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| 10334283871 | Allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning | 0 | |
| 10334283872 | Alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. | 1 | |
| 10334283873 | Allusion | A reference to another work of literature, person, or event | 2 | |
| 10334283874 | Ambiguity | An event or situation that may be interpreted in more than one way. | 3 | |
| 10334283875 | Anachronism | something or someone out of place in terms of historical or chronological context | 4 | |
| 10334283876 | Analogy | A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them. | 5 | |
| 10334283877 | Anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | 6 | |
| 10334283878 | Antagonist | A character or force in conflict with the main character | 7 | |
| 10334283879 | Antihero | a central character in a story, movie, or drama who lacks conventional heroic attributes. | 8 | |
| 10334283880 | Antithesis | a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else a literary device that is used to put two contrasting ideas together | 9 | |
| 10334283881 | Aphorism | A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life. | 10 | |
| 10334283882 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech wherein the speaker speaks directly to something nonhuman | 11 | |
| 10334283883 | Archetype | a typical character, action, or situation that seems to represent universal patterns of human nature | 12 | |
| 10334283884 | Aside | Lines that are spoken by a character directly to the audience | 13 | |
| 10334283885 | Assonance | Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity | 14 | |
| 10334283886 | Asyndeton | Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words | 15 | |
| 10334283887 | Bildungsroman | a novel dealing with one person's formative years or spiritual education. | 16 | |
| 10334283888 | blank verse | Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter | 17 | |
| 10334283889 | Bombast | Inflated, pretentious language | 18 | |
| 10334283890 | Cacophony | A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds | 19 | |
| 10334283891 | Caesura | A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line. | 20 | |
| 10334283892 | Catharsis | A release of emotional tension | 21 | |
| 10334283893 | Chiasmus | a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases | 22 | |
| 10334283894 | Climax | the most intense, exciting, or important point of something; a culmination or apex. | 23 | |
| 10334283895 | Conceit | A fanciful, particularly clever extended metaphor | 24 | |
| 10334283896 | Connotation | the implied or associative meaning of a word | 25 | |
| 10334283897 | Consonance | Repetition of consonant sounds | 26 | |
| 10334283898 | Couplet | two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit. | 27 | |
| 10334283899 | Denotation | The dictionary definition of a word | 28 | |
| 10334283900 | Denouement | the final resolution of the main complication of a literary or dramatic work | 29 | |
| 10334283901 | Deus ex machina | an unexpected power or event saving a seemingly hopeless situation | 30 | |
| 10334283902 | Diction | A writer's or speaker's choice of words | 31 | |
| 10334283903 | Didactic | a work that is intended to preach or teach, often containing a particular moral or political point | 32 | |
| 10334283904 | Dissonance | Unpleasant or unharmonious sound | 33 | |
| 10334283905 | Elegy | a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead. | 34 | |
| 10334283906 | End-stopped | A line with a pause at the end | 35 | |
| 10334283907 | Enjambment | poetic sentence which goes into the next line or verse with no end stop in between lines | 36 | |
| 10334283908 | Epigram | A witty saying expressing a single thought or observation | 37 | |
| 10334283909 | Epigraph | A brief quotation which appears at the beginning of a literary work. | 38 | |
| 10334283910 | Euphemism | An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant | 39 | |
| 10334283911 | Euphony | pleasant, harmonious sound | 40 | |
| 10334283912 | Foil | A character who acts as a contrast to another character | 41 | |
| 10334283913 | Foot | A metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables. | 42 | |
| 10334283914 | Anapestic foot | Three syllables with the stress on the last syllable u u / | 43 | |
| 10334283915 | Dactylic foot | Three syllables with the stress on the first syllable / u u | 44 | |
| 10334283916 | Iambic foot | an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable u / | 45 | |
| 10334283917 | Spondee foot | consists of two stressed syllables / / | 46 | |
| 10334283918 | Trochee Foot | A foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable. / u | 47 | |
