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| 2679915848 | Allegory | The representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters, figures, or events in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form. |  | 0 |
| 2679915849 | Alliteration | The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of several words in a line of poetry. |  | 1 |
| 2679915850 | Anaphora | Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines in a poem. |  | 2 |
| 2679915851 | Apostrophe | When a character speaks to a character or object that is not present or is unable to respond. |  | 3 |
| 2679915852 | Assonance | The repetition of the same vowel sound in a phrase or line of poetry. |  | 4 |
| 2679915853 | Climax | The turning point in the plot or the high point of action. |  | 5 |
| 2679915854 | Colloquial Language | Informal, conversational language. Indicative of a specific region. |  | 6 |
| 2679915855 | Connotation | An idea or meaning suggested by or associated with a word or thing, ie. Bat=evil. |  | 7 |
| 2679915856 | Diction | Word choice or the use of words in speech or writing. |  | 8 |
| 2679915857 | Enjambment | The continuation of reading one line of a poem to the next with no pause, a run-on line. |  | 9 |
| 2679915858 | Epiphany | Sudden enlightenment or realization, a profound new outlook or understanding about the world usually attained while doing everyday mundane activities. |  | 10 |
| 2679915859 | Flashback | When a character remembers a past event that is relevant to the current action of the story. |  | 11 |
| 2679915860 | Foreshadowing | Clues in the text about incidents that will occur later in the plot; creates anticipation in the novel. |  | 12 |
| 2679915861 | Hyperbole | A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or comic/dramatic effect. |  | 13 |
| 2679915862 | Imagery | The use of vivid or figurative language to represent objects, actions, or ideas. Also includes sensory language. |  | 14 |
| 2679915863 | Irony | When one thing should occur, is apparent, or in logical sequence but the opposite actually occurs. |  | 15 |
| 2679915864 | Meter | The measured arrangement of words in poetry, as by accentual rhythm, syllabic quantity, or the number of syllables in a line. |  | 16 |
| 2679915865 | Metaphor | A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison; this comparison does not use like or as. |  | 17 |
| 2679915866 | Motif | A dominant theme or central idea. |  | 18 |
| 2679915867 | Onomatopoeia | The formation or use of words such as buzz or murmur that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to. |  | 19 |
| 2679915868 | Parody | A literary or artistic work that imitates the characteristic style of an author or a work for comic effect or ridicule. |  | 20 |
| 2679915869 | Personification | A figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstractions are endowed with human qualities or are represented as possessing human form. |  | 21 |
| 2679915870 | Prose | Ordinary speech or writing without metrical structure, written in paragraph form. |  | 22 |
| 2679915871 | Simile | A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by like or as. |  | 23 |
| 2679915872 | Soliloquy | A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener. Typical in plays. |  | 24 |
| 2679915873 | Symbolism | Something that represents something else by association, resemblance, or convention, especially a material object used to represent something invisible. |  | 25 |
| 2679915874 | Tone | Reflects how the author feels about the subject matter or the feeling the author wants to instill in the reader. |  | 26 |
| 2679915875 | Tragedy | A drama or literary work in which the main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow, especially as a consequence of a tragic flaw, moral weakness, or inability to cope with unfavorable circumstances. |  | 27 |
| 2679915876 | Sonnet | A poem with fourteen lines. There are Italian and English (typically referred to as "Shakespearean") forms. |  | 28 |
| 2679915877 | Satire | A literary work in which human vice or folly is attacked through irony, derision, or wit; the goal is to change the behavior/issue. |  | 29 |
