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| 8229826736 | rhyme | similarity between syllable sounds | 0 | |
| 8229829940 | feminine rhyme | two syllable rhyme consisting of stressed syllable followed by unstressed | 1 | |
| 8229835384 | masculine rhyme | similarity between terminally stressed syllables | 2 | |
| 8229837813 | eye rhyme | refers to words whose spellings would lead one to think they had rhymed | 3 | |
| 8229847560 | slant rhyme | refers to words when either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical | 4 | |
| 8229854006 | roman a clef | a novel in which historical events and actual people are written about under the disguise of fiction | 5 | |
| 8229859681 | satire | a literary tone used to ridicule or make fun of human vice or weakness, often with the intent of correcting, or changing, the subject of the satiric attack | 6 | |
| 8229868988 | setting | the locale, time, and context in which the action of a literary work takes place | 7 | |
| 8229872249 | simile | a comparison of different things by speaking of them as "like" or "as" the same | 8 | |
| 8229880208 | soliloquy | an extended speech in which a lone character expresses his or her thoughts; a dramatic monologue which allows the audience to "hear" what the character is thinking | 9 | |
| 8229890226 | sonnet | a fourteen line lyric poem in predominantly iambic pentameter, with a formal rhyme scheme. Although there can be considerable variation in rhyme scheme, most are written in either the Italian style or the English style | 10 | |
| 8229903120 | Spenserian stanza | a 9 line stanza with the first 8 lines in iambic pentameter and the last line in iambic hexameter. Rhyme scheme is ABABBCBCC | 11 | |
| 8229911373 | stream of consciousness | a literary style which was first used by James Joyce in his novel, Ulysses. The writer expresses a character's thoughts and feelings as a chaotic stream with no apparent order or logic. The text is held together through psychological association and realistic characterization | 12 | |
| 8229926237 | symbolism | the use of words or objects to stand for or represent other things. | 13 | |
| 8229934257 | synecdoche | a figure of speech by which a part of something refers to the whole | 14 | |
| 8229941162 | syntax | an author's distinctive form of sentence construction. Distinctive forms include very long sentences, very short sentences, parallelism, and repetition of key words or phrases | 15 | |
| 8229951619 | theme | an author's insight about life. The main idea or universal meaning, the lesson or message of a literary work. May not always be explicit of easy to state, and different interpreters may disagree | 16 | |
| 8229964438 | tone | the writer's attitude, mood, or moral outlook toward the subject and/or readers | 17 | |
| 8229970143 | understatement | a statement that says less than is really meant. A figure of speech that is the opposite of hyperbole, | 18 | |
| 8229976651 | viewpoint | the intellectual or emotional perspective held by a narrator or persona | 19 | |
| 8229981846 | first person participant | the story is narrated by one of the main characters in the story | 20 | |
| 8229985444 | first person observer | the story is narrated by a minor character, someone plays only a small part in the plot | 21 | |
| 8229990667 | third person omniscient | the story is not narrated by a character, but by an impersonal author who sees and knows everything, including characters' thoughts | 22 | |
| 8229998798 | third person limited | the story is narrated by the author, but he/she focuses on the thinking and actions of a particular character | 23 | |
| 8230006551 | objective | the story describes only what can be seen, as a newspaper reporter | 24 | |
| 8230011781 | voice | an author's distinctive literary style, basic vision and general attitude toward the world. Revealed through the author's use of syntax, diction, punctuation, characterization, and dialogue | 25 | |
| 8230021345 | villanelle | a 19 line poem divided into five tercets and a final quatrain | 26 | |
| 8230025601 | meter | the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry | 27 | |
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