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| 13635205756 | allusion | A reference to another work of literature, person, or event | 0 | |
| 13635205757 | flashback/flashforward | A jump backwards or forwards in diegetic time. | 1 | |
| 13635205758 | foreshadowing | A narrative device that hints at coming events; often builds suspense or anxiety in the reader. | 2 | |
| 13635205759 | hyperbole | exaggeration | 3 | |
| 13635205760 | irony | A contrast between expectation and reality | 4 | |
| 13635205761 | verbal irony | A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant | 5 | |
| 13635205762 | situational irony | An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected | 6 | |
| 13635205763 | dramatic irony | when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't | 7 | |
| 13635205764 | juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts | 8 | |
| 13635205765 | Metaphor | A comparison without using like or as | 9 | |
| 13635205766 | oxymoron/paradox | Using contradiction in a manner that oddly makes sense on a deeper level | 10 | |
| 13635205767 | Parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 11 | |
| 13635205768 | Personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes | 12 | |
| 13635205769 | first person | "I" and "Me" standpoint. Personal perspective. | 13 | |
| 13635205770 | third person | Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer | 14 | |
| 13635205771 | objective | unbiased; not subjective | 15 | |
| 13635205772 | omniscient | all-knowing | 16 | |
| 13635205773 | limited | restricted | 17 | |
| 13635205774 | Satire | a type of writing that ridicules the shortcomings of people or institutions in an attempt to bring about a change | 18 | |
| 13635205775 | Simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" | 19 | |
| 13635205776 | Soliloquy | A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage | 20 | |
| 13635205777 | stream of consciousness | a style of writing that portrays the inner (often chaotic) workings of a character's mind. | 21 | |
| 13635205778 | tone | Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character | 22 | |
| 13635205779 | mood | Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader | 23 | |
| 13635205780 | Prose | written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure. | 24 | |
| 13635205781 | Ballad | A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas | 25 | |
| 13635205782 | elegy | a sad or mournful poem | 26 | |
| 13635205783 | ode | A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject. | 27 | |
| 13635205784 | Sonnet | 14 line poem | 28 | |
| 13635205785 | meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry | 29 | |
| 13635205786 | Stanza | A group of lines in a poem | 30 | |
| 13635205787 | Quatrain | A four line stanza | 31 | |
| 13635205788 | Couplet | Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme | 32 | |
| 13635205789 | rhymed verse | Consists of a verse with end rhyme and regular meter | 33 | |
| 13635205790 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | 34 | |
| 13635205791 | free verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme | 35 | |
| 13635205792 | Semantics | Meaning of words and sentences | 36 | |
| 13635205793 | Denotation | The dictionary definition of a word | 37 | |
| 13635205794 | Connotation | an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning. | 38 | |
| 13635205795 | Syntax | the rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language | 39 | |
| 13635205796 | Rhyme | Repetition of sounds at the end of words | 40 | |
| 13635205797 | end rhyme | A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line | 41 | |
| 13635205798 | internal rhyme | A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line | 42 | |
| 13635205799 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds | 43 | |
| 13635205800 | Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds | 44 | |
| 13635205801 | Consonance | Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity. | 45 | |
| 13635209767 | Diction | a writer's choice of words | 46 | |
| 13635209768 | Imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) | 47 |
