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| 12200557918 | allegory | story or poem that can be used to reveal a hidden meaning | 0 | |
| 12200557919 | alliteration | beginning of same letter or sound in closely connected words | 1 | |
| 12200557920 | allusion | indirect of passing reference | 2 | |
| 12200557921 | Ambiguity | uncertainty or inexactness of meaning in language | 3 | |
| 12200557922 | analogy | A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way | 4 | |
| 12200557923 | anapestic foot | Three syllables with the stress on the last syllable | 5 | |
| 12200557924 | anecdote | a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person | 6 | |
| 12200557925 | Antagonist | A character or force in conflict with the main character | 7 | |
| 12200557926 | Antithesis | the direct opposite, a sharp contrast | 8 | |
| 12200557927 | Anthropomorphism | the attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object. | 9 | |
| 12200557928 | Aphorism | A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life. | 10 | |
| 12200557929 | apostrophe | figure of speech used to adresss an imaginary character |  | 11 |
| 12200557930 | Archetype | A detail, image, or character type that occurs frequently in literature and myth and is thought to appeal in a universal way to the unconscious and to evoke a response |  | 12 |
| 12200557931 | assonance | repetition of vowel sounds |  | 13 |
| 12200557932 | static character | person who doesn't change throughout story keeps same personality |  | 14 |
| 12200557933 | characterization | process of revealing characters personality |  | 15 |
| 12200557934 | direct character | Author directly describes character | 16 | |
| 12200557935 | indirect character | the process by which the personality of a fictitious character is revealed through the character's speech, actions, appearance, etc. | 17 | |
| 12200557936 | dynamic character | A character who grows, learns, or changes as a result of the story's action | 18 | |
| 12200557937 | Classicism | A movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms | 19 | |
| 12200557938 | cliche | a worn-out idea or overused expression | 20 | |
| 12200557939 | comedy | A humorous work of drama | 21 | |
| 12200557940 | Confessional Poetry | a twentieth century term used to describe poetry that uses intimate material from the poet's life. | 22 | |
| 12200557941 | conflict | struggle between opposing forces |  | 23 |
| 12200557942 | internal and external | the two major types of conflict | 24 | |
| 12200557943 | person vs person | The character struggles against the will or actions of another character. | 25 | |
| 12200557944 | person vs society | struggle between a character and a group of people or society as a whole | 26 | |
| 12200557945 | person vs self | the type of struggle in which an individual is in direct conflict with his own desires or beliefs | 27 | |
| 12200557946 | person vs nature | a struggle between a character, and a force of nature | 28 | |
| 12200557947 | person vs fate | A problem or struggle that appears to be well beyond a character's control. | 29 | |
| 12200557948 | connotation | secondary meaning to a word |  | 30 |
| 12200557949 | consonance | repetition of same consonant in words close together |  | 31 |
| 12200557950 | couplet | two rhyming lines in a verse |  | 32 |
| 12200557951 | dactyllic foot | a three-syllable foot that consists of a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables | 33 | |
| 12200557952 | diction | A writer's or speaker's choice of words | 34 | |
| 12200557953 | elegy | a sad or mournful poem | 35 | |
| 12200557954 | Epic | A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds | 36 | |
| 12200557955 | epithet | an adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned. | 37 | |
| 12200557956 | Ethos | ethical appeal | 38 | |
| 12200557957 | fable | A brief story that leads to a moral, often using animals as characters | 39 | |
| 12200557958 | farce | A comedy that contains an extravagant and nonsensical disregard of seriousness, although it may have a serious, scornful purpose. | 40 | |
| 12200557959 | figurative language | Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling. |  | 41 |
| 12200557960 | foil | A character who acts as a contrast to another character | 42 | |
| 12200557961 | Foreshadowing | A narrative device that hints at coming events; often builds suspense or anxiety in the reader. | 43 | |
| 12200557962 | free verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme | 44 | |
| 12200557963 | hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. | 45 | |
| 12200557964 | iambic foot | an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable | 46 | |
| 12200557965 | imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) |  | 47 |
| 12200557966 | juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts | 48 | |
| 12200557967 | irony | A contrast between expectation and reality |  | 49 |
| 12200557968 | verbal irony | A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant |  | 50 |
| 12200557969 | dramatic irony | Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play. |  | 51 |
