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| 7295294418 | Aesthetic | Appealing to the senses and qualities of beauty. | 0 | |
| 7295294419 | Allegory | A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. | 1 | |
| 7295294420 | Alliteration | The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. | 2 | |
| 7295294421 | Allusion | A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art. Can be historical, literary, religious, topical, or mythical. | 3 | |
| 7295294422 | Anachronism | "Misplaced in time." An aspect of a story that doesn't belong in its supposed time setting. | 4 | |
| 7295294423 | Anapest | 3 syllables foot - stress on the last | 5 | |
| 7295294424 | Analogy | A comparison, usually involving two or more symbolic parts, employed to clarify an action or a relationship. | 6 | |
| 7295294425 | Anecdote | A short story; usually interesting or amusing to make some point. | 7 | |
| 7295294426 | Anthropomorphism | When inanimate objects are given human characteristics. Often confused with personification. | 8 | |
| 7295294427 | Anticlimax | Occurs when an action produces far smaller results than one had been led to expect. | 9 | |
| 7295294428 | Antihero | A protagonist who is markedly unheroic: morally weak, cowardly, dishonest, or any number of other unsavory qualities. | 10 | |
| 7295294429 | Antithesis | A statement in which two opposing ideas are balanced | 11 | |
| 7295294430 | Aphorism | A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life. | 12 | |
| 7295294431 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. | 13 | |
| 7295294432 | Assonance | Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity | 14 | |
| 7295294433 | 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 | 15 | |
| 7295294434 | Archaism | The use of deliberately old-fashioned language. | 16 | |
| 7295294435 | Aside | A speech (usually just a short comment) made by an actor to the audience, as though momentarily stepping outside of the action on stage. | 17 | |
| 7295294436 | Asyndeton | The absence or omission of conjunctions (and, but, yet, etc.) between parts of a sentence. | 18 | |
| 7295294437 | Ballad | A long, narrative poem, usually in meter and rhyme. Typically has a naive folksy quality. | 19 | |
| 7295294438 | Ballad stanza | A four-line stanza, known as a quatrain, consisting of alternating eight- and six-syllable lines. | 20 | |
| 7295294439 | Blank verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter | 21 | |
| 7295294440 | Bombast | Pretentious, exaggeratedly learned language. | 22 | |
| 7295294441 | Caesura | A pause in a line of poetry as evidenced by punctuation (commas, colons, semicolons, etc.). | 23 | |
| 7295294442 | Cacophony | In poetry, using deliberately harsh, awkward sounds. | 24 | |
| 7295294443 | Caricature | A portrait (verbal or otherwise) that exaggerates a facet of personality. | 25 | |
| 7295294444 | Catharsis | A release of strong emotions. Refers to the "cleansing" of emotion an audience member experiences during a play. | 26 | |
| 7295294445 | Colloquialism | A word or phrase used in everyday conversational English that isn't a part of accepted "school-book" English. Informal diction. | 27 | |
| 7295294446 | Conceit | A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects. | 28 | |
| 7295294447 | Connotation | Everything other than the literal meaning that a word suggests or implies. | 29 | |
| 7295294448 | Couplet | Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme | 30 | |
| 7295294449 | Dactyl | 3 syllables - stress on the first | 31 | |
| 7295294450 | Consonance | The repetition of consonant sounds within or at the end of words words (rather than at their beginnings) | 32 | |
| 7295294451 | Denotation | A word's literal meaning. | 33 | |
| 7295294452 | Dimeter | two foot line | 34 | |
| 7295294453 | Diction | The words an author chooses to use. | 35 | |
| 7295294454 | Dirge | A song for the dead. Its tone is typically slow, heavy, depressed, and melancholy | 36 | |
| 7295294455 | Dramatic Irony | When the audience knows something that the characters in the drama do not. | 37 | |
| 7295294456 | Elegy | A type of poem that meditates on death or mortality in a serious, thoughtful, usually mournful manner. | 38 | |
| 7295294457 | Enjambment | A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next. | 39 | |
| 7295294458 | Epitaph | Lines that commemorate the dead at their burial place. | 40 | |
| 7295294459 | English Sonnet (Shakespeare) | a poem that is fourteen lines in length. It is divided into three quatrains and a concluding couplet, which has a rhyme scheme a-b-a-b c-d-c-d e-f-e-f g-g. The units marked off by the rhymes and the development of the thought often correspond. | 41 | |
| 7295294460 | Euphemism | A word or phrase that takes the place of a harsh, unpleasant, or impolite reality. | 42 | |
| 7295294461 | Feminine rhyme | last two syllables rhyme (lawful and awful) more complex | 43 | |
| 7295294462 | Euphony | When sounds blend harmoniously. | 44 | |
| 7295294463 | Foil | A secondary character whose purpose is to highlight the characteristics of a main character, usually by contrast. | 45 | |
| 7295294464 | Foot | The basic rhythmic unit of a line of poetry, formed by a combination of two or three syllables, either stressed or unstressed. | 46 | |
| 7295294465 | Foreshadowing | An event of statement in a narrative that in miniature suggests a larger event that comes later. | 47 |
