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| 5736931965 | Kenning | A picturesque metaphorical compound | 0 | |
| 5736931966 | Caesura | A pause or break in the middle of a line of poetry | 1 | |
| 5736931967 | Aphorism | A principal expressed tersely in a few telling words | 2 | |
| 5736931968 | Dramatic irony | Reader knows something characters do not | 3 | |
| 5736931969 | Situational irony | Something happens you would not expect | 4 | |
| 5736931970 | Verbal irony | Character says something unexpected (appearance differs from reality) | 5 | |
| 5736931971 | Understatement | The magnitude of what is stated falls detectably sort of the reality | 6 | |
| 5736931972 | Meter | Rhythmic pattern in poetry established by recurring units of sound | 7 | |
| 5736931973 | Foot | A unit of sound that consist of a combination of stressed or unstressed syllables | 8 | |
| 5736931974 | (Anti)strophe | 2 of the 3 Stanzaic forms of the Greek chorale ode | 9 | |
| 5736931975 | In medias res | Greek term that literally means "in the midst of things "the story begins in the middle of the action | 10 | |
| 5736931976 | Direct characterization | Explicitly telling the reader what a character is like | 11 | |
| 5736931977 | Indirect characterization | Revealing of a character through things they do or say | 12 | |
| 5736931978 | Satire | Blending censure with humor to improve humanity | 13 | |
| 5736931979 | Enjambment | One line flows to the next (poetry) no punctuation | 14 | |
| 5736931980 | Sonnet | Shakespearean/Petrarchan | 15 | |
| 5736931981 | Catharsis | The purging of guilt as a result of going through a tragic drama | 16 | |
| 5736931982 | Hubris | Arrogant pride of protagonist | 17 | |
| 5736931983 | Hamartia | Fatal misstep that leads to the downfall of a character in a tragedy | 18 | |
| 5736931984 | Foil | A character who is qualities emphasize those of the protagonists by providing a strong contrast with them | 19 | |
| 5736931985 | Monologue | An extended speech uttered by one speaker to others where as if alone | 20 | |
| 5736931986 | Soliloquy | Same as monologue just not extended | 21 | |
| 5736931987 | Apostrophe | Figure of speech in which someone, some extract quality, or nonexistent person is directly addressed as if present | 22 | |
| 5736931988 | Ambiguity | State of having more than one meaning or interpretation | 23 | |
| 5736931989 | Synecdoche | Figure speech: the part represents the whole Example) 50 head of cattle | 24 | |
| 5736931990 | Point of view | Vantage point from which story is told | 25 | |
| 5736931991 | Dystopia | Undesirable imaginary society | 26 | |
| 5736931992 | Theme | The message an author wants to express to the reader | 27 | |
| 5736931993 | Novella | Short novel approximately 100 pages | 28 | |
| 5736931994 | Plot | Series of related events to create a story | 29 | |
| 5736931995 | Utopia | Perfect society | 30 | |
| 5736931996 | Dues ex machina | The plot is resolved by the use of a highly improbable chance that solves a difficult problem | 31 | |
| 5736931997 | Synesthesia | Description of one since impressions using words that normally describe another example) a loud shirt | 32 | |
| 5736931998 | Style | Writer's way of stating things | 33 | |
| 5736931999 | Tone | Authors attitude toward the subject they are writing about | 34 | |
| 5736932000 | Mood | The feeling or attitude the audience gets from reading a piece | 35 | |
| 5736932001 | Connotation | Range of further associations in addition to the dictionary meaning | 36 | |
| 5736932002 | Juxtaposition | Placing things side-by-side intentionally for effect | 37 | |
| 5736932003 | Malapropism | The comic substitution of one word for another that is similar in sound, but different in meaning. it functions to make characters look ignorant or amusingly uneducated | 38 | |
| 5736932004 | Voice | The sense a written work conveys to a reader of the writers attitude, personality, and character | 39 | |
| 5736932005 | Motif | Recurring image, word, phrase, action, idea, object, or situation that appears in various words or throughout the same work | 40 | |
| 5736932006 | Anachronism | And event, object, custom, person, or thing that is out of its natural order of time | 41 | |
| 5736932007 | Metonymy | Figure of speech in which representative term is used for larger idea | 42 | |
| 5736932008 | Narrator | Teller of the story | 43 | |
| 5736932009 | Dissonance | Harshness of sound and or rhyme, either inadvertent or deliberate | 44 | |
| 5736932010 | Euphony | A pleasing smoothness of sound, perceived by the ease with which the words can be spoken in combination | 45 | |
| 5736932011 | Litotes | Figure of speech were an affirmation is made indirectly by saying it's opposite, usually with effect of understatement | 46 | |
| 5736932012 | Euphenism | Substituting a mild term in place of an offensive or more hurtful term for effect | 47 |
