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| 4935518627 | Allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. | 0 | |
| 4935527593 | Ambiguity | uncertainty or inexactness of meaning in language. | 1 | |
| 4935530280 | Anagram | a word, phrase, or name formed by rearranging the letters of another, such as cinema, formed from iceman. (ex. cinema, iceman) | 2 | |
| 4935531985 | Anapestic Meter | poetic device defined as a metrical foot in a line of a poem that contains three syllables wherein the first two syllables are short and unstressed followed by a third syllable that is long and stressed | 3 | |
| 4935534907 | Antihero | a central character in a story, movie, or drama who lacks conventional heroic attributes | 4 | |
| 4935536878 | Archetype | a very typical example of a certain person or thing. | 5 | |
| 4935537860 | Caesura | a pause near the middle of a line. | 6 | |
| 4935539543 | Canon | the material accepted as officially part of the story in an individual universe of that story. I | 7 | |
| 4935541647 | Catharis | the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions | 8 | |
| 4935543082 | Colloquial | used in ordinary or familiar conversation; not formal or literary. | 9 | |
| 4935544131 | Connotation | an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning | 10 | |
| 4935545102 | Dactylic Meter | a long syllable followed by two short syllables | 11 | |
| 4935547561 | Denouncement | the resolution of the issue of a complicated plot in fiction | 12 | |
| 4935549482 | Didactic Poetry | it teaches or explains something such as a truth or moral. | 13 | |
| 4935551673 | Doggerel | comic verse composed in irregular rhythm. | 14 | |
| 4935577809 | Editorial Omniscience | omniscient narrator presents the thoughts and actions of the characters but does comment, judge, and interject opinion | 15 | |
| 4935579857 | Electra Complex | old-fashioned term for the Oedipus complex as manifested in young girls. | 16 | |
| 4935581258 | Elegy | a sad poem, usually written to praise and express sorrow for someone who is dead | 17 | |
| 4935583130 | Enjambment | he continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza | 18 | |
| 4935586533 | Envoy | a messenger or representative, especially one on a diplomatic mission. | 19 | |
| 4935588915 | Epigram | a pithy saying or remark expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way. | 20 | |
| 4935590286 | Euphony | the quality of being pleasing to the ear, especially through a harmonious combination of words. | 21 | |
| 4935591045 | Farce | a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations. | 22 | |
| 4935595662 | Feminine Rhyme | a rhyme between stressed syllables followed by one or more unstressed syllables | 23 | |
| 4935596834 | Foot | a combination of stressed and unstressed syllables. | 24 | |
| 4935600715 | Formalist Criticism | the elements of form—style, structure, tone, imagery, and determining how such elements work together with the text's content to shape its effects upon readers. | 25 | |
| 4935603367 | Formula Literature | the storylines and plots have been reused to the extent that the narratives are predictable | 26 | |
| 4935605238 | Found Poem | a type of poetry created by taking words, phrases, and sometimes whole passages from other sources and reframing them as poetry (a literary equivalent of a collage) by making changes in spacing and lines, or by adding or deleting text, thus imparting new meaning | 27 | |
| 4935606881 | Hamartia | a fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine. | 28 | |
| 4935608208 | Hybris | extreme pride and arrogance shown by a character that ultimately brings about his downfall | 29 | |
| 4935612061 | Marxist Criticism | a loose term describing literary criticism based on socialist and dialectic theories. Marxist criticism views literary works as reflections of the social institutions from which they originate. | 30 | |
| 4935612856 | Melodrama | a sensational dramatic piece with exaggerated characters and exciting events intended to appeal to the emotions. | 31 | |
| 4935614010 | Metafiction | fiction in which the author self-consciously alludes to the artificiality or literariness of a work by parodying or departing from novelistic conventions (especially naturalism) and traditional narrative techniques. | 32 | |
| 4935616346 | Metonymy | the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant | 33 | |
| 4935620492 | Organic Form | he structure has originated from the materials and subjects used by the author, usually in romantic literature | 34 | |
| 4935622497 | Oxymoron | a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction | 35 | |
| 4935632717 | Petrarchan Sonnet | consisting of an octave with the rhyme scheme abbaabba and of a sestet with one of several rhyme schemes, as cdecde or cdcdcd | 36 | |
| 4935633902 | Postcolonial Criticsm | addresses the problems and consequences of the decolonization of a country and of a nation, especially the political and cultural independence of formerly subjugated colonial peoples | 37 | |
| 4935636958 | Problem Play | a form of drama that emerged during the 19th century as part of the wider movement of realism in the arts. | 38 | |
| 4935639232 | Prosody | the patterns of rhythm and sound used in poetry. | 39 | |
| 4935642126 | Pyramidal Pattern | a typical convention of some dramatic works in which the plot is divided into three parts—rising action, climax, and falling action. | 40 | |
| 4935645174 | Quatrain | a stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes | 41 | |
| 4935645844 | Run-On-Line | the meaning runs over from one poetic line to the next, without terminal punctuation | 42 | |
| 4935651738 | Scansion | the action of scanning a line of verse to determine its rhythm. | 43 | |
| 4935652892 | Sestet | the last six lines of a sonnet. | 44 | |
| 4935656030 | Sestina Criticism | a poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet, all stanzas having the same six words at the line-ends in six different sequences that follow a fixed pattern, and with all six words appearing in the closing three-line envoi. | 45 | |
| 4935659553 | Soliloquy | an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play. | 46 | |
| 4935661333 | Spondee | a foot consisting of two long (or stressed) syllables. | 47 | |
| 4935663201 | Stream of Consciousness Technique | a narrative mode or device that depicts the multitudinous thoughts and feelings which pass through the mind. | 48 | |
| 4935666437 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, as in Cleveland won by six runs | 49 | |
| 4935670410 | Tercet | a three-lined stanza or poem that often contains a rhyme. | 50 | |
| 4935674196 | Triplet | meaning three - lines put together that rhyme | 51 | |
| 4935678161 | Trochaic Meter | simply means that the poem has four trochees. A trochee is a long syllable, or stressed syllable, followed by a short, or unstressed, one. | 52 | |
| 4935680265 | Villanelle | a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain. | 53 |
