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| 9299378070 | Accent | Refers to the stressed portion of a word | 0 | |
| 9299380356 | Allegory | A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbol meaning outside of the tale itself | 1 | |
| 9299383717 | Alliteration | The repetition of initial consonant sounds | 2 | |
| 9299385948 | Allusion | A reference to another work or famous figure | 3 | |
| 9299388332 | Anachronism | A misplacement in time | 4 | |
| 9299390377 | Analogy | A comparison, usually involving different things | 5 | |
| 9299393864 | Antagonist | The force or character opposing the protagonist | 6 | |
| 9299395409 | Antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause that determines what a pronoun refers to | 7 | |
| 9299403888 | Anticlimax | When an action produced far smaller results than one has been led to expect | 8 | |
| 9299407385 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech wherein the speaker talks directly to something that is nonhuman | 9 | |
| 9299409245 | Archaism | The use of deliberately old-fashioned language | 10 | |
| 9299411008 | Archetype | A pattern, symbol, or other element that recurs in far-flung and mythic literature | 11 | |
| 9299413020 | Assonance | The repeated use of vowel sounds | 12 | |
| 9299414978 | Atmosphere | The emotional tone/feeling or background that surrounds a scene, poem, or work | 13 | |
| 9299417474 | Ballad | A long, narrative poem, usually in very regular meter and rhyme, typically having a naive folksy quality | 14 | |
| 9299421615 | Bathos | When writing strains for grandeur it can't support and tries to jerk tears from every moment | 15 | |
| 9299426240 | Blank verse | Poetry in unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter, usually | 16 | |
| 9299428544 | Bombast | Pretentious, exaggeratedly learned language | 17 | |
| 9299431490 | Bildungsroman | A novel dealing with one person's formative years or spiritual education | 18 | |
| 9299436259 | Caesura | A song pause build into the middle of a poetic line | 19 | |
| 9299438077 | Cacophony | Using deliberately harsh, awkward sounds | 20 | |
| 9299440044 | Cadence | The beat of rhythm of a poem in a general sense | 21 | |
| 9467065864 | Canto | The name for a sectional division in a long work of poetry | 22 | |
| 9467067146 | Caricature | A portrait (verbal or otherwise) that exaggerates a facet of personality | 23 | |
| 9467069220 | Catharsis | The cleansing of emotion an audience member experiences, having lived vicariously through the experiences presented on stage | 24 | |
| 9467074076 | Chorus | The group of citizens who stand outside the main action on stage and comment on it | 25 | |
| 9467076890 | Coinage (neologism) | When a new word is invented on the spot | 26 | |
| 9467078989 | Colloquialism | A word or phrases that is used in conversational English that isn't a part of accepted "schoolbook" English | 27 | |
| 9467085424 | Conceit | Refers to a startling or unusual metaphor, or to a metaphor developed and expanded upon over several lines | 28 | |
| 9467088763 | Denotation and Connotation | The __________ of a word it its literal meaning. The _________ are everything else that the word might suggest or imply | 29 | |
| 9467095688 | Consonance | The repetition of consonant sounds within words | 30 | |
| 9467097238 | Couplet | A pair of lines that end in rhyme | 31 | |
| 9467097239 | Denouement | The final part of a narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved | 32 | |
| 9467101284 | Deus ex machina | The unexpected power or event saving a seemingly hopeless situation, especially as a contrived plot device in a play or novel | 33 | |
| 9467107745 | Dead metaphor | An implied figurative comparison that through frequent use no longer evokes a picture | 34 | |
| 9467111281 | Decorum | In order to observe this, a character's speech must be styled according to their social situation, and in accordance with the occasion | 35 | |
| 9467117294 | Didactic | Instructive, intent on imparting a moral, something excessively so | 36 | |
