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| 2895036386 | Allegory | A story in which people, things, and events have another meaning. | 0 | |
| 8771747847 | Ambiguity | Multiple meanings a literary work may communicate, especially two meanings that are incompatible | 1 | |
| 8771753589 | Apostrophe | Direct address, usually to someone or something that is not present. | 2 | |
| 8771757010 | Connotation | The implications of a word or phrase, as opposed to its exact meaning. (denotation) | 3 | |
| 8771759401 | Convention | A device of style or subject matter so often used that it becomes a recognized means of expression | 4 | |
| 8771761817 | Denotation | The dictionary meaning of a word, as opposed to connotation | 5 | |
| 8771763577 | Didactic | Explicitly instructive. A didactic poem or novel may be good or bad | 6 | |
| 8771768839 | Soliloquy | A speech in which a character who is alone speaks his or her thoughts aloud. | 7 | |
| 8771773315 | Digression | The use of material unrelated to the subject of a work | 8 | |
| 8771774704 | Epigram | A pithy saying, often using contrast. Also being a verse form. | 9 | |
| 8771777550 | Euphemism | A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness, such as "deceased" for "dead" or "remains" | 10 | |
| 8771794697 | Grotesque | Characterized by distortions or incongruities | 11 | |
| 8771796221 | Hyperbole | Deliberate exaggeration, over statement. Hyperbole is self-conscious, without the intentions of being accepted literally. | 12 | |
| 8771800706 | Jargon | The special language of a profession or group. usually has pejorative associations, with the implications that jargon is evasive, tedious, and unintelligible to outsiders | 13 | |
| 8771806978 | Literal | Not figuratively accurate to the letter; matter of fact of concrete | 14 | |
| 8771810155 | Lyrical | Song like; characterized by emotions, subjectivity, and imagination | 15 | |
| 8771853645 | Syllogism | A form of reasoning in which two statements are made and a conclusion is drawn from them. | 16 | |
| 8771855854 | Allusion | A reference in a work of literature to something outside the work, especially to a well-known historical or literary event. | 17 | |
| 8771858199 | Attitude | A speaker's, author's, or character's disposition toward or opinion of a subject | 18 | |
| 8771860606 | Details | Details are items or parts that make up a larger picture or story. | 19 | |
| 8771861743 | Reliability | A quality of some fictional narrators whose words the reader can trust. There are both reliable and unreliable narrators, that is, tellers of a story who should or should not be trusted | 20 | |
| 8771888127 | Devices of Sound | The techniques of deploying the sound of words, especially in poetry. Among devices of sound are rhyme, alliteration, assonance, consonance, and onomatopoeia | 21 | |
| 8771892409 | Diction | Word choice. Nearly all essay questions on a passage of prose or a poem will ask you to talk about diction or about "techniques" | 22 | |
| 8771895035 | Figurative language | Writing that uses figures of speech ( as opposed to literal language or that which is actual or specifically denoted) | 23 | |
| 8771897595 | Parody | A composition that imitates the style of another composition normally for comic effect | 24 | |
| 8771899288 | Parable | A story designed to suggest a principle, illustrate a moral, or answer a question. Parables are allegorical stories. | 25 | |
| 8771902226 | Alliteration | The repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds, normally at the beginning of words. | 26 | |
| 8771997638 | Assonance | The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds | 27 | |
| 8771998972 | Ballad meter | A four-line stanza rhymed abcb with four feet in lines one and three and three feet in lines two and four | 28 | |
| 8772000809 | Blank Verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter | 29 | |
| 8772013955 | Dactyl | Three syllables, an accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables | 30 | |
| 8772031967 | End-Stopped | A line with a pause at the end. Lines that end with a period, comma, colon. semicolon, exclamation point, or question mark are end-stopped lines. | 31 | |
| 8772034136 | Free-Verse | Poetry which is not written in a traditional meter but is still rhythmical | 32 | |
| 8772035537 | Heroic couplet | Two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, cc with the thought usually completed in the two-line unit | 33 | |
| 8772037622 | Hexameter | A line containing six feet | 34 | |
| 8772038732 | Iamb | A two-syllable foot with an unaccented syllable followed y an accented syllable | 35 | |
| 8772040772 | Internal Rhyme | Rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end. | 36 | |
| 8772042715 | Onomatopoeia | Sound suggest their meaning like "buzz", "hiss" or "honk" | 37 | |
| 8772045756 | Pentameter | A line containing five feet. the iambic pentameter is the most common line in English verse written before 1950 | 38 | |
| 8772047574 | Rhyme Royal | Seven-Line Stanza | 39 | |
| 8772048308 | Sonnet | Normally a fourteen-line iambic pentameter poem | 40 | |
| 8772049179 | Stanza | Usually repeated grouping of three or more lines with the same meter and rhyme scheme | 41 | |
| 8772050558 | Terza Rima | Three-line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc | 42 | |
| 8772052185 | Tetrameter | A line of four feet | 43 | |
| 8772053077 | Antecedent | That which goes before, especially the word, phrase, pr clause to which a pronoun refers | 44 | |
| 8772055832 | Clause | A group of words containing a subject and its verb that may or may not be a complete sentence | 45 | |
| 8772056629 | Ellipsis | The omission of a word or several words necessary for a complete construction that is still understandable | 46 | |
| 8772058400 | Imperative | The mood of a verb that gives an order, like "eat your spinach" | 47 | |
| 8772060103 | Modify | To restrict or limit in meaning. | 48 | |
| 8772061052 | Parallel structure | Similar grammatical structure within a sentence or within a paragraph | 49 | |
| 8772074436 | Periodic Sentence | A sentence grammatically complete only at the end. A loose sentence is grammatically complete before the period. | 50 | |
| 8772076971 | Syntax | The structure of a sentence | 51 |
