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| 4615431145 | Accent/Beat | the importance of a syllable in terms of differential loudness, pitch, length or combination of all; rhythmically stress on the syllable of a verse (poem arranges accents to occur at regular intervals) | 0 | |
| 4615431146 | Allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can interpret a hidden meaning (moral or political) by the use of characters, settings, and/or events (ex. animal farm=communism) |  | 1 |
| 4615431420 | Alliteration | repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds at the beginning of adjacent connected words; ex. peter piper picked a peck of pickled pepper |  | 2 |
| 4615431421 | Allusion | an indirect reference to someone or something known from history, cultural, literature, religion, politics, sports, or science; ex. the allusions I did over the summer | 3 | |
| 4615431422 | Ambiguity | word, phrase, statement, event or situation which contains more than one meaning and is done on purpose by the author, if not then it is vagueness (detracts from work) | 4 | |
| 4615431850 | Analogy | a comparison between two ideas or thing to show why they are alike; metaphors and similes are tools for analogy |  | 5 |
| 4615431851 | Anaphora | repetition of word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of the sentence in a row to help make the author's point more coherent; mostly seen in poetry, essays, formal speeches |  | 6 |
| 4615432343 | Anastrophe | when a normal order of words is reversed in order to propose rhythm or emphasis | 7 | |
| 4615432905 | Anecdote | a brief story told to illustrate a point and make readers and listeners laugh ; to serve an example of something |  | 8 |
| 4615432906 | Antagonist | it is the competitor, opponent, or rival that goes against the protagonist (hero) in a story |  | 9 |
| 4615434367 | Anticlimax | disappointing ending after an exciting series of events |  | 10 |
| 4615434368 | Antihero | "the 2nd protagonist" but with a lack of courage, grace, or intelligence | 11 | |
| 4615435083 | Antithesis | two opposite ideas that are put together in a sentence to have a contrasting effect |  | 12 |
| 4615435411 | Aphorism | a statement or opinion expressed to apply something philosophical, moral, or a wise observation about life; a.k.a maxim, epigram |  | 13 |
| 4615435854 | Apostrophe | addressing an imaginary, dead, absent person, place, personified abstract idea; ex. addressing a person (dead or alive). place, or a thing (sun or the sea) | 14 | |
| 4615435855 | Apposition | a grammar construction in which a noun [or noun phrase(s)] is placed with another as an explanation | 15 | |
| 4615436398 | Archetype | a person, object, or concept that is ideally modeled to represent a universal symbol or human nature; ex. Hercules= strength and courage |  | 16 |
| 4615436399 | Aside | used in drama and theater, a comment told to the audience by a stage performer but "meant" not to be heard by other characters | 17 | |
| 4615436690 | Assonance | repetition of similar vowel sounds that need to be close enough for the repetition to noticeably be heard |  | 18 |
| 4615436709 | Asyndeton | meaning unconnected; commas intentionally eliminate conjunctions to separate a series of words; ex. instead of x, y, and z do x,y,z | 19 | |
| 4615629579 | Aubade | opposite of a serenade, it is a morning love song/poem |  | 20 |
| 4615629580 | Ballad | a poem that is usually arranged in quatrains telling a simple story with repeated refrains; usually narratives, were known as folk ballads and then passed to literary ballads | 21 | |
| 4615629581 | Bathos | 22 | ||
| 4615629628 | Black Humor | 23 | ||
| 4615629694 | Blank Verse | 24 | ||
| 4615630086 | Cacophony | 25 | ||
| 4615630087 | Cadence | 26 | ||
| 4615630088 | Canto | 27 | ||
| 4615630172 | Caricature | 28 | ||
| 4615630613 | Catharsis | 29 | ||
| 4615632644 | 'Characterization | 30 | ||
| 4615632645 | 'Indirect Characterization | 31 | ||
| 4615632920 | 'Direct Characterization | 32 | ||
| 4615632921 | 'Static Character | 33 | ||
| 4615632922 | 'Dynamic Character | 34 | ||
| 4615633060 | 'Flat Character | 35 | ||
| 4615633095 | 'Round Character | 36 | ||
| 4615633265 | Chiasmus | 37 | ||
| 4615633433 | Chorus | 38 | ||
| 4615633500 | Cliche | 39 | ||
| 4615633554 | Colloquialism | 40 | ||
