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| 6664300668 | Simile | a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (as brave as a lion) | 0 | |
| 6664329719 | Metaphor | fig of speech which makes an implicit implied or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated but share some common characteristics (he is the black sheep of the family) | 1 | |
| 6664347573 | personification | figure of speech in which a thing, an idea or an animal is given human attributes (the wind whistled) | 2 | |
| 6664356626 | imagery | figurative language to represent objects, actions and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our physical senses (it was a dark and dim forest) | 3 | |
| 6664363320 | allusion | brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance (don't act like a Romeo in front of her) | 4 | |
| 6664367785 | paradox | a statement that appears to be self-contradictory or silly but may include a latent truth (i can resist anything but temptation) | 5 | |
| 6664374467 | hyperbole | a figure of speech, which involves an exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis (my homework took me 1000 hours) | 6 | |
| 6664384111 | apostrophe | writer or a speaker, using an apostrophe, detaches himself from the reality and addresses an imaginary character in his speech (busy old fool, unruly sun, why dost thou thus...) | 7 | |
| 6664404092 | conceit | figure of speech in which two vastly different objects are likened together with the help of similes or metaphors aka extended metaphor (my life is like a video game, people seem to be playing with it) | 8 | |
| 6664420325 | symbolism | use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from their literal sense (dove = peace) | 9 | |
| 6664425401 | motif | object or idea that repeats itself throughout a literary work, explored by author (NOT THEME: central idea or message) | 10 | |
| 6664431415 | first person narrative | story from the first-person perspective: the viewpoint of a character writing or speaking directly about themselves | 11 | |
| 6664451883 | third person narrative omniscient | form of third-person narration in which the teller of the tale, who often appears to speak with the voice of the author himself, assumes an omniscient (all-knowing) perspective on the story being told | 12 | |
| 6664455652 | third person limited | Focussing a third-person narration through the eyes of a single character (includes thoughts of that character) | 13 | |
| 6664469178 | third person editorial narrative | third person narrative but biased | 14 | |
| 6664521239 | third person neutral narrative | 15 | ||
| 6664536938 | third person objective | narration not describing the feelings or thoughts of any characters but, rather, just the exact facts of the story | 16 | |
| 6664543390 | narrative voice | tells whose eyes the reader sees a story through | 17 | |
| 6664545238 | tragic hero | hero is the protagonist of a tragedy in Drama literary character who makes a judgment error that inevitably leads to his/her own destruction | 18 | |
| 6664552336 | soliloquy | an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play. | 19 | |
| 6664554642 | monologue | a long speech by one actor in a play or movie, or as part of a theatrical or broadcast program | 20 | |
| 6664556698 | satire | the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues | 21 | |
| 6664558582 | irony | the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect (someone trips, you laugh, and then you trip) | 22 | |
| 6664566399 | foil | character whose personality, attitude, or physical characteristics is opposite of another character | 23 | |
| 6664569373 | direct characterization | process by which the personality of a fictitious character is revealed by the use of descriptive adjectives, phrases, or epithets | 24 | |
| 6664574596 | indirect characterization | Revealing a fictitious character's personality through his/her actions, speech, appearance, etc | 25 | |
| 6664576601 | gothic | a genre or mode of literature and film that combines fiction and horror, death, and at times romance | 26 | |
| 6664579758 | realism | attempts to represent familiar things as they are | 27 | |
| 6664583517 | naturalism | a literary movement that emphasizes observation and the scientific method in the fictional portrayal of reality | 28 | |
| 6664585837 | determinism | philosophical position that for every event, including human interactions, there exist conditions that could cause no other event the doctrine that all events, including human action, are ultimately determined by causes external to the will "no free will" | 29 | |
| 6664593377 | connotation | an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning | 30 | |
| 6664594947 | denotation | the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests | 31 | |
| 6664598925 | diction | the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing | 32 | |
| 6664600608 | syntax | the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language | 33 | |
| 6664603260 | metonymy | the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant (suit = businessman, the white house, crown) | 34 | |
| 6664614253 | synecdoche | figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa (she is the main breadwinner) | 35 | |
| 6664625678 | declarative sentence | states an idea (.) | 36 | |
| 6664627123 | exclamatory sentence | states idea with emotion (!) | 37 | |
| 6664628301 | interrogative sentence | asks questions (?) | 38 | |
| 6664629643 | imperative sentence | gives orders or directions (. or !) | 39 | |
| 6664634830 | asyndeton | deliberate omission of conjunctions in a series of related clauses (I came I saw I conquered she was young, she was pure, she was new, she was nice) | 40 | |
