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| 3903802504 | Bildungsroman | a novel where the character goes through maturity because of an emotionally loss, book is about a quest of maturity | 0 | |
| 3903803020 | Aposiopesis | A figure of speech wherein a sentence is deliberately broken off and left unfinished, the ending to be supplied by th | 1 | |
| 3903803373 | Onomatopoeia | A figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words. | 2 | |
| 3903803870 | Didacticism | instructiveness in a work, one purpose of which is to give guidance, particularly in moral, ethical, or religious matters | 3 | |
| 3903805679 | Epigraph | A brief quotation found at the beginning of a literary work, reflective of theme. | 4 | |
| 3903805998 | Dysphemism | A derogatory or unpleasant term used instead of a pleasant or neutral one | 5 | |
| 3903807098 | Rhetorical Shift | a change from one tone, attitude, etc . . . Look for key words like but, however, even though, although, yet, etc. (Volta) | 6 | |
| 3903808772 | Hamartia | a fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine | 7 | |
| 3903809151 | Euphony | pleasant, harmonious sound | 8 | |
| 3903809683 | Verisimilitude | the quality of appearing to be true, real, likely, or probable | 9 | |
| 3903810755 | End Rhyme | A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line | 10 | |
| 3903810756 | Syllogism | A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion. | 11 | |
| 3903811168 | Meiosis | a witty understatement that belittles or dismisses something or somebody, particularly by making use of terms that gives impression that something is less important than it is or it should be | 12 | |
| 3903813719 | Pleonasm | a rhetorical device which can be defined as the use of a second or more words (phrase) to express an idea | 13 | |
| 3903815854 | Iambic Pentameter | A common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable. | 14 | |
| 3903816312 | Deus Ex Machina | "An unrealistic or unexpected intervention to rescue the protagonists or resolve the conflict. The term means ""The god out of the machine"" and refers to stage machinery." | 15 | |
| 3903816987 | Elegy | a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead. | 16 | |
| 3903817477 | Ballad | A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas, characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style. | 17 | |
| 3903818057 | Poetic Foot | A metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables. | 18 | |
| 3903818899 | Epithet | An adjective or adjective phrase applied to a person or thing that is frequently used to describe a characteristic or quality. | 19 | |
| 3903819649 | Allegory | A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself. | 20 | |
| 3903820560 | Tone | A writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization on the sentence and global levels. | 21 | |
| 3903820882 | Ambiguity | The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage. | 22 | |
| 3903821312 | Aporia | Expression of doubt (often feigned) by which a speaker appears uncertain as to what he should think, say, or do. | 23 | |
| 3903821806 | Enjambment | A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next. | 24 | |
| 3903822355 | Conceit | A comparison which is exceedingly unlikely but is, nonetheless, intellectually imaginative. A comparison turns into a conceit when the writer tries to make us admit a similarity between two things of whose unlikeness we are strongly conscious and for this reason, conceits are often surprising. | 25 | |
| 3903823540 | Cacophony | A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds | 26 | |
| 3903823878 | Eristic | Device in which the writers and speakers engage in a heated argumentation without reaching a conclusion or solving a particular issue. | 27 | |
| 3903825100 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. | 28 | |
| 3903825829 | Caesura | A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line. | 29 | |
| 3903826128 | Elocution | the art of public speaking, with attention to delivery | 30 | |
| 3903826507 | Litotes | A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite. | 31 | |
| 3903826875 | Cliche | A worn-out idea or overused expression | 32 | |
| 3903826876 | Hubris | A flaw in the personality of a character who enjoys a powerful position; as a result of which, he overestimates his capabilities to such an extent that he loses contact with reality. | 33 | |
| 3903828486 | Consonance | Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity. | 34 | |
| 3903829041 | Lyric Poem | A type of poem characterized by brevity, compression, and the expression of feeling. | 35 | |
| 3903829359 | Assonance | Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity | 36 | |
| 3903829766 | Archetype | A detail, image, or character type that occurs frequently in literature and myth and is thought to appeal in a universal way to the unconscious and to evoke a response | 37 | |
| 3903830793 | Anachronism | Something that is not in its correct historical time; a mistake in chronology, such as by assigning a person or event to the wrong time period | 38 | |
| 3903830794 | Ode | a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter | 39 | |
| 3903831375 | Antimetabole | Repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order | 40 | |
| 3903831822 | Blank Verse | Unrhymed poetry written in iambic pentameter | 41 | |
| 3903832657 | Chiasmus | a rhetorical device in which two or more clauses are balanced against each other by the reversal of their structures in order to produce an artistic effect. Example: "Love as if you would one day hate, and hate as if you would one day love." | 42 | |
| 3903839699 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. Ex: "living death" | 43 | |
| 3903841106 | Extended Metaphor | A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work. | 44 | |
| 3903842099 | Juxtaposition | The fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect | 45 | |
| 3903843425 | Free Verse | Poetry that has no fixed pattern of meter, rhyme, length, or stanza arrangement | 46 | |
| 3903844842 | Pastoral | A work of literature dealing with rural life | 47 | |
| 3903845208 | Jeremiad | an elaborate and lengthy tale of sadness | 48 | |
| 3903846741 | Liminality | The critically important marginal or in-between phase of a rite of passage | 49 |
