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| 3404255513 | Soliloquy | A monologue spoken by an actor at a point in the play when the character believes himself to be alone | 0 | |
| 3404259435 | Rhythm | A pattern of recurrence, something that happens with regularity. Poets use repetition, line length, meter, and pauses to create it | 1 | |
| 3404262077 | Meter | The basic plan of a line--the plan of stressed and unstressed syllables | 2 | |
| 3404264677 | Enjambment | The continuation of a sentence form one line or couplet into the next; the running over of a sentence from one verse or couplet into another so that closely related words fall in different lines | 3 | |
| 3404268742 | Revenge Play | These usually share similar elements, such as: a play within a play, mad scenes, a vengeful ghost, one or several gory scenes, and, most importantly, a central character who has a serious grievance against a formidable opponent | 4 | |
| 3404277929 | Awry | Away from the appropriate, planned, or expected course; amiss | 5 | |
| 3404282037 | Parallelism | Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 6 | |
| 3404284324 | Isocolon | A scheme of parallel structure that occurs when the parallel elements are similar not only in grammatical structure but also in length (number of words or even number of syllables) | 7 | |
| 3404288351 | Antithesis | The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, often in parallel structure. The contrast may be in words or in ideas or bot. | 8 | |
| 3404291550 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial or medial consonants in two or more adjacent words | 9 | |
| 3404295460 | Assonance | The repetition of similar vowel sounds, preceded and followed by different consonants, in the stressed syllables of adjacent words | 10 | |
| 3404299247 | Anaphora | Repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginnings of successive clauses | 11 | |
| 3404308057 | Epistrophe | Repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses | 12 | |
| 3404309856 | Climax (in syntax) | Arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in an order of increasing importance | 13 | |
| 3404311242 | Tragic Hero | A person of noble birth or common birth with heroic or potentially heroic qualities. This person is fated by the Gods or by some supernatural force to doom and destruction or at least to great suffering. But the person struggles immensely against this fate and this cosmic conflict wins our admiration. Because the person simply cannot accept a diminished view of the self and because of some personality flaw, the person fails in this epic struggle against fate. | 14 | |
| 3404332274 | Lyric | A short poem in which the poet, the poet's persona, or another speaker expresses personal feelings | 15 | |
| 3404337272 | Ballad | Popular narrative song passed down orally | 16 | |
| 3404343858 | Sublime (in terms of art and nature) | Affecting the mind with a sense of overwhelming grandeur or irresistible power; calculated to inspire awe, deep reverence, or lofty emotion, by reason of its beauty, vastness, or grandeur | 17 | |
| 3404350587 | Frame Narrative | A literary technique used to contain an embedded narrative, a story within a story, to provide the reader with context about the main narrative | 18 | |
| 3404353288 | Monster | Any creature, usually found in legends or horror fiction, that is often hideous and may produce fear or physical harm by its appearance and/or its actions | 19 | |
| 3404358069 | Doppelgänger | A look-alike or double of a living person, sometimes portrayed as a paranormal phenomenon, and in some traditions as a harbinger of bad luck | 20 | |
| 3404359770 | A foil | A character that shows qualities that are in contrast with the qualities of another character with the objective to highlight the traits of the other character | 21 | |
| 3404362967 | Motif | Any recurring element that has symbolic significance in a story. Through its repetition, this can help produce other narrative (or literary) aspects such as theme or mood. | 22 |
