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| 11336955765 | Abstract Language | Language describing ideas and qualities rather than observable or specific things, people, or places. | 0 | |
| 11336967274 | Allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. | 1 | |
| 11336967275 | Ambiguity | The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage. | 2 | |
| 11336971795 | Antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. | 3 | |
| 11336988696 | Anticlimax | a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events | 4 | |
| 11337000085 | Antithesis | the direct opposite, a sharp contrast | 5 | |
| 11337000086 | Archetype | A detail, image, or character type that occurs frequently in literature and myth and is thought to appeal in a universal way to the unconscious and to evoke a response | 6 | |
| 11337002736 | Attitude | Perspective or tone of the writer he adopts in a certain work. Way in which an author develops his characters and stories | 7 | |
| 11337056790 | Bildungsroman | A novel or story whose theme is the moral or psychological growth of the main character. | 8 | |
| 11337059691 | Caricature | a picture, description, or imitation of a person or thing in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic or grotesque effect. | 9 | |
| 11337095483 | Catharsis | the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions. | 10 | |
| 11337100266 | Concrete Language | describes specific, observable things rather than ideas or qualities | 11 | |
| 11337100267 | Connotation | an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning. | 12 | |
| 11337103138 | Convention | defining features of particular literary genres | 13 | |
| 11337103139 | Denotation | The dictionary definition of a word | 14 | |
| 11337107118 | Denouement | an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot | 15 | |
| 11337116336 | Dialogue | Conversation between two or more characters | 16 | |
| 11337122440 | Didactic | Novel, play, poem or other literary work that intends to to teach the reader some sort of lesson or thing | 17 | |
| 11337122441 | Dramatic Irony | when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't | 18 | |
| 11337125349 | Ennui | weariness and dissatisfaction from lack of occupation or interest, boredom | 19 | |
| 11337125350 | Epigram | witty comment that points out a truth of mankind | 20 | |
| 11337156482 | Epigraph | the use of a quotation at the beginning of a work that hints at its theme | 21 |
