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| 5474354914 | Atmosphere | The pervading tone or mood of a place, situation, or work of art | 0 | |
| 5474354915 | Connotation | An idea of feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meanings | 1 | |
| 5474354916 | Denotation | The literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests | 2 | |
| 5474354917 | Dialogue | Conversation between 2 or more people | 3 | |
| 5474354918 | Epigram | A pithy saying or remark expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way | 4 | |
| 5474354919 | Irony | The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite | 5 | |
| 5474354920 | Situational Irony | When the opposite of what is expected happens | 6 | |
| 5474354921 | Verbal Irony | Sarcasm | 7 | |
| 5474354922 | Dramatic Irony | When the audience knows something the characters don't | 8 | |
| 5474354923 | Sarcasm | The use of Irony to mock or convey contempt | 9 | |
| 5474354924 | Mood | Temporary star of mind or being | 10 | |
| 5474354925 | Narrative Voice | A related topic to think about especially important in 3rd person voice | 11 | |
| 5474354926 | Stream of Consciousness | A person's thoughts and conscious reactions to events, perceived as a conscious flow | 12 | |
| 5474354927 | Point of View | A particular attitude or way of considering a matter | 13 | |
| 5474614154 | 1st Person POV | The story is narrated by one character at a time | 14 | |
| 5474614155 | Objective POV | When the writer tells what happens without stating more than can be inferred from the story's action and dialogue | 15 | |
| 5474614156 | Omniscient POV | A method of story telling in which the narrator tells the thoughts and feelings of all the characters | 16 | |
| 5474614157 | Limited POV | The narrator knows only the feelings and thoughts of one character | 17 | |
| 5474614158 | 3rd Person POV | When the narrator relates all action in pronouns like "he/she" | 18 | |
| 5474614159 | Unlimited POV | When the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters in the story | 19 | |
| 5474614160 | Flashback | A scene in a movie, novel, etc. set in time earlier than the main story | 20 | |
| 5474614161 | Subplot | A subordinate plot in a story, novel or similar work | 21 | |
| 5474614162 | Analogy | A comparison between 2 things typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation certification | 22 | |
| 5474614163 | Antithesis | A person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone else | 23 | |
| 5474614164 | Anticlimax | A disappointing end to an exciting story | 24 | |
| 5474614165 | Aphorism | A pithy observation that contains a general truth such as "If it ain't broken, don't fix it" | 25 | |
| 5474614166 | Asides | A remark or passage by a character in a play that is intended to be heard by only the audience | 26 | |
| 5474614167 | Cliché | A phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought | 27 | |
| 5474614168 | Colloquialism | A word or phrase that is not formal or literary, typically used in ordinary conversation | 28 | |
| 5474614169 | Discourse | Written or spoken communication or debate | 29 | |
| 5474614170 | Discursiveness | Digressing from subject to subject | 30 | |
| 5474614171 | Enumeration | A complete, ordered listing of all items in a collectionn | 31 | |
| 5474614172 | Epigram | A pithy saying or remark expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way | 32 | |
| 5474614173 | Neologism | A newly coined word or expression | 33 | |
| 5474614174 | Paradox | A statement or proposition that leads to a conclusion that seems senseless or self-contradictory | 34 | |
| 5474614175 | Parallelism | Use of verbal constructions in poetry or prose that corresponds in grammatical structure, sound, meaning, etc. | 35 | |
| 5474614176 | Pathetic Fallacy | The attribution of human feelings and responses intimate things or animals | 36 | |
| 5474614177 | Proverb | A short pithy saying in general use, stating a general truth or piece of advice | 37 | |
| 5474614178 | Pun | A play on words | 38 | |
| 5474614179 | Repition | Action of repeating something that has already been saifn | 39 | |
| 5474614180 | Rhetorical Question | Asks a question that may not have an answer | 40 | |
| 5474614181 | Stream of Consciousness | A person's thoughts and conscious reactions to events | 41 | |
| 5474614182 | Syllepsis | A figure of speech in which a word is applied to 2 others in different senses or 2 others when it only suits one grammatically | 42 | |
| 5474614183 | Act | A main division in a play, ballet, or operas | 43 | |
