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| 3935981062 | Anaphora | The repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences | 0 | |
| 3935981063 | Aside | A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage | 1 | |
| 3935981064 | Blank verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter | 2 | |
| 3935981065 | Cadence | The beat or rhythm of poetry in a general sense | 3 | |
| 3935981066 | Canto | The name for a selection division in a long work of poetry. Divides a long poem into parts the way chapters divide a novel | 4 | |
| 3935981067 | Chorus | In Greek drama, this is the group of citizens who stand outside the main action on stage and comment on it. | 5 | |
| 3935981068 | Colloquial language | This is a word or phrase used in everyday conversation English that isn't a part accepted "school work" English | 6 | |
| 3935981069 | Couplet | A pair of lines that end rhyme | 7 | |
| 3935981070 | Free verse | Poetry written without a regular rhyme scheme or metrical pattern | 8 | |
| 3935981071 | Internal verse | A rhyme in which one or both of the rhyme words occur within the line | 9 | |
| 3935981072 | Meter | A regularized rhyme; an arrangement of language in which the accents occur at apparently equal intervals in time | 10 | |
| 3935981073 | Prelude | An introductory poem to a longer work of verse | 11 | |
| 3935981074 | Rhapsody | An intensely passionate verse or section of verse, usually of love or praise | 12 | |
| 3935981075 | Ellipsis | The omission of a word or phrase which is grammatically necessary but can be deduced from the text | 13 | |
| 3935981076 | Chiasmus | A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed | 14 | |
| 3935981077 | Litotes | A type of understatement in which an idea is expressed by negating its opposite | 15 | |
| 3935981078 | Asyndeton | A construction in which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions | 16 | |
| 3935981079 | Euphemism | An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered | 17 | |
| 3935981080 | Inverted word order (inversion) | Inversion of the usual syntactical order of words for rhetorical effect | 18 | |
| 3935981081 | Parallelism | The use of corresponding grammatical or syntactical forms | 19 | |
| 3935981082 | Aphorism | A concise statement that expresses succinctly a general truth or idea, often using rhyme or balance | 20 | |
| 3935981083 | Syllepsis | A construction in which one word is used in different senses | 21 | |
| 3935981084 | Imperative | Having the form that expresses a command rather than a statement or a question | 22 | |
| 3935981085 | Dirge | This is a song for the dead. It's typically slow, heavy, and melancholy | 23 | |
| 3935981086 | Ballad | A long, narrative poem, usually in very regular meter and rhyme. Usually has a naive folksy quality that distinguishes it from epic poetry | 24 | |
| 3935981087 | Elegy | A type of poem that meditates on death or morality in a serious, thoughtful manner | 25 | |
| 3935981088 | Epic | A very long narrative poem on a serious theme in a dignified style. Typically deal with a glorious or profound subject matter | 26 | |
| 3935981089 | Lament | A poem of sadness or grief over the death of a loved one or over some other intense loss | 27 | |
| 3935981090 | Lyric | A type of poetry that explores the poet's personal interpretation of and feelings about the world | 28 | |
| 3935981091 | Pastoral | A poem set in tranquil nature or even more specifically, one about shepherds | 29 | |
| 3935981092 | Soliloquy | A speech spoken by a character alone on stage; gives the impression that the audience is listening to the character's thoguht | 30 | |
| 3935981093 | Sonnet | A fixed form of fourteen lines, normally iambic pentameter, with a rhyme scheme that is usually two main types--the Italian or English | 31 | |
| 3935981094 | In medias res | Latin phrase for the middle of things | 32 | |
| 3935981095 | Dynamic character | Characters that are shown to change and grow because of what happens to them | 33 | |
| 3935981096 | Round character | Characters that are complex and sometimes even challenging to understand; richly developed | 34 | |
| 3935981097 | Flat character | Characters that are generally less developed | 35 | |
| 3935981098 | Static character | Characters that don't change over the course of the story | 36 | |
| 3935981099 | Stock character | Characters that are stereotypes and easily recognized by readers or audiences | 37 | |
| 3935981100 | Third person limited | Narrator that has limited omniscience. The narrator only narrates from one character's point of view | 38 | |
| 3935981101 | Third person objective | Narrator does not look into the mind of any characters or explain why any character does what they do | 39 | |
| 3935981102 | Stream of consciousness | The continuous flow of thoughts from one or more characters; it is not used as often and includes all the thoughts, perceptions, memories, and feelings of the character; characterized by unstructured syntax | 40 | |
| 3935981103 | Selection of detail | The author's choice of (specific) events, words, incidents, etc. which are used to make or create a narrative/scene | 41 | |
| 3935981104 | Characterization | Representation of a character(s) on the stage or in writing, especially by imitating or describing actions, gestures, or speeches | 42 |
