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| 782967961 | alliteration | the repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds, normally at the beginning of words. | 0 | |
| 782967962 | allusion | a reference in a work of literature to something outside the work, especially to a well-known historical or literary event, person, or work. | 1 | |
| 782967963 | apostrophe | a technique by which a writer addresses an inanimate object, an idea, or a person who is either dead or absent. | 2 | |
| 782967964 | assonance | the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words | 3 | |
| 782967965 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | 4 | |
| 782967966 | caesura | a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line | 5 | |
| 782967967 | consonance | Repetition of consonant sounds | 6 | |
| 782967968 | couplet | a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse | 7 | |
| 782967969 | heroic couplet | a couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter and written in an elevated style | 8 | |
| 782967970 | diction | A writer's or speaker's choice of words | 9 | |
| 782967971 | syntax | the rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language | 10 | |
| 782967972 | elegy | a mournful poem | 11 | |
| 782967973 | epigram | a witty saying expressing a single thought or observation | 12 | |
| 782967974 | ode | a lyric poem with complex stanza forms | 13 | |
| 782967975 | villanelle | intricately patterned poem, stanzas of 13 lines last stanza 4 lines, 1st + 3rd = form refrain, refrains repealed and poem ends there are only two rhymes in the whole poem | 14 | |
| 782967976 | enjambment | the continuation of meaning, without pause or break, from one line of poetry to the next | 15 | |
| 782967977 | metaphor | a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity | 16 | |
| 782967978 | allegory | an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances | 17 | |
| 782967979 | simile | a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as') | 18 | |
| 782967980 | symbolism | a device in literature where an object represents an idea. | 19 | |
| 782967981 | personification | representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature, the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc. | 20 | |
| 782967982 | hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration | 21 | |
| 782967983 | understatement | the opposite of exaggeration. It is a technique for developing irony and/or humor where one writes or says less than intended. | 22 | |
| 782967984 | imagery | The use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, thing, place, or experience | 23 | |
| 782967985 | irony | incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs | 24 | |
| 782967986 | dramatic irony | occurs when another character(s) and/or the audience know more than one or more characters on stage about what is happening | 25 | |
| 782967987 | situational irony | occurs when the outcome of a work is unexpected, or events turn out to be the opposite from what one had expected | 26 | |
| 782967988 | sarcasm | harsh, caustic personal remarks to or about someone; less subtle than irony | 27 | |
| 782967989 | satire | form of literature in which irony, sarcasm, and ridicule are employed to attack human vice and folly | 28 | |
| 782967990 | parody | humorous or satirical mimicry | 29 | |
| 782967991 | meter | a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry | 30 | |
| 782967992 | rhythm | the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry; the beat of a poem | 31 | |
| 782967993 | poetic foot | a group of syllables in verse usually consisting of one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables associated with it. | 32 | |
| 782967994 | iamb | a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables | 33 | |
| 782967995 | dactyl | a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables | 34 | |
| 782967996 | trochee | a metrical unit with stressed-stressed-unstressed syllables | 35 | |
| 782967997 | anapest | a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables | 36 | |
| 782967998 | pyrrhic | of or relating to or containing a metrical foot of two unstressed syllables | 37 | |
| 782967999 | pyrrhic victory | a victory that is won by incurring terrible losses, a victory that is won by incurring terrible losses | 38 | |
| 782968000 | oxymoron | conjoining contradictory terms (as in 'deafening silence') | 39 | |
| 782968001 | paradox | a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. | 40 | |
| 782968002 | metonymy | substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in 'they counted heads') | 41 | |
| 782968003 | synecdoche | Uses a part to explain a whole or a whole to explain a part. ex. Lend me an ear. | 42 | |
| 782968004 | tone | manner in which an author expresses his or her attitude toward a speech | 43 | |
| 782968005 | mood | the overall emotion created by a work of literature | 44 |
