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| 5184268862 | Allegory | A narrative or description having a second meaning beneath the surface one | 0 | |
| 5184268863 | Alliteration | use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse | 1 | |
| 5184268864 | Allusion | a reference to something literary, mythological, or historical that the author assumes the reader will recognize | 2 | |
| 5184268865 | Ambiguity | An event or situation that may be interpreted in more than one way. | 3 | |
| 5184268866 | Anachronism | something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred | 4 | |
| 5184268867 | Analogy | drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect | 5 | |
| 5184268868 | Anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase as the beginning of successive clauses | 6 | |
| 5184268869 | Antithesis | the juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance | 7 | |
| 5184268870 | Apostrophe | address to an absent or imaginary person | 8 | |
| 5184268871 | 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 | 9 | |
| 5184268872 | Assonance | the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words | 10 | |
| 5184268873 | Asyndeton | When the conjunctions (such as "and" or "but") that would normally connect a string of words, phrases, or clauses are omitted from a sentence | 11 | |
| 5184268874 | Catharsis | a release of emotional tension | 12 | |
| 5184268875 | Characterization | the process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character | 13 | |
| 5184268876 | Comedy of Manners | Deals with the relations and intrigues of gentlemen and ladies living in a polished and sophisticated society; it evokes laughter mainly at the violations of social conventions and decorum and relies on the wit and humor of the dialogue for its effect. | 14 | |
| 5184268877 | Comic Relief | An amusing scene, incident, or speech introduced into serious or tragic elements, as in a play, in order to provide temporary relief from tension, or to intensify the dramatic action. | 15 | |
| 5184268878 | Connotation | refers to the implied or suggested meanings associated with a word beyond its dictionary definition | 16 | |
| 5184268879 | Consonance | repetition of consonant sounds | 17 | |
| 5184268880 | Diction | a writer's or speaker's choice of words | 18 | |
| 5184268881 | Didactic | having the primary purpose of teaching or instructing | 19 | |
| 5184268882 | Dramatic Irony | (theater) irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play | 20 | |
| 5184268883 | Elegy | a mournful poem, esp. one lamenting the dead | 21 | |
| 5184268884 | Epigraph | a quotation at the beginning of some piece of writing | 22 | |
| 5184268885 | Epithet | a term used to point out a characteristic of a person. Homeric epithets are often compound adjectives ("swift-footed Achilles") that become an almost formulaic part of a name. Epithets can be abusive or offensive but are not so by definition. For example, athletes may be proud of given epithets ("The Rocket"). | 23 | |
| 5184268886 | Euphemism | the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt | 24 | |
| 5184268887 | Explication | The art of interpreting or discovering the meaning of a text. It usually involves close reading and special attention to figurative language. | 25 | |
| 5184268888 | Exposition | The introductory material which gives the setting, creates the tone, presents the characters, and presents other facts necessary to understanding the story. | 26 | |
| 5184268889 | Farce | (n.) a play filled with ridiculous or absurd happenings; broad or far-fetched humor; a ridiculous sham | 27 | |
| 5184268890 | Figurative Language | Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things, [examples are metaphor, simile, and personification. | 28 | |
| 5184268891 | Flat Character | a character who embodies a single quality and who does not develop in the course of a story | 29 | |
| 5184268892 | Foil Character | a character who is used as a contrast to another character; the contrast emphasizes the differences between the two characters, bringing out the distinctive qualities in each | 30 | |
| 5184268893 | Genre | a kind of literary or artistic work | 31 | |
| 5184268894 | Hubris | excessive pride | 32 | |
| 5184268895 | Hyperbole | a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor | 33 | |
| 5184268896 | Imagery | the use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, thing, place, or experience | 34 | |
| 5184268897 | Litotes | understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary) | 35 | |
| 5184268898 | Metaphor | a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity | 36 | |
| 5184268899 | Extended Metaphor | A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work. | 37 | |