| 9467120205 | Diction | A writer's selection of words | 37 | |
| 9467120206 | Dirge | A song for the dead | 38 | |
| 9467121767 | Dissonance | The grating of incompatible sounds | 39 | |
| 9467124117 | Doggerel | Crude, simplistic verse, often in sing-song rhyme | 40 | |
| 9467126144 | Dramatic irony | When the audience knows something the character in the drama do not | 41 | |
| 9469630839 | Dramatic monologue | When a single speaker in literature says something to a silent audience | 42 | |
| 9469634084 | Elegy | A type of poem that meditates on death or mortality in a serious, thoughtful manner | 43 | |
| 9469637066 | Eulogy | Remarks in praise of someone who has died | 44 | |
| 9469639346 | End-rhyme | Rhyme at the ends of poetic lines | 45 | |
| 9469641445 | End-stopped | Poetic lines whose sense concludes as the line concludes | 46 | |
| 9487861024 | Anthropomorphism | When inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena are given human characteristics, behavior, or motivation | 47 | |
| 9543161881 | Enjambment | The continuation of a syntactic unit from one line or couplet of a poem to the next with no pause | 48 | |
| 9543166363 | Epic | A very long narrative poem on a serious theme in a dignified style | 49 | |
| 9543170383 | Epitaph | Lines that commemorate the dead at their burial place | 50 | |
| 9543174693 | Epigraph | A quotation at the beginning of a piece or writing | 51 | |
| 9543179614 | Euphemism | A word or phrase that takes the place of a harsh, unpleasant, or impolite reality | 52 | |
| 9543189850 | Euphony | When sounds blend harmoniously | 53 | |
| 9543192959 | Farce | A funny play or a comedy | 54 | |
| 9543196206 | Feminine rhyme | Rhymes involving words of one stressed and then one slack or unstressed syllable | 55 | |
| 9543200761 | Foil | A secondary character whose purpose is the highlight the characteristics of a main character, usually by contrast | 56 | |
| 9543205153 | Foot | The basic unit of measurement of meter, usually containing one stressed syllable and at least one unstressed syllable | 57 | |
| 9543215197 | Foreshadowing | An event or statement in a narrative that in miniature suggests a larger event that comes later | 58 | |
| 9543219899 | Free verse | Poetry written without a regular rhyme scheme or metrical platter | 59 | |
| 9543224910 | Genre | A subcategory of literature | 60 | |
| 9543230975 | Gothic novel | An English genre of fiction popular in the 18th to early 19th centuries, characterized by an atmosphere of mystery and horror and having a pseudo-medieval setting | 61 | |
| 9543247875 | Hubris | The excessive pride or ambition that leads to the main character's downfall | 62 | |
| 9543251758 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration or deliberate overstatement | 63 | |
| 9543254931 | In media res | Latin for "in the midst of things." When a narrative begin in the middle of the action | 64 | |
| 9543261067 | Irony | A discrepancy between what is states and what is implied | 65 | |
| 9543265423 | Verbal irony | Saying one thing while meaning the opposite | 66 | |
| 9543268213 | Cosmic irony | When fate dashes the protagonist's false hopes | 67 | |
| 9543279129 | Situational irony | When events turn out to be the opposite of what one would reasonably expect | 68 | |
| 9543283006 | Lament | A poem of sadness or grief over the death of a loved one | 69 | |
| 9543285879 | Lampoon | A satire | 70 | |
| 9543285880 | Lyric | A type of poem that explores the poet's personal interpretation of and feelings about the world | 71 | |
| 9579714740 | Masculine rhyme | A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable | 72 | |
| 9579717378 | Melodrama | A form of cheesy theater in which the hero is very, very good, the villain is oh so evil, and the heroine oh so pure | 73 | |
| 9579721616 | Metaphor and Simile | 1. A comparison or analogy that states one thing is another 2. Like #1, but softens the full-out equation of things | 74 | |
| 9579729412 | Meter | Rhythmic patterns of stressed and un-stressed syllables | 75 | |
| 9579731582 | Metonymy | A word that is used to stand for something else that it attributes of is is associated with | 76 | |
