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| 6238239893 | Allegory | A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself. | 0 | |
| 6238239894 | Alliteration | Repetition of consonant sounds (Blue Baseball Bat) | 1 | |
| 6238240816 | Allusion | A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art. Allusions can be historical, literary, religious, topical, or mythical. There are many more possibilities, and a work may simultaneously use multiple layers of allusion. | 2 | |
| 6238240817 | Anachronism | Something out of place in time (Let me send Katie a quick text via my carrier pigeon) | 3 | |
| 6238240818 | Analogy | A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them. An analogy can explain something unfamiliar by associating it with or pointing out its similarity to something more familiar. Analogies can also make writing more vivid, imaginative, or intellectually engaging. | 4 | |
| 6238241613 | Anecdote | A brief narrative that focuses on a particular incident or event. (We wrote these in our college essays) | 5 | |
| 6238241614 | Antecedent | something that came before (The great tradition of Western culture had its antecedent in the culture of Ancient Greece.) | 6 | |
| 6238244751 | Anticlimax | letdown in thought or emotion; something unexciting, ordinary, or disappointing coming after something important or exciting (La La Land not winning Best Picture after all) | 7 | |
| 6238244752 | Antihero | A protagonist (main character) who is markedly unheroic: morally weak, cowardly, dishonest, or any number of other unsavory qualities. | 8 | |
| 6238245468 | Aphorism | A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life. (a proverb) | 9 | |
| 6238245469 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. | 10 | |
| 6238246065 | Archaism | The use of deliberately old-fashioned language. (Ye olde Shoppe) | 11 | |
| 6238246066 | Aside | A device in which a character in a drama makes a short speech which is heard by the audience but not by other characters in the play (Iago in Othello) | 12 | |
| 6238246659 | Assonance | Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity (So, Do, Mo, Joe) | 13 | |
| 6238246660 | Atmosphere | The emotional nod created by the entirety of a literary work, established partly by the setting and partly by the author's choice of objects that are described. Even such elements as a description of the weather can contribute to the atmosphere. Frequently atmosphere foreshadows events. Perhaps it can create a mood. | 14 | |
| 6238246661 | Ballad | A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas, characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style. | 15 | |
| 6238248517 | Bathos | insincere or overly sentimental quality of writing/speech intended to evoke pity (similar to Pathos, but specifically to pity) | 16 | |
| 6238248518 | Black Humor | the use of disturbing themes in comedy; morbid humor used to express the absurdity, insensitivity, paradox, and cruelty of the modern world, ordinary characters or situations exaggerated beyond normal limits of satire or irony (this test doesn't matter because we will all eventually die, am I right) | 17 | |
| 6238249316 | Bombast | POMPOUS; USING INFLATED LANGUAGE (I INFLATED THE WORDS SO YOU'D REMEMBER) | 18 | |
| 6238249317 | Burlesque | A work of literature meant to ridicule a subject; a grotesque imitation. (How J.D. Salinger felt about the movie based on his book) | 19 | |
| 6238250164 | Cacophony | A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds. (Monkey, whisper, continent, label, armchair, phosphorous, that was a bad example) | 20 | |
| 6238250165 | Cadence | Rhythmic rise and fall (Dum, dum, dum, dah dah, dum, dum, dum, dah dah da da da dah dah dum) | 21 | |
| 6238250166 | Canto | division of a long poem (Dante's inferno) | 22 | |
| 6238250978 | Caricature | A portrait (verbal or otherwise) that exaggerates a facet of personality. | 23 | |
| 6238253162 | Catharsis | Purification that brings emotional relief or renewal | 24 | |
| 6238253163 | Chorus | A group of characters in Greek tragedy (and in later forms of drama), who comment on the action of a play without participation in it. | 25 | |
| 6238253164 | Classic | typical, (that was a classic Jawort move) | 26 | |
| 6238254066 | Colloquialism | A word or phrase (including slang) used in everyday conversation and informal writing but that is often inappropriate in formal writing (y'all, ain't) | 27 | |
| 6238255037 | Conceit, Controlling Image | A startling or unusual metaphor, when the metaphor dominates the entire piece its a controlling image | 28 | |
| 6238267687 | Connotation, Denotation | Denotation is a literal meaning, connotation is everything else (Zootopia: a movie about a bunny cop vs. an animated portrayal of racism amongst other problems in modern society) | 29 | |
| 6238267688 | Consonance | Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity. (A Flock of Sick and Bleak Ducks) | 30 | |
| 6238267689 | Couplet | A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem. | 31 | |
| 6238269137 | Decorum | appropriateness of behavior or conduct; propriety (Park could probably teach a course on this) | 32 | |
| 6238269138 | Diction, Syntax | Word choice, sentence structure | 33 | |
| 6238269920 | Dirge | a funeral hymn or mournful speech | 34 | |
| 6238269921 | Dissonance | a harsh and disagreeable combination, especially of sounds | 35 | |
| 6238270783 | Doggerel | comic, sometimes crude, informal verse | 36 | |
| 6238270784 | Dramatic Irony | Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play. | 37 | |
| 6238271779 | Dramatic Monologue | A type of poem in which a speaker addresses a silent listener. As readers, we overhear the speaker in a dramatic monologue. | 38 | |
| 6238271780 | Elegy | a sorrowful poem or speech | 39 | |
| 6238274590 | Enjambment | A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next. | 40 | |
| 6238274591 | 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 (The Ramayana, although I wouldn't call it epic) | 41 | |
| 6238274592 | Epitaph | A brief statement written on a tomb or gravestone (here lies Ben, who jumped in front of a car for a practical joke) | 42 | |
| 6238275301 | Euphemism | An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant | 43 | |
| 6238275302 | Euphony | pleasant, harmonious sound (La la Land) | 44 | |
| 6238275303 | Farce | A comedy that contains an extravagant and nonsensical disregard of seriousness, although it may have a serious, scornful purpose. | 45 | |
| 6238276391 | First Person Narrator | A character, often the protagonist, narrates the story in the first person | 46 | |
| 6238276392 | Foil | A character who is in most ways opposite to the main character (protagonist) or one who is nearly the same as the protagonist. The purpose of the foil character is to emphasize the traits of the main character by contrast only | 47 | |
| 6238276393 | Foot | A metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables. | 48 | |
| 6238277440 | Foreshadowing | A narrative device that hints at coming events; often builds suspense or anxiety in the reader. (The sequel in the Jimmy Jenkenheimer series) | 49 | |
| 6238279721 | Free Verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme (Nelson thinks this isn't real poetry) | 50 |
