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| 8196654470 | Aesthetic | Appealing to the senses and qualities of beauty. | 0 | |
| 8196654471 | Allegory | A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. | 1 | |
| 8196654472 | Alliteration | The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. | 2 | |
| 8196654473 | 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 | |
| 8196654474 | Anachronism | "Misplaced in time." An aspect of a story that doesn't belong in its supposed time setting. | 4 | |
| 8196654475 | Anapest | 3 syllables foot - stress on the last | 5 | |
| 8196654476 | Analogy | A comparison, usually involving two or more symbolic parts, employed to clarify an action or a relationship. | 6 | |
| 8196654477 | Anecdote | A short story; usually interesting or amusing to make some point. | 7 | |
| 8196654478 | Anthropomorphism | When inanimate objects are given human characteristics. Often confused with personification. | 8 | |
| 8196654479 | Anticlimax | Occurs when an action produces far smaller results than one had been led to expect. | 9 | |
| 8196654480 | Antihero | A protagonist who is markedly unheroic: morally weak, cowardly, dishonest, or any number of other unsavory qualities. Consider Winston in 1984. | 10 | |
| 8196654481 | Antithesis | A statement in which two opposing ideas are balanced | 11 | |
| 8196654482 | Aphorism | A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life. | 12 | |
| 8196654483 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. | 13 | |
| 8196654484 | Assonance | Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity | 14 | |
| 8196654485 | Ballad | A long, narrative poem, usually in meter and rhyme. Typically has a naive folksy quality. | 15 | |
| 8196654486 | 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 | 16 | |
| 8196654487 | Archaism | The use of deliberately old-fashioned language. | 17 | |
| 8196654488 | 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. | 18 | |
| 8196654489 | Asyndeton | The absence or omission of conjunctions (and, but, yet, etc.) between parts of a sentence. | 19 | |
| 8196654490 | Ballad stanza | A four-line stanza, known as a quatrain, consisting of alternating eight- and six-syllable lines. | 20 | |
| 8196654491 | Caesura | A pause in a line of poetry as evidenced by punctuation (commas, colons, semicolons, etc.). | 21 | |
| 8196654492 | Blank verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter | 22 | |
| 8196654493 | Bombast | Pretentious, exaggeratedly learned language. | 23 | |
| 8196654494 | Cacophony | In poetry, using deliberately harsh, awkward sounds. | 24 | |
| 8196654495 | Caricature | A portrait (verbal or otherwise) that exaggerates a facet of personality. | 25 | |
| 8196654496 | Situational irony | When the outcome is the opposite of what is expected; a direct reversal. | 26 | |
| 8196654497 | Catharsis | A release of strong emotions. Refers to the "cleansing" of emotion an audience member experiences during a play. | 27 | |
| 8196654498 | Colloquialism | A word or phrase used in everyday conversational English that isn't a part of accepted "school-book" English. Informal diction. | 28 | |
| 8196654499 | Conceit | A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects. | 29 | |
| 8196654500 | Connotation | Everything other than the literal meaning that a word suggests or implies. | 30 | |
| 8196654501 | Couplet | Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme | 31 | |
| 8196654502 | Dactyl | 3 syllables - stress on the first | 32 | |
| 8196654503 | Consonance | The repetition of consonant sounds within or at the end of words words (rather than at their beginnings) | 33 | |
| 8196654504 | Denotation | A word's literal meaning. | 34 | |
| 8196654505 | Dimeter | two foot line | 35 | |
| 8196654506 | Diction | The words an author chooses to use. | 36 | |
| 8196654507 | Dirge | A song for the dead. Its tone is typically slow, heavy, depressed, and melancholy | 37 | |
| 8196654508 | Dramatic Irony | When the audience knows something that the characters in the drama do not. | 38 | |
| 8196654509 | Elegy | A type of poem that meditates on death or mortality in a serious, thoughtful, usually mournful manner. | 39 | |
| 8196654510 | Enjambment | A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next. | 40 | |
| 8196654511 | Epitaph | Lines that commemorate the dead at their burial place. | 41 | |
| 8196654512 | 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. | 42 | |
| 8196654513 | Euphemism | A word or phrase that takes the place of a harsh, unpleasant, or impolite reality. | 43 | |
| 8196654514 | Feminine rhyme | last two syllables rhyme (lawful and awful) more complex | 44 | |
| 8196654515 | Euphony | When sounds blend harmoniously. | 45 | |
| 8196654516 | Foil | A secondary character whose purpose is to highlight the characteristics of a main character, usually by contrast. | 46 | |
| 8196654517 | Foot | The basic rhythmic unit of a line of poetry, formed by a combination of two or three syllables, either stressed or unstressed. | 47 | |
| 8196654518 | Foreshadowing | An event of statement in a narrative that in miniature suggests a larger event that comes later. | 48 | |
| 8196654519 | Free verse | poetry written without a regular rhyme scheme or metrical pattern | 49 | |
| 8196654520 | Heptameter | seven foot line | 50 | |
| 8196654521 | First person | A narrator who is a character in the story and tells the tale from his or her point of view. Uses "I". | 51 | |
| 8196654522 | Hexameter | six foot line | 52 | |
| 8196654523 | Hubris | Excessive pride or arrogance. | 53 | |
| 8196654524 | Heroic couplet | a couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter and written in an elevated style - complete thought | 54 | |
| 8196654525 | Iamb | unstressed stressed pattern | 55 | |
| 8196654526 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration or deliberate overstatement. | 56 | |
| 8196654527 | Imagery | Language that strongly appeals to the 5 senses. Usually creates strong mental pictures or the sense that you can so clearly hear/touch/taste/smell whatever is being described. | 57 | |
| 8196654528 | Italian sonnet (Petrarchan) | octave and sestet - corresponds to division of thought - structure reflects meaning - often the octave will present a situation/idea and the sestet an answer. abba, abba, cd,cd,cd/cde,cde/cdc,cdc. | 58 | |
| 8196654529 | In media res | Latin for "in the midst of things," i.e. beginningin the middle of the action. | 59 | |
| 8196654530 | Limited Omniscient point of view | A third person narrator who generally reports only what one character sees (=limited), and who only reports the thoughts of that one privileged character. | 60 | |
| 8196654531 | Lyric | emotional poem - often regular rhyme scheme | 61 | |
| 8196654532 | Masculine rhyme | A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable (regular old rhyme) | 62 | |
| 8196654533 | Meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry | 63 | |
| 8196654534 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it | 64 | |
| 8196654535 | Monometer | one foot line | 65 | |
| 8196654536 | Metaphor | A comparison or analogy that states one thing IS another. | 66 | |
| 8196654537 | Motif | A repeating idea, image, word, etc., that supports the development of a theme. | 67 | |
| 8196654538 | Narrative poem | a poem that tells a story | 68 | |
| 8196654539 | Octometer | eight foot line | 69 | |
| 8196654540 | Octave | 8 line stanza | 70 | |
| 8196654541 | Ode | A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject. | 71 |
