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| 4380827739 | Anaphora | Repetition of words, phrase, or clauses at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row. This is a deliberate form of repetition and helps make the writer's point more coherent. | 0 | |
| 4380842794 | Anastrophe | Inversion of the usual, normal, or logical order of the parts of a sentence. Purpose is rhythm or emphasis or euphony. It is a fancy word for inversion. | 1 | |
| 4380858326 | Antithesis | Balancing words, phrases, or ideas that are strongly contrasted, often by means of grammatical structure. | 2 | |
| 4380871402 | Apostrophe | Calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to a place or thing, or a personified abstract idea. If the character is asking a god or goddess for inspiration it is called invocation. | 3 | |
| 4380879801 | Asyndeton | Commas used without conjunction to separate a series of words, thus emphasizing the parts equally: instead of X, Y, and Z...The writer uses X, Y, Z... | 4 | |
| 4380891227 | Tricolon | Sentence of three parts of equal importance and length, usually three independent clauses. | 5 | |
| 4380900105 | Impressionism | A nineteenth-century movement in literature and art which advocated a recording of the artist's personal impressions of the world, rather than a strict representation of reality. | 6 | |
| 4380917069 | Modernism | A term for the bold new experimental styles and forms that swept the arts during the first third of the twentieth century. | 7 | |
| 4380924638 | Naturalism | A nineteenth century literary movement that was an extension of realism and that claimed to portray life exactly as it was. | 8 | |
| 4380929969 | Plain style | Writing style that stresses simplicity and clarity of expression (but will still utilize allusions and metaphors), and was the main form the Puritan writers. | 9 | |
| 4380936925 | Chiasmus | In poetry, a type of rhetorical balance in which the second part is syntactically balanced against the first, but with the parts reverses. "Flowers are lovely, love is flowerlike." in prose this is called antimetabole. | 10 | |
| 4380949740 | Colloquialism | A word or phrase in everyday use in conversation and informal writing but is inappropriate for formal situations. | 11 | |
| 4380956964 | Conceit | An elaborate metaphor that compares two things that are startling different. often an extended metaphor. | 12 | |
| 4380963629 | Confessional Poetry | A twentieth century term used to describe poetry that uses intimate material from the poet's life. | 13 | |
| 4380969416 | Couplet | Two consecutive rhyming lines of poetry. | 14 | |
| 4380972081 | Dialect | A way of speaking that is characteristic of a certain social group or of the inhabitants of a certain geographical area. | 15 | |
| 4381002350 | Didactic | Form of fiction or nonfiction that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking | 16 | |
| 4381009225 | Elegy | A poem of mourning, usually about someone who has died. | 17 | |
| 4381012910 | Epigraph | A quotation or aphorism at the beginning of literary work suggestive of theme. | 18 | |
| 4381019160 | Epistrophe | Device of repetition in which the same expression (single word or phrase) is repeated at the end or two or more lines, clauses, or sentence (it is the opposite or anaphora) | 19 | |
| 4381026779 | Epithet | An adjective or adjective phrase applied to person or thing that is frequently used to emphasize a characteristic quality. | 20 | |
| 4381033763 | Quatrain | A poem consisting of four lines, or four lines of a poem that can be considered a unit. | 21 | |
| 4381039475 | Refrain | A word, phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated, for effect, several times in a poem. | 22 | |
| 4381044576 | Stream of consciousness | A style of writing that portrays the inner (often chaotic) workings of a character's mind. | 23 | |
| 4381049139 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech to which a part represents the whole. "If you don't drive properly, you will lose your wheels." Wheels is a part to represent the whole of the car. | 24 | |
| 4381060434 | Syntactic fluency | Ability to create a variety of sentence structures, appropriately complex and/or simple and varied in length. | 25 | |
| 4383710775 | Polysyndeton | Sentence which uses a conjunction with NO commas to separate the items of series. Instead of X, Y, and Z... ______ results in X and Y and Z | 26 | |
| 4383717219 | Farce | A type of comedy in which ridiculous and often stereotyped characters are involved in silly, far-fetched situations | 27 | |
| 4383720483 | Free Verse | Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter o rhyme scheme. | 28 | |
| 4383723500 | Hypotactic | Sentence marked by the use of connecting words between clauses or sentences, explicitly showing the logical or other relationships between them. "I am tired because I am hot." | 29 | |
| 4383730955 | Inversion | The reversal of the normal word order in a sentence or phrase. | 30 | |
| 4383734557 | Juxtaposition | Poetic and rhetorical device in which normally unassociated ideas, words, or phrases are placed next to one another, creating an effect of surprise and wit. | 31 | |
| 4383739640 | Litotes | Is a form or understatement in which the positive form is emphasized through the negation of the negative form. Hawthorn... "...the wearers of petticoat and farthingale...stepping forth into the public ways and wedging their not unsubstantial persons, if occasion were, into the throng..." | 32 | |
| 4383753005 | Local color | A term applied to a fiction or poetry which tends to place special emphasis on a particular setting, including its customs, clothing, dialect, and landscape. | 33 | |
