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| 4652185023 | Anaphora | The deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve artistic effect. | 0 | |
| 4652185861 | Analogy | A comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it. | 1 | |
| 4652187174 | Anachronism | An error of chronology or timeline in literary piece. (Out of time and place.) | 2 | |
| 4652187981 | Ambiguity | A word, phrase, or statement which contains more than one meaning. | 3 | |
| 4652189036 | Allusion | A brief/indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literary, or political significance. | 4 | |
| 4652190224 | Alliteration | A stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound occur close together in a series. | 5 | |
| 4652191127 | Allegory | A figure of speech in which abstract ideas and principles are described in terms of characters, figures, and events. | 6 | |
| 4652192102 | Antagonist | Character or group of characters which stand in opposition to the protagonist or the main character | 7 | |
| 4652192708 | Antihero | A literary device used by writers for a prominent character in a lay or book that has characteristics opposite to that of a conventional hero. (Clumsy, unsolicited, unskilled) | 8 | |
| 4652195872 | Antithesis | Two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect. | 9 | |
| 4652196654 | Aphorism | A statement, truth, or opinion expressed in a concise and witty manor, often applied to philosophical moral, and literary principles. | 10 | |
| 4652197221 | Apostrophe | Figure of speech sometimes represented by exclamation "Oh!" Author or speaker detaches himself from reality and addresses an imaginary character in his speech. | 11 | |
| 4652198070 | Archetype | A typical character, an action, or a situation that seems to represent such universal patterns of human nature. | 12 | |
| 4652198978 | Aside | A comment/speech that a character delivers directly to the audience or to himself while other actors cannot listen. Only the audience can realize that an actor has expressed a speech for them. | 13 | |
| 4652200763 | Assonance | When 2+ words close to one another repeat the same vowel sound but start with different consonant sounds. (Men sell the wedding bells) | 14 | |
| 4652201843 | 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. | 15 | |
| 4652202732 | Bildungsroman | A special type of novel that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of its main character from his/her youth to adulthood. | 16 | |
| 4652203594 | Blank Verse | A literary device defined as un-rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter. (Poetry and prose are consistent meter with 10 syllables in each line where unstressed syllables are followed by stressed ones and 5 that are stressed but don't rhyme.) | 17 | |
| 4652980060 | Bombast | High sounding language with little meaning. | 18 | |
| 4652980384 | Cacophony | 1) A situation with a mixture of harsh and inharmonious sounds. 2) In literature, it is the use of words with sharp, harsh, hissing, and unmelodious sounds, primarily those of consonants to achieve desired result. | 19 | |
| 4652982621 | Caesura | A rhythmical pause in a poetic line or sentence. | 20 | |
| 4652983382 | Catharsis | An emotional discharge through which one can achieve a state of moral or spiritual renewal or achieve a state of liberation from anxiety or stress. | 21 | |
| 4652984538 | Chiasmus | A rhetorical device where 2+ clauses are balanced against each other by the reversal of their structures in order to produce an artistic effect. | 22 | |
| 4652987166 | Climax | A particular point in a narrative at which the conflict/tension hits the highest point. | 23 | |
| 4652987828 | Conceit | A figure of speech in which two vastly different objects are linked together with the help of similes or metaphors. | 24 | |
| 4652989714 | Connotation | A meaning implied by a word apart from the thing which it describes explicitly. | 25 | |
| 4652990721 | Consonance | Repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence. | 26 | |
| 4652992089 | Couplet | A literary device which can be defined as having two successive rhyming lines in a verse and has the same meter to form a complete thought. | 27 | |
| 4652992876 | Denotation | Literal or dictionary meanings of a word in contrast to its connotative/associated meaning. | 28 | |
| 4652993923 | Denouement | The resolution of the issue of a complicated plot in fiction. | 29 | |
| 4652994449 | Deus ex machina | Refers to the circumstance where an implausible concept or divine character is introduced into a storyline to resolve a conflict and procuring an interesting outcome. | 30 | |
