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| 14431859268 | Allusion | a figure of speech in which an object or circumstance from unrelated context is referred to covertly or indirectly; an expression used to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly. | 0 | |
| 14431901413 | Diction | the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing; the style of enunciation in speaking or singing. | 1 | |
| 14431913532 | Genre | a category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content. | 2 | |
| 14431913533 | Imagery | visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work; visual symbolism. | 3 | |
| 14431914079 | Prose | a form of language that has no formal metrical structure (applies a natural flow of speech, ordinary grammatical structure, rather than rhythmic structure as is used in poetry.) | 4 | |
| 14431914732 | Mood | a literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions; the atmosphere of a peace creating an emotional setting. | 5 | |
| 14431915204 | Theme | main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work, which may be stated directly or indirectly. | 6 | |
| 14431916437 | Setting | an environment or surrounding in which an event or story takes place; can also set the mood as well as where the story is taking place. | 7 | |
| 14431917092 | Symbolism | the use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities, by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from their literal sense. | 8 | |
| 14431917093 | Verse | a single line of poetry; a stanza or other parts of poetry. | 9 | |
| 14431917952 | Antagonist | a character, or group of characters, which stand in opposition to the protagonist, which is the main character; commonly known as the villian whom the hero fights in order to save himself or others. | 10 | |
| 14431918582 | Deuteragonist | the person second in importance to the protagonist in a drama. | 11 | |
| 14431919623 | Direct Characterization | the way an author or another character within the story describes or reveals a character, through the use of descriptive adjectives, epithets, or phrases; happens when a writer reveals traits of a character in a straightforward manner. | 12 | |
| 14431920390 | Dynamic Character | Undergoes changed throughout the narrative due to conflicts encountered on a journey; a character that faces trials and takes time to learn from his experiences and mistakes. | 13 | |
| 14431920833 | Flat Character | a character that helps the main character in pursuing his ambitions and goals; does not change too much from the start of the narrative to the end. | 14 | |
| 14431920834 | Foil | A character that shows qualities that are in contrast with the qualities of another character; objective is to highlight that traits of the other character; may also be used for a comparison that is drawn to portray a difference between two things. | 15 | |
| 14431921621 | Hubris | extreme pride and arrogance shown by a character, which ultimately brings about his downfall; a typical flaw in the personality of a character who enjoys a powerful position. | 16 | |
| 14431921622 | Indirect Characterization | a subtle way of introducing the character to the audience; the audience has to deduce for themselves the characteristics of the character by observing his/her thought process, behavior, speech, way of talking, etc. | 17 | |
| 14431922106 | Protagonist | the central character or leading figure in poetry, narrative, novel, or any other story; sometimes a hero to audience or readers. | 18 | |
| 14431922550 | Static Character | a character that does not undergo inner changes, or undergoes a little change; does not grow or develop. | 19 | |
| 14431923102 | Tragic Flaw (Hamartia) | a personal error in a protagonist's personality, which brings about his tragic downfall in a tragedy. | 20 | |
| 14431923567 | Aside | a short comment or speech that a character delivers directly to the audience, or to himself, while other actors on the stage appear not to hear. | 21 | |
| 14431924165 | Colloquial Diction | regional speech patterns that may vary in terms of accent, inflection, and informal words used within a given region. | 22 | |
| 14431924166 | Dialect | the language used by the people of a specific area, class, district, or any other group of people; involves the spelling, sounds, grammar and pronunciation used by a particular group of people. | 23 | |
| 14431925364 | Euphemism | polite, indirect expressions that replace words and phrases considered harsh and impolite, or which suggest something unpleasant; and idiomatic expression which loses its literal meanings and refers to something else. | 24 | |
