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| 6742124264 | Epithet | adds to a person or place's name and attributes special quality to the name. descriptive words and phrases enhances persona of real and fictitious places, objects, persons and divinities. "Alexander the Great" is the epithet commonly used to refer to Alexander III of Macedon. | 0 | |
| 6742124265 | Synecdoche | part to represent the whole. "Weary feet in the walk of life" does not refer to the feet actually being tired or painful; repr. long, hard struggle through the journey of life. | 1 | |
| 6742124266 | Metonymy | something closely related to represent the whole. The pen is mightier than the sword | 2 | |
| 6742124267 | Blank Verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter | 3 | |
| 6742124268 | Heroic Couplet | Pairs of rhyming iambic pentameter lines | 4 | |
| 6742124269 | Iambic Tetrameter | a poetic line of four iambic feet. "tetrameter" simply means that there are 4 feet in the line; iambic tetrameter is a line comprising 4 iambs. | 5 | |
| 6742124270 | Iamb | poetic foot--like a heartbeat-- unstressed-stressed | 6 | |
| 6742124271 | Trochee | poetic foot--stressed-unstressed | 7 | |
| 6742124272 | Allegory | A story in which ideas are symbolized as people. illustr moral or principle | 8 | |
| 6742124273 | Parable | A short story designed to teach a moral or religious lesson. | 9 | |
| 6742124274 | Fable | A short story in which animals or objects speaks a story, to teach a moral or religious lesson. | 10 | |
| 6742124275 | Parody | Satirical imitation | 11 | |
| 6742124276 | Anaphora | repetition of word(s) at the beginning of SUCCESSIVE phrases, clauses, sentences, lines | 12 | |
| 6742124277 | Sonnets | Italian/Petrarchan (8-6)—with the VOLTA after the octave vs English/Shakespearean (4-4- 4-2) | 13 | |
| 6742124278 | Malapropism | mixed up words that sound alike--comic effect | 14 | |
| 6742124279 | Non Sequitur | statement doesn't follow logically, not clearly related | 15 | |
| 6742124280 | Oxymoron | contradictory word combo | 16 | |
| 6742124281 | Ellipsis | Omission of words but the meaning is understood | 17 | |
| 6742124282 | Consonance | in a poetic line, repeated consonant sounds -but not at start of line | 18 | |
| 6742124283 | Meter | Rhythm of stressed/unstressed | 19 | |
| 6742124284 | Antithesis | opposite; a contrast or opposition between two things. | 20 | |
| 6742124285 | Allusion | Referring to something a reader may or may not know from outside of the work | 21 | |
| 6742124286 | Extended Metaphor, Extended Simile, Conceit | comparison developed over a series of lines. | 22 | |
| 6742124287 | Analogy | Explicit comparison | 23 | |
| 6742124288 | Lyirc | (Poetic) expresses feelings and emotions | 24 | |
| 6742124289 | Ballad | (Poetic) is plot driven | 25 | |
| 6742124290 | Indictment | Formal charge or accusation | 26 | |
| 6742124291 | Oblique | Indirect | 27 | |
| 6742124292 | Philistine | Uncultured, boorish, indifferent of cultural and/or artistic values | 28 | |
| 6742124293 | Ostentation | Pretentious showiness | 29 | |
| 6742124294 | Didactic | Intended to teach, can be moralistic (preachy) | 30 | |
| 6742124295 | Vacillate | To waver between different opinions, actions, and/or viewpoints | 31 | |
| 6742124296 | Sardonic | Darkly mocking | 32 | |
| 6742124297 | Tone | Author's attitude towards the subject | 33 | |
| 6742124298 | Irony | Contrast between expectation and reality | 34 | |
| 6742124299 | Syntax | Word arrangement | 35 | |
| 6742124300 | Diction | Specific choice of individual words | 36 | |
| 6742124301 | Paradox | Apparent contradiction that is nevertheless true | 37 | |
| 6742124302 | Pathos | Appeal to the emotions | 38 | |
| 6742124303 | Rhetorical Question | A question posed to make a point rather than seek an answer | 39 | |
| 6742124304 | Motif | Reoccurring images/words in order to create meaning within the theme | 40 | |
| 6742124305 | Free verse | Poem without any regular rhyme or meter patterns | 41 | |
| 6742124306 | Caesura | Pause or stop within a single line of poetry | 42 | |
| 6742124307 | Alliteration | Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words | 43 | |
| 6742124308 | Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds in a line | 44 | |
| 6742124309 | Enjambed Lines | Incomplete syntax at line's end (meaning 'runs over') | 45 | |
| 6742124310 | Spondee | Stressed-stressed , example: "Cry! Cry!" | 46 | |
| 6742124311 | Epigraph | quotation or short passage that precedes a work to suggest a theme or concern of the novel | 47 | |
| 6742124312 | Pastoral | Idealized version of country life | 48 | |
| 6742124313 | Elegy | Poetic lament for the dead (serious reflection) | 49 | |
| 6742124314 | Synesthesia | Stimulation of one sense elicits another. Fusion of the two. (Benjy smells the cold.) | 50 | |
| 6742124315 | Dystopia | isolates social trends, exaggerates them, exposes their negative qualities | 51 | |
| 6742124316 | Epistolary | Literary work in the form of letters | 52 | |
| 6742124317 | Satire | Vices/Shortcomings are held up to scorn/mockery in order to shame into improvement | 53 |
