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| 7242873001 | Allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning | 0 | |
| 7242873002 | Alliteration | Repetition of consonant sounds | 1 | |
| 7242873003 | Allusion | an indirect reference | 2 | |
| 7242873004 | Antagonist | A character or force in conflict with the main character | 3 | |
| 7242873005 | Aside | A short remark or set of lines that are spoken by a character directly to the audience | 4 | |
| 7242873006 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | 5 | |
| 7242873007 | Cacophony | A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds | 6 | |
| 7242873008 | Caesura | A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line. | 7 | |
| 7242873009 | Catharsis | Emotional release | 8 | |
| 7242873010 | Character | A person in a story | 9 | |
| 7242887536 | Climax | Most exciting moment of the story; turning point | 10 | |
| 7242887537 | Comic relief | A humorous scene or speech intended to lighten the mood | 11 | |
| 7242887538 | Conflict | A struggle between opposing forces | 12 | |
| 7242887539 | Connotation | an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning. | 13 | |
| 7242887540 | Convention | practice widely observed in a group; custom; accepted technique or device | 14 | |
| 7242887541 | Couplet | Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme | 15 | |
| 7242887542 | Denotation | The dictionary definition of a word | 16 | |
| 7242888511 | Denouement | an outcome; result | 17 | |
| 7242888512 | deus ex machina | In literature, the use of an artificial device or gimmick to solve a problem. | 18 | |
| 7242888513 | Diction | word choice | 19 | |
| 7242909500 | dramatic monologue | when a single speaker in literature says something to a silent audience | 20 | |
| 7242909502 | Elegy | a sad or mournful poem | 21 | |
| 7242909503 | Epic | A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds | 22 | |
| 7242909504 | Epigram | witty comment | 23 | |
| 7242909505 | Euphony | beautiful sound | 24 | |
| 7242909506 | Exposition | a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory. | 25 | |
| 7242909507 | Fable | A brief story that leads to a moral, often using animals as characters | 26 | |
| 7242909508 | figurative language | Figures of speech used to make meaning clearer | 27 | |
| 7242909509 | Flashback | present action is temporarily interrupted so that past events can be described | 28 | |
| 7242911424 | Foreshadowing | a warning or indication of a future event | 29 | |
| 7243831139 | Hyperbole | exaggeration | 30 | |
| 7243831140 | Image | A word or phrase representing that which can be seen, touched, tasted, smelled, or felt. | 31 | |
| 7243831141 | Imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) | 32 | |
| 7243831142 | Irony | the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning | 33 | |
| 7243831143 | lyric poetry | A short poem in which a single speaker expresses personal thoughts and feelings | 34 | |
| 7243831144 | Magical realism | A literary or artistic genre in which realistic narrative and naturalistic technique are combined with surreal elements of dream or fantasy. | 35 | |
| 7243842069 | Metaphor | A comparison without using like or as | 36 | |
| 7243842070 | Metonymy | association name | 37 | |
| 7286652164 | monologue | A long speech made by one performer or by one person in a group. | 38 | |
| 7286656095 | motif | A recurring theme, subject or idea | 39 | |
| 7286658072 | narrative poem | a poem that tells a story | 40 | |
| 7286660261 | ode | a lyric poem that expresses strong emotions about life | 41 | |
| 7286663158 | onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. | 42 | |
| 7286664320 | oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. | 43 | |
| 7286666236 | parable | A simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson | 44 | |
| 7286666248 | paradox | a contradiction or dilemma | 45 | |
| 7286668120 | parallel plot | tells two stories of equal importance, moving from one to the other and back again. | 46 | |
| 7286704302 | parody | a work which imitates another in a ridiculous manner | 47 | |
| 7286704303 | pathos | appeal to emotion | 48 | |
| 7286705823 | personification | the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea | 49 | |
| 7286708181 | plot | Sequence of events in a story | 50 | |
| 7286712270 | point of view | The perspective from which a story is told | 51 | |
| 7286714007 | protagonist | Main character | 52 | |
| 7286715048 | quatrain | A four line stanza | 53 | |
| 7286716155 | resolution | End of the story where loose ends are tied up | 54 | |
| 7286716156 | rhetorical | relating to speech that is used to persuade or have some effect; insincere in expression | 55 | |
| 7286721925 | question | A statement that requires an answer. | 56 |
