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| 203353556 | allegory | a story, poem, or picture that has a single interpretation | |
| 203353557 | alliteration | the occurrence of a single letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words | |
| 203356801 | Allusion | An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly | |
| 203356802 | Anapestic | a metrical foot consisting of two short or unstressed syllables followed by one long or stressed syllable | |
| 203366396 | Anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | |
| 203366397 | anecdote | a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person | |
| 203366398 | Antagonist | a person who is actively opposes or is hostile to the protagonist | |
| 203366399 | antithesis | a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else | |
| 203366400 | apostrophe | when a speaker or writer breaks off and directs speech to an imaginary person or abstract quality or idea | |
| 203366401 | Archetype | a common symbol that has a universal meaning | |
| 203366402 | assonance | in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in non-rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible | |
| 203366403 | Asyndeton | the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence | |
| 203366404 | Attitude | a settled way of thinking or feeling about someone or something, typically one that is reflected in a person's behavior | |
| 203366405 | Ballad | a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas | |
| 203366406 | Ballad Stanza | a four-line stanza in iambic meter in which the first and third unrhymed lines have four metrical feet and the second and fourth rhyming lines have three metrical feet | |
| 203366407 | Blank Verse | verse without rhyme, esp. that which uses iambic pentameter | |
| 203366408 | caesura | a break between words within a metrical foot | |
| 203413996 | Caricature | a picture, description, or imitation of a person or thing in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic or grotesque effect | |
| 203413997 | Chiasmus | Words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form | |
| 203413998 | Colloquial | used in ordinary or familiar conversation | |
| 203413999 | conceit | an extended metaphor that governs an entire passage | |
| 203414000 | connotation | an idea or feeling that a word invokes person in addition to its literal or primary meaning | |
| 203414001 | consonance | agreement or compatibility between opinions or actions | |
| 203414002 | couplet | two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme that form a unit | |
| 203414003 | dactylic | of or using a metrical foot consisting of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables | |
| 203414004 | denotation | the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests | |
| 203414005 | dialect | a particular form of a language that is particular to a specific region or social group | |
| 203414006 | diction | the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing | |
| 203414007 | Dramatic Monologue | a poem in the form of a speech or narrative by an imagined person, in which the speaker inadvertently reveals aspects of their character while describing a particular situation or series of events | |
| 203414008 | Elegy | a poem of serious reflection | |
| 203414009 | enjambment | the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet or stanza | |
| 203414010 | Epic | a long poem narrating the heroic deeds of a legendary character | |
| 203414011 | exposition | a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory | |
| 203414012 | extended metaphor | a metaphor that takes up several lines or sentences | |
| 203535297 | Fable | A short story that conveys a moral, often with anthropomorphic animals | |
| 203535298 | Falling Action | In narrative structure, the section after the climax where conflicts are resolved and the story is brought to a close | |
| 203535299 | Farce | a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations | |
| 203535300 | Foreshadowing | Hinting or warning the reader of events that will occur later in a text | |
| 203535301 | Formal Diction | A choice of words carrying little emotion with the purpose of conveying information | |
| 203535302 | Flashback | An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action. | |
| 203535303 | Free Verse | A genre of poems featuring no restriction on rhyme scheme or meter | |
| 203535304 | Genre | A category of composition | |
| 203535305 | Hyperbole | A figure of speech involving exaggeration | |
| 203535306 | Iambic | Poetry making use of metrical feet consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable | |
| 203535307 | Imagery | Language capable of describing in vivid detail | |
| 203535308 | Informal Diction | Relaxed language with the purpose of building or strengthening a relationship | |
| 203535309 | In Media Res | Latin for "into the middle of things" beginning a story without introduction or preamble | |
| 203535310 | Irony | A contrast or discrepancy between what is said and what is meant or between what happens and what is expected to happen in life and in literature | |
| 203535311 | Jargon | Language exclusive to a specific audience, but meaningless to others | |
| 203535312 | Juxtaposition | Placing two subjects together in text for comparison | |
| 203535313 | Limited Point of View | A third-person view in text with the reader only exposed to the thoughts of few or no characters | |
| 203535314 | Litote | Ironical understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary (e.g., you won't be sorry, meaning you'll be glad) | |
| 203535315 | Loose Sentence | A main clause plus a number of subordinate constructions | |
| 203535316 | Lyric | Expressing the writer's emotions, usually briefly and in stanzas or recognized forms | |
| 203535317 | Message | A significant point or central theme, esp. one that has political, social, or moral importance | |
| 203535318 | Metaphor | A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable | |
| 203535319 | Meter | The rhythm of a piece of poetry, determined by the number and length of feet in a line | |
| 203535320 | Metonymy | the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example suit for business executive, or the track for horse racing | |