| 4615633626 | Comedy | a type of literary genre; a story having funny/happy ending | 41 | |
| 4615633627 | Conceit | A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects. | 42 | |
| 4615634021 | Confessional Poetry | A twentieth century term used to describe poetry that uses intimate material from the poet's life. | 43 | |
| 4615634022 | "Conflict | a struggle between two opposing forces in a story; usually between the protagonist and antagonist |  | 44 |
| 4615634090 | "External Conflict | conflict between a person and an outside force; may be character vs. character, character vs nature, or character vs society |  | 45 |
| 4615634534 | "Internal Conflict | mental struggle within the character; ex. dealing with mixed emotions, deciding between right or wrong, or between two solutions in a problem |  | 46 |
| 4615635266 | Connotation | 47 | ||
| 4615635267 | Consonance | 48 | ||
| 4615635268 | Couplet | 49 | ||
| 4615635365 | Denotation | 50 | ||
| 4615635366 | Deus Ex Machina | 51 | ||
| 4615635709 | Dialect | 52 | ||
| 4615635710 | Diction | 53 | ||
| 4615636001 | Didactic | 54 | ||
| 4615636002 | Dirge | 55 | ||
| 4615636060 | Dissonance | 56 | ||
| 4615636233 | Elegy | 57 | ||
| 4615636277 | Enjambment | 58 | ||
| 4615636451 | Epic | 59 | ||
| 4615636452 | Epigraph | 60 | ||
| 4615636481 | Epistrophe | 61 | ||
| 4615636826 | Epithet | 62 | ||
| 4615636858 | ~Essay | short piece of nonfiction in which the writer discuss a part of a subject | 63 | |
| 4615637883 | ~Argumentation | one of the four forms of dialogue which uses logos, ethos, and pathos to develop ideas to convince the reader to think or act a certain way |  | 64 |
| 4615638240 | ~Persuasion | more on the emotional viewpoint that on the facts |  | 65 |
| 4615638369 | ~Argument | persuasion towards more into reasoning (logic) rather in emotion to convince the audience to think or act in a certain way | | 66 |
| 4615638487 | ~Causal Relationship | form of argumentation where one thing results from another; used as logical argument | 67 | |
| 4615638899 | ~Description | form of writing that uses language to create mood or emotion | 68 | |
| 4615638900 | ~Exposition | one of the four major types of writing where something is explained; narrative | 69 | |
| 4615638901 | ~Narrative | form of writing where it tells/explains a series of events |  | 70 |
| 4615639123 | Euphemism | 71 | ||
| 4615639124 | Euphony | 72 | ||
| 4615639356 | Explication | 73 | ||
| 4615639357 | Exposition | 74 | ||
| 4615642132 | Fable | a short story in prose or poetry that leads/teaches to a moral lesson |  | 75 |
| 4615642133 | Farce | 76 | ||
| 4615642935 | Feminine Rhyme | 77 | ||
| 4615642936 | Figurative Language | 78 | ||
| 4615643043 | Flashback | scene or event from the past that appears in a narrative out of chronological order, to fill in information or explain something in the present |  | 79 |
| 4615643044 | Foil | 80 | ||
| 4615643045 | Foot | 81 | ||
| 4615643343 | Foreshadowing | A narrative device that hints at coming events; often builds suspense or anxiety in the reader. |  | 82 |
| 4615643344 | Free Verse | 83 | ||
| 4615643345 | Genre | 84 | ||
| 4615643352 | Heroic Couplet | 85 | ||
| 4615643705 | Hubris | 86 | ||
| 4615643706 | Hyperbole | 87 | ||
| 4615643707 | Imagery | 88 | ||
| 4615643871 | In Medias Res | 89 | ||
| 4615643872 | Interior Monologue | 90 | ||
| 4615643873 | Internal Rhyme | 91 | ||
| 4615644409 | Inversion | 92 | ||
| 4615644410 | `Irony | 93 | ||
| 4615644411 | `Verbal Irony | 94 | ||
| 4615644657 | `Dramatic Irony | 95 | ||
| 4615644658 | `Situational Irony | 96 | ||
| 4615646813 | `Cosmic Irony | 97 | ||
| 4615646814 | Juxtaposition | 98 | ||
| 4615646815 | Kenning | 99 | ||
| 4615646984 | Litotes | 100 | ||
| 4615646985 | Local Color | 101 | ||
| 4615647218 | Loose Sentence | 102 | ||
| 4615647219 | Lyric Poem | 103 | ||
| 4615647418 | Masculine Rhyme | 104 | ||
| 4615647419 | -Metaphor | figure of speech that compares two unlike things without the use of "like" and "as" | 105 | |
| 4615647420 | -Implied Metaphor | 106 | ||
| 4687583673 | -Extended metaphor | 107 | ||
| 4615647530 | -Dead Metaphor | 108 | ||
| 4615647531 | -Mixed Metaphor | 109 | ||
| 4615647532 | *Meter | 110 | ||
| 4615647918 | *Anapestic Meter | 111 | ||
| 4615647919 | *Dactylic Meter | 112 | ||
| 4615648075 | *Iambic Meter | 113 | ||
