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| 6700178171 | Allusion | an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference. | 0 | |
| 6700180640 | Allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. | 1 | |
| 6700180641 | Analogy | a comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification. | 2 | |
| 6700180642 | Aubade | a poem or piece of music appropriate to the dawn or early morning. | 3 | |
| 6700182394 | Imagery | visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work. | 4 | |
| 6700182395 | Euphemism | a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing. | 5 | |
| 6700183873 | Apostrophe (rhetorical device, not punctuation) | In literature, apostrophe is a figure of speech sometimes represented by exclamation "O". A writer or a speaker, using an apostrophe, detaches himself from the reality and addresses an imaginary character in his speech. | 6 | |
| 6700183874 | Hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. | 7 | |
| 6700183875 | Personification | the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form. | 8 | |
| 6700185285 | Pastoral | a work of literature portraying an idealized version of country life. | 9 | |
| 6700185286 | Iambic meter (pentameter, tetrameter) | The word "iambic" refers to the type of foot that is used, known as the iamb, which in English is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. The word "pentameter" indicates that a line has five of these "feet". | 10 | |
| 6700185287 | Ballad | a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. Traditional ballads are typically of unknown authorship, having been passed on orally from one generation to the next as part of the folk culture. | 11 | |
| 6700187384 | Blank Verse | verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter. | 12 | |
| 6700187385 | Free Verse | poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter. | 13 | |
| 6700187386 | Juxtaposition | the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect. | 14 | |
| 6700189454 | Cacophony/euphony | Euphony and cacophony, sound patterns used in verse to achieve opposite effects: euphony is pleasing and harmonious; cacophony is harsh and discordant. Euphony is achieved through the use of vowel sounds in words of generally serene imagery. | 15 | |
| 6700189455 | Characterization (round, flat, static, dynamic) | the creation or construction of a fictional character. a description of the distinctive nature or features of someone or something. | 16 | |
| 6700191007 | Chiasmus | a rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form; e.g. 'Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.'. | 17 | |
| 6700191008 | Colloquialism | a word or phrase that is not formal or literary, typically one used in ordinary or familiar conversation. | 18 | |
| 6700191009 | Types of Comedy | low comedy lacks seriousness of purpose or subtlety of manner and has little appeal--quarrelling, fighting, noisy singing, boisterous conduct in general, boasting, burlesque, trickery, buffoonery, clownishness, drunkenness, coarse jesting, wordplay, and scolding dirty jokes, dirty gesture, sex and elimination are subjects of the humor; exaggeration or understatement are the extremes of the humor with a focus on the phsical like long noses, cross eyes, humped back, and deformities; slapstick, pratfalls, loud noises, physical mishaps, collisions are a part of the humor of man encountering an uncooperative universe high comedy pure or serious comedy--appeals to the intellect and arouses thoughtful laughter by exhibiting the inconsistencies and incongruities of human nature and by displaying the follies of social manners burlesque form of comedy characterized by ridiculous exaggeration and distortion. The sublime may be absurd, honest emotions may be turned to sentimentality, a serious subject may be treated frivolously or a frivolous subject seriously farce a light dramatic work in which highly imprbable plot, exaggerated character, and oftern slapstick elements are used for humerous effect plot is full of coincidences, mistimings, mistaken identities; characters are puppets of fate--they are twins, born to the wrong class, unable to marry, too poor, too rich; loss of identity because of birth fate, or accident; sometimes they are twins sperated unaware of their double parody a composition imitating or burlesquing another, usually serious, piece of work. Designed to ridicule in nonsensical fashion an original piece of work. It is in literature what the caricature and cartoon are in art satire holding up to ridicule the follies and vices of a people or time slapstick boisterous form of comedy marked by chases, collisions, and crude practical jokes | 19 | |
| 6700192880 | Couplet | two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit. | 20 | |
| 6700206861 | Dramatic Monologue | a poem in the form of a speech or narrative by an imagined person, in which the speaker inadvertently reveals aspects of their character while describing a particular situation or series of events. | 21 | |
| 6700206862 | Sonnet | a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line. | 22 | |
| 6700206863 | Ode | a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter. | 23 | |
| 6700206864 | Sestina | a poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet, all stanzas having the same six words at the line-ends in six different sequences that follow a fixed pattern, and with all six words appearing in the closing three-line envoi. | 24 | |
| 6700209582 | Symbol | a mark or character used as a conventional representation of an object, function, or process, e.g., the letter or letters standing for a chemical element or a character in musical notation. | 25 | |
| 6700209583 | Foil | prevent (something considered wrong or undesirable) from succeeding. | 26 | |
| 6700209584 | Oxymoron | a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g., faith unfaithful kept him falsely true ). | 27 | |
| 6700211286 | Paradox | a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true. | 28 | |
| 6700211287 | Protagonist/antagonist | In literature, an antagonist is a character or a group of characters which stand in opposition to the protagonist or the main character. The term antagonist comes from Greek word "antagonistēs" that means opponent, competitor or rival. | 29 | |
| 6700211288 | Alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. | 30 | |
| 6700212576 | Rhyme (types of, and rhyme scheme) | Rhyme scheme is a poet's deliberate pattern of lines that rhyme with other lines in a poem or a stanza. The rhyme scheme, or pattern, can be identified by giving end words that rhyme with each other the same letter. | 31 | |
| 6700212577 | Satire | the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. | 32 | |
| 6700212578 | Irony | the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect. | 33 | |
| 6700212579 | Elegy | a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead. | 34 | |
| 6700214028 | Diction | the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing. | 35 | |
| 6700214029 | Metaphor and simile | A simile is where two things are directly compared because they share a common feature. The word AS or LIKE is used to compare the two words. Eg. As cold AS a dog's nose. A metaphor also compares two things, but it does so more directly WITHOUT using as or like. | 36 | |
| 6700214030 | Soliloquy | an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play. | 37 | |
| 6700215898 | Point of View (1st person, 3rd person limited, 3rd person omniscient) | The third-person omniscient point of view is a method of storytelling in which the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in the story, as opposed to third-person limited, which adheres closely to one character's -- usually the main character's -- perspective. | 38 | |
| 6700215899 | Antecedent | a thing or event that existed before or logically precedes another. | 39 | |
| 6700215900 | Tone | the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc. | 40 | |
| 6700217546 | Syntax | the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. | 41 | |
| 6700217547 | Theme | the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic. | 42 | |
| 6700217548 | Tragedy | an event causing great suffering, destruction, and distress, such as a serious accident, crime, or natural catastrophe. | 43 | |
| 6700219168 | Villanelle | a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain. | 44 |
