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| 6745748836 | Allusion | reference to something outside of the piece of literature, especially something well-known from history or literature | 0 | |
| 6745748837 | Attitude | opinion on a subject by a character or author | 1 | |
| 6745748838 | Details | individual pieces or parts that make a picture or story | 2 | |
| 6745748839 | Devices of sound | techniques around sound, especially in poetry, such as rhyme/alliteration/onomatopoeia | 3 | |
| 6745748840 | Diction | word choice, often words with a similar effect | 4 | |
| 6745748841 | Figurative language | figures of speech such as metaphor/simile/irony | 5 | |
| 6745748842 | Foil | a character who serves to emphasize another's qualities by contrasts or similarities | 6 | |
| 6745748843 | Irony | figure of speech in which the intended meaning and actual meaning differ | 7 | |
| 6745748844 | Metaphor | figure of speech in which a comparison is stated as reality | 8 | |
| 6745748845 | Narrative techniques | methods of telling a story such as point of view and dialogue | 9 | |
| 6745748846 | Omniscient point of view | a narrator sees and tells all | 10 | |
| 6745748847 | Point of view | a vantage point from which a story is told | 11 | |
| 6745748848 | Resources of language | all techniques such as diction/figurative language/imagery | 12 | |
| 6745748849 | Rhetorical techniques | devices such as contrast/paradox/repetition/sarcasm/rhetorical question | 13 | |
| 6745748850 | Satire | using ridicule to arouse readers' disapproval | 14 | |
| 6745748851 | Setting | background of a story | 15 | |
| 6745748852 | Simile | directly expressed comparison | 16 | |
| 6745748853 | Rhetorical strategy | also known as simply the second word, the management of language for a purpose, placing elements to achieve an effect | 17 | |
| 6745748854 | Structure | arrangement or division of parts in relation to a whole, such as series/contrast /repetition or play/novel/poem | 18 | |
| 6745748855 | Style | mode of expression, such as diction/figurative language/imagery | 19 | |
| 6745748856 | Symbol | something both itself and a sign of something else, especially something tangible standing in for something intangible | 20 | |
| 6745748857 | Syntax | the structure or arrangement of words/sentences/paragraphs, comes in types/length/order | 21 | |
| 6745748858 | Theme | main thought expressed by a work | 22 | |
| 6745748859 | Tone | manner in which an author expresses an attitude, described by adjectives and subject to change, a result of diction/figurative language/imagery | 23 | |
| 6745748860 | Allegory | a story in which people/things/events have another extended meaning | 24 | |
| 6745748861 | Ambiguity | multiple meanings, especially when two meanings are incompatible | 25 | |
| 6745748862 | Analogy | a comparison, especially for clarification | 26 | |
| 6745748863 | Apostrophe | direct address, especially to something not present | 27 | |
| 6745748864 | Connotation | the implication of a word or phrase, not literal meaning | 28 | |
| 6745748865 | Denotation | the literal meaning of a word or phrase as found in the dictionary, not implication | 29 | |
| 6745748866 | Convention | a device of style used so often that it becomes a mean of expression | 30 | |
| 6745748867 | Didactic | explicitly instructive | 31 | |
| 6745748868 | Digression | material unrelated to the subject | 32 | |
| 6745748869 | Euphemism | a figure of speech used to avoid bluntness and offensiveness | 33 | |
| 6745748870 | Hyperbole | a deliberate exaggeration | 34 | |
| 6745748871 | Jargon | the specialized language of a group | 35 | |
| 6745748872 | Literal | the precise meaning, not figurative | 36 | |
| 6745748873 | Lyrical | song-like, with emotion/subjectivity/imagination | 37 | |
| 6745748874 | Oxymoron | a combination of opposites, two contradictions in unison | 38 | |
| 6745748875 | Parable | an allegory which suggests a principle/moral/answer in the story | 39 | |
| 6745748876 | Paradox | a statement that seems self-contradictory but is true | 40 | |
| 6745748877 | Parody | a composition that imitates the style of another, especially for humor | 41 | |
