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| 8004811018 | allegory | a piece of literature that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, normally of political or moral nature | 0 | |
| 8004813927 | ballad | a poem that is typically arranged in quatrains with the rhyme scheme ABAB. Ballads are usually narrative, which means they tell a story. Ballads began as folk songs and continue to be used today in modern music. | 1 | |
| 8004818723 | apostrophe | a punctuation used to indicate either possession or the omission of letters or numbers | 2 | |
| 8004821693 | stanza | a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse | 3 | |
| 8004823228 | theme | the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic | 4 | |
| 8004827640 | elegy | A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead. | 5 | |
| 8004832045 | epic | A long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition. | 6 | |
| 8004833343 | epithet | An adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned. | 7 | |
| 8004840794 | rhetoric | the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing. | 8 | |
| 8004844209 | soliloquy | an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play. | 9 | |
| 8004848974 | vignette | a short impressionistic scene that focuses on one moment or character and gives a trenchant impression about that character, an idea, setting, and/or object. | 10 | |
| 8004852535 | aphorism | a statement of truth or opinion expressed in a concise and witty manner. | 11 | |
| 8004860781 | aubade | a song or poem about lovers separating at dawn | 12 | |
| 8004864155 | apotheosis | exaltation to divine rank or stature; deification | 13 | |
| 8004866615 | asyndeton | a stylistic device used in literature and poetry to intentionally eliminate conjunctions between the phrases and in the sentence, yet maintain the grammatical accuracy | 14 | |
| 8004869080 | bathos | when a writer or a poet falls into inconsequential and absurd metaphors, descriptions or ideas in an effort to be increasingly emotional or passionate | 15 | |
| 8004873616 | bombast | a noun meaning pretentious or boastful talk | 16 | |
| 8004876275 | caesura | a pause in a line that is formed by the rhythms of natural speech rather than meter | 17 | |
| 8004878422 | chiasmus | a rhetorical device in which two or more clauses are balanced against each other by the reversal of their structures in order to produce an artistic effect | 18 | |
| 8004883120 | catharsis | an emotional discharge through which one can achieve a state of moral or spiritual renewal or achieve a state of liberation from anxiety and stress | 19 | |
| 8004887688 | conceit | a kind of metaphor that compares two very unlike things in a surprising and clever way | 20 | |
| 8004892663 | didactic verse | a novel, play or poem that aims to teach us something | 21 | |
| 8004895661 | epigram | a short but insightful statement, often in verse form, which communicates a thought in a witty, paradoxical, or funny way. | 22 | |
| 8004899052 | 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. | 23 | |
| 8004901234 | foot | the most basic unit of a poem's meter | 24 | |
| 8004903027 | iamb | a foot containing unaccented and short syllables followed by a long and accented syllable in a single line of a poem | 25 | |
| 8004907881 | form | a piece of writing is simply its structure, how it is constructed and organized | 26 | |
| 8004911009 | hamartia | the protagonist's error or tragic flaw that leads to a chain of plot actions culminating in a reversal of their good fortune to bad | 27 | |
| 8004914845 | hexameter | a metrical line of verses consisting of six feet. | 28 | |
| 8004916157 | homily | any serious talk, speech, or lecture providing moral or spiritual advice. | 29 | |
| 8004919503 | hyperbole | a figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement. example: "mountains of roast and boiled potatoes" (Rowling 203) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | 30 | |
| 8004922851 | gustatory imagery | imagery related to the sense of taste | 31 | |
| 8004925501 | olfactory imagery | imagery related to the sense of sight | 32 | |
| 8004927360 | juxtaposition | two or more ideas, places, characters and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts. | 33 | |
| 8004930717 | neoclassicism | a movement inspired by classical culture | 34 | |
| 8004932935 | motif | any recurring element that has symbolic significance in a story | 35 |
