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| 10206136359 | Abstract | Expressing a quality or characteristic apart from any specific object or instance, as justice, poverty, and speed. | 0 | |
| 10206136360 | Adage | A traditional saying expressing a common experience or observation | 1 | |
| 10206141186 | Allegory | Figurative treatment of one subject under the guise of another. | 2 | |
| 10206142868 | Alliteration | Commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group | 3 | |
| 10206147811 | Allusion | An indirect or passing reference | 4 | |
| 10206148150 | Ambiguity | Doubtfulness or uncertainty of meaning or intention. | 5 | |
| 10206153127 | Anachronism | Something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time. | 6 | |
| 10206153128 | Analogy | A correspondence or partial similarity. | 7 | |
| 10206155502 | Anecdote | A short account of a particular incident or event, especially of an interesting or amusing nature. | 8 | |
| 10206155550 | Antagonist | A person who is opposed to. | 9 | |
| 10206158607 | Antithesis | The direct opposite. | 10 | |
| 10240538516 | Aphorism | A terse saying embodying a general truth, or astute observation. | 11 | |
| 10240539199 | Apostrophe | The sign ('), as used: to indicate the omission of one or more letters in a word. | 12 | |
| 10240539200 | Archetype | The original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based. | 13 | |
| 10240539843 | Assonance | Resemblance of sounds. | 14 | |
| 10240539844 | Ballad | Any poem written in similar style. | 15 | |
| 10240540345 | Bathos | Triteness or triviality in style. | 16 | |
| 10240540346 | Blank verse | Unrhymed Verse. | 17 | |
| 10240555997 | Caesura | Any break, pause or interruption. | 18 | |
| 10240555998 | Canon | The body of ecclesiastical law. | 19 | |
| 10240557024 | Caricature | The art or process of producing such pictures, descriptions, etc. | 20 | |
| 10240579723 | Climax | A decisive moment that is of maximum intensity or is a major turning point in a plot. | 21 | |
| 10240580879 | Colloquial | Involving or using conversation. | 22 | |
| 10240581373 | Conceit | An excessively favorable opinion of one's own ability, importance, wit, etc. | 23 | |
| 10240581872 | connotation | The associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning. | 24 | |
| 10240581873 | consonance | Accord or agreement. | 25 | |
| 10240582521 | Couplet | A pair of successive lines of verse, especially a pair that rhyme and are of the same length. | 26 | |
| 10240582530 | Diction | style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words. | 27 | |
| 10240583381 | Deus ex machina | Any artificial or improbable device resolving the difficulties of a plot. | 28 | |
| 10240583716 | Elegy | A poem written in elegiac meter. | 29 | |
| 10240605408 | Ellipsis | Printing a mark or marks as ——, ..., or * * *, to indicate an omission or suppression of letters or words. | 30 | |
| 10240605409 | Enjambment | The running on of the thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without a syntactical break. | 31 | |
| 10240607651 | Epic | resembling or suggesting such poetry. | 32 | |
| 10240623653 | Epigram | A short, often satirical poem dealing concisely with a single subject and usually ending with a witty or ingenious turn of thought. | 33 | |
| 10240624148 | Euphemism | The substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt. | 34 | |
| 10240624404 | Exposition | writing or speech primarily intended to convey information or to explain. | 35 | |
| 10240624405 | Fable | A story not founded on fact. | 36 | |
| 10240625141 | Falling action | The part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved. | 37 | |
| 10240625142 | Farce | Humor of the type displayed in such works. | 38 | |
| 10240626601 | First person - narrative | A literary style in which the narrative is told from the perspective of a narrator speaking directly about himself or herself. | 39 | |
| 10240627068 | Flashback | A device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which an event or scene taking place before the present time in the narrative is inserted into the chronological structure of the work. | 40 | |
| 10240627416 | Foil | To keep (a person) from succeeding in an enterprise, plan, etc. | 41 | |
| 10240627744 | Foreshadowing | To show or indicate beforehand. | 42 | |
| 10240627745 | Free verse | verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern. | 43 | |
| 10240628326 | Genre | A class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique. | 44 | |
| 10240630864 | Hyperbole | obvious and intentional exaggeration. | 45 | |
| 10240630865 | Imagery | The use of rhetorical images. | 46 | |
| 10240631329 | In medias res | In the middle of things. | 47 | |
| 10240631330 | Irony | The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning. Example- the irony of her reply, "How nice!" when I said I had to work all weekend. | 48 | |
| 10240726020 | Juxtapose | To place close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast. | 49 | |
| 10240727884 | Litotes | understatement, especially that in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary, as in "not bad at all." | 50 | |
| 10240727885 | Lyric | Pertaining to or writing lyric poetry. | 51 | |
| 10240728660 | Metaphor | A figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance. Example - "A mighty fortress is our God." | 52 | |
