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| 8333699914 | allegory | story conveying a meaning other than the literal; abstract principles represented by characters or figures | 0 | |
| 8333715180 | antecedent | word, phrase, or clause that a pronoun replaces | 1 | |
| 8333775301 | bildungsroman | novel tracing the spiritual, moral, psychological, or social development and growth of the main character usually from childhood to maturity | 2 | |
| 8333794252 | canon | works of a writer | 3 | |
| 8333795943 | catharsis | emotional release of an audience at the end of a successful tragedy | 4 | |
| 8333824734 | colloquialism | informal speech | 5 | |
| 8333828408 | connotation | implied meaning of a word | 6 | |
| 8333832729 | denotation | literal meaning of a word, dictionary definition | 7 | |
| 8333841049 | diction | word choice | 8 | |
| 8333844618 | farce | extremely broad humor | 9 | |
| 8333848052 | foil | character that contrasts with another character, usually the protagonist, to emphasize the other character's traits | 10 | |
| 8333862538 | foreshadowing | event or statement that suggests a future event | 11 | |
| 8333876727 | hubris | excessive pride that leads to a protagonist's downfall | 12 | |
| 8333887082 | hyperbole | exaggeration or overstatement, opposite of understatement | 13 | |
| 8333927171 | implicit | implied meaning, opposite of explicit | 14 | |
| 8333931074 | metaphor | analogy that states one thing is another | 15 | |
| 8333945487 | motif | recurring or dominant element in a work | 16 | |
| 8333968035 | objectivity | impersonal view of events | 17 | |
| 8333987158 | paradox | seemingly apparent contradiction which is accurate on closer inspection | 18 | |
| 8334001175 | parallelism | repeated words, phrases, clauses, or grammatical structure used for effect | 19 | |
| 8334009626 | personification | giving human qualities or form to inanimate objects | 20 | |
| 8334019155 | protagonist | main character | 21 | |
| 8334024022 | satire | genre which ridicules its subject by exposing flaws, often to provoke or prevent change | 22 | |
| 8334046443 | simile | "weak" metaphor, often uses "like" or "as" | 23 | |
| 8334060947 | subjectivity | personal view of events | 24 | |
| 8334064481 | symbol | word, place, character, or object that means something beyond what it is on a literal level | 25 | |
| 8334078849 | syntax | word order | 26 | |
| 8334083553 | theme | central idea of a work | 27 | |
| 8334088146 | tragic flaw | weakness of an otherwise good or great individual that leads to his/her downfall | 28 |
