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| 9888722977 | allegory | a type of narrative in which most of the objects, characters and actions are symbolic, I.E. they are equated with meanings beyond the story itself; a narrative with two complete layers of meaning-literal and symbolic | 0 | |
| 9888744774 | alliteration | a sound device in which consonant sounds found at the beginnings of words are closely repeated | 1 | |
| 9888748312 | allusion | a Figure of speech that makes a direct or indirect reference to a presumably familiar thing or person. Allusions are frequently made to historical events, the Bible, classical mythology, other literary works, or even popular culture. | 2 | |
| 9888757879 | anaphora | a syntactical technique in which a word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines, phrases or sentences | 3 | |
| 9888761242 | antagonist | The character or force in a narrative who works against the protagonist | 4 | |
| 9888765757 | antithesis | a syntactical scheme in which sharply opposing ideas are expressed within a balanced grammatical structure, as in "Man proposes, God disposes" or "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." Antitheses are examples of parallelism | 5 | |
| 9888782239 | apostrophe | a figure of speech that occurs in poetry in which the speaker addresses an inanimate object or a nonexistent or absent person. Requests for inspiration form the muses in poetry are examples of apostrophe, as is the speaker in William Blake's "To Morning" speaking to the sun | 6 | |
| 9888793051 | assonance | a sound device in which the same vowel sounds are followed by different consonants. Differes form rhyme in that rhyme is a similarity of vowel and consonant. "Lake" and "fake" demonstrate rhyme; "lake" and ""fate" is ______ | 7 | |
| 9888804753 | asyndeton | syntactical technique in which conjunctions are omitted between clauses, often resulting in a hurried rhythm or vehement effect: e.g., Veni; vidi; vici (Caesar:"I came; I saw; I conquered"). often emphasizes each item in the list, as opposed to polysyndeton, which can emphasize the length of the list itself. | 8 | |
| 9888818340 | consonance | sound device using the repetition of final consonant sounds, especially when the proceeding vowel sounds are different, as in "first and Last" | 9 | |
| 9888822403 | denotation | the most literal meaning of a word | 10 | |
| 9888826132 | elegy | type of lyric poem that laments the death of a person, or presents a mediation on death in general | 11 | |
| 9888831774 | hyperbole | figure of speech that employs deliberate exaggeration; overstatement | 12 | |
| 9888834497 | verbal irony | figure of speech in which the opposite of what is meant is stated | 13 | |
| 9888837908 | dramatic irony | when a reader or audience is aware of something that a character is not, often creating a duality in what that character says | 14 | |
| 9888841602 | situational irony | when there is a marked contrast between what is normally expected or hoped for and what actually occurs | 15 | |
| 9888845546 | loose sentence | syntactical technique in which a sentence is grammatically complete before the end of the sentence: an independent clause followed by any number of dependent clauses | 16 | |
| 9888853826 | lyric poetry | poetry consisting of brief, subjective poems strongly marked by imagination, melody, emotion , creating a single, unified expression, in contrast to a narrative poem | 17 | |
| 9888860380 | metonymy | figure of speech in which the name of an object is substituted with another object to which it has some relation | 18 | |
| 9888865118 | motif | repeated character type, image, other literary element that throughout a sing work of literature or multiple works over a period of time | 19 | |
| 9888871813 | paradox | figure of speech in which a apparently self-contradictory statement reveals a greater truth | 20 | |
| 9888875153 | periodic sentence | syntactical technique in which a sentence isn't complete until the very end; in other words, the dependent or main clause is placed just before the period, having been preceded by several dependent clauses | 21 | |
| 9888884062 | first person point of view | relates event s in the story as they are experienced by a single character. This character tells the story and may offer opinions about the action and characters. He or she is a part oft cha action of the story and thus interacts with other characters. | 22 | |
| 9888892632 | third person objective | nonparticipant narrator experiences the vents of the story and can report only what he or she experiences. | 23 | |
| 9888899163 | third person omniscient | non participant narrator not only experiences the events for the story but also has knowledge of a character's thoughts, events that came before and after the story, and simultaneous evens. | 24 | |
| 9888907438 | third person limited | nonparticipant narrator not only experiences the events of a story and reports them but is also capable of looking into the midd of a single character, thus the story is told through the eyes of a single character | 25 | |
| 9888921451 | polysyndeton | syntactical technique characterized by the deliberate use of many conjunctions to highlight quantity or mass of detail | 26 | |
| 9888927176 | pun | figure of speech that employs words that have similar sounds but different meanings | 27 | |
| 9888929849 | simile | figure of speech in which a directly stated comparison is made, usually using "like" or "as" | 28 | |
| 9888934597 | soliloquy | and extended speech in which a character is alone(or thinks he or she is alone) on stage | 29 | |
| 9888940805 | synesthesia | figure of speech in which the senses are intermingles; the sensing, for example, of certain sounds through colors and odors: e.g.: "soft as ones, green as meadows." | 30 | |
| 9888947498 | symbol | figure of speech in which an object, person, or even represents something else withough losing its original identy | 31 | |
| 9888955442 | synecdoche | figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent the whole object or idea | 32 | |
| 9888958293 | theme | central, universal idea that a literary work points to | 33 | |
| 9888959919 | tone | the narrator or speaker's feelings toward the subjects of the work; the emotional meaning of a work | 34 | |
| 9888963666 | tragedy | drama in prose or poetry in which a noble or excellent character falls from nobility or excellence to a lowly state | 35 | |
| 9888968148 | verisimilitude | literally, the "likeness to truth;" the degree to which a literary work believably represent reality | 36 | |
| 9888975275 | understatement | a figure of speech in which the literal meaning what is said or written falls noticeably shot of what is meant, usually creating an ironic effect | 37 |
