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| 2952626198 | Allegory | A story or poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning. | 0 | |
| 2952626199 | Alliteration | The occurrence of the same letter in the beginning if words. | 1 | |
| 2952626200 | Allusion | A passing or casual reference | 2 | |
| 2952626201 | Anaphora | Repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses. | 3 | |
| 2952626202 | Apostrophe | A digression in the form of an address to someone not present, or to a personified object or idea. | 4 | |
| 2952626203 | Approximate Rhyme | ... | 5 | |
| 2952626204 | Aside | Away from ones thoughts or consideration | 6 | |
| 2952626205 | Assonance | Resemblance of sounds. | 7 | |
| 2952626206 | Blank Verse | A poem with no rhyme but does have iambic pentameter (lines of five feet) | 8 | |
| 2952626207 | Cacophony | A discordance of sound | 9 | |
| 2952626208 | Caesura | Any break, pause or interruption. | 10 | |
| 2952626209 | Catharsis | The process of relating and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions | 11 | |
| 2952626210 | Static Character. | A character that does not change from beginning of the story to the end | 12 | |
| 2952626211 | Flat character. | A character who embodies a single quality and who does not develop in the course of a story. | 13 | |
| 2952626212 | Dynamic character | One whose character changes in the course of the story | 14 | |
| 2952626213 | Round character. | Fully developed character, writer reveals good and bad traits ad well as the background. | 15 | |
| 2952626214 | Characterization | Process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character. | 16 | |
| 2952626215 | Climax | Turning point of a narrative work is it's greatest intensity. | 17 | |
| 2952626216 | Comedy | Professional entertainment consisting of jokes and satirical sketches intended to make an audience laugh | 18 | |
| 2952626217 | Conflict | A serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one. | 19 | |
| 2952626218 | Connotation | An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning | 20 | |
| 2952626219 | Consonance | Agreement or compatibility between opinions or actions | 21 | |
| 2952626220 | Couplet | A pair of lines of metre in poetry | 22 | |
| 2952626221 | Denotation | The literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests | 23 | |
| 2952626222 | Denouement | The final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved | 24 | |
| 2952626223 | Deus Ex Machina | An unexpected power or event saving a seemingly hopeless situation, especially as a contrived plot device in a play of novel. | 25 | |
| 2952626224 | Didactic Writing | Intended or inclined to teach, preach, or instruct, often excessively. | 26 | |
| 2952626225 | Direct presentation of character. | The method of characterization in which the author, by analysis, tells us directly what a character is like or has someone else on the story to do so. | 27 | |
| 2952626226 | Double rhyme | A feminine rhyme involving one stressed and one unstressed syllable in each rhyming line. | 28 | |
| 2952626227 | Dramatic exposition | ... | 29 | |
| 2952626228 | End rhyme | When a poem has lines ending with words that sound the same. | 30 | |
| 2952626229 | Dramatic exposition | A literary device used to introduce important information about a story's setting, the characters and the initial conflict of the plot. | 31 | |
| 2952626230 | End rhyme | When a poem has lines ending with words that sound the same | 32 | |
| 2952626231 | End-stopped line | Poetry ends with a period or definite punctuation mark, such as a colon | 33 | |
| 2952626232 | English (Shakespearean) Sonnet | A sonnet consisting of three quatrains and a couplet with a rhyme scheme | 34 | |
| 2952626233 | Epiphany | A manifestation of a divine or supernatural being | 35 | |
| 2952626234 | Euphony | The quality of being pleading to the ear, especially through a harmonious combination of words. | 36 | |
| 2952626235 | Extended figure | A figure of speech sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a while poem | 37 | |
| 2952626236 | Falling action | Parts of the story after the climax and before the very end | 38 | |
| 2952626237 | Feminine Rhyme | A rhyme between stressed syllables followed by one or more unstressed syllables | 39 | |
| 2952626238 | Figurative Language | Saying something other than what is literally meant for effect | 40 | |
| 2952626239 | Figure of Speech | A word or phrase used in a non literal sense to add rhetorical force to a spoken or written passage | 41 | |
| 2952626240 | Foot | An anatomical structure. | 42 | |
| 2952626241 | Form | The body or outward appearance of a person or animal. | 43 | |
| 2952626242 | Free Verse | Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter. | 44 | |
| 2952626243 | Hamartia | A fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine. | 45 | |
| 2952626244 | Lamb | A young sheep | 46 | |
| 2952626245 | Imagery | Visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work. | 47 | |
| 2952626246 | Indirect Presentation of Character | A writing technique related to characterization, the reader learns about the character through his words, his thoughts, words and actions. | 48 | |
| 2952626247 | Internal Rhyme | Rhyme that occurs between words within a line verse | 49 | |
| 2952626516 | Irony | The use of words to express something different from and often opposite of their literal meaning. | 50 | |
