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| 13625171171 | Allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. | 0 | |
| 13625172207 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds | 1 | |
| 13625172965 | Allusion | A reference to another work of literature, person, or event | 2 | |
| 13625174058 | Anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | 3 | |
| 13625174943 | Aphorism | A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life. | 4 | |
| 13625175733 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. | 5 | |
| 13625176661 | Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds | 6 | |
| 13625176662 | Asyndeton | omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words | 7 | |
| 13625178333 | Bildungsroman | A coming of age story | 8 | |
| 13625178334 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | 9 | |
| 13625180669 | Cacophony | A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds | 10 | |
| 13625181827 | Caesura | A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line. | 11 | |
| 13625185463 | Chiamsus | "Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country". (John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address) "All for once and for all." (The Three Musketeers) "If you fail to plan you plan to fail" | 12 | |
| 13625186172 | Conceit | A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects. | 13 | |
| 13625187800 | Connotation | an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning. | 14 | |
| 13625188463 | Consonance | Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity. | 15 | |
| 13625188464 | Couplet | Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme | 16 | |
| 13625189176 | Denotation | The dictionary definition of a word | 17 | |
| 13625192409 | Epistolary novel | a novel written as a series of documents | 18 | |
| 13625194269 | Euphemism | An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant | 19 | |
| 13625194270 | Euphony | beautiful sound | 20 | |
| 13625195557 | Free verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme | 21 | |
| 13625196450 | Hyberbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. | 22 | |
| 13625198537 | In Medias res | in the middle of things | 23 | |
| 13625200664 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts | 24 | |
| 13625201871 | Lyric poetry | A short poem in which a single speaker expresses personal thoughts and feelings | 25 | |
| 13625201872 | Meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry | 26 | |
| 13625202846 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it | 27 | |
| 13625203644 | Octave | 8 line stanza | 28 | |
| 13625204355 | Ode | A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject. | 29 | |
| 13625205480 | Onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. | 30 | |
| 13625205481 | Panegyric | an expression of praise | 31 | |
| 13625206172 | Paradox | A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. | 32 | |
| 13625207742 | Pastoral | A work of literature dealing with rural life | 33 | |
| 13625208374 | Polysyndeton | Deliberate use of many conjunctions | 34 | |
| 13625209758 | Satire | A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies. | 35 | |
| 13625210530 | Sestet | six line stanza | 36 | |
| 13625210531 | Sestina | a poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet, all stanzas having the same six words at the line-ends in six different sequences that follow a fixed pattern, and with all six words appearing in the closing three-line envoi. | 37 | |
| 13625211328 | Setting | The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs. | 38 | |
| 13625212414 | Sonnet | a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line. | 39 | |
| 13625213503 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 40 | |
| 13625213504 | Theme | Central idea of a work of literature | 41 | |
| 13625214490 | Zuegma | use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous, meanings | 42 |
