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| 3383150268 | Hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. | 0 | |
| 3383150269 | Oxymoron | a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction | 1 | |
| 3383150270 | Personification | the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form. | 2 | |
| 3383150271 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, as in Cleveland won by six runs (meaning "Cleveland's baseball team"). | 3 | |
| 3383150272 | Metonymy | the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example suit for business executive, or the track for horse racing. | 4 | |
| 3383150273 | Figurative | departing from a literal use of words; metaphorical. | 5 | |
| 3383150274 | Literal | taking words in their usual or most basic sense without metaphor or allegory. | 6 | |
| 3383150275 | Imagery | visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work. | 7 | |
| 3383150276 | Diction | the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing. | 8 | |
| 3383150277 | Allusion | an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference. | 9 | |
| 3383150278 | Irony | the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect. | 10 | |
| 3383150279 | Verbal irony | irony in which a person says or writes one thing and means another, or uses words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning. | 11 | |
| 3383150280 | Situational irony | Situational irony is a literary device that you can easily identify in literary works. Simply, it occurs when incongruity appears between expectations of something to happen, and what actually happens instead. | 12 | |
| 3383150281 | Dramatic irony | a literary technique, originally used in Greek tragedy, by which the full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character. | 13 | |
| 3383150282 | Satire | the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. | 14 | |
| 3383150283 | Tone | the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc. | 15 | |
| 3383150284 | Mood | the atmosphere or pervading tone of something, especially a work of art. | 16 | |
| 3383150285 | Symbolism | the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities. | 17 | |
| 3383150286 | Aphorism | a pithy observation that contains a general truth, such as, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." | 18 | |
| 3383150287 | Apostrophe | an exclamatory passage in a speech or poem addressed to a person (typically one who is dead or absent) or thing (typically one that is personified). | 19 | |
| 3383150288 | Antithesis | a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else. | 20 | |
| 3383150289 | Alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. | 21 | |
| 3383150290 | Assonance | in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible (e.g., penitence, reticence ). | 22 | |
| 3383150291 | Metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. | 23 | |
| 3383150292 | Simile | a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g., as brave as a lion, crazy like a fox ). | 24 | |
| 3383150293 | Connotation | an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning. | 25 | |
| 3383150294 | Rhyme | Way of creating sound patterns when two or more words sound alike | 26 | |
| 3383150295 | Meter | the rhythm of a piece of poetry, determined by the number and length of feet in a line. | 27 | |
| 3383150296 | Couplet | two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit. | 28 | |
| 3383150297 | Heroic couplet | Rhymed iambic pentamenter | 29 | |
| 3383150298 | Tercet | A three-line stanza | 30 | |
| 3383150299 | Triplet | When all three lines of a tercet rhyme | 31 | |
| 3383150300 | Tersa Rima | An interlocking three-line rhyme scheme: aba, bcb, cdc, and so on. | 32 | |
| 3383150301 | Quatrain | A four-lined stanza and most common among english language poetry. | 33 | |
| 3383150302 | Octave | a poem or stanza of eight lines; an octet. | 34 | |
| 3383150303 | Sestet | the last six lines of a sonnet. | 35 | |
| 3383150304 | Iambic | Unstressed, stressed. Away | 36 | |
| 3383150305 | Trochaic | Stressed, unstressed. Lovely | 37 | |
| 3383150306 | Anapestic | Unstressed, unstressed, stressed. Understood | 38 | |
| 3383150307 | Dactylic | Stressed, unstressed, unstressed. Desperate | 39 | |
| 3383150308 | Spondaic | Stressed, stressed. Dead set | 40 | |
| 3383150309 | Masculine rhyme | The rhyming of single syllable words | 41 | |
| 3383150310 | Feminine rhyme | Rhymed stressed syllable followed by one or more rhymed unstressed syllables. Butter clutter | 42 | |
| 3383150311 | Caesura | A pause within a line and is indicated by a II | 43 | |
| 3383150312 | Enjambment | When one line runs over to the next line without an ending. | 44 | |
| 3383150313 | Understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. | 45 | |
| 3383150314 | Ballad | Stanza - a quatrain made of "abcb" rhyme with alternating 8 and 6 syllable lines | 46 | |
| 3383150315 | Sonnet | Consists of 14 lines, usually written in iambic pentameter. Italian has 2 parts: first 8 = octave, second 6 = sestet. Octave presents a problem, situation, or attitude. Abbaabba. Sestet comments on or solves the above. Cdecde, cdcded, cdccdc. English (Shakespearean) sonnet = organized into 3 quatrains and a couplet. Abab, cdcd, efef, gg | 47 | |
| 3383150316 | Villanelle | Fixed form poem consisting of nineteen lines of any length divided into 6 stanzas. 5 tercets + a concluding quatrian. 1st tercet: 1st and 3rd lines rhyme; these rhymes are repeated in each subsequent tercet (aba) and in the final two lines of the quatrain (abaa). Line 1 appears in its entirety as lines 6, 12, and 18. Line 3 appears as lines 9, 15, and 19. | 48 | |
| 3383150317 | Sestina | Fixed form poem consisting of 39 lines of any length divided into 6 6-line stanzas and a three line concluding stanza called an envoy. The difficulty lies in repeating the 6 words at the end of the first stanza's lines at the end of the lines in the other 5 6-line stanzas as well. All 6 words must also appear in the final 3 lines of the poem. | 49 | |
| 3383150318 | Epigram | a pithy saying or remark expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way. | 50 | |
| 3383150319 | Limerick | a humorous, frequently bawdy, verse of three long and two short lines rhyming aabba, popularized by Edward Lear. | 51 | |
| 3383150320 | Parody | an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect. | 52 | |
| 3383150321 | Euphony | Lines that are musically pleasant to the ear and smooth | 53 | |
| 3383150322 | Cacophony | Lines that are discordant and difficult to pronounce | 54 | |
| 3383150323 | Classical | 1200 BC-455 AD | 55 | |
| 3383150324 | Medieval | 455-1485 | 56 | |
| 3383150325 | Renaissance | 1485-1660 | 57 | |
| 3383150326 | Enlightenment | 1660-1790 | 58 | |
| 3383150327 | Romantic | 1790-1830 | 59 | |
| 3383150328 | Victorian | 1832-1901 | 60 | |
| 3383150329 | Modern | 1914-1945 | 61 | |
| 3383150330 | Postmodern | 1945-present | 62 |
