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| 4805294569 | Allegory | a story poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning | 0 | |
| 4805294570 | Alliteration | repetition of same letter or sound at beginning | 1 | |
| 4805294571 | Allusion | expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference. | 2 | |
| 4805295485 | Analogy | comparison between two things | 3 | |
| 4805295486 | Anaphora | repetition of phrases at the beginning | 4 | |
| 4805305908 | Anastrophe | the inversion of the usual order of words or clauses. | 5 | |
| 4805305909 | Anectode | short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person. | 6 | |
| 4805305910 | Antagonist | a person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something | 7 | |
| 4805306805 | Anticlimax | disappointing end to series of events | 8 | |
| 4805306806 | Antihero | central character who dosent have hero characteristics | 9 | |
| 4805306807 | Anthithesis | a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else. | 10 | |
| 4805306808 | Aphorism | if it ain't broke, don't fix it." | 11 | |
| 4805308663 | Apostrophe | a punctuation mark ( ' ) | 12 | |
| 4805308664 | Aside | passage by a character in a play that is intended to be heard by the audience but unheard by the other characters in the play | 13 | |
| 4805308665 | Assosnance | repetition of the sound of a vowel | 14 | |
| 4805308708 | Asydeton | absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence. | 15 | |
| 4805309726 | Aubade | poem for early morning | 16 | |
| 4805309727 | Ballad | poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. | 17 | |
| 4805309728 | Bathos | an effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood | 18 | |
| 4805309729 | Black humor | comic that makes fun of serious matters | 19 | |
| 4805311498 | Blank verse | poem with no rhyme but does have iambic pentameter | 20 | |
| 4805312886 | Cacophony | disturbance of sounds | 21 | |
| 4805346873 | Cadence | a modulation or inflection of the voic | 22 | |
| 4805347723 | Caricature | picture and imitation of a person to create comic or grotesque | 23 | |
| 4805347724 | Characterization | the process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character | 24 | |
| 4805349497 | Chiasmus | grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form; | 25 | |
| 4805349498 | Colloquialism | a word or phrase that is not formal or literary | 26 | |
| 4805350731 | Cliche | overused phrase | 27 | |
| 4805372723 | Comedy | professional entertainment consisting of jokes and satirical sketches, intended to make an audience laugh. | 28 | |
| 4805376772 | Conceit | excessive pride | 29 | |
| 4805378738 | Conflict | disagreement between characters, can be internal, self or external with another character | 30 | |
| 4805383190 | Connotation | feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal meaning. | 31 | |
| 4805385637 | Consonance | agreement between opinions or actions. | 32 | |
| 4805387489 | Couplet | two lines of verse joined by rhyme that form a unit. | 33 | |
| 4805390470 | Denotation | literal meaning of a word | 34 | |
| 4805394571 | Dialect | particular form of language | 35 | |
| 4805395905 | Diction | choice of words used | 36 | |
| 4805396922 | Didactic | intended to teach | 37 | |
| 4805398772 | Dirge | lament for the dead | 38 | |
| 4805402047 | Dissonance | lack of harmony | 39 | |
| 4805403297 | Elegy | sad poem | 40 | |
| 4805405271 | Enjambment | continuation of sentence without pause | 41 | |
| 4805410572 | Epic | long poems with heroic characters and adventures | 42 | |
| 4805412831 | Epigraph | a short quotation or saying at the beginning of a book or chapter, intended to suggest its theme. | 43 | |
| 4805414245 | Epiteth | phrase discussing quality of person mentioned | 44 | |
| 4805417210 | Epistrophe | the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences | 45 | |
| 4805422973 | Euphemism | You aren't poor, you are economically disadvantaged. | 46 | |
| 4805427511 | Euphony | quality of being pleasing to the ear, | 47 | |
| 4805430444 | Explication | literary criticism | 48 | |
| 4805433734 | Exposition | introduce background information about events, settings, characters | 49 | |
