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7561408378AllusionReference within a work and to a person, place, or event0
7561408379AnagorisosMoment of discovery1
7561408380BathosUnexpected turn from the lofty to trivial2
7561408381CaricatureAn exaggeration of someone's features3
7561408382deus ex machinaa plot twist that brings about a plot resolution4
7561408383EpiphanySudden life realization in an everyday moment5
7561408384ForeshadowingA warning for a future event6
7561408385in medias resstarting a narrative in the middle7
7603795337interior monologuea record of a character's thought8
7561408386InvocationA prayer to a god9
7561408387Ironythe use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning10
7561408388Verbal IronyA statement that implies the opposite11
7561408389situational ironyOne understanding of a situation is in sharp contrast to another12
7561408390Romantic ironyAn authors persistent reminding of a presence in a work13
7561408391dramtic ironyWhere the audience knows something the character in a story doesn't14
7561408392Cosmic ironyirony based on the power of the universe15
7561443307MelodramaUsing emotion or plot twists to provoke audience16
7561443308ParallelismSimilarities between elements in a narrative17
7561443309PathosQuality in literature that appeals to emotion18
7561443310Poetic dictionUse of specific words that are not common to contemporary speech19
7561443311Poetic licenseCreating your own rules to strengthen a passage20
7561452197ArchetypeA theme, motif, symbol, or stock character that that is always culturally conscious21
7561459449WitWords that display cleverness22
7561459450EmblemAn object that represents something23
7561459451Imageryvisually descriptive or figurative language24
7561470856MotifA recurring theme, subject or idea25
7561470857SymbolSomething that represents something else26
7561470858ThemeA universal idea in a literary work27
7561470859ThesisThe main argument of a work28
7561470860ToneThe atmosphere presented in a story29

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