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| 7259978782 | abstract | general term, referring to a broad concept | 0 | |
| 7259979792 | allegory | a literary work that portrays abstract ideas concretely | 1 | |
| 7259981122 | alliteration | the repetition of the same initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words or syllables | 2 | |
| 7259982441 | allusion | a reference to another work of literature, or art, history, or current events | 3 | |
| 7259983706 | analogy | in literature, a comparison between two things that helps explain or illustrate one or both of them | 4 | |
| 7259984623 | anaphora | repetition of an initial word or words to add emphasis | 5 | |
| 7259985249 | annotation | the act of noting observations directly on a text, especially anything striking or confusing, in order to record ideas and impressions for later analysis | 6 | |
| 7259986897 | antagonist | character in a story or play who opposes the protagonist | 7 | |
| 7259987597 | apostrophe | a direct address to an abstraction, a thing, an animal, or an imaginary or absent person | 8 | |
| 7259989345 | archaic language | words that were once common but that are no longer used | 9 | |
| 7259989686 | ars poetica | literally "the art of poetry"; a form of poetry written about poetry | 10 | |
| 7259991830 | assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds in a sequence of words | 11 | |
| 7259992874 | atmosphere | the feeling created for the reader by a work of literature | 12 | |
| 7259993586 | ballad | sung poem that recounted a dramatic story | 13 | |
| 7259994973 | beat movement | a movement of American writers in the 1950s who saw American society as oppressively conformist | 14 | |
| 7259998359 | bildungsroman | a novel that explores the maturation of the protagonist, with the narrative usually moving the main character from childhood into adulthood | 15 | |
| 7259999605 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | 16 | |
| 7260000289 | cadence | quality of spoken text formed from combining the text's rhythm with the rise and fall in the inflection of the speaker's voice | 17 | |
| 7260001604 | caesura | a pause within a line of poetry | 18 | |
| 7260002122 | caricature | a character with features or traits that are exaggerated so that the character seems ridiculous. | 19 | |
| 7260004580 | carpe diem | a widespread literary theme meaning "Seize the day" in Latin and found especially in lyric poetry | 20 | |
| 7260006017 | catharsis | emotional release felt by the audience at the end of a tragic drama | 21 | |
| 7260006923 | character | a person depicted in a narrative | 22 | |
| 7260007288 | flat character | a character embodying only one or two traits and who lacks character development | 23 | |
| 7260007948 | round character | a character exhibiting a range of emotions and who evolves over the course of the story | 24 | |
| 7260008864 | secondary character | a supporting character | 25 | |
| 7260009290 | stock character | a type of flat character based on a stereotype | 26 | |
| 7260009759 | characterization | the method by which the author builds, or reveals, a character | 27 | |
| 7260010507 | chorus | a large group of participants in a play who deliver commentary on the play's action | 28 | |
| 7260011454 | climax | the point in a story when the conflict reaches it's highest intensity | 29 | |
| 7260012725 | colloquial language/colloquialism | an expression or language construction appropriate only for casual, informal speaking or writing | 30 | |
| 7260014079 | colonialism | the occupation of one country by another | 31 | |
| 7260014479 | comedy | a dramatic work that has a light, amusing plot | 32 | |
| 7260015236 | comedy of manners | a satiric dramatic form that lampoons social conventions | 33 | |
| 7260015915 | concrete | a specific particular thing rather than an broad concept | 34 | |
| 7260017435 | conflict | tension, opposition, or struggle that drives a plot | 35 | |
| 7260018110 | connotation | meanings or associations readers have with a word or item beyond it's dictionary definition | 36 | |
| 7260019333 | consonance | an instance in which identical final consonant sounds in nearby words follow different vowel sounds | 37 | |
| 7260020474 | denotation | the literal definition of a word | 38 | |
| 7260021069 | denouement | conflict has been resolved at the end of the story | 39 | |
| 7260021775 | dialect | dialogue or narration written to stimulate regional or cultural speech patterns | 40 | |
| 7260023339 | dialogue | the written depiction of conversation between characters | 41 | |
| 7260023745 | diction | a writer's choice of words | 42 | |
| 7260024159 | dramatic monologue | a type of poem in which the speaker addresses an audience that is present in the poem | 43 | |
| 7260025416 | ekphrastic poetry | a form of poetry that comments on a work of art in another genre | 44 | |
| 7260026037 | elegy | a contemplative poem on death and mortality | 45 | |
| 7260027285 | end-stopped line | poetry line that concludes with a punctuation that marks a pause | 46 | |
| 7260028341 | enjambment | a poetic technique in which one line ends without a pause and must continue onto the next line to complete it's meaning | 47 | |
| 7260030006 | epigram | a short, witty statement designed to surprise an audience or a reader | 48 | |
| 7260030712 | epigraph | a quotation preceding a work of literature that helps set the text's mood or suggest it's themes | 49 |
