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| 7113553828 | Diction | the author's choice of words or phrases in a literary work | 0 | |
| 7114185786 | Dramatic Irony | refers to a situation in which events or facts not known to a character on stage or in a fictional work are known to another character, the audience, or the reader. | 1 | |
| 7113553829 | Dramatic Monologue | a lyric poem in which the speaker addresses someone whose replies are not recorded. | 2 | |
| 7113553830 | Elegy | a mourning poem of lament for an individual or tragic event | 3 | |
| 7113553831 | Enjambment | the continuation of a complete idea from one line to another, without pause | 4 | |
| 7113553832 | Epiphany | a revealing scene or moment in which a character experiences a deep realization about their self. | 5 | |
| 7113553833 | Epistrophe | repetition of a concluding word or word endings. | 6 | |
| 7113553834 | Euphemism | using a mild or gentle phrase instead of a blunt, embarrassing, or painful one | 7 | |
| 7114196510 | Euphony | attempting to group words together harmoniously, so that the consonants pernit an easy and pleasing flow of sound when spoken | 8 | |
| 7113553835 | Exposition | the opening section of a narrative or dramatic structure in which characters, setting, theme, and conflict can be revealed | 9 | |
| 7113553836 | Flashback | interruption of the narrative to show an episode that happenee before thag particular point in the story | 10 | |
| 7113553837 | Foot | a group of syllables in verse usually consisting of one accented syllable and the unaccented syllables associated with it | 11 | |
| 7113553838 | Foreshadowing | a hint given to the reader of what is to come | 12 | |
| 7113553839 | Free Verse | a type of poetry that differs from conventional verse forms in being "free" from a fixed pattern of meter and rhyme | 13 | |
| 7113553840 | Hamartia | a tragic flaw, especially a misperception, a lack of some important insight, or some blindness that ironically results from one's own strengths and abilities | 14 | |
| 7113553841 | Hubris | in a hero, refers to arrogant, excessive self-pride or self confidence or a lack of some important perception or insight due to pride in one's abilities | 15 | |
| 7113553842 | Hyperbole | a figure of speech involving great exaggeration | 16 | |
| 7113553843 | Iambic Pentameter | a line of verse having five metrical feet (Shakespeare's most frequent writing pattern) | 17 | |
| 7113553844 | Imagery | the sensory details that provide vividness in a literary work and tend to arouse emotions or feeling in a reader which abstract language does not | 18 | |
| 7113553845 | In media res | Latin for "in the middle of things"; used to describe a plot and begins in the middle of events and then reveals past through flashbacks | 19 | |
| 7113553846 | Irony | The term used to describe a contrast between what appears to be and what really is | 20 | |
| 7113553847 | Juxtaposition | placing two ideas, words, or images side by side so that their closeness creates an original, ironic, or insightful meaning | 21 | |
| 7113553848 | Litotes | a figure of speech in which a positive is stated by negating its opposite (ex. Not a bad idea) | 22 | |
| 7113553849 | Metaphor | a figure of speech involving an implied comparison | 23 | |
| 7113553850 | Meter (rhythm) | The pattern of stressed or unstressed syllables in a line of poetry. | 24 | |
| 7113553851 | Metonymy | a figure of speech in which a specific term naming an object is substituted for another word with which it is closely associated | 25 | |
| 7113553852 | Motif | a recurrent word, image, theme, object, or phrase that tends to unify a literary work or that may be elaborated into a theme | 26 | |
| 7113553853 | Narrator (persona/point of view) | the teller of the story | 27 | |
| 7113553854 | Onomatopoeia | words used in such a way that the sound of the words imitates the sound of the thing being spoken of | 28 | |
| 7113553855 | Paradox | a statement, often metaphorical, that seems to be self-contradictory but which has valid meaning | 29 |
