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| 6747459999 | allegory | story or poem that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning |  | 0 |
| 6747460000 | alliteration | closely connected words that begin with the same sound |  | 1 |
| 6747460001 | allusion | a reference to another story (literature, art, history, myth) |  | 2 |
| 6747460002 | anaphora | successive phrases or clauses that begin with the same words |  | 3 |
| 6747460003 | antagonist | the character or force that opposes the main character |  | 4 |
| 6747460004 | apostrophe | a direct address to an inanimate object or a person/character who is not present |  | 5 |
| 6747460005 | slant rhyme | words in rhyming pattern that sound alike; an imperfect rhyme |  | 6 |
| 6747460006 | aside | when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by other actors on the stage |  | 7 |
| 6747460007 | assonance | repetition of vowel sounds within words |  | 8 |
| 6747460008 | blank verse | poetry written in meter without a rhyme scheme |  | 9 |
| 6747460009 | cacophony | blend of unharmonious sounds |  | 10 |
| 6747460010 | caesura | pause in the middle of a line |  | 11 |
| 6747460011 | catharsis | the release of emotions through art (emotional cleanse) |  | 12 |
| 6747460012 | flat character | story character who have no depth, usually has one personality or characteristic |  | 13 |
| 6747460013 | round character | character who has complex personality: contradicted person |  | 14 |
| 6747460014 | dynamic character | a character who changes throughout the story |  | 15 |
| 6747460015 | static character | person who doesn't change throughout story keeps same personality |  | 16 |
| 6747460016 | characterization | process of revealing a character's personality |  | 17 |
| 6747460017 | climax | point where conflict hits its highest point; the turning point in a story |  | 18 |
| 6747460018 | comedy | drama that is amusing or funny; drama that has a happy ending |  | 19 |
| 6747460019 | conflict | struggle between opposing forces |  | 20 |
| 6747460020 | connotation | meanings and feelings associated with a word |  | 21 |
| 6747460021 | consonance | repetition of same consonant in words close together |  | 22 |
| 6747460022 | couplet | two rhyming lines in a verse |  | 23 |
| 6747460023 | denotation | the dictionary definition of a word |  | 24 |
| 6747460024 | denouement | final outcome of the story |  | 25 |
| 6747460025 | deus ex machina | resolution of a plot by chance or coincidence |  | 26 |
| 6747460026 | didactic writing | writing with a primary purpose to teach or preach |  | 27 |
| 6747460027 | direct presentation of character | author telling the reader how a character is and what actions it will do further in the story |  | 28 |
| 6747460028 | double rhyme | a feminine rhyme involving one stressed and one unstressed syllable in each rhyming line |  | 29 |
| 6747460029 | dramatic exposition | prose commentaries, to provide background information about the characters and their world |  | 30 |
| 6747460030 | end rhyme | rhymes occurring at the end of line |  | 31 |
| 6747460031 | end-stopped line | line ending in regular punctuation |  | 32 |
| 6747460032 | Elizabethan or Shakespearean sonnet | a sonnet rhyming ababcdcdededgg |  | 33 |
| 6747460033 | epiphany | sudden realization or spiritual insight (by a character) |  | 34 |
| 6747460034 | euphony | pleasant arrangement of sounds |  | 35 |
| 6747460035 | extended figure | A figure of speech sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem. |  | 36 |
| 6747460036 | falling action | Events after the climax, leading to the resolution |  | 37 |
| 6747460037 | feminine rhyme | a rhyme between stressed syllables followed by one or more unstressed syllables |  | 38 |
| 6747460038 | figurative language | Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling. |  | 39 |
| 6747460039 | figure of speech | a way of saying something other than the ordinary way |  | 40 |
| 6747460040 | foot | basic unit in the scansion or measurement of verse, made up of stressed and unstressed syllables |  | 41 |
| 6747460041 | form | external pattern or shape of a poem |  | 42 |
| 6747460042 | free verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme |  | 43 |
| 6747460043 | hamartia | tragic decision or flaw which causes a character's downfall |  | 44 |
| 6747460044 | imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) |  | 45 |
| 6747460045 | indirect characterization | the personality of a character is revealed by what he or she does or says |  | 46 |
| 6747460046 | internal rhyme | A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line |  | 47 |
| 6747460047 | irony | In general, a contrast between expectation and reality |  | 48 |
| 6747460048 | verbal irony | A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant |  | 49 |
| 6747460049 | dramatic irony | Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience/reader but not by the characters in the play/story. |  | 50 |
| 6747460050 | situational irony | refers to an occurrence that is contrary to what is expected or intended |  | 51 |
| 6747460051 | Italian or Petrarchan sonnet | A sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd |  | 52 |