| 5184268900 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it | 38 | |
| 5184268901 | Mood | the overall emotion created by a work of literature | 39 | |
| 5184268902 | Motif | a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work | 40 | |
| 5184268903 | Onomatopoeia | using words that imitate the sound they denote | 41 | |
| 5184268904 | Oxymoron | conjoining contradictory terms (as in 'deafening silence') | 42 | |
| 5184268905 | Parable | a short moral story (often with animal characters) | 43 | |
| 5184268906 | Paradox | a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. | 44 | |
| 5184268907 | Parallelism | phrases or sentences of a similar construction/meaning placed side by side, balancing each other | 45 | |
| 5184268908 | Parody | a work which imitates another in a ridiculous manner | 46 | |
| 5184268909 | Periodic Sentence | a complex sentence in which the main clause comes last and is preceded by the subordinate clause | 47 | |
| 5184268910 | Personification | representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature | 48 | |
| 5184268911 | Point of View | the perspective from which a story is told | 49 | |
| 5184268912 | Polysyndeton | using several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some might be omitted (as in 'he ran and jumped and laughed for joy') | 50 | |
| 5184268913 | Protagonist | the principal character in a work of fiction | 51 | |
| 5184268914 | Pun | a humorous play on words | 52 | |
| 5184268915 | Repetition | the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device | 53 | |
| 5184268916 | Round Character | this character is fully developed - the writer reveals good and bad traits as well as background | 54 | |
| 5184268917 | Satire | form of literature in which irony, sarcasm, and ridicule are employed to attack human vice and folly | 55 | |
| 5184268918 | Sarcasm | harsh, cutting language or tone intended to ridicule | 56 | |
| 5184268919 | Setting | the state of the environment in which a situation exists | 57 | |
| 5184268920 | Simile | Comparison using "like" or "as" | 58 | |
| 5184268921 | Situational Irony | occurs when the outcome of a work is unexpected, or events turn out to be the opposite from what one had expected | 59 | |
| 5184268922 | Soliloquy | in drama, a character speaks alone on stage to allow his/her thoughts and ideas to be conveyed to the audience | 60 | |
| 5184268923 | Monologue | speech you make to yourself | 61 | |
| 5184268924 | Stock Character | a fictional character that relies heavily on cultural types or stereotypes for its personality manner of speech and other characteristics. Stock characters are instantly recognizable to members of a given culture. | 62 | |
| 5184268925 | Stream of Consciousness | the continuous flow of ideas and feelings that constitute an individual's conscious experience | 63 | |
| 5184268926 | Style | a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period | 64 | |
| 5184268927 | Symbol | something that stands for something else | 65 | |
| 5184268928 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole (as hand for sailor), the whole for a part (as the law for police officer), the specific for the general (as cutthroat for assassin), the general for the specific (as thief for pickpocket), or the material for the thing made from it (as steel for sword). | 66 | |
| 5184268929 | Syntax | the rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language | 67 | |
| 5184268930 | Theme | a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work | 68 | |
| 5184268931 | Tone | the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author | 69 | |
| 5184268932 | Tragedy | A work in which the protagonist, a person of high degree, is engaged in a significant struggle and which ends in ruin or destruction | 70 | |
| 5184268933 | Hamartia | the error, frailty, mistaken judgment, or misstep through which the fortunes of the hero of a tragedy are reversed | 71 | |
| 5184268934 | Understatement | the opposite of exaggeration. It is a technique for developing irony and/or humor where one writes or says less than intended. | 72 | |
| 5184268935 | Verbal Irony | A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant | 73 | |
| 5184268936 | Static Character | a character that does not change from the beginning of the story to the end | 74 | |
| 5184268937 | Dynamic Character | A character who grows, learns, or changes as a result of the story's action | 75 | |
| 5184268938 | Catalyst | a person, thing, or agent that speeds up or stimulates a result, reaction, or change | 76 | |
| 5184268939 | Anapest | a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables | 77 | |
