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| 1666776488 | theme | a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work | 0 | |
| 1666776489 | verisimilitude | the quality of appearing to be true, real, likely, or probable or enlightenment | 1 | |
| 1666776490 | tone | the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author | 2 | |
| 1666776491 | diction | a writer's or speaker's choice of words | 3 | |
| 1666776492 | irony | the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning | 4 | |
| 1666776493 | imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) | 5 | |
| 1666776494 | connotation | refers to the implied or suggested meanings associated with a word beyond its dictionary definition | 6 | |
| 1666776495 | simile | a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as') | 7 | |
| 1666776496 | metaphor | a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity | 8 | |
| 1666776497 | personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes | 9 | |
| 1666776498 | symbol | something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible | 10 | |
| 1666776499 | allegory | an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances | 11 | |
| 1666776500 | apostrophe | a technique by which a writer addresses an inanimate object, an idea, or a person who is either dead or absent. | 12 | |
| 1666776501 | metonymy | substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in 'they counted heads') | 13 | |
| 1666776502 | synecdoche | Uses a part to explain a whole or a whole to explain a part. ex. Lend me an ear. | 14 | |
| 1666776503 | allusion | a reference to something literary, mythological, or historical that the author assumes the reader will recognize | 15 | |
| 1666776504 | antithesis | a statement in which two opposing ideas are balanced, the juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance | 16 | |
| 1666776505 | paradox | a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. | 17 | |
| 1666776506 | hyperbole | a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor | 18 | |
| 1666776507 | litotes (understatement) | understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary) | 19 | |
| 1666776508 | parody | a work which imitates another in a ridiculous manner, a composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way | 20 | |
| 1666776509 | satire | form of literature in which irony, sarcasm, and ridicule are employed to attack human vice and folly | 21 | |
| 1666776510 | alliteration | use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse | 22 | |
| 1666776511 | assonance | repetition of vowel sounds | 23 | |
| 1666776512 | consonance | the repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words | 24 | |
| 1666776513 | euphony | any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds | 25 | |
| 1666776514 | cacophony | harsh, jarring, discordant sound; dissonance | 26 | |
| 1666776515 | sibilance | A type of alliteration in which the "s" sound is repeated. | 27 | |
| 1666776516 | onomatopoeia | words that sound like what they mean | 28 | |
| 1666776517 | rhyme | the repetition of the same stressed vowel sounds and any succeeding sounds in two or more words | 29 | |
| 1666776518 | end rhyme | Rhyme that occurs at the end of two or more lines of poetry | 30 | |
| 1666776519 | rhyme scheme | the pattern of rhyme in a poem | 31 | |
| 1666776520 | masculine rhyme | Rhyme that falls on the stressed and concluding syllables of the rhyme-words. Examples include "keep" and "sleep," "glow" and "no," and "spell" and "impel." | 32 | |
| 1666776521 | feminine rhyme | a rhyme of two syllables, one stressed and one unstressed, as "waken" and "forsaken" and "audition" and "rendition." Feminine rhyme is sometimes called double rhyme. | 33 | |
| 1666776522 | slant/near rhyme | rhyme in which the vowel sounds are nearly, but not exactly the same (i.e. the words "stress" and "kiss"); sometimes called half-rhyme, near rhyme, or partial rhyme | 34 | |
| 1666776523 | meter | rhythm as given by division into parts of equal time | 35 | |
| 1666776524 | rhythm | the arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements | 36 | |
| 1666776525 | beat | (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse | 37 | |
| 1666776526 | foot | a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm | 38 | |
| 1666776527 | iamb | a metrical foot in poetry that has an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, as in the word protect | 39 | |
| 1666776528 | trochee | a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable | 40 | |
| 1666776529 | anapest | a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables u u / | 41 | |
| 1666776530 | dactyl | a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables / u u | 42 | |
| 1666776531 | spondee | a metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables / / / | 43 | |
| 1666776532 | monometer | a metrical line containing one foot | 44 | |
| 1666776533 | dimeter | a metrical line containing two feet | 45 | |
| 1666776534 | trimeter | a line of verse with three metrical feet | 46 | |
| 1666776535 | tetrameter | a metrical line containing 4 feet | 47 | |
| 1666776536 | pentameter | a metrical line containing 5 feet | 48 | |
| 1666776537 | hexameter | a metrical line containing 6 feet | 49 | |
| 1666776538 | heptameter | a metrical line containing 7 feet | 50 | |
| 1666776539 | octameter | a metrical line containing 8 feet | 51 | |
| 1666776540 | setting | The time, place, and environment in which action takes place | 52 | |
| 1666776541 | characterization | the process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character | 53 | |
| 1666776542 | point of view | the perspective from which the writer tells the story (1st, 2nd, 3rd person; omniscient, limited omniscient) | 54 | |
| 1666776543 | in media res | in the middle of things | 55 | |
| 1666776544 | deus ex machina | Literally "god from a machine," this term refers to an unexpected and perhaps overly convenient revelation or event which untangles a complicated plot situation | 56 | |
| 1666776545 | stanza | an arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem., a group of lines in a poem | 57 | |
| 1666776546 | quatrain | 4 line stanza | 58 | |
| 1666776547 | couplet | two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme | 59 | |
| 1666776548 | sestet | a rhythmic group of six lines of verse | 60 | |
| 1666776549 | octet/octave | eight line stanza | 61 | |
| 1666776550 | sonnet | a short poem with fourteen lines, usually ten-syllable rhyming lines, divided into two, three, or four sections | 62 | |
| 1666776551 | enjambment | the continuation of meaning, without pause or break, from one line of poetry to the next | 63 | |
| 1666776552 | end stopped | A term that describes a line of poetry that ends with a natural pause often indicated by a mark of punctuation. | 64 | |
| 1666776553 | open form | A type of structure or form in poetry characterized by freedom from regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme, line length, metrical pattern, and overall poetic structure. | 65 | |
| 1666776554 | free verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme | 66 | |
| 1666787587 | epithet | An adjective or other descriptive phrase that is regularly used to characterize a person, place, or thing | 67 | |
| 1666787588 | transferred epithet | when an adjective grammatically agrees with one noun, but is meant to be applied to another by context (example: "sleepless night") | 68 | |
| 1666796065 | loose sentence | A complex sentence in which the main clause comes first and the subordinate clause follows | 69 | |
| 1666796066 | periodic sentence | A sentence that departs from the usual word order of English sentences by expressing its main thought only at the end. In other words, the particulars in the sentence are presented before the idea they support. | 70 | |
| 1679673245 | closed form | A generic term that describes poetry written in a pattern of meter, rhyme, lines, or stanzas. A closed form adheres to a set structure. | 71 |
