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| 4244299657 | Anaphora | Repeating the first part of a sentence | 0 | |
| 4244299658 | Antithesis | 2 contrasting or opposite ideas are placed next to each other | 1 | |
| 4244299659 | Aphorism | Concise, witty saying | 2 | |
| 4244299660 | Apostrophe | Talking to an imaginary object or person | 3 | |
| 4244299661 | Appositive | 2 or more words that are grammatically parallel and refer to the same noun | 4 | |
| 4244299662 | Conceit | Metaphor in which 2 very different things are compared | 5 | |
| 4244299663 | Didactic | Type of literature meant to teach the reader morals, religion, philosophy, etc. | 6 | |
| 4244299664 | Epanalepsis | Repeating of a word at the beginning and end of a phrase and the end of a phrase | 7 | |
| 4244299665 | Epigraph | A short quote from another writer at the beginning of a work | 8 | |
| 4244299666 | Epigram | Short, witty saying | 9 | |
| 4244299667 | Epithet | Word or phrase to describe someone or something- doesn't replace the noun (rosy-fingered dawn) | 10 | |
| 4244299668 | Kenning | 2 word phrase that describes an object through metaphors (ankle biter=child) | 11 | |
| 4244299669 | Anastrophe | The normal order of words is reversed to achieve emphasis | 12 | |
| 4244299670 | Litotes | Describing something by describing what it is not | 13 | |
| 4244299671 | Metonymy | Replacing the name of something with the name of an object it is closely related with (the track=horseracing) | 14 | |
| 4244299672 | Paradox | A statement that appears to contradict its led but is still true | 15 | |
| 4244299673 | Parody | Imitating an author or genre- exaggerates to produce a comical effext | 16 | |
| 4244299674 | Parable | Short allegorical story to teach a truhh | 17 | |
| 4244299675 | Synecdoche | Part of something used to present a whole (car=set of wheels) | 18 | |
| 4244299676 | Vernacular | Language spoken by ordinary people- can change depending on time period | 19 | |
| 4251941430 | Double Entendre | Word or phrase with a double meaning, especially if one is scandalous | 20 | |
| 4251941431 | Asyndeton | Hen conjunctions are emitted in a series of words/phrases | 21 | |
| 4251941432 | Chiasmus | The order of the terms in the first half of a parallel clause is reversed in the second clause | 22 | |
| 4251941433 | Homily | Traditionally means a sermon; a serious talk or speech involving spiritual or moral life | 23 | |
| 4251941434 | Zeugma | A word (usually a verb or adjective) applied to two or more nouns without repeating the noun | 24 | |
| 4251941435 | Cacophony | Harsh, awkward, or dissonant sounds used deliberately | 25 | |
| 4251941436 | Euphony | Succession on harmonious sounds | 26 | |
| 4251941437 | Pun | A play on words | 27 | |
| 4251941438 | Conundrum | A riddle whose answer is or involves a pun | 28 | |
| 4251941439 | Idyll/Pastoral | Works that idealize country life and nature | 29 | |
| 4251941440 | Anachronism | Something that is misplaced in time | 30 | |
| 4251941441 | Anthromorphism | When inanimate objects are given human characteristics | 31 | |
| 4251941442 | Dirge/Requiem | A song or prayer for the dead | 32 | |
| 4251941443 | Farce | A comedy | 33 | |
| 4251941444 | Feminine | Lines rhyme by their two last syllables | 34 | |
| 4251941445 | Masculine rhyme | Rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable | 35 | |
| 4251941446 | In medias res | In the middle of the action | 36 | |
| 4251941447 | Melodrama | A form of cheesy drama in which the hero is very good, and the villain is mean and rotten, and the heroine is very pure | 37 | |
| 4251941448 | Rhapsody | An intensely passionate verse or section of verse, usually of love and praise | 38 | |
| 4251941449 | Stock Characters | Standard or cliched character types | 39 | |
| 4251941450 | Archetype | Pattern or model on which everything is based | 40 | |
| 4251941451 | Octameter | 8 feet per line | 41 | |
| 4251941452 | Heptameter | 7 feet per line | 42 | |
| 4251941453 | Monometer | 1 foot per line | 43 | |
| 4251941454 | Trimeter | 3 feet per line | 44 | |
| 4251941455 | Hexameter | 6 feet per line | 45 | |
| 4251941456 | Dimeter | 2 feet per line | 46 | |
| 4251941457 | Tetrameter | 4 feet per line | 47 | |
| 4251941458 | Pentameter | 5 feet per line | 48 | |
| 4251941459 | Iambic | Unstressed, Stressed | 49 | |
| 4251941460 | Spondaic | Stressed, Stressed | 50 | |
| 4251941461 | Trochaic | Stressed, Unstressed | 51 | |
| 4251941462 | Pyrrhic | Unstressed, Unstressed | 52 | |
