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| 6249433466 | Allegory | A story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events of for abstract ideas or qualities | 0 | |
| 6249433467 | Ambiguity | Deliberately suggesting 2 or more different meanings in a work. An event or situation that may be interpreted in more than one way | 1 | |
| 6249433468 | Allusion | Reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature, religion, etc. | 2 | |
| 6249433469 | Analogy | Comparison made between 2 things to show how they are alike | 3 | |
| 6249433470 | Anaphora | Repition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of 2 or more sentences in a row | 4 | |
| 6249433471 | Anastrophe | Inversion of the usual, normal, or logical order of the parts of a sentence | 5 | |
| 6249433472 | Anecdote | Brief story, told to illustrate a point or serve as an example of something | 6 | |
| 6249433473 | Antimetabole | Repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order | 7 | |
| 6249433474 | Antithesis | Balancing words, phrases, or ideas that are strongly contrasted, often by means of grammatical structure | 8 | |
| 6249433475 | Antihero | Central character who lacks all the qualities traditionally associated with heroes | 9 | |
| 6249433476 | Anthropomorphism | Attributing human characteristics to an animal or inanimate object | 10 | |
| 6249433477 | Aphorism | Brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life, or of a principle or accepted general truth | 11 | |
| 6249433478 | Apostrophe | Calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to a place or thing, or a personified abstract idea | 12 | |
| 6249433479 | Apposition | Placing an immediately succeeding order of 2 or more coordinate elements, latter of which is an explanation, qualification, or modification of the first. | 13 | |
| 6249433480 | Asyndeton | Commas used without conjunction to separate a series of words | 14 | |
| 6249433481 | Balance | Constructing a sentence so that both halves are about the same length and importance | 15 | |
| 6249433482 | Indirect characterization | Author reveals to the reader what the character is like by describing how the character looks and dresses, hear what the character says, revealing their private thoughts and feelings, etc | 16 | |
| 6249433483 | Direct characterization | Author tells us directly what the character is like | 17 | |
| 6249433484 | Static character | One who does not change much in the course of a story | 18 | |
| 6249433485 | Dynamic character | One who changes in some important way as a result of the story's action | 19 | |
| 6249433486 | Flat character | Has only 1 or 2 personality traits | 20 | |
| 6249433487 | Round character | Has more dimensions to their personalities-they are complex | 21 | |
| 6249433488 | Chiasmus | In poetry, a type of rhetorical balance in which the second part is syntactically balanced against the first, but with the parts reversed | 22 | |
| 6249433489 | Colloquialism | A word or phrase in everyday use in conversation and informal writing but is inappropriate for formal situations | 23 | |
| 6249433490 | Comedy | A story that ends with a happy resolution of the conflicts faced by the main character(s) | 24 | |
| 6249433491 | Conceit | An elaborate metaphor that compares 2 things that are startlingly different | 25 | |
| 6249433492 | Confessional poetry | A 20th century term used to describe poetry that uses intimate material from the poet's life | 26 | |
| 6249433493 | External conflict | Conflict between 2 people, person and nature or a machine, or a person and a whole society | 27 | |
| 6249433494 | Internal conflict | Involving opposing forces within a person's mind | 28 | |
| 6249433495 | Connotation | The associations and emotional overtones that have become attached to a word or phrase, in addition to its strict dictionary definition | 29 | |
| 6249433496 | Couplet | Two consecutive rhyming line software poetry | 30 | |
| 6249433497 | Dialect | A way of speaking that is characteristic of a certain social group or of the inhabitants of a certain geographical area | 31 | |
| 6249433498 | Diction | A speaker or writer's choice of words | 32 | |
| 6249433499 | Didactic | Form of fiction or nonfiction that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking | 33 | |
| 6249433500 | Elegy | A poem of mourning, usually about someone who has died | 34 | |
| 6249433501 | Epanalepsis | Device of repetition in which the same expression is repeated both at the beginning and at the end of the line, clause, or sentence ("common sense is not so common") | 35 | |
| 6249433502 | Epic | A long narrative poem, written in heightened language, which recounts the deeds of a heroic character who embodies the values of a particular society | 36 | |
| 6249433503 | Epigraph | A quotation or aphorism at the beginning of a literary work suggestive of the theme | 37 | |
| 6249433504 | Epistrophe | Device of repetiton in which the same expression is repeated at the end of 2 or more lines, clauses, or sentences | 38 | |
| 6249433505 | Epithet | An adjective or adjective phrase applied to a person or thing that is frequently used to emphasize a characteristic quality | 39 | |
| 6249433506 | Essay | A short piece of nonfiction prose in which the writer discusses some aspect of a subject | 40 | |
| 6249433507 | Argumentation | An essay that uses logic, ethics, and emotional appeals to develop an effective means to convince the reader to think or act in a certain way | 41 | |
| 6249433508 | Casual relationship | Form of argumentation on which the writer claims that one thing results from another, often used as part of a logical argument | 42 | |
| 6249433509 | Exposition | Something is explained or "set forth" | 43 | |
