5774013378 | anaphora | repetition in first part of a sentence , to have an artistic meaning | ![]() | 0 |
5774013380 | apostrophe | figure of speech used to adresss an imaginary character | ![]() | 1 |
5774013383 | assonance | repetition of vowel sounds | ![]() | 2 |
5774013384 | blank verse | poetry written in meter without an ending rhyme | ![]() | 3 |
5774013385 | cacophony | blend of unharmonious sounds | ![]() | 4 |
5774013386 | caesura | pause in the middle of a line | ![]() | 5 |
5774013398 | couplet | two rhyming lines in a verse | ![]() | 6 |
5774013410 | euphony | smooth choice and arrangement of sounds | ![]() | 7 |
5774013423 | irony | A contrast between expectation and reality | ![]() | 8 |
5774013432 | metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it | ![]() | 9 |
5774013434 | narrator | Person telling the story | ![]() | 10 |
5774013443 | point of view | The perspective from which a story is told | ![]() | 11 |
5774013444 | omniscient point of view | The point of view where the narrator knows everything about the characters and their problems - told in the 3rd person. | ![]() | 12 |
5774013445 | third person limited point of view | narrator tells the story from only one character's pov | ![]() | 13 |
5774013446 | first person point of view | a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself | ![]() | 14 |
5774013447 | objective point of view | a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story, with no comment on any characters or events. | ![]() | 15 |
5774013459 | soliloquy | A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage | ![]() | 16 |
5774013460 | sonnet | 14 line poem | ![]() | 17 |
5774013461 | stanza | A group of lines in a poem | ![]() | 18 |
5774013462 | stream of consciousness | private thoughts of a character without commentary | ![]() | 19 |
5774013465 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | ![]() | 20 |
5774013470 | tone | Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character | ![]() | 21 |
5774013471 | tragedy | A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character | ![]() | 22 |
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