| 4251941463 | Anapestic | Unstressed, unstressed, stressed | 53 | |
| 4251941464 | Dactylic | Stressed, Unstressed, Unstressed | 54 | |
| 4251941465 | Tercet | 3 lines per stanza | 55 | |
| 4251941466 | Septet | 7 lines per stanza | 56 | |
| 4251941467 | Quatrain | 4 lines per stanza | 57 | |
| 4251941468 | Octave | 8 lines per stanza | 58 | |
| 4251941469 | Couplet | 2 lines per syanza | 59 | |
| 4251941470 | Cinquain | 5 lines per stanza | 60 | |
| 4251941471 | Sestet | 6 lines per stanza | 61 | |
| 4251941472 | Shakespearean/English Sonnet | 14 lines; rhyme and meter; iambic pentameter; about passage of time, dark lady, friends | 62 | |
| 4251941473 | Italian/Petrarchan Sonnet | Iambic pentameter; octave that poses a question and a sestet in response. ABBA ABBA CDECDE (CDCDCD) | 63 | |
| 4251941474 | Spenserian Sonnet | Iambic pentameter; 3 quatrains and a couplet ABAB BCBC CDCD EE | 64 | |
| 4251941475 | Ballad | Type of narrative; simple; written in quatrains; basic rhyme scheme; includes a refrain; 2 lines of iambic Tetrameter that alternates with iambic trimeter | 65 | |
| 4251941476 | Lyric | Presents personal impression rather than a story; highly personal and emotional; melodious; reflective tone | 66 | |
| 4251941477 | Ode | Celebration of something; written in an elevated style | 67 | |
| 4251941478 | Elegy | Formal lyric poem written in honor of someone who died | 68 | |
| 4251941479 | Dramatic Monologue | An imagined speaker is addressing a silent listener who is usually not the reader | 69 | |
| 4251941480 | Villanelle | 5 tercets and a quatrain; 2 refrains- first and last line alternate as the last line of the next four stanzas and hen form a final couplet in the quatrain | 70 | |
| 4251941481 | Metaphysical | Elaborate, clever, highly intellectual; develops a metaphor throughout the poem (conceit) | 71 | |
| 4251941482 | Classicism | 1. Universality, noble ideas, dignified language, restraint, clarity, objectivity, importance of structure; edifying purpose in literature | 72 | |
| 4251941483 | Puritanism | 2. 1600s; early "American" colonists; emphasize obedience to God; believe people are naturally depraved; punish sinners | 73 | |
| 4251941484 | Rationalism | 3. Europe 1600s; rely on reason and science instead of faith; reaction against puritans; believed people could achieve perfection through self discipline; age of reason/enlightenment | 74 | |
| 4251941485 | Romanticism | 4. Late 1700s- early 1800s; interest in nature, individual's emotion; criticism of the past | 75 | |
| 4251941486 | Impressionism | 5. 1800s; recording ones personal or sensory impressions of the world rather than a strict representation; appeals to the senses and puts sensation into words | 76 | |
| 4251941487 | Transcendentalism | 6. Mid 1800s; inherent goodness of people (echo romantics); believes society corrupts a person's purity; self-reliance | 77 | |
| 4251941488 | Realism | 7. 1800s-1900s; reacted against romantics; truth/ actuality, detail, objectivity; social/controversial issues; imitate something in everyday life simple and clear | 78 | |
| 4251941489 | Naturalism | 8. Late 1800s-early 1900s; realism to the extreme; fact and detail; expose social problems; man as an animal in society; scientific impartiality; humans have no free will and are driven by natural forces | 79 | |
| 4251941490 | Expressionism | 9. 1900s; revolt against realism an naturalism; more about inner reality instead of the outside world; psychology/spirituality; abstract and mystical ideas; man and society in chaos; creation of new worlds; James Joyce | 80 | |
| 4251941491 | Regionalism | 10. Late 1800s; focuses on features of a particular region; realistic portrayal of a specific geographical locale, using locale and its influences as a major part of the plot | 81 | |
| 4251941492 | Modernism | 11. Late 1800s-Early 1900s; life is devoid of absolute truth; break wth tradition; life is unordered | 82 | |
| 4251941493 | Existentialism | 12. Concern with man's alienation; man must find meaning in himself rather than outside forces like religion | 83 | |
| 4251941494 | Surrealism | 13. 1900s; reaction against rationalism; expression of imagination as revealed in dreams, free of concious control or reason; free of convention | 84 | |
| 4254245386 | Bombast | Exaggeratedly learned language | 85 | |
| 4254245387 | Burlesque | Exaggerates it into ridiculousness | 86 | |
| 4254245388 | Caricature | Portrait that exaggerates features | 87 |