| 10334283919 | Foreshadowing | A narrative device that hints at coming events; often builds suspense or anxiety in the reader. | 48 | |
| 10334283920 | Free verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme | 49 | |
| 10334283921 | Heroic couplet | a pair of rhyming iambic pentameters | 50 | |
| 10334283922 | Hubris | Excessive pride or self-confidence | 51 | |
| 10334283923 | Hyperbaton | Reversal of normal word order (as in 'cheese I love') to convey the same meaning | 52 | |
| 10334283924 | Hyperbole | A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor | 53 | |
| 10334283925 | Image | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) | 54 | |
| 10334283926 | In medias res | In or into the middle of a plot; into the middle of things | 55 | |
| 10334283927 | Irony | the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning | 56 | |
| 10334283928 | Dramatic irony | When the audience knows something the characters don't | 57 | |
| 10334283929 | Verbal irony | Words are used to suggest the opposite of what is meant | 58 | |
| 10334283930 | Situational irony | An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected | 59 | |
| 10334283931 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts | 60 | |
| 10334283932 | Metaphor | A comparison without using like or as | 61 | |
| 10334283933 | Meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry | 62 | |
| 10334283934 | Metonymy | the substituting of one word for another that is closely related to it. | 63 | |
| 10334283935 | Monologue | A long speech made by one performer or by one person in a group. | 64 | |
| 10334283936 | Motif | A recurring theme, subject or idea | 65 | |
| 10334283937 | Octave | a verse form consisting of eight lines of iambic pentameter (in English) or hendeccasyllables (in Italian) | 66 | |
| 10334283938 | Omniscient narrator | an all-knowing, usually third-person narrator | 67 | |
| 10334283939 | Onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. | 68 | |
| 10334283940 | Oxymoron | conjoining contradictory terms (as in 'deafening silence') | 69 | |
| 10334283941 | Parable | A simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson | 70 | |
| 10334283942 | Paradox | a statement that seems contradictory but is actually true | 71 | |
| 10334283943 | Parody | Humorous imitation | 72 | |
| 10334283944 | Pathetic fallacy | Faulty reasoning that inappropriately ascribes human feelings to nature or nonhuman objects | 73 | |
| 10334283945 | Pentameter | verse written in lines of five metrical feet | 74 | |
| 10334283946 | Personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes | 75 | |
| 10334283947 | Point of view | The perspective from which a story is told | 76 | |
| 10334283948 | Polysyndeton | The deliberate use of a series of conjunctions. | 77 | |
| 10334283949 | Prosody | the study of sound and rhythm in poetry | 78 | |
| 10334283950 | Protagonist | Main character | 79 | |
| 10334283951 | Pun | a humorous play on words | 80 | |
| 10334283952 | Quatrain | a stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes. | 81 | |
| 10334283953 | Rhyme scheme | A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem | 82 | |
| 10334283954 | Sarcasm | the use of irony to mock or convey contempt | 83 | |
| 10334283955 | Scansion/Scanning | analysis of a poem to determine its meter (stressed and unstressed syllables, etc.,.) | 84 | |
| 10334283956 | Sestet | Grouping of six lines in a poem | 85 | |
| 10334283957 | Simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" | 86 | |
| 10334283958 | Soliloquy | Speech to oneself | 87 | |
| 10334283959 | Sonnet | is a fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter with 10 syllables in each line | 88 | |
| 10334283960 | English Sonnet (Shakespearean) | fourteen line poem consisting of three quatrains and a couplet rhyme scheme: abab, cdcd, efef, gg | 89 | |
| 10334283961 | Italian Sonnet (Petrarchan) | fourteen line poem broken into an octave and a sestet rhyme scheme: abbaabba cdecde or cdcdcd | 90 | |
| 10334283962 | Stanza | A group of lines in a poem | 91 | |
| 10334283963 | Subtext | The hidden or underlying meaning of something | 92 | |
| 10334283964 | Symbolism | A device in literature where an object represents an idea. | 93 | |
| 10334283965 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 94 | |
| 10334283966 | Tercet | 3 line stanza | 95 | |
| 10334283967 | Theme | Central idea of a work of literature | 96 | |
| 10334283968 | Trope | The generic name for a figure of speech such as image, symbol, simile, and metaphor. | 97 | |
| 10334283969 | Verse | A single line of poetry | 98 | |
| 10334283970 | Verisimilitude | the appearance of being true or real | 99 |