| 4805438202 | Fable | short story containing moral | 50 | |
| 4805443699 | Farce | joke and mockery | 51 | |
| 4805448966 | Femminine ryme | stocking shocking, glamorous amorous | 52 | |
| 4805453368 | Figurative language | Figures of speech such as metaphors, similes, allusions, beyond literal meaning | 53 | |
| 4805459294 | Flashback | back and set in time | 54 | |
| 4805472057 | Foil | prevent something from succeeding | 55 | |
| 4805475297 | Foot | measuring unit in poetry | 56 | |
| 4805478668 | Foreshadowing | warning of future event | 57 | |
| 4805480516 | Free verse | poetry with no rhyme or regular meter | 58 | |
| 4805483872 | Genre | category of literature | 59 | |
| 4805488890 | Heroic Couplet | pair of rhyming iambic pentameters | 60 | |
| 4805512450 | Hubris | excessive pride | 61 | |
| 4805514851 | Hyperbole | exeggaration | 62 | |
| 4805516036 | Imagery | visually descriptive, smell, touch, sight, feel | 63 | |
| 4805518285 | Interior monologue | piece of writing expressing a character's inner thoughts | 64 | |
| 4805521812 | Internal rhyme | rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next. | 65 | |
| 4805523095 | Inversion | order of words is reversed to create emphasis on meter | 66 | |
| 4805527410 | Irony | Dramatic audience knows character dosent, verbal what you say isn't really what you mean, situational irony, dosent seem right for the situation | 67 | |
| 4805539167 | Juxtaposition | two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect. | 68 | |
| 4805557670 | Kenning | oar-steed = ship. | 69 | |
| 4805559919 | Litotes | You are not the worse dancer I have seen | 70 | |
| 4805585918 | Local color | customs, manner of speech, dress, or other typical features of a place or period that contribute to its particular character. | 71 | |
| 4805587778 | Loose sentence | I went to the movies yesterday, bought candy, and shopped at the mall. | 72 | |
| 4805589993 | Lyric Poem | emotionanal and rhyming poem | 73 | |
| 4805594324 | Masculine rhyme | a rhyme of final stressed syllables | 74 | |
| 4805595643 | Types of Metaphor | Mixed metaphor: Mismatched combination of metaphors. Dead metaphor - normal language, no longer recognizes as metaphor. Extended metaphor: One subject, many sub-elements. Implied- Does it without mentioning | 75 | |
| 4805721453 | Meter | Anapestic meter - "I must finish my journey alone." Dactylic meter - three syllables in which first one is accented followed by second and third unaccented syllables Iambic meter - A metrical foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable | 76 | |
| 4806594679 | Metonymy | the track for horse racing, replacing word by attributed | 77 | |
| 4806597881 | Mood | evoking emotions or atmosphere | 78 | |
| 4806600512 | Monologue | a long speech by one actor | 79 | |
| 4806601864 | Motif | recurring element that has symbolic significance in a story, purpose | 80 | |
| 4806604092 | Motivation | reasons behind character action | 81 | |
| 4806609797 | Narrative poetry | Narrative poetry is a form of poetry that tells a story | 82 | |
| 4806609798 | Frame narrative | serves as a companion piece to a story within a story, | 83 | |
| 4806612218 | Nemesis | good is rewarded and bad is punished | 84 | |
| 4806615323 | Onomatopia | BOOM | 85 | |
| 4806621180 | Oxymoron | two words with opposing meanings are used together | 86 | |
| 4806626936 | Parable | simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson | 87 | |
| 4806628527 | Parallel structure | using the same pattern of words to show that two or more words or ideas are of equal importance | 88 | |
| 4806634745 | Parody | imitation of the style of a particular writer | 89 | |
| 4806636192 | Pastoral Poetry | utopian idealistic view of life | 90 | |
| 4806641902 | Pathos | appeal to emotion | 91 | |
| 4806641903 | Periodic sentence | In spite of heavy snow and cold temperatures, the game continued. | 92 | |
| 4806646509 | Persona | aspect of someones character | 93 | |
| 4806653010 | Plot | Exposition - background info Rising action - series of events that create suspense Resolution - story is resolved Climax - highest point in development of story | 94 | |
