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| 6747204617 | caesura | a pause, usually indicative of extreme emotion or awareness | 0 | |
| 6747204618 | anacoluthon | A syntactic deviation and interruption within a sentence from one structure to another. In this interruption, the expected sequence of grammar is absent. The grammatical flow of sentences is interrupted in order to begin more sentences. | 1 | |
| 6747204619 | anaphora | repetition of initial sentence structure | 2 | |
| 6747204620 | alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sound | 3 | |
| 6747204621 | apostrophe | a speech to an inanimate thing | 4 | |
| 6747204622 | asyndeton | the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence | 5 | |
| 6747204623 | polysyndeton | excessive use of conjunctions | 6 | |
| 6747204624 | synecdoche | a part that represents the whole | 7 | |
| 6747204625 | metonymy | a symbol that represents a larger idea or concept | 8 | |
| 6747204626 | litotes | the use of a double negative to show a lack of enthusiasm | 9 | |
| 6747204627 | telegraphic sentence | a sentence whose length if 5 or fewer words | 10 | |
| 6747204628 | short sentence | a sentence whose length is between 6 and 17 words | 11 | |
| 6747204629 | medium sentence | a sentence whose length is between 18 and 29 words | 12 | |
| 6747204630 | long and involved sentence | a sentence whose length is 30 words or more | 13 | |
| 6747204631 | epithet | a name or title given, in which the title personified the thing named | 14 | |
| 6747204632 | pathetic fallacy | projecting the emotions of the speaker onto an inanimate object | 15 | |
| 6747204633 | euphemism | a pleasant expression used in place of a harsh one | 16 | |
| 6747204634 | dysphemism | a harsh expression used in place of a pleasant one | 17 | |
| 6747204635 | denotative | the meaning as defined by the dictionary | 18 | |
| 6747204636 | connotative | the suggested or implied meaning | 19 | |
| 6747204637 | satire | a genre of comedy that is directed at ridiculing human foibles and vices | 20 | |
| 6747204638 | direct/formal satire | satire when a 1st person narrator speaks directly to a sympathetic audience | 21 | |
| 6747204639 | indirect satire | A fictional approach to satire where characters who represent certain points of view are made to seem ridiculous by their thoughts and behavior | 22 | |
| 6747204640 | horatian satire | mocking satire that results in amusement | 23 | |
| 6747204641 | juvenalian satire | satire that results in bitter feelings of disgust and disapproval | 24 | |
| 6747204642 | irony | deliberate contrast between what is expected and what occurs | 25 | |
| 6747204643 | sarcasm | A form of simple, crude irony in which apparent praise conceals another, scornful meaning | 26 | |
| 6747204644 | dramatic irony | when the audience knows something the characters do not | 27 | |
| 6747204645 | tragic irony | irony that occurs in tragedies | 28 | |
| 6747204646 | cosmic irony | characters that are led to embrace false hopes of aid or success, only to be defeated by god or fate | 29 | |
| 6747204647 | structural irony | An implication of alternate or reversed meaning that pervades a work. A major technique for sustaining structural irony is the use of a naïve protagonist or unreliable narrator who continually interprets events and intentions in ways that the author signals are mistaken | 30 | |
| 6747204648 | syllogistic reasoning | A=B, B=C, then A=C | 31 | |
| 6747204649 | anagnorisis | critical moments of epiphany or awareness | 32 | |
| 6747204650 | digression | the use of material unrelated to the subject of a work | 33 | |
| 6747204651 | verisimilitude | in a literary work, the likeness to truth | 34 | |
| 6747204652 | understatement | the presentation of something being smaller or less important than it actually is | 35 | |
| 6747204653 | exposition | the beginning of a piece of writing, background information | 36 | |
| 6747204654 | jargon | specific language within a profession or group | 37 | |
| 6747204655 | motif | the repetition or variations of images or symbols to develop a theme | 38 | |
| 6747204656 | pathos | appeal to pity / evokes feelings of sympathy | 39 | |
| 6747204657 | pun | a play on words that are identical in sound but have different meanings | 40 | |
| 6747204658 | parallel plots | a secondary story line that mimics the first | 41 | |
| 6747204659 | resolution | the conclusion of a literary work | 42 | |
| 6747204660 | scansion | the system for indicating metrical patterns and analyzing their effect | 43 | |
| 6747204661 | iamb | unstressed followed by a stressed syllable | 44 | |
| 6747204662 | free verse | open form poetry | 45 | |
| 6747204663 | blank verse | poetry in unrhymed iambic pentameter | 46 | |
| 6747204664 | triple rhyme | a rhyme involving three syllables, e.g. happiness and sappiness | 47 | |
| 6747204665 | terza rima | an arrangement of triplets, especially in iambs, that rhyme aba bcb cdc, etc | 48 | |
| 6747204666 | refrain | A Refrain is a verse or phrase that is repeated at intervals throughout a song or poem, usually after the chorus or stanza | 49 | |
| 6747204667 | ballad | a form of poetry that alternates lines iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter, often in quatrains, rhymed abab, and often telling a story | 50 | |
| 6747204668 | masculine ending | a line of poetry ending in a stressed syllable | 51 | |
| 6747204669 | feminine ending | a line of poetry ending in a stressless syllable | 52 | |
| 6747204670 | meter | the recurring pattern of sounds within verse | 53 | |
| 6747204671 | eye rhyme | a similarity between words in spelling but not in pronunciation | 54 | |
| 6747204672 | perfect rhyme | Rhyme in which the final accented vowel and all succeeding consonants or syllables are identical, while the preceding consonants are different | 55 | |
| 6747204673 | imperfect rhyme | a type of rhyme formed by words with similar but not identical sounds | 56 | |
| 6747204674 | 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 | 57 | |
| 6747204675 | shakespearean sonnet | The sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a terminal couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg | 58 | |
| 6747204676 | petrarchan sonnet | a sonnet form consisting of an octave with the rhyme scheme abbaabba and of a sestet with one of several rhyme schemes, as cdecde or cdcdcd | 59 | |
| 6747204677 | The first 8 lines of a petrarchan sonnet that state the problem or pose a question | octave | 60 | |
| 6747204678 | The final 6 lines of a petrarchan sonnet that offer a solution to the problem or question posed | sestet | 61 | |
| 6747204679 | In Italian, called "the turn," this is the line of poetry that signifies the shift from octave to the sestet | volta | 62 | |
| 7834835720 | The ethical appeal, means to convince an audience of the author's credibility or character. | Ethos | 63 | |
| 7834838200 | The appeal to logic, means to convince an audience by use of logic or reason. | Logos | 64 |
