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| 5199704404 | Accent | The emphasis or stress given a syllable in pronunciation. It can also be used to emphasize particular words in a sentence. | 0 | |
| 5199704405 | Act | A major division in the action of a play. | 1 | |
| 5199706776 | Allegory | An extended metaphor in which a particular narration or description and its subsequent events, actions, characters, characters, settings, and objects represent specific abstractions or ideas. | 2 | |
| 5199830595 | Alliteration | The repetition of the same constant sounds at the beginning in a sequence words. This repetition refers to the letter's sound rather than its spelling. | 3 | |
| 5199706777 | Allusion | A brief reference to a person, place, thing, event, or idea in history or literature. They imply reading and cultural experiences shared by the writer and reader, functioning as a kind of shorthand whereby the recalling of something outside the work supplies an emotional or intellectual context. | 4 | |
| 5199708919 | Ambiguity | Allows for two or more simultaneous interpretations of a word, phrase, action, or situation, all of which can be supported by the context of a work. Deliberate (this word) is a rhetorical tool used by secondary writers, however, unintentional (this word) is a mistake which obscures meaning and can confuse readers. | 5 | |
| 5199712027 | Anagrams | A word or phrase made from the letters of another word phrase, as "heart" is an anagram of "earth." Occasionally, writers will use this to conceal proper names or veiled messages, or to suggest important messages between words, as in "hatred" and "death." | 6 | |
| 5199712028 | Antagonist | The character, force, or collection of forces in fiction or drama that opposes the protagonist and gives rise to the conflict in the story; an opponent of the protagonist. | 7 | |
| 5199714839 | Antihero | A protagonist who has the opposite of the most of the traditional attributes of a hero. | 8 | |
| 5199717232 | Apostrophe | An address, either to someone who is absent and therefore cannot hear the speaker or to something nonhuman that cannot comprehend. This often provides a speaker the opportunity to think aloud. | 9 | |
| 5199719105 | Archetype | A term used to describe universal symbols that evoke deep and sometimes unconscious response in a reader. In literature, characters, images, and themes that symbolically embody universal meanings and basic human experiences are considered archetypes. | 10 | |
| 5199719106 | Aside | In drama, a short speech or comment directed to the audience that supposedly is not audible to the other characters on stage at the time. | 11 | |
| 5199719107 | Ballad | Traditionally, a ballad is a song, transmitted orally from generation to generation, that tells a story and that eventually is written down. | 12 | |
| 5199724301 | Biographical criticism | An approach to literature that suggests that acknowledge of the author's life experiences can aid in the understanding of his or her work. | 13 | |
| 5199728069 | Blank verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter. Blank verse is the English verse from closest to the natural rhythms of English speech and therefore is the most common pattern found in traditional English narrative and dramatic poetry. | 14 | |
| 5199731715 | Cannon | Those works generally considered by scholars, critics, and teachers to be the most important to read and study which collectively constitute the "masterpieces" of literature. | 15 | |
| 5199731716 | Carpe Diem | The Latin phrase meaning "seize the day." This is a very common literary theme, especially in lyrical poetry, which emphasizes that life is short, time is fleeting, and one should make the most of present pleasures. | 16 | |
| 5199734634 | Catharsis | Meaning "purgation," catharsis describes the release of the emotions of pity and fear by the audience at the end of a tragedy. | 17 | |
| 5199738117 | Chorus | In Greek tragedies, a chorus is a group of people who add to the audience's understanding of a play by serving mainly as commentators on the characters and events. | 18 |
