6301727862 | Anaphora | Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | 0 | |
6301763551 | Caesura | A pause in the middle of a line | 1 | |
6301769094 | Catharsis | The release of emotions through art (emotional cleansing, as in a tragedy) | 2 | |
6301779657 | Connotation | Secondary or implied meaning of a word | 3 | |
6301784711 | Denotation | The literal meaning of he word | 4 | |
6301788553 | Denouement | Final outcome of the story | 5 | |
6301793132 | Deus ex machina | Resolution of the plot by chance or coincidence | 6 | |
6301804932 | Feminine rhyme | Lines rhymed by their two final syllables | 7 | |
6301810946 | Hamartia | Tragic flaw that causes a hero's downfall | 8 | |
6301825069 | Masculine rhyme | A line ending on the final stressed syllable | 9 | |
6301831484 | Apostrophe | Direct address to reader | 10 | |
6301840354 | Scansion | Analysis of verse into metrical patterns | 11 | |
6301847708 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech where the part represents the whole or vice versa | 12 | |
6301857331 | Synesthesia | Describing one kind of sensation with another (sweet sound, loud color) | 13 | |
6301862885 | Tone | Attitude the author takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character | 14 | |
6301871070 | Epistrophe | A repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses | 15 | |
6301877935 | Metonymy | The substitution of an object for that of the thing meant (white house for government, etc. ) | 16 | |
6301893265 | Chiasmus | A reversal in word order of words in two otherwise parallel sentences | 17 | |
6301899920 | Parallelism | The use of similar grammatical functions or word order in multiple sentences | 18 | |
6301908331 | Polysyndeton | The repetition of conjunctions in a sentence | 19 | |
6301909874 | Asyndeton | The omission of conjunctions in a sentence | 20 | |
6301915116 | Archetype | A symbol found in many cultures | 21 |
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