| 5474614184 | Antagonist | A person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something | 44 | |
| 5474614185 | Catastrophe | An event causing great and often sudden damage or suffering a disaster | 45 | |
| 5474614186 | Catharsis | An emotional release | 46 | |
| 5474614187 | Character | Personality in a story | 47 | |
| 5474614188 | Dynamic Character | Changing character | 48 | |
| 5474614189 | Flat Character | Only one or two character traits | 49 | |
| 5474614190 | Round Character | Very well developed character | 50 | |
| 5474614191 | Static Character | Unchanging character | 51 | |
| 5474614192 | Stock Character | Stereotypical character | 52 | |
| 5474614193 | Climax | The turning point | 53 | |
| 5474614194 | Comic Relief | Moment that allows the audience to relax and reprieve | 54 | |
| 5474614195 | Denouement | The resolution | 55 | |
| 5474614196 | Epilogue | What occurs after the ending of a play, novel, etc. | 56 | |
| 5474614197 | Exposition | What is introduced to a character, setting or backstory, etc. | 57 | |
| 5474614198 | Falling Action | The events following the climax that lead to the denouement | 58 | |
| 5474614199 | Hero | Character who exemplifies qualities that all strive to have | 59 | |
| 5474614200 | Monologue | Long speech given by one person for others to hear | 60 | |
| 5474614201 | Prologue | Backstory | 61 | |
| 5474614202 | Rising Action | Events leading to the climax | 62 | |
| 5474614203 | Scene | Division within an act (related to location) | 63 | |
| 5474614204 | Soliloquy | Long speech to oneself | 64 | |
| 5474614205 | Tragedy | A story in which the main character brings about their own downfall through flaw or lack of awareness | 65 | |
| 5474614206 | Comedy | Outcome usually positive, humor used and more lighthearted | 66 | |
| 5474614207 | Crisis | A time of intense difficulty, trouble, or danger | 67 | |
| 5474614208 | Deus Ex Machina | When something miraculous happens to get the plot going | 68 | |
| 5474614209 | Farce | A comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay, typically including crude characterization and improbable possibilites | 69 | |
| 5474614210 | Foil | A person that contrasts with and emphasizes the qualities of another | 70 | |
| 5474614211 | Hamartia | A fetal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine | 71 | |
| 5474614212 | Hubris | Excessive pride or self confidence | 72 | |
| 5474614213 | Tragic Flaw | Less technical word for hamartia | 73 | |
| 5474614214 | Villian | One with evil intent or does evil for selfish reasons | 74 | |
| 5474614215 | Blank verse | Verse of unrhymed lines | 75 | |
| 5474614216 | Cacophony | Harsh or discordant word sounds | 76 | |
| 5474614217 | Cadence | Balanced rhythmic flow | 77 | |
| 5474614218 | Censura | Pattern of unstressed then stressed syllables | 78 | |
| 5474614219 | Conceit | Conventional, logical complex metaphore | 79 | |
| 5474614220 | Dirge | A brief hymn or song of lamentation or grief | 80 | |
| 5474614221 | Dissonance | Intentional description of harmonic sounds or rhythms | 81 | |
| 5474614222 | Dramatic Monologue | Speaker talks to themselves and reveals important information | 82 | |
| 5474614223 | Epic | Long narrative poem, elevated in style and recounting the deeds of a hero | 83 | |
| 5524749031 | Free Verse | No particular rhyme or meter | 84 | |
| 5524749032 | Imagery | Visually descriptive or figurative language | 85 | |
| 5524749033 | In Medias Ras | Picking up a situation in the middle of the story | 86 | |
| 5524749034 | Persona | Character assumed by the author | 87 | |
| 5524749035 | English Sonnet | 14 line poem with 3 quatrains and a couplet | 88 | |
| 5524749036 | Italian Sonnet | 14 line poem with an octave and a sestet | 89 | |
| 5524749037 | Allusion | An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly | 90 | |
| 5524749038 | Apostrophe | An exclamatory passage in a speech or poem addressed to a person (typically dead or absent) or thing (that is personified) | 91 | |
| 5524749039 | Euphamism | A mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh | 92 | |
| 5524749040 | Hyperbole | Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally | 93 | |
| 5524749041 | Litotes | Ironic understatement when an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary | 94 | |
| 5524749042 | Métaphore | A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it's not literally applicable | 95 | |
| 5524749043 | Onomatopoeia | The information of a word from a sound associated with what is named | 96 | |
| 5524749044 | Oxymoron | When apparent contradictory terms appear in conjunction | 97 | |
| 5524749045 | Personification | Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects | 98 | |
| 5524749046 | Similar | Comparison of one with with another that's is different of its kind | 99 | |
| 5524749047 | Symbol | Represents or stands for something else, especially a material object to represent something abstract | 100 | |
| 5524749048 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the vice versa | 101 | |
| 5524749049 | Understatement | Presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important | 102 | |
| 5524749050 | Dialect | Conversation or speech | 103 | |
| 5524749051 | Invective | Insulting, abusive, or highly critical language | 104 | |
| 5524749052 | Inversion | Action of inverting something | 105 | |
| 5524749053 | Satire | Use of humor, Irony, exaggeration or ridicule to expose and criticize stupidity | 106 | |
| 5524749054 | Slang | Language that consists of words and phrases that are regarded as informal | 107 | |
| 5524749055 | Anecdote | A short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person | 108 | |
| 5524749056 | Motivation | The reason behind a character's specific behavior | 109 | |
| 5524749057 | Theme | A main idea or underlying meaning | 110 | |
| 5524749058 | Allegory | A story, poem or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning | 111 | |
| 5524749059 | Diary | A record with discrete entries arranged by date reporting what happens | 112 | |
| 5524749060 | Fable | A short story, typically with animals as characters, conceding a moral | 113 | |
| 5524749061 | Genre | Category of artistic composition characterized by similarities | 114 | |
| 5524749062 | Novel | A factitious prose narrative of book length, representing a character and action of some degrees of realism | 115 | |
| 5524749063 | Novella | A short novel or long short story | 116 | |
| 5524749064 | Parable | A simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson | 117 | |
| 5524749065 | Prose | Written or spoken language in its ordinary form without material structure | 118 | |
| 5524749066 | Verse | Writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically with a rhyme | 119 | |
| 5524749067 | Sestet | The last 6 lines of a Sonnet | 120 | |
| 5524749068 | Stanza | A group of lines forming he basic reoccurring metrical unit | 121 | |
| 5524749069 | Stress | The emphasis that falls on a certain syllable | 122 | |
| 5524749070 | Trochee | A foot consisting of one long or stressed syllable followed by a short or unstressed syllable | 123 | |
| 5524749071 | Volta | The turn of thought | 124 | |
| 5524749072 | Balanced Sentence | Made of 2 parts that are equal in length, importance and grammatical structure | 125 | |
| 5524749073 | Coherence | The quality of being logical and consistent | 126 | |
| 5524749074 | Simple | Easily understood and done with plain or basic form | 127 | |
| 5524749075 | Compound Sentence | A sentence with more than one subject or predicate | 128 | |
| 5524749076 | Complex Sentence | A sentence containing a subordinate clause | 129 | |
| 5524749077 | Compound-Complex | A sentence having 2 or more coordinate independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses | 130 | |
| 5524749078 | Ellipsis | The emission from speech or words that are able to be understood from contextual clues | 131 | |
| 5524749079 | Inverted Sentence | A sentence in abnormal subject first language in which the predicate comes before the subject | 132 | |
| 5524749080 | Loose Sentence | The main idea is elaborated by the successive addition or modifying clauses | 133 | |
| 5524749081 | Alliteration | Repetition of the initial consonant | 134 | |
| 5524749082 | Assonance | Religion of vowels in nearby words | 135 | |
| 5524749083 | Consonance | Repetition of consonant sounds 2 or more times in short succession with a different vowel in between | 136 | |
| 5524749084 | Controlling Image | Main image the writer wants the reader to perceive | 137 | |
| 5524749085 | Couplet | Pair of rhyming lines | 138 | |
| 5524749086 | Elegy | Formal lament in verse for the death of a person, usually ending in a consolation | 139 | |
| 5524749087 | End-stopped Line | Thought ends at the end of a line | 140 | |
| 5524749088 | Enjambement | Clause or syntactic unit carrying over from one line to the next | 141 | |
| 5524749089 | Euphony | Language that is smooth, pleasant and musical | 142 | |
| 5524749090 | Foot | Smallest repeated patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables | 143 | |
| 5524749091 | Iamb | Pattern of unstressed followed by stressed syllables | 144 | |
| 5524749092 | Lyric | Poem that represents musical sounds and pattern | 145 | |
| 5524749093 | Measure | A plan of course of action taken to achieve a particular purpose | 146 | |
| 5524749094 | Meter | Rhythmic pattern of verse | 147 | |
| 5524749095 | Octave | 8 line stanza | 148 | |
| 5524749096 | Ode | Serious in subject, elevated in style and elaborate in stanzaic structure | 149 | |
| 5524749097 | Pentameter | Contains 5 feet per line | 150 | |
| 5524749098 | Quatrain | Stanza of 4 lines in a verse | 151 | |
| 5524749099 | Refrain | Repetition of the same line after different stanzas | 152 | |
| 5524749100 | Repetition | The action of repeating something that has already been said | 153 | |
| 5524749101 | Rhyme | Correspondance of sound between words or the ending of words | 154 | |
| 5524749102 | End Rhyme | When a poem has lines ending with words that sound the same | 155 | |
| 5524749103 | External Rhyme | A pattern of words that rhyme in the last word of each line in a stanza | 156 | |
| 5524749104 | Feminine Rhyme | A rhyme between stressed syllables followed by one or more stressed syllables | 157 | |
| 5524749105 | Internal Rhyme | A rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of a line or in the middle of the next | 158 | |
| 5524749106 | Masculine Rhyme | A rhyme of final stressed syllables | 159 | |
| 5524749107 | Scansion | Analysis of verse to show its meter | 160 | |
| 5524749108 | Anecdotal | Info based on a personal story | 161 | |
| 5524749109 | Interlude | Brief break in time | 162 | |
| 5524749110 | Pervasive | Spread throughout; often with negative connotation | 163 | |
| 5524749111 | Didactic | To teach something | 164 | |
| 5528154970 | Corpulent | (Of a person) fat, large in size | 165 | |
| 5528154971 | Errant | Wandering, straying, misbehaving | 166 | |
| 5528154972 | Innocuous | Not harmful or offensive | 167 | |
| 5528154973 | Pernicious | Having a harmful effect, especially in gradual or subtle way | 168 | |
| 5528154974 | Ubiquitous | Present, appearing, or found everywhere | 169 | |
| 5528154975 | Clandestine | Kept secret or done secretly, especially because illicit | 170 | |
| 5528154976 | Nostalgia | A sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, typically associated with happiness | 171 | |
| 5528154977 | Edification | The correction or improvement of a person morally or intellectually | 172 | |
| 5528154978 | Atavistic | Relating to or characterized by reversion to something ancient | 173 | |
| 5528154979 | Garrulous | Excessively talkative, especially on trivial matters | 174 | |
| 5528154980 | Affability | Distinguishing warmth and friendliness | 175 | |
| 5528154981 | Deference | Humble submission and respect, look to for guidance or decision | 176 | |
| 5528154982 | Rustic | Relating to, or living in the country | 177 | |
| 5528154983 | Abject | Extremely bad, unpleasant and degrading; completely without pride or dignity | 178 | |
| 5528154984 | Indolence | Avoidance of activity or extension; laziness | 179 | |
| 5528154985 | Ingratiate | Bring oneself into favor with someone by flattering or trying to please them | 180 | |
| 5528154986 | Benevolence | Desire to do good to others; goodwill | 181 | |
| 5528154987 | Pomposity | Over the top; arrogant | 182 | |
| 5528154988 | Pragmatism | Dark realism, logical way of making choices | 183 | |
| 5528154989 | Bellicose | Demonstrating aggression and willingness to fight, warlike | 184 | |
| 5528154990 | Subservient | Prepared to obey others unquestioningly to a problematic degree | 185 | |
| 5528154991 | Pious | Devoutly religious; making a hypocritical display of virtue | 186 | |
| 5528154992 | Rhetoric | The art of being affective or persuasive speaking or writing especially the use of figures of speech etc | 187 | |
| 5528154993 | Libertine | A person, especially a man, who behaves without moral principals or a sense of responsibility, especially in sexual matters | 188 | |
| 5528154994 | Aesthetic | Concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty | 189 | |
| 5528154995 | Haughty | Arrogantly superior and disdainful | 190 | |
| 5528154996 | Admonition | Scolding, authoritative, counsel or warming | 191 | |
| 5528154997 | Disconsolation | Hopeless, unhappy | 192 | |
| 5528154998 | Salient | Most noticeable | 193 | |
| 5528154999 | Omnipresent | Always present | 194 | |
| 5528155000 | Somnolence | Of or relating to sleep | 195 |
