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| 7981584351 | Allegory | a story or a poem in which characters are representatice of abstract qualities, ideas, or events. | 0 | |
| 7981584352 | allusion (n) | an indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance | 1 | |
| 7981584353 | Anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | 2 | |
| 7981584354 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech where the speaker speaks directly to someone or something | 3 | |
| 7981584355 | archetype | a very typical example of a character, action, or situation that seems to represent such universal patterns of human nature | 4 | |
| 7981584356 | Assonance | The repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words. Used to reinforce the meanings of words or to set the mood | 5 | |
| 7981584357 | Asyndeton | Device used intentionally to eliminate conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses | 6 | |
| 7981584358 | blank verse | unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter) | 7 | |
| 7981584359 | cacophony | a mixture of harsh and discordant noises | 8 | |
| 7981584360 | Couplet | A successive pair of lines of poetry that are usually rhymed and contain the same meter | 9 | |
| 7981584361 | denouement | outcome; unraveling of the plot of a play or work of literature; a return to "normalcy" | 10 | |
| 7981584362 | dramatic irony | when the audience knows something the characters do not | 11 | |
| 7981584363 | dramatic monologue | a poetic form in which a single character reveals him/herself at a critical moment | 12 | |
| 7981584364 | Elegy (n) | a mournful poem, esp. one lamenting the dead | 13 | |
| 7981584365 | Enjambment | the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza. | 14 | |
| 7981584366 | Epistrophe | Repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses | 15 | |
| 8416202022 | Euphemism | the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt | 16 | |
| 8416202023 | euphony (n) | agreeableness of a sound; pleasing effect to the ear, especially a pleasant sounding or harmonious combination or succession of words | 17 | |
| 8416202024 | Exposition (n) | writing or speech primarily intended to convey information or to explain; a detailed statement or explanation; explanatory treatise | 18 | |
| 8416202025 | Foot (n) | the unit of rhythm in verse, whether quantitive or accentual-syllabic, iambic foot | 19 | |
| 8416448221 | free verse | poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter | 20 | |
| 8416448222 | iambic pentameter | a line ten syllables long that is accented on every second beat | 21 | |
| 8416448223 | Irony | the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning | 22 | |
| 8416448224 | Juxtaposition | Two or more ideas, characters, settings, phrases placed close together for the purpose of developing comparison and contrasts | 23 |