| 10240728661 | Meter | The fundamental unit of length in the metric system. | 53 | |
| 10240729464 | metonymy | A figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related. Example - "scepter" for "sovereignty," or "the bottle" for "strong drink," or "count heads (or noses)" for "count people." | 54 | |
| 10240729968 | Mood | A distinctive emotional quality or character. Example - The mood of the music was almost funereal. | 55 | |
| 10240735045 | Motif | A recurring subject, theme, idea, etc., especially in a literary, artistic, or musical work. Example - the profit motif of free enterprise. | 56 | |
| 10240735046 | Narrator | A person who gives an account or tells the story of events, experiences, etc. | 57 | |
| 10240735389 | Ode | A poem intended to be sung. | 58 | |
| 10240735390 | Omniscient point of view | Method of storytelling in which the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in the story. | 59 | |
| 10240736124 | Onomatopoeia | The use of imitative and naturally suggestive words for rhetorical, dramatic, or poetic effect. | 60 | |
| 10240786656 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect. Example - "cruel kindness" or "to make haste slowly." | 61 | |
| 10240786657 | Parable | A short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson. | 62 | |
| 10240787385 | paradox | A self-contradictory and false proposition. | 63 | |
| 10240787386 | Parody | A humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing. Example - his hilarious parody of Hamlet's soliloquy. | 64 | |
| 10240794029 | Pastoral | pertaining to the country or to life in the country; rural; rustic. Example - pastoral scenery; the pastoral life. | 65 | |
| 10240794030 | Pathos | The quality or power in an actual life experience or in literature, music, speech, or other forms of expression, of evoking a feeling of pity, or of sympathetic and kindly sorrow or compassion. | 66 | |
| 10240794836 | Persona | The narrator of or a character in a literary work, sometimes identified with the author. | 67 | |
| 10240794837 | Personification | The attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure. | 68 | |
| 10240805796 | Plot | Also called storyline. the plan, scheme, or main story of a literary or dramatic work, as a play, novel, or short story. | 69 | |
| 10240806876 | Protagonist | The leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work. | 70 | |
| 10240806877 | Quatrain | A stanza or poem of four lines, usually with alternate rhymes. | 71 | |
| 10240807507 | Realism | The tendency to view or represent things as they really are. | 72 | |
| 10240807508 | Refrain | To abstain from an impulse to say or do something. Example - I refrained from telling him what I thought. | 73 | |
| 10240807948 | Rhetorical question | A question asked solely to produce an effect or to make an assertion and not to elicit a reply. Example - "What is so rare as a day in June?" | 74 | |
| 10240809561 | Rhyme | Identity in sound of some part, especially the end, of words or lines of verse. | 75 | |
| 10240809562 | Rising action | A related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest. | 76 | |
| 10240809982 | Sarcasm | A sharply ironical taunt; sneering or cutting remark. Example - a review full of sarcasms. | 77 | |
| 10240809983 | Satire | a literary genre comprising such compositions. | 78 | |
| 10240810917 | Setting | the act of a person or thing that sets. | 79 | |
| 10240853895 | Shakespearean Sonnet | A sonnet form used by Shakespeare and having the rhyme scheme abab, cdcd, efef, gg | 80 | |
| 10240857610 | Simile | A figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared. Example - "she is like a rose." | 81 | |
| 10240857611 | Soliloquy | The act of talking while or as if alone. | 82 | |
| 10240888777 | Stanza | An arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem. | 83 | |
| 10240888778 | Stereotype | a set form; convention. | 84 | |
| 10240889280 | Structure | A complex system considered from the point of view of the whole rather than of any single part. Example - the structure of modern science. | 85 | |
| 10240895508 | Style | A particular kind, sort, or type, as with reference to form, appearance, or character. Example - the baroque style; The style of the house was too austere for their liking. | 86 | |
| 10240895509 | Syllogism | an extremely subtle, sophisticated, or deceptive argument. | 87 | |
| 10240896073 | symbolism | The practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character. | 88 | |
| 10240896529 | synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part. | 89 | |
| 10240896530 | syntax | A system or orderly arrangement. | 90 | |
| 10240898169 | Terza rima | An Italian form of iambic verse consisting of eleven-syllable lines arranged in tercets | 91 | |
| 10240898526 | Theme | A subject of discourse, discussion, meditation, or composition. Example - The need for world peace was the theme of the meeting. | 92 | |
| 10240898527 | Tone | quality or character of sound. | 93 | |
| 10240899307 | Tragedy | A lamentable, dreadful, or fatal event or affair; calamity; disaster. Example - stunned by the tragedy of so many deaths. | 94 | |
| 10240899308 | voice | A range of such sounds distinctive to one person, or to a type of person or animal. Example - Her voice is commanding. | 95 |
