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| 6266426048 | allegory | a story with a second distinct meaning partially hidden behind its literal or visible meaning ex. animal farm | 0 | |
| 6266426049 | alliteration | the repitition of the same sounds, usually initial consonants, in neighboring words ex. anxious ants avoid anteaters | 1 | |
| 6266426050 | allusion | an indirect or passing reference to an event, person, place or artistic work that the author assumes the reader will understand | 2 | |
| 6266426051 | ambiguity | a word, phrase or attitude that has double or even multiple meanings, resulting in multiple interpretations | 3 | |
| 6266426052 | anachronism | an event, custom, person, or thing that is out of its natural order of time ex. back to the future | 4 | |
| 6266426053 | anagnorisis | the critical moment of recognition or discovery in a tragedy | 5 | |
| 6266426054 | anaphora | the regular reputation of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases or clauses | 6 | |
| 6266426055 | antithesis | a figure of speech in which opposing or contrasting ideas are balanced against each other using grammatically parallel syntax | 7 | |
| 6266426056 | apostrophe | a rhetorical device in which the speaker addresses a dead or absent person, or an inanimate object or abstraction | 8 | |
| 6266426057 | archetype | a pattern or model of an action, a character type, or an image that recurs consistently enough in life and literature to be considered universal | 9 | |
| 6266426058 | assonance | the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds in neighboring words | 10 | |
| 6266426059 | asyndeton | conjunctions are omitted, producing a fast-paced and rapid prose | 11 | |
| 6266426060 | ballad | a form of narrative poetry that presents a single dramatic episode, which is often tragic or violent | 12 | |
| 6266426061 | bildungsroman | a coming of age work that follows its protagonist from youth to experience, or maturity ex. to kill a mockingbird, harry potter | 13 | |
| 6266426062 | blank verse | poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter | 14 | |
| 6266426063 | bombast | speech too pompous for an occasion; pretentious words | 15 | |
| 6266426064 | burlesque | an artistic composition, especially literary or dramatic, that, for the sake of laughter, vulgarizes lofty material or treats ordinary material with mock dignity | 16 | |
| 6266426065 | cacophony | harsh, clashing, or dissonant sounds, often produced by combinations of words that require a clipped, explosive delivery | 17 | |
| 6266426066 | caesura | a pause in a line of verse, often coinciding with a break between clauses or sentences | 18 | |
| 6266426067 | caricature | a picture, description, etc., ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things ex. clueless | 19 | |
| 6266426068 | catharsis | the effect of purification achieved by tragic drama; emotional release | 20 | |
| 6266426069 | chiasmus | grammatical structure in which the first clause or phrase is reversed in the second, sometimes repeating the same words. | 21 | |
| 6266426070 | classicism | an adherence to the principals of greek and roman literature | 22 | |
| 6266426071 | climax | the turning point or high point in a plot's action | 23 | |
| 6266426072 | colloquial | words or phrases that are used in everyday conversation; informal writing | 24 | |
| 6266426073 | conceit | an unusually far-fetched or elaborate metaphor presenting a surprisingly apt parallel between two apparently dissimilar things or feelings | 25 | |
| 6266426074 | consonance | the repetition of identical or similar consonants in neighboring words whose vowel sounds are different | 26 | |
| 6266426075 | couplet | two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme and that are written to the same meter | 27 | |
| 6266426076 | dactyl | metrical foot of three syllables, on accented followed by two unaccented | 28 | |
| 6266426077 | dénouement | the portion of a plot that reveals the final outcome of its conflicts or the solution of its mysteries | 29 | |
| 6266426078 | determinism | philosophy that suggests people's actions and all other events are determined by forces over which human beings have no control ex. romeo and juliet | 30 | |
| 6266426079 | deus ex machina | the resolution of a plot by use of highly improbable change, coincidence or artificial device that solves some difficult problem or crisis | 31 | |
| 6266426080 | diction | the choice of words used in a literary work | 32 | |
| 6266426081 | digression | a portion of a written work that interrupts or pauses the development of the theme of plot | 33 | |
| 6266426082 | dissonance | harshness of sound and/or rhyme, either inadvertent or deliberate | 34 | |
| 6266426083 | dramatic irony | a situation in which the audience knows more about a character's situation that the character does, foreseeing an outcome contrary to the character's expectations ex. romeo and juliet | 35 | |
| 6266426084 | dystopia | an undesirable imaginary society | 36 | |
| 6266426085 | elegy | an elaborately formal lyric poem lamenting the death of a friend or public figure, or serious reflection on a serious subject | 37 | |
| 6266426086 | end-stopped | a line brought to a pause at which the end of a verse line coincides with the completion of a sentence, clause, or other independent unit of syntax | 38 | |
| 6266426087 | enjambment | the running over of the sense and grammatical structure form one verse line or couplet to the next without a punctuated pause | 39 | |
| 6266426088 | epic | a long narrative poem celebrating the great deeds of one or more legendary heroes in a grand style ex. the odyssey | 40 | |
| 6266426089 | epistolary | a novel written in the form of correspondence between characters ex. frankenstein, perks of being a wallflower | 41 | |
| 6266426090 | epithet | any word or phrase applied to a person or thing to describe an actual or attributed quality ex. "richard the lion-hearted" | 42 | |
| 6266426091 | euphony | a pleasing smoothness of sound, perceived by the ease with which the words can be spoken in combination | 43 | |
| 6266426092 | exegesis | critical explanation or interpretation of a text or portion of text | 44 | |
| 6266426093 | exposition | the setting forth of a systematic explanation of or argument about nay subject; or the opening part of a play or story | 45 | |
| 6266426094 | extended metaphor | a metaphor that is sustained for several lines or that becomes the controlling image of an entire poem | 46 | |
| 6266426095 | fable | a brief tale that conveys a moral lesson usually by giving human speech and manners to animals and inanimate things ex. the tortoise and the hare | 47 | |
| 6266426096 | falling action | the segment of the plot that comes between the climax and the conclusion | 48 | |
| 6266426097 | farce | a type of drama related to comedy but emphasizing improbable situations, violent conflicts, physical action, and coarse wit over characterization or articulated plot | 49 | |
| 6266426098 | feminine rhyme | two-syllable rhyme | 50 | |
| 6266426099 | first person pov | the story is told by one of its characters, using the first person pronoun "i" which does not give the reader insight into the other characters' motives or thoughts | 51 | |
| 6266426100 | flashback | a way or presenting scenes or incidents that took place before the opening scene | 52 |
