Terms : Hide Images
| 9712561692 | allegory | story conveying meaning other than the literal | 0 | |
| 9712561693 | alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounds | 1 | |
| 9712564639 | anagnorisis | discovery; hero becomes aware of situation of true character | 2 | |
| 9712564640 | anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of neighboring clauses for emphasis | 3 | |
| 9712564641 | antecedent | word, phrase, or clause that a pronoun replaces | 4 | |
| 9712567211 | apologue | short story with a moral, often involving talking animals or objects; fable | 5 | |
| 9712567212 | apostrophe | speaker addresses an inanimate object | 6 | |
| 9712567213 | assonance | repetition of vowel sounds | 7 | |
| 9712569608 | ballad | relatively short narrative poem written in song-like stanza form | 8 | |
| 9712569609 | bildungsroman | novel tracing the spiritual, moral, psychological, or social development and growth of the main character usually from childhood to maturity | 9 | |
| 9712572719 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | 10 | |
| 9712655148 | cacophony | deliberate use of harsh and awkward sounds | 11 | |
| 9712680558 | caesura | pause or interruption in a poem; opposite of enjambment | 12 | |
| 9712686800 | canon | works of a writer | 13 | |
| 9712689913 | caricature | portrait that exaggerates a human trait | 14 | |
| 9712703600 | catharsis | emotional release of an audience at the end of a successful tragedy | 15 | |
| 9712707723 | clerihew | thyme of four lines, usually regarding a subject mentioned in the first line | 16 | |
| 9712713024 | colloquialism | informal speech | 17 | |
| 9712719903 | comedy of manners | play that satirizes the manners and affectations of a social class, often using stereotypes | 18 | |
| 9712725817 | conceit | extended metaphor that compares two seemingly dissimilar things | 19 | |
| 9712730741 | connotation | implied meaning of a word | 20 | |
| 9712733631 | consonance | repetition of consonant sounds within words | 21 | |
| 9712742117 | controlling image | metaphor that dominates an entire work | 22 | |
| 9712748845 | couplet | rhyming pair of lines | 23 | |
| 9712751437 | dactyl | poetical foot with three syllables, one stressed and two short or unstressed | 24 | |
| 9712756856 | denotation | literal meaning of a word; dictionary definition | 25 | |
| 9712760692 | deus ex machina | literally "god our of a machine", sudden artificial or improbable resolution to a story, often implying a lack of skill on the part of the writer | 26 | |
| 9712779346 | diction | word choice | 27 | |
| 9712779347 | dramatic monologue | poem in which a character delivers a speech explaining his/her feelings, actions, or motives | 28 | |
| 9712788909 | elegy | mournful or melancholic poem | 29 | |
| 9712796060 | english sonnet | sonnet divided into 3 quatrains and a final couplet, using rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg; shakespearean sonnet | 30 | |
| 9712805816 | enjambment | continuation of a phrase or clause to another line without pause (punctuation); opposite of caesura | 31 | |
| 9712814502 | epigram | short, clever poem with a witty turn of thoughtq | 32 | |
| 9712819568 | farce | extremely broad humor | 33 | |
| 9712822364 | foil | character that contrasts with another character, usually the protagonist to emphasize the other character's traits | 34 | |
| 9712832357 | foot | combination of stressed and unstressed syllables | 35 | |
| 9712836509 | foreshadowing | event or statement that suggests a future event | 36 | |
| 9712841291 | free verse | poetry without a regular rhyme scheme or metrical pattern | 37 | |
| 9712855572 | hamartia | fatal flaw of a tragic hero | 38 | |
| 9712855573 | hubris | excessive pride that leads to a protagonist's downfall | 39 | |
| 9712873093 | hyperbole | exaggeration or overstatement; opposite of understatement | 40 | |
| 9712877573 | iamb | poetical foot with two syllables- first unstressed and second stressed | 41 | |
| 9712882366 | implicit | implied meaning; opposite of explicit | 42 | |
| 9712885217 | lyric | expression of observations and feelings of a single speaker | 43 | |
| 9712889536 | magical realism | combination of realistic details with surreal, dreamlike, or magical elements | 44 | |
| 9712896947 | metaphor | analogy that states one thing is another | 45 | |
| 9712904302 | metonymy | use of a part to mean a whole object, related to synechdoche | 46 | |
| 9712911091 | motif | recurring or dominant element in a work | 47 | |
| 9712916997 | objectivity | impersonal view of events | 48 | |
| 9712921886 | onomatopoeia | word that sounds like what it represents | 49 | |
| 9712924892 | opposition | contrasting pairs of elements | 50 | |
| 9712930439 | paradox | seemingly apparent contradiction which is accurate on closer inspection | 51 | |
| 9712935700 | parallelism | repeated words, phrases, clauses, or grammatical structure used for effect | 52 | |
| 9712942097 | pastoral | work idealizing the simple life of shepherds or of tranquil nature | 53 | |
| 9712954457 | peripeteia | reversal of fortune or character | 54 | |
| 9712957512 | persona | narrator in a non-first-person novel | 55 | |
| 9712960204 | personification | giving human qualities or form to inanimate objects | 56 | |
| 9712966503 | protagonist | main character | 57 | |
| 9712969806 | quatrain | four-line stanza | 58 | |
| 9712969807 | satire | genre which ridicules | 59 | |
| 9712982819 | sestina | poem consisting of six six-line stanza followed by a tercet (3 line stanza), for a total of 39 lines (same set of 6 words ends the lines of each of the 6 line stanzas, but in different order) | 60 | |
| 9712996623 | simile | weak metaphor, often uses like or as | 61 | |
| 9713000617 | stanza | group of lines in verse; poetical equivalent of a paragraph | 62 | |
| 9713004238 | subjectivity | personal view of events | 63 | |
| 9713006774 | subjunctive mood | mood (grammar) that sets up a hypothetical situation | 64 | |
| 9713012028 | symbol | word, place, character, or object that means something beyond what it is on a literal level | 65 | |
| 9713033563 | synecdoche | metaphor in which a part is spoken of as the whole object; related to metonymy | 66 | |
| 9713040157 | synesthesia | one kind of sensation is described in the terms of another; mixing of the senses | 67 | |
| 9713052330 | syntax | word order | 68 | |
| 9713052331 | theme | central idea of a work | 69 | |
| 9713055575 | terza rima | poem with verses of three lines and rhyme scheme aba bcb cdc | 70 | |
| 9713061398 | tragic flaw | weakness of an otherwise good or great individual that leads to his or her downfall | 71 |
