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| 6662269424 | allegory | story or poem that can be used to reveal a hidden meaning |  | 0 |
| 6662269425 | alliteration | beginning of same letter or sound in closely connected words |  | 1 |
| 6662269426 | allusion | indirect of passing reference to a piece of literary or historical significance |  | 2 |
| 6662269427 | anaphora | repetition in first part of a sentence , to have an artistic meaning |  | 3 |
| 6662269429 | apostrophe | figure of speech used to adresss an imaginary character |  | 4 |
| 6662269430 | approximate rhyme | words in rhyming pattern that sound alike |  | 5 |
| 6662269431 | aside | when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by other actors on the stage |  | 6 |
| 6662269432 | assonance | repetition of vowel sounds |  | 7 |
| 6662269433 | blank verse | poetry written in meter without an ending rhyme |  | 8 |
| 6662269434 | cacophony | blend of unharmonious sounds |  | 9 |
| 6662269435 | caesura | pause in the middle of a line |  | 10 |
| 6662269436 | catharsis | the release of emotions through art (emotional cleanse) |  | 11 |
| 6662269443 | comedy | drama that is amusing or funny |  | 12 |
| 6662269445 | connotation | secondary meaning to a word |  | 13 |
| 6662269446 | consonance | repetition of same consonant in words close together |  | 14 |
| 6662269447 | couplet | two rhyming lines in a verse |  | 15 |
| 6662269448 | denotation | the literal meaning of a word |  | 16 |
| 6662269449 | denouement | final outcome of the story |  | 17 |
| 6662269450 | deus ex machina | resolution of a plot by chance or coincidence |  | 18 |
| 6662269451 | didactic writing | writing with a primary purpose to teach or preach |  | 19 |
| 6662269453 | double rhyme | rhyme where the repeated vowel is in the second last syllable of words involved (ex; born scorn) | 20 | |
| 6662269455 | end rhyme | rhymes occurring at the end of line |  | 21 |
| 6662269458 | epiphany | when a character receives a spiritual insight into they life |  | 22 |
| 6662269459 | euphony | smooth choice and arrangement of sounds |  | 23 |
| 6662269462 | feminine rhyme | lines rhymed by their final two syllables |  | 24 |
| 6662269465 | foot | basic unit in the scansion or measurement of verse , stressed and un stressed syllables |  | 25 |
| 6662269467 | free verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme |  | 26 |
| 6662269468 | hamartia | tragic flaw which causes a character's downfall |  | 27 |
| 6662269471 | internal rhyme | A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line |  | 28 |
| 6662269472 | irony | A contrast between expectation and reality |  | 29 |
| 6662269473 | verbal irony | A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant |  | 30 |
| 6662269474 | dramatic irony | Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play. |  | 31 |
| 6662269475 | situational irony | refers to an occurrence that is contrary to what is expected or intended |  | 32 |
| 6662269477 | masculine rhyme | A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable |  | 33 |
| 6662269478 | melodrama | a play based upon a dramatic plot and developed sensationally |  | 34 |
| 6662269480 | meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry |  | 35 |
| 6662269481 | metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it |  | 36 |
| 6662269484 | octave | 8 line stanza |  | 37 |
| 6662269485 | onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. |  | 38 |
| 6662269486 | hyperbole | A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor |  | 39 |
| 6662269487 | oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. |  | 40 |
| 6662269488 | paradox | A contradiction or dilemma |  | 41 |
| 6662269492 | point of view | The perspective from which a story is told |  | 42 |
| 6662269493 | omniscient point of view | The point of view where the narrator knows everything about the characters and their problems - told in the 3rd person. |  | 43 |
| 6662269494 | third person limited point of view | narrator tells the story from only one character's pov |  | 44 |
| 6662269495 | first person point of view | a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself |  | 45 |
| 6662269496 | objective point of view | a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story, with no comment on any characters or events. |  | 46 |
| 6662269498 | quatrain | A four line stanza |  | 47 |
| 6662269499 | rhythm | A regularly recurring sequence of events or actions. |  | 48 |
| 6662269500 | rhyme scheme | A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem |  | 49 |
| 6662269501 | rising action | Events leading up to the climax |  | 50 |
| 6662269502 | sarcasm | the use of irony to mock or convey contempt |  | 51 |
| 6662269503 | satire | A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies. |  | 52 |
| 6662269505 | sestet | 6 line stanza |  | 53 |
| 6662269508 | soliloquy | A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage |  | 54 |
| 6662269509 | sonnet | 14 line poem |  | 55 |
| 6662269511 | stream of consciousness | private thoughts of a character without commentary |  | 56 |
| 6662269514 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa |  | 57 |
| 6662269515 | synesthesia | describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound") |  | 58 |
| 6662269519 | tone | Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character |  | 59 |
| 6662269520 | tragedy | A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character |  | 60 |
| 6662269521 | truncation | Utilizing a melody with part of the end omitted. |  | 61 |
| 6662269522 | understandment | the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis |  | 62 |