| 4806661917 | First person point of view | I | 95 | |
| 4806663287 | Third person point of view | He | 96 | |
| 4806664149 | Omniscient point of view | all seing | 97 | |
| 4806665381 | Objective point of view | without stating more than can be infered | 98 | |
| 4806668983 | Polysdeton | and and and | 99 | |
| 4806672037 | Protagonist | leading character central character | 100 | |
| 4806674299 | Pun | joke | 101 | |
| 4806676358 | Pyrrhic meter | two unstressed syllables | 102 | |
| 4806679038 | Quatrain | Four lines | 103 | |
| 4806680035 | Refrain | lines repeat at regular intervals in other stanzas or sections of the same poem | 104 | |
| 4806681896 | Slant Ryhme | words with similar but not identical sounds | 105 | |
| 4806686260 | Eye Rhyme | similarity between words in spelling but not in pronunciation | 106 | |
| 4806687790 | End Rhyme | ending with words that sound the same. | 107 | |
| 4806690972 | Rhetoric | art of persuasion | 108 | |
| 4806692225 | Rhetorical Question | Really? | 109 | |
| 4806693345 | Horatian Satire | Satire in which the voice is indulgent, tolerant, amused, and witty. | 110 | |
| 4806696899 | Juvenalian | addresses social evil through scorn, outrage, and savage ridicule | 111 | |
| 4806698715 | Setting | time and place in which story takes place | 112 | |
| 4806700411 | Similie | like or as | 113 | |
| 4806700412 | Soliloquy | speaking one's thoughts by themselves | 114 | |
| 4806704339 | Stanza | group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem | 115 | |
| 4806705689 | Stock character | stereotypical person who audience regonizes | 116 | |
| 4806707344 | Style | describes the way author uses certain word choice and diction | 117 | |
| 4806709361 | Suspense | emotion of anticipation and excitement | 118 | |
| 4806713110 | Symbol | represents idea | 119 | |
| 4806714309 | Synecdoche | part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 120 | |
| 4806716402 | Synesthesia | ideas that appeal to more than one senses like hearing, seeing, smell | 121 | |
| 4806719087 | Syntax | arrangment of words and phrases | 122 | |
| 4806720083 | Tall Tale | unbelievable elements | 123 | |
| 4806724119 | Theme | central topic of piece | 124 | |
| 4806725371 | Tone | attitude of author towards subject | 125 | |
| 4806728145 | Tragedy | character is brought to ruin, experiences tragic flaw | 126 | |
| 4806731525 | Tragic irony | occurs when there is a greater meaning in a characters words or actions understood by the audience only | 127 | |
| 4806732628 | Understatement | making ideas appear less important than they actually are | 128 | |
| 4806736464 | Utopia | perfect society | 129 | |
| 4806739582 | Vernacular | using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary cultured, or foreign language | 130 | |
| 4806741745 | Imperssonisim | 19th-century art movement that originated with a group of Paris-based artists Mo | 131 | |
| 4806744225 | Modernism | origins in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, mainly in Europe and North America, and is characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional ways of writing | 132 | |
| 4806746641 | Naturalism | style and theory of representation based on the accurate depiction of detail | 133 | |
| 4806748520 | Plain style | shorter sentences, concrete rather than abstract | 134 | |
| 4806751221 | Rationalism | belief or theory that opinions and actions should be based on reason and knowledge rather than on religious belief or emotional response | 135 | |
| 4806752951 | Realism | denotes a particular kind of subject matter, especially the representation of middle-class life | 136 | |
| 4806754990 | Regionaislm | fiction and poetry that focuses on the characters, dialect, customs to specific region | 137 | |
| 4806757336 | Romanticism | artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe | 138 | |
| 4806758908 | Surrealism | 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind | 139 | |
| 4806760448 | Symbolism | use of symbols to represent ideas | 140 | |
| 4806762359 | Transcendentalism | reaction to or protest against the general state of intellectualism and spirituality. | 141 |
