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| 7198983129 | allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one | 0 | |
| 7198984053 | alexandrine | (of a line of verse) having six iambic feet | 1 | |
| 7198986802 | anachronism | an act of attributing a custom, event, or object to a period which it does not belong | 2 | |
| 7198993700 | anapest | a metrical foot consisting of two short or unstressed syllables followed by one long or stressed syllable | 3 | |
| 7198995524 | anthropomorphism | a literary device that can be defined as a technique in which a writer ascribes human traits, ambitions, emotions or entire behavior to animals, non-human beings, natural phenomena or objects. | 4 | |
| 7198996983 | antihero | a main character that does not have the normal heroic attributes | 5 | |
| 7198998529 | aphorism | a saying that has a general truth like, "if it ain't broken, don't fix it." | 6 | |
| 7199000661 | apostrophe | an arrangement of words addressing a non-existent person or an abstract idea in such a way as if it were present and capable of understanding feelings | 7 | |
| 7199006140 | ballad | a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas | 8 | |
| 7199007394 | biographical criticism | a form of Literary criticism which analyzes a writer's biography to show the relationship between the author's life and their works of literature | 9 | |
| 7199010039 | caesura | a break between words within a metrical foot | 10 | |
| 7199012481 | carpe diem | seize the day in Latin | 11 | |
| 7199014388 | classicism | the principles or styles characteristic of the literature and art of ancient Greece and Rome | 12 | |
| 7199016804 | comedy | entertainment consisting of jokes to make an audience laugh | 13 | |
| 7199018791 | complaint | a statement that is unsatisfactory or unacceptable | 14 | |
| 7199020975 | conceit | an elaborate metaphor | 15 | |
| 7199022211 | couplet, closed | a literary device which can be defined as having two successive rhyming lines in a verse and has the same meter to form a complete thought | 16 | |
| 7199024591 | couplet, heroic | a stanza consisting of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter, especially one forming a rhetorical unit and written in an elevated style, as, Know then thyself, presume not God to scan | 17 | |
| 7199027216 | dactyl | Prosody. a foot of three syllables, one long followed by two short in quantitative meter, or one stressed followed by two unstressed in accentual meter, as in gently and humanly. Symbol: | 18 | |
| 7199031631 | deconstructionist criticism | to seek out the contradictions in the text to prove that the text lacks unity and coherence | 19 | |
| 7199035326 | dramatic monologue | a poetic form in which a single character, addressing a silent auditor at a critical moment, reveals himself or herself and the dramatic situation. | 20 | |
| 7199036829 | elegy | a poem written in elegiac meter, sad or mournful | 21 | |
| 7199038550 | epigram | A brief witty poem, often satirical. | 22 | |
| 7199040160 | existentialism | a form of thought that stresses existence or experience over essence or meaning | 23 | |
| 7199041287 | expressionism | a style that shows the audience the action of the play through the mind of one character. | 24 | |
| 7199042227 | feminism | The belief that women should have economic, political, and social equality with men | 25 | |
| 7199043324 | formalism (New Criticism) | Instead, the objective determination as to "how a piece works" can be found through close focus and analysis, rather than through extraneous and erudite special knowledge | 26 | |
| 7199045343 | frame story | A secondary story or stories embedded in the main story | 27 | |
| 7199046170 | New Historicism | an approach to literary criticism and literary theory based on the premise that a literary work should be considered a product of the time, place, and historical circumstances of its composition rather than as an isolated work of art or text | 28 | |
| 7199047488 | iamb | a two-syllable foot with the stress on the second syllable. | 29 | |
| 7199047994 | idyll | a lyric poem or passage that describes a kind of ideal life or place | 30 | |
| 7199048392 | impressionism | using many words to describe something; has deeper meaning not specifically written | 31 | |
| 7199049167 | legend | a traditional story sometimes popularly regarded as historical but unauthenticated. | 32 | |
| 7199049582 | light verse | Humorous, comic, witty poems. | 33 | |
| 7199051354 | litotes | Understatement | 34 | |
| 7199051724 | Marxism | A body of thought deriving its main elements from Karl Marx's ideas (Militant, revolutionary form of socialism) | 35 | |
| 7199052696 | mask | A feature that lets you protect or modify a particular area; created using a marquee. | 36 | |
| 7199054074 | meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry | 37 | |
| 7199055365 | metonymy | the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant | 38 | |
| 7199056415 | metric foot | Makes up the rhythm( which is the pattern of stressed and unstressed beats) | 39 | |
| 7199057493 | neoclassicism | Literary imitation of the ancients making them new | 40 | |
| 7199058153 | ode | a lyric poem that expresses strong emotions about life | 41 | |
| 7199059263 | ottava rima | a stanza of eight lines of heroic verse with the rhyme scheme abababcc | 42 | |
| 7199060249 | pastoral | A work of literature dealing with rural life | 43 | |
| 7199060701 | pessimism | gloominess; a belief that the bad guys always win | 44 | |
| 7199061402 | psychoanalytical criticism | studying a surface level of text and below it are symbols that actually mean something | 45 | |
| 7199062400 | pyrrhic | A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables | 46 | |
| 7199062879 | romance | Any literary work characterized by non-realistic and idealizing use of the imagination. | 47 | |
| 7199063999 | scansion | the action of scanning a line of verse to determine its rhythm | 48 | |
| 7199064559 | spondee | A foot of two syllables, both of which are stressed | 49 | |
| 7199064843 | style | the choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work | 50 | |
| 7199065304 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 51 | |
| 7199065734 | synaesthesia | the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another (EX: hearing a sound causes seeing a color) | 52 | |
| 7199066969 | tercet | a three-line stanza | 53 | |
| 7199067221 | terza rima | A three-line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc. | 54 | |
| 7199067701 | tragedy | A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character | 55 | |
| 7199068068 | triplet | 3 line stanza | 56 | |
| 7199068425 | trochee | Stressed, unstressed | 57 | |
| 7199068684 | verse | A single line of poetry | 58 | |
| 7199068685 | villanelle | A nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout. | 59 | |
| 7199069121 | wit | intellectually amusing language that surprises and delights | 60 |
