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| 6708464019 | Motif | A repeated idea in a work of literature | 0 | |
| 6708466452 | Metaphysical poems | Poems full of surprising conceits, strange paradoxes, and far-fetched imagery (ex. "The Flea") | 1 | |
| 6708514173 | Ode | A poem in celebration of something (ex. "Ode to a Grecian Urn") | 2 | |
| 6708519381 | Juxtaposition | The placing of ideas side by side for empasis or contrast, sometimes creating humor | 3 | |
| 6708523603 | Enjambment | When a line of poetry does not end in an end mark - either a period, semicolon, or colon | 4 | |
| 6708563570 | Satirize / Satire | The use of humor to criticize | 5 | |
| 6708565598 | Irony | When there is a secondary meaning that the reader reads between the lines, often times creating humor | 6 | |
| 6708568547 | Tone | The author's attitude about the subject - always an adjective | 7 | |
| 6708571684 | Bildungsroman | A coming-of-age novel (ex. Jane Eyre, The Member of the Wedding) | 8 | |
| 6708580152 | Allusion | A reference to something outside the work itself - commonly referring to either the Bible or to mythology | 9 | |
| 6708624111 | Allegory | A story that is, as a whole, a metaphor for another story (ex. The Wild Duck and the christian story; The Crucible and McCarthyism; Animal Farm and the Russian revolution) | 10 | |
| 6708634830 | Foil(s) | Two characters that are polar opposites to each other and represent two opposing ideas (ex. Gregers and Relling in The Wild Duck) | 11 | |
| 6708708631 | Picaresque Novel | Depicts the adventures of a roguish hero of low social class who lives by his wits in a corrupt society (ex. Aladdin) | 12 | |
| 6708713724 | Reverse satire | When the character who exposes the outrages of society is deeply flawed themselves | 13 | |
| 6708716635 | Paradox | A seemingly impossible statement that is somehow true (ex. "his wealth was want, whose plenty made him poor" - Faerie Queene by Spenser) | 14 | |
| 6708722268 | Conceits | A metaphor that controls the entire poem | 15 | |
| 6708724420 | Blank verse | Unrhymed, 10 syllable lines (ex. Milton) | 16 | |
| 6708774563 | Free verse | No rules or patterns for rhyming, poetry that follows no rules regarding line length or patterns of rhyme | 17 | |
| 6708778963 | Iambic pentameter | Uses a cominated of stressed and not stressed "iambs", one of the most common meters in English poetry | 18 | |
| 6708785338 | Mock epic | Uses the lofty language and conventions of an epic to deal with trivial subjefts in a humerous way | 19 | |
| 6708789318 | Bathos | The placing side by side somehting lofty with something trivial, with humerous effect | 20 | |
| 6708812849 | Direct characterization | The author tells us what we need to know about a a character | 21 | |
| 6708812850 | Indirect characterization | When a character's actions and words reveal what's important about the character | 22 | |
| 6708823012 | Gothicism | A subject of Romanticism that focused on the supernatural and the peculiar | 23 | |
| 6708829369 | 1st person narratior / POV | When a character is the narrator | 24 | |
| 6708999589 | 3rd person narratior / POV | When there is a disembodied voice that is not a character as a narrator | 25 | |
| 6709008886 | Omnicient 3rd person narrator | A narrator that knows all, sees all, and can read minds | 26 | |
| 6709023375 | Limited 3rd person narrator | A narrator that "perches" on the shoulder and knows only one character's thoughts, or cannot read anyone's mind (ex. a roving camera) | 27 | |
| 6709037880 | Bourgeois(ie) | The middle class with a negative connotation as it extended to the class's materialism, lack of culture, narrow-mindedness, and striving concern for respectability | 28 | |
| 6709085269 | Prosody | The use of sound in poetry | 29 | |
| 6709088065 | Alliteration | The repetition of intitial constonant sounds in a line of poetry (ex. "tried and true" and "safe and sound") | 30 | |
| 6709093777 | Assonance | The repeptition of vowel sounds (ex. "mad as a hatter") | 31 | |
| 6709147867 | Consonance | The repetition of internal and final constonant sounds in a line of poetry (ex. "broken clock"; "short and sweet") | 32 | |
| 6709166044 | Rhyme | The repetition of the accented vowel sound and any succeeding consonant sound | 33 | |
| 6709169558 | Masculine rhyme | One syllable rhyme (ex. "support and retort") | 34 | |
| 6709181751 | Feminine rhyme | When the rhyme sounds involve two or more syllables (ex. "spitefully and delighfully") | 35 | |
| 6709189628 | Internal rhyme | When the rhyming words are whithin the line | 36 | |
| 6709194018 | End rhyme | When the rhyming words are at the end of the line; most frequently used and most consciously sought-out sound repetition | 37 | |
| 6709201272 | Slant rhyme | When end rhymes almost rhyme has to share either the vowel or the end but not both (ex. "hat, put") | 38 | |
| 6709210111 | Rhythm | The pattern of stressed and unstresed syllables in a line of poetry | 39 | |
| 6709218038 | End-stopped line | A line of poetry that ends in an endmark, semicolon, or colon | 40 | |
| 6709222573 | Caesuras | When there is an endmark, semicolon or colon in the middle of a line of poetry | 41 | |
| 6709233327 | Sonnet | A 14-lined poem with 10 syllables per line and rhymes, most common English/Shakespearean sonnet | 42 | |
| 6709238642 | Onomatopoeia | Words that sound like what they mean (ex. buzz, bang) | 43 | |
| 6709244314 | Phonetic intensives | Letters or groups of letters that are associated with particular meaning (ex. fl- idea of moving light "flame, flicker, flash", st- suggests strength "staunch, steady, strong, steel") | 44 | |
| 6709266602 | Long vowels | Fuller and more resonant (ex. fate, reed) | 45 | |
| 6709268354 | Short vowels | Short and not as fluid (ex. red, rim) | 46 | |
| 6709273582 | Liquid consonants | Melliflous (ex. l, m, n, r, v, f) | 47 | |
| 6709281591 | Explosive consonants | Harsh and sharp (ex. b, d, g, k, p, and t) | 48 | |
| 6709287958 | Euphony (euphonious) | Pleasant sounding language | 49 | |
| 6709291528 | Cacophany (cacophonious) | Harsh souding language | 50 |
