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| 7021527499 | abstract | relating to or involving general ideas or qualities rather than specific people, objects, or actions | 0 | |
| 7038058048 | Adage | an old and well-known saying that expresses a general truth | 1 | |
| 7038058049 | Allegory | a story in which the characters and events are symbols that stand for ideas about human life or for a political or historical situation | 2 | |
| 7038059219 | Alliteration | the use of words that begin with the same sound near one another | 3 | |
| 7038059220 | Allusion | a statement that refers to something without mentioning it directly | 4 | |
| 7038061506 | Ambiguity | something that does not have a single clear meaning | 5 | |
| 7038062907 | Anachronism | something (such as a word, an object, or an event) that is mistakenly placed in a time where it does not belong in a story, movie, etc. | 6 | |
| 7038063653 | Analogy | a comparison of two things based on their being alike in some way | 7 | |
| 7038063654 | Anecdote | a short story about an interesting or funny event or occurrence | 8 | |
| 7038065064 | Antagonist | a person who opposes another person | 9 | |
| 7038067165 | Antithesis | the exact opposite of something or someone | 10 | |
| 7038114878 | Aphorism | a short phrase that expresses a true or wise idea | 11 | |
| 7038114879 | Apostrophe | the punctuation mark ʼ used to show that letters or numbers are missing | 12 | |
| 7038116358 | Archetype | a perfect example of something | 13 | |
| 7038117703 | Assonance | the use of words that have the same or very similar vowel sounds near one another | 14 | |
| 7038117704 | Ballad | a kind of poem or song that tells a story | 15 | |
| 7038119635 | Bathos | the sudden appearance of a silly idea or event in a book, movie discussion, etc., that is serious in tone | 16 | |
| 7038120987 | Blank verse | poetry that does not rhyme but that has a regular rhythm | 17 | |
| 7038120988 | Caesura | a break between words within a metrical foot. | 18 | |
| 7038122540 | Canon | an accepted rule or guide about how people should behave or about how something should be done | 19 | |
| 7038122541 | Caricature | a drawing that makes someone look funny or foolish because some part of the person's appearance is exaggerated | 20 | |
| 7038124028 | Climax | the most exciting and important part of a story, play, or movie that occurs usually at or near the end | 21 | |
| 7038124029 | Colloquial | used when people are speaking in an informal way | 22 | |
| 7038125274 | Conceit | too much pride in your own worth or goodness | 23 | |
| 7038125275 | Connotation | an idea or quality that a word makes you think about in addition to its meaning | 24 | |
| 7038126583 | Consonance | a speech sound that is made by partly or completely stopping the flow of air breathed out from the mouth | 25 | |
| 7038126584 | Couplet | two lines of poetry that form a unit | 26 | |
| 7038128900 | Diction | the clearness of a person's speech | 27 | |
| 7038129735 | Deus ex machina | a character or thing that suddenly enters the story in a novel, play, movie, etc., and solves a problem that had previously seemed impossible to solve | 28 | |
| 7038129736 | Elegy | a sad poem or song : a poem or song that expresses sorrow for someone who is dead | 29 | |
| 7038131384 | Ellipsis | the act of leaving out one or more words that are not necessary for a phrase to be understood | 30 | |
| 7038132907 | Enjambment | the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza | 31 | |
| 7038132914 | Epic | a long poem that tells the story of a hero's adventures | 32 | |
| 7038145385 | Epigram | a short and clever poem or saying | 33 | |
| 7038147791 | Euphemism | a mild or pleasant word or phrase that is used instead of one that is unpleasant or offensive | 34 | |
| 7038149234 | Exposition | the act of explaining something : clear explanation | 35 | |
| 7038150463 | Fable | a short story that usually is about animals and that is intended to teach a lesson | 36 | |
| 7038151786 | Falling action | the parts of story after the climax and before the very end | 37 | |
| 7038152619 | Farce | a funny play or movie about ridiculous situations and events | 38 | |
| 7038153646 | First-person narrative | is a point of view (who is telling a story)where the story is narrated by one character at a time. | 39 | |
| 7038153647 | Flashback | a part of a story or movie that describes or shows something that happened in the past | 40 | |
| 7038155819 | Foil | to prevent (someone) from doing something or achieving a goal | 41 | |
| 7039678742 | Foreshadowing | to give a suggestion of (something that has not yet happened) | 42 | |
| 7039679213 | Free verse | poetry that does not rhyme and does not have a regular rhythm | 43 | |
| 7039679914 | Genre | a particular type or category of literature or art | 44 | |
| 7039680585 | Hyperbole | language that describes something as better or worse than it really is | 45 | |
| 7039681839 | Imagery | language that causes people to imagine pictures in their mind | 46 | |
| 7039682245 | In medias res | into the middle of a narrative; without preamble. | 47 | |
| 7039682973 | Irony | the use of words that mean the opposite of what you really think especially in order to be funny | 48 | |
| 7039683186 | Juxtapose | to place (different things) together in order to create an interesting effect or to show how they are the same or different | 49 | |
