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| 13593473800 | Allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. | 0 | |
| 13593473801 | Anapest | three-syllable foot, stress on third | 1 | |
| 13593473802 | Aphorism | A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life. | 2 | |
| 13593473803 | Antagonist | A character or force in conflict with the main character | 3 | |
| 13593473804 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds | 4 | |
| 13593473805 | Anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | 5 | |
| 13593473806 | Anti-hero | a central character in a story, movie, or drama who lacks conventional heroic attributes. | 6 | |
| 13593473807 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. | 7 | |
| 13593473808 | Allusion | A reference to another work of literature, person, or event | 8 | |
| 13593473809 | Anachronism | something out of place in time | 9 | |
| 13593473810 | Anagnorisis | recognition or discovery on the part of the hero; change from ignorance to knowledge | 10 | |
| 13593473811 | Antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. | 11 | |
| 13593473812 | Antithesis | Direct opposite | 12 | |
| 13593473813 | Appositive | A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun. | 13 | |
| 13593473814 | Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds | 14 | |
| 13593473815 | Asyndeton | the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence. | 15 | |
| 13593473816 | Bildungsroman | A coming of age story | 16 | |
| 13593473817 | Cacophony | A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds | 17 | |
| 13593473818 | Catharsis | a release of emotional tension | 18 | |
| 13593473819 | Chiasmus | a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases | 19 | |
| 13593473820 | Caesura | A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line. | 20 | |
| 13593473821 | Catastrophe | a large-scale disaster, misfortune, or failure | 21 | |
| 13593473822 | deus ex machina | an unexpected power or event saving a seemingly hopeless situation, especially as a contrived plot device in a play or novel. | 22 | |
| 13593473823 | Diction | the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing. | 23 | |
| 13593473824 | Dissonance | Unpleasant or unharmonious sound | 24 | |
| 13593473825 | Dystopia | imaginary place where living conditions are dreadful | 25 | |
| 13593473826 | Denotation | The dictionary definition of a word | 26 | |
| 13593473827 | Dynamic Character | A character who grows, learns, or changes as a result of the story's action | 27 | |
| 13593473828 | denouement | an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot | 28 | |
| 13593473829 | Dichotomy | a division into two parts | 29 | |
| 13593473830 | Doppelgänger | an apparition or double of a living person | 30 | |
| 13593473831 | Dramatic irony | when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't | 31 | |
| 13593473832 | Elegy | a sad or mournful poem | 32 | |
| 13593473833 | End rhyme | A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line | 33 | |
| 13593473834 | Epiphany | A moment of sudden revelation or insight | 34 | |
| 13593473835 | Epistolary | concerned with letters; through correspondence | 35 | |
| 13593473836 | Epithet | an adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned. | 36 | |
| 13593473837 | Eulogy | (n.) a formal statement of commendation; high praise | 37 | |
| 13593473838 | Extended metaphor | A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work. | 38 | |
| 13593473839 | Euphemism | An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant | 39 | |
| 13593473840 | Exposition | a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory. | 40 | |
| 13593473841 | Enjambment | the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza. | 41 | |
| 13593473842 | Epitaph | (n.) a brief statement written on a tomb or gravestone | 42 | |
| 13593473843 | Ethos | credibility | 43 | |
| 13593473844 | Epic | A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds | 44 | |
| 13593473845 | Foil | A character who acts as a contrast to another character | 45 | |
| 13593473846 | Frame story | a story within a story | 46 | |
| 13593473847 | Falling action | Events after the climax, leading to the resolution | 47 | |
| 13593473848 | Flat Character | A character who embodies a single quality and who does not develop in the course of a story | 48 | |
| 13593473849 | Foot | A metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables. | 49 | |
| 13593473850 | Free verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme | 50 | |
| 13593473851 | Hamartia | tragic flaw | 51 | |
| 13593473852 | Hubris | excessive pride | 52 | |
| 13593473853 | Hyperbole | exaggeration | 53 | |
| 13593473854 | Iamb | unstressed, stressed | 54 | |
| 13593473855 | Illusion | (n.) a false idea; something that one seems to see or to be aware that really does not exist | 55 | |
| 13593473856 | Implied metaphor | Implies or suggests the comparison between the two thing without stating it directly | 56 | |
| 13593473857 | Internal rhyme | A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line | 57 | |
| 13593473858 | Iambic pentameter | a poetic meter that is made up of 5 stressed syllables each followed by an unstressed syllable | 58 | |
| 13593473859 | in medias res | in the middle of things | 59 | |
| 13593473860 | Intertextuality | the relationship between texts, especially literary ones. | 60 | |
| 13593473861 | Inciting incident | event that introduces the central conflict | 61 | |
