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| 6192077402 | allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. | 0 | |
| 6192077403 | alliteration | it is a stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series. | 1 | |
| 6192077404 | allusion | a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance. | 2 | |
| 6192077405 | ambiguity | more than one meaning | 3 | |
| 6192107438 | analogue | two related scenes or events in literature | 4 | |
| 6192077406 | anecdote | a short story or tidbit added to provide information | 5 | |
| 6192077407 | antagonist | a character or force in conflict with the main character | 6 | |
| 6192077411 | aphorism | a brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life. | 7 | |
| 6192077412 | apostrophe | a figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. | 8 | |
| 6192177857 | aside | a separate conversation usually in a play to the audience or another person | 9 | |
| 6192185023 | assonance | repetition of vowels | 10 | |
| 6192187369 | ballad | elaborate narrative poem or verse | 11 | |
| 6192196113 | biography | description of a person's life and accomplishments | 12 | |
| 6192077415 | blank verse | poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter | 13 | |
| 6192077417 | cacophony | harsh or discordant mixture of sounds | 14 | |
| 6192212350 | carpe diem | latin for seize the day | 15 | |
| 6192229913 | catastrophe | the final action that completes the unraveling of the plot in a play, especially in a tragedy | 16 | |
| 6192244447 | character | a person, object or animal in a story | 17 | |
| 6192263654 | characterization | using devices and description to provide information about the qualities of a character | 18 | |
| 6192274955 | classicism | a movement or tendency in art, music, and literature to retain the characteristics found in work originating in classical Greece and Rome | 19 | |
| 6192288943 | climax | the peak of events in a work of literature | 20 | |
| 6192294021 | comedy | a literary work which is amusing and ends happily | 21 | |
| 6192077419 | conceit | a fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects. | 22 | |
| 6192317834 | conclusion | the resolution of the events in a story | 23 | |
| 6192323584 | concrete poetry | a poem that visually resembles something found in the physical world. | 24 | |
| 6480200605 | conflict | involves a struggle between two opposing forces usually a protagonist and an antagonist | 25 | |
| 6192077420 | connotation vs denotation | All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests vs the actual definition | 26 | |
| 6192077421 | consonance | Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity. | 27 | |
| 6192077422 | couplet | A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem. | 28 | |
| 6192077423 | dactyl | A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables | 29 | |
| 6192077425 | denouement | an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot | 30 | |
| 6480252445 | dialogue | conversational passage or a spoken or written exchange of conversation in a group or between two persons directed towards a particular subject | 31 | |
| 6192077426 | diction | The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing | 32 | |
| 6192077427 | didactic | Intended to instruct; teaching, or teaching a moral lesson | 33 | |
| 6480261169 | dramatic monologue | a poetic form in which a single character, addressing a silent auditor at a critical moment, reveals himself or herself and the dramatic situation | 34 | |
| 6480267262 | elegy | a form of literature which can be defined as a poem or song in the form of elegiac couplets, written in honor of someone deceased | 35 | |
| 6480270954 | epigraph | a phrase, quotation, or poem that is set at the beginning of a document or component | 36 | |
| 6480287306 | epithet | a descriptive literary device that describes a place, a thing or a person in such a way that it helps in making the characteristics of a person, thing or place more prominent than they actually are | 37 | |
| 6192077429 | euphemism | An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant | 38 | |
| 6480311332 | exposition | background information about events, settings, characters etc. to the audience or readers | 39 | |
| 6480320073 | fable | described through plants, animals, forces of nature and inanimate objects by giving them human attributes wherein they demonstrate a moral lesson at the end | 40 | |
| 6480326926 | falling action | the events following the climax | 41 | |
| 6480329416 | farce | a subcategory of dramatic comedy that is different from other forms of comedy, as it only aims at making the audience laugh | 42 | |
| 6480341785 | figurative language | language that uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation | 43 | |
| 6480358119 | figure of speech | a word or phrase that has a meaning other than the literal meaning; often a metaphor or simile that's designed to further explain a concept | 44 | |
| 6192077435 | flashback | A method of narration in which present action is temporarily interrupted so that the reader can witness past events | 45 | |
| 6480399809 | foil | opposite characters in a literary work | 46 | |
| 6192077436 | foreshadowing | A narrative device that hints at coming events; often builds suspense or anxiety in the reader. | 47 | |
| 6192077437 | foot | A metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables. | 48 | |
| 6192077439 | free verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme | 49 | |
| 6192077440 | genre | A category or type of literature (or of art, music, etc.) characterized by a particular form, style, or content. | 50 | |
| 6480419297 | haiku | a major form of Japanese verse, written in 17 syllables divided into 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables, and employing highly evocative allusions and comparisons, often on the subject of nature or one of the seasons | 51 | |
| 6192077445 | hyperbole | A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor | 52 | |
| 6192077446 | iamb | A common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable. | 53 | |
| 6192077447 | imagery | Descriptive or figurative language in a literary work; the use of language to create sensory impressions. | 54 | |
