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| 9741686253 | Allegory | A narrative or description having a second meaning beneath the surface one | 0 | |
| 9741686254 | Alliteration | repetition at close intervals of initial consonant words | 1 | |
| 9741686255 | Allusion | A reference, explicit or implicit, to something in previous literature or history | 2 | |
| 9741686256 | Anticlimax | A disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events | 3 | |
| 9741686257 | Aside | A brief speech in which a character turns from the person being addressed to speak directly to the audience | 4 | |
| 9741686258 | Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds | 5 | |
| 9741686259 | Atmosphere | The feeling created by a literary work or passage | 6 | |
| 9741686260 | Blank verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter | 7 | |
| 9741686261 | Cacophony | A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds | 8 | |
| 9741686262 | Caesura | A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line. | 9 | |
| 9741686263 | Catharsis | Emotional release | 10 | |
| 9741686264 | dynamic character | A character who grows, learns, or changes as a result of the story's action | 11 | |
| 9741686265 | flat character | A character who embodies a single quality and who does not develop in the course of a story | 12 | |
| 9741686266 | round character | A character who demonstrates some complexity and who develops or changes in the course of a work | 13 | |
| 9741686267 | static character | A character that does not change from the beginning of the story to the end | 14 | |
| 9741686268 | Climax | Most exciting moment of the story; turning point | 15 | |
| 9741686269 | Colloquial | Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing | 16 | |
| 9741686270 | Comic relief | A humorous scene or speech intended to lighten the mood | 17 | |
| 9741686271 | Conceit | A fanciful, particularly clever extended metaphor | 18 | |
| 9741686272 | Conflict | A struggle between opposing forces | 19 | |
| 9741686273 | Crisis | a time of intense difficulty, trouble, or danger | 20 | |
| 9741686274 | Denouement | an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot | 21 | |
| 9741686275 | Dialect | A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation. | 22 | |
| 9741686276 | Dialogue | Conversation between characters | 23 | |
| 9741686277 | Dramatic monologue | a poem or prose piece in which a character addresses an audience | 24 | |
| 9741686278 | Elegy | a sorrowful poem or speech | 25 | |
| 9741686279 | Elision | The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry. | 26 | |
| 9741686280 | End-stop | a line of poetry which ends with a period or other punctuation | 27 | |
| 9741686281 | Enjambment | the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza. | 28 | |
| 9741686282 | Euphemism | An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant | 29 | |
| 9741686283 | Euphony | pleasant, harmonious sound | 30 | |
| 9741686284 | Fable | A brief story that leads to a moral, often using animals as characters | 31 | |
| 9741686285 | Flashback | a scene in a movie, novel, etc., set in a time earlier than the main story. | 32 | |
| 9741686286 | Foot | Basic unit used in the measurement of metrical verse | 33 | |
| 9741686287 | Iamb | An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable | 34 | |
| 9741686288 | Trochee | Stressed, unstressed | 35 | |
| 9741686289 | Free verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme | 36 | |
| 9741686290 | Hero | an inspiring character who demonstrates honor and integrity and does noble deeds | 37 | |
| 9741686291 | Hubris | Excessive pride or self-confidence | 38 | |
| 9741686292 | Irony | Situation or use of language involving some kind of incongruity or discrepancy | 39 | |
| 9741686293 | Dramatic irony | When the audience knows something the characters don't | 40 | |
| 9741686294 | Situational irony | An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected | 41 | |
| 9741686295 | Verbal irony | A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant | 42 | |
| 9741686296 | Lyric | A type of poetry that explores the poet's personal interpretation of and feelings about the world. | 43 | |
| 9741686297 | Mood | Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader | 44 | |
| 9741686298 | narrative voice | how point of view is expressed | 45 | |
| 9741686299 | Octave | 8 line stanza | 46 | |
| 9741686300 | onomatopoeia (n) | a word that sounds like the thing it names | 47 | |
| 9741686301 | Paradox | a contradiction or dilemma | 48 | |
| 9741686302 | Parable | A simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson | 49 | |
| 9741686303 | Persona | An individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting. | 50 | |
| 9741686304 | Objective pov | only reports what is seen and heard | 51 | |
| 9741686305 | Quatrain | 4 line stanza | 52 | |
| 9741686306 | Refrain | A line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem. | 53 | |
| 9741686307 | Scansion | The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain | 54 | |
| 9741686308 | Sestet (Sextet) | a six line stanza | 55 | |
| 9741686309 | soliloquy (n) | speech made to oneself when alone | 56 | |
| 9741686310 | Italian sonnet | rhyme scheme of abba, abba, cde, cde (a/k/a Petrarchan sonnet) | 57 | |
| 9741686311 | Shakespearean sonnet | ABAB CDCD EFEF GG | 58 | |
| 9741686312 | Stream of consciousness | Narrative presents private thoughts of a character without commentary or interpretation by the author | 59 | |
| 9741686313 | Stress | The same as an accent | 60 | |
| 9741686314 | Subplot | a minor plot that relates in some way to the main story | 61 | |
| 9741686315 | Subtext | The hidden or underlying meaning of something | 62 | |
| 9741686316 | Symbol | anything that stands for or represents something else | 63 | |
| 9741686317 | Theme | Central idea of a work of literature | 64 | |
| 9741686318 | Tragedy | A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character | 65 | |
| 9741686319 | Tragic flaw | A weakness or limitation of character, resulting in the fall of the tragic hero. | 66 | |
| 9741686320 | Understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. | 67 | |
| 9741686321 | Verse | Metrical language | 68 | |
| 9741686322 | Villain | a wicked or evil person | 69 | |
| 9741686323 | Voice | A writers distinctive use of language | 70 | |
| 9741686324 | Volta | the shift or point of dramatic change in a poem | 71 |
