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| 7971465646 | 1st person POV | speaker tells the story as "I" and is a minor or major participant | 0 | |
| 7971465647 | 3rd person POV | speaker narrates the story using "he, she, they" | 1 | |
| 7971465648 | allegory | fiction in which many aspects of the story have symbolic meaning outside the tale itself. | 2 | |
| 7971465649 | alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounds in a series of words | 3 | |
| 7971465650 | allusion | an understood reference to another work of literature or event | 4 | |
| 7971465651 | anaphora | repetition of initial word or phrase in a series of clauses or sentences | 5 | |
| 7971465652 | antithesis | the juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas | 6 | |
| 7971465653 | asyndeton | syntactical choice of omitting conjunctions from a series; commas only | 7 | |
| 7971465654 | apostrophe | direct address of an inanimate object, dead or absent person, or an idea | 8 | |
| 7971465655 | archetype | universal symbols that evoke deep, unconscious responses | 9 | |
| 7971465656 | aside | in drama, a remark intended for the audience unacknowledged by other actors | 10 | |
| 7971465657 | assonance | the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables in a series of words | 11 | |
| 7971465658 | ballad | from oral tradition, narrative poem usually dealing with loss or some kind featuring refrain | 12 | |
| 7971465659 | bildungsroman | a coming of age story of formative years leading to general or moral maturity | 13 | |
| 7971465660 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter; Shakespeare's form of choice | 14 | |
| 7971465661 | caesura | hard stop in middle of line of poetry usually between pairs of accented syllables | 15 | |
| 7971465662 | colloquialism | conversational, slang word choices often linked to a regional dialect | 16 | |
| 7971465663 | conceit (metaphorical) | far-fetched comparison for artistic and rhetorical effect | 17 | |
| 7971465664 | connotation | associations/implications beyond word definition | 18 | |
| 7971465665 | dialect | diction that reveals characters' geographic or social connections | 19 | |
| 7971465666 | diction | word choice that contributes to tone and meaning | 20 | |
| 7971465667 | dramatic irony | a key point is understood by the reader but not by the characters in the | 21 | |
| 7971465668 | dynamic character | character who undergoes significant change in response to plot events | 22 | |
| 7971465669 | elegy | a lament; an expression of mourning | 23 | |
| 7971465670 | enjambment | "stepping over" from one poetic line to retain meaning; no end marks | 24 | |
| 7971465671 | epiphany | character's moment of realization/insight granting full or new understanding | 25 | |
| 7971465672 | eulogy | a formal expression of praise | 26 | |
| 7971465673 | fiction | writing that springs from the imagination, usually short stories, novellas, novels | 27 | |
| 7971465674 | figurative language | writing that is not meant to be taken literally | 28 | |
| 7971465675 | flashback | shift in the narrative thread to an earlier event that interrupts chronological plot structure | 29 | |
| 7971465676 | flat character | uncomplicated character about whom little is revealed | 30 | |
| 7971465677 | foreshadowing | suggestion or hint of future developments | 31 | |
| 7971465678 | free verse | open form poetry free from regular meter, structure, rhyme patterns | 32 | |
| 7971465679 | hubris | excessive pride; a common hamartia (tragic flaw) | 33 | |
| 7971465680 | hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration | 34 | |
| 7971465681 | Iambic pentameter | common English poetic meter; five pairs of iambs per line (duh DUH) | 35 | |
| 7971465682 | imagery | description that appeals to the senses | 36 | |
| 7971465683 | inversion | reversal of standard word order: noun then adjective, verb before subject, etc. (anastrophe) | 37 | |
| 7971465686 | irony, verbal | difference between what is said and what is meant | 38 | |
| 7971465687 | irony, situational | surprising incongruity in circumstances (step to avoid a sprinkler only to fall into a swimming pool) | 39 | |