| 203535321 | Mood | The emotions prevalent in the text | |
| 203535322 | Motif | A dominant idea or distinctive feature | |
| 203535323 | Narrative Structure | The framework of a piece, usually introduction, conflict, resolution | |
| 203535324 | Narrator | The voice and implied speaker of a fictional work, to be distinguished from the actual living author | |
| 203535325 | Occasional Poem | A poem written to commemorate a specific occasion | |
| 203535326 | Ode | A lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter | |
| 203535327 | Omniscient Point of View | A point of view where the reader is not limited to the thoughts of a certain character, but is exposed to all of them | |
| 203535328 | Onomatopoeia | A word made to be read as a sound, Bang! Whoosh! | |
| 203555001 | Overstatement | The use of exaggeration or extensive focus on a subect | |
| 203535329 | Oxymoron | a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction, example: faith unfaithful | |
| 203535330 | Parable | A usually short fictitious story that illustrates a moral attitude or a religious principle | |
| 203535331 | Parallel Structure | Using the same pattern of words to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance | |
| 203555002 | Paradox | An scenario that seems probable, but is ultimately senseless and impossible | |
| 203535332 | Parody | An imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect | |
| 203535333 | Pastoral | A work of literature portraying an idealized version of country life | |
| 203535334 | Periodic Sentence | A sentence that, by leaving the completion of its main clause to the end, produces an effect of suspense, as in Unable to join the others at the dance because of my sprained ankle, I went to a movie. | |
| 203591768 | Persona | The aspect of someone's character that is presented to or perceived by others | |
| 203591769 | Personification | The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form | |
| 203591770 | Petrarchan Sonnet | A sonnet of the kind used by the Italian poet Petrarch, with an octave rhyming abbaabba, and a sestet typically rhyming cdcdcd or cdecde | |
| 203591771 | Plot | The main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence | |
| 203591772 | Protagonist | The main figure or one of the most prominent figures in a real situation | |
| 203591773 | Quatrain | A stanza of four lines, esp. one having alternate rhymes | |
| 203591774 | Realism | The quality or fact of representing a person, thing, or situation accurately or in a way that is true to life | |
| 203591775 | Refrain | A repeated line or number of lines in a poem or song, typically at the end of each verse | |
| 203591776 | Rising Action | The action leading up to the climax, gets more and more intense | |
| 203591777 | Rhetorical Question | A question designed to provoke thought | |
| 203591778 | Rhyme | Correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, esp. when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry | |
| 203591779 | Rhythm | The measured flow of words and phrases in verse or prose as determined by the relation of long and short or stressed and unstressed syllables | |
| 203591780 | Sarcasm | The use of irony to mock or convey contempt | |
| 203591781 | Satire | The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues | |
| 203591782 | Scansion | The action of scanning a line of verse to determine its rhythm | |
| 203591783 | Setting | The place and time at which a play, novel, or film is represented as happening | |
| 203591784 | Shakespearean Sonnet | A fourteen-line lyric poem consisting of three quatrains (four line stanza) and a concluding couplet (two rhyming lines). The Shakespearean, or English, sonnet was NOT invented by William Shakespeare, but is named for him because he is its most famous practitioner. Its rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg. | |
| 203591785 | Shaped Verse | Poetry with lines arranged to resemble a familiar object. | |
| 203591786 | Simile | A comparison between two objects or ideas using "like" or "as" | |
| 203591787 | Soliloquy | A monologue, a character speaking to themselves for the benefit of the audience. | |
| 203591788 | Speaker | The voice in a poem. The speaker may be the poet or a character created by the poet. The speaker may also be a thing or an animal. | |
| 203591789 | Stanza | A group of lines forming a unit in a poem. | |
| 203591790 | Stereotype | Character in a literary work or film who thinks or acts according to certain unvarying patterns simply because of his or her racial, ethnic, religious, or social background. | |
| 203591791 | Stock Character | a character based on a stereotype. | |
| 203591792 | Structure | The arrangement of lines, verses, stanzas, paragraphs, etc. in a work. | |
| 203591793 | Style | The intricacies of how an author portrays their point. The unique linguistic and structural details that the author employs. | |
| 203591794 | Symbolism | The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities | |
| 203591795 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | |
| 203591796 | Syntax | the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language | |
| 203591797 | Terza Rima | a rhyming verse stanza form that consists of an interlocking three-line rhyme scheme. (A-B-A, B-C-B, C-D-C...) | |
| 203591798 | Theme | The subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic | |
| 203591799 | Tone | The emotions that the piece conveys. | |
| 203591800 | Tragedy | A play dealing with tragic events and having an unhappy ending, esp. one concerning the downfall of the main character | |
| 203591801 | Trochaic | A type of verse that consists of or features trochees (Trochee = a foot consisting of one long or stressed syllable followed by one short or unstressed syllable). | |
| 203591802 | Turning Point | A time at which a decisive change in a situation occurs, esp. one with beneficial results | |
| 203591803 | Villanelle | A form of Italian part-song originating in Naples in the 16th century, in rustic style with a vigorous rhythm | |
| 203591804 | Voice | In rhetoric and literary studies, the distinctive style or manner of expression of an author or narrator. |
