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| 9887733650 | Expository | explanatory; intended to explain | 0 | |
| 9887733651 | Elegy | a sad or mournful poem | 1 | |
| 9887733652 | Epigram | a witty saying | 2 | |
| 9887733653 | Internal Rhyme | a rhyme between words in the same line | 3 | |
| 9887733654 | Prose | ordinary writing as distinguished from verse; anything that is not poetic | 4 | |
| 9887733655 | Confidante | character who shares secrets, personal information, or discussions of intimate or internal conflicts with another | 5 | |
| 9887733656 | Connotation | an idea that is implied or suggested; implied or suggested meanings associated with a word beyond its dictionary definition | 6 | |
| 9887733657 | Denotation | the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; dictionary definition | 7 | |
| 9887733658 | Form | give shape to; how something appears; an arrangement of the elements in a composition or discourse | 8 | |
| 9887733659 | Selection or Choice of Details | - | 9 | |
| 9887733660 | Perspective | the appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer; point of view | 10 | |
| 9887733661 | Meter | rhythm as given by division into parts of equal time; in literature (specifically poetry), this is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables | 11 | |
| 9887733662 | Euphemisms | words or terms used to make something sound less unpleasent | 12 | |
| 9887733663 | Parody | a composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way; a work that ridicules the style of another work by imitating and exaggerating its elements. . It can be utterly mocking or gently humorous. It depends on allusion and exaggerates and distorts the original style and content. | 13 | |
| 9887733664 | Apostrophe | address to an absent or imaginary person; when a speaker addresses someone/something that isn't there. | 14 | |
| 9887733665 | Parallel Structure | the repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures | 15 | |
| 9887733666 | Exposition | an account that sets forth the meaning or intent of a writing or discourse; background information | 16 | |
| 9887733667 | Modifier | a content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb; a word, phrase, or clause that qualifies or describes another word, phrase, or clause. | 17 | |
| 9887733668 | Subordinate Clause | a group of words containing both a subject and a verb that cannot stand by itself as a complete sentence | 18 | |
| 9887733669 | Mock Heroic | mocking or burlesquing any style, action, or character | 19 | |
| 9887733670 | Extended Metaphor | a metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work | 20 | |
| 9887733671 | Allegory | -A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning -uses different elements to represent different things. In other words, whereas symbolism usually has one thing representing some idea, an allegory is comprised of a series of symbols that individually represent various ideas Allegories always strive to convey ONE PARTICULAR message | 21 | |
| 9887733672 | rhetorical | concerned with *effect* or style of writing and speaking; relating to speech that is used to persuade or have some effect | 22 | |
| 9887733673 | literal | exactly as written or spoken; direct; Not figurative | 23 | |
| 9887733674 | figurative | not literal; metaphorical; symbolic; using a figure of speech | 24 | |
| 9887733675 | allusion | A reference to something literary, mythological, or historical that the author assumes the reader will recognize; passing reference or indirect mention | 25 | |
| 9887733676 | argumentative | controversial, disputable; disputatious | 26 | |
| 9887733677 | metaphor | a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity;, A comparison without using like or as | 27 | |
| 9887733678 | tone | the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author; the writer's or speaker's attitude toward the subject of a story, toward a character, or toward the audience (the readers). | 28 | |
| 9887733679 | satirical (satire, satirize) | 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 | 29 | |
| 9887733680 | understatement | the opposite of exaggeration. It is a technique for developing irony and/or humor where one writes or says less than intended. | 30 | |
| 9887733681 | hyperbole | Extreme exaggeration | 31 | |
| 9887733682 | diction | author's word choice | 32 | |
| 9887733683 | imagery | the ability to form mental images of things or events; description that appeals to the senses | 33 | |
| 9887733684 | alliteration | use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse; | 34 | |
| 9887733685 | syntax (syntactical patterns) | the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences; a systematic orderly arrangement | 35 | |
| 9887733686 | narrative | The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events. | 36 | |
| 9887733687 | paradox | (logic) a self-contradiction | 37 | |
| 9887733688 | Structure | the manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts; , the arrangement or framework of a sentence, paragraph, or entire work | 38 | |
| 9887733689 | Point of View | vantage point from which a writer tells a story or presents an argument | 39 | |
| 9887733690 | Narrative Prose | a kind of writing that tells a story | 40 | |
| 9887733691 | Perspective | a way of regarding situations or topics etc; point of view | 41 | |
| 9887733692 | Style | The author's words and the characteristic way that writer uses language to achieve certain effects. An important part of interpreting and understanding fiction is being attentive to the way the author uses words. | 42 | |
| 9887733693 | Speaker | the voice that communicates with the reader of the poem or play; the voice that talks to the audience | 43 | |