| 6480427493 | inference | a literary device used commonly in literature and in daily life where logical deductions are made based on premises assumed to be true | 55 | |
| 6192077448 | irony | A contrast or discrepancy between what is stated and what is really meant, or between what is expected to happen and what actually does happen. | 56 | |
| 6480430782 | local color | fiction and poetry that focuses on the characters, dialect, customs, topography, and other features particular to a specific region | 57 | |
| 6480437969 | lyric poem | a fairly short poem which is the expression of strong feelings of thoughts or perceptions of a single speaker in a meditative manner | 58 | |
| 6192077455 | metaphor | A comparison that establishes a figurative identity between objects being compared. | 59 | |
| 6192077456 | meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry | 60 | |
| 6192077457 | metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it | 61 | |
| 6192077458 | mood | Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader | 62 | |
| 6480656694 | myth | a legendary or a traditional story that usually concerns an event, or a hero, particularly one concerning with demigods or deities, and describes some rites, practices and natural phenomenon | 63 | |
| 6480669335 | narrative poem | a form of poetry that tells a story, often making the voices of a narrator and characters as well; the entire story is usually written in metered verse | 64 | |
| 6192077462 | novel | A long fictional narrative written in prose, usually having many characters and a strong plot. | 65 | |
| 6192077466 | ode | A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject. | 66 | |
| 6192077467 | onomatopoeia | A figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words. | 67 | |
| 6192077468 | oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. | 68 | |
| 6192077470 | parable | A simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson | 69 | |
| 6192077471 | paradox | A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. | 70 | |
| 6192077472 | parallel structure | Phrases or sentences of a similar construction/meaning placed side by side, balancing each other | 71 | |
| 6192077473 | parody | A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule. | 72 | |
| 6480748829 | pastoral | depicts farm life in an idealized manner, typically for urban audiences | 73 | |
| 6480755533 | pathetic fallacy | gives human emotions to inanimate objects of nature for example referring to weather features reflecting a mood | 74 | |
| 6192077477 | personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes | 75 | |
| 6192077479 | point of view | The perspective from which a story is told | 76 | |
| 6192077482 | protagonist | Chief character in a dramatic or narrative work, usually trying to accomplish some objective or working toward some goal. | 77 | |
| 6192077483 | pun | A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings. | 78 | |
| 6192077484 | quatrain | 4 line stanza | 79 | |
| 6480775631 | resolution | the part of a story's plot line in which the problem of the story is resolved or worked out | 80 | |
| 6480780275 | rhyme | a repetition of similar sounding words occurring at the end of lines in poems or songs | 81 | |
| 6192077492 | rhyme scheme | A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem | 82 | |
| 6480785345 | rhythm | a literary device which demonstrates the long and short patterns through stressed and unstressed syllables particularly in verse form | 83 | |
| 6480789345 | rising action | the events leading up to the climax | 84 | |
| 6480791243 | saga | any type of story or history in prose, irrespective of the kind or nature of the narrative or the purposes for which it was written | 85 | |
| 6192077493 | satire | A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies. | 86 | |
| 6480808440 | scansion | the process of marking the stresses in a poem, and working out the metre from the distribution of stresses | 87 | |
| 6480814150 | setting | where and when a literary work takes place | 88 | |
| 6480818069 | similie | a metaphor using like or as | 89 | |
| 6480820550 | soliloquy | a speech that a character makes in a work of drama only to him or herself | 90 | |
| 6192077496 | sonnet | 14-line lyric poem focused on a single theme; usually written in iambic pentameter | 91 | |
| 6480829032 | spondee | a beat in a poetic line which consists of two accented syllables | 92 | |
| 6480833334 | stanza | a division of four or more lines having a fixed length, meter or rhyming scheme | 93 | |
| 6480836410 | stereotype | a depiction or description of something or someone in an over-simplified way | 94 | |
| 6480842197 | suspense | the intense feeling that an audience goes through while waiting for the outcome of certain events | 95 | |
| 6192077497 | symbolism | using a thing to represent or stand for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract. | 96 | |
| 6192077498 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 97 | |
| 6480850964 | synesthesia | a technique adopted by writers to present ideas, characters or places in such a manner that they appeal to more than one senses | 98 | |
| 6480856007 | Theater of the Absurd | A form of drama that emphasizes the absurdity of human existence by employing disjointed, repetitious, and meaningless dialogue, purposeless and confusing situations, and plots that lack realistic or logical development | 99 | |
| 6192077500 | theme | A topic of discussion or writing; a major idea broad enough to cover the entire scope of a literary work. | 100 | |
| 6192077501 | tone | A writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization on the sentence and global levels. | 101 | |
| 6480870994 | tragedy | A drama or literary work in which the main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow, especially as a consequence of a tragic flaw, moral weakness, or inability to cope with unfavorable circumstances | 102 | |
| 6480882298 | trochee | begins with a stressed syllable, followed by an unstressed, or weak, syllable | 103 | |
| 6192077502 | understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. | 104 |
