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| 6264615190 | Allusion | A reference in a work of literature to something outside the work. | 0 | |
| 6264623211 | Attitude | The disposition toward or opinion of a subject by a speaker, author or character | 1 | |
| 6264674130 | Details | Individual items or parts that make up a larger picture or story. | 2 | |
| 6264681340 | Devices of Sound | Techniques of deploying the sound of words, especially in poetry. | 3 | |
| 6264685758 | Diction | Word choice. | 4 | |
| 6284552258 | figurative language | Writing that uses figures of speech such as metaphor, simile and imagery | 5 | |
| 6284563219 | imagery | The images created by a literary work; the sensory details of a work | 6 | |
| 6284567377 | irony | A figure of speech in which the intended meaning an actual meaning differ | 7 | |
| 6284573153 | metaphor | Uses language to compare things or ideas without uses "like" or "as" | 8 | |
| 6284578685 | narrative techniques | The methods involved in telling a story | 9 | |
| 6284583336 | omniscient point of view | The vantage point of a story in which the narrator can know, see, and report whatever he or she chooses | 10 | |
| 6284590179 | point of view | Any of the several possible vantage points from which a story is told | 11 | |
| 6284592289 | resources of language | A general phrase for the linguistic devices or techniques that a writer can use | 12 | |
| 6284601545 | rhetorical techniques | The devices used in effective or persuasive language | 13 | |
| 6284604198 | satire | Writing that uses ridicule to arouse a reader's disapproval of the subject | 14 | |
| 6284610012 | setting | The background of a story | 15 | |
| 6284612823 | simile | A directly expressed comparison of an idea or thing in a story or play using the words "like" or "as" | 16 | |
| 6284622789 | strategy | The management of language for a specific effect | 17 | |
| 6284625884 | structure | The arrangement of materials within a work | 18 | |
| 6284629080 | style | The mode of expression in language, the artistic manner of expression of an author | 19 | |
| 6284635694 | symbol | Something that is simultaneously itself and also a sign of something else | 20 | |
| 6284646043 | syntax | The structure of a sentence; the arrangement of words in a sentence | 21 | |
| 6284649977 | theme | The main thought expressed by a work | 22 | |
| 6284652357 | tone | the manner in which an author expresses his or her attitude. | 23 | |
| 6284657613 | allegory | A story in which the people, things, and events have another meaning | 24 | |
| 6284662587 | ambiguity | Multiple meanings that a literary work may communicate | 25 | |
| 6284666616 | apostrophe | Direct address, usually to someone or something that isn't present | 26 | |
| 6284670502 | connotation | The implications of a word or phrase or the emotions associated with it | 27 | |
| 6284675184 | convention | A device of style or subject matter that is used so often that it becomes a recognized means of expression | 28 | |
| 6284684323 | denotation | The specific, literal meaning of a word | 29 | |
| 6299185412 | didactic | Explicitly instructive | 30 | |
| 6299197176 | digression | The inclusion of material unrelated to the actual subject of a work. | 31 | |
| 6299221393 | epigram | A pithy saying, often employing contrast. | 32 | |
| 6299226147 | euphemism | A figure of speech utilizing indirection to avoid offensive bluntness. | 33 | |
| 6299239400 | grotesque | Characterized by distortions or incongruities. | 34 | |
| 6299326668 | hyperbole | Deliberate exaggeration, overstatement. | 35 | |
| 6299329841 | jargon | The specialized language of a profession or group | 36 | |
| 6299335019 | literal | The precise, explicit meaning | 37 | |
| 6299337674 | lyrical | Songlike; characterized by emotion | 38 | |
| 6299342586 | oxymoron | A combination or juxtaposition of opposites; a union of contradictory terms | 39 | |
| 6299348762 | parable | A story designed to suggest a principle | 40 | |
| 6299352887 | paradox | A statement that seems to be self-contradictory but it is, in fact, true | 41 | |
| 6299367700 | parody | A composition that imitates the style of another's composition | 42 | |
| 6299373783 | personification | A figurative use of language that endows the nonhuman with human characteristics | 43 | |
| 6299429352 | reliability | A quality of some fictional narrators in whose word the reader can place in his trust | 44 | |
| 6299433925 | rhetorical question | A question asked for effect, not in expectation for reply | 45 | |
| 6299440329 | soliloquy | A speech in which a character who is alone speaks his or her thoughts aloud | 46 | |
| 6299445531 | stereotype | A conventional pattern, expression, character or idea | 47 | |
| 6299451181 | syllogism | A form of reasoning in which two statements are made and a conclusion is drawn from them | 48 | |
| 6299483591 | alliteration | The repetition of similar or identical consonant sounds | 49 | |
| 6299489380 | assonance | The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds | 50 | |
| 6299493525 | ballad meter | A four-line stanza rhymed abcb in which lines one and three have four feet and lines two and four have three feet | 51 | |
| 6299509371 | blank verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter | 52 | |
| 6299514147 | dactyl | A metrical foot of three syllables | 53 | |
| 6299516724 | end-stopped | A line with a pause at the end | 54 | |
| 6299532440 | free verse | Poetry that is not written in the traditional meter but still rhymes | 55 | |
| 6299539202 | heroic couplet | Two end-stopped iambi pentameter lines rhymed with aa, bb, cc | 56 | |
| 6299543791 | hexameter | A line containing six feet | 57 | |
| 6299546124 | iamb | A two-syllable foot with an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable | 58 | |
| 6299551800 | internal rhyme | Rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end | 59 | |
| 6299559177 | onomatopoeia | The use of words whose very sound suggests the actual meaning | 60 | |
| 6299578484 | pentameter | A line containing five feet | 61 | |
| 6299588035 | rhyme royal | A seven-line stanza of iambic pentameter rhymed ababbcc | 62 | |
| 6299599794 | sonnet | A poem written in iambic pentameter, normally composed of fourteen lines | 63 | |
| 6299605800 | stanza | A repeated grouping of three or more lines | 64 | |
| 6299614604 | terza rima | A three-line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc | 65 | |
| 6299616643 | tetrameter | A line of four feet | 66 | |
| 6299619756 | antecedent | That which has gone before, especially the word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers. | 67 | |
| 6299628007 | clause | A group of words containing a subject and its verb that may or may not form a complete sentence | 68 | |
| 6299631897 | ellipsis | A phrase that omits some words that would be necessary for a complete construction, yet which is still understandable. | 69 | |
| 6299642371 | imperative | The mood of a verb that gives an order | 70 | |
| 6299643724 | modify | To restrict or limit in meaning | 71 | |
| 6299646638 | parallel structure | A similar grammatical structure withing a sentence or within a paragraph | 72 | |
| 6299650793 | periodic sentence | A sentence that becomes grammatically complete only at the end | 73 | |
| 6299653925 | Syntax | The structure of a sentence | 74 |
