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| 5925108593 | allegory | A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. | 0 | |
| 5925108594 | 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 |
| 5925108595 | allusion | A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance. | 2 | |
| 5925108596 | anagram | a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase | 3 | |
| 5925108597 | antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. | 4 | |
| 5925108598 | antagonist | A character or force in conflict with the main character | 5 | |
| 5925108599 | anaphora | A rhetorical figure of repetition in which the same word or phrase is repeated in (and usually at the beginning of) successive lines, clauses, or sentences. | 6 | |
| 5925108600 | aphorism | A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life. | 7 | |
| 5925108601 | apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. | 8 | |
| 5925108602 | assonance | Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity |  | 9 |
| 5925108603 | blank verse | Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter |  | 10 |
| 5925108604 | caesura | A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line. |  | 11 |
| 5925108605 | conceit | A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects. |  | 12 |
| 5925108606 | connotation | All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests |  | 13 |
| 5925108607 | consonance | Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity. |  | 14 |
| 5925108608 | couplet | A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem. |  | 15 |
| 5925108609 | denotation | Dictionary definition of a word |  | 16 |
| 5925108610 | denouement | an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot |  | 17 |
| 5925108611 | diction | The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing |  | 18 |
| 5925108612 | didactic | Intended to instruct; teaching, or teaching a moral lesson |  | 19 |
| 5925108613 | euphemism | An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant |  | 20 |
| 5925108614 | end-stopped line | A line that ends with a natural speech pause, usually marked by punctuation |  | 21 |
| 5925108615 | enjambment | A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next. |  | 22 |
| 5925108616 | epitaph | A brief statement written on a tomb or gravestone |  | 23 |
| 5925108617 | epic | A long narrative poem, written in heightened language, which recounts the deeds of a heroic character who embodies the values of a particular society |  | 24 |
| 5925108618 | epistolary | A piece of literature contained in or carried on by letters |  | 25 |
| 5925108619 | flashback | A method of narration in which present action is temporarily interrupted so that the reader can witness past events |  | 26 |
| 5925108620 | foreshadowing | A narrative device that hints at coming events; often builds suspense or anxiety in the reader. |  | 27 |
| 5925108621 | foot | A metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables. | 28 | |
| 5925108622 | frame story | A secondary story or stories embedded in the main story | 29 | |
| 5925108623 | free verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme |  | 30 |
| 5925108624 | hamartia | tragic flaw which causes a character's downfall |  | 31 |
| 5925108625 | heroic couplet | A pair of rhymed, iambic pentameter lines. |  | 32 |
| 5925108626 | hubris | Excessive pride or arrogance that results in the downfall of the protagonist of a tragedy |  | 33 |
| 5925108627 | hyperbole | A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor |  | 34 |
| 5925108628 | 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. |  | 35 |
| 5925108629 | imagery | Descriptive or figurative language in a literary work; the use of language to create sensory impressions. |  | 36 |
| 5925108630 | 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. |  | 37 |
| 5925108631 | verbal irony | In this type of irony, the words literally state the opposite of the writer's true meaning |  | 38 |
| 5925108632 | situational irony | Occurs when the outcome of a work is unexpected, or events turn out to be the opposite from what one had expected |  | 39 |
| 5925108633 | dramatic irony | Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play. |  | 40 |
| 5925108634 | jargon | Special words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or group and are difficult for others to understand |  | 41 |
| 5925108635 | juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts |  | 42 |
| 5925108636 | kenning | A device employed in Anglo-Saxon poetry in which the name of a thing is replaced by one of its functions or qualities. |  | 43 |
| 5925108637 | metaphor | A comparison that establishes a figurative identity between objects being compared. |  | 44 |
| 5925108638 | meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry | 45 | |
| 5925108639 | mood | Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader |  | 46 |
| 5925108640 | motif | (n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design |  | 47 |
| 5925108641 | octave | a verse form consisting of eight lines of iambic pentameter | 48 | |
| 5925108642 | onomatopoeia | A figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words. |  | 49 |
| 5925108643 | oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. |  | 50 |
| 5925108644 | parable | A simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson |  | 51 |
| 5925108645 | paradox | A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. |  | 52 |
| 5925108646 | parallelism | Phrases or sentences of a similar construction/meaning placed side by side, balancing each other |  | 53 |
| 5925108647 | parody | A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule. |  | 54 |
| 5925108648 | pentameter | a rhythm in poetry that has five stressed syllables in each line (five metrical feet) |  | 55 |
| 5925108649 | personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes |  | 56 |
| 5925108650 | plot | Sequence of events in a story |  | 57 |
| 5925108651 | point of view | The perspective from which a story is told |  | 58 |
| 5925108652 | protagonist | Chief character in a dramatic or narrative work, usually trying to accomplish some objective or working toward some goal. |  | 59 |
| 5925108653 | 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. |  | 60 |
| 5925108654 | quatrain | 4 line stanza |  | 61 |
| 5925108655 | refrain | A line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem. | 62 | |
| 5925108656 | rhetorical question | A question asked merely for rhetorical effect and not requiring an answer |  | 63 |
| 5925108657 | end rhyme | A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line |  | 64 |
| 5925108658 | eye rhyme | rhyme that appears correct from spelling but does not rhyme because of pronunciation |  | 65 |
| 5925108659 | internal rhyme | A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line |  | 66 |
| 5925108660 | slant rhyme | rhyme in which the vowel sounds are nearly, but not exactly the same (i.e. the words "stress" and "kiss"); sometimes called half-rhyme, near rhyme, or partial rhyme |  | 67 |
| 5925108661 | satire | A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies. |  | 68 |
| 5925108662 | sestet | a rhythmic group of six lines of verse |  | 69 |
| 5925108663 | sonnet | 14-line lyric poem focused on a single theme; usually written in iambic pentameter |  | 70 |
| 5925108664 | symbol | A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract. |  | 71 |
| 5925108665 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa |  | 72 |
| 5925108666 | syntax | Arrangement of words in phrases and sentences |  | 73 |
| 5925108667 | theme | A topic of discussion or writing; a major idea broad enough to cover the entire scope of a literary work. |  | 74 |
| 5925108668 | tone | A writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization on the sentence and global levels. |  | 75 |
| 5925108669 | understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. |  | 76 |
