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| 7349242012 | Narrative | A sequence of connected events, whether real or fictional. | 0 | |
| 7349232921 | Point of View | The vantage point from which the writer tells the story. | 1 | |
| 7349232922 | First Person Narration | The vantage point from one of the characters of the story. | 2 | |
| 7349234531 | Third Person Narration | An unknown narrator tells the story, but this narrator zooms in to focus on the thoughts and feelings of only one character. | 3 | |
| 7349236002 | Omniscient Narration | An omniscient or all knowing narrator tells the story, also using the third person pronouns. This narrator, instead of focusing on one character only, often tells us everything about many characters. | 4 | |
| 7349237666 | Limited Omniscient Narration | Focussing a third-person narration through the eyes of a single character. | 5 | |
| 7349237667 | Free Indirect Discourse | A special type of third-person narration that slips in and out of characters' consciousness. | 6 | |
| 7349238643 | Objective Narration | A narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story, with no comment on any characters or events. | 7 | |
| 7349238644 | Unreliable Narration | A narrator, whether in literature, film, or theatre, whose credibility has been seriously compromised. | 8 | |
| 7349240427 | Stream Of Consciousness | A literary style in which a character's thoughts, feelings, and reactions are depicted in a continuous flow uninterrupted by objective description or conventional dialogue. | 9 | |
| 7349242011 | Character | A person in a novel, play, or movie. | 10 | |
| 7349241294 | Protagonist | The central character in a story, the one who initiates or drives the action. Usually the hero or anti-hero. | 11 | |
| 7349244585 | Antagonist | The opponent who struggles against or blocks the hero, or protagonist, in a story. | 12 | |
| 7349247797 | Stock Character | A dramatic or literary character representing a type in a conventional manner and recurring in many works. ie, rich CEO | 13 | |
| 7349248939 | Dynamic Character | A literary character one who changes in some important way as a result of the story's action. | 14 | |
| 7349249507 | Flat Character | A dramatic or literary character that has only one or two personality traits and are one dimensional. Often, summed up in one phrase. | 15 | |
| 7349250229 | Round Character | A dramatic or literary character with more dimensions to their personalities---they are complex, just a real people are. | 16 | |
| 7349250230 | Foil | A character who acts as a contrast to another character. ie, the gentle sidekick to the flirty hero. | 17 | |
| 7349250997 | Confidant/Confidante | A character in a drama or fiction, such as a trusted friend or servant, who serves as a device for revealing the inner thoughts or intentions of the main character. | 18 | |
| 7349250998 | Mentor | A wise and trusted counselor or teacher. | 19 | |
| 7349252740 | Characterization | The process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character. | 20 | |
| 7349252741 | Direct Characterization | The author tells us directly what the character is like. | 21 | |
| 7349253769 | Indirect Characterization | The author reveals to the reader what the character is like through their looks and actions. | 22 | |
| 7349254838 | Poetry | A form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the plain, apparent meaning. | 23 | |
| 7349254839 | Ode | A form of poetry. ie, a sonnet or elegy. | 24 | |
| 7349254840 | Ballad | A narrative poem includes a repeated refrains. | 25 | |
| 7349255661 | Dramatic Monologue | Any speech of some duration addressed by a character to a second person. | 26 | |
| 7349255662 | Elergy | A poem of mourning, usually about someone who has died. | 27 | |
| 7349256355 | Lyric | A poem that does not tell a story but expresses the personal feelings or thoughts of the speaker. | 28 | |
| 7349256356 | End Rhyme | An occurrence where the last syllables or words in two or more lines rhyme with each other. | 29 | |
| 7349256357 | Quatrain | a poem consisting of four lines, or four lines of a poem that can be considered as a unit. | 30 | |
| 7349257534 | Tercet | A three-line stanza or poem that often contains a rhyme. | 31 | |
| 7349257535 | Enjambment | A thought or sense, phrase or clause, in a line of poetry that does not come to an end at the line break, but moves over to the next line. | 32 | |
| 7349258732 | Iambic Pentameter | A line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable. | 33 | |
| 7349258733 | Sonnet | A poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line. | 34 | |
| 7349258734 | Drama | A play for theater, radio, or television. | 35 | |
| 7349259299 | Hubris | An extreme pride and arrogance showed by a character that ultimately brings about his downfall. | 36 | |
| 7349259300 | Catharsis | An emotional discharge through which one can achieve a state of moral or spiritual renewal or achieve a state of liberation from anxiety and stress. | 37 | |
| 7349260096 | Dramatic Irony | A character in the play or story thinks one thing is true, but the audience or reader knows better. | 38 | |
| 7349260097 | Soliloquy | A long speech made by a character in a play while no other characters are on stage. | 39 | |
| 7349260098 | Reversal | The sudden reversal of fortune in a story, play, or any narrative in which there is an observable change in direction. | 40 | |
| 7349261454 | Tragic Flaw | A literary device that can be defined as a trait in a character leading to his downfall and the character is often the hero of the literary piece. ie, pride | 41 | |
| 7349261455 | Literary Devices | A technique a writer uses to produce a special effect in their writing. ie, a flashback | 42 | |
| 7349262363 | Alliteration | Repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together. ie, "Sally sells seashells by the sea shore." | 43 | |
| 7349262364 | Assonance | The repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds especially in words that are together. ie, penitence, reticence | 44 | |
| 7349263540 | Apostrophe | Calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to a place or thing, or a personified abstract idea. ie, "Dear love, please don't shoot me with your Cupid's bow." | 45 | |
