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| 9481322773 | Allegory | a symbolic idea where the surface details imply a secondary meaning | 0 | |
| 9481322774 | Ambiguity | is a word, phrase, or statement which contains more than one meaning. Ambiguous words or statements lead to vagueness and confusion, and shape the basis for instances of unintentional humor. | 1 | |
| 9481325140 | Syntax | the gramatical order or words in s a sentence or verse of dialougue | 2 | |
| 9481325141 | Connotation | associations of a words that gos byeond its dictionary meaning | 3 | |
| 9481328562 | Convention | a customary feature of a particular literary genre such as a novel, play, short story, or ballad | 4 | |
| 9481328563 | Denotation | defined as literal or dictionary meanings | 5 | |
| 9481332021 | Didactic | A novel, play or poem that is didactic aims to teach us something | 6 | |
| 9481332022 | Digression | is a section of a composition or speech that marks a temporary shift of subject | 7 | |
| 9481335785 | Epigram | is a rhetorical device that is a memorable, brief, interesting, and surprising satirical statement. | 8 | |
| 9481335786 | Euphenism | refers to polite, indirect expressions that replace words and phrases considered harsh and impolite, or which suggest something unpleasant. | 9 | |
| 9481338927 | Grotesque | focuses on the human body, and all the ways that it can be distorted or exaggerated: its aim is to simultaneously elicit our empathy and disgust. | 10 | |
| 9481338928 | Hyperbole | an exaggeration | 11 | |
| 9481344713 | Jargon | as the use of specific phrases and words in a particular situation, profession, or trade. These specialized terms are used to convey hidden meanings accepted and understood in that field. | 12 | |
| 9481344714 | Literal | primary or strict meaning of the word or words; not figurative or metaphorical | 13 | |
| 9481344715 | Lyrical | expressing the writer's emotions in an imaginative and beautiful way | 14 | |
| 9481349595 | Oxymoron | occurs when two contradictory words are together in one phrase. | 15 | |
| 9481349596 | Parable | a short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson | 16 | |
| 9481353265 | paradox | is a statement that contradicts itself and still seems true somehow. | 17 | |
| 9481353266 | Personification | giving humanistic traits to things that are not human. | 18 | |
| 9481356202 | Reliability | narrator is his or her proximity in values to the implied author. | 19 | |
| 9481356203 | Rhetorical Question | question that you ask without expecting an answer. The question might be one that does not have an answer. It might also be one that has an obvious answer but you have asked the question to make a point, to persuade or for literary effect. | 20 | |
| 9481361569 | Soililoquy | is a device often used in drama when a character speaks to himself or herself, relating thoughts and feelings, thereby also sharing them with the audience, giving off the illusion of being a series of unspoken reflections. | 21 | |
| 9481361570 | Stereotype | perceived assumption of character or type of text | 22 | |
| 9481363310 | Syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion 2 : a subtle, specious, or crafty argument. | 23 | |
| 9481363311 | Stereotype | 24 | ||
| 9481379499 | Parody | A parody is an imitation of a writer, artist, subject, or genre in such a way as to make fun of or comment on the original work. Parodies are often exaggerated in the way they imitate the original in order to produce a humorous effect. | 25 | |
| 9481383944 | Alliteration | is a figure of speech and a stylistic literary device which is identified by the repeated sound of the first or second letter in a series of words, or the repetition of the same letter sounds in stressed syllables of a phrase. | 26 | |
| 9481386627 | Assonance | is the repetition of a vowel sound or diphthong in non-rhyming words. | 27 | |
| 9481386628 | Ballad Meter | can be strictly defined as four-line stanzas usually rhyming abcb with the first and third lines carrying four accented syllables and the second and fourth carrying three. | 28 | |
| 9481389865 | Blank Verse | is a literary device defined as un-rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter. In poetry and prose, it has a consistent meter with 10 syllables in each line (pentameter); where, unstressed syllables are followed by stressed ones, five of which are stressed but do not rhyme. | 29 | |
| 9481392604 | Dactyl | is a metrical foot, or a beat in a line, containing three syllables in which the first one is accented, followed by second and third unaccented syllables (accented/unaccented/unaccented) in quantitative meter, such as in the word "humanly." | 30 | |
