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| 59111128 | allusion | a reference to a literary or historical event, person, or place | |
| 59111129 | elegy | a poetic lament upon the death of a particular person, usually ending in consolation | |
| 59111130 | iambic | a metrical form in which each foot consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one. | |
| 59111131 | irony | a situation or statement characterized by significant difference between what is expected or understood and what actually happens or is meant | |
| 59111132 | meter | the more or less regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry | |
| 59454793 | narrator | the character who tells the story, or in poetry, the persona | |
| 59454794 | parallel structure | the use of similar forms in writing for nouns, verbs, phrases, or thoughts | |
| 59454795 | realism | the practice in literature of attempting to describe nature and life without idealization and with attention to detail. | |
| 59454796 | refrain | a repeated stanza or line in a poem or song | |
| 59454797 | satire | a literary work that holds up human failings to ridicule and censure | |
| 59454798 | scansion | the analysis of verse to show its meter | |
| 59454799 | stanza | a section of a poem demarcated by extra line spacing | |
| 59454800 | syntax | the way words are put together to form phrases, clauses, and sentences | |
| 59454801 | theme | a generalized, abstract paraphrase of the inferred central or dominant idea or concern of a work; the statement a poem makes about its subject | |
| 59454802 | tone | the attitude a literary work takes toward its subject and theme; the tenor of a piece of writing based on a particular stylistic devices employed by the writer. | |
| 61432582 | alliteration | the sequential initial repetition of a similar sound, usually applied to consonants, usually heard in closely proximate stressed syllables | |
| 61432583 | anaphora | the regular repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases or clauses | |
| 61432584 | assonance | a repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, usually those found in stressed syllables of close proximity | |
| 61432585 | caesura | a pause in a line of verse, indicated by natural speech patterns rather than due to specific metrical patterns | |
| 61432586 | consonance | the repetition of a sequence of two or more consonants, but with a change in the intervening vowels. | |
| 61432587 | couplet | two rhyming lines or iambic pentameter that together present a single idea or connection, two lines | |
| 61432588 | dactylic | the metrical patter, as used in poetry, in which each foot consists of a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones. | |
| 61432589 | quatrain | a poetic stanza of four lines | |
| 61432590 | rhyme | the repetition of the same or similar sounds, most often at the ends of lines. | |
| 61432591 | rhythm | the modulation of weak and strong (stressed and unstressed) elements in the flow of speech. | |
| 61432592 | cinquain | five lines | |
| 61432593 | tercet | three lines | |
| 61432594 | quatrain | four lines | |
| 61432595 | sestet | six lines | |
| 61432596 | heptatich | seven lines | |
| 61432597 | octave | eight lines | |
| 61432598 | trochee | a metrical form in which each foot consists of stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable. | |
| 62420679 | apostrophe | an address or invocation to something that is inanimate | |
| 62420680 | conceit | a comparison of two unlikely things that is drawn out within a piece of literature | |
| 62420681 | diction | the specific word choice an author uses to persuade or convey tone, purpose, or effect. | |
| 62420682 | hyperbole | overstatement characterized by exaggerated language | |
| 62420683 | informal diction | language that is not as lofty or impersonal as formal diction | |
| 62420684 | in medias res | "in the midst of things"; refers to opening a story in the middle of the action, necessitating filling in past details by exposition or flashback. | |
| 62420685 | juxaposition | the location of one thing as being adjacent or juxtaposed with another. This placing of two items side by side creates a certain effect, reveals an attitude or accomplishes some purpose of the writer. | |
| 62420686 | litote | a figure of speech that emphasizes its subject by conscious understatement. | |
| 62420687 | metaphor | one thing is pictured as if it were something else, suggesting a likeness or analogy between them. | |
| 62420688 | metonymy | a figure of speech in which an attribute or commonly associated feature is used to name or designate something . | |
| 62420689 | motif | a recurrent device, formula, or situation that often serves as a signal for the appearance of a character or event. | |
| 62420690 | onomatopoeia | a word capturing or approximating the sound of what it describes | |
| 62420691 | oxymoron | a figure of speech that combines two apparently contradictory elements | |
| 62420692 | paradox | a statement that seems contradictory but may actually be true | |
| 62420693 | parody | a work that imitates another work for comic effect by exaggerating the style and changing the content of the original | |
| 62420694 | personification | treating an abstraction or nonhuman object as if it were a person by endowing it with human qualities | |
| 62420695 | protagonist | the main character in a work, who may or may not be heroic | |
| 62420696 | simile | a direct, explicit comparison of one thing to another, usually using words like or as to draw the connection | |
| 62420697 | symbolism | a person, place, thing, event, or pattern in a literary work that designates itself and at the same time figuratively represents for something else. |