| 2952626517 | Italian (Petrarchan) Sonnet | A sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern... followed by a sestet with a rhyme pattern... | 51 | |
| 2952626518 | Masculine Rhyme | A rhyme made on a single stressed syllable | 52 | |
| 2952626519 | Melodrama | A drama, such as a play, film, or television program characterized by exaggerated emotions, stereotypical characters, and interpersonal conflicts. | 53 | |
| 2952626520 | Metaphor | One thing conceived as representing another | 54 | |
| 2952626521 | Meter | A particular arrangement of words in poetry | 55 | |
| 2952626522 | Metonymy | The substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant | 56 | |
| 2952626523 | Motivation | The reason or reasons one has for acting or behaving in a particular way. | 57 | |
| 2952626524 | Narrator | A person who narrates something, especially a character who recounts the events of a novel or narrative poem. | 58 | |
| 2952626525 | Octave | A series or eight notes occupying the interval between two notes | 59 | |
| 2952626526 | Onomatopoeia | The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named | 60 | |
| 2952626527 | Overstatement (hyperbole) | The action of expressing or stating something too strongly | 61 | |
| 2952626528 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction | 62 | |
| 2952626529 | Paradox | A statement or proposition that, despite sound reasoning from acceptable premises or self contradictory | 63 | |
| 2952626530 | Paraphrase | Express the meaning of the writer using different words, especially to achieve greater clarity | 64 | |
| 2952626531 | Personification | An imaginary person or creature conceived or figured to represent a thing or abstraction. | 65 | |
| 2952626532 | Plot | A narrative term defined as the events that make up a story | 66 | |
| 2952626533 | POV (5) | A particular attitude or way of considering a matter | 67 | |
| 2952626534 | Protagonist | The leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text. | 68 | |
| 2952626535 | Quatrain | A type of stanza, or a complete poem, consisting of four lines | 69 | |
| 2952626536 | Rhythm | A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound | 70 | |
| 2952626537 | Rhyme | Of a word, syllable, or line have or end with a sound that corresponds to another. | 71 | |
| 2952626538 | Rhyme Scheme | The pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song | 72 | |
| 2952626539 | Rising Action | A series of related incidents builds to the point of the greatest interest. | 73 | |
| 2952626540 | Sarcasm | The use of irony to mock or convey contempt | 74 | |
| 2952626541 | Satire | The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize peoples stupidity | 75 | |
| 2952626542 | Scansion | The act of determining and graphically representing the metrical character of a line or verse | 76 | |
| 2952626543 | Sestet | The second division of an Italian sonnet | 77 | |
| 2952626544 | Setting | Where an event or story takes place. | 78 | |
| 2952626545 | Simile | A comparison using like or as | 79 | |
| 2952626546 | Soliloquy | An act of speakings ones thoughts aloud when by oneself | 80 | |
| 2952626547 | Sonnet | A poetic form originated in Italy. | 81 | |
| 2952626548 | Stanza | A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem | 82 | |
| 2952626549 | Stream of Consciousness | A person's thought and conscious reactions to events, perceived as a continuous flow. | 83 | |
| 2952626550 | Syllabic Verse | A poetic form having a fixed or constrained number of syllables per line, while stress, quantity, or tone play a distinctly secondary role. | 84 | |
| 2952626551 | Symbol | Something used for or regarding as representing something else. | 85 | |
| 2952626552 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vise versa. | 86 | |
| 2952626553 | Synesthesia | The production of a sense impression relating to one sense/part of the body by stimulation of another sense/part of the body. | 87 | |
| 2952626554 | Tercet | Composed of three lines of poetry, forming a stanza or a complete poem. | 88 | |
| 2952626555 | Terza Rima | A rhyming verse stanza form that consists of an interlocking three-line rhyme scheme. | 89 | |
| 2952626556 | Theme | A subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a persons thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic | 90 | |
| 2952626557 | Tone | A musical or vocal sound with reference to its pitch, quality, and strength. | 91 | |
| 2952626558 | Tragedy | A lamentable, dreadful, or fatal event or affair | 92 | |
| 2952626559 | Truncation | To shorten by cutting off | 93 | |
| 2952626560 | Understatement | The presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. | 94 | |
| 2952626561 | Verse | Writing arranged with a metrical rhythm | 95 | |
| 2952626562 | Villanelle | A nineteen-line poetic form consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain. | 96 | |
| 2954593684 | Direct characterization | When the author gives you a vivid description of the character | 97 | |
| 2954659042 | First person | Main character tells the story | 98 | |
| 2954659043 | Second person | Writer tells the story in the "you" perspective | 99 | |
| 2954659044 | Third person | Narrator isn't a character but uses he, she, or it. | 100 | |
| 2954659045 | Third person ominescent | Narrator knows everything and still uses he,she or it | 101 | |
| 2954659046 | Third person limited | Narrator knows everything about one character. Only as much as they know. | 102 |