| 7039684521 | Litotes | ironic understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary | 50 | |
| 7039684525 | Lyric | the words of a song | 51 | |
| 7039685122 | Metaphor | a word or phrase for one thing that is used to refer to another thing in order to show or suggest that they are similar | 52 | |
| 7039685123 | Meter | a device that measures and records the amount of something that has been used | 53 | |
| 7039687528 | Metonymy | the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, | 54 | |
| 7039687529 | Mood | A literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions | 55 | |
| 7039687923 | Motif | something (such as an important idea or subject) that is repeated throughout a book, story, etc. | 56 | |
| 7039687924 | Narrator | to tell a story | 57 | |
| 7039688303 | Ode | a poem in which a person expresses a strong feeling of love or respect for someone or something | 58 | |
| 7039688576 | Omniscient point of view | a method of storytelling in which the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in the story, | 59 | |
| 7039688577 | Onomatopoeia | the creation of words that imitate natural sounds | 60 | |
| 7039689323 | Oxymoron | a combination of words that have opposite or very different meanings | 61 | |
| 7039690107 | Parable | a short story that teaches a moral or spiritual lesson | 62 | |
| 7039690432 | Paradox | something (such as a situation) that is made up of two opposite things and that seems impossible but is actually true or possible | 63 | |
| 7039690433 | Parody | a piece of writing, music, etc., that imitates the style of someone or something else in an amusing way | 64 | |
| 7039690901 | Pastoral | of or relating to the countryside or to the lives of people who live in the country | 65 | |
| 7039690902 | Pathos | a quality that causes people to feel sympathy and sadness | 66 | |
| 7039691220 | Persona | the way you behave, talk, etc., with other people that causes them to see you as a particular kind of person | 67 | |
| 7039691221 | Personification | a person who has a lot of a particular quality and who is the perfect example of someone who has that quality | 68 | |
| 7039691521 | Plot | an area of land that has been measured and is considered as a unit | 69 | |
| 7039691522 | Protagonist | the main character in a novel, play, movie, etc. | 70 | |
| 7039692015 | Quatrain | a poem or verse that has four lines | 71 | |
| 7039692016 | Realism | the quality of a person who understands what is real and possible in a particular situation and is able to deal with problems in an effective and practical way | 72 | |
| 7039692302 | Refrain | to stop yourself from doing something that you want to do | 73 | |
| 7039692475 | Rhetorical question | a question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer. | 74 | |
| 7039692476 | Rhyme | one of two or more words or phrases that end in the same sounds | 75 | |
| 7039692720 | Rhythm | one of two or more words or phrases that end in the same sounds | 76 | |
| 7039692721 | Rising action | a plot is a series of relevant incidents that create suspense, | 77 | |
| 7039692950 | Sarcasm | the use of irony to mock or convey contempt. | 78 | |
| 7039692951 | Satire | a way of using humor to show that someone or something is foolish, weak, bad, etc. | 79 | |
| 7039693968 | Setting | the place and conditions in which something happens or exists | 80 | |
| 7039693969 | Shakespearean sonnet | composed of three quatrains and a terminal couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern | 81 | |
| 7039694427 | Simile | a phrase that uses the words like or as to describe someone or something by comparing it with someone or something else that is similar | 82 | |
| 7039694428 | Soliloquy | a long, usually serious speech that a character in a play makes to an audience and that reveals the character's thoughts | 83 | |
| 7039694734 | Stanza | a group of lines in a poem | 84 | |
| 7039694735 | Stereotype | an often unfair and untrue belief that many people have about all people or things with a particular characteristic | 85 | |
| 7039694999 | Structure | the way that something is built, arranged, or organized | 86 | |
| 7039695000 | Style | a particular way in which something is done, created, or performed | 87 | |
| 7039695412 | Syllogism | a formal argument in logic that is formed by two statements and a conclusion which must be true if the two statements are true | 88 | |
| 7039695413 | Symbolism | the use of symbols to express or represent ideas or qualities in literature, art, etc. | 89 | |
| 7039695690 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 90 | |
| 7039695691 | Syntax | the way in which words are put together to form phrases, clauses, or sentences | 91 | |
| 7039696727 | Terza rima | an arrangement of triplets, especially in iambs, that rhyme | 92 | |
| 7039696728 | Theme | Is the central topic a text treat | 93 | |
| 7039697175 | Tone | The general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing situation etc. | 94 | |
| 7039697176 | Tragedy | Branch of drama that treats in a serious and dignified style the sorrowful or terrible events encounter or cause by a heroic individual | 95 | |
| 7039697316 | Voice | The form or a format through which narrators tell their stories | 96 |
