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| 5343735780 | Allegory | a narrative either in verse or prose, in which characters, action, and sometimes setting represent abstract concepts apart from the literal meaning of the story. | 0 | |
| 5343735781 | Alliteration | the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. | 1 | |
| 5343735782 | Allusion | a brief reference to a person, event, or place in history, or to a work of art/literature. | 2 | |
| 5343735783 | Analogy | a comparison made between two items, situations, or ideas that are somewhat alike but unlike in most respects. | 3 | |
| 5343735784 | Anaphora | figure of repetition that occurs when the first word or set of words in one sentence, clause, or phrase is/are repeated at or very near the beginning of successive sentences, clauses, or phrases. | 4 | |
| 5343735785 | Antagonist | a character in a story or play who opposes the chief character or protagonist. | 5 | |
| 5343735786 | Apostrophe | a figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses an absent person or a personified quality, object, or idea. | 6 | |
| 5343735787 | Archetype | a character, an action, or situation that seems to represent common patterns of human life. Often includes a symbol, a theme, a setting, or a character that have a common meaning in an entire culture, or even the entire human race. | 7 | |
| 5343735788 | Aside | in drama, a few words or a short passage spoken by one character to the audience while the other actors on stage pretend their characters cannot hear the speaker's words. | 8 | |
| 5343735789 | Assonance | the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds in stressed syllables or words. | 9 | |
| 5343735790 | Asyndeton | the omission of conjunctions from constructions in which they would normally be used. | 10 | |
| 5343735791 | Atmosphere | the mood/feeling of the literary work created for the reader by the writer. | 11 | |
| 5343735792 | Ballad | a narrative poem that usually includes a repeated refrain. | 12 | |
| 5343735793 | Blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter, a line of five feet. | 13 | |
| 5343735794 | Cacophony | the use of words in poetry that combine sharp, harsh, hissing, or unmelodious sounds. | 14 | |
| 5343735795 | Caesura | a pause or break within a line of poetry. | 15 | |
| 5343735796 | Carpe diem | Latin for "seize the day," the name applied to a theme frequently found in lyric poetry: enjoy life's pleasures while you are able. | 16 | |
| 5343735797 | Catharsis | purification or purging of emotions. | 17 | |
| 5343735798 | Character | an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction. | 18 | |
| 5343735799 | Characterization | the method an author uses to acquaint the reader with his or her characters. | 19 | |
| 5343735800 | Chiasmus | a scheme in which the author introduces words or concepts in a particular order then later repeats those terms or similar ones in a reversed or backwards order. | 20 | |
| 5343735801 | Cliché | an expression or phrase that is over-used as to become trite and meaningless. | 21 | |
| 5343735802 | Climax | as a term of dramatic structure, the decisive or turning point in a story or play when the action changes course and, as a result, begins to resolve itself. | 22 | |
| 5343735803 | Conceit | elaborate figure of speech combining possible metaphor, simile, hyperbole, or oxymoron. | 23 | |
| 5343735804 | Conflict | the struggle between two opposing forces. | 24 | |
| 5343735805 | Connotation | the emotional associations surrounding a word, as opposed to its literal meaning or denotation. | 25 | |
| 5343735806 | Couplet | a pair of rhyming lines with identical meter. | 26 | |
| 5343735807 | Denotation | the strict, literal meaning of a word. | 27 | |
| 5343735808 | Denouement | the resolution of the plot. | 28 | |
| 5343735809 | Dialogue | the conversation between two or more people in a literary work. | 29 | |
| 5343735810 | Diction | the author's choice of words or phrases in a literary work. | 30 | |
| 5343735811 | Dramatic irony | refers to a situation in which events or facts not known to a character on stage or in a fictional work are known to another character, the audience, or the reader. | 31 | |
| 5343735812 | Dramatic monologue | a lyric poem in which the speaker addresses someone whose replies are not recorded. | 32 | |
| 5343735813 | Elegy | a mourning poem of lament for an individual or tragic event | 33 | |
| 5343735814 | Enjambment | the continuation of a complete idea from one line of poetry to another, without pause. | 34 | |
| 5343735815 | Epiphany | a revealing scene or moment in which a character experiences a deep realization about him/himself. | 35 | |
| 5343735816 | Epistrophe | repetition of a concluding word or word endings. | 36 | |
| 5343735817 | Euphemism | using a mild or gentle phrase instead of a blunt, embarrassing, or painful one. | 37 | |
| 5343735818 | Euphony | attempting to group words together harmoniously, so that the consonants permit an easy and pleasing flow of sound when spoken. | 38 | |
| 5343735819 | Exposition | the opening section of a narrative or dramatic structure in which characters, setting, theme, and conflict can be revealed. | 39 | |
| 5343735820 | Flashback | interruption of the narrative to show an episode that happened before a particular point in the story. | 40 | |
| 5343735821 | Foot | a group of syllables in verse usually consisting of one accent syllable and the unaccented syllables associated with it. | 41 | |
| 5343735822 | Foreshadowing | a hint given to the reader of what is to come | 42 | |
| 5343735823 | Free verse | a type of poetry that differs from the conventional verse forms in being "free" from a fixed pattern of meter and rhyme. | 43 | |