| 7971465688 | irony, dramatic | reader/audience is aware of circumstances that characters are not | 40 | |
| 7971465689 | limited omniscient | speaker shares observations of all characters, but the thoughts of one | 41 | |
| 7971465690 | litotes | ironic understatement made by negating the opposite of what is meant | 42 | |
| 7971465691 | metafiction | works in which the author writes with an awareness that the writing is fiction exposing the relationship between reality and fiction | 43 | |
| 7971465693 | metaphor | a direct comparison between two unlike things borrowing the traits of one to characterize | 44 | |
| 7971465695 | metonymy | figure of speech in which a word/phrase is substituted for a closely associated thing | 45 | |
| 7971465697 | monologue | extended speech by an actor (character) to others onstage | 46 | |
| 7971465698 | motif | recurring element in a literary work that contributes to overall meaning | 47 | |
| 7971465699 | omniscient POV | all-knowing speaker shares the actions, thoughts, and dialogue of many | 48 | |
| 7971465700 | onomatopoeia | words formed in imitation of natural sounds | 49 | |
| 7971465701 | oxymoron | pair of contradictory words; compact paradox | 50 | |
| 7971465702 | paradox | contradictory statement that, on closer look, reveals truth | 51 | |
| 7971465703 | parallelism | phrases using identical grammatical structure, but different words | 52 | |
| 7971465704 | parody | imitation of a genre, style, or artist with satiric rather than reverent tone | 53 | |
| 7971465705 | pathetic fallacy | often erroneous attribution of human emotion to nature | 54 | |
| 7971465706 | personification | attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas or inanimate objects | 55 | |
| 7971465707 | plot | the sequence of events in a story (linear, flashback, in medias res) | 56 | |
| 7971465709 | pun | word play based on double meaning of words; double entendre | 57 | |
| 7971465708 | polysyndeton | syntactical choice of omitting commas from a series; conjunctions only | 58 | |
| 7971465710 | quatrain | four-line stanza; division of poem | 59 | |
| 7971465711 | rhyme scheme | pattern of identical rhymes at the end of lines designated A,B, etc. | 60 | |
| 7971465712 | rhythm | pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables or beats | 61 | |
| 7971465713 | round character | realistic character displaying the good/bad complexities of most humans | 62 | |
| 7971465714 | satire | use of humor and hyperbole to point out human or societal flaws | 63 | |
| 7971465715 | scansion | the action of scanning a poetry to determine meter/rhythm | 64 | |
| 7971465716 | setting | the time and place in which the action of a literary work occurs | 65 | |
| 7971465717 | simile | figurative language comparing two unlike things using like, as, seems | 66 | |
| 7971465718 | slant rhyme | words with identical vowel sounds, but different ending consonant sounds | 67 | |
| 7971465720 | soliloquy | thoughts spoken aloud for audience benefit by actor alone onstage | 68 | |
| 7971465721 | sonnet | poem w/14 lines of iambic pentameter and fixed rhyme scheme | 69 | |
| 7971465722 | stanza | division of poem usually named for # of lines: quatrain, sestet, octave, etc. | 70 | |
| 7971465723 | static character | character who remains unchanged throughout the literature | 71 | |
| 7971465724 | stream of consciousness | speaker shares thoughts as they scroll randomly through his or her mind | 72 | |
| 7971465725 | symbol | something that, by association or convention, represents an abstract idea | 73 | |
| 7971465726 | synecdoche | figure of speech in which a part represents the whole | 74 | |
| 7971465727 | syntax | sentence structure; word order | 75 | |
| 7971465728 | theme | a unifying, central idea in a literary work; often expressed as an attitude plus topic | 76 | |
| 7971465729 | tone | author's attitudes toward situations and characters as discovered through analysis of | 77 | |
| 7971465730 | Trope | figurative reference to commonly understood convention "knight in shining armor" | 78 | |
| 7971465731 | understatement | opposite of hyperbole; words say less than is intended | 79 |
