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| 8225332821 | Allegory | An entirely "symbolic story" in which multiple symbolic elements contribute to the story's overall meaning | 0 | |
| 8225335019 | Stream of consciousness | a method of narration that describes in words the flow of thoughts in the minds of the characters (seeks to mimic the sporadic nature of thoughts as they arise in one's head) | 1 | |
| 8225337485 | Surrealism | An artistic style aimed at expressing imaginative dreams and visions flee from conscious rational control (mix of differences of conscious and unconscious by using irrational juxtapositions of images) | 2 | |
| 8225341438 | Absurdist literature | literary works that characterize mankind's search for meaning as an absurd, fruitless endeavor by writing in a style characterized by dark humor, incongruent plot/narrative structures, unexplainable/irrational occurrences | 3 | |
| 8225350600 | Dramatic irony | when the audience knows more about what is going on than the characters | 4 | |
| 8225352030 | Monologue | a long speech from a character during a conversation | 5 | |
| 8225353207 | Soliloquy | a character speaking thoughts aloud, regardless of any hearers | 6 | |
| 8225354122 | Aside | spoken dialogue heard by the reader, not by other characters | 7 | |
| 8225357400 | Apostrophe | a character addressing an imaginary character, often an object or concept personified, and often introduced by "oh" | 8 | |
| 8225363191 | Persona | a character's "mask" or created personality | 9 | |
| 8225363328 | Idiom | a saying or repeated phrase common to certain cultures or people groups (i.e., "killed two birds with one stone") | 10 | |
| 8225366373 | Wit | intelligent/clever humor, often involving wordplay | 11 | |
| 8225367250 | Pun | wordplay by confusing the meanings or sounds of two different words | 12 | |
| 8225369103 | Tragic Hero | a literary character who makes an error of judgement or has a fatal flaw that - combined with fate and eternal forces - brings on a tragedy | 13 | |
| 8225374187 | Catharsis | the purging of the feeling of pity and fear, experienced at the end of a tragedy by both the hero and the audience | 14 | |
| 8225376129 | Hamartia | a tragic flaw that causes a hero's downfall | 15 | |
| 8225379166 | Hubris | excessive pride (the most common hamartia) | 16 | |
| 8225380802 | Trigger incident | an event that incites or begins the narrative's main conflict | 17 | |
| 8225381788 | Crisis | the turning point or climax of a tragedy | 18 | |
| 8225383096 | Epiphany | a moment of realization, awareness, or change in character | 19 | |
| 8225385421 | Catastrophe / reversal | The outcome or moment of downfall of a tragic hero | 20 | |
| 8225386713 | Alliteration | repeating consonant sounds in the first, emphasized syllables | 21 | |
| 8225387601 | Assonance | repeating vowel sounds | 22 | |
| 8225388602 | Cacophony | having a harsh, inharmonious sound | 23 | |
| 8225389409 | Consonance | repeating consonance sounds | 24 | |
| 8225395160 | Dissonance | having a harsh, inharmonious sound | 25 | |
| 8225396683 | Euphony | having a melodious, pleasing sound | 26 | |
| 8225398173 | Onomatopoeia | a word imitating natural sounds | 27 | |
| 8225399652 | Iambic feet | unstressed, stressed pattern | 28 | |
| 8225401338 | Trochaic | stressed, unstressed pattern | 29 | |
| 8225402508 | Dactylic | stressed, unstressed, unstressed pattern | 30 | |
| 8225404713 | Tetrameter | 4 feet | 31 | |
| 8225404714 | Hexameter | 6 feet | 32 | |
| 8225405923 | Pentameter | 5 feet | 33 | |
| 8225405924 | Rhythm | the pattern of stressed syllables, or "meter" of a poem. An individual set of stressed and unstressed syllables is called a "foot" | 34 | |
| 8225408110 | Prosody / Scansion | An analysis of poetic meter | 35 | |
| 8225416374 | Rhyme scheme | the pattern of rhyming words at the end of lines | 36 | |
| 8225418546 | Slant rhyme | an "imperfect" rhyme | 37 | |
| 8225419553 | Blank verse | lines with regular meter, but no rhyme | 38 | |
| 8225420790 | Free verse | no rhyme or meter, the opposite of "closed form" | 39 | |
| 8225421747 | Feminine rhyme | a 2 syllable rhyme | 40 | |
| 8225422655 | Masculine rhyme | a 1 syllable rhyme | 41 | |
| 8225424241 | Stanza | a group of lines in a poem | 42 | |
| 8225424242 | Couplet | 2 line stanza | 43 | |
| 8225425244 | Quatrain | 4 line stanza | 44 | |
| 8225425245 | Sestet | 6 line stanza | 45 | |
| 8225426591 | Octave | 8 line stanza | 46 | |
| 8225426592 | Refrain | a repeated line or group of lines, usually end of the stanza | 47 | |
| 8225427947 | Caesura | a pause, either in the middle or end of a line in a poetry | 48 | |
| 8225429502 | Enjambment | skipping from one line to the next without punctuation | 49 | |
| 8225431085 | Conceit | an extended metaphor, a device made famous by the metaphysical poets of the Elizabethan Era | 50 | |
| 8225433379 | Connotation | the figurative or implied meaning of something, "hidden meaning" | 51 | |
| 8225435077 | Denotation | the literal meaning of something, "on the surface meaning" | 52 | |
| 8225436152 | Prose | not poetry (any type of writing) | 53 | |
| 8225437307 | Explication | the close analysis of a literary text | 54 | |
| 8225439839 | Puritanism | a 16th century era and style adopted by British and American protestants, emphasizing practical Christian piety | 55 | |
| 8225442692 | Rationalism | a 16th-17th century era influenced by the Enlightenment, in which writers mimicked the "classical style" of Greek and Roman literature. It often emphasized closed form, order, and symmetry. | 56 | |
| 8225446797 | Romanticism | a 17th-18th century literary era that rebelled against Enlightenment values by celebrating emotions, the imagination, nature, individualism, and freedom of thought and expression | 57 | |
| 8225450217 | Transcendentalism | divinity spreads through nature and humanity | 58 | |
| 8225451630 | Modernism | a 20th century literary era known for its non-traditional experimentation and themes of individualism, relativity, and alienation. It is often viewed as a response to the horrors of the world wars, industrialism, and technology | 59 | |
| 8225456682 | Epic | a long, narrative poem, usually written about a hero | 60 | |
| 8225457921 | Elegy | a poem that focuses on death and or mourns or laments the death of someone | 61 | |
| 8225459417 | Ode | a poem written to praise or honor, often using elevated diction and lyrical, "song-like" techniques | 62 | |
| 8225460875 | Sonnet | a 14-line poem, every line in iambic pentameter | 63 | |
| 8225461837 | English/Shakespearean Sonnet | 3 quatrains + 1 couplet | 64 | |
| 8225463691 | Italian/Petrarchan Sonnet | 1 octave + 1 sestet | 65 | |
| 8225467015 | Lyric | more traditional poems | 66 | |
| 8225468444 | Narrative | poem that tells a story | 67 | |
| 8225469682 | Dramatic monologue | the poet assumes the "persona" of a speaker addressing someone, usually is an expression of ideas/emotions | 68 | |
| 8225471100 | Villanelle | 5 tercets + 1 quatrain | 69 |