| 14431926242 | Monologue | a literary device that is the speech or verbal presentation given by a single character in order to express his or her collection of thoughts and ideas aloud; often spoken directly to the audience or another character. | 25 | |
| 14431927026 | Soliloquy | a popular literary device often used in drama to reveal the innermost thoughts of a character; used to convey the progress or action of the play. | 26 | |
| 14431927371 | Stage Directions | an instruction in the text of a play, especially one indicating the movement, position, or tone of an actor, of the sound effects and lighting. | 27 | |
| 14431928789 | Anaphora | the deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect. | 28 | |
| 14431929926 | Asyndeton | used to intentionally eliminate conjunctions between the phrases, and in the sentence, yet maintain grammatical accuracy. | 29 | |
| 14431930430 | Chiasmus | two or more clauses are balanced against each other by the reversal of their structures in order to produce an artistic effect. | 30 | |
| 14431931460 | Epigraph | a literary device in the form of a poem, quotation, or sentence--usually placed at the beginning of a document of a simple piece--having a few sentences, but which belongs to another writer. | 31 | |
| 14431931461 | Epistrophe | the same word returning at the end of each sentence; "epiphora." | 32 | |
| 14431931849 | In media res | narrating a story from the middle after supposing that the audiences are aware of past events. | 33 | |
| 14431932277 | Juxtaposition | a literary technique in which two or more ideas, places, characters, and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem, for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts. | 34 | |
| 14431932736 | Litotes | a figure of speech that employs an understatement by using double negatives or a positive statement expressed by negating its opposite expressions. | 35 | |
| 14431933401 | Periodic Sentence | made up of two segments which are equal, not only in length, but also in grammatical structure and meaning. | 36 | |
| 14431933402 | Peripeteia | a sudden reversal of fortune or change in circumstances, especially in reference to fictional narrative. | 37 | |
| 14431934639 | Polysyndeton | a stylistic device in which several coordinating conjunctions are used in succession in order to achieve an artistic effect. | 38 | |
| 14431935199 | Telegraphic Sentence | speech during the two-word stage of language acquisition in children which is laconic and efficient. | 39 | |
| 14431935879 | Apostrophe | a figure of speech sometimes represented by an exclamation, such as "oh"; addresses a non-existent person or an abstract idea in such a way as if it were present and capable of understanding feelings. | 40 | |
| 14431935880 | Conceit | two vastly different objects are likened together with the help of similes or metaphors; develops a comparison which is exceedingly unlikely but is imaginative. | 41 | |
| 14431936417 | Hyperbole | involves an exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis. | 42 | |
| 14431937849 | Metonymy | replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated. | 43 | |
| 14431938181 | Synecdoche | part of something represents the whole, or it may use a whole to represent a part; may also use larger groups to refer to smaller groups, or vice versa; may also call a thing by the name of the material it is made of it refer to a thing in a container or packaging by the name of that container or packaging. | 44 | |
| 14431938586 | Synesthesia | refers to a technique adopted by writers to present ideas, characters, or places in such a manner that they appeal to more than one sense, like hearing, sight, smell, and tough at a given time. | 45 | |
| 14431945399 | Assonance | takes place when two or more words, close to one another repeat the same vowel sound, but start with different consonant sounds. | 46 | |
| 14431945400 | Ballad | a type of poetry or verse that was used in dance songs in ancient France; commonly have easy-to-understand language and are about romance or tragedy. | 47 | |
| 14431946722 | Blank Verse | an un-rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter; consistent meter with 10 syllables in each line 9pentameter). | 48 | |
| 14431947685 | Consonance | repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase; repetition often takes place in quick succession | 49 | |
| 14431947686 | Heroic Couplet | a pair of rhyming iambic pentameters commonly used in epic and narrative poetry. | 50 | |
