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| 7315092608 | Antithesis | an opposition/contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words that are the opposites or each other, aka words that are exact opposites | 0 | |
| 7315092609 | Antihero | a central character in a story, movie, or drama who lacks conventional heroic attributes. | 1 | |
| 7315096270 | Anthropomorphism | the attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object. | 2 | |
| 7315097932 | Aphorism | A terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle. (If the authorship is unknown, the statement is generally considered to be a folk proverb.) An aphorism can be a memorable summation of the author's point. | 3 | |
| 7315097933 | Apostrophe | addressing a person or personified object not present | 4 | |
| 7315100782 | Apposition | the positioning of things or the condition of being side by side or close together. | 5 | |
| 7315100783 | Assonance | Repeating identical or similar vowels in nearby words | 6 | |
| 7315103407 | Asyndeton | a stylistic scheme where conjunctions are deliberately omitted to speed up the rhythm of the passage and emphasize a single point | 7 | |
| 7315127291 | Balance | an even distribution of weight enabling someone or something to remain upright and steady. | 8 | |
| 7315240631 | Allegory | The device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning | 9 | |
| 7315259023 | Alliteration | The repetition of sounds, especially initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words. | 10 | |
| 7315272392 | Allusion | A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art. | 11 | |
| 7315286534 | Ambiguity | The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage. | 12 | |
| 7315295277 | Analogy | a comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification. | 13 | |
| 7315312909 | Anaphora | the repetition of a word phrase at the beginning of of successive clauses | 14 | |
| 7315328202 | Anastrophe | The order of the noun and adjective are exchanged | 15 | |
| 7429603941 | Characterization | the process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character. | 16 | |
| 7429614998 | Indirect characterization | the author reveals to the reader what the character is like by describing how the character looks and dresses, by letting the reader hear what the character says, by revealing the characters effect on other people | 17 | |
| 7429633737 | Direct characterization | the author tells us directly what the character is like: sneaky, generous, mean to pets and so on. Romantic style literature is relied more heavily on this form. | 18 | |
| 7429657398 | Static characterization | is one who does not change much in the course of a story | 19 | |
| 7429664368 | Dynamic character | is one who changes in some important way as a result of the story's action. | 20 | |
| 7429672735 | Flat character | has only one or two personality traits. They are one dimensional, like a piece of cardboard. | 21 | |
| 7429697440 | Round character | has more dimensions to their personality--- they are complex, just as real people are. | 22 | |
| 7429706344 | Chiasmus | is a word or phrase, often a figure of speech, that has become lifeless because of overuse. Avoid clichés like the plague. | 23 | |
| 7429728565 | Colloquialism | a word or phrase in everyday use in conversation and informal writing but is inappropriate for formal situations. | 24 | |
| 7731088619 | Comedy | in general, a story that ends with a happy resolution of the conflicts faced by the main character or characters. | 25 | |
| 7731102790 | Conceit | an elaborate metaphor that compares two things that are startlingly different. | 26 | |
| 7731116185 | Confessional Poetry | a twentieth century term used to describe poetry that uses intimate material from the poets life. | 27 | |
| 7731125073 | Conflict | the struggle between opposing forces or characters in a story. | 28 | |
| 7731133912 | External Conflict | conflicts can exist between two people, between a person and nature or a machine or between a person a whole society | 29 | |
| 7731149098 | Internal Conflict | a conflict can be internal, involving opposing forces within a person's mind | 30 | |
| 7731155894 | Connotation | the associations and emotional overtones that have become attatched to a word or phrase, in addition to its strict dictionary definition. | 31 | |
| 7731168918 | Couplet | two consecutive rhyming lines of poetry | 32 | |
| 7731176395 | Dialect | a way of speaking that is characteristic of a certain social group or of the inhabitants of a certain geographical area. | 33 | |
| 7731194364 | Diction | a speaker or a writer's choice of words. | 34 | |
| 8240265182 | Imagery | the use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, a thing, a place, or an experience. | 35 | |
| 8240285031 | Verbal Irony | occurs when someone says one thing but really means something else. | 36 | |
| 8240305225 | Situational Irony | takes place when there is a discrepancy between what is expected to happen, or what would be appropriate to happen and what really does happen. | 37 | |
| 8240326266 | Dramatic Irony | is so called because it is often used on stage. A character in the play or story thinks one thing is true, but the audience or reader knows better. | 38 | |
| 8240361443 | Juxtaposition | poetic and rhetorical device in which normally unassociated ideas words or phrases. | 39 | |
| 8240375998 | Litotes | is a form of understatement in which the positive form is emphasized through the negation of a negative formed | 40 | |
| 8240408511 | Local color | a term applied to fiction or poetry which tends to place special emphasis on a particular setting, setting, including its customs, clothing, dialect and landscape. | 41 | |
| 8240437856 | Loose sentence | one in which the main clause comes first, followed by further dependent grammatical units. | 42 | |
| 8560851866 | Lyric Poem | a poem that does not tell a story but expresses the personal feelings or thoughts of the speaker. A ballad tells a story. | 43 | |
| 8560860329 | Metaphor | a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without the use of such specific words of comparison as, like, as, than, or resembles. | 44 | |
| 8560882016 | Implied Metaphor | does not state explicitly the to terms of the comparison: "I like to see it lap the miles" is an implied metaphor in which the verb lap implies a comparison between "it" and some animal that "laps" up water. | 45 | |
| 8560914289 | Extended metaphor | is a metaphor that is extended or developed as far as the writer wants to take it. | 46 | |
| 8560921604 | Dead Metaphor | is a metaphor that has been used so often that the comparison is no longer vivid: "The head of the house" "the seat of the government" "A knotty problem | 47 | |
| 8560937950 | Mixed Metaphor | is a metaphor that has gotten out of control and mixes its terms so that they are visually or imaginatively incompatible. | 48 | |
| 8560956821 | Metonymy | a figure of speech in which a person, place or thing is referred to by something closely associated with it. "We requested from the crown support for our petition." The crown is used to represent the monarch. | 49 | |
| 8560974484 | Mood | An atmosphere created by a writers diction and the details selected. | 50 | |
| 8560979725 | Motif | a recurring image, word, phrase, action, idea, object or situation used throughout a work, unifying the work by tying the current situation to previous ones. | 51 | |
| 8560993603 | Motivation | the reason for a characters behavior | 52 | |
| 8561008281 | Oxymoron | a figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase "Jumbo shrimp" "pretty ugly" "bitter sweet" | 53 | |
| 8561024396 | Parable | a relatively short story that teaches a moral, or lesson about how to lead a good life. | 54 | |
| 8561032601 | Paradox | a statement that appears self-contradictory , but that reveals a kind of truth | 55 | |
| 8561050038 | Koan | is a paradox used in Zen Buddhism to gain initiative knowledge; "what is the sound of one hand clapping?" | 56 |