| 13593473862 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts | 62 | |
| 13593473863 | Kenning | A device employed in Anglo-Saxon poetry in which the name of a thing is replaced by one of its functions or qualities, as in "ring-giver" for king and "whale-road" for ocean. | 63 | |
| 13593473864 | Logos | Appeal to logic | 64 | |
| 13593473865 | Lyric | A type of poetry that explores the poet's personal interpretation of and feelings about the world. | 65 | |
| 13593473866 | Melosis | understatement, minimizing for effect (Perhaps I could eat a bite) ironic | 66 | |
| 13593473867 | Meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry | 67 | |
| 13593473868 | Mood | Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader | 68 | |
| 13593473869 | Malapropism | a word humorously misused | 69 | |
| 13593473870 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it | 70 | |
| 13593473871 | Maxim | a general truth or rule of conduct; a short saying | 71 | |
| 13593473872 | Memoir | A historical account or biography written from personal knowledge or special sources | 72 | |
| 13593473873 | metaphysical | Concerned with abstract thought, related to metaphysics (branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the nature of being and of the world); very subtle or abstruse | 73 | |
| 13593473874 | Motif | A recurring theme, subject or idea | 74 | |
| 13593473875 | Narrative | The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events. | 75 | |
| 13593473876 | Nemesis | someone or something a person cannot conquer or achieve; a hated enemy | 76 | |
| 13593473877 | Naturalism | a style and theory of representation based on the accurate depiction of detail. | 77 | |
| 13593473878 | non sequitur | something that does not logically follow | 78 | |
| 13593473879 | Novella | a short novel | 79 | |
| 13593473880 | Octave | 8 line stanza | 80 | |
| 13593473881 | Onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. | 81 | |
| 13593473882 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. | 82 | |
| 13593473883 | Ode | A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject. | 83 | |
| 13593473884 | omniscient | all-knowing | 84 | |
| 13593473885 | Paradox | A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. | 85 | |
| 13593473886 | Parataxis | writing successive independent clauses, with coordinating conjunctions, or no conjunctions | 86 | |
| 13593473887 | Pastiche | piece of literature or music imitating other works | 87 | |
| 13593473888 | pedantic | tending to show off one's learning | 88 | |
| 13593473889 | Persona | an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting | 89 | |
| 13593473890 | Plot | Sequence of events in a story | 90 | |
| 13593474098 | Pentameter | five feet | 91 | |
| 13593474099 | parallel structure | the repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures | 92 | |
| 13593474100 | Pathos | Appeal to emotion | 93 | |
| 13593473891 | poetic justice | When characters "get what they deserve" in the end of a story. | 94 | |
| 13593473892 | Quatrain | A four line stanza | 95 | |
| 13593473893 | Realism | A 19th century artistic movement in which writers and painters sought to show life as it is rather than life as it should be | 96 | |
| 13593473894 | Rhetorical devices | literary techniques used to heighten the effectiveness of expression | 97 | |
| 13593473895 | Rising action | Events leading up to the climax | 98 | |
| 13593473896 | Round Character | A character who demonstrates some complexity and who develops or changes in the course of a work | 99 | |
| 13593473897 | Refrain | A line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem. | 100 | |
| 13593473898 | Resolution | End of the story where loose ends are tied up | 101 | |
| 13593473899 | rhetorical question | A question asked merely for rhetorical effect and not requiring an answer | 102 | |
| 13593474101 | Static Character | A character that does not change from the beginning of the story to the end | 103 | |
| 13593474102 | Superlative | Excellent; above all others | 104 | |
| 13593474103 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 105 | |
| 13593474104 | Sestet | 6 line stanza | 106 | |
| 13593474105 | Spondee | Two stressed syllables | 107 | |
| 13593474106 | Synesis | the agreement of words according to logic, and not by the grammatical form; a kind of anacoluthon | 108 | |
| 13593474107 | Sestina | a poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet | 109 | |
| 13593474108 | situational irony | An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected | 110 | |
| 13593474109 | stream of consciousness | a style of writing that portrays the inner (often chaotic) workings of a character's mind. | 111 | |
| 13593474110 | Tragedy | A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character | 112 | |
| 13593474111 | Trochaic | stressed, unstressed | 113 | |
| 13593474112 | Tone | Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character | 114 | |
| 13593474113 | Trope | The generic name for a figure of speech such as image, symbol, simile, and metaphor. | 115 | |
| 13593474114 | Utopia | an ideal society | 116 | |
| 13593474115 | Verbal irony | A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant | 117 | |
| 13593474116 | Voice | A writers distinctive use of language | 118 | |
| 13593474117 | verisimilitude | the appearance of being true or real | 119 | |
| 13593474118 | vignette | a short scene or story | 120 | |
| 13593474119 | Vernacular | Everyday language of ordinary people | 121 |
