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| 9768395002 | Allegory | The representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters, figures, or events in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form. | 0 | |
| 9768400079 | Ambiguity | When an author leaves out details/information or is unclear about an event so the reader will use his/her imagination to fill in the blanks. | 1 | |
| 9768404997 | Anaphora | Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines in a poem. | 2 | |
| 9768432390 | Apostrophe | When a character speaks to a character or object that is not present or is unable to respond | 3 | |
| 9768436932 | Assonance | The repetition of the same vowel sound in a phrase or line of poetry. | 4 | |
| 9768451738 | Blank verse | Name for unrhymed iambic pentameter. | 5 | |
| 9768457305 | Iamb | A metrical foot in which an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable. An iambic foot has two syllables. | 6 | |
| 9768476843 | iambic pentameter | Five iambs per line, making ten syllables. | 7 | |
| 9768486474 | Colloquial language | Informal, conversational language. Colloquialisms are phrases or sayings that are indicative of a specific region. | 8 | |
| 9768498579 | Consonance | The repetition of consonant sounds in a phrase or line of poetry. The consonant sound may be at the beginning, middle, or end of the word. | 9 | |
| 9768509330 | Deus ex Machina | A Term that refers to a character or force that appears at the end of a story or play to help resolve conflict. The word means "god from a machine." | 10 | |
| 9768520501 | Denouement | The final resolution or clarification of a dramatic or narrative plot. | 11 | |
| 9768525853 | Elegy | A poem or song composed especially as a lament for a deceased person. | 12 | |
| 9768530657 | Enjambment | The continuation of reading one line of a poem to the next with no pause, a run-on line. | 13 | |
| 9768540136 | Epistolary | Used to describe a novel that tells its story through letters written from one character to another. | 14 | |
| 9768560482 | Euphony | A succession of words which are pleasing to the ear. These words may be alliterative, utilize consonance, or assonance and are often used in poetry but also seen in prose. | 15 | |
| 9768572825 | Expansion | Adds an unstressed syllable and a contraction or elision removes an unstressed syllable in order to maintain the rhythmic meter of a line. This practice explains some words frequently used in poetry such as th' in place of the, o'er in place of over, and 'tis or 'twas in place of it is or it was. | 16 | |
| 9768580808 | Feminine ending | Term that refers to an unstressed extra syllable at the end of a line of iambic pentameter. | 17 | |
| 9768591056 | Foot | The metrical length of a line is determined by the number of feet it contains. The most common feet have two to three syllables, with one stressed. | 18 | |
| 9768597384 | Monometer | One foot | 19 | |
| 9768597385 | Dimeter | Two feet | 20 | |
| 9768605768 | Trimeter | Three Feet | 21 | |
| 9768610468 | Tetrameter | Four Feet | 22 | |
| 9768616278 | Pentameter | Five feet | 23 | |
| 9768616279 | Hexameter | Six Feet | 24 | |
| 9768619998 | Heptameter | Seven feet | 25 | |
| 9768657549 | Trochee | The first is stressed and the second is unstressed. | 26 | |
| 9768661621 | Dactyl | has three syllables beginning with a stressed syllable; the other two unstressed. | 27 | |
| 9768665918 | Anapest | has three syllables. The first two are unstressed with the third stressed. | 28 | |
| 9768683317 | In medias res | A story that begins in the middle of things. | 29 | |
| 9768724813 | Inversion | Poetry is an intentional digression from the ordinary word order which is used to maintain regular meters. For example, rather than saying "the rain came" a poem may say "came the rain". | 30 | |
| 9768754346 | Masculine ending | Stressed extra syllable at the end of a line. | 31 | |
| 9768774651 | Metonymy | The use of a word or phrase to stand in for something else which it is often associated. ie. Lamb means Jesus | 32 | |
| 9768805259 | Prose | Ordinary speech or writing without metrical structure, written in paragraph form. Novels and short stories are referred to as prose. | 33 | |
| 9768822385 | Satire | A literary work in which human vice or folly is attacked through irony, derision, or wit; the goal is to change the behavior/issue. Authors known for satires are Jonathan Swift and George Orwell. | 34 | |
| 9768830931 | Soliloquy | A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener. Typical in plays. | 35 |
