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| 8279116269 | Free Indirect Discourse | A special type of third-person narration that slips in and out of the character's consciousness. The character's thoughts, feelings, and words are filtered through narrator. | 0 | |
| 8279163467 | Antihero | A protagonist in a drama or narrative who is notably lacking heroic qualities. | 1 | |
| 8279188630 | Foil | A character that shows qualities that are in contrast with the qualities of another character with the objective to highlight the traits of the other character. | 2 | |
| 8279223692 | Stock Character | A conventional character that is instantly recognizable due to familiar stereotypes. Ex: Evil Stepmothers, Tortured artists, etc. | 3 | |
| 8279271083 | Allegory | A story with a hidden meaning that is given by literary devices such as symbolism and metaphors. | 4 | |
| 8280018772 | Bildungsroman | A coming-of-age story. Ex: "Grendel", "Catcher in the Rye" | 5 | |
| 8280018773 | Comedy | A genre that deals in humor and entertainment. | 6 | |
| 8280021915 | Epic | Story about larger-than-life heroes and their triumphs on and off the battlefield. Typically involve supernatural or mystic elements such as Gods. Use of "invocation of the muse." | 7 | |
| 8280021916 | Farce | A type of Comedy that makes use of highly exaggerated and funny situations aimed at entertaining the audience. Use bawdy jokes, physical humor, and deliberate absurdity. | 8 | |
| 8280024645 | Free Verse Poetry | A poetic style that lacks a regular meter or rhyme scheme. | 9 | |
| 8280024646 | Lyric Poem | Type of poetry usually written in first-person POV in order to convey the speaker's thoughts and emotions. Include Odes and Sonnets | 10 | |
| 8280027989 | Parody | A text that imitates another work or genre for the sole purpose of humor. | 11 | |
| 8280032207 | Romantic Movement | Use of untamed emotion in a work of literature, Commonly used Nature, with the N capitalized to show emphasis and personification. | 12 | |
| 8280032208 | Satire | A genre that sets out to improve bad behavior with the use of sarcasm and irony. Typically humorous. | 13 | |
| 8280039256 | Stream-Of-Consciousness | A method of narration that describes in words the flow of thoughts in the minds of the characters. | 14 | |
| 8280039257 | Tragedy | A kind of drama that presents a serious subject matter about human suffering and corresponding terrible events in a dignified manner. | 15 | |
| 8280043997 | Anaphora | The deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect. | 16 | |
| 8280043998 | Antithesis | A rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect. | 17 | |
| 8280047319 | Apostrophe | A writer or a speaker detaches himself from the reality and addresses an imaginary character in his speech. | 18 | |
| 8280056478 | Cliche | An expression that has been overused to the extent that it loses its original meaning or novelty. | 19 | |
| 8280061546 | Epithet | A descriptive literary device that describes a place, a thing or a person in such a way that it helps in making the characteristics of a person, thing or place more prominent than they actually are | 20 | |
| 8280061547 | Hyperbole | A figure of speech that involves an exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis. | 21 | |
| 8280064803 | Understatement | A figure of speech employed by writers or speakers to intentionally make a situation seem less important than it really is. | 22 | |
| 8280064804 | Enjambment | In poetry, the running on of a sense from one couplet or line to the next without a major pause or syntactical break. | 23 | |
| 8280068069 | Caesura | A rhythmical pause in a poetic line or a sentence. It often occurs in the middle of a line, or sometimes at the beginning and the end. | 24 | |
| 8280068070 | Conceit Metaphor | A figure of speech in which two vastly different objects are likened together with the help of similes or metaphors. | 25 | |
| 8280072211 | Dead Metaphor | A figure of speech that has lost its force and imaginative effectiveness through frequent use. | 26 | |
| 8280076830 | Mixed Metaphor | A succession of incongruous or ludicