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| 7117233551 | bildungsroman | a novel dealing with the formative years of a character; a coming of age story | 0 | |
| 7117233552 | epiphany | a moment of sudden insight/revelation that a character experiences | 1 | |
| 7117233553 | oxymoron | a phrase composed of opposites; a contradiction, juxtaposition of contradictory elements to create a paradoxical effect | 2 | |
| 7117233794 | sarcasm | a sharp, caustic expression or remark; a bitter jibe or taunt | 3 | |
| 7117233795 | stream of consciousness | a writing style in which the author tries to reproduce the random flow of thoughts in the human mind | 4 | |
| 7117234061 | iamb | the combination of one unstressed followed by a stressed syllable | 5 | |
| 7117234062 | dynamic character | a character that changes throughout a story | 6 | |
| 7117235087 | static character | a character that does not change throughout a story | 7 | |
| 7117235088 | round character | a well-developed character | 8 | |
| 7117235343 | flat character | a partially-developed character | 9 | |
| 7117235737 | trochee | the combination of a stressed followed by an unstressed syllable | 10 | |
| 7117235738 | foot | a basic rhythmic unit formed by a combination of two syllables | 11 | |
| 7117235739 | free verse | a kind of poetry without rhymed lines, rhythms, or fixed metrical feet | 12 | |
| 7117236235 | meter | the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry | 13 | |
| 7117236236 | pentameter | 5 feet of poetry per line | 14 | |
| 7117236237 | prosody | the grammar of meter and rhythm in poetry | 15 | |
| 7117236512 | pastoral | a work of literature dealing with rural / country life | 16 | |
| 7117236513 | quatrain | four lines of poetry that form a unit | 17 | |
| 7117241160 | scansion | the act of determining the meter of a poetic line | 18 | |
| 7117241449 | asyndeton | deliberate omission of conjunctions between a series of related clauses used to produce a hurried rhythm in the sentence | 19 |
