpose. | 15 | |
| 10844890854 | Falling Action | the part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved | 16 | |
| 10844895342 | First Person POV | a literary style in which the narrator is a character within the story and is describing the events as they occur to him/her. | 17 | |
| 10844895343 | Flat Character | two-dimensional in that they are relatively uncomplicated and do not change throughout the course of a work. | 18 | |
| 10844903830 | Foot | the basic unit of verse meter consisting of any various fixed combinations or groups of stressed and unstressed or long and short syllables. | 19 | |
| 10844906623 | Foreshadowing | an indication of what is to come; prefigure | 20 | |
| 10844906624 | Free Verse | verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern | 21 | |
| 10844909239 | Genre | any stylistic category in literature that follows specific conventions | 22 | |
| 10844909240 | Hyperbole | an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally. | 23 | |
| 10844911509 | Imagery | the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively. | 24 | |
| 10844911510 | Internal Rhyme | rhyme between a word within a line and another either at the end of the same line or within another line | 25 | |
| 10844914716 | Lyric | (of poetry) having the form and musical quality of a song, and especially the character of a songlike outpouring of the poet's own thoughts and feelings, as distinguished from epic and dramatic poetry. | 26 | |
| 10844914717 | Memoir | a record of events written by a person having intimate knowledge of them and based on personal observation. | 27 | |
| 10844917883 | Metaphor | a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance. | 28 | |
| 10844921162 | Meter | arrangement of words in regularly measured, patterened, or rhythmic lines or verses. | 29 | |
| 10844921163 | Monologue | a prolonged talk by a single speaker, especially one dominating or monopolizing a conversation. | 30 | |
| 10844924274 | Myth | a traditional or legendary story, usually concerning some being or hero or event, with or without a determinable basis of fact or a natural explanation, especially one that is concerned with deities or demigods and explains some practice, rite, or phenomenon of nature. | 31 | |
| 10844924275 | Objective POV | employs a narrator who tells a story without describing any character's thoughts, opinions, or feelings; instead, it gives an unbiased point of view. | 32 | |
| 10844926725 | Onomatopoeia | the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it | 33 | |
| 10844926726 | Personification | an act of giving human characteristics to animals, objects, or concepts to create imagery. | 34 | |
| 10844927213 | Point of View (POV) | the position of the narrator in relation to the story, as indication toward the characteristics | 35 | |
| 10844931646 | Protagonist | the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work. | 36 | |
| 10844931647 | Quatrain | a stanza or poem of four lines, usually with alternate rhymes | 37 | |
| 10844935234 | Refrain | a phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a song or poem, especially at the end of each stanza; chorus. | 38 | |
| 10844935235 | Resolution | the point in a literary work at which the chief dramatic complication is worked out. | 39 | |
| 10844939136 | Perfect Rhyme | rhyme of two words spelled or pronounced identically but differing in meaning, as "rain" and "reign". | 40 | |
| 10844942618 | Rhyme Scheme | the arrangement of rhymes in a stanza or a poem | 41 | |
| 10844942619 | Rising Action | a related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest. | 42 | |
| 10844945018 | Round Character | encounters conflict and is changed by the conflict that falls upon them; extrememly realistic, more fully developed, and increases in complexity throughout the story. | 43 | |
| 10844949327 | Simile | a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid | 44 | |
| 10844952441 | Situational Irony | irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected. | 45 | |
| 10844955348 | Soliloquy (think of Yoshikawa Nao!) | an utterance or discourse by a person who is talking to himself or herself or is disregardful of or oblivious to any hearers present | 46 | |
| 10844955349 | Elizabethan Sonnet | a sonnet consisting of three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg | 47 | |
| 10844958095 | Stanza | an arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem. | 48 | |
| 10844958096 | Static Character | a literary or dramatic character who undergoes little or no inner change; a character who does not grow or develop. | 49 | |
| 10844958097 | Symbol | something used for or regarded as representing something else; a material object representing something, often something immaterial; emblem, token, or sign. | 50 | |
| 10844960431 | Theme | a subject of discourse, discussion, meditation, or composition; topic. | 51 | |
| 10844963941 | Third Person Limited POV | where the narrator knows only the thoughts and feelings of a single character, while other characters are presented only externally. | 52 | |
| 10844966403 | Third Person Omniscient POV | where the narrator knows all the thoughts, actions, and feelings of all characters | 53 | |
| 10844978256 | Verbal Irony | irony in which a person says or writes one thing and means another, or uses words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning. | 54 |
