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| 5880771004 | Allegory (EXTRA TERM) | A prose or poetic narrative in which the characters behavior, and even the setting demonstrates multiple levels of meaning and significance. It's a story with multiple levels of meaning. Ex: Animal story, there is more going on | 0 | |
| 5880872125 | Anachronism (EXTRA TERM) | The misplacement of a a person occurance, custom, or idea in time | 1 | |
| 5880740831 | Attitude (EXTRA TERM) | Sense expressed by the tone of voice and/or mood of a piece of writing | 2 | |
| 5880746087 | Catharsis (EXTRA TERM) | A cleansing or purification of one's emotions through art Ex: Taylor swift ._. | 3 | |
| 5880755070 | Conceit (EXTRA TERM) | A comparison of two unlikely things that is drawn out within Ex: I hate that I went there, but I'm glad | 4 | |
| 5880760865 | Consonance (EXTRA TERM) | The repetition of a sequence of two or more constants | 5 | |
| 5955012082 | Sestet | Six lines in a stanza | 6 | |
| 5955304746 | Quatrain | Stanza consisting of four lines | 7 | |
| 5955305876 | Stanza | A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse | 8 | |
| 5955309821 | Dramatic Monologue | A monologue set in a specific situation and spoken to an imaginary audience | 9 | |
| 5955314487 | Archetype | A recurrent symbol or motif in literature, art, or mythology | 10 | |
| 5955319839 | Parallel Structure | Words or phrases to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance | 11 | |
| 5880717299 | Asyndeton | a style in which conjunctions are ommitted, usually producing a fast-paced , more rapid prose Ex: He came; he saw; he conquered | 12 | |
| 5955338104 | Symbolism | A person, place, thing, event, or pattern in a literary work that designates itself & at the same time figuratively represents or "stands for." | 13 | |
| 5955358695 | Villanelle | Nineteen lines divided into six stanzas, five tercets, and one quatrain. The first / third lines rhyme for tercets, whilst the last two lines of the quatrain have to rhyme. | 14 | |
| 5955366822 | Shakespearean Sonnet | Known as the "English" sonnet. A form that divides the poem into 3 units of four lines each & a final unit of two lines, usually " A B A B / E D E D / E F E F / G G " | 15 | |
| 5955385517 | Style | A distinctive style of expression; each other's style is expressed through his/her diction, rhythm, imagery, & so on. A writer's typical way of writing. | 16 | |
| 5880759541 | Connotation | What is suggested by a word, apart from what it explicitly means | 17 | |
| 5955613973 | Tone | The poet's attitude toward the poem's speaker, reader, and subject matter, as interpreted by the reader - "mood" | 18 | |
| 5955615738 | Syntax | The way words are put together to form phrases, clauses, & sentences. It is sentence structure & how it influences the way the read er receives a particular piece of writing. | 19 | |
| 5955620253 | Antithesis | The juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel phrases, grammatical structure, or ideas. | 20 | |
| 5880741006 | Ballad | Narrative poem. Originally meant to be song. Repetition & refrain characterize the ballad | 21 | |
| 5955639512 | Consonence | The recurrence of similar sounds, especially consonants, in close proximity | 22 | |
| 5955642483 | Synedoche | When a part is used to signify a whole Ex) I left my heart in San Fransisco | 23 | |
| 5955660899 | Parody | Imitation of the style of another work, writer or genre | 24 | |
| 5955661512 | Onomonopeia | Words that associate with the sound being made. | 25 | |
| 5955662405 | Mood | A feeling or ambiance, resulting from the tone of a piece as well as the writer/narrator's attitude & point of view | 26 | |
| 5955665175 | Metaphore | Figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable | 27 | |
| 5955666791 | In Media Res | Latin for "into the middle of things." It usually describes a narrative that begins, not at the beginning of a story, but somewhere in the middle | 28 | |
| 5955667221 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration of statements not meant to be taken seriously | 29 | |
| 5955668477 | Farce | A play or scene in a play or book that is characterized by broad humor, wild antics, & often slapstick & physical humor Ex - Jim Carey | 30 | |
| 5880766344 | Couplet | Two rhyming lines of Iambic pentameter that together present a single idea or connection | 31 | |
| 5880749637 | Chiasmus | Figure of speech which order of the terms in the first clauses is reversed in the second Ex: Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure | 32 | |
| 5955675874 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech in which the poet addresses an absent person, an abstract idea, or a thing | 33 | |
| 5880868332 | Alliteration | Sequential repetition of a similar initial sound. Does not have to be directly next to each other. (Same line) | 34 | |
