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| 7347481256 | First Person Narration | It is a literary style in which the narrative is told from the perspective of a narrator speaking directly about himself or herself. | 0 | |
| 7347482605 | Third Person Narration | It is a narration that is told in the grammatical third person, i.e. without using "I" or "we": "he did that, they did something else. | 1 | |
| 7347489823 | Omniscient | The narrator has access to all the actions and thoughts of all characters. | 2 | |
| 7347534548 | Limited Omniscient | The narrator has a restricted view of events and doesn't "know" the whole story. | 3 | |
| 7347536837 | Free Indirect Discourse | It is a kind of third person narration that uses a combined feature of a direct and indirect speech. | 4 | |
| 7347538490 | Objective Narration | The narrator is an observer and describes or interprets thoughts, feelings, motivations, of the characters. | 5 | |
| 7347541114 | Unreliable Narration | The narrator only speaks to his/her experience within it. | 6 | |
| 7347543009 | Protagonist | A central character in any work of literature. | 7 | |
| 7347545309 | Hero/Heroine | A protagonist who is admired for great or brave acts or fine qualities. | 8 | |
| 7347546029 | Antihero | A protagonist or other notable figure who is conspicuously lacking in heroic qualities. | 9 | |
| 7347554197 | Antagonist | A character which stands in opposition to the protagonist. | 10 | |
| 7347555309 | Foil | A character that is intended to highlight attributes in another character through opposing traits. | 11 | |
| 7347556397 | Stock Character | A character that is instantly recognizable to readers because it pops up everywhere. | 12 | |
| 7347558630 | Static character | A character who does not change, develop, or grow throughout the action of a book, movie, or play. | 13 | |
| 7347559811 | Dynamic Character | A character who changes develops and grows throughout the action of a book, movie, or play. | 14 | |
| 7347563134 | Flat Character | A character with only one or two major traits. | 15 | |
| 7347563933 | Round Character | A character with many traits; a fully-developed character. | 16 | |
| 7347564695 | Direct Characterization | It characterizes a character by simply telling the reader what that character is like. | 17 | |
| 7347566712 | Indirect characterization | It reveals information about the character through his or her thoughts and actions. | 18 | |
| 7347568110 | Allegory | It is a work that functions on a symbolic level. | 19 | |
| 7347568852 | Bildungsroman | It is a novel dealing with one person's formative years or spiritual education. | 20 | |
| 7347569702 | Comedy | It deals with amusing and satirical tone, mostly having a cheerful ending. | 21 | |
| 7347570279 | Epic | It is a lengthy, elevated poem that celebrates the exploits of a hero. | 22 | |
| 7347571189 | Farce | It is a type of a comedy that makes the use of highly exaggerated and funny situations aimed at entertaining the audience. | 23 | |
| 7347571721 | Free verse poetry | It has no defined form, meter, or rhyme scheme. | 24 | |
| 7347572610 | Lyric poetry | It is a large and inclusive category of poetry that exhibits rhyme, meter, and reflective thought. | 25 | |
| 7347573259 | Parody | A comic imitation of a work that ridicules the original. | 26 | |
| 7347575912 | Satire | A mode of writing based on ridicule, which criticizes the foibles and follies of society without necessarily offering a solution. | 27 | |
| 7347577314 | Romance | It is all about courtly love and chivalry. | 28 | |
| 7347578002 | Stream-of- consciousness | It is a literary style in which a character's thoughts, feelings, and reactions are depicted in a continuous flow uninterrupted by objective description or conventional dialogue. | 29 | |
| 7347578702 | Tragedy | It deals with a sorrowful or terrible event encountered or caused by a heroic individual. | 30 | |
| 7347579366 | Alliteration | The repetition of initial consonant sounds, such as "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers." | 31 | |
| 7347580918 | Anaphora | It is the deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence to achieve an artistic effect. | 32 | |
| 7347580919 | Antithesis | It is the repetition of a group of words at the beginning of successive clauses. | 33 | |
| 7347582083 | Apostrophe | It is the direct address of an absent person or personified object as if he/she/it can reply. | 34 | |
| 7347582084 | Assonance | It takes place when two or more words close to one another repeat the same vowel sound but starts with different consonant sounds. | 35 | |
| 7347584286 | Cliché | It refers to an expression that has been overused to the extent that it loses its original meaning or novelty. | 36 | |
| 7347584986 | Consonance | It refers to repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase. | 37 | |
| 7347585776 | Epithet | It is a word of phrase adding a character to a person's name. | 38 | |
| 7347585777 | Hyperbole | Extreme exaggeration. | 39 | |
| 7347586388 | Understatement | The opposite of exaggeration. It is a technique for developing irony and/or humor where one writes or says less than intended. | 40 | |
| 7347587203 | Enjambment | A technique in poetry that involves the running on of a line or stanza. It enables the poem to move and to develop coherence as well as directing the reader with regard to form and meaning. | 41 | |
