6743469578 | Anagnorisis | A moment of realization or recognition by the protagonist in literature | 0 | |
6743484459 | Antithesis | Opposite of something else | 1 | |
6743488082 | Aphorism | Short phrase that expresses a wise idea | 2 | |
6743498494 | Apostrophe | Address a person who isn't there or an abstraction as if they are a person (death, be not proud) | 3 | |
6743509950 | Assonance | Two words repeat the same vowel sound | 4 | |
6743512462 | Blank Verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter with rhymed couplets | 5 | |
6743518143 | Cacophony | Harsh, jarring noise | 6 | |
6743519782 | Caesura | A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line. | 7 | |
6743519783 | Canon | an established set of principles or code of laws, often religious in nature | 8 | |
6743521312 | Choleric | Easily angered | 9 | |
6743521313 | Conceit | A fanciful, particularly clever extended metaphor | 10 | |
6743521314 | Didactic | Instructive | 11 | |
6743523207 | Dramatic Irony | Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play. | 12 | |
6743528587 | Enjambment | A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next. | 13 | |
6743528588 | End-Stopped Lines | the line of verse ends with the end of the sentence | 14 | |
6743528589 | Epigram | A brief witty poem, often satirical. | 15 | |
6743531094 | Epigraph | quotation at the beginning of a literary work | 16 | |
6743531095 | Epistle | a letter or literary composition in letter form | 17 | |
6743531096 | Epithet | A descriptive name or phrase used to characterize someone or something | 18 | |
6743536862 | Gustatory Imagery | taste | 19 | |
6743536863 | Hubris | Excessive pride or self-confidence | 20 | |
6743544405 | Litotes | Understatement | 21 | |
6743544406 | Malapropism | a word humorously misused | 22 | |
6743546896 | Olfactory Imagery | smell | 23 | |
6743551964 | Pastoral | A work of literature dealing with rural life | 24 | |
6743551965 | Phlegmatic | calm and unemotional in temperament | 25 | |
6743556057 | Heroic Couplet | Iambic pentameter lines rhymed in pairs. | 26 | |
6743556058 | Sanguine | Optimistic | 27 | |
6743564473 | Situational Irony | An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected | 28 | |
6743564474 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 29 | |
6743566837 | Tactile Imagery | touch | 30 | |
6743566838 | Trochaic | Stressed, unstressed | 31 | |
6743570566 | Zeugma | use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous, meanings | 32 |
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