| 5955677349 | Motif | A recurrent idea, formula, or situation that often serves as a signal for the appearance of a character or event | 35 | |
| 5955680353 | Anaphora | The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | 36 | |
| 5955680981 | Dialect | Use of language that distinguishes the voice of someone from a unique culture, financial status or social class from others | 37 | |
| 5955682692 | Pastoral | Literary work dealing with shepherds, farm life, and rustic life | 38 | |
| 5955684156 | Metonymy | A type of metaphor in which an object is used to describe something that's closely related to it. Ex) when you're talking about the power of a king, you might say "the crown," instead | 39 | |
| 5955686402 | Paradox | Is a statement that, despite apparently sound reasoning from true premises, leads to a self-contradictory or a logically unacceptable conclusion | 40 | |
| 5955686856 | Terza Rima | An arrangement of triplets, especially in iambs, that rhyme aba bcb cdc, etc., as in Dante's Divine Comedy. | 41 | |
| 5955687816 | Satire | The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues | 42 | |
| 5955688571 | Refrain | Refrain is a verse or phrase that is repeated at intervals throughout a song or poem | 43 | |
| 5955689698 | Ode | Lyric poem that is serious in subject and treatment | 44 | |
| 5955690138 | Soliloquy | An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play | 45 | |
| 5955690468 | Free Verse | A literary device that can be defined as poetry that is free from limitations of regular meter or rhythm and does not rhyme with fixed forms | 46 | |
| 5955695567 | Personification | The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form | 47 | |
| 5955695966 | Diction | Poetic diction is the term used to refer to the linguistic style, the vocabulary, and the metaphors used in the writing of poetry | 48 | |
| 5955697179 | Colloquial | In literature, colloquialism is the use of informal words, phrases or even slang in a piece of writing | 49 | |
| 5955697782 | Octave | A stanza pertaining of eight (8) lines | 50 | |
| 5955698637 | Enjambment | The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza | 51 | |
| 5955698907 | Persona | A persona, from the Latin for mask, is a character taken on by a poet to speak in a first-person poem | 52 | |
| 5955699230 | Juxtaposition | To place two (objects) side by side and compare - a literary technique in which two or more ideas, places, characters and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts | 53 | |
| 5955701182 | Theme | The subject or idea of the poem - Generalized, abstract, paraphrase of idea | 54 | |
| 5955702078 | Lyric | Originally designed poems meant to be sung, expresses intense personal emotion rather than describing a narrative or dramatic situation // often short | 55 | |
| 5955705284 | Elegy | A sad poem, usually written to praise and express sorrow for someone who is dead | 56 | |
| 5955705752 | Cinquain | A (5) five-line stanza | 57 | |
| 5955707759 | Similie | Really...? A comparison using "like" or "as." | 58 | |
| 5955708171 | Denotation | The literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests | 59 | |
| 5955708627 | Irony | Is a figure of speech in which words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words | 60 | |
| 5955709221 | Oxymoron | Is a figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect | 61 | |
| 5955710088 | Assonance | repetition of the sound of a vowels in non-rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible ( ie. - penitence, reticence) | 62 | |
| 5955711819 | Tragedy | A poem usually having a person of high (noble) status meeting a downfall, usually learning a lesson | 63 | |
| 5955715729 | Imagery | Using figurative language to represent objects, actions and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our physical senses | 64 | |
| 5955716985 | Petrarchan Sonnet | One stanza of 8 lines, second stanza of 6 lines Usually - A B B A A B B A / C D C D C D | 65 | |
| 5955719292 | Stock Character | A character used in many works of art over again | 66 | |
| 5880871239 | Allusion | reference to literary or historical event, person, place | 67 | |
| 5880744475 | Caesura | A pause in a line of verse, indicated by natural speech patterns rather than due to specific metrical patterns | 68 | |
| 5955721228 | Litote | Derived from a Greek word meaning "simple", is a figure of speech which employs an understatement by using double negatives or, in other words, positive statement is expressed by negating its opposite expressions i.e "William Shakespeare was not a bad playwright at all" | 69 | |
| 5958880875 | Epic | Poetry usually about a hero | 70 | |
| 5958885278 | Formal Diction | Use of language that creates and elevated tone | 71 |
