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| 4302240203 | allusion | a reference to a literary or historical event person or place | 0 | |
| 4302245092 | allegory | prose or poetic narrative in which the character behavior, and even the setting demonstrates multiple levels of meaning or significance ; universal symbol/personified abstraction ex. grim reaper | 1 | |
| 4302250061 | attitude | speaker, author's, characters disposition toward or opinion of a subject | 2 | |
| 4302251658 | anaphora | the regular repitition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases or clauses ex. I have a dream I have a dream that one day down in Alabama... I have a dream I have a dream that one day every valley... | 3 | |
| 4302256587 | anecdote | a brief story or tale told by a character | 4 | |
| 4302258056 | antithesis | the juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel words, phrases, grammatical structure or ideas ex. "Too err is human, to forgive divine" | 5 | |
| 4302260719 | apostrophe | an address or invocation to something that is inanimate - such as an angry lover who might scream at the ocean in their despair | 6 | |
| 4302266158 | asyndeton | a style in which conjunctions are omitted, usually producing a more fast paced, more rapid prose ex. I came, I saw, I conquered | 7 | |
| 4302271981 | assonance | the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, usually those found in stressed syllables of close proximity ex. the rain in Spain falls mainly in the plains | 8 | |
| 4302278730 | ballad | a narrative poem that is, or originally was, meant to be sung, characterized by repetition and refrain (recurring phrase or phrases) | 9 | |
| 4302282464 | ballad stanza | common stanza form, consisting of a quatrain that alternates four beat and three beat lines: one and three unrhymed iambic tetrameter (four beats), and two and four are rhymed iambic trimeter (three beats) | 10 | |
| 4302288810 | blank verse | the verse form that most resembles common speech, consists of unrhymed lines in iambic pentameter | 11 | |
| 4302293621 | caesura | a pause in line of verse, indicated by natural speech patterns rather than due to specific metrical patterns ex. Alas how changed! // What sudden horrors rise! A naked lover // bound and bleeding lies! | 12 | |
| 4302300711 | chiasmus | a figure of speech by which the order of the terms in the first two parallel clauses is reversed in the second ex. I mean what I say and I say what I mean | 13 | |
| 4302305544 | colloquial | ordinary language, the vernacular | 14 | |
| 4302306384 | conceit | an extended metaphor | 15 | |
| 4302308252 | consonance | the repetition of a sequence of two or more consonants, but with a change in the intervening vowels ex. the luMPy buMPy road | 16 | |
| 4302313756 | couplet | two rhyming lines of iambic pentameter that together present a single idea or connection | 17 | |
| 4302316922 | dactylic | metrical pattern, each foot consists of a syllable followed by two unstressed ones stressed, unstressed, unstressed /)) | 18 | |
| 4302326577 | dialect | the language and speech of idiosyncrasies of a specific area, region or group of people | 19 | |
| 4302331749 | diction | specific word choice to persuade or convey tone, purpose or effect | 20 | |
| 4302333685 | dramatic monologue | a monologue set in a specific situation and spoken to an imaginary audience (synonymous with soliloquy) | 21 | |
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| 4302364858 | elegy | a poetic lament upon the death of a particular people, usually ending in consolation | 23 | |
| 4302364859 | enjambment | 24 |
