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| 9418773545 | Allegory | A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning. This often takes the form of a story in which the characters represent moral qualities. | 0 | |
| 9418778838 | Alliteration | The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words. | 1 | |
| 9418780956 | Anapest | Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented one, as in comprehend or intervene. | 2 | |
| 9418783516 | Antagonist | A character or force against which a main character struggles. | 3 | |
| 9418785416 | Assonance. | The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or line of poetry. | 4 | |
| 9418789152 | Aubade | A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn, when he must part from his lover. | 5 | |
| 9418792261 | Ballad | A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas, characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style. | 6 | |
| 9418795864 | Blank Verse | A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter. | 7 | |
| 9418798659 | Caesura | A strong pause within a line of verse. | 8 | |
| 9418801222 | Character | An imaginary person that lives in a literary work. They may be major or minor, static or dynamic. | 9 | |
| 9418805166 | Characterization | The means by which writers present and reveal character. | 10 | |
| 9418806598 | Closed Form | A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme, line length, and metrical pattern. | 11 | |
| 9418810871 | Connotation | The personal and emotional associations called up by a word that go beyond its dictionary meaning. | 12 | |
| 9418814444 | Convention | A customary feature of a literary work such as the use of rhyme in a sonnet. | 13 | |
| 9418817128 | Couplet | A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem. | 14 | |
| 9418820209 | Dactyl | A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones, as in fluttering or blueberry. | 15 | |
| 9418825091 | Denotation | The dictionary meaning of a word. | 16 | |
| 9418826748 | Dialogue | The conversation of characters in a literary work. | 17 | |
| 9418826750 | Diction | The selection of words in a literary work. | 18 | |
| 9418830074 | Dramatic monologue | A type of poem in which a speaker addresses a silent listener. | 19 | |
| 9418832166 | Elegy | A lyric poem that laments the dead. | 20 | |
| 9418833521 | Elision | The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line or poetry. | 21 | |
| 9418835880 | Enjambment | A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next. | 22 | |
| 9418839789 | Epic | A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero. These typically chronicle the origins of a civilization and embody its central values. | 23 | |
| 9418845362 | Epigram | A brief, witty poem, often satirical. | 24 | |
| 9418846975 | Falling meter | Poetic meters such as trochaic and dactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable. | 25 | |
| 9418849742 | Figurative language | A form of language in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words. | 26 | |
| 9418852948 | Foot | A metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables. | 27 | |
| 9418857127 | Free verse | Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme. | 28 | |
| 9418859370 | Hyperbole | A figure of speech involving exaggeration. | 29 | |
| 9418861491 | Iamb | An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one, as in today. | 30 | |
| 9418863306 | Image | A concrete representation of a sense impression, a feeling, or an idea. | 31 | |
| 9418865227 | Imagery | The pattern of related comparative aspects of language in a literary work. | 32 | |
| 9418867660 | Irony | A contrast or discrepancy between what is said and what is meant or between what happens and what is expected to happen. | 33 | |
| 9418872645 | Literal language | A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote. | 34 | |
| 9418874983 | Lyric poem | A type of poem characterized by brevity, compression, and the expression of feeling. | 35 | |
| 9418877276 | Metaphor | A comparison between essentially unlike things without a word such as like or as. | 36 | |
| 9418880016 | Meter | The measured pattern of rhythmic accents in poems. | 37 | |
| 9418881385 | Metonymy. | A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea. | 38 | |
| 9418883834 | Monologue | A speech by one character. | 39 | |
| 9418885340 | Narrative poem | A poem that tells a story. | 40 | |
| 9418885341 | Narrator | The voice and implied speaker of a fictional work, to be distinguished from the actual living author. | 41 | |
| 9418888575 | Octave | An eight-line unit, which may constitute a stanza or a section of a poem. | 42 | |
| 9418890889 | Ode | A long, stately poem in stanzas of varied length, meter, and form. Usually a serious poem on an exalted subject. | 43 | |
| 9418894378 | Onomatopoeia | The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe. | 44 | |
| 9418896213 | Open form | A type of structure or form in poetry characterized by freedom from regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme, line length, and metrical pattern. | 45 | |
| 9418899520 | Parody | A humorous, mocking imitation of a literary work. | 46 | |
| 9418900649 | Personification | The endowment of inanimate objects or abstract concepts with animate or living qualities. | 47 | |
| 9418903183 | Plot | The unified structure of incidents in a literary work. | 48 | |
| 9418905291 | Point of view | The angle of vision from which a story is narrated. | 49 | |
| 9418907008 | Protagonist | The main character of a literary work. | 50 | |
| 9418908536 | Quatrain | A four-line stanza in a poem. | 51 | |
| 9418908537 | Rhetorical question | A question to which an overt answer is not expected. | 52 | |
| 9418910562 | Rhyme | The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words. | 53 | |
| 9418912537 | Rhythm | The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse. | 54 | |
| 9418914365 | Rising meter | Poetic meters such as iambic and anapestic that move or ascend from an unstressed to a stressed syllable. | 55 | |
| 9418918581 | Romance | A type of narrative fiction or poem in which adventure is a central feature and in which an idealized version of reality is presented. | 56 | |
| 9418921317 | Satire | A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies. | 57 | |
| 9418924585 | Sestet | A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem. | 58 | |
| 9418926754 | Sestina | A poem of 39 lines written in iambic pentameter. its six-line stanzas repeat in an intricate and prescribed order the six last words of each line in the opening stanza. After the sixth stanza there is a three-line envoi which uses the six repeating words, two to a line. | 59 | |
| 9418939919 | Setting | The time and place of a literary work that establish its context. | 60 | |
| 9418941168 | Simile | A figure of speech involving a comparison between unlike things using like, as, or as though. | 61 | |
| 9418945072 | Soliloquy | A speech in a play which is meant to be heard by the audience but not by other characters on the stage. Often represents the character's thinking aloud. | 62 | |
| 9418949052 | Sonnet | A 14-line poem in iambic pentameter. | 63 | |
| 9418950416 | Spondee | A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables, such as knick-knack. | 64 | |
| 9418953081 | Stanza | A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - with similar or identical patterns of rhyme and meter. | 65 | |
| 9418957660 | Structure | The design or form of a literary work. | 66 | |
| 9418959051 | Style | The way an author chooses words, arranges them, and develops ideas and actions. | 67 | |
| 9418961543 | Subject | What a story or play is about | 68 | |
| 9418962634 | Subplot | A subsidiary, subordinate, or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot. | 69 | |
| 9418966088 | Symbol | An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself. | 70 | |
| 9418967754 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is substituted for the whole. | 71 | |
| 9418969304 | Syntax | The grammatical order of words in a sentence, line of verse, or dialogue. | 72 | |
| 9418970940 | Tempo | The variation in pace in which a scene is acted. | 73 | |
| 9418972069 | Tercet | A three-line stanza. | 74 | |
| 9418972070 | Theme | The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language, character, and action, and cast in the form of a generalization. | 75 | |
| 9418976009 | Tone | The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and characters of a work. | 76 | |
| 9418978492 | Understatement | A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means. | 77 | |
| 9418981190 | Villanelle | A 19 line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition. The first and third lines alternate throughout the poem, which is structured in six stanzas - five tercets and a final quatrain. | 78 |