| 5184268940 | Ballad | a type of poem that is meant to be sung and is both lyric and narrative in nature | 78 | |
| 5184268941 | Ballad Stanza | A four-line stanza, known as a quatrain, consisting of alternating eight- and six-syllable lines. | 79 | |
| 5184268942 | Blank Verse | unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter) | 80 | |
| 5184268943 | Colloquial Diction | characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation | 81 | |
| 5184268944 | Pedantic Diction | marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects | 82 | |
| 5184268945 | Cosmic Irony | Type of irony where it seems that God or fate is manipulating events so as to inspire false hopes, which are inevitably dashed. | 83 | |
| 5184268946 | Couplet | Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme. | 84 | |
| 5184268947 | Dactyl | a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables | 85 | |
| 5184268948 | Dimeter | A metrical line containing two feet | 86 | |
| 5184268949 | End Rhyme | Rhyme that occurs at the end of two or more lines of poetry | 87 | |
| 5184268950 | End-Stopped Line | a line that ends with a natural speech pause, usually marked by punctuation | 88 | |
| 5184268951 | Shakespearean Sonnet | a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg | 89 | |
| 5184268952 | Enjambent | the continuation of a sentence from one line or couplet of a poem to the next. | 90 | |
| 5184268953 | Epic Poem | a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds | 91 | |
| 5184268954 | Epigram | a witty saying expressing a single thought or observation | 92 | |
| 5184268955 | Eye Rhyme | rhyme that appears correct from spelling but does not rhyme because of pronunciation | 93 | |
| 5184268956 | Exact Rhyme | perfect rhyme, such as buzz and fuzz | 94 | |
| 5184268957 | Fixed Form | a traditional pattern that applies to whole poem (sonnet, limerick) | 95 | |
| 5184268958 | Foot | a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm | 96 | |
| 5184268959 | Free Verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme | 97 | |
| 5184268960 | Heptameter | a verse line containing seven feet | 98 | |
| 5184268961 | Heroic Couplet | a couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentamenter and written in an elevated style | 99 | |
| 5184268962 | Hexameter | a metrical line containing six feet | 100 | |
| 5184268963 | Iambic | one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable | 101 | |
| 5184268964 | Internal Rhyme | a word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line | 102 | |
| 5184268965 | Italian Sonnet | a poem that falls into two parts: an octave of eight lines and a sestet of six; the octave rhyme pattern is "abba abba" (two sets of four lines); the sestet's lines are more variable: "cde cde"; or "ced ced"; or "cd cd cd". | 103 | |
| 5184268966 | Limerick | a kind of humorous verse of five lines, in which the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme with each other, and the third and fourth lines, which are shorter, form a rhymed couplet | 104 | |
| 5184268967 | Lyric Poem | a short poem of songlike quality | 105 | |
| 5184268968 | Masculine Ending | a stressed syllable ending a verse line | 106 | |
| 5184268969 | Meter | (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse | 107 | |
| 5184268970 | Monometer | a metrical line containing one foot | 108 | |
| 5184268971 | Narrative Poem | a poem that tells a story and has a plot | 109 | |
| 5184268972 | Near Rhyme | A rhyme based on an imperfect or incomplete correspondence of end syllable sounds. | 110 | |
| 5184268973 | Octameter | A metrical line containing eight feet | 111 | |
| 5184268974 | Ode | a poem usually addressed to a particular person, object or event that has stimulated deep and noble feelings in the poet | 112 | |
| 5184268975 | Open Form | A type of structure or form in poetry characterized by freedom from regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme, line length, and metrical pattern. | 113 | |
| 5184268976 | Pentameter | a metrical line containing five feet | 114 | |
| 5184268977 | Quatrain | a stanza of four lines | 115 | |
| 5184268978 | Sestina | a lyric form that consists of six stanzas of six lines each followed by a three-line conclusion or envoy; this form requires a strict pattern of repetition of six key words that end the lines of the first stanza | 116 | |
| 5184268979 | Sonnet | a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme | 117 | |
| 5184268980 | Tercet | a three line stanza | 118 | |
| 5184268981 | Tetrameter | a metrical line containing four feet | 119 | |
| 5184268982 | Villanelle | highly structured poem consisting of six stanzas: five tercets and a quatrain; first and third line are repeated throughout | 120 |