| 5343735824 | Hamartia | a tragic flaw, especially a misperception, a lack of some important insight, or some blindness that ironically results from one's own strengths and abilities. | 44 | |
| 5343735825 | Hubris | in a hero, it refers to arrogant, excessive self-pride or self-confidence or a lack of some important perception or insight due to pride in one's abilities. | 45 | |
| 5343735826 | Hyperbole | a figure of speech involving great exaggeration. | 46 | |
| 5343735827 | Iambic pentameter | a line of verse having five metrical feet | 47 | |
| 5343735828 | Imagery | the sensory details that provide vividness in a literary work and tend to around emotions or feelings in a reader which abstract language does not. | 48 | |
| 5343735829 | In media res | Latin for "in the middle of things" ; used to describe a plot that begins in the middle of events and then reveals past through flashbacks. | 49 | |
| 5343735830 | Irony | the term used to describe a contrast between what appears to be and what really is. | 50 | |
| 5343735831 | Juxtaposition | placing two ideas, words, or images side by side so that their closeness creates an original, ironic, or insightful meaning. | 51 | |
| 5343735832 | Litotes | a figure of speech in which a positive is stated by negating its opposite. | 52 | |
| 5343735833 | Metaphor | a figure of speech involving an implied comparison. | 53 | |
| 5343735834 | Meter | the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry. | 54 | |
| 5343735835 | Metonymy | a figure of speech in which a specific term naming an object is substituted for another word which it is closely associated. | 55 | |
| 5343735836 | Motif | a recurrent word, image, theme, object, or phrase that tends to unify a literary work or that may be elaborated into a theme. | 56 | |
| 5343735837 | Narrator | the teller of the story | 57 | |
| 5343735838 | Onomatopoeia | words used in such a way that the sound of the words imitates the sound of the thing being spoken of. | 58 | |
| 5343735839 | Paradox | a statement, often metaphorical, that seems to be self-contradictory but which has valid meaning. | 59 | |
| 5343735840 | Parallelism | when the writer establishes similar patterns of grammatical structure and length. | 60 | |
| 5343735841 | Parody | a kind of burlesque that is a humorous imitation of serious writing, usually for the purpose of making the style of an author appear ridiculous. | 61 | |
| 5343735842 | Persona | the speaker or narrator of a text or poem, Cannot be assumed to be the author. | 62 | |
| 5343735843 | Personification | the representation of abstractions, ideas, animals, or inanimate objects as human beings by endowing them with life-like qualities. | 63 | |
| 5343735844 | Plot | the series of happenings in a literary work. | 64 | |
| 5343735845 | Point of view | the relation between the teller of the story and the characters in it. | 65 | |
| 5343735846 | Polysyndeton | using many conjunctions to achieve an overwhelming effect in a sentence. | 66 | |
| 5343735847 | Prosody | the mechanics of a verse poetry - its sounds, rhythms, scansion and meter, stanzaic form, alliteration, assonance, euphony, onomatopoeia, and rhyme. | 67 | |
| 5343735848 | Protagonist | the leading character in a literary work. | 68 | |
| 5343735849 | Pun | a play on words; a humorous use of a word that has different meanings or of two or more words with the same or nearly the same sound but different meanings. | 69 | |
| 5343735850 | Rhyme | exact repetition of sounds in at least the final accented syllables of two or more words. | 70 | |
| 5343735851 | Rhyme scheme | the pattern of rhyme. | 71 | |
| 5343735852 | Satire | the technique that employs wit to ridicule a subject, usually some social institution or human foible, with the intention of inspiring reform. | 72 | |
| 5343735853 | Setting | the time, place, societal situation, and weather in which the action of a narrative occurs. | 73 | |
| 5343735854 | Simile | a figure of speech involving a comparison of two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'. | 74 | |
| 5343735855 | Situational irony | an occurrence that is contrary to what is expected or intended. | 75 | |
| 5343735856 | Soliloquy | a dramatic convention that allows a character alone on stage to speak his or her thoughts aloud. | 76 | |
| 5343735857 | Sonnet | a fourteen-line poem, usually in iambic pentameter, with a varied rhyme scheme. | 77 | |
| 5343735858 | Stereotype | a conventional patter, plot, or setting that possesses little or no individuality, but that may be used for a purpose. | 78 | |
| 5343735859 | Stream of consciousness | the recording or re-creation of a character's flow of thought. | 79 | |
| 5343735860 | Style | the distinctive handling of language by an author. | 80 | |
| 5343735861 | Symbol | a person, place, or object that represents something beyond itself. | 81 | |
| 5343735862 | Synecdoche | figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole. | 82 | |
| 5343735863 | Synesthesia | the description of one sense using another sense. | 83 | |
| 5343735864 | Syntax | the arrangement of words within a sentence. | 84 | |
| 5343735865 | Theme | the main idea or underlying meaning of a literary work. | 85 | |
| 5343735866 | Tone | the author's attitude toward his or subject matter and toward the audience. | 86 | |
| 5343735867 | Understatement | the figure of speech that says less than one means. | 87 | |
| 5343735868 | Verbal irony | the intended meaning of a statement or work is different from what the statement of work literally says. | 88 | |
| 5343735869 | Verisimilitude | a sense of truth and realness to a work | 89 | |
| 5343735870 | Villanelle | poetic form of five tercets and a final quatrain(nineteen lines) | 90 |
