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| 5072310368 | Realism | a nineteenth-century literary movement in Europe and the United States that stressed accuracy in the portrayal of life, focusing on characters with whom middle-class readers could easily identify; in direct contrast with romanticism | 0 | |
| 5072313347 | Refrain | a line or group of lines that are periodically repeated throughout a poem | 1 | |
| 5072313348 | Rhyme | a similarity of accented sounds between two words, such as sad/mad; rhymes can be masculine or feminine | 2 | |
| 5072319672 | Romanticism | a literary, artistic, and philosophical movement that began in the eighteenth century as a reaction against neoclassicism; the focal points of the movement are imagination, emotion, and freedom, stressing subjectivity, individuality, the love and worship of nature, and a fascination with the past | 3 | |
| 5072322060 | Sarcasm | harsh, caustic personal remarks to or about someone; less subtle than irony | 4 | |
| 5072322062 | Similes | a figure of speech that uses like, as, or as if to make a direct comparison between two essentially different objects, actions, or qualities; for example, "the sky looked like an artist's canvas" | 5 | |
| 5072324559 | Sonnet | a fourteen-line lyric poem in iambic pentameter | 6 | |
| 5072324560 | Stanza | a group of lines in the formal pattern of a poem | 7 | |
| 5072324561 | Couplet | the simplest stanza, consisting of two rhymed lines | 8 | |
| 5072326535 | Tercet | three lines, usually having the same rhyme | 9 | |
| 5072326536 | Quatrain | four lines | 10 | |
| 5072326537 | Cinquain | five lines | 11 | |
| 5072329042 | Sestet | six lines | 12 | |
| 5072329043 | Octave | eight lines | 13 | |
| 5072329044 | Stereotype | a character who represents a trait that is usually attributed to a particular social or racial group and lacks individuality | 14 | |
| 5072331081 | Symbolism | the use of symbols, or anything that is meant to be taken both literally and as representative of a higher and more complex significance | 15 | |
| 5072345253 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent a whole, such as using "boards" to mean "a stage," or "wheels" to mean "a car" | 16 | |
| 5072345254 | Theme | the central idea or "message" of a literary work | 17 | |
| 5072345255 | Tone | the characteristic emotion or attitude of an author toward the characters, subject, and audience | 18 | |
| 5072351667 | Tragic Flaw | the one weakness that causes the downfall of the hero in a tragedy | 19 | |
| 5072354794 | Voice | the way a written work conveys an author's attitude | 20 |
