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| 8402192726 | Bildungsroman | A coming of age story | 0 | |
| 8402197287 | Genre | A category or type of literature | 1 | |
| 8402201981 | Antagonist | A character or force in conflict with the main character | 2 | |
| 8402210573 | Protagonist | the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work. | 3 | |
| 8402221805 | Flat Character | A character who embodies a single quality and who does not develop in the course of a story | 4 | |
| 8402228031 | Round Character | A character who demonstrates some complexity and who develops or changes in the course of a work | 5 | |
| 8402282902 | Doppelgänger | Double | 6 | |
| 8402294715 | Foil | A character who contrasts and parallels the main character in a play or story. | 7 | |
| 8402298319 | Epiphany | A moment of sudden revelation or insight | 8 | |
| 8402313528 | Climax | the most intense, exciting, or important point of something; a culmination or apex. | 9 | |
| 8402316510 | Closure | An ending or completion, or something that gives a sense of finality. | 10 | |
| 8402323713 | Syntax | Sentence structure | 11 | |
| 8402327686 | Asyndeton | A sentence construction in which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions | 12 | |
| 8402339540 | Polysyndeton | the use, for rhetorical effect, of more conjunctions than is necessary or natural | 13 | |
| 8402348101 | Allusion | A reference to another work of literature, person, or event | 14 | |
| 8402351744 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration | 15 | |
| 8402355949 | Metonymy | Use of an aspect of something to represent the whole. | 16 | |
| 8402367237 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 17 | |
| 8402371052 | Parallel structure | the repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures | 18 | |
| 8402378176 | Antithesis | Opposite | 19 | |
| 8402382186 | Ellipsis | ... | 20 | |
| 8402386210 | Vignette | A short scene or story | 21 | |
| 8402404338 | Dramatic Irony | when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't | 22 | |
| 8402408520 | Omniscient Narration | Narration from someone who can see and feel each one of the character's thoughts and emotions. | 23 | |
| 8402412064 | Parody | A work which imitates another in a ridiculous manner | 24 | |
| 8402412065 | Satire | A literary style used to make fun of or ridicule an idea or human vice or weakness | 25 | |
| 8402416423 | Interior Monologue | writing that records the conversation that occurs inside a character's head | 26 | |
| 8402430485 | Soliloquy | A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage | 27 | |
| 8402447565 | Denoument | Resolution | 28 | |
| 8402452106 | Exposition | a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory. | 29 | |
| 8402455102 | Titular/Eponymous | in title or name; nominal | 30 | |
| 8402462694 | Xenia | Hospitality | 31 | |
| 8402480896 | Enjambment | the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza. | 32 | |
| 8402486811 | Endstop | a pause at the end of a line often marked by punctuation | 33 | |
| 8402491063 | Discursive | Rambling, moving from one topic to another randomly | 34 | |
| 8402496060 | Elegy/Elegiac | a sorrowful poem or speech | 35 | |
| 8402499391 | Couplet | Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme | 36 | |
| 8402503431 | Caesura | A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line. | 37 | |
| 8402506703 | End Rhyme | A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line | 38 | |
| 8402512032 | Internal Rhyme | A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line | 39 | |
| 8402516089 | Feminine Rhyme | a rhyme between stressed syllables followed by one or more unstressed syllables | 40 | |
| 8402519639 | Masculine Rhyme | A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable | 41 | |
| 8402527568 | Half Rhyme | Rhyme only occurs on the first syllable of the rhyming word | 42 | |
| 8402536464 | Epigram | A witty saying expressing a single thought or observation | 43 | |
| 8402545090 | Alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. | 44 | |
| 8402554998 | Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds | 45 | |
| 8402554999 | Consonance | Repetition of consonant sounds | 46 | |
| 8402558426 | Paradox | A statement that contradicts itself; oxymoron | 47 | |
| 8402566820 | Litotes | Understatement; double negative | 48 | |
| 8402574360 | Meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry | 49 | |
| 8402574361 | Ethos | Ethical appeal | 50 | |
| 8402578393 | Logos | Logical appeal | 51 | |
| 8402583495 | Pathos | Emotional appeal | 52 | |
| 8402587210 | Rhetoric | The art of using language effectively and persuasively | 53 | |
| 8402609221 | Apostrophe | Poem adressed to an inanimate object | 54 | |
| 8402626238 | Epigraph | A brief quotation found at the beginning of a literary work, reflective of theme. | 55 | |
| 8402632153 | Syllogism | A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion. | 56 | |
| 8402636054 | Allegory | A narrative in which characters and settings stand for abstract ideas or moral qualities; characters contain the name referring to the ideas | 57 | |
| 8402652705 | Gustatory Imagery | descriptive language that appeals to the sense of taste | 58 | |
| 8402657150 | Olfactory Imagery | descriptive language that appeals to the sense of smell | 59 | |
| 8402657151 | Tactile Imagery | descriptive language that appeals to the sense of touch | 60 | |
| 8402661105 | Auditory Imagery | descriptive language thats appeal to the sense of sound | 61 | |
| 8402670927 | Visual Imagery | descriptive language that appeals to the sense of sight | 62 | |
| 8402676199 | Colloquial | characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation | 63 | |
| 8402680193 | Pedantic | something marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning, especially its trivial aspects; stuffy, boring | 64 |