| 6747460052 | masculine rhyme | A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable |  | 53 |
| 6747460053 | melodrama | a play based upon a dramatic plot and developed sensationally |  | 54 |
| 6747460054 | metaphor | A comparison without using like or as |  | 55 |
| 6747460055 | meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry |  | 56 |
| 6747460056 | metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it |  | 57 |
| 6747460057 | motivation | A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior |  | 58 |
| 6747460058 | narrator | Person telling the story |  | 59 |
| 6747460059 | octave | segment of poetry eight lines long |  | 60 |
| 6747460060 | onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. |  | 61 |
| 6747460061 | hyperbole | A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor |  | 62 |
| 6747460062 | oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. |  | 63 |
| 6747460063 | paradox | A contradiction or dilemma |  | 64 |
| 6747460064 | paraphrase | A restatement of a text or passage in your own words. |  | 65 |
| 6747460065 | personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes |  | 66 |
| 6747460066 | plot | Sequence of events in a story | | 67 |
| 6747460067 | point of view | The perspective from which a story is told |  | 68 |
| 6747460068 | omniscient point of view | The point of view where the narrator knows everything about the characters and their problems - told in the 3rd person. |  | 69 |
| 6747460069 | third person limited point of view | narrator tells the story from only one character's pov |  | 70 |
| 6747460070 | first person point of view | a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself |  | 71 |
| 6747460071 | objective point of view | a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story, with no comment on any characters or events. |  | 72 |
| 6747460072 | protagonist | Main character |  | 73 |
| 6747460073 | quatrain | segment of poetry four lines long |  | 74 |
| 6747460074 | rhythm | The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in writing |  | 75 |
| 6747460075 | rhyme scheme | A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem |  | 76 |
| 6747460076 | rising action | Events leading up to the climax |  | 77 |
| 6747460077 | sarcasm | the use of irony to mock or convey contempt |  | 78 |
| 6747460078 | satire | A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies. |  | 79 |
| 6747460079 | scansion | Analysis of verse into metrical patterns |  | 80 |
| 6747460080 | sestet | segment of poetry six lines long |  | 81 |
| 6747460081 | setting | The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs. |  | 82 |
| 6747460082 | simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" |  | 83 |
| 6747460083 | soliloquy | A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage |  | 84 |
| 6747460084 | sonnet | 14 line poem |  | 85 |
| 6747460085 | stanza | A group of lines in a poem | | 86 |
| 6747460086 | stream of consciousness | private thoughts of a character without commentary |  | 87 |
| 6747460087 | syllabic verse | Verse measured by the number of syllables rather than the number of feet per line. |  | 88 |
| 6747460088 | symbol | A thing that represents or stands for something else |  | 89 |
| 6747460089 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa |  | 90 |
| 6747460090 | synesthesia | describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound") |  | 91 |
| 6747460091 | tercet | segment of poetry three lines long | | 92 |
| 6747460092 | terza rima | a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc. |  | 93 |
| 6747460093 | theme | Central idea of a work of literature |  | 94 |
| 6747460094 | tone | Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character |  | 95 |
| 6747460095 | tragedy | A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character |  | 96 |
| 6747460096 | truncation | A line of poetry that has been shortened |  | 97 |
| 6747460097 | understandment | the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis |  | 98 |
| 6747460098 | verse | writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme | | 99 |
| 6747460099 | villanelle | a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain. |  | 100 |
| 6747460100 | polysyndenton | the use of more conjunctions than is grammatically necessary |  | 101 |
| 6747460101 | asyndeton | the elimination of conjunctions |  | 102 |
| 6747460102 | epistrophe | the repetition of words at the ENDS of successive phrases or clauses |  | 103 |
| 6747460103 | antimetabole (also called chiasmus) | rhetorical device in which a phrase or sentence is repeated, but in reverse order |  | 104 |
| 6747460104 | enjambment | the continuation of the sense and grammatical construction from one line of poetry to the next |  | 105 |
| 6747460105 | conceit | an extended metaphor; an ingenious and fanciful notion or conception, usually expressed through an elaborate analogy, and pointing to a striking parallel between two seemingly dissimilar things |  | 106 |
| 6747460106 | epic simile or Homeric simile | an extended simile; often used in epic poetry |  | 107 |
| 6747460107 | parallelism | successive lines of writing that follow the same grammatical structure |  | 108 |