| 6664644230 | polysyndeton | the process of using conjunctions or connecting words frequently in a sentence, placed very close to one another (here and there and everywhere) | 41 | |
| 6664649742 | repetition | when words or phrases are repeated in a literary work, often used in poetry or song, and it is used to create rhythm and bring attention to an idea or used in speech, as a rhetorical device to bring attention to an idea. | 42 | |
| 6664652308 | parallelism | grammatical or structural similarity between sentences or parts of a sentence (Alice ran into the room, into the garden, and into our hearts like father like son easy come easy go) | 43 | |
| 6664665362 | anaphora | literary and rhetorical device in which a word or group of words is repeated at the beginning of two or more successive clauses or sentences (we shall...we shall... etc oh lord... oh lord...) | 44 | |
| 6664676148 | enjambment | run on line when one line of poetry ends without a pause and must continue into the next line to complete its meaning ("the broad sun is sinking down in its tranquility") | 45 | |
| 6664684662 | caesura | a pause within a line of poetry, possibly by punctuation or not (the name is bond. James Bond) | 46 | |
| 6664695871 | alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words (cute cat came crawling cross the crazy colored carpet) | 47 | |
| 6664700234 | assonance | in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in non-rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible (men sell the wedding bells go and mow the lawn i feel depressed and restless) | 48 | |
| 6664707644 | consonance | stylistic literary device identified by the repetition of identical or similar consonants in neighboring words whose vowel sounds are different (the ship has sailed to the far off shores) | 49 | |
| 6664717969 | rhythm | pattern of stressed and unstressed beats | 50 | |
| 6664722586 | foot | combination of stressed and unstressed syllables | 51 | |
| 6664727138 | iambic foot | consists of one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable (away - a is unstressed, way is stressed) | 52 | |
| 6664736574 | trochaic foot | consists of two syllables, the first one stressed and the second unstressed (DAN-ger) | 53 | |
| 6664748184 | anapestic foot | Each foot has two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable (like the LEAVES of the FORest when SUMmer is Green) | 54 | |
| 6664763663 | dactylic foot | metrical foot that consists of three syllables wherein the first two syllables are stressed and the last one is unstressed such as stressed/stressed/unstressed pattern (Half a league, Half a league, Half a league Onward) | 55 | |
| 6664774906 | spondaic foot | metrical foot that consists of two stressed syllables (WESTWARD toward the neighboring forest... burning, singing in the SUNSHINE) | 56 | |
| 6664783079 | meter | unit of rhythm in poetry, the pattern of the beats mono - 1 di - 2 tri - 3 tetra - 4 penta - 5 hexa - 6 hepta - 7 octo - 8 | 57 | |
| 6664793036 | terminal half foot | an extra syllable at the end of a line of poetry that strays from the pre established meter | 58 | |
| 6664797428 | free verse | type of poetry that does not contain patterns of rhyme or meter | 59 | |
| 6664799267 | english/shakespearean sonnet | a sonnet consisting of three quatrains and a couplet with a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg in iambic pentameter | 60 | |
| 6664808697 | italian/petrarchan sonnet | a sonnet consisting of an octave rhyming abba abba and a sestet rhyming in any of various patterns (as cde cde or cdc dcd) | 61 | |
| 6664812589 | volta | occurs between the octet and sestet in a Petrarchan sonnet and sometimes between the 8th and 9th or between the 12th and 13th lines of a Shakespearean sonnet or turn, is a rhetorical shift or dramatic change in thought and/or emotion | 62 | |
| 6664816759 | couplet | two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit | 63 | |
| 6664818724 | heroic couplet | a rhyming couplet that uses a meter called iambic pentameter ("Whan that aprill with his shoures soote / The droghte of march hath perced to the roote.") | 64 | |
| 6664825085 | tercet | composed of three lines of poetry, forming a stanza or a complete poem haikus! | 65 | |
| 6664829804 | quatrain | stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes | 66 | |
| 6664830906 | sestet | a stanza or a poem of six lines; specifically : the last six lines of an Italian sonnet | 67 | |
| 6664833390 | octave | verse form consisting of eight lines of iambic pentameter (in English poetry) or hendecasyllables (in case of Italian poetry)". or. "Any stanza in a poem, formed of eight lines, and can follow any meter (rhymed or un-rhymed) and could be of any line length". | 68 | |
| 6664836749 | terza rima | a rhyming verse stanza form that consists of an interlocking three-line rhyme scheme A-B-A, B-C-B, C-D-C, D-E-D | 69 | |
| 6664839918 | end rhyme | rhyme of the terminal syllables of lines of poetry (once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary) | 70 | |
| 6664850865 | refrain | group of lines repeated at intervals throughout a poem, generally at the end of the stanza (The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster... Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.) | 71 | |
| 6664866560 | rhyme scheme | the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse. | 72 | |
| 6685741952 | end rhyme | is defined as when a poem has lines ending with words that sound the same | 73 | |
| 6685741953 | internal rhyme | a rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next | 74 | |
| 6685741954 | slant rhyme | also called an imperfect rhyme, slant rhyme, near rhyme or oblique rhyme. It can be defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of ending consonants match, however the preceding vowel sounds do not match | 75 |
