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| 13548730232 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds (EX: "She sells seashells by the sea-shore.") | 0 | |
| 13548732572 | Onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents (EX: slam, splash, bam) | 1 | |
| 13548751733 | Soliquy | speech to oneself | 2 | |
| 13548753199 | Tragedy | A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character | 3 | |
| 13548758786 | Denouncement | the falling action of a story after its climax; conclusion | 4 | |
| 13548761372 | Tercet | 3 line stanza | 5 | |
| 13548765845 | Stanza | A group of lines in a poem | 6 | |
| 13548769951 | Dramatic Irony | when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't | 7 | |
| 13548771622 | Fable | short tale that teaches a lesson | 8 | |
| 13548773434 | Stage Direction | An play writer's written instructions on how things should be portrayed on stage | 9 | |
| 13548782197 | Foil | A character who acts as a contrast to another character | 10 | |
| 13548806433 | Literal Language | means exactly what it says | 11 | |
| 13548855550 | Rising Action | Events leading up to the climax | 12 | |
| 13548857350 | Hyperbole | exaggeration | 13 | |
| 13548857351 | Paradox | a contradiction or dilemma | 14 | |
| 13548860776 | Figurative Language | writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally | 15 | |
| 13548864975 | Oxymoron | conjoining contradictory terms (EX: 'deafening silence') | 16 | |
| 13548867427 | Mood | Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader | 17 | |
| 13548869388 | Metaphor | A comparison without using like or as | 18 | |
| 13548872260 | Simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" | 19 | |
| 13548872261 | Euphanism | A less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant (EX: Passed away instead of died) | 20 | |
| 13548897078 | Satire | A literary work that criticizes human misconduct | 21 | |
| 13548899943 | Epigraph | a quotation of a literary work suggestive of the theme | 22 | |
| 13548904728 | Analogy | comparison | 23 | |
| 13548909435 | cacophony | bad noise | 24 | |
| 13548911093 | Couplet | Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme | 25 | |
| 13548911112 | Caesura | a strong pause within a line | 26 | |
| 13548915678 | Connosance | Repetition of the final consonant sound in words containing different vowels (EX: "stroke of luck.") | 27 | |
| 13548918866 | euphony | beautiful sound | 28 | |
| 13548921522 | Apostrophe | address to an absent or imaginary person | 29 | |
| 13548924667 | Free Verse | poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter | 30 | |
| 13548927925 | Internal Rhyme | A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line | 31 | |
| 13548931098 | Enjambment | running lines of poetry from one to the next without using any kind of punctuation | 32 | |
| 13548942217 | Idyll | a passage that describes a kind of ideal life | 33 | |
| 13548944025 | Volta | The turning point in a sonnet | 34 | |
| 13548945377 | Ballad | A poem narrating a story in short stanzas | 35 | |
| 13548949964 | Anaphora | the repetition of a word at the beginning of clauses | 36 | |
| 13548951853 | Iambic Meter | unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable | 37 | |
| 13548953645 | Meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry | 38 | |
| 13548955292 | Octave | 8 line stanza | 39 | |
| 13548959052 | Pyrric foot | 2 unstressed syllables | 40 | |
| 13548984718 | Refrain | Repeated lines in a poem | 41 | |
| 13548988827 | Anapest | three-syllable foot, stress on third | 42 | |
| 13548990850 | Eye Rhyme | a similarity between words in spelling but not in pronunciation | 43 | |
| 13548994518 | Slant Rhyme | A rhyming sound that is not exact | 44 | |
| 13549002207 | Sonnett | 14 line poem | 45 | |
| 13549008616 | frame story | a story within a story | 46 | |
| 13549012727 | Anti-hero | a protagonist who lacks the characteristics that would make him a hero | 47 | |
| 13549017542 | aphorism | a concise statement of a truth or principle | 48 | |
| 13549020539 | Byronic Hero | a self tormented outcast who is cynical and contemptuous of societal norms and is suffering from some unnamed or mysterious sin | 49 | |
| 13549041280 | parallel structure | the repetition of a chosen grammatical form within a sentence | 50 | |
| 13549045201 | Epic hero | a brave and noble character in an epic poem | 51 | |
| 13549045202 | Classical hero | a variation on the tragic hero | 52 | |
| 13549049942 | Syntax | Sentence structure | 53 | |
| 13549052872 | Anthropomorphism | the attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object. | 54 | |
| 13549056844 | Dues ex machina | an unexpected power or event saving a seemingly hopeless situation | 55 | |
| 13549064300 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole | 56 | |
| 13860899779 | Litotes | understatement | 57 | |
| 13860899780 | Epithet | 58 |