| 6249433510 | Description | A form of discourse that uses language to create a mood or emotion | 44 | |
| 6249433511 | Explication | Act of interpreting or discovering the meaning of a text, usually involves close reading and special attention to figurative language | 45 | |
| 6260854651 | Fable | A very short story told in prose or poetry that teaches a practical lesson about how to succeed in life | 46 | |
| 6260854652 | Farce | A type of comedy in which ridiculous and often stereotyped characters are involved in silly, far-fetched situations | 47 | |
| 6260854653 | Foil | A character who acts as contrast to another character. Often a funny sidekick to the dashing hero, or a villain contrasting a hero | 48 | |
| 6260854654 | Free verse | Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme | 49 | |
| 6260854655 | Hyperbole | Incredible exaggeration | 50 | |
| 6260854656 | Hypotactic | Sentence marked by use of connecting words between clauses or sentences, explicitly showing the logical or other relationships between them | 51 | |
| 6260854657 | Inversion | The reversal of the normal word order in a sentence or phrase | 52 | |
| 6260854658 | Verbal irony | Occurs when someone says one thing but really means something else | 53 | |
| 6260854659 | Situational irony | Takes place when there is discrepancy between what is expected to happen, and what would be appropriate to happen, and what really does happen. | 54 | |
| 6260854660 | Dramatic irony | The audience knows something that the character does not | 55 | |
| 6260854661 | Juxtaposition | A form of contrast by which writers call attention to dissimilar ideas or images or metaphors | 56 | |
| 6260854662 | Litotes | A form of understatement in which the positive form is emphasized through the negation of a negative form | 57 | |
| 6260854663 | Local color | A term applied to fiction or poetry which tends to place special emphasis on a particular setting | 58 | |
| 6260854664 | Loose sentence | One in which the main clause comes first, followed by further dependent grammatical units | 59 | |
| 6260854665 | Lyric poem | A poem that does not tell a story but expresses the personal feelings or thoughts of the speaker | 60 | |
| 6260854666 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which a person, place, or thing, is referred to by something closely associated with it | 61 | |
| 6260854667 | Mood | An atmosphere created by a writer's diction and the details selected | 62 | |
| 6260854668 | Motif | A recurring image, word, phrase, action, idea, object, or situation used throughout a work, unifying the work by trying the current situation to previous ones, or new ideas to the theme | 63 | |
| 6260854669 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase (pretty ugly) | 64 | |
| 6260854670 | Paradox | A statement that appears self-contradictory, but that reveals a kind of truth | 65 | |
| 6260854671 | Parallelism | The repition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures | 66 | |
| 6260854672 | Paratactic sentence | Simply juxtaposes clauses or sentences (I am tired: it is hot) | 67 | |
| 6260854673 | Parody | A work that makes fun of another work by imitating some aspect of the writer's style | 68 | |
| 6260854674 | Periodic | Sentence that places the main idea or central complete thought at the end of the sentence, after all introductory elements | 69 | |
| 6260854675 | Exposition | Introduces characters, situations, and setting | 70 | |
| 6260854676 | Rising action | Complications in conflict and situations | 71 | |
| 6260854677 | 1st person POV | One of the characters tells the story | 72 | |
| 6260854678 | 3rd person POV | An unknown narrator, tells the story, but this narrator zooms in to focus on the thoughts and feelings of only one character | 73 | |
| 6260854679 | Omniscient POV | An all-knowing narrator tells the story, also using the third person pronouns | 74 | |
| 6260854680 | Objective POV | A narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story, with no comment on any characters or events | 75 | |
| 6260854681 | Polysyndeton | Sentence which uses a conjunction with NO commas to separate the items in a series | 76 | |
| 6260854682 | Quatrain | A poem consisting of four lines, or four lines of a poem that can be considered a unit | 77 | |
| 6260854683 | Rhetoric | Art of effective communication, especially persuasive discourse | 78 | |
| 6260854684 | Rhetorical question | A question asked for an effect, and not actually requiring an answer | 79 | |
| 6260854685 | Romance | In general, a story in which an idealized hero or heroine undertakes a quest and is successful | 80 | |
| 6260854686 | Satire | A type of writing that ridicules the shortcomings of people or institutions in an attempt to bring about change | 81 | |
| 6260854687 | Soliloquy | A long speech made by a character in a play while no other characters are on stage | 82 | |
| 6260854688 | Stream of consciousness | A style of writing that portrays the inner (often chaotic) workings of a characters mind | 83 | |
| 6269283375 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part represents the whole. | 84 | |
| 6269283376 | Syntactic fluency | Ability to create a variety of sentence structures, appropriately complex and/or simple and varied in length | 85 | |
| 6269283377 | Syntactic permutation | Sentence structures that are extraordinarily complex and involved. | 86 | |
| 6269283378 | Telegraphic sentence | A sentence shorter than five words in length | 87 | |
| 6269283379 | Tone | Attitude of the writer toward the subject of a work, the characters in it, or the audience | 88 | |
| 6269283380 | Tricolon | Sentence of three parts of equal importance and length, usually three independent clauses | 89 | |
| 6269283381 | Vernacular | The languages spoken by the people who live in a particular locality | 90 |
