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| 9758499497 | Action | The bare events in a story and is not to be confused with plot. | 0 | |
| 9758505300 | Allegory | An extended story that is one-dimensional which creates a deeper meaning below the surface. The story makes sense on a literal level but also conveys a more significant meaning that is usually spiritual, moral, or political. | 1 | |
| 9758549042 | Anthropomorphism | A literary technique in which the author gives human characteristics to non-human objects. | 2 | |
| 9758558685 | Aphorism | A short, pithy and instructive statement of the truth; e.g. "Powers tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely". | 3 | |
| 9758589821 | Apostrophe | A literary device which consists of a rhetorical pause or digression to address a person directly. | 4 | |
| 9758594687 | Assonance | The close repetition of similar vowel sounds, in successive or proximate words, usually in stressed syllables; e.g. Twinkle twinkle little star | 5 | |
| 9758604663 | Blank verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter | 6 | |
| 9758614707 | Catastrophe | The tragic conclusion or a story or play | 7 | |
| 9758623914 | Convention | An understanding between a reader and a writer about certain details of a story that do not need to be explained | 8 | |
| 9758630653 | Couplet | Two rhyming lines in poetry | 9 | |
| 9759547647 | Deus ex machina | A plot device that resolves conflict through means that seems unrelated to the story | 10 | |
| 9759582912 | Epithet | A picturesque tag or nickname associated with a certain character; e.g. Athena is "grey-eyed" | 11 | |
| 9759630103 | Hubris | Refers to excessive pride that usually leads to a hero's downfall | 12 | |
| 9759641435 | Image-as-text | The use of pictures to convey messages | 13 | |
| 9759650725 | Implied metaphor | A metaphor embedded in a sentence rather than expressed directly as a sentence | 14 | |
| 9759665448 | Malapropism | A comic misuse of common words | 15 | |
| 9759670933 | Meter | Repeated patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry | 16 | |
| 9759684564 | Mood | The atmosphere that pervades a literary work with the intention of evoking a certain emotion or feeling from the audience | 17 | |
| 9759695870 | Motif | One of the key ideas or literary devices which supports the main theme of a literary work | 18 | |
| 9759707163 | Ode | A lyric poem of some length, usually of a serious or meditative nature and having an elevated style and formal stanzaic structure | 19 | |
| 9759721620 | Parable | A usually short fictitious story that illustrates a moral attitude or a religious principle | 20 | |
| 9759729791 | Plot | The author's plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose. It is the unified structure of events and incidents which expresses the author's purpose. | 21 | |
| 9759741390 | Post-modernism | Describes the pessimistic, contemporary worldview which began in the 1960s, rejecting tradition, resisting authority, and denying any final or enduring meaning and purpose in life | 22 | |
| 9759753166 | Prose | The ordinary use of language, without the artistic embellishments of rhythm, meter or rhyme. In general usage, it is any form of language, written or spoken, which is not poetry. | 23 | |
| 9759772979 | Rising action | The events of a dramatic or narrative plot preceding the climax | 24 | |
| 9759781482 | Sonnet | A fourteen-line lyric poem in predominantly iambic pentameter, with a formal rhyme scheme. | 25 | |
| 9759784599 | Style | The choices that writers or speakers make in language for effect | 26 | |
| 9759787252 | Synedoche | A figure of speech by which a part of something refers to the whole | 27 | |
| 9759789874 | Tone | The writer's attitude, mood, or moral outlook toward the subject and/or readers. | 28 | |
| 9759831862 | Voice | An author's distinctive literary style, basic vision and general attitude toward the world. | 29 |
