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| 2985809513 | First Person Narrator | character in a story who relates their actions and thoughts through his or her perspective | 0 | |
| 2985810265 | Metonymy | the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant | 1 | |
| 2985812163 | Personification | the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman | 2 | |
| 2985812621 | Syntax | the word choice of diction | 3 | |
| 2985813914 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 4 | |
| 2985816422 | Analogy | a comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification | 5 | |
| 2985816904 | Lyric | expressing the writer's emotions, usually short and briefly and in stanzas or recognized form | 6 | |
| 2985817299 | Rhyme | a similarity of accented sounds between two words | 7 | |
| 2985817842 | Tone | the characteristic emotion of attitude of an author toward the characters, subject, and audience | 8 | |
| 2985818317 | Cacophony | a harsh, discordant mixture of sounds; opposite of euphony | 9 | |
| 2985818760 | Protagonist | the leading character or one of the major characters in a literary work | 10 | |
| 2985819281 | Theme | the central idea or message of a literary work | 11 | |
| 2985820112 | Rythm | Four strong beats; "To err is human forgive, divine" | 12 | |
| 2985820939 | Consonance | the recurrence of similar sounds, such as consonants, in close proximity | 13 | |
| 2985821893 | Allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one | 14 | |
| 2985823873 | Assonance | in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel in non-rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for an echo effect | 15 | |
| 2985824478 | Onomatopoeia | the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named; cuckoo; sizzle | 16 | |
| 2985825312 | Paradox | a statement or proposition that leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory | 17 | |
| 2985825720 | Diction | word choice; also called syntax | 18 | |
| 2985826148 | Hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally | 19 | |
| 2985826601 | Metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable | 20 | |
| 2985827058 | Sonnet | a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line | 21 | |
| 2985828526 | Symbolism | the use of symbols to represent both literal and representative ideas or qualities with a more complex significance | 22 | |
| 2985829135 | Mood | similar to tone, it is the primary emotional attitude of a work | 23 | |
| 2985829917 | 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 | 24 | |
| 2985830340 | Alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. | 25 | |
| 2985830829 | Apostrophe | an exclamatory passage in a speech or poem addressed to a person or thing | 26 | |
| 2985831564 | Point Of View | the perspective from which a story is presented | 27 | |
| 2985832196 | Allusion | an expression designed to bring something to mind without mentioning it plainly | 28 | |
| 2985832634 | Blank Verse | poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter; often found in Shakespeare's works | 29 | |
| 2985833017 | Foreshadowing | be a warning or indication of a future event in a story | 30 | |
| 2985833480 | Imagery | visually descriptive or figurative language in a literary work | 31 | |
| 2985834489 | Epigram | a pithy saying or remark expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way; a short poem having a witty or ingenious ending | 32 | |
| 2985834864 | Epic | a long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures or the history of a nation | 33 | |
| 2985835495 | Ballad | a long narrative poem or song narrating a single story, which is often tragic or violent, in short stanzas. | 34 | |
| 2985836173 | Soliloquy | an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play | 35 | |
| 2985836602 | Oxymoron | a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction | 36 | |
| 2985837064 | Euphony | the quality of being pleasing to the ear through a harmonious combination of words | 37 |
