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| 6719073265 | refrain | a line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem | 0 | |
| 6719074528 | requiem | a song or prayer for the dead | 1 | |
| 6719074529 | rhapsody | an intensely passionate verse or section of verse, usually of love or praise | 2 | |
| 6719075694 | rhetorical question | a question that suggests an answer and/or doesn't require an out-loud answer | 3 | |
| 6719077803 | satire | exposes common character flaws to humor; attempts to improve things by pointing out people's mistakes in the hope that once exposed, such behaviours will become less common--hypocrisy, vanity, greed | 4 | |
| 6719078757 | simile | a comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as" | 5 | |
| 6719081844 | soliloquy | a speech spoken by a character alone on stage; meant to convey the impression that the audience is listening to the character's thoughts (usually a problem the character is trying to work out) | 6 | |
| 6719084040 | stanza | a group of lines roughly analogous in function in verse to the paragraph's function in prose | 7 | |
| 6719085723 | stock characters | standard or cliched character types: the drunk, the miser, the foolish girl, etc. | 8 | |
| 6719088709 | subjunctive mood | a mood that represents an act or state (not as a fact but) as contingent or possible; wishful thinking--if I were you, if he were honest | 9 | |
| 6719089611 | summary | a simple retelling of what you've just read; covers more material than paraphrase, more general, includes all the facts | 10 | |
| 6719091145 | suspension of disbelief | demand made of a theater audience to accept the limitations of staging and supply the details with imagination | 11 | |
| 6719091925 | symbolism | a device in literature where an object represents an idea | 12 | |
| 6719093160 | technique | the methods, the tools, "how-you-do-it" ways of the author | 13 | |
| 6719094078 | theme | the main idea of the overall work; the central idea; topic of discourse or discussion | 14 | |
| 6719094079 | thesis | the main position of an argument; the central contention that will be supported | 15 | |
| 6719096139 | tragic flaw | in tragedy, weakness of character in an other wise good/great individual that leads to his demise | 16 | |
| 6719097168 | utopia | an idealized place; paradise | 17 | |
| 6719098841 | zeugma | the use of a word to modify two or more words, but used for different meanings--On the fishing trip, he caught three trout and a cold. | 18 |