| 4652995594 | Diction | A style of writing or speaking determined by the choice of words by a speaker or writer. | 31 | |
| 4652996617 | Didactic | Refers to a particular philosophy in art and literature that emphasizes the idea that different forms of art and literature ought to convey information and instructions along with pleasure and entertainment. | 32 | |
| 4653000185 | Dissonance | The use of impolite, harsh-sounding, and the unusual words in poetry to create harsh sound effects. | 33 | |
| 4653002031 | Elegy | A form of literature which is defined as a poem or song in the form of elegiac couplets, written in honor os someone deceased. | 34 | |
| 4653002859 | End-Stopped | A poetic device in which a pause comes at the end of a syntactic unit (sentence, clause, or phrase); expressed as a punctuation mark such as a colon, semi-colon, period, or full stop. | 35 | |
| 4653005010 | Enjambment | Moving over form one line to another without terminating punctuation mark. | 36 | |
| 4653005971 | Epigram | Rhetorical device that is a memorable, brief, interesting, and surprising satirical statement. | 37 | |
| 4653007552 | Epigraph | Literary device in the form of a poem, quotation, or sentence usually placed at the beginning of a document or simple piece having a few sentences but which belongs to another writer. | 38 | |
| 4653009478 | Euphemism | A polite, indirect expression which replaces words and phrases considered harsh and impolite or which suggest something unpleasant. | 39 | |
| 4653218244 | Euphony | The use of words and phrases that are distinguished as having a wide range of noteworthy melody or loveliness in the sounds they create. | 40 | |
| 4653277477 | Fallacy | Erroneous argument dependent upon an ultrasound or illogical contention. | 41 | |
| 4653220544 | 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. | 42 | |
| 4653228029 | Foot: Anapest | Combonation of 2 unstressed and a stressed syllable. (dadaDUM) | 43 | |
| 4653230706 | Foot: Dactyl | Combination of a stressed and 2 unstressed syllables. (DUMdada) | 44 | |
| 4653232733 | Foot: Iamb | Combination of unstressed and stressed syllable. (daDUM) | 45 | |
| 4653233834 | Foot: Spondee | Combination of 2 stressed syllables. (DUMDUM) | 46 | |
| 4653234037 | Foot: Trochee | Combination of stressed and unstressed syllable. (DUMda) | 47 | |
| 4653235221 | Foreshadowing | A writer gives an advance hint of what's to come later in the story. | 48 | |
| 4653235893 | Free Verse | Poetry that is free from limitations of regular meter or rhythm and does not rhyme with fixed forms. | 49 | |
| 4653237035 | Heroic Couplet | A pari of iambic pentameters. | 50 | |
| 4653237314 | Hubris | Extreme pride and arrogance shown by a character that ultimately brings about his downfall. | 51 | |
| 4653238576 | Hyperbaton | 1) The inversion in the arrangement of common words. 2) Writers play with the normal position of words, phrases, and clauses in order to create differently arranged sentences, but which still suggest similar meaning. | 52 | |
| 4653241413 | Hyperbole | Involves an exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis. | 53 | |
| 4653241880 | Image | To use figurative language to represent objects, actions, and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our physical senses. | 54 | |
| 4653243183 | In Medias Res | 1) Latin for "in the middle of things". 2) Describes a narrative that begins not at the beginning of a story but somewhere in the middle at some crucial point in the story. | 55 | |
| 4653251309 | Irony | Words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from their actual meaning of the words. | 56 | |
| 4653249535 | Irony: Dramatic | The audience knows more about a situation than the characters. | 57 | |
| 4653249917 | Irony: Verbal | Occurs when a speaker speaks something contradictory to his/her emotions and actions. | 58 | |
| 4653249918 | Irony: Situational | Occurs when incongruity appears between expectations of something to happen, and what actually happens instead. | 59 | |
| 4653255914 | Juxtaposition | 2 or more ideas, places, characters, and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or poem for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts. | 60 | |
| 4653258260 | Metaphor | Figure of speech which makes an implicit, implied, or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated but share some common characteristics. | 61 | |
| 4653260327 | Meter | A stressed and unstressed pattern in a verse or within the lines of a poem. | 62 | |
| 4653261227 | Metonymy | A figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated. | 63 | |
