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| 5634757541 | metonymy | a figure of speech in which a person, place, or thing, is referred to by something closely associated with it. | 0 | |
| 5634757542 | motif | a recurring image, word, phrase, action, idea, object, or situation used throughout a work(or in several works by one author), unifying the work by tying the current situation to previous ones, or new ideas to the theme. | 1 | |
| 5634757543 | octave | an eight-line stanza | 2 | |
| 5634757544 | ode | A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feeling towards the subject | 3 | |
| 5634757545 | onomatopoeia | the use of words whose sounds echo their sense | 4 | |
| 5634757546 | oxymoron | a figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase | 5 | |
| 5634757547 | paradox | a statement that appears self-contradictory, but that reveals a kind of truth | 6 | |
| 5634757548 | parody | a work that makes fun of another work by imitating some aspect of the writer's style | 7 | |
| 5634757549 | petrarchan sonnet | octave rhyming a b b a a b b a and a sestet rhyming either c d e c d e or c d c d c d | 8 | |
| 5634757550 | polysyndeton | Artistic device that uses conjunctions such as "and" and "or" to join lists and words instead of commas or punctuation. | 9 | |
| 5634757551 | pun | a "play on words" based on the multiple meanings of a single word or on words that sound alike but mean different things | 10 | |
| 5634757552 | quatrain | a poem consisting of four lines, or four lines of a poem that can be considered as a unit | 11 | |
| 5634757553 | realism | fidelity to actuality in literature | 12 | |
| 5634757554 | refrain | a phrase or line, usually pertinent to the central topic, which is repeated at regular intervals throughout a poem, usually at the end of a stanza. | 13 | |
| 5634757555 | rhetoric | art of effective communication, especially persuasive discourse | 14 | |
| 5634757556 | rhetorical question | a questions asked for an effect, and not actually requiring an answer | 15 | |
| 5634757557 | romanticism | style of literature that that emphasized the imagination and emotions | 16 | |
| 5634757558 | round character | a fully developed character; | 17 | |
| 5634757559 | sarcasm | A sharp, caustic expression or remark; a bitter jibe or taunt; different from irony, which is more subtle | 18 | |
| 5634757560 | sestet | a poem of six lines, or a six lined-stanza in a poem | 19 | |
| 5634757561 | setting | The total environment for the action in a novel or play. It includes time, place, historical milieu, and social, political, and even spiritual circumstances | 20 | |
| 5634757562 | situational irony | a state of affairs or events that is the reverse of what might have been expected | 21 | |
| 5634757563 | soliloquy | a long speech made by a character who is alone on the stage in which he reveals his innermost thoughts & feelings | 22 | |
| 5634757564 | sonnet | Lyric poem, 14 lines, iambic pentameter, 10 syllables per line, 5 pairs unstressed syllable | 23 | |
| 5634757565 | stream of consciousness | A style of writing in which the author tries to reproduce the random flow of thoughts in the human mind | 24 | |
| 5634757566 | syllogism | the underlying structure of deductive reasoning, having a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion based on logic. | 25 | |
| 5634757567 | symbol | The use of one object to evoke ideas and associations not literally part of the original object | 26 | |
| 5634757568 | theme | The main idea or meaning, often an abstract idea upon which a work of literature is built | 27 | |
| 5634757569 | thesis | a statement or theory that is put forward as a premise to be maintained or proven. | 28 | |
| 5634757570 | third person limited | an unknown narrator, tells the story, but this narrator zooms in focus on the thoughts and feelings of only one character | 29 | |
| 5634757571 | third person omniscient | an omniscient or all knowing narrator tells the story, also using the third person pronouns, this narrator, instead of focusing on one character only, often tells us everything about many characters | 30 | |
| 5634757572 | tragedy | an event causing great tragedy | 31 | |
| 5634757573 | tragic flaw | a trait in a character that leads to his downfall | 32 | |
| 5634757574 | verbal irony | A mode of expression in which the intended meaning is the opposite of what is stated, often implying ridicule or light sarcasm | 33 | |
| 5634765692 | monologue | a long speech by one actor in a play or movie, or as part of a theatrical or broadcast program. | 34 | |
| 5634782032 | mood | a literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions | 35 | |
| 5634784619 | moral | a lesson, especially one concerning what is right or prudent, that can be derived from a story, a piece of information, or an experience. | 36 | |
| 5634786851 | parallelism | the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc. | 37 | |
| 5634788934 | pathos | a quality that evokes pity or sadness. | 38 | |
| 5634791028 | pentameter | a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet, or (in Greek and Latin verse) of two halves each of two feet and a long syllable. | 39 | |
| 5634794211 | persona | a role or character adopted by an author or an actor. | 40 | |
| 5634795814 | personification | the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form. | 41 | |
| 5634798365 | point of view | the narrator's position in relation to the story being told. | 42 | |
| 5634800790 | protagonist | the leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text. | 43 | |
| 5634803362 | satire | the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. | 44 | |
| 5634805134 | simile | a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g., as brave as a lion, crazy like a fox ). | 45 | |
| 5634806703 | stereotype | a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. | 46 | |
| 5634810249 | style | the technique which an individual author uses in his writing. It varies from author to author and depends upon one's syntax, word choice, and tone. | 47 | |
| 5634812763 | syntax | the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. | 48 | |
| 5634813382 | tone | the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc. | 49 |
