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| 2107206481 | epistolary | a piece of literature narrated through letters (examples: Frankenstein, Dracula) | 0 | |
| 2107206482 | romanticism | 1800-1840 reaction against Enlightenment rationalism; emphasized emotion, innovation, nature, the individual, and subjective experience (Examples: Byron, Shelley, Coleridge, Wordsworth, etc.) | 1 | |
| 2107206483 | gothicism | emphasizes the bizarre, darkness, elements of supernatural, psychic connection between the living and dead (the occult),strange and mysterious settings, frightening events, etc. (Example: Poe) | 2 | |
| 2107206484 | circumlocution | a roundabout or indirect way of speaking; the use of more words than necessary to express an idea; used to keep the reader guessing (Examples: euphemism, innuendo, equivocation) | 3 | |
| 2107206485 | anaphora | repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses or sentences in order to achieve an artistic effect (Example: "Five years have passed; / Five summers, with the length of / Five long winters! and again I hear these waters" -- Wordsworth) | 4 | |
| 2107206486 | epistrophe | repetition of a word or words at the end of two or more successive verses or sentences in order to achieve an artistic effect (Example: The big sycamore ... was gone. The willow tangle was gone. The little enclave of untrodden bluegrass was gone. The clump of dogwood ... across the creek-now that, too, was gone" -- Robert Warren) | 5 | |
| 2107206487 | aporia | expression of doubt (often feigned) by which a speaker appears uncertain as to what he should think, say, or do (Example: "To be, or not to be: that is the question. / Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer / The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, / Or to take arms against a sea of troubles" -- Hamlet) | 6 | |
| 2107693959 | anagram | a form of word play in which letters of a word or phrase are rearranged to form a new word or phrase and provide humor or hide an identity (Examples: Mother-in-law = Hitler woman / Jim Morrison = Mr. Mojo Risin / Hamlet = Amleth, a Danish prince) | 7 | |
| 2107693960 | antithesis | a rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect (Examples: "To err is human; to forgive divine" -- Pope / "Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav'n." -- Milton) | 8 | |
| 2107693961 | colloquialism | the use of informal words, phrases or even slang in a piece of writing; gives literature a sense of realism and helps readers relate to or understand background of characters (Example: "I didn't want to go back no more. I had stopped cussing, because the widow didn't like it; but now I took to it again because pap hadn't no objections -- Huck Finn) | 9 |
