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| 5076654551 | Accent | In poetry, the stressed portion of a word | 0 | |
| 5076654552 | Allegory | A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside of the tale itself | 1 | |
| 5076654553 | Alliteration | The repetition of initial consonant sounds. Consonant clusters coming closely cramped and compressed no coincidence | 2 | |
| 5076654554 | Allusion | A reference to another work or famous figure | 3 | |
| 5076654555 | Antihero | A protagonist who is markedly unheroic: morally weak, cowardly, dishonest, or any number of other unsavory qualities | 4 | |
| 5076654556 | Aside | A speech (normally short comment) made by an actor to the audience, as though momentarily stepping outside the action on stage | 5 | |
| 5076654557 | Assonance | The repeated use of vowel sounds as in "old king cole was a merry old soul | 6 | |
| 5076654558 | Ballad | A long, narrative poem, usually in very regular meter and rhyme, often having a folksy quality | 7 | |
| 5076654559 | Black humor | The use of disturbing themes in comedy | 8 | |
| 5076654560 | Cadence | The beat of rhythm of of poetry in a general sense | 9 | |
| 5076654561 | Canto | The name for a section division in a long work of poetry, divides a long poem into parts the way chapters divide a novel | 10 | |
| 5076654562 | Caricature | A portrait (verbal or otherwise) that exaggerates a facet of personality | 11 | |
| 5076654563 | Chorus | In Greek drama, this is the group of citizens who stand outside the main stage and comment on it | 12 | |
| 5076654564 | Colloquialism | A word or phrase used in everyday conversational English that isn't a part of accepted "school book" English | 13 | |
| 5076654565 | Connotation | Everything that a word suggests or implies | 14 | |
| 5076654566 | Denotation | The literal meaning of a word | 15 | |
| 5076654567 | Consonance | The repetition of consonant sounds within words. A flock of sick, black-checkered, ducks. | 16 | |
| 5076654568 | Couplet | A pair of lines that end in rhyme | 17 | |
| 5076654569 | Diction/syntax | The author's choice of words, order and structure of words | 18 | |
| 5076654570 | Elegy | A poem of sadness or death in a thoughtful manner | 19 | |
| 5076654571 | Epic | A long, narrative poem, on a serious theme and in a dignified style | 20 | |
| 5076654572 | Epitaph | Lines that commemorate the dead at their burial place | 21 | |
| 5076654573 | Euphemism | A word or phrase that takes the place of a harsh, unpleasant, or impolite reality | 22 | |
| 5076654574 | Euphony | Sounds blended harmoniously | 23 | |
| 5076654575 | Farce | Extremely broad humor | 24 | |
| 5076654576 | Foot | The basic rhythmic unit of a line of poetry, formed by a combination of two or three syllables, either stressed or unstressed | 25 | |
| 5076654577 | Foreshadowing | An event or statement in a narrative that in miniature suggests a larger event that comes later | 26 | |
| 5076654578 | Free verse | Poetry written without a regular rhyme scheme or metrical pattern | 27 | |
| 5076654579 | Genre | A subcategory of literature, like science-fiction or detective stories | 28 | |
| 5076654580 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration or deliberate overstatement | 29 | |
| 5076654581 | Irony | A statement that means the opposite of what it seems to mean | 30 | |
| 5076654582 | Lament | A poem of sadness or death in a thoughtful manner | 31 | |
| 5076654583 | Lampoon | A satire | 32 | |
| 5076654584 | Lyric | A type of poem that explores the poet's personal interpretation of and feelings about the world | 33 | |
| 5076654585 | Melodrama | A form of cheesy theater in which the hero is a, and, good, the villian mean and rotten, and the heroine oh so pure | 34 | |
| 5076654586 | Metaphor | A comparison or analogy that states one thing is another | 35 | |
| 5076654587 | Similie | A comparison or similie using like or as | 36 | |
| 5076654588 | Nemesis | The protagonistas arch enemy or supreme and persistent difficulty | 37 | |
| 5076654589 | Objectivity | Treatment of subject matter from an impersonal or outside view of events | 38 | |
| 5076654590 | Subjectivity | Treatment of subject matter from an interior or personal view | 39 | |
| 5076654591 | Onomatopoeia | Word whose sound suggests their meaning | 40 | |
| 5076654592 | Oxymoron | A phrase composed of opposite, a contradiction | 41 | |
| 5076654593 | Parody | The work that results when a specific work is exaggerated to ridiculousness | 42 | |
| 5076654594 | Personification | When an inanimate object takes on human shape | 43 | |
| 5076654595 | Point of view | The perspective from which the action of a novel is presented | 44 | |
| 5076654596 | Prelude | An introductory poem to a longer work or verse | 45 | |
| 5076654597 | Protagonist | The main character of a novel or play | 46 | |
| 5076654598 | Refrain | A line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem | 47 | |
| 5076654599 | Rhetorical question | A question that suggests an answer | 48 | |
| 5076654600 | Satire | Humor that attempts to improve things by pointing out mistake in hope that once exposed, such behavior will be less common | 49 | |
| 5076654535 | Soliloquy | A speech spoken by a character alone on stage | 50 | |
| 5076654536 | Stanza | A group of lines roughly analogous in function in verse to the paragraphs function in prose | 51 | |
| 5076654537 | Stock characters | Standard or clichéd character types: the drunk, the foolish girl | 52 | |
| 5076654538 | Thesis | The main position of an argument; the central contention that will be supported | 53 | |
| 5076654539 | Tragic flaw | In a tragedy, this is the weakness of character in an otherwise good individual that ultimately leads to his demise | 54 | |
| 5076654540 | Utopia | An idealized place; imaginary communities in which people are able to live in happiness, prosperity, and peace | 55 | |
| 5076654541 | Omniscient narrator | This is a third person narrator who sees, like God, into each character's mind and understands all the action going on | 56 | |
| 5076654542 | Limited omniscient narrator | This is a third person narrator who generally reports on what one character (usually main character) sees, and who only reports the thoughts of that one character | 57 | |
| 5076654543 | Objective narrator | This is a third person narrator who only reports on what would be visible to a camera. The narrator does not know what the character is thinking unless the character speaks of it | 58 | |
| 5076654544 | First person narrator | This is a narrator who is a character in the story and tells the tale from their point of view. May be an unreliable narrator | 59 | |
| 5076654545 | Stream of consciousness | This method is like first person narration but instead of the character telling the story, the author places the reader inside the main character's head and makes the reader privy to all of the character's thoughts as they scroll through their consciousness | 60 |
