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| 3894055774 | Plot | A literary term used to describe the events that make up a story or the main part of a story. These events relate to each other in a pattern or a sequence. | 0 | |
| 3894055775 | Realism | The representation in art or literature of objects, actions, or social conditions as they actually are, without idealization or presentation in abstract form. | 1 | |
| 3894055776 | Regionalism | The theory or practice of regional rather than central systems of administration or economic, cultural, or political affiliation. | 2 | |
| 3894055777 | Point-Of-View | The mode of narration that an author employs to let the readers "hear" and "see" what takes place in a story, poem, essay etc | 3 | |
| 3894126471 | Rhetoric | The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques | 4 | |
| 3894130769 | Rhythm | The pattern of development produced in a literary or dramatic work by repetition of elements such as words, phrases, incidents, themes, images, and symbols. | 5 | |
| 3894149293 | Romanticism | An artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850. | 6 | |
| 3894163574 | Satire | The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. | 7 | |
| 3894319148 | Setting | The setting is the environment in which a story or event takes place. Setting can include specific information about time and place. | 8 | |
| 3894319149 | Simile | A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g., as brave as a lion, crazy like a fox ). the use of simile. | 9 | |
| 3894319150 | Slave Narrative | A type of literary work that is made up of the written accounts of enslaved Africans in Great Britain and its colonies, including the later United States, Canada, and Caribbean nations. | 10 | |
| 3894319151 | Shakespeare | English playwright and poet whose works are noted for their exceptional verbal wit, psychological depth, and emotional range. {1564-1616.} | 11 | |
| 3894319152 | Sonnet | A poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line. | 12 | |
| 3894319153 | Stream of Consciousness | a person's thoughts and conscious reactions to events, perceived as a continuous flow. The term was introduced by William James in his Principles of Psychology (1890). a literary style in which a character's thoughts, feelings, and reactions are depicted in a continuous flow uninterrupted by objective description or conventional dialogue. James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Marcel Proust are among its notable early exponents. | 13 | |
| 3894336476 | Symbol | A symbol is literary device that contains several layers of meaning, often concealed at first sight, and is representative of several other aspects, concepts or traits than those that are visible in the literal translation alone. Symbol is using an object or action that means something | 14 | |
| 3894455554 | Symbolism | An artistic and poetic movement or style using symbolic images and indirect suggestion to express mystical ideas, emotions, and states of mind. It originated in late 19th century France and Belgium. | 15 | |
| 3894455555 | Tanka | A Japanese poem consisting of five lines, the first and third of which have five syllables and the other seven, making 31 syllables in all and giving a complete picture of an event or mood. | 16 | |
| 3894455556 | Time | The indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole. | 17 | |
| 3894455557 | Tradegy | A drama or literary work in which the main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow, especially as a consequence of a tragic flaw, moral weakness, or inability to cope with unfavorable circumstances. | 18 | |
| 3894455558 | Voice | The writer's voice is the individual writing style of an author, a combination of idiotypical usage of syntax, diction, punctuation, character development, dialogue, etc., within a given body of text (or across several works). Voice can be thought of in terms of the uniqueness of a vocal voice machine. | 19 | |
| 3894455559 | Victorian | relating to the period 1837 to 1901, when Victoria was Queen of England | 20 | |
| 3894455560 | Villanelle | A villanelle (also known as villanesque) is a nineteen-line poetic form consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain. There are two refrains and two repeating rhymes, with the first and third line of the first tercet repeated alternately until the last stanza, which includes | 21 |