| 7347587657 | Caesura | A break or pause in a line of poetry indicated by punctuation and used to emphasize meaning. | 42 | |
| 7347588680 | Simile | An indirect comparison that uses the word, "like" or "as" to link the differing items in the comparison. "Your eyes are like stars" is an example. | 43 | |
| 7347589909 | Metaphor | A direct comparison between dissimilar things. "Your eyes are stars" is an example. | 44 | |
| 7347594451 | Conceit metaphor | It is a fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects. | 45 | |
| 7347594452 | Dead metaphor | It is a figure of speech that has lost its force and imaginative effectiveness through frequent use. | 46 | |
| 7347595279 | Extended metaphor | It refers to a comparison between two, unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem. | 47 | |
| 7347595937 | Mixed metaphor | It is a combination of two or more incompatible metaphors, which produces a ridiculous effect. | 48 | |
| 7347597357 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which a representative term is used for a larger idea. ("The pen is mightier than the sword.") | 49 | |
| 7347598727 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech that utilizes a part as representative of the whole. | 50 | |
| 7347599235 | Paradox | A set of seemingly contradictory elements which nevertheless reflects an underlying truth. For example, in Shakespeare's Much Ado about Nothing, the Friar says to Hero, "Come, Lady, die to live." | 51 | |
| 7347599958 | Oxymoron | An image of contradictory terms (bittersweet, pretty ugly, giant economy size). | 52 | |
| 7347600745 | Onomatopoeia | Words that sound like the sound they represent (hiss, gurgle, bang). | 53 | |
| 7347601670 | Synesthesia | It is when one kind of sensory stimulus evokes the subjective experience of another. | 54 | |
| 7347602358 | Connotation | The interpretive level of a word based on its associated images rather than its literal meaning. | 55 | |
| 7347602903 | Denotation | The literal or dictionary meaning of a word. | 56 | |
| 7347604188 | Run-on Sentence | It is a combination of two independent clauses, joined together without a conjunction or punctuation mark. | 57 | |
| 7347605255 | Comma Splice | It is known as a grammatical error or a misuse of commas. | 58 | |
| 7347605842 | Sentence fragments | A groups of word that look like sentences but aren't. | 59 | |
| 7347606601 | Allusion | A reference contained in a work. | 60 | |
| 7347607713 | Juxtaposition | It is the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect. | 61 | |
| 7347608843 | Personification | The assigning of human qualities to inanimate objects or concepts. (Wordsworth personifies "the sea that bares her bosom to the moon" in the poem "London, 1802.") | 62 | |
| 7347609632 | Anthropomorphism | It is the attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object. | 63 | |
| 7347610213 | Imagery | The total effect of related sensory images in a work of literature. | 64 | |
| 7347610897 | Visual imagery | It is an imagery that evokes a sight image. | 65 | |
| 7347611551 | Auditory imagery | It is an imagery that evokes images of sound. | 66 | |
| 7347612672 | Kinesthetic imagery | It is an imagery that evokes a sense of movement or body position. | 67 | |
| 7347612673 | Olfactory imagery | It is an imagery that evokes a sense of smell. | 68 | |
| 7347613714 | Gustatory imagery | It is an imagery that evokes a sense of taste or flavor. | 69 | |
| 7347617504 | Irony | An unexpected twist or contrast between what happens and what was intended or expected to happen. It involves dialogue and situation, and it can be intentional or unplanned. | 70 | |
| 7347618248 | Situational irony | It is an irony that involves a discrepancy between what is expected to happen and what happens. | 71 | |
| 7347619076 | Verbal irony | It is an irony with the use of words to mean something different from what a person says. | 72 | |
| 7347619801 | Dramatic irony | It is an irony that occurs when the audience is aware of something that the characters in the story are not aware of. | 73 | |
| 7347620692 | Foreshadowing | Hints of future events in a literary work. | 74 | |
| 7347620693 | Mood | It is a literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions. | 75 | |
| 7347622085 | Motif | The repetition or variations of an image or idea in a work which is used to develop theme or characters. | 76 | |
| 7347623265 | Symbol | Something in a literary work that stands for something else. (Plato has the light of the sun symbolize truth in "The Allegory of the Cave.") | 77 | |
| 7347624328 | Contextual symbol | It can be a symbol for a setting, character, action, object, name, or anything else in a work that maintains its literal significance while. | 78 | |
| 7347624943 | Cultural symbol | It is a symbol for a physical manifestation that signifies the ideology of a particular culture or that merely has to mean within a culture. | 79 | |
| 7347624944 | Theme | The underlying ideas that the author illustrates through characterization, motifs, language, plot, etc. | 80 | |
| 7347625811 | Thesis | It is the main idea in a text, often the main generalization, conclusion, or claim. | 81 | |
| 7347626481 | Tone | The author's attitude toward his subject. | 82 |