| 4653263122 | Monologue | A literary device where the speech or verbal presentation that a single character presents in order to express his/her collection of thoughts and ideas out loud. | 64 | |
| 4653266012 | Motif | An object or idea that repeats itself throughout a literary work. | 65 | |
| 4653266758 | Octave | A verse form consisting of 8 lines of iambic pentameter. (Most common rhyme scheme is ABBA ABBA) | 66 | |
| 4653267557 | Omniscient Narrator | A literary technique of writing narrative in 3rd person in which a narrator knows the feelings and thoughts of every character in the story. | 67 | |
| 4653269480 | Onomatopoeia | A word which imitates the natural sounds of a thing. | 68 | |
| 4653271687 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech in which 2 opposite ideas are joined to create an effect. ("Cruel Kindness", "Living Death".) | 69 | |
| 4653272732 | Parable | A figure of speech which presents a short story typically with a moral lesson at the end. | 70 | |
| 4653273592 | Paradox | Means "contrary to expectations, existing belief, or perceived opinion." | 71 | |
| 4653274947 | Parody | An imitation of a particular writer, artist, or a genre, exaggerating it deliberately to produce a comic effect. | 72 | |
| 4653276615 | Pathetic Fallacy | Literary device that attributes human qualities and emotions to inanimate objects of nature. | 73 | |
| 4653280364 | Pentameter | A line in a verse or poetry that has 5 strong metrical feet or beats. | 74 | |
| 4653281071 | Personification | Figure of speech in which a thing, idea, or animal is given human attributes. | 75 | |
| 4653281631 | Point of View | The angle of considering things which shows us the opinion or feelings of the individual involved in a situation. (Mode of narration.) | 76 | |
| 4653282655 | Polysyndeton | Stylistic device in which several succession in order to achieve an artistic effect. | 77 | |
| 4653283592 | Prosody | The study of meter, intonation, and rhythm of a poetic work. | 78 | |
| 4653284179 | Protagonist | Central character or leading figure in poetry, narrative, novel, or any other story. The "Hero". | 79 | |
| 4653284850 | Pun | A play on words in which a humorous effect is produced by using a word that suggests 2+ meanings or by exploiting similar sounding words have different meanings. | 80 | |
| 4653293375 | Quatrain | A verse with 4 lines or even a full poem with 4 lines having an independent and separate theme. | 81 | |
| 4653294312 | Rhyme scheme | A pattern of rhyme that comes at the end of each verse or line in poetry. | 82 | |
| 4653294719 | Sarcasm | 1) Means "Tear flesh" or "grind the teeth" 2) To speak bitterly | 83 | |
| 4653295601 | Scran/Scransion | To divide the poetry or a poetic form into feet by pointing out different syllables based on their lengths. | 84 | |
| 4653296440 | Seset | 1) Petrarch was the 1st one to have introduced this form into Italian sonnet. 2) The 2nd part of a sonnet, which has 6 lines and refers to a poem of 6 lines, or a 6 line stanza. | 85 | |
| 4653300886 | Simile | A figure of speech that makes a comparison, showing similarities between 2 different things. Uses the words "like" and "as". It is a direct comparison of 2 things. | 86 | |
| 4653302560 | Soliloquy | Often used in drama to reveal the innermost thoughts of a character. | 87 | |
| 4653305454 | Sonnet: English (Shakespearean) and Petrarchan (Italian) | Means small or little song/lyric. 14 lines written in iambic pentameter. Each line has 10 syllables and a specific rhyme scheme. | 88 | |
| 4653308395 | Stanza | A division of 4+ line shaving a fixed length, meter, or rhyming scheme. | 89 | |
| 4653313032 | Subtext | An implicit meaning or theme of a literary text. | 90 | |
| 4653313758 | Symbolism | The use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from the literal sense. | 91 | |
| 4653315048 | Synecdoche | Literary device where a part of something represents the whole or it may use a whole to represent a part. | 92 | |
| 4653315802 | Tercet | Any 3 lines of poetry, whether as a stanza, rhymed or unrhymed, metered or unmetered. Think Haiku. | 93 | |
| 4653317259 | Theme | Main idea/underlaying meaning of a literary work that may be stated directly or indirectly. | 94 | |
| 4653317933 | Trope | Figure of speech through which speakers/writers intend to express meanings of words differently than their literal meanings. | 95 | |
| 4653318632 | Verse | 1) Denotes a single line of poetry. 2) Can be used to refer to a stanza or other parts of poetry. | 96 | |
| 4653319172 | Verisimilitude | Likeness to truth. (Resemblance of a fictitious work to a real event even if it is a farfetched one. | 97 |
