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| 8010175308 | Lyric Poetry | poetry that does not necessarily tell a story, have a plot, or follow a logical progression; uses rhyme and rhythm to create an overarching tone/effect | 0 | |
| 8010172709 | Epic Poetry | a long, narrative poem that usually follows the life and adventures of a hero | 1 | |
| 8010172710 | Dramatic Poetry | poetry that is written with the intention of being performed such as plays or songs | 2 | |
| 8036419113 | Realistic fiction | a fictitious account of events that would also be possible in the real world; setting is commonly a real place | 3 | |
| 8036426501 | Bildungsroman | a novel dealing with one person's formative years or spiritual education; "coming of age" novel; character change and development is most important | 4 | |
| 8036426502 | Novella | a fictional narrative prose that is longer than a short story but shorter than an actual novel | 5 | |
| 8036477919 | Monologue | a long speech by one character in a play or movie, or as part of a theatrical or broadcast program | 6 | |
| 8036481209 | Epigram | a short poem or statement, sometimes satirical, having a witty or ingenious ending | 7 | |
| 8036527860 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech by which is a part is put for the whole, the whole for a part, the species for the genus, the genus for the species, or the name of the material for the thing made-- purpose is to reduce repetition of a word by substituting it with another word that colloquially has the same meaning | 8 | |
| 8036533080 | Metonymy | a figure of speech consisting of the use of the name of one thing for that of another of which it is an attribute or with which it is associated-- purpose is to reduce repetition of a word by substituting it with another word that has a close meaning to the original word | 9 | |
| 8052206906 | Verbal Irony | when you say one thing but mean something else- overstatement/understatement | 10 | |
| 8052209670 | Situational Irony | when the opposite of what is expected to happen occurs | 11 | |
| 8052209671 | Dramatic Irony | when the audience is aware of something that the characters are not | 12 | |
| 8052264390 | Hyperbole | statements that are exaggerated and are not meant to be taken seriously | 13 | |
| 8052264391 | Understatement | presenting something as less important than it actually is | 14 | |
| 8052270483 | Paradox | a self-contradictory statement that when explained may prove to be well founded or true; despite the sound and logical reasoning, the conclusion may be senseless | 15 | |
| 8052374248 | Apostrophe | when a character in a literary work speaks to an object, an idea, or someone who doesn't exist as if it is a living person | 16 | |
| 8052379080 | Anaphora | the repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect | 17 | |
| 8052381616 | Antithesis | a rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect | 18 | |
| 8052524682 | In media res | the practice of beginning an epic or other narrative by plunging into a crucial situation that is part of a related chain of events; the situation is an extension of previous events and will be developed in later action. The narrative then goes directly forward, and exposition of earlier events is supplied by flashbacks | 19 | |
| 8052603751 | Parenthetical observation | a brief interruption during which the character or the narrator reflects on a minor point that clarifies the reader's attention | 20 | |
| 8052654802 | Iambic | an unstressed syllable; imitates the sound of a heartbeat "So come in let it go, just let it be" | 21 | |
| 8052654803 | Anapestic | 2 unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable "Oh say can you see, by the dawn's early light" | 22 | |
| 8052659167 | Trochaic | a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable "Mary had a little lamb" | 23 | |
| 8052741110 | Consonance | refers to the repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or a phrase Ex. the lint was sent with the tent | 24 | |
| 8052757297 | Assonance | takes place when two or more words, close to one another repeat the same vowel sound, but start with different consonant sounds Ex. the light of the fire is a sight | 25 | |
| 8052798531 | Enjambment | when a phrase, a clause, or a sentence in a line of poetry does not finish at the line break but continues on in the next line | 26 | |
| 8052876116 | Caesura | refers to a break or pause in a line of verse Ex. to be or not to be- that is the question | 27 | |
| 8052916756 | Initial Caesura | when the pause appears at or neat the beginning of the line | 28 | |
| 8052916757 | Medial Caesura | most common type of caesura, a pause in the middle of the line | 29 | |
| 8052920598 | Terminal Caesura | a pause appearing at or near the end of the line | 30 | |
| 8052961901 | Italian Sonnets | usually involve love; split into two parts- octave (ABBABBA) and sestet (CDECDE); the octave introduces a dilemma while the sestet comments on or provides a solution to the dilemma | 31 | |
| 8052966358 | English (Shakespearean) Sonnets | deal with philosophical problem or issue; written in iambic pentameter; rhyme scheme is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG; composed in 3 quatrains with a couplet at the end | 32 | |
| 8054338336 | Couplet | a pair of successive rhyming lines, usually of the same length | 33 | |
| 8054338337 | Tercet | a poetic unit of three lines, usually rhymed | 34 | |
| 8054341076 | Quatrain | a four-line stanza, usually rhyming | 35 | |
| 8054341077 | Sestet | a six-line stanza, or the final lines of a 14-line Italian or Petrarchan sonnet | 36 | |
| 8054413179 | Litotes | ironic understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary Ex. your apartment is not unclean; you are not doing badly at all | 37 | |
| 8054435569 | Periphrasis | the use of indirect and circumlocutory speech or writing Ex. As a matter of fact, the assignment in question is temporarily unavailable due to the secrecy of its location | 38 | |
| 8054462794 | Cumulative structure | a sentence which has the base clause at the end of a sentence; has a trailer followed by a base clause; purpose is to clarify or qualify the ideas presented by the main clause Ex. You'll love Six Flags, if you are the type of person that likes roller coasters | 39 | |
| 8054462795 | Periodic structure | a sentence with the base clause at the beginning of the sentence; consists of a base clause followed by a trailer; main purpose id to add variety and interest into sentences Ex. If you are the type of person that loves roller coasters, you'll love Six Flags | 40 | |
| 8054548518 | Coordination | join dependent clauses to make a compound sentence using these coordinating conjunctions: and, but, for, nor, or, so, and yet | 41 | |
| 8054548519 | Subordination | join independent clauses to make complex sentences using these subordinating conjunctions: after, although, as, as if, because, before, even if, even though, if, if only, rather than, since, that, etc. | 42 | |
| 8054603550 | 1st person point of view | a literary style in which the narrative is told from the perspective of a narrator speaking directly about himself or herself | 43 | |
| 8054603551 | 2nd person point of view | the grammatical person used by the speaker referring to the one (second person singular) or ones (second person plural) to whom he or she is speaking | 44 | |
| 8054608320 | 3rd person point of view | narrator relates all the action of their work using a third-person pronoun such as "he" or "she"; limited and omniscient | 45 | |
| 8054610420 | 3rd person limited | the narrator knows the thoughts/feelings of only one character | 46 | |
| 8054613432 | 3rd person omniscient | the narrator knows the thoughts/feelings of all characters | 47 | |
| 8054746486 | Monometer | one foot per line Ex. "what say?" | 48 | |
| 8054746487 | Dimeter | two feet per line Ex. "The dust of snow" | 49 | |
| 8054750877 | Trimeter | three feet per line Ex. "The softly breathing song" | 50 | |
| 8054750878 | Tetrameter | four feet per line Ex. "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood" | 51 | |
| 8054753396 | Pentameter | five feet per line Ex. "Of Englelond, to Canterbury they wende" | 52 | |
| 8054753397 | Hexameter | six feet per line Ex. "If hunger, proverbs say, allures the wolf from wood" | 53 | |
| 8054755867 | Heptameter | seven feet per line Ex. "The outlook wasn't brilliant for the Mudville nine that day" | 54 | |
| 8054848946 | Foot | usually contains one stressed syllable and at least one unstressed syllable | 55 |