| 7349263541 | Cacophony | A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds. ie, the sound of a bridge collapsing. | 46 | |
| 7349265225 | Cliché | A word or phrase, often a figure of speech, that has become lifeless because of overuse. ie, "They all lived happily ever after." | 47 | |
| 7349282185 | Metaphor | A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without the use of such specific words of comparison as like, as, than, or resembles. ie, "The sunset splashed red across the sky." | 48 | |
| 7349286823 | Hyperbole | A figure of speech that uses an incredible exaggeration or overstatement, for effect. ie, "If I told you once, I've told you a million times...." | 49 | |
| 7349310437 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which a person, place, or thing, is referred to by something closely associated with it. ie, "A group of suits just walked past." The suits represent business men. | 50 | |
| 7349318318 | Onomatopoeia | The use of words whose sounds echo their sense. ie, "Pop." | 51 | |
| 7349320869 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. ie, "Pretty ugly." | 52 | |
| 7349326228 | Paradox | A statement that appears self-contradictory, but that reveals a kind of truth. ie, "What a pity that youth must be wasted on the young." | 53 | |
| 7349343941 | Personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes. ie, "The sun smiled back." | 54 | |
| 7349347289 | Rhetorical Question | A question asked for an effect, and not actually requiring an answer. ie, "Are you blind?" | 55 | |
| 7349367544 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part represents the whole. ie, "If you don't drive properly, you will lose your wheels." | 56 | |
| 7349374009 | Antithesis | Balancing words, phrases, or ideas that are strongly contrasted, often by means of grammatical structure. ie, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." | 57 | |
| 7349390726 | Foreshadowing | The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot. | 58 | |
| 7349394692 | Motif | A recurring image, word, phrase, action, idea, object, or situation used throughout a work (or in several works by one author), unifying the work by tying the current situation to previous ones, or new ideas to the theme. | 59 | |
| 7349400175 | Symbol | A person, place, thing, or event that has meaning in itself and that also stands for something more than itself. ie, a body of water that represents freedom. | 60 | |
| 7349405759 | Irony | A dissimilarity between appearances and reality. ie, A character stepping out into a hurricane and saying, "What nice weather we're having!" | 61 | |
| 7349419252 | Theme | The insight about human life that is revealed in a literary work. | 62 | |
| 7349421181 | Thesis | A statement in a non-fiction or a fiction work that a writer intends to support and prove. | 63 | |
| 7349425871 | Simile | A figure of speech that makes a comparison, showing similarities between two different things. ie, "The flowers in the field waved like school children." | 64 | |
| 7349433632 | Allusion | Reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature, religion, politics, sports, science, or another branch of culture. An indirect reference to something (usually from literature, etc.). | 65 | |
| 7349437543 | Tone | The attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience. | 66 | |
| 7349441238 | Imagery | The use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, a thing, a place, or an experience. ie, "Goosebumps broke out all over at the sound of his voice." | 67 | |
| 7349450345 | Visual Imagery | Cognitive imagery which consists of the sense of having "images" in the mind. ie, "It was dark and dim in the forest." | 68 | |
| 7349477444 | Olfactory Imagery | Imagery that pertains to odors, scents, or the sense of smell. ie, "He whiffed the aroma of brewed coffee." | 69 | |
| 7349488169 | Gustatory Imagery | Imagery that pertains to flavors or the sense of taste. ie, "The fresh and juicy orange is very cold and sweet." | 70 | |
| 7349494164 | Auditory Imagery | Imagery that pertains to sounds, noises, music, or the sense of hearing. ie, "The children were screaming and shouting in the fields." | 71 | |
| 7349499151 | Tactile Imagery | Imagery that pertains to the sense of touch. ie, "The girl ran her hands on a soft satin fabric." | 72 | |
| 7349505014 | Syntax | The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. | 73 | |
| 7349511913 | Euphony | The use of words and phrases that are distinguished as having a wide range of noteworthy melody or loveliness in the sounds they create. ie, a beautiful singing voice. | 74 | |
| 7391892766 | Analogy | A comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it. It aims at explaining that idea or thing by comparing it to something that is familiar. ie, "The orange was golden like the sun." | 75 | |
| 7391892767 | Archetype | A typical character, an action or a situation that seems to represent such universal patterns of human nature. ie, the motherly figure that provides love and guidance | 76 | |
| 7391896573 | Atmosphere | A type of feelings that readers get from a narrative based on details such as settings, background, objects, and foreshadowing, etc... | 77 | |
| 7391899627 | Blank Verse | A literary device defined as un-rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter. ie, "He only leaves the field when free." | 78 | |
| 7391899628 | Allegory | A figure of speech in which abstract ideas and principles are described in terms of characters, figures, and events. ie, the novel, "Animal Farm" which uses animals to describe the overthrow of the Russian government before WW1. | 79 | |
| 7391901573 | Aside | A short commentary that reveals private opinions and reactions of the character. However, it refers to the major conflict in a play though it may not involve his personal conflict. | 80 | |
| 7391905054 | Asyndeton | A stylistic device used in literature and poetry to intentionally eliminate conjunctions between the phrases and in the sentence, yet maintain the grammatical accuracy. ie, "He eats, sleeps, drinks." | 81 | |
| 7392127089 | Syndeton | Addition of multiple conjunctions. ie, "He eats and sleeps and drinks." | 82 |
