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| 7346226679 | Agon | Dramatic conflict between the chief characters in a literary work | 0 | |
| 7346226680 | Allegory | A symbolic device to represent abstract ideas or principles beyond its literal meaning | 1 | |
| 7346226681 | Alliteration | The repetition of the same or similar sounds at the beginning of words | 2 | |
| 7346226682 | Allusion | A reference within a literary work to a famous, historical, or biblical person outside of the literary work. A reference is oftentimes indirect and is usually used to explain or clarify something within the text. | 3 | |
| 7346226683 | Ambiguity | A word, statement, or phrase that contains more than one meaning. This is the shape basis for unintentional humor. | 4 | |
| 7346226684 | Anaphora | A literary and rhetorical device used in which a word or group of words are repeated at the beginning of two or more successive clauses. This technique provides emphasis and unity to the successive clauses. | 5 | |
| 7346226685 | Antithesis | A rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are combined to create a contrasting effect. | 6 | |
| 7346226686 | Assonance | The repetition of a vowel sound, or a diphthong, in non-rhyming words. To qualify this, the words must be close enough for the repetition of sound to be noticeable. This is commonly used in poetry. | 7 | |
| 7346226687 | Blank Verse | A verse without rhyme, especially one that uses iambic pentameter. | 8 | |
| 7346226688 | Caesura | A grammatical pause or break in a line of poetry, like a question mark, usually near the middle of a line. This is usually dictated by sense or natural speech rather than by metrics. | 9 | |
| 7346226689 | Catharsis | A cleansing of emotions for characters in a literary work. Emotions that are most prevalent in the catharsis of these characters include pity, sadness, and fear. | 10 | |
| 7346226690 | Chiasmus | A rhetorical device in which two or more clauses are balanced against each other by the reversal of their structures in order to produce an artistic effect. | 11 | |
| 7346226691 | Diction | A style of speaking or writing determined by the word choice of the speaker. | 12 | |
| 7346226692 | End-stopped | A poetic device in which a pause comes at the end of a syntactic unit (a sentence, clause, or phrase); this pause can be expressed in writing as a punctuation mark such as a colon, semicolon, period, or full stop. | 13 | |
| 7346226693 | Enjambment | The practice of running lines of poetry from one line to the other without using any punctuation to indicate a stop. | 14 | |
| 7346226694 | Explication | To clarify a meaning or explain. This literary technique is used as a literary analysis or criticism. | 15 | |
| 7346226695 | Exposition | A literary device used to introduce background information about events, settings, characters, etc. to the audience | 16 | |
| 7346226696 | Interpretation | A unique view of a person, work, place, thing, etc. | 17 | |
| 7346226697 | Irony | A contrast or incongruity between expectations for a situation and what is reality, this can be a difference between the literal meaning of something that is said and the underlying meaning. It might also be a difference between what is expected to happen and what actually happens. | 18 | |
| 7346226698 | Metonymy | A figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated. | 19 | |
| 7346226699 | Periodic Sentence | A rhetorical device in which the completion of the main clause is left to the end, thus adding to the suspense. | 20 | |
| 7346226700 | Schemes | A change in word order or pattern | 21 | |
| 7346226701 | Syntax | The actual way in which words and sentences are placed together in the literary piece | 22 | |
| 7346226702 | Tropes | A figure of speech through which speakers or writers intend to express meanings of words different from their literal meaning. | 23 |
