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| 4568444346 | Allegory | an extended narrative in prose or verse in which characters, events and, and settings represent abstract qualities and in which the writer intends a second meaning to be read beneath the surface story; the underlying meaning may be moral, religious, political, social, satiric. | 0 | |
| 4568459222 | Alliteration | the repetition of initial sounds in successive or neighboring words. (Ex. "while I nodded, nearly napping.") | 1 | |
| 4838975611 | Allusion | a reference to something literary, mythological, or historial | 2 | |
| 4838976783 | Anaphora | a rhetorical device of repeating the same word or words at the start of two or more lines of poetry or successive phrases or sentences in prose. | 3 | |
| 4838979240 | Antithesis | a rhetorical device contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas, balancing one against the other in strong opposition. The contrast is reinforced by the similar grammatical structure. | 4 | |
| 4838983898 | Aphorism | a concise statement which expresses succinctly a general truth or idea often using rhyme of balance | 5 | |
| 4838984980 | Apostrophe | a rhetorical device in which an absent or imaginary person or an abstraction is directly addressed as through present (Ex. "Death, be not proud.") | 6 | |
| 4838988511 | Assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds between different consonants, such as in neigh/fade | 7 | |
| 4838989877 | Blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | 8 | |
| 4838990438 | Caesura | a pause in a line of poetry created bot by the meter, but by the natural speaking rhythm, sometimes coinciding with puncuation | 9 | |
| 4838992206 | Cacophony | harsh, awkward, or dissonant sounds used deliberately in poetry or prose; the opposite of euphony | 10 | |
| 4838995608 | Chiasmus | a statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed (Ex. "Out went the taper as she hurried in.") | 11 | |
| 4838998325 | Colloquialism | informal words or expressions not usually acceptable in formal writing | 12 | |
| 4839000733 | Complaint | a lyric poem of lament, regret, and sadness which may explain the speaker's mood, describe its cause, discuss remedies, and appeal for help | 13 | |
| 4839002178 | Conceif | an elaborate figure of speech in which two seemingly dissimilar things or situations are compared | 14 | |
| 4839003619 | Connotation | the implied or associative meaning of a word (as opposed to denotation) | 15 | |
| 4839004592 | Consonance | Though the final consonants in several stressed syllables agree, the vowel sounds that precede them are different | 16 | |
| 4839006409 | Denotation | the literal meaning of a word (as opposed to connotation) | 17 | |
| 4839007600 | Diction | word choice | 18 | |
| 4839007601 | Dissonance | the grating of sounds that are harsh or do not go together | 19 | |
| 4839008348 | Elegy | a formal poem focusing on death or mortality, usually beginning with the recent death of a particular person | 20 | |
| 4839009551 | Ellipsis | the omission of a word or phrase which is grammatically necessary but can be deduced from the context (Ex. Kathleen wants to be a firefighter; Sara, a nurse.) | 21 | |
| 4839012288 | End-stopped line | a line of poetry that ends when the grammatical unit ends. Its opposite is enjambment. | 22 | |
| 4839014876 | Enjambment | From the French meaning "a striding over," this term describes a line of poetry in which the sense and grammatical construction continue on to the next line. In an enjambed line, the lack of completion creates pressure to move rapidly to the closure promised in the next line. | 23 | |
| 4839019501 | Epigram | a concise, witty saying in poetry or prose that either stands alone os ir part of a larger work; may also refer to a short poem of this type | 24 | |
| 4839024063 | Euphemism | an indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is consider unpleasant (Ex. "laid to rest" for "buried") | 25 | |
| 4839026401 | Euphony | A succession of harmonious sounds used in poetry or prose; the opposite of cacophony | 26 | |
| 4839028265 | Exemplum | A brief tale used in medieval times used to illustrate a sermon or teach a lesson | 27 | |
| 4839029370 | Foil | A character who, by contrast, highlights the characteristics of another character | 28 | |
| 4839030744 | Free verse | poetry that is written without regular meter, usually without rhyme | 29 | |
| 4839031679 | Hyperbole | deliberate exaggeration in order to create humor or emphasis | 30 | |
| 4839032502 | Idyll | a short descriptive narrative, usually a poem, about an idealized country life; also called a pastoral | 31 | |
| 4839036430 | Internal Rhyme | a rhyme occurring within a line of poetry, as Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven": While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there comes a tapping | 32 | |
| 4839038857 | Irony | a situation or statement where the truth is the opposite of appearances | 33 | |
| 4839040530 | Litotes | a type of understatement in which something affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite (Ex. "The teacher was not overly impressed by the poor test results.") | 34 | |
| 4839042908 | Lyric | a type of melodious, imaginative, and subjective poetry that is usually short and personal, expressing the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker rather than telling a story | 35 | |
| 4839046643 | Metonomy | a figure of speech that uses the name of an object, person, or idea to represent something in which it is associated, such as using "the crown" to refer to a monarch | 36 | |
| 4839048466 | Motif | a standard theme or dramatic situation which recurs in various works | 37 | |
| 4839050905 | Mood | the atmosphere that pervades a literary work with the intention or evoking a certain emotion or feeling from the audience | 38 | |
| 4839052220 | Non Sequitir | an inference tat does not logically follow from the premise(s) | 39 | |
| 4839053474 | Ode | a long, lyric poem, usually serious and elevated in tone; often written to praise someone or somehting | 40 | |
| 4839054621 | Onomatopoeia | the formation of a word from the imitation of natural sounds, such as hiss and boom | 41 | |
| 4839056180 | Oxymoron | an expression in which two words that contradict each other are joined (Ex. jumbo shrimp) | 42 | |
| 4839057292 | Parable | a short tale that teaches a moral; similar to but shorter than an allegory | 43 | |
| 4839058337 | Paradox | a statement that seems to contradict itself but that turns out to have a rational meaning, as in this quotation from Henry David Thoreau: "I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude." | 44 | |
| 4839062161 | Pastoral | a poem about idealized rural life, or shepherds, or both; also called an idyll | 45 | |
| 4839063983 | Pathos | the quality in a work that prompts the reader to feel pity or sorrow | 46 | |
| 4839064631 | Polysyndeton | the use of many conjunctions to achieve an overwhelming effect | 47 | |
| 4839065389 | Stock character | a standard character who may be stereotyped, such as the miser or the fool, or universally recognized, like the hard-boiled private eye in detective stories | 48 | |
| 4839069100 | Syllepsis | the linking of one word with two other words in two striking different ways (Ex. The migrants "exhausted their credit, exhausted their friends.") | 49 | |
| 4839073701 | Symbol | an object which is something in itself yet is used to represent something else | 50 | |
| 4839074580 | Synechdoche | the use of one part of an object to represent the entire object, such as using "boards" to mean "a stage" or "wheels" to mean "a car". | 51 | |
| 4839078443 | Synesthesia | Describing one kind of sensation in terms of another (Ex. sound as color, color as sound, sound as taste, color as temperature) | 52 | |
| 4839080654 | Syntax | the arrangement of words within a sentence - included sentence length and complexity; the variety and pattern of sentence form; inversion of natural word order; unusual juxtaposition; repetition; parallelism; use of active or passive voice; level of discourse | 53 | |
| 4839084374 | Tautology | needless repetition which adds no meaning or understanding (Ex. widow women; free gift; close proximity) | 54 | |
| 4839086279 | Tone | the attitude of a writer, usually implied, toward the subject or audience (may be described with words such as sardonic, apologetic, light-hearted, or somber) | 55 | |
| 4839088948 | Understatement | the deliberate representation of something as less in magnitude than it really is | 56 |
