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| 6573482804 | Allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. | 0 | |
| 6573484966 | Alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. | 1 | |
| 6573486849 | Allusion | an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference. | 2 | |
| 6573486850 | Apostrophe | figure of speech sometimes represented by exclamation "O". A writer or a speaker, using an apostrophe, detaches himself from the reality and addresses an imaginary character in his speech. | 3 | |
| 6573486851 | Aside | A term used in drama and theater, an aside happens when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by the other actors on the stage. Asides are useful for giving the audience special information about the other characters onstage or the action of the plot. | 4 | |
| 6573489280 | Blank verse | verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter. | 5 | |
| 6573489281 | Caesura | (in Greek and Latin verse) a break between words within a metrical foot. (in modern verse) a pause near the middle of a line. any interruption or break. | 6 | |
| 6573489282 | Connotation | meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing which it describes explicitly. Words carry cultural and emotional associations or meanings in addition to their literal meanings or denotations. | 7 | |
| 6573492107 | Dactyl | metrical foot, or a beat in a line, containing three syllables in which first one is accented followed by second and third unaccented syllables (accented/unaccented/unaccented) in quantitative meter such as in the word "humanly." | 8 | |
| 6573492108 | Denotation | literal or dictionary meanings of a word in contrast to its connotative or associated meanings. | 9 | |
| 6573492109 | Denoument | French word called "denoue" that means "to untie". The denouement is a literary device which can be defined as the resolution of the issue of a complicated plot in fiction. | 10 | |
| 6573494589 | Deus ex machina | the incidence where an implausible concept or character is brought into the story in order to make the conflict in the story resolve and to bring about a pleasing solution. | 11 | |
| 6573494590 | Diction | style of speaking or writing determined by the choice of words by a speaker or a writer. | 12 | |
| 6573494591 | Elegy | poem or song in the form of elegiac couplets, written in honor of someone deceased. It typically laments or mourns the death of the individual. | 13 | |
| 6573496728 | Enjambment | 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. In simple words, it is the running on of a sense from one couplet or line to the next without a major pause or syntactical break. | 14 | |
| 6573496729 | Epigram | rhetorical device that is a memorable, brief, interesting and surprising satirical statement. It has originated from a Greek word, epigramma, meaning inscription or to inscribe. | 15 | |
| 6573496730 | Euphemism | polite, indirect expressions which replace words and phrases considered harsh and impolite or which suggest something unpleasant. ... For example, "kick the bucket" is a euphemism that describes the death of a person. | 16 | |
| 6573498302 | Euphony | Greek word "euphonos" that means sweet-voiced. It can be defined as the use of words and phrases that are distinguished as having a wide range of noteworthy melody or loveliness in the sounds they create. | 17 | |
| 6573498303 | Foot | basic unit of a poem's meter. A foot is a combination of stressed and unstressed syllables. | 18 | |
| 6573498304 | Free verse | literary device that can be defined as poetry that is free from limitations of regular meter or rhythm and does not rhyme with fixed forms. Such poems are without rhythms and rhyme schemes; do not follow regular rhyme scheme rules and still provide artistic expression. | 19 | |
| 6573501108 | Iambic pentameter | In a line of poetry, an iamb is a foot or beat consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, or a short syllable followed by a long syllable such as comPLETE | 20 | |
| 6573501109 | Idyll | short poem of a pastoral or rural character in which something of the element of landscape is depicted or suggested. | 21 | |
| 6573501110 | Irony | opposite of its literal meaning | 22 | |
| 6573501131 | Metonymy | figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated. Such as "The pen is mightier than the sword," This sentence has two examples of metonymy: The "pen" stands in for "the written word." | 23 | |
| 6573503590 | Motif | image, sound, action or other figures that have a symbolic significance and contributes toward the development of theme. | 24 | |
| 6573503591 | Oxymoron | two contradictory words are together in one phrase. "Pretty ugly" | 25 | |
| 6573503592 | Paradox | statement that is self contradictory because it often contains two statements that are both true, but in general, cannot both be true at the same time. | 26 | |
| 6573505484 | Pathos | an appeal to emotion, and is a way of convincing an audience of an argument by creating an emotional response. | 27 | |
| 6573505485 | Satire | expose and criticize foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society by using humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule. It intends to improve humanity by criticizing its follies and foibles. | 28 | |
| 6573505486 | Soliloquy | a device often used in drama when a character speaks to himself or herself, relating thoughts and feelings, thereby also sharing them with the audience, giving off the illusion of being a series of unspoken reflections. | 29 | |
| 6573505487 | Sonnet | a small or little song or lyric. In poetry, a sonnet has 14 fourteen lines and is written in iambic pentameter. Each line has 10 syllables. It has a specific rhyme scheme and a "volta" or a specific turn. | 30 | |
| 6573507822 | Spondee | a beat in a poetic line which consists of two accented syllables (stressed/stressed) or DUM-DUM stress pattern. | 31 | |
| 6573510722 | Synecdoche | literary device in which a part of something represents the whole or it may use a whole to represent a part. Part to Represent Whole: The word "bread" can be used to represent food in general or money (e.g. he is the breadwinner; music is my bread and butter). The word "sails" is often used to refer to a whole ship. The phrase "hired hands" can be used to refer to workmen. The word "head" refers to cattle. The word "wheels" refers to a vehicle. Whole to Represent a Part: At the Olympics, you will hear that the United States won a gold medal in an event. That actually means a team from the United States, not the country as a whole. If "the world" is not treating you well, that would not be the entire world but just a part of it that you've encountered. The word "society" is often used to refer to high society or the social elite. The word "police" can be used to represent only one or a few police officers. The "pentagon" can refer to a few decision-making generals. "Capitol Hill" refers to both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives. | 32 | |
| 6573510723 | Syntax | how the chosen words are used to form a sentence. | 33 | |
| 6573510724 | Tercet | a three-lined stanza or poem that often contains a rhyme. There are many different types of tercets. They can be easily read, and when they rhyme they have a certain type of flow, like rolling waves. | 34 | |
| 6573512571 | Trochee | a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one: Róund abóut the cáuldron gó, Ín the póisoned éntrails thrów. Known as a duple meter. | 35 | |
| 6573512572 | Anachronism | "against time". Therefore, an anachronism is an error of chronology or timeline in a literary piece. In other words, anything that is out of time and out of place is an anachronism. Like a typewriter in a park lol | 36 | |
| 6573512573 | Foil | a character who contrasts with another character —usually the protagonist— in order to highlight particular qualities of the other character. | 37 | |
| 6573516478 | Media res | literary technique in which a story begins after the action has already begun and the explanation of plot, character roles, the importance of setting, and so on are left to be revealed via flashback, a character's thoughts or dialogue. | 38 | |
| 6573516479 | Villanelle | fixed form poem consisting of five tercets and a quatrain and also follows a specific rhyme scheme using only two different sounds | 39 | |
| 6573516480 | Zeugma | using one word to modify two other words, in two different ways. An example of a zeugma is, "She broke his car and his heart." | 40 | |
| 6573518095 | Prelude | something that serves as an introduction. | 41 | |
| 6573518096 | Requiem | A song of prayer for the dead | 42 |