| 4383759860 | Loose Sentence | One in which the main clause comes first, followed by further dependent grammatical units. Hawthorne: "Hester gazed after him a little while, looking with a half-fantastic curiosity to see whether the tender grass of early spring would not be lighted beneath him, and how the wavering track of this footsteps, sere and brown, across its cheerful verdure." | 34 | |
| 4383782017 | Lyric poem | A poem that does not tell a story but express the feelings or thoughts of the speaker. A ballad tells a story. | 35 | |
| 4383788405 | Metaphor | A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without the use of such specific words or comparison as like, as, than, or resembles. | 36 | |
| 4383795799 | Implied metaphor | Does not state explicitly the two terms of the comparison: "I like to see it lap the miles" is an implied metaphor in which the verb lap implies a comparison between "it" and some animal that "laps" up water. | 37 | |
| 4383804579 | Extended metaphor | Is a metaphor that is extended or developed as far as the writer wants to take it (conceit if is a quite elaborate). | 38 | |
| 4383809020 | Dead metaphor | Is a metaphor that has been used so often that comparison is longer vivid. "The head of the house," "the seat of the government," are _____ ________ | 39 | |
| 4383816169 | Mixed metaphor | Is a metaphor that has gotten out of control and mixed its terms so that they are visually or imaginatively incompatible. "The President is a lame duck who is running out of gas." | 40 | |
| 4383824528 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which a person, place, or thing is referred to by something closely associated with it. "We requested from the crown support for out petition." The crown is used to represent the monarch. | 41 | |
| 4383839515 | Motif | A recurring image, word, phrase, action, idea, object, or situation used throughout a work (or in several works by one author), unifying the work by tying the current situation to previous ones, or new ideas to the theme. | 42 | |
| 4383848085 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite of contradictor terms in a brief phrase "Jumbo shrimp," "pretty ugly," "bitter sweet." | 43 | |
| 4383855689 | Parable | A relatively short story that teaches a moral, or lesson about how to lead a good life. | 44 | |
| 4383858593 | Paradox | A statement that appears self-contradictor, but that reveals a kind of truth. | 45 | |
| 4383861781 | Paratactic Sentence | Simply juxtaposes clauses or sentences. "I am tired: it is hot" | 46 | |
| 4383868151 | Poem: Anapest | A metrical pattern of two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable. | 47 | |
| 4383871213 | Poem: Aubade | A love poem set at dawn which bides farewell to the beloved. | 48 | |
| 4383876304 | Poem: Ballad | A simple narrative poem, often incorporating dialogue that is written in quatrains, generally with a rhyme scheme of a b c d | 49 | |
| 4383881432 | Poem: Cacophony | Harsh and discordant sounds in a line or passage of a literary work. | 50 | |
| 4383889940 | Poem: Caesura | A break of pause within a line of poetry indicated b punctuation and used to emphasize meaning. | 51 | |
| 4383905072 | Poem: Dactyl | A foot of poetry consisting of a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables. | 52 | |
| 4383907660 | Poem: Dramatic monologue | A type of poem that presents a conversation between a speaker and an implied listener. | 53 | |
| 4383912046 | Poem: Enjambment | A technique in poetry that involves the running on of a line or stanza. it enables the poem to move and to develop coherence as well as directing the reader with regard to form and meaning. | 54 | |
| 4383918552 | Poem: Epigram | A brief witty poem | 55 | |
| 4383921467 | Poem: Euphony | The peasant, mellifluous presentations of sounds in literary work. | 56 | |
| 4383924645 | Poem: Foot | A metrical unit in poetry: a syllabic measure of line: iamb, torchee, anapest, dactyle, and spondee | 57 | |
| 4383930873 | Poem: Iamb | A metrical foot consisting of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one; the most common poetic foot in the English language. | 58 | |
| 4383939642 | Poem: Idyll | A type of lyric poem which extols the virtues of an ideal place or time. | 59 | |
| 4383942934 | Poem: Metaphysical poetry | Refers to the work of poets like John Donne who explore highly complex, philosophical ideas through extended metaphors and paradox. | 60 | |
| 4383949161 | Poem: Meter | A pattern of beats in poetry. | 61 | |
| 4383952023 | Poem: Octave | An eight-line stanza, usually combined with a sestet in Petrarchan sonnet. | 62 | |
| 4383956373 | Poem: Ode | A formal, lengthy poem that celebrates a particular subject. | 63 | |
| 4383960279 | Poem: Scansion | Analysis of a poem's rhyme and meter. | 64 | |
| 4383963771 | Poem: Sestet | A six-line stanza, usually paired with an octave to form a Petrarchan sonnet | 65 | |
| 4383965962 | Poem: Sestina | A highly structured poetic form of 39 lines, written in iambic pentameter. it depends upon the repetition of six words from the first stanza in each of six stanzas | 66 | |
| 4383976622 | Poem: Spondee | A poetic foot consisting of two accented syllables | 67 | |
| 4383980212 | Poem: Tercet | A three line stanza. | 68 | |
| 4383982841 | Poem: Trochee | A single metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by one unaccented syllable. | 69 | |
| 4383988677 | Poem: Villanelle | A highly structured poetic form that comprises six stanzas: five tercets and a quatrain. The poem repeats the first and third lines throughout. | 70 |
