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| 9861547684 | allegory | story conveying a meaning other than the literal; abstract principles represented by characters or figures | 0 | |
| 9861555342 | alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounds | 1 | |
| 9861558590 | anagorisis | discovery; hero suddenly becoming aware of a situation or true character | 2 | |
| 9861571666 | anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of neighboring clauses for emphasis | 3 | |
| 9861583366 | antecedent | word, phrase, or clause that a pronoun replaces | 4 | |
| 9861586515 | apologue | short story with a moral, often involving whaling animals or objects; a fable; short allegory | 5 | |
| 9861600709 | apostrophe | speaker addresses an inanimate object | 6 | |
| 9861610751 | assonance | repetition of vowel sounds | 7 | |
| 9861625601 | ballad | relatively short narrative poem written in song-like stanza form | 8 | |
| 9861631251 | bildungsroman | novel tracing the spiritual, moral, psychological, or social development and growth of the main character usually from childhood to maturity | 9 | |
| 9861649047 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | 10 | |
| 9861652033 | cacophony | deliberate use of harsh and awkward sounds | 11 | |
| 9861655623 | caesura | pause or interruption in a poem; opposite of enjambment | 12 | |
| 9861670651 | canon | works of a writer | 13 | |
| 9861673894 | caricature | portrait that exaggerates a human trait | 14 | |
| 9861685961 | catharsis | emotional release of an audience at the end of a successful tragedy | 15 | |
| 9861691111 | clerihew | rhyme of four lines, usually regarding a subject mentioned in the first line | 16 | |
| 9861750260 | colloquialism | informal speech | 17 | |
| 9861755343 | comedy of manners | play that satires the manners and affections of a social class, often using stereotypes | 18 | |
| 9861760092 | conceit | extended metaphor that compares two seemingly dissimilar things | 19 | |
| 9861766183 | connotation | implied meanings of a word | 20 | |
| 9861783967 | consonance | repetition of consonant sounds within words | 21 | |
| 9861787715 | controlling image | metaphor that dominates an entire work | 22 | |
| 9861790318 | couplet | rhyming pairs of lines | 23 | |
| 9861794720 | dactyl | poetical foot with three syllables, one stressed and two short or unstressed | 24 | |
| 9863276342 | denotation | literal meaning of a word; dictionary definition | 25 | |
| 9863282170 | deus ex machina | literally "god out of a machine;" sudden artificial or improbably resolution to a story, often implying a lack of skill on the part of the writer | 26 | |
| 9863296935 | diction | word choice | 27 | |
| 9863297834 | dramatic monologue | poem in which a character delivers a speech explaining his/her feelings, actions, or motives | 28 | |
| 9863305793 | elegy | mournful or melancholic poem | 29 | |
| 9863311275 | English sonnet | sonnet divided into 3 quatrains and a final couplet, using the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg; Shakespearean sonnet | 30 | |
| 9863323152 | enjambment | continuation of a phrase or clause to another line without pause (punctuation); opposite of caesurae | 31 | |
| 9863330546 | epigram | short, clever poem with a witty turn of thought | 32 | |
| 9863335455 | farce | extremely broad humor | 33 | |
| 9863339875 | foil | character that contrasts with another character, usually the protagonist, to emphasize the other character's traits | 34 | |
| 9863347223 | foot | combination of stressed and unstressed syllables | 35 | |
| 9880335532 | foreshadowing | event or statement that suggests a future event | 36 | |
| 9880352385 | free verse | poetry without a regular rhyme scheme or metrical pattern | 37 | |
| 9880356464 | hamartia | fatal flaw of a tragic hero | 38 | |
| 9880361277 | hubris | excessive pride that leads to a protagonist's downfall | 39 | |
| 9880367262 | hyperbole | exaggeration or overstatement; opposite of understatement | 40 | |
| 9880370456 | iamb | poetical foot with two syllables, first unstressed and second stressed | 41 | |
| 9880379520 | implicit | implied meaning; opposite of explicit | 42 | |
| 9880387456 | lyric | expression of observations and feelings of a single speaker | 43 | |
| 9880390845 | magical realism | combination of realistic details with surreal, dreamlike, or magical elements | 44 | |
| 9880420058 | metaphor | analogy that states one thing as another | 45 | |
| 9880422192 | metonymy | use of a part to mean a whole object (i.e. hands to mean laborers); related to synecdoche | 46 | |
| 9880433366 | motif | recurring or dominant element in a work | 47 | |
| 9880436653 | objectivity | impersonal view of events | 48 | |
| 9880449561 | onomatopoeia | word that sounds like what is represents | 49 | |
| 9880449562 | opposition | contrasting pairs of elements | 50 | |
| 9880453115 | paradox | seemingly apparent contradiction with is accurate on closer inspection | 51 | |
| 9880456727 | parallelism | repeated words, phrases, clauses, or grammatical structure used for effect | 52 | |
| 9880469580 | pastoral | work idealizing the simple life of shepherds or of tranquil nature | 53 | |
| 9880472745 | peripeteia | reversal of fortune or character | 54 | |
| 9880475215 | persona | narrator in a non-first-person novel | 55 | |
| 9880479674 | personification | giving human qualities or form to inanimate objects | 56 | |
| 9880484115 | protagonist | main character | 57 | |
| 9880484116 | quatrain | four-line stanza | 58 | |
| 9880487021 | satire | genre which ridicules its subject by exposing flaws, often to provoke or prevent change | 59 | |
| 9880499806 | sestina | poem consisting of six six-line stanzas followed by a tercet (three-line stanza), for a total of thirty-nine lines (same set of six words ends the lines of each of the six-line stanzas, but in a different order) | 60 | |
| 9880522606 | simile | "weak" metaphor, often uses "like" or "as" | 61 | |
| 9880526419 | stanza | group of lines in verse; poetical equivalent of a paragraph | 62 | |
| 9880534347 | subjectivity | personal view of events | 63 | |
| 9880538706 | subjunctive mood | mood (grammar) that sets up a hypothetical situation (i.e. if...were...) | 64 | |
| 9880550247 | symbol | word, place, character, or object that means something beyond what it is on a literal level | 65 | |
| 9880554959 | synecdoche | metaphor in which a part is spoken of as the whole object, related to metonymy | 66 | |
| 9880563373 | synthesis | one kind of sensation is described in the terms of another; mixing of senses | 67 | |
| 9880568302 | syntax | word order | 68 | |
| 9880568303 | theme | central idea of a work | 69 | |
| 9880570807 | terza rime | poem with verses of three lines and rhyme scheme aba bcb cdc | 70 | |
| 9880574167 | tragic flaw | weakness of an otherwise good or great individual that leads to his/her downfall | 71 |
