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| 6690873060 | allusion | a reference to another story (literature, art, history, myth) |  | 0 |
| 6690873061 | Anadiplosis | a form of repetition in which the last word of one clause or sentence is repeated as the first word of the following clause or sentence. | 1 | |
| 6690873062 | anaphora | successive phrases or clauses that begin with the same words |  | 2 |
| 6690873063 | antithesis | the use of contrasting concepts, words, or sentences within parallel grammatical structures float like a butterfly sting like a bee | 3 | |
| 6690873064 | apostrophe | a direct address to an inanimate object or a person/character who is not present |  | 4 |
| 6690873065 | assonance | repetition of vowel sounds within words |  | 5 |
| 6690873066 | asyndeton | the omission of a conjunction such as "and" or "as" from a series of related clauses | 6 | |
| 6690873067 | aubade | a piece sung or played outdoors at dawn, usually as a compliment to someone. | 7 | |
| 6690873068 | axiom | a universally accepted principle or rule | 8 | |
| 6690873069 | bildungsroman | a type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist. | 9 | |
| 6690873070 | Byronic Hero | Heathcliff- dark unknown past, extreme emotions, gothic elements | 10 | |
| 6690873071 | chiasmus | a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases, as in "never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you." | 11 | |
| 6690873072 | colloquialism | a word or phrase that is not formal or literary, typically one used in ordinary or familiar conversation | 12 | |
| 6690873073 | consonance | repetition of same consonant in words close together |  | 13 |
| 6690873074 | feminine rhyme | a rhyme between stressed syllables followed by one or more unstressed syllables |  | 14 |
| 6690873075 | masculine rhyme | A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable |  | 15 |
| 6690873076 | metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it |  | 16 |
| 6690873077 | octave | segment of poetry eight lines long |  | 17 |
| 6690873078 | oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. |  | 18 |
| 6690873079 | satire | A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies. |  | 19 |
| 6690873080 | sestet | segment of poetry six lines long |  | 20 |
| 6690873081 | stream of consciousness | private thoughts of a character without commentary |  | 21 |
| 6690873082 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa |  | 22 |
| 6690873083 | synesthesia | describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound") |  | 23 |
| 6690873084 | terza rima | a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc. |  | 24 |
| 6690873085 | understandment | the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis |  | 25 |
| 6690873086 | polysyndenton | the use of more conjunctions than is grammatically necessary |  | 26 |
| 6690873087 | epistrophe | the repetition of words at the ENDS of successive phrases or clauses |  | 27 |
| 6690873088 | enjambment | the continuation of the sense and grammatical construction from one line of poetry to the next |  | 28 |
| 6690873089 | conceit | an extended metaphor; an ingenious and fanciful notion or conception, usually expressed through an elaborate analogy, and pointing to a striking parallel between two seemingly dissimilar things |  | 29 |
| 6690873090 | parallelism | successive lines of writing that follow the same grammatical structure |  | 30 |
| 6690873091 | Foil | A secondary character whose purpose is to highlight the characteristics of a main character, usually by contrast. | 31 | |
| 6690873092 | Hubris | Excessive pride or arrogance. | 32 | |
| 6690873093 | Juxtapose | To place things next to each other to invite contrast or dissimilarity. | 33 | |
| 6690873094 | Prosody | The overall picture of rhythm/meter in a poem that includes the baseline rhythm/meter and mentions of variations. | 34 | |
| 6690873095 | heroic couplet | a couplet (two lines) of rhymed iambic pentameter | 35 | |
| 6690873096 | Shakespearean sonnet | 3 quatrains and a couplet: abab, cdcd, efef, gg. | 36 | |
| 6690873097 | Italian sonnet | An octave followed by a sestet: abba, abba, cd,cd,cd/cde,cde/cdc,cdc. | 37 | |
| 6690873098 | Ballad stanza | A quatrain with alternating lines of 6 and 8 syllables: abcb. | 38 | |
| 6690873099 | didactic | Intended to instruct; teaching, or teaching a moral lesson |  | 39 |
| 6690873100 | epistolary | A piece of literature contained in or carried on by letters |  | 40 |
| 6690873101 | frame story | A secondary story or stories embedded in the main story | 41 | |
| 6690873102 | free-indirect style | a style of third-person narration which uses some of the characteristics of third-person along with the essence of first-person direct speech | 42 | |
| 6690873103 | gothic | characterized by elements of fear, horror, death, and gloom, as well as romantic elements, such as nature, individuality, and very high emotion | 43 | |
| 6690873104 | lampoon | a satire in prose or verse ridiculing a person, literary work, etc. | 44 | |
| 6690873105 | loose/cumulative sentence | an independent clause followed by a series of subordinate constructions | 45 | |
| 6690873106 | malapropism | use of an incorrect word in place of a similar sounding word that results in a nonsensical and humorous expression | 46 | |
| 6690873107 | missive | letter | 47 | |
| 6690873108 | monologue | a long speech monopolizing conversation | 48 | |
| 6690873109 | noble savage | a mythic conception of people belonging to non-European cultures as having innate natural simplicity and virtue uncorrupted by European civilization | 49 | |
| 6690873110 | panegyric | formal or elaborate praise | 50 | |
| 6690873111 | parallel character | character that shares similar characteristics to the protagonist, highlights certain qualities | 51 | |
| 6690873112 | pathos | an element in experience or in artistic representation evoking pity or compassion | 52 | |
| 6690873113 | periodic sentence | a usually complex sentence that has no subordinate or trailing elements following its principal clause | 53 | |
| 6690873114 | tabula rasa | the mind in its hypothetical primary blank or empty state before receiving outside impressions | 54 | |
| 6690873115 | tragic hero | a person of noble birth with heroic or potentially heroic qualities. This person is fated by the Gods or by some supernatural force to doom and destruction or at least to great suffering | 55 | |
| 6690873116 | verisimilitude | the appearance of being true or real | 56 | |
| 6690873117 | arabesque | graceful and flowing | 57 | |
| 6690873118 | acrimonious | bitter or harsh | 58 | |
| 6690873119 | grandiloquent | overly self-assured | 59 | |
| 6690873120 | magnanimous | noble and generous | 60 | |
| 6690873121 | mollifying | pacifying | 61 | |
| 6690873122 | petulant | irritated without reason | 62 | |
| 6690873123 | sardonic | mocking or sarcastic | 63 | |
| 6690873124 | vituperative | harshly critical and irate | 64 |
