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| 6669136970 | alliteration | closely connected words that begin with the same sound |  | 0 |
| 6669136971 | allusion | a reference to another story (literature, art, history, myth) |  | 1 |
| 6669136972 | anaphora | successive phrases or clauses that begin with the same words |  | 2 |
| 6669136973 | antagonist | the character or force that opposes the main character |  | 3 |
| 6669136974 | apostrophe | a direct address to an inanimate object or a person/character who is not present |  | 4 |
| 6669136975 | slant rhyme | words in rhyming pattern that sound alike; an imperfect rhyme |  | 5 |
| 6669136976 | aside | when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by other actors on the stage |  | 6 |
| 6669136977 | assonance | repetition of vowel sounds within words |  | 7 |
| 6669136978 | blank verse | poetry written in meter without an rhyme scheme |  | 8 |
| 6669136979 | cacophony | blend of unharmonious sounds |  | 9 |
| 6669136980 | caesura | pause in the middle of a line |  | 10 |
| 6669136986 | characterization | process of revealing a character's personality |  | 11 |
| 6669136990 | connotation | meanings and feelings associated with a word |  | 12 |
| 6669136991 | consonance | repetition of same consonant in words close together |  | 13 |
| 6669136992 | couplet | two rhyming lines in a verse |  | 14 |
| 6669136996 | didactic writing | writing with a primary purpose to teach or preach |  | 15 |
| 6669137000 | end rhyme | rhymes occurring at the end of line |  | 16 |
| 6669137001 | end-stopped line | line ending in regular punctuation |  | 17 |
| 6669137002 | Elizabethan or Shakespearean sonnet | a sonnet rhyming ababcdcdededgg |  | 18 |
| 6669137010 | foot | basic unit in the scansion or measurement of verse, made up of stressed and unstressed syllables |  | 19 |
| 6669137011 | form | external pattern or shape of a poem |  | 20 |
| 6669137012 | free verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme |  | 21 |
| 6669137014 | imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) |  | 22 |
| 6669137017 | irony | In general, a contrast between expectation and reality |  | 23 |
| 6669137019 | dramatic irony | Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience/reader but not by the characters in the play/story. |  | 24 |
| 6669137021 | Italian or Petrarchan sonnet | A sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd |  | 25 |
| 6669137024 | metaphor | A comparison without using like or as |  | 26 |
| 6669137025 | meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry |  | 27 |
| 6669137026 | metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it |  | 28 |
| 6669137030 | onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. |  | 29 |
| 6669137031 | hyperbole | A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor |  | 30 |
| 6669137032 | oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. |  | 31 |
| 6669137033 | paradox | A seeming contradiction -- on closer examination, revealed to not be fully contradictory |  | 32 |
| 6669137035 | personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes |  | 33 |
| 6669137038 | omniscient point of view | The point of view where the narrator knows everything about the characters and their problems - told in the 3rd person. |  | 34 |
| 6669137039 | third person limited point of view | narrator tells the story from only one character's pov |  | 35 |
| 6669137040 | first person point of view | a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself |  | 36 |
| 6669137047 | sarcasm | the use of irony to mock or convey contempt |  | 37 |
| 6669137052 | simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" |  | 38 |
| 6669137053 | soliloquy | A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage |  | 39 |
| 6669137054 | sonnet | 14 line poem |  | 40 |
| 6669137055 | stanza | A group of lines in a poem |  | 41 |
| 6669137056 | stream of consciousness | private thoughts of a character without commentary |  | 42 |
| 6669137058 | symbol | A thing that represents or stands for something else |  | 43 |
| 6669137059 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa |  | 44 |
| 6669137064 | tone | Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character |  | 45 |
| 6669137070 | polysyndenton | the use of more conjunctions than is grammatically necessary |  | 46 |
| 6669137071 | asyndeton | the elimination of conjunctions |  | 47 |
| 6669137074 | enjambment | the continuation of the sense and grammatical construction from one line of poetry to the next |  | 48 |
| 6669137075 | 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 |  | 49 |
| 6669137076 | epic simile or Homeric simile | an extended simile; often used in epic poetry |  | 50 |
| 6669137077 | parallelism | successive lines of writing that follow the same grammatical structure |  | 51 |
| 6669187223 | juxtaposition | deliberate contrasting; placing characters, elements side by side to reveal differences | 52 | |
| 6669192836 | syntax | sentence structures; punctuation | 53 | |
| 6669237963 | elegy | a poem of mourning | 54 | |
| 6669244701 | ambiguity | A vagueness of meaning; a conscious lack of clarity meant to evoke multiple meanings and interpretation | 55 | |
| 6669263599 | extended metaphor | a series of comparisons between two unlike objects | 56 | |
| 6669273637 | pastoral | descriptions, works of literature focused on rural life, the countryside | 57 |
