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| 8637308664 | Allegory | Appears to be one thing but something else | 0 | |
| 8637308665 | Ambiguity | suggesting two or more meanings in one work | 1 | |
| 8637308666 | anecdote | short account of event | 2 | |
| 8637308667 | Antihero/Antiheroine | A protagonist who is not admirable or who challenges notions of what should be considered admirable | 3 | |
| 8637308668 | aphorism | A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life. | 4 | |
| 8637308669 | indirect characterization | we find out about characters indirectly through thoughts, comments, or actions of the characters | 5 | |
| 8637308670 | direct characterization | Author directly describes character | 6 | |
| 8637308671 | static character | A character that does not change from the beginning of the story to the end | 7 | |
| 8637308672 | dynamic character | A character who grows, learns, or changes as a result of the story's action | 8 | |
| 8637308673 | flat character | A character who embodies a single quality and who does not develop in the course of a story | 9 | |
| 8637308674 | round character | A character who demonstrates some complexity and who develops or changes in the course of a work | 10 | |
| 8637308675 | Chiasmus | A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed | 11 | |
| 8637308676 | comedy | light and humorous drama with a happy ending | 12 | |
| 8637308677 | comic relief | A humorous scene or speech intended to lighten the mood | 13 | |
| 8637308678 | conceit (n) | an excessively favorable opinion of one's own ability, importance, wit, etc. | 14 | |
| 8637308679 | Confessional Poetry | A twentieth century term used to describe poetry that uses intimate material from the poet's life. | 15 | |
| 8637308680 | didactic poetry | poetry with the primary purpose of teaching or preaching | 16 | |
| 8637308681 | Epigraphs | a motto or quote at the start of a literary work | 17 | |
| 8637308682 | Epithets | Abusive words or phrases | 18 | |
| 8637308683 | casual relationship | when a writer asserts that one thing results from another | 19 | |
| 8637308684 | Hypotactic | Sentence marked by the use of connecting words between clauses or sentences | 20 | |
| 8637308685 | Inversion | Inverted order of words in a sentence | 21 | |
| 8637308686 | juxtaposition (n) | the act of placing two things next to each other for implicit comparison | 22 | |
| 8637308687 | litnotes | understatement | 23 | |
| 8637308688 | local color | the use of language and details that are common in a certain region of the country | 24 | |
| 8637308689 | lyric poem | A short poem of songlike quality | 25 | |
| 8637308690 | implied metaphor | Implies or suggests the comparison between the two thing without stating it directly | 26 | |
| 8637308691 | extended metaphor | A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work. | 27 | |
| 8637308692 | dead metaphor | a metaphor that has been used so often that the comparison is no longer vivid | 28 | |
| 8637308693 | mixed metaphor | a combination of two or more metaphors that together produce a ridiculous effect | 29 | |
| 8637308694 | Metonymy | the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant | 30 | |
| 8637308695 | koan | a paradoxical annecdote or a riddle that has no solution | 31 | |
| 8637308696 | periodic | describes something that occurs or repeats at regular intervals | 32 | |
| 8637308697 | pun | a play on words | 33 | |
| 8637308698 | satire (n) | a literary work that ridicules or criticizes a human vice through humor or derision | 34 | |
| 8637308699 | Soliloquy | A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage | 35 | |
| 8637308700 | stream of consciousness | a style of writing that portrays the inner (often chaotic) workings of a character's mind. | 36 | |
| 8637308701 | tragedy (n) | a work of fiction with an unhappy ending | 37 | |
| 8637308702 | Vernacular | Everyday language of ordinary people | 38 |