| 14431948191 | Iambic Pentameter | uses 10 syllables in each line; a rhythmic pattern comprising five iambs in each line, like five heartbeats. | 51 | |
| 14431949210 | Elegy | can be defined as a poem or song in the form of elegiac couplets, written in honor of someone deceased. | 52 | |
| 14431951470 | Enjambment | a line of poetry that does not come to an end at the line break, but moves over to the next line; the running on of a sense from one couplet or line to the next without a major pause. | 53 | |
| 14431952074 | Epic Poetry | something that refers to a heroic story of something that is heroic or grand. | 54 | |
| 14431952075 | Feminine Rhyme | an unstressed two syllable rhyme followed by another unstressed syllable rhyme used to create a rhythm; a double rhyme. | 55 | |
| 14431953713 | Free Verse | can be defined as poetry that is free from limitations of regular meter or rhythm, and does not rhyme with fixed forms; do not follow regular rhyme scheme rules. | 56 | |
| 14431953714 | Lyric Poetry | a poem in which the poet either expresses his feelings and emotions; presents a character in the first person to express his emotions; combination of lyrics and poetry where a piece of poetry is written as a lyric. | 57 | |
| 14431954352 | Ode | a form of poetry such as a sonnet or elegy that is lyrical in nature but not very lengthy; highly solemn and serious in tone and subject matter; formal tone. | 58 | |
| 14431954921 | Masculine Rhyme | occurs when the rhyme is on the final syllable of the two rhyming words. | 59 | |
| 14431956336 | Slant Rhyme | "imperfect rhyme" the stressed syllables of ending consonants match, however the preceding vowel sounds do not match. | 60 | |
| 14431956962 | Terza Rima | an arrangement of triplents, especially in iambs, that rhymed aba bcb cdc, etc. | 61 | |
| 14431956963 | Villanelle | derived from the Italian word villano, which means "peasant;" a dance song coupled with pastoral themes; defined as a poetic device which requires a poem to have 19 lines and a fixed form. | 62 | |
| 14431957602 | Allegory | a figure of speech in which abstract ideas and principles are described in terms of characters, figures, and events; can be used to tell a story with the purpose of teaching an idea of principle/moral lesson. | 63 | |
| 14431959005 | Bildungsroman | a special kind of novel that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of its main character, from his or her youth to adulthood. | 64 | |
| 14431959583 | Epistolary Novel | comes from a Greek word that means "letter;" a literary genre pertaining to letters in which writers use letters, journals, and diary entries in their works, or tell their stories or deliver messages through a series of letters. | 65 | |
| 14431960460 | Picaresque Novel | a genre of prose fiction that depicts the adventures of a roguish, but "appealing hero", of low social class who lives by his wits in a corrupt society. | 66 | |
| 14431960461 | Gothic | refers to a style of writing that is characterized by elements of fear, horror, death, and gloom, as well as romantic elements, such as nature, individuality, and very high emotion (fear and suspense.) | 67 | |
| 14431962069 | Impressionism | seeks to capture a feeling or experience rather than to achieve accurate depiction. | 68 | |
| 14432075848 | Modernism | aims to break with classical and traditional forms. | 69 | |
| 14432076511 | Naturalism | a style and theory of representation based on the accurate depiction of detail. | 70 | |
| 14432076825 | Puritanism | censorious moral beliefs, especially about self-indulgence and sex. | 71 | |
| 14432111742 | Postmodernism | style and concept in the arts, architecture, and criticism that represents a departure from modernisms and has at its heart a general distrust of grand theories and ideologies as well as a problematical relationship with any notion of "art." | 72 | |
| 14432111743 | Realism | attempts to represent familiar things as they are. | 73 | |
| 14432112339 | Magical Realism | a literary or artistic genre in which realistic narrative and naturalistic technique are combined with surreal elements of dream or fantasy. | 74 | |
| 14432113442 | Romanticism | a movement in the arts and literature that emphasized inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual. | 75 | |
| 14432114381 | Dark Romanticism | reflecting a popular fascination with the irrational, the demonic and the grotesque. | 76 | |
| 14432115146 | Transcendentalism | reaction to rationalism; taught that divinity pervades all nature and humanity, and its members held progressive views on feminism and communal living. | 77 |