| 9887733694 | Puns | a humorous play on words | 44 | |
| 9887733695 | Abstraction | a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples; a generality; an idea or thought separated from concrete reality | 45 | |
| 9887733696 | Rhythm | The varying speed, loudness, pitch, elevation, intensity, and expressiveness of speech, especially poetry. In verse _ is normally regular; in prose it may or may not be regular. | 46 | |
| 9887733697 | Oxymoron | a figure of speech consisting of two apparently contradictory terms | 47 | |
| 9887733698 | verbal irony | when what is said is the opposite of what is meant (sarcasm) | 48 | |
| 9887733699 | situational irony | actual events or circumstances are the opposite of what is anticipated | 49 | |
| 9887733700 | dramatic irony | situation in which the audience knows more than the character | 50 | |
| 9887733701 | Antecedent | the word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers. | 51 | |
| 9887733702 | Symbol | something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible | 52 | |
| 9887733703 | Foreshadowing | Hinting at future events; the presentation of material in such a way that the reader is prepared for what is to come later in the work | 53 | |
| 9887733704 | Narrative Structure | story-form; chronological organization used to convey a story | 54 | |
| 9887733705 | Choice of Details | *Fact, statistic,quotation,evidence that supports the author's position | 55 | |
| 9887733706 | Allegory | a narrative in verse or prose in which the literal events consistently point to a parallel sequence of symbolic ideas ex: Faith as a name | 56 | |
| 9887733707 | Alliteration | use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse; | 57 | |
| 9887733708 | Allusion | a reference to a person, place, event, or literary work which a writer expects the reader to recognize | 58 | |
| 9887733709 | Apostrophe | address to an absent or imaginary person | 59 | |
| 9887733710 | Approximate Rhyme | rhyme in which the final sounds of words are similar but not identical (Ex. Blue and Threw; map and shape; ravine and stream) | 60 | |
| 9887733711 | Assonance | the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words | 61 | |
| 9887733712 | Blank Verse | unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter) | 62 | |
| 9887733713 | Cacophony | loud confusing disagreeable sounds; harsh sounds (Ex. She sells sea shells by the sea shore.) | 63 | |
| 9887733714 | Connotation | emotional word associations usually based on individual experience, regional experience or universal implication | 64 | |
| 9887733715 | Consonance | the repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words | 65 | |
| 9887733716 | Continuous Form | *poetry not divided into stanzas*; Lines follow each other without any type of structural organization except by units/blocks of meaning. | 66 | |
| 9887733717 | Couplet | two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme | 67 | |
| 9887733718 | Denoation | the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; dictionary definition | 68 | |
| 9887733719 | Dramatic Irony | situation in which the audience knows more than the character | 69 | |
| 9887733720 | End Rhyme | a word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line | 70 | |
| 9887733721 | End-stopped Line | A line that ends with a natural speech pause, usually marked by punctuation; a poetic line that has a pause at the end | 71 | |
| 9887733722 | English (or Shakespearean) sonnet | (14 lines) Three quatrains followed by a couplet The most common rhyme scheme for this sonnet is abab cdcd efef gg | 72 | |
| 9887733723 | Euphony | any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds; pleasant sounding | 73 | |
| 9887733724 | Extended Figure | A figure of speech (apostrophe, simile, metaphor, etc.) which is sustained or developed throughout a poem. | 74 | |
| 9887733725 | Feminine Rhyme | latter two syllables of first word rhyme with latter two syllables of second word (ceiling appealing); *a rhyme of two syllables, one stressed and one unstressed, as "waken" and "forsaken" and "audition" and "rendition;" sometimes called double rhyme.* | 75 | |
| 9887733726 | Foot | a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm | 76 | |
| 9887733727 | Free verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter (rhythm) or rhyme scheme | 77 | |
| 9887733728 | Haiku | 3 unrhymed lines (5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables) | 78 | |
| 9887733729 | Imagery | the ability to form mental images of things or events; description that appeals to the senses | 79 | |
| 9887733730 | Italian (or Petrarchan) sonnet | Developed by the Italian poet Petrarch, this sonnet is divided into an *octave* (eight lines) with the rhyme scheme ABBAABBA or ABBACDDC *and* a *sestet* (six lines) with the rhyme scheme CDECDE or CDCCDC | 80 | |
| 9887733731 | Masculine Rhyme | final syllable of first word rhymes with final syllable of second word (ex: scald recalled); | 81 | |
| 9887733732 | Metaphor | a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity; A comparison without using like or as | 82 | |
| 9887733733 | Meter | rhythm; in literature (specifically poetry), this is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables | 83 | |
| 9887733734 | Metonomy | a figure of speech which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it | 84 | |
| 9887733735 | Octave | a rhythmic group of eight lines of verse (poetry); 8 line stanza | 85 | |
| 9887733736 | Onomatopeia | words that imitate sounds of the actions they refer to; using words that imitate the sound they denote | 86 | |
