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| 10940920775 | Allegory | A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself |  | 0 |
| 10940928529 | Alliteration | Repetition of consonant sounds |  | 1 |
| 10940931609 | Allusion | A reference to another work of literature, person, or event | 2 | |
| 10940934844 | Anapest | unstressed, unstressed, stressed |  | 3 |
| 10940949917 | Antagonist | A character or force in conflict with the main character |  | 4 |
| 10940969579 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech in which one directly addresses an absent or imaginary person, or some abstraction | 5 | |
| 10940978637 | Aside | A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage |  | 6 |
| 10940982036 | Aubade | A poem about dawn; a morning love song; or a poem about the parting of lovers at dawn |  | 7 |
| 10940985655 | Ballad | A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas |  | 8 |
| 10940994451 | Blank verse | Verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter | 9 | |
| 10941003033 | Cacophony | A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds |  | 10 |
| 10941006194 | Caesura | A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line |  | 11 |
| 10941022950 | Catharsis | A release of emotional tension |  | 12 |
| 10941027614 | Character | A person in a story |  | 13 |
| 10941030418 | Climax | The most intense, exciting, or important point of something; a culmination or apex |  | 14 |
| 10941037785 | comic relief | A humorous scene or speech intended to lighten the mood |  | 15 |
| 10941041005 | conflict | A struggle between opposing forces |  | 16 |
| 10941045139 | Connotation | An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning |  | 17 |
| 10941048592 | Convention | A generally agreed-upon practice or attitude (ex. generally a chorus in Greek tragedies) | 18 | |
| 10941051901 | Couplet | Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme |  | 19 |
| 10941055072 | Dactyl | stressed, unstressed, unstressed |  | 20 |
| 10941089985 | Denotation | The dictionary definition of a word |  | 21 |
| 10941093729 | Denouement | An outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot |  | 22 |
| 10941096769 | Deus ex machina | The use of an artificial device or gimmick to solve a problem |  | 23 |
| 10941105233 | Diction | A writer's or speaker's choice of words |  | 24 |
| 10941109189 | Dramatic monologue | When a single speaker in literature says something to a silent audience |  | 25 |
| 10941113856 | Elegy | A sad or mournful poem |  | 26 |
| 10941124590 | Enjambment | A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next |  | 27 |
