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| 4681437078 | allegory | story conveying a meaning other than the literal; abstract principles represented by characters or figures | 0 | |
| 4681438151 | alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounds | 1 | |
| 4681438380 | anagnorisis | discovery; hero suddenly becoming aware of a situation or true character | 2 | |
| 4681438895 | anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of neighboring clauses for emphasis | 3 | |
| 4681439911 | antecedent | word, phrase, or clause that a pronoun replaces | 4 | |
| 4681440934 | apologue | short story with a moral, often involving talking animals or objects; a fable; short allegory | 5 | |
| 4681441805 | apostrophe | speaker addresses an inanimate object | 6 | |
| 4681442333 | assonance | repetition of vowel sounds | 7 | |
| 4681442984 | ballad | relatively short narrative poem written in song-like stanza form | 8 | |
| 4681461221 | bildungsroman | novel tracing the spiritual, moral, psychological, or social development and growth of the main character usually from childhood to maturity | 9 | |
| 4681464029 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | 10 | |
| 4681464928 | cacophony | deliberate use of harsh or awkward sounds | 11 | |
| 4681465365 | caesura | pause or interruption in a poem; opposite of enjambment | 12 | |
| 4681467629 | canon | works of a writer | 13 | |
| 4681467785 | caricature | portrait that examines a human trait | 14 | |
| 4681468105 | catharsis | emotional release of an audience at the end of a sucsessful tragedy | 15 | |
| 4681469089 | clarihew | rhyme of four lines, usually regarding a subject mentioned in the first line | 16 | |
| 4681470681 | colloquialism | informal speech1 | 17 | |
| 4681471369 | comedy of manners | play that satirizes the manners and affectations of a social class, often using stereotypes | 18 | |
| 4681472552 | conceit | extended metaphor that compares two seemingly dissimilar things | 19 | |
| 4681474571 | connotation | implied meaning of a word | 20 | |
| 4681474934 | consonance | repetition of consonant sounds within words | 21 | |
| 4681475422 | controlling image | metaphor that dominates an entire work | 22 | |
| 4681476011 | couplet | rhyming pair of lines | 23 | |
| 4681476295 | dactyl | poetical foot with three syllables, one stressed and two short or unstressed | 24 | |
| 4681477966 | denotation | literal meaning of a word; a dictionary definition | 25 | |
| 4681478667 | deus ex machina | literally "god out of a machine"; sudden artificial or improbable resolution to a story, often implying a lack of skill on the part of the writer | 26 | |
| 4681481052 | diction | word choice | 27 | |
| 4681481684 | dramatic monologue | poem in which a character delivers a speech explaining his/her feelings, actions, or motives | 28 | |
| 4681486417 | elegy | mournful or melancholic poem | 29 | |
| 4681486873 | english sonnet | sonnet divided into 3 quatrains and a final couplet, using the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg; Shakespearean sonnet | 30 | |
| 4681488067 | enjambment | continuation of a phrase or clause to another line without pause | 31 | |
| 4681499274 | epigram | short, clever poem with a witty turn of thought | 32 | |
| 4681499644 | farce | extremely broad humor | 33 | |
| 4681499848 | foil | character that contrast with another character, usually the protagonist, to emphasize the other character's traits | 34 | |
| 4681503199 | foot | combination of stressed and unstressed syllables | 35 | |
| 4681503401 | foreshadowing | event or statement that suggests a future event | 36 | |
| 4681503993 | free verse | poetry without a regular rhyme scheme or metrical pattern | 37 | |
| 4681561726 | hamartia | fatal flaw of a tragic hero | 38 | |
| 4681682526 | hubris | excessive pride that leads to a protagonist's downfall | 39 | |
| 4681683369 | hyperbole | exaggeration or overstatement; opposite of understatement | 40 | |
| 4681683778 | iamb | poetical foot with two syllables- first unstressed and second stressed | 41 | |
| 4681684394 | implicit | implied meaning; opposite of explicit | 42 | |
| 4681684664 | lyric | expression of observations and feelings of a single speaker | 43 | |
| 4681685523 | magical realism | combination of realistic details with surreal, dreamlike, or magical elements | 44 | |
| 4681687594 | metaphor | analogy that states one thing is another | 45 | |
| 4681687881 | metonymy | use of a part to mean a whole object; related to synechdoche | 46 | |
| 4681688680 | motif | recurring or dominant element in a work | 47 | |
| 4681689372 | objectivity | impersonal view of events | 48 | |
| 4681690980 | onomatopoeia | word that sounds like what it represents | 49 | |
| 4681691379 | opposition | contrasting pair of elements | 50 | |
| 4681691592 | paradox | seemingly apparent contradiction which is accurate on closer inspection | 51 | |
| 4681694083 | parallelism | repeated words, phrases, clauses, or grammatical structure used for effect | 52 | |
| 4681695136 | pastoral | work idealizing the simple life of shepherds or of tranquil nature | 53 | |
| 4681695989 | peripeteia | reversal of fortune or character | 54 | |
| 4681696830 | persona | narrator in a non-first-person novel | 55 | |
| 4681699914 | personification | giving human qualities or form to inanimate objects | 56 | |
| 4681700149 | protaganist | main character | 57 | |
| 4681700300 | quatrain | four-line stanza | 58 | |
| 4681700668 | satire | genre which ridicules its subject by exposing flaws, often to provoke or prevent change | 59 | |
| 4681704267 | sestina | poem consisting of six six-line stanzas followed by a tercet, for a total of thirty -nine lines | 60 | |
| 4681711822 | simile | "weak" metaphor, often uses "like" or "as" | 61 | |
| 4681712641 | stanza | group of lines in verse; poetical equivalent of a paragraph | 62 | |
| 4681713187 | subjectivity | personal view of events | 63 | |
| 4681713498 | subjunctive mood | mood that sets up a hypothetical situation (i.e. if__were__) | 64 | |
| 4681714027 | symbol | word, place, character, or object that means something beyond what it is on a literal level | 65 | |
| 4681714881 | synecdoche | metaphor in which a part is spoken of as the whole object; related to metonymy | 66 | |
| 4681715576 | synesthesia | one kind of sensation is described in the terms of another; mixing of senses | 67 | |
| 4681716154 | syntax | word order | 68 | |
| 4681717266 | theme | central idea of a work | 69 | |
| 4681718472 | terza rima | poem with verses of three lines and rhyme scheme aba bcb cdc | 70 | |
| 4681718844 | tragic flaw | weakness of an otherwise good or great individual that leads to his/her downfall | 71 |
