8160969485 | Epitaph | A short text on a tombstone/plaque to honor the dead | 0 | |
8160969486 | Enigma | a person or thing that is mysterious, puzzling, or difficult to understand | 1 | |
8160969487 | Heroic Couplet | A pair of rhymed lines in iambic pentameter | 2 | |
8160969488 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which one part is used as a whole (new set of wheel:represents a car) | 3 | |
8160969489 | Paradox | Phrases or ideas that contradict | 4 | |
8160969490 | Oxymoron | Two words back to back that's contradict one another (jumbo shrimp, deafening silence) | 5 | |
8160969491 | Antithesis | A statement that joins opposing or contradictory ideas | 6 | |
8160969492 | Dramatic irony | When the audience has more knowledge than a character on stage | 7 | |
8160969493 | Verbal irony | Saying one thing but meaning another | 8 | |
8160969494 | Irony of situation | When you EXPECT one thing or event to happen and OPPOSITE happens | 9 | |
8160969495 | Pathetic Fallacy | Human qualities/emotions are given to inanimate objects in nature | 10 | |
8160969496 | Understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. For satirical or comedic effect | 11 | |
8160969497 | Flashback | a scene in a movie, novel, etc., set in a time earlier than the main story. | 12 | |
8160969498 | Motif | A repeated element that usually has a symbolic significance in a story | 13 | |
8160969499 | Tragic Hero | a literary character who makes a judgment error that inevitably leads to his/her own destruction | 14 | |
8160969500 | Epiphany | A character's transformative moment of realization | 15 | |
8160969501 | Exposition | The contextual background information at the beginning of literary work | 16 | |
8160969502 | Foil | A contrasting character who allows the protagonist to stand out more distinctly | 17 | |
8160969503 | Requiem | An act, a song, a service, or a remembrance for a person who has died | 18 | |
8160969504 | Alliteration | the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words | 19 | |
8160969505 | Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds | 20 |
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