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| 7740872030 | Allegory | an extended narrative in prose or poetry in which characters, events, and setting represent abstract qualities or real events | 0 | |
| 7740876850 | alliteration | the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words that are close to one another | 1 | |
| 7740879815 | allusion | a reference to another literary work or real, mythical, or literary figure or event; the author will assume that the reader is aware of these references | 2 | |
| 7740887057 | analogy | a comparison of two similar but different ideas or events that creates a relationship between them | 3 | |
| 7740892201 | anaphora | the repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences | 4 | |
| 7740901071 | anecdote | a short, simple narrative of an incident | 5 | |
| 7740905181 | antagonist | one who struggles against the hero (protagonist) of a story | 6 | |
| 7740910695 | antithesis | balancing words, phrases, or ideas that are contrasted, often by parallel grammatical structure | 7 | |
| 7740921091 | antihero | a hero who lacks qualities traditionally associated with heroes, such as grace, morality and courage | 8 | |
| 7740924246 | anthropomorphism | giving human shape to abstract ideas | 9 | |
| 7740927632 | aphorism | a short, often witty statement of a principle truth about life; Oscar Wilde's characters often speak in aphorisms | 10 | |
| 7740935650 | apostrophe | an address to an imaginary, dead or absent person, place or personified abstraction if called out to god, this is an invocation | 11 | |
| 7740946177 | aside | a brief speech or comment that a character makes to the audience which is unheard by others on stage; can be dramatic or comedic, or provide insight into character | 12 | |
| 7740954606 | assonance | repetition of vowel sounds in words that are close together | 13 | |
| 7740957475 | asyndeton | commas used without coordinating conjunctions to separate a series, emphasizing the parts equally | 14 | |
| 7740962786 | Ballad | a narrative poem that presents a single dramatic episode; a poetic form descended from folk ballads, which were often snug and passed down orally | 15 | |
| 7740971745 | Blank verse | poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter | 16 | |
| 7740974000 | Burlesque | a broad parody that, rather than imitate a specific work, exaggerates and mocks an entire form or style | 17 | |
| 7740977552 | cacophony | harsh, awkward, or dissonant sounds; the opposite of euphony | 18 | |
| 7740986960 | Caricature | descriptive writing that grossly exaggerates a specific feature of appearance or personality in a character; often a 2 dimensional representation of a character | 19 | |
| 7740998721 | catalexis | the omission of an expected offbeat from the end of a line of verse | 20 | |
| 7741002968 | catharsis | the release of tension within a plot; specifically can refer to the emotional release an audience experiences from watching a tragedy according to Aristotle | 21 | |
| 7741013762 | Characterization | process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character - indirect characterization - direct characterization -static character -dynamic character | 22 | |
| 7741021929 | Indirect Characterization | the author reveals character by describing how the character looks and dresses, by letting the reader hear what the character say, by revealing the character's thoughts and feelings, by revealing the character's effects on other, or by showing how the character acts | 23 | |
| 7741123248 | direct characterization | the author states directly what the character is like: clever, wise... | 24 | |
| 7741128444 | static character | one who does not change much in the course of a story | 25 | |
| 7741130333 | dynamic character | one who changes in some important way as a result of the story's action | 26 | |
| 7741133248 | chorus | in greek drama, a group of characters who comment on the action taking place in stage; can provide exposition for the plot | 27 | |
| 7741139618 | chiasmus | in poetry, a type of rhetorical balance in which the second part of a sentence or phrase is syntactically balanced with the first, but with parts reversed | 28 | |
| 7741145786 | classicism | principles and styles admired in the classics of greek and roman literature, such as objectivity, sensibility, restraint and formality | 29 | |
| 7741151190 | cliche | a word or phrase, often a figure of speech, which has become lifeless because of overuse | 30 | |
| 7741156331 | colloquialism | a word or phrase used in everyday speech and informal writing that is usually inappropriate in formal situations | 31 | |
| 7741160619 | comedy | a story that ends with happy resolution of the conflicts, usually with the characters not learning from the travails of the action | 32 | |
| 7741165198 | conceit | an elaborate metaphor or figure of speech in which two seemingly dissimilar situations are compared | 33 | |
| 7741168765 | confessional poetry | uses intimate details from the poet's life as subject matter; predominately a 20th century form associated with Robert Lowell, Plath, Sexton | 34 | |
| 7741175756 | consonance | the repetition of identical consonant sounds within words that are close to one another | 35 | |
| 7741179309 | couplet | two consecutive rhyming lines of poetry | 36 | |
| 7741181785 | dialect | a way of speaking (diction and syntax) that is characteristic of social group or of the inhabitants of a specific geographical area | 37 | |
| 7741186902 | diction | a speaker or writer's choice of words | 38 | |
| 7741189330 | didactic | a form of fiction or non-fiction that seeks to teach a specific moral or lesson, providing a correct model for behavior (either through affirmation or defamation of a character) | 39 | |
| 7741203581 | dissonance | grating sounds that do not belong together | 40 | |
| 7741206689 | elegy | a formal poem of mourning focusing on death or mortality; often directed at a specific person or idea | 41 | |
| 7741210795 | end rhyme | rhyme that appears at the end of a line of poetry | 42 | |
| 7741213392 | epic | a long narrative poem about a serious or profound subject in an elevated style, usually focusing on heroic deeds of heroic characters in legends and myths; these characters usually embody the celebrated values of a particular society | 43 | |
| 7741220595 | epigraph | a quotation or aphorism at the beginning of a text that introduces the theme | 44 | |
| 7741224690 | epithet | an adjective or adjective phrase applied frequently to a person or thing to emphasize a particular characteristic | 45 | |
| 7741229981 | Homeric epithet | a compound adjective used with a person or thing | 46 | |
| 7741232399 | Essay | a short piece of non-fiction prose in which a writer discusses aspects of a subject | 47 | |
| 7741241286 | type of essays | argumentation description narrative explication | 48 | |
| 7741244380 | argumentation | uses logic, ethics, and emotional appeals to develop an effective means to convince the reader to act or think in a certain way | 49 | |
| 7741249427 | description | uses language to create a mood or emotion | 50 | |
| 7741250973 | exposition | explains or sets forth an idea | 51 | |
| 7741252702 | narrative | tells of a series of events | 52 | |
| 7741255097 | explication | is the act of discovering and interpreting the meaning of a text through close textual analysis, esp. of figurative language | 53 | |
| 7741259466 | type of argumentative essay | persuasion argument causal argumentation | 54 | |
| 7741262437 | persuasion | relies on emotional appeals rather than facts | 55 | |
| 7741263579 | argument | relies on facts and appeals to reason instead of emotion | 56 | |
| 7741266708 | causal argumentation | relies on making a claim that one thing results from another | 57 | |
| 7741270924 | euphony | a succession of harmonious sounds in poetry or prose; the opposite of cacophony | 58 |
