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| 13437142701 | Antithesis | the j uxtaposition of contrasting ideas, often in parallel structure | 0 | |
| 13437142703 | Imagery | a vivid description that creates a strong sensory impression | 1 | |
| 13437142704 | irony (verbal) | use of a word in such a way as to convey a meaning opposite to the literal meaning of the word | 2 | |
| 13437142705 | litotes | deliberate use of understatement | 3 | |
| 13437142706 | metaphor | implied comparison | 4 | |
| 13437142707 | metonymy | substitue of some attributive or suggestive word for what is actually meant | 5 | |
| 13437142708 | Paradox | a statement that itially appears to be contradictory but then on closer inspection, turns out to make sense | 6 | |
| 13437142709 | parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or seies of related words, phrases, or clauses | 7 | |
| 13437142710 | personification | investing abstratiosn or inanimate objects with human qualities | 8 | |
| 13437142711 | simile | explicit comparison between two things of unlike nature | 9 | |
| 13437142713 | trope | one of the two major divisions of figures of speech (the other being rhetorical figures) which refers to the figurative turn or twisting of some word or phrase to make it mean something else. For example, metaphor, metonymy, simile, personfication, and synecdoche | 10 | |
| 13437142714 | foot (poetry) | a pair of syllables | 11 | |
| 13437142715 | iamb or iambic foot | a pair of syllables, with the first syllable less prominent than the second | 12 | |
| 13437142716 | accent or stress | the sound of a syllable as affected by a change in pitch when spoken | 13 | |
| 13437142717 | duration or quantity | shortness or length of a syllable when pronounced relative to the syllables surrounding it | 14 | |
| 13437142718 | line (of poetry) | the characters that appear on a single line regardless of grammatical structure | 15 | |
| 13437142719 | syntax | the words in their arrangement, and the dynamic energy the arrangement creates | 16 | |
| 13437142720 | syntactical unit | a sentence, phrase, or clause | 17 | |
| 13437142721 | Enjambment | the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza. | 18 | |
| 13437142722 | trochee | a inverted iamb, where the first syllable is more prominent that the second | 19 | |
| 13437142723 | anapest | three-syllable foot, stress on third | 20 | |
| 13437142724 | sprung rhythm | The omission of an unstressed syllable resulting in the jamming of two stressed syllables together as in "saw, who." in the line "Wonders I saw, who can tell" rather than "Wonders I saw, that who can tell?" | 21 | |
| 13437142725 | spondee | a foot of two long syllables, as in the spondaic line "And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste" | 22 | |
| 13437142726 | caesura | A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line, usually indicated by punctuation | 23 | |
| 13437142727 | dimeter | two feet per line | 24 | |
| 13437142728 | trimeter | 3 feet per line | 25 | |
| 13437142729 | tetrameter | 4 feet per line | 26 | |
| 13437142730 | pentameter | 5 feet per line | 27 | |
| 13437142731 | hexameter | 6 feet per line | 28 | |
| 13437142732 | assonance | Repetition of similar vowel sounds | 29 | |
| 13437142733 | consonance | Repetition of consonant sounds | 30 | |
| 13437142734 | alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds | 31 | |
| 13437849204 | anachronism | a thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, especially a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned. | 32 | |
| 13437852420 | Soliloquy | A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage | 33 | |
| 13437854196 | Hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. | 34 | |
| 13437856520 | foil | A character who acts as a contrast to another character | 35 | |
| 13437858472 | synechdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 36 | |
| 13437861744 | Euphemism | An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant | 37 | |
| 13437864037 | ambiguous | unclear or doubtful in meaning | 38 | |
| 13437866970 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. | 39 | |
| 13437868527 | Allusion | A reference to another work of literature, person, or event | 40 | |
| 13437868528 | paradox | A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. | 41 | |
| 13437870387 | Jargon | special words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or group and are difficult for others to understand. | 42 | |
| 13437872632 | Litotes | A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite | 43 | |
| 13437876512 | Archetype | A detail, image, or character type that occurs frequently in literature and myth and is thought to appeal in a universal way to the unconscious and to evoke a response | 44 | |
| 13437878904 | Aphorisms | Short statements of truth | 45 | |
| 13437880619 | Parable | A simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson | 46 | |
| 13437880620 | Sarcasm | the use of irony to mock or convey contempt | 47 | |
| 13437882561 | Colloquialisms | a word or phrase that is not formal or literary, typically one used in ordinary or familiar conversation. | 48 | |
| 13437887057 | Dramatic Irony | when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't | 49 | |
| 13437889000 | Mood | Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader | 50 | |
| 13437891953 | Repetition | Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis | 51 |