| 6745748878 | Personification | figurative language that makes the nonhuman seem human | 42 | |
| 6745748879 | Reliability | whether a narrator can/should be trusted | 43 | |
| 6745748880 | Rhetorical question | asked for effect expecting no answer | 44 | |
| 6745748881 | Soliloquy | a speech in which a character who is alone voices thoughts | 45 | |
| 6745748882 | Stereotype | a conventional pattern/expression/character/idea | 46 | |
| 6745748883 | Thesis | the theme/meaning/position a writer tries to prove | 47 | |
| 6745748884 | Slant rhyme | near or half rhyme | 48 | |
| 6745748885 | Pentameter | a line with five feet | 49 | |
| 6745748886 | Stanza | repeated grouping of three or more lines, especially with the same meter and rhyme scheme | 50 | |
| 6745748887 | Sonnet | iambic pentameter poem, especially with fourteen lines | 51 | |
| 6745748888 | English/Shakespearean sonnet | rhymed abab cdcd efef gg | 52 | |
| 6745748889 | Italian/Petrarchan sonnet | rhymed abba abba cde cde | 53 | |
| 6745748890 | Tetrameter | a line with four feet | 54 | |
| 6745748891 | Ode | a poem composed in address to something, especially elevated in style/written in admiration/using irregular or varied meter | 55 | |
| 6745748892 | Romantic | idealistic poetry written about the individual experience/nature/youth/emotion | 56 | |
| 6745748893 | Neoclassical | poetry written about order/reason/society/balance | 57 | |
| 6745748894 | Caesura | a break within a line | 58 | |
| 6745748895 | Meter | rhythm within a poem determined by length and number of feet | 59 | |
| 6745748896 | Metaphysical conceit | an analogy between spiritual qualities and a physical object, may control a poem's structure | 60 | |
| 6745748897 | Meditative lyric | addressing an object or text to contemplate | 61 | |
| 6745748898 | Alliteration | repetition of similar consonant sounds, especially at the beginnings of words | 62 | |
| 6745748899 | Assonance | repetition of vowel sounds | 63 | |
| 6745748900 | Ballad | tells a story, narrative | 64 | |
| 6745748901 | Ballad stanza | four-line section in iambic meter, lines 1 and 3 are unrhymed with four feet, lines 2 and 4 are rhymed with three feet | 65 | |
| 6745748902 | Blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | 66 | |
| 6745748903 | Dactyl | type of foot, accented unaccented unaccented (three syllables) | 67 | |
| 6745748904 | End-stopped | line that stops at the end | 68 | |
| 6745748905 | Enjambment | line that continues past the end | 69 | |
| 6745748906 | Free verse | not written in traditional meter | 70 | |
| 6745748907 | Heroic couplet | pair of end-stopped rhyming lines in iambic pentameter | 71 | |
| 6745748908 | Hexameter | a line with six feet | 72 | |
| 6745748909 | Iamb | type of foot, unaccented accented (two syllables) | 73 | |
| 6745748910 | Internal rhyme | end sound repetition within a line | 74 | |
| 6745748911 | Onomatopoeia | the sound suggests the meaning | 75 | |
| 6745748912 | Bildungsroman | a coming-of-age story | 76 | |
| 6745748913 | Doppleganger | an eerie double | 77 | |
| 6745748914 | In medias res | a story that starts in the middle | 78 | |
| 6745748915 | Dramatis personae | list of characters, especially at the beginning of a play | 79 | |
| 6745748916 | Double entendre | two meanings, especially when one is sexual | 80 | |
| 6745748917 | Pun | two meanings, especially when using homophones | 81 | |
| 6745748918 | Deus ex machina | "God from the machine," sudden solving of a problem by a new character/event/ability | 82 | |
| 6745748919 | Elegy | poem of serious reflection, especially lamenting the dead | 83 | |
| 6745748920 | Eulogy | praises someone highly, especially someone who recently died | 84 | |
| 6745748921 | Epithet | an adjective describing a quality, especially as a term of abuse | 85 | |
| 6745748922 | Epistle | a letter or a poem in the form of a letter | 86 | |
| 6745748923 | Epitaph | short text honoring the dead, especially on a tombstone | 87 | |
| 6745748924 | Epigram | pithy remark that is funny, OR a short and blunt poem with a witty ending | 88 | |
| 6745748925 | Entreaty | to earnestly or humbly make a request | 89 |
