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| 9605247413 | abstract | a writing style that is typically complex, discusses intangible qualities, and seldom use of examples to support points. | 0 | |
| 9605296620 | academic | a dry writing style used in theoretical pieces. | 1 | |
| 9605305466 | accent | (in poetry) the stressed portion of a word. | 2 | |
| 9605314862 | aesthetic | a) appealing to the senses. b) a coherent sense of taste. | 3 | |
| 9605339221 | allegory | a story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself. | 4 | |
| 9605349689 | alliteration | the repetition of initial consonant sounds. | 5 | |
| 9605359442 | allusion | a reference to another work or a famous figure. | 6 | |
| 9605362648 | anachronism | When something does not match the time the story takes place in (like a cave man with an cell phone). | 7 | |
| 9605404642 | analogy | a comparison involving two or more symbolic parts and are employed to clarify an action or relationship. | 8 | |
| 9605417630 | anecdote | a short narrative. | 9 | |
| 9605424301 | antagonist | a character (or group of characters) that oppose the protagonist(s). It can also be an abstract concept or entity (such as society). | 10 | |
| 9605482385 | antecedent | a word, phrase, or clause that a pronoun refers to or replaces. | 11 | |
| 9605493252 | anthropromorphism | when inanimate objects, animals, or natural occurrences are given human characteristics, behavior, or motivation. | 12 | |
| 9605506710 | anticlimax | when an action produces far smaller results than one had been led to expect. | 13 | |
| 9605514176 | aphorism | A short and usually witty saying. | 14 | |
| 9605541854 | apostrophe | An address to someone not present or to a personified object or idea. | 15 | |
| 9605550406 | archaism | the deliberate use of old-fashioned language. | 16 | |
| 9605574865 | archetypes | standard or cliched character types. | 17 | |
| 9605578074 | aside | a speech (typically a short comment) made by an actor to the audience, as though momentarily stepping outside of the action of the stage. | 18 | |
| 9605625575 | ballad | a long, narrative poem usually in very regular meter and rhyme and typically having a naive folksy quality. | 19 | |
| 9605594299 | bombast | pretentious, exaggeratedly learned language. | 20 | |
| 9605648140 | couplet | A pair of lines that end in a rhyme. | 21 | |
| 9643014029 | opposition | A pairing of images whereby each image becomes more striking and informative because it is placed in contrast to the other one. | 22 | |
| 9643025775 | oxymoron | A phrase composed of opposites; a contradiction. | 23 | |
| 9643030676 | parable | A story that instructs. | 24 | |
| 9643037012 | paradox | A situation or statement that seems to contradict itself but on closer inspection does not. | 25 | |
| 9643042411 | parallelism | Repeated syntactical similarities used for effect. | 26 | |
| 9643052260 | paraphrase | To restate a phrase or sentence in one's own words. | 27 | |
| 9643057093 | parenthetical phrase | A phrase set off by commas that interrupts the flow of the sentence with some commentary or added detail. | 28 | |
| 9643062814 | parody | A work that makes fun of another work by exaggerating many of its qualities to ridiculousness. | 29 | |
| 9643069547 | pastoral | A poem set in tranquil nature, or even more specifically, one about shepherds. | 30 | |
| 9643073505 | pathos | An appeal to emotions. | 31 | |
| 9643083773 | periodic sentence | A sentence that is not grammatically complete until it has reached its final phrase. | 32 | |
| 9643091604 | persona | A created personality, reflective of the author; provides insight from a third person, not a first person, point of view. | 33 | |
| 9643097788 | personification | Giving an inanimate object human qualities or form. | 34 | |
| 9643102325 | plaint | A poem or speech expressing sorrow. | 35 | |
| 9643106128 | point of view | The perspective from which the action of a piece of literature is presented. | 36 | |
| 9643122845 | prelude | An introductory poem to a longer work of a verse. | 37 | |
| 9643128794 | protagonist | The main character of a novel or play. | 38 | |
| 9602883960 | roman a clef | A novel in which real people or events appear with invented names. | 39 | |
| 9605526204 | zeugma | The use of a word to modify two or more words but used for different meanings. | 40 | |
| 9725506133 | pun | The usually humorous use of a word to suggest two or more meanings | 41 | |
| 9725526681 | refrain | A line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem. | 42 | |
| 9725533871 | requiem | A song of prayer for the dead. | 43 | |
| 9725536393 | rhapsody | An intensely passionate verse or section of verse, usually of love or praise. | 44 | |
| 9725545489 | rhetorical question | A question that suggests an answer. | 45 | |
| 9725552575 | rhetorical techniques | The devices used to create effective or persuasive language. This includes contrast, repetition, paradox, | 46 | |
| 9725564164 | satire | A form of humor that focuses on making fun of society through witty (and sometimes dark) social commentary. | 47 | |
| 9725573658 | setting | The physical location where a story takes place. | 48 | |
| 9725577095 | similie | A comparison of two unlike things using like or as. | 49 | |
| 9725582078 | soliloquy | A speech given by one character alone on a stage in which the character expresses his/her thoughts or feelings. | 50 | |
| 9725587297 | stanza | A group of lines in verse, roughly analogous in function to the paragraph in prose. | 51 | |
| 9725597964 | structure | The way in which a work is arranged or divided. | 52 | |
| 9725600667 | style | The manner in which an author write which can distinguish him or her from another writer. | 53 | |
| 9725627698 | subjective | It uses the interior or personal view of a single observer and is typically colored with what that observer's emotional responses. | 54 | |
| 9725657750 | subjunctive mood | Setting up a hypothetical situation; "If I were you..." | 55 | |
| 9725673261 | suggest | To imply, entail, and/or indicate. | 56 | |
| 9725677472 | summary | A highlight of all of the pieces of a section or the entirety of a literary work without revealing everything about it; a simple retelling. | 57 | |
| 9725691669 | suspension of disbelief | The demand made of a theater audience to accept the limitations of staging and supply the details with imagination. | 58 |
