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| 10718945760 | Personification | a figure of speech in which human attributes are given to an animal, an object, or a concept | 0 | |
| 10718945761 | Plot | The sequence of incidents or events of which a story is composed | 1 | |
| 10718945762 | Point of View | the angle of vision from which a story is told | 2 | |
| 10718945763 | Prosody | the patterns of rhythm and sound used in poetry | 3 | |
| 10718945764 | Protagonist | The central character in a story | 4 | |
| 10718945765 | Purpose | One's intention or objective in a speech or piece of writing. | 5 | |
| 10718945766 | Quatrain | (1) A four-line stanza. (2) A four-line division of a sonnet marked off by its rhyme scheme. | 6 | |
| 10718945767 | Resolution | End of the story where loose ends are tied up | 7 | |
| 10718945768 | Reversal | The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist. | 8 | |
| 10718945769 | Rhyme | Interior: Rhyme within a single line or verse Slant: The vowels or consonants of stressed syllables are identical | 9 | |
| 10718945770 | Romanticism | a movement in the arts and literature that originated in the late 18th century, emphasizing inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual. | 10 | |
| 10718945771 | Satire | a kind of literature that ridicules human folly or vice with the purpose of bringing about reform or of keeping others from falling into similar folly or vice | 11 | |
| 10718945772 | Scan | To analyze a poem's meter | 12 | |
| 10718945773 | Sestet | (1) A six-line stanza (2) The last six lines of a sonnet structured on the Italian model | 13 | |
| 10718945774 | Simile | A figure of speech in which an explicit comparison is made between two things essentially unlike | 14 | |
| 10718945775 | Soliloquy | a speech in which a character is alone on stage and expresses thoughts out loud | 15 | |
| 10718945776 | Sonnet | A fixed form of fourteen lines, normally iambic pentameter, with a rhyme scheme conforming to or approximating one of two main types | 16 | |
| 10718945777 | Speaker | the voice of a literary work | 17 | |
| 10718945778 | Stage Direction | A playwright's written instructions provided in the text of a play about the setting or how the actors are to move and behave in a play. | 18 | |
| 10718945779 | Stock Character | A stereotyped character: one whose nature is familiar to us from prototypes in previous fiction | 19 | |
| 10718945780 | Stream of consciousness | narrative that presents the private thoughts of a character without commentary or interpretation by the author | 20 | |
| 10718945781 | Symbol | something that means more than what it is; an object, person, situation, or action that in addition to its literal meaning suggests other meanings as well | 21 | |
| 10718945782 | Syntax | The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. | 22 | |
| 10718945783 | Theme | Central idea of a work of literature | 23 | |
| 10718945784 | Tone | The writer's or speaker's attitude toward the subject, the audience, or herself or himself | 24 | |
| 10718945785 | Tragedy | A type of drama, opposed to comedy, which depicts the causally related events that lead to the downfall and suffering of the protagonist, a person of unusual moral or intellectual stature or outstanding abilities | 25 | |
| 10718945786 | Understatement | a figure of speech that consists of saying less than one means, or of saying what one means with less force than the occasion warrants | 26 | |
| 10718945787 | Unreliable Narrator | a narrator whose account of events appears to be faulty, misleadingly biased, or otherwise distorted | 27 | |
| 10719006290 | Rhythm | any wavelike recurrence of motion or sound | 28 |