| 9579735628 | Motif | A recurring element or device | 77 | |
| 9579737839 | Nemesis | The protagonist's archenemy or supreme and persistent difficulty | 78 | |
| 9579750064 | Onomatopoeia | Word that sound like they mean | 79 | |
| 9579751915 | Opposition | To have a pair of elements that contrast sharply, not necessarily in conflict | 80 | |
| 9579758990 | Oxymoron | A phrase-like contradiction | 81 | |
| 9579774330 | Palindrome | A word or phrase that reads the same forward and back | 82 | |
| 9579782213 | Parable | Like a fable or an allegory, this is a story that instructs | 83 | |
| 9579783688 | Paradox | A situation or statement that seems to contradict itself, but on closer inspection, does not | 84 | |
| 9579789025 | Parallelism | Repeated syntactical similarities used for effect | 85 | |
| 9579796217 | Parenthetical phrase | A phrase set off by commas that interrupts the flow of a sentence with some added detail | 86 | |
| 9580483677 | Parody | The work that results when a specific work is exaggerated to ridiculousness | 87 | |
| 9580487379 | Pastoral | A poem set in tranquil nature or even more specifically, about shepherds | 88 | |
| 9580491864 | Pathos | Literature that seeks to arouse and intensify sorrow, pity, or sympathy | 89 | |
| 9580495027 | Personification | Giving an inanimate object human qualities or form | 90 | |
| 9580502459 | Plaint | A poem or speech expressing sorrow | 91 | |
| 9580506048 | The omniscient narrator | A third-person narrator who sees, like God, into each character's mind and understand all the action going on | 92 | |
| 9580517079 | The limited omniscient narrator | A third-person narrator who generally reports only what one character (usually the main character) sees, and who only reports the thoughts of that one character | 93 | |
| 9580526175 | The objective, or camera-eye narrator | A third-person narrator who only reports on what would be visible to a camera. This narrator does not know what a character is thinking unless the character speaks of it | 94 | |
| 9580533016 | The first-person narrator | A narrator who is a character in the story and tells the tale from his or her point of view | 95 | |
| 9580535096 | The stream consciousness technique | Like a first-person narration, but instead of the characters telling the story, the author places the reader inside the main character's head, making them privy to all the character's thoughts | 96 | |
| 9656174915 | Prelude | An introductory poem to a longer work of verse | 97 | |
| 9656175009 | Protagonist | The main character | 98 | |
| 9656177257 | Picaresque | An episodic tale of an incorrigible rascal who undertakes a series of adventures | 99 | |
| 9656180397 | Pun | The usually humorous use of a word in such as way to suggest two or more meanings | 100 | |
| 9656183062 | Rhymed verse | Poetry with both rhyme and regular rhythm | 101 | |
| 9656186304 | Refrain | A line or set of lines repeated several times in a poem | 102 | |
| 9656188311 | Requiem | A son or prayer for the dead | 103 | |
| 9656190518 | Rhapsody | An intensely passionate verse or section of verse, usually of love or praise | 104 | |
| 9657161953 | Satire | A work that exposes common character flaws to the cold light of humor | 105 | |
| 9657163838 | Soliloquy | A speech spoken by a character alone on stage | 106 | |
| 9657167564 | Sonet | A lyric poem consisting of fourteen lines in iambic pentameter | 107 | |
| 9657169662 | Symbolism | A device in literature where an object represents an idea | 108 | |
| 9657172376 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part comes to stand for the whole | 109 | |
| 9657175676 | Tragic Flaw | In a tragedy, this is the weakness of a character in an otherwise good individual that usually leads to their downfall | 110 | |
| 9657180393 | Truism | A way too obvious truth | 111 | |
| 9657181899 | Verisimilitude | The appearance of actuality | 112 | |
| 9657183565 | Weltanschauung | A comprehensive conception or theory of the world and the place of humanity within it | 113 |