| 4615648076 | *Spondaic Meter | 114 | ||
| 4615648277 | *Trochaic Meter | 115 | ||
| 4615648278 | Metonymy | 116 | ||
| 4615649379 | Mood | 117 | ||
| 4615649380 | Motif | 118 | ||
| 4615649381 | Motivation | reasons that lead and directs a character's behavior |  | 119 |
| 4615649594 | Narration/Narrative Verse | 120 | ||
| 4615649595 | Frame Narrative | 121 | ||
| 4615649596 | Nemesis | 122 | ||
| 4615649759 | Objectivity | 123 | ||
| 4615649974 | Onomatopoeia | A figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words. |  | 124 |
| 4615649975 | Oxymoron | 125 | ||
| 4615649976 | Parable | 126 | ||
| 4615649980 | Paradox | 127 | ||
| 4615650285 | Parallel Structure | 128 | ||
| 4615650286 | Parenthetical Phrase | 129 | ||
| 4615650491 | Parody | 130 | ||
| 4615650492 | Pastoral Poetry | 131 | ||
| 4615650493 | Pathos | 132 | ||
| 4615650640 | Periodic Sentence | 133 | ||
| 4615650641 | Persona | 134 | ||
| 4615650642 | Personification | 135 | ||
| 4615650904 | ^Plot | 136 | ||
| 4615650905 | ^Exposition | 137 | ||
| 4615650906 | ^Rising Action | 138 | ||
| 4615650907 | ^Climax | 139 | ||
| 4615651221 | ^Falling Action | 140 | ||
| 4615651222 | ^Resolution | 141 | ||
| 4615652038 | ,Point of View | a point in which the writer tells the story | 142 | |
| 4615652039 | ,First Person | one of the characters tells the story; I, me, we |  | 143 |
| 4615652040 | ,Third Person | unknown narrator tells the story; and usually talks about a specific character; they, him |  | 144 |
| 4615652219 | ,Omniscient | 145 | ||
| 4615652363 | ,Objective | 146 | ||
| 4615652364 | ,Second Person | 147 | ||
| 4615652526 | Polysyndeton | 148 | ||
| 4615652527 | Protagonist | the main character in the story |  | 149 |
| 4615652740 | Pun | A humorous play on words; words that sound alike but have multiple meanings |  | 150 |
| 4615652741 | Pyrrhic Meter | 151 | ||
| 4615652868 | Quatrain | poem that consist of four lines; considered a unit |  | 152 |
| 4615652869 | Refrain | word, phrase, line or group of lines that are repeated; mostly in a poem; chorus of a song | 153 | |
| 4615652870 | Requiem | song or prayer for the dead |  | 154 |
| 4615653024 | Rhythm | 155 | ||
| 4615653025 | Rhetoric | 156 | ||
| 4615653026 | Rhetorical Question | 157 | ||
| 4615653033 | Romance | 158 | ||
| 4615653234 | Satire | 159 | ||
| 4615653235 | Setting | time and place where the story takes place |  | 160 |
| 4615653236 | Simile | figure of speech that makes a detailed comparison between two unlike things; using "like" or "as" |  | 161 |
| 4615655292 | Soliloquy | 162 | ||
| 4615655293 | Stanza | 163 | ||
| 4615655449 | Stereotype | a generalized belief towards a person often about religion, social, or racial prejudices but often is overgeneralized |  | 164 |
| 4615655450 | Stock Character | 165 | ||
| 4615679041 | Stream of Consciousness | 166 | ||
| 4615679042 | Style | 167 | ||
| 4615679048 | Suspense | feeling of anxious or curiosity of what will happen next in the story |  | 168 |
| 4615679242 | Subjectivity | 169 | ||
| 4615679243 | Suspension of Disbelief | 170 | ||
| 4615679766 | Symbol | 171 | ||
| 4615679767 | Synecdoche | 172 | ||
| 4615680037 | Tall tale | extremely exaggerated story that is unbelievable | 173 | |
| 4615680038 | Theme | 174 | ||
| 4615680210 | Thesis | main purpose of an argument | 175 | |
| 4615680211 | Tone | 176 | ||
| 4615680212 | Tragedy | 177 | ||
| 4615680521 | Tragic Flaw | 178 | ||
| 4615680522 | Tragic Irony | 179 | ||
| 4615680968 | Understatement | 180 | ||
| 4615680969 | Utopia | an idealized place; imaginary place where people live happily |  | 181 |
| 4615681174 | Vernacular | 182 | ||
| 4615681175 | Impressionism | 183 | ||
| 4615681176 | Modernism | time 1920s- 1945 post modernism is 1945 till now | 184 | |
| 4615681370 | Naturalism | time late 1800s- mid 1900s | 185 | |
| 4615681371 | Plain Style | 186 | ||
| 4615681501 | Puritanism | Time line of 1620-1770s | 187 | |
| 4615681502 | Rationalism | 188 | ||
| 4615681503 | Realism | Time line of 1850s- early 1900s | 189 | |
| 4615681634 | Regionalism | time line 1884-early 1900s | 190 | |
| 4615682231 | Romanticism | Time line of 1800s- 1870s | 191 | |
| 4615681635 | Surrealism | 192 | ||
| 4615681636 | Symbolism | 193 | ||
| 4615682562 | Transcendentalism | 194 | ||
| 4615686847 | Neoclassic | time 1770s- early 1800s | 195 |