| 9887733737 | Overstatement (hyperbole) | extravagant exaggeration | 87 | |
| 9887733738 | Paradox | an apparently contradictory statement that actually contains some truth; a self-contradictory statement | 88 | |
| 9887733739 | Paraphrase | preserve meaning in other words; to reword something; express the same message in different words | 89 | |
| 9887733740 | Personification | representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature; giving something other than a human human-like qualities | 90 | |
| 9887733741 | Prose | *Non-poetic*; ordinary writing as distinguished from verse | 91 | |
| 9887733742 | Quatrain | a stanza of four lines | 92 | |
| 9887733743 | Refrain | a regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem or song; a sound, word, phrase or line repeated regularly in a poem | 93 | |
| 9887733744 | Rhythm | The varying speed, loudness, pitch, elevation, intensity, and expressiveness of speech, especially poetry. In verse _ is normally regular; in prose it may or may not be regular; the arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements; *pattern/beat* | 94 | |
| 9887733745 | Run-on-line (or enjambment) | a line of verse that does not end in punctuation, but carries on grammatically to the next line; continuation of a sentence or clause over a line-break | 95 | |
| 9887733746 | Sarcasm | a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain | 96 | |
| 9887733747 | Satire | form of literature in which irony, sarcasm, and ridicule are employed to attack human vice and folly | 97 | |
| 9887733748 | Scansion | The process of measuring the stresses in a line of verse in order to determine the metrical pattern (type/number of feet) of the line. | 98 | |
| 9887733749 | Sestet | a rhythmic group of six lines of verse; six line stanza | 99 | |
| 9887733750 | Simile | a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as') | 100 | |
| 9887733751 | Situational Irony | actual events or circumstances are the opposite of what is anticipated | 101 | |
| 9887733752 | Sonnet | a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme | 102 | |
| 9887733753 | Symbol | the literal use of an object, person, action or event that stands for something more than itself and suggests a larger, perhaps more universal meaning. | 103 | |
| 9887733754 | Theme | a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work; a central message,concern or purpose that usually expresses a general idea about human begins or about life | 104 | |
| 9887733755 | Tone | refers to the manner of speaking that an author uses; may be revealed in the *attitude* toward the characters and the subject, the construction of sentence patterns, word usage, figurative language; creates spirit and attitude. | 105 | |
| 9887733756 | Understatement | a statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said | 106 | |
| 9887733757 | Verbal Irony | when what is said is the opposite of what is meant (sarcasm) | 107 | |
| 9887733758 | Analogy | drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect (ex. You are as annoying as nails on a chalkboard). | 108 | |
| 9887733759 | Antithesis | a statement in which two opposing ideas are balanced (ex. You're easy on the eyes, hard on the heart) | 109 | |
| 9887733760 | Caesura | a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line | 110 | |
| 9887733761 | Catalog | A complete list of items, typically in alphabetical or other systematic order (ex. x, son of y, son of z) | 111 | |
| 9887733762 | Conceit | an elaborate metaphor that manifests itself throughout a piece of literature (mostly poetry) | 112 | |
| 9887733763 | Diction | author's word choice | 113 | |
| 9887733764 | Internal Rhyme | when two words in the same line rhyme | 114 | |
| 9887733765 | Inversion | when two expressions switch their canonical order of appearance (ex. Are you coming?) | 115 | |
| 9887733766 | Juxtoposition | placing words, phrases, characters, etc. in close proximity for comparison or ironic effect | 116 | |
| 9887733767 | Litotes | understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary) --> ex. not the best = bad | 117 | |
| 9887733768 | Oxymoron | conjoining contradictory terms (ex. deafening silence; cruel kindness) | 118 | |
| 9887733769 | Pun | A play on words involving the use of words with similar sounds but different meanings (sun/son), | 119 | |
| 9887733770 | Anachromism | something out of place in time; unchronological | 120 | |
| 9887733771 | Anecdote | short account of an incident (especially a biographical one) | 121 | |
| 9887733772 | Catharsis | a release of emotional tension; purification/cleansing that brings emotional relief or renewal | 122 | |
| 9887733773 | Foil | a character who is used in contrast with another character in order to highlight particular (usually good) qualities of the other character (ex. pretty girls like plain friends because their beauty is accentuated) | 123 | |
| 9887733774 | Parody | humorous or satirical mimicry; a composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way | 124 | |
| 9887733775 | Pathos | emotional appeal; a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow) | 125 | |
| 9887733776 | Rhyme Scheme | the pattern of rhyme between lines of a poem or song. | 126 | |
| 9887733777 | Sight/Visual Rhyme | A rhyme that looks like it should rhyme but doesn't (food/good); similar spelling, different pronounciation | 127 | |
| 9887733778 | Soliloquy | speech you make to yourself (usually a long reflection) | 128 | |
| 9887733779 | Stream of Consciousness | the continuous flow of ideas and feelings that constitute an individual's conscious experience; the presentation thoughts and feelings of a character as they occur. | 129 |