| 12200557970 | situational irony | refers to an occurrence that is contrary to what is expected or intended |  | 52 |
| 12200557971 | logos | an appeal based on logic or reason | 53 | |
| 12200557972 | Lyric poetry | A short poem in which a single speaker expresses personal thoughts and feelings | 54 | |
| 12200557973 | metaphor | A comparison without using like or as |  | 55 |
| 12200557974 | extended metaphor | A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work. | 56 | |
| 12200557975 | meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry |  | 57 |
| 12200557976 | metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it |  | 58 |
| 12200557977 | Mood | Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader | 59 | |
| 12200557978 | Monologue | A long speech made by one performer or by one person in a group. | 60 | |
| 12200557979 | motif | A recurring theme, subject or idea | 61 | |
| 12200557980 | motivation | A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior |  | 62 |
| 12200557981 | narrative poetry | poetry that tells a story | 63 | |
| 12200557982 | naturalism | a style and theory of representation based on the accurate depiction of detail. | 64 | |
| 12200557983 | onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. |  | 65 |
| 12200557984 | oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. |  | 66 |
| 12200557985 | Parable | A simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson | 67 | |
| 12200557986 | paradox | A contradiction or dilemma |  | 68 |
| 12200557987 | parallel structure | the repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures | 69 | |
| 12200557988 | parody | A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule. | 70 | |
| 12200557989 | pathos | a quality that evokes pity or sadness | 71 | |
| 12200557990 | persona | an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting | 72 | |
| 12200557991 | personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes |  | 73 |
| 12200557992 | point of view | The perspective from which a story is told |  | 74 |
| 12200557993 | omniscient point of view | The point of view where the narrator knows everything about the characters and their problems - told in the 3rd person. |  | 75 |
| 12200557994 | third person limited point of view | narrator tells the story from only one character's point of view | 76 | |
| 12200557995 | first person point of view | a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself | 77 | |
| 12200557996 | objective point of view | a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story with no comment on any characters or events. | 78 | |
| 12200557997 | Polysyndeton | Deliberate use of many conjunctions | 79 | |
| 12200557998 | protagonist | Main character | 80 | |
| 12200557999 | pyrrhic foot | two unstressed syllables | 81 | |
| 12200558000 | quatrain | A four-line stanza | 82 | |
| 12200558001 | Realism | A 19th century artistic movement in which writers and painters sought to show life as it is rather than life as it should be | 83 | |
| 12200558002 | refrain | A line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem. | 84 | |
| 12200558003 | Rhetoric | the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques. | 85 | |
| 12200558004 | rhetorical question | A question asked merely for rhetorical effect and not requiring an answer | 86 | |
| 12200558005 | Romanticism | 19th century artistic movement that appealed to emotion rather than reason | 87 | |
| 12200558006 | satire | the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. | 88 | |
| 12200558007 | sextet | six-line stanza | 89 | |
| 12200558008 | setting | The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs. | 90 | |
| 12200558009 | simile | A comparison of unlike things using a comparison word such as "like" or "as" | 91 | |
| 12200558010 | soliloquy | A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage | 92 | |
| 12200558011 | spondaic foot | Two stressed syllables | 93 | |
| 12200558012 | sterotype | A generalized belief about a group of people | 94 | |
| 12200558013 | style | the choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work | 95 | |
| 12200558014 | symbol | A thing that represents or stands for something else | 96 | |
| 12200558015 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 97 | |
| 12200558016 | thesis | a statement or theory that is put forward as a premise to be maintained or proved. | 98 | |
| 12200558017 | theme | Central idea of a work of literature, a generalization about the human condition | 99 | |
| 12200558018 | tone | Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character | 100 | |
| 12200558019 | tragedy | A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character | 101 | |
| 12200558020 | trochaic foot | A two syllable foot with the stress on the first syllable | 102 | |
| 12200558021 | understatement | the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis | 103 | |
| 12200558022 | versimilitude | the quality of appearing to be true, real, likely, or probable | 104 | |
| 12200558023 | voice | A writers distinctive use of language | 105 |