| 9481394857 | End-stopped | occurs when a line of poetry ends with a period or definite punctuation mark, such as a colon. When lines are end-stopped, each line is its own phrase or unit of syntax. So when you read an end-stopped line, you'll naturally pause. | 31 | |
| 9481394858 | Free verse | is a literary device that can be defined as poetry that is free from limitations of regular meter or rhythm, and does not rhyme with fixed forms. | 32 | |
| 9481398022 | Heroic Couplet | . a stanza consisting of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter, especially one forming a rhetorical unit and written in an elevated style | 33 | |
| 9481398023 | Hexameter | a line of verse containing six feet, usually dactyls (′ ˘ ˘). Dactylic hexameter is the oldest known form of Greek poetry and is the preeminent metre of narrative and didactic poetry in Greek and Latin, in which its position is comparable to that of iambic pentameter in English versification. | 34 | |
| 9481400917 | iamb | a literary device that can be defined as a foot containing unaccented and short syllables, followed by a long and accented syllable in a single line of a poem (unstressed/stressed syllables). | 35 | |
| 9481407593 | Internal Rhyme | is rhyme that occurs within a single line of verse, or between internal phrases across multiple lines. By contrast, rhyme between line endings is known as end rhyme. | 36 | |
| 9481410673 | Onomatopoeia | is a poetic structure of words to convey how something sounds | 37 | |
| 9481413464 | Pentameter | is a literary device that can be defined as a line in verse or poetry that has five strong metrical feet or beats. There are different forms of pentameter: iamb, trochaic, dactylic, and anapestic. The most commonly used pentameter in English is iambic. | 38 | |
| 9481413465 | Rhyme Royal | stanza consists of seven lines, usually in iambic pentameter. The rhyme scheme is a-b-a-b-b-c-c. | 39 | |
| 9481417498 | Sonnet | which means a "little song" or small lyric. In poetry, a sonnet has 14 lines, and is written in iambic pentameter. Each line has 10 syllables. ... Generally, sonnets are divided into different groups based on the rhyme scheme they follow. | 40 | |
| 9481417499 | Stanza | is a grouped set of lines within a poem, usually set off from other stanzas by a blank line or indentation. | 41 | |
| 9481420738 | Terza Rima | is an Italian form of poetry first used by Dante Alighieri. A terza rima consists of stanzas of three lines (or tercets) usually in iambic pentameter. It follows an interlocking rhyming scheme, or chain rhyme. | 42 | |
| 9481423667 | Tetrameter | An iamb is a beat in a line of poetry where one unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable. Iamb sounds like a heartbeat, sort of like duh-DUH. When four beats are placed together in a line of | 43 | |
| 9481423668 | Antecedent | Broadly speaking, antecedent is a literary device in which a word or pronoun in a line or sentence refers to an earlier word. | 44 | |
| 9481427163 | Clause | ; independent, dependent, relative or noun clause. Every clause has at least a subject and a verb. An independent clause, also called a main clause, is a clause that can stand on its own. It contains all the information necessary to be a complete sentence. | 45 | |
| 9481427164 | Elipsis | is the narrative device of omitting a portion of the sequence of events, allowing the reader to fill in the narrative gaps. | 46 | |
| 9481430752 | Imperative | is a type of sentence that gives instructions or advice, and expresses a command, an order, a direction, or a request. It is also known as a jussive or a directive. Depending upon its delivery, an imperative sentence may end with an exclamation mark or a period. | 47 | |
| 9481430753 | Modify | of; alter partially; amend: to modify a contract. 2. Grammar. (of a word, phrase, or clause) to stand in a syntactically subordinate relation to (another word, phrase, or clause), usually with descriptive, limiting, or particularizing meaning | 48 | |
| 9481434675 | Parallel Structure | is repetition of the same pattern of words or phrases within a sentence or passage to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance. | 49 | |
| 9481436842 | Apostrophe | is a term used when a speaker directly addresses someone or something that isn't present in the poem. | 50 | |
| 9481438917 | Periodic Sentence | e has the main clause or predicate at the end. This is used for emphasis and can be persuasive by putting reasons for something at the beginning before the final point is made. It can also create suspense or interest for the reader. | 51 |
