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| 9559743225 | Accent | Refers to the stressed portion of a word | 0 | |
| 9559743226 | Allegory | A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbol meaning outside of the tale itself | 1 | |
| 9559743227 | Alliteration | The repetition of initial consonant sounds | 2 | |
| 9559743228 | Allusion | A reference to another work or famous figure | 3 | |
| 9559743229 | Anachronism | A misplacement in time | 4 | |
| 9559743230 | Analogy | A comparison, usually involving different things | 5 | |
| 9559743231 | Antagonist | The force or character opposing the protagonist | 6 | |
| 9559743232 | Antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause that determines what a pronoun refers to | 7 | |
| 9559743233 | Anticlimax | When an action produced far smaller results than one has been led to expect | 8 | |
| 9559743234 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech wherein the speaker talks directly to something that is nonhuman | 9 | |
| 9559743235 | Archaism | The use of deliberately old-fashioned language | 10 | |
| 9559743236 | Archetype | A pattern, symbol, or other element that recurs in far-flung and mythic literature | 11 | |
| 9559743237 | Assonance | The repeated use of vowel sounds | 12 | |
| 9559743238 | Atmosphere | The emotional tone/feeling or background that surrounds a scene, poem, or work | 13 | |
| 9559743239 | Ballad | A long, narrative poem, usually in very regular meter and rhyme, typically having a naive folksy quality | 14 | |
| 9559743240 | Bathos | When writing strains for grandeur it can't support and tries to jerk tears from every moment | 15 | |
| 9559743241 | Blank verse | Poetry in unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter, usually | 16 | |
| 9559743242 | Bombast | Pretentious, exaggeratedly learned language | 17 | |
| 9559743243 | Bildungsroman | A novel dealing with one person's formative years or spiritual education | 18 | |
| 9559743244 | Caesura | A song pause build into the middle of a poetic line | 19 | |
| 9559743245 | Cacophony | Using deliberately harsh, awkward sounds | 20 | |
| 9559743246 | Cadence | The beat of rhythm of a poem in a general sense | 21 | |
| 9559743247 | Canto | The name for a sectional division in a long work of poetry | 22 | |
| 9559743248 | Caricature | A portrait (verbal or otherwise) that exaggerates a facet of personality | 23 | |
| 9559743249 | Catharsis | The cleansing of emotion an audience member experiences, having lived vicariously through the experiences presented on stage | 24 | |
| 9559743250 | Chorus | The group of citizens who stand outside the main action on stage and comment on it | 25 | |
| 9559743251 | Coinage (neologism) | When a new word is invented on the spot | 26 | |
| 9559743252 | Colloquialism | A word or phrases that is used in conversational English that isn't a part of accepted "schoolbook" English | 27 | |
| 9559743253 | Conceit | Refers to a startling or unusual metaphor, or to a metaphor developed and expanded upon over several lines | 28 | |
| 9559743254 | Denotation and Connotation | The __________ of a word it its literal meaning. The _________ are everything else that the word might suggest or imply | 29 | |
| 9559743255 | Consonance | The repetition of consonant sounds within words | 30 | |
| 9559743256 | Couplet | A pair of lines that end in rhyme | 31 | |
| 9559743257 | Denouement | The final part of a narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved | 32 | |
| 9559743258 | 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 | |
| 9559743259 | Dead metaphor | An implied figurative comparison that through frequent use no longer evokes a picture | 34 | |
| 9559743260 | 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 | |
| 9559743261 | Didactic | Instructive, intent on imparting a moral, something excessively so | 36 | |
| 9559743262 | Diction | A writer's selection of words | 37 | |
| 9559743263 | Dirge | A song for the dead | 38 | |
| 9559743264 | Dissonance | The grating of incompatible sounds | 39 | |
| 9559743265 | Doggerel | Crude, simplistic verse, often in sing-song rhyme | 40 | |
| 9559743266 | Dramatic irony | When the audience knows something the character in the drama do not | 41 | |
| 9559743267 | Dramatic monologue | When a single speaker in literature says something to a silent audience | 42 | |
| 9559743268 | Elegy | A type of poem that meditates on death or mortality in a serious, thoughtful manner | 43 | |
| 9559743269 | Eulogy | Remarks in praise of someone who has died | 44 | |
| 9559743270 | End-rhyme | Rhyme at the ends of poetic lines | 45 | |
| 9559743271 | End-stopped | Poetic lines whose sense concludes as the line concludes | 46 | |
| 9559743272 | Anthropomorphism | When inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena are given human characteristics, behavior, or motivation | 47 | |
| 9559743273 | Enjambment | The continuation of a syntactic unit from one line or couplet of a poem to the next with no pause | 48 | |
| 9559743274 | Epic | A very long narrative poem on a serious theme in a dignified style | 49 | |
| 9559743275 | Epitaph | Lines that commemorate the dead at their burial place | 50 | |
| 9559743276 | Epigraph | A quotation at the beginning of a piece or writing | 51 | |
| 9559743277 | Euphemism | A word or phrase that takes the place of a harsh, unpleasant, or impolite reality | 52 | |
| 9559743278 | Euphony | When sounds blend harmoniously | 53 | |
| 9559743279 | Farce | A funny play or a comedy | 54 | |
| 9559743280 | Feminine rhyme | Rhymes involving words of one stressed and then one slack or unstressed syllable | 55 | |
| 9559743281 | Foil | A secondary character whose purpose is the highlight the characteristics of a main character, usually by contrast | 56 | |
| 9559743282 | Foot | The basic unit of measurement of meter, usually containing one stressed syllable and at least one unstressed syllable | 57 | |
| 9559743283 | Foreshadowing | An event or statement in a narrative that in miniature suggests a larger event that comes later | 58 | |
| 9559743284 | Free verse | Poetry written without a regular rhyme scheme or metrical platter | 59 | |
| 9559743285 | Genre | A subcategory of literature | 60 | |
| 9559743286 | 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 | |
| 9559743287 | Hubris | The excessive pride or ambition that leads to the main character's downfall | 62 | |
| 9559743288 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration or deliberate overstatement | 63 | |
| 9559743289 | In media res | Latin for "in the midst of things." When a narrative begin in the middle of the action | 64 | |
| 9559743290 | Irony | A discrepancy between what is states and what is implied | 65 | |
| 9559743291 | Verbal irony | Saying one thing while meaning the opposite | 66 | |
| 9559743292 | Cosmic irony | When fate dashes the protagonist's false hopes | 67 | |
| 9559743293 | Situational irony | When events turn out to be the opposite of what one would reasonably expect | 68 | |
| 9559743294 | Lament | A poem of sadness or grief over the death of a loved one | 69 | |
| 9559743295 | Lampoon | A satire | 70 | |
| 9559743296 | Lyric | A type of poem that explores the poet's personal interpretation of and feelings about the world | 71 |
