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| 7086999132 | 1. Allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. | 0 | |
| 7087001636 | 2. Alliteration | The repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words placed by each other. | 1 | |
| 7087002636 | 3. Allusion | A reference to a statement, a person, a place, or an event from history, literature, sports, government, etc. | 2 | |
| 7087003146 | 4. Ambiguity | expression that can be understood in two or more possible ways | 3 | |
| 7087003147 | 5. Analogy | a comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it. It aims at explaining that idea or thing by comparing it to something that is familiar | 4 | |
| 7087004292 | 6. Anaphora | repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses especially for rhetorical or poetic effect. | 5 | |
| 7087005984 | 7. Anecdote | A short story used to illustrate a point the author is making | 6 | |
| 7087005985 | 8. Antihero | central character who lacks all the qualities traditionally associated with heroes; may lack courage, grace, or moral scrupules | 7 | |
| 7087006496 | 9. Antithesis | balancing words, phrases, or ideas that are strongly contrasted, often by means of grammatical structure | 8 | |
| 7087006497 | 10. Apostrophe | calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, to a place or thing, or a personified abstract idea | 9 | |
| 7087007974 | 11. Archetype | the original pattern or model of which all things of a similar nature are copies; ex- the hero- the courageous figure who saves the day | 10 | |
| 7087008297 | 12. Assonance | A type of internal rhyming in which vowel souds are repeated | 11 | |
| 7087008298 | 13. 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 | 12 | |
| 7087009144 | 14. Catharsis | an emotional discharge through which one can achieve a state of moral or spiritual renewal or achieve a state of liberation from anxiety and stress. | 13 | |
| 7087009145 | 15. Conceit | an elaborate metaphor that compares two things that are startlingly different; often an extended metaphor | 14 | |
| 7087010605 | 16. Connotation | the associations and emotional overtones that have become attached to a word or phrase, in addition to its strict dictionary definition | 15 | |
| 7087011406 | 17. Consonance | repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase. This repetition often takes place in quick succession such as in pitter, patter | 16 | |
| 7087011407 | 18. Diction | An author's choice of words | 17 | |
| 7087012519 | 19. Elegy | A work that expresses sorrow | 18 | |
| 7087013202 | 20. Enjambment | to step over or put legs across. In poetry it means moving over from one line to another without a terminating punctuation mark. It can be defined as a thought or sense, phrase or clause in a line of poetry that does not come to an end at the line break but moves over to the next line | 19 | |
| 7087013203 | 21. Ethos | Refers to generally ethics, or values | 20 | |
| 7087013596 | 22. Foil | a character who acts as contrast to another character | 21 | |
| 7087013597 | 23. Free verse | poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme | 22 | |
| 7087014716 | 24. Hubris | a typical flaw in the personality of a character who enjoys a powerful position; as a result of which, he overestimates his capabilities to such an extent that he loses contact with reality | 23 | |
| 7087014717 | 25. Hyperbole | An over exaggeration used for affect. | 24 | |
| 7087016891 | 26. Irony (situational, verbal, and dramatic) | A contrast of what is expected and what really happens. | 25 | |
| 7087017470 | 27. Juxtaposition | When two contrasting things are placed next to each other for comparison | 26 | |
| 7087017471 | 28. Litotes | form of understatement in which the positive form is emphasized through the negation of the negative form | 27 | |
| 7087018200 | 29. Metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it | 28 | |
| 7087018201 | 30. Monologue | the speech or verbal presentation that a single character presents in order to express his/her collection of thoughts and ideas aloud | 29 | |
| 7087018765 | 31. Motif | a recurring image, word, phrase, action, idea, object, or situation used throughout a work (or in several works by one author), unifying the work by tying the current situation to previous ones, or new ideas to the theme | 30 | |
| 7087018766 | 32. Onomatopoeia | Words that sound like their meaning | 31 | |
| 7087019589 | 33. Oxymoron | A combination of two words that seem to contradict each other. | 32 | |
| 7087019590 | 34. Paradox | A statement in which a seeming contradiction may reveal an unexpected truth. | 33 | |
| 7087020367 | 35. Parody | An effort to ridicule or make fun of a literary work or an author by writing a comic imitation of the work | 34 | |
| 7087020368 | 36. Pathos | A sympathetic feeling of pity or compassion evoked by an artistic work | 35 | |
| 7087021637 | 37. Point of View | The particular perspective from which a story is told | 36 | |
| 7087021638 | 38. Protagonist | The main character or hero of the story. | 37 | |
| 7087024038 | 39. Proverb | a short saying that is widely used to express an obvious truth. An example of proverb is "Practice makes perfect." | 38 | |
| 7087024039 | 40. Rhyme Scheme | a poet's deliberate pattern of lines that rhyme with other lines in a poem or a stanza. The rhyme scheme, or pattern, can be identified by giving end words that rhyme with each other the same letter. | 39 | |
| 7087024533 | 41. Satire (Juvenalian and Horatian) | To ridicule or mock ideas, persons, events, or doctrines. used to point out foolishness in the political arena, or in relation to government policy. | 40 | |
| 7087024534 | 42. Soliloquy | a long speech made by a character in a play while no other characters are on stage | 41 | |
| 7087025275 | 43. Stream of Consciousness | a style of writing that portrays the inner (often chaotic) workings of a character's mind | 42 | |
| 7087025276 | 44. Synecdoche | a literary device in which a part of something represents the whole or it may use a whole to represent a part. | 43 | |
| 7087027622 | 45. Theme | the insight about human life that is revealed in a literary work | 44 | |
| 7087108015 | Situational Irony | events that turn out to be the opposite from what one had expected | 45 | |
| 7087109254 | Verbal Irony | when someone says the opposite of what they really feel or mean | 46 | |
| 7087111831 | Dramatic Irony | situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play. | 47 | |
| 7087159006 | Juvenalian Satire | angry and personal, attempting to produce anger in the reader. Attacks human vice-indignant | 48 | |
| 7087160715 | Horatian Satire | witty and tolerant. Gently criticizes human nature and human folly | 49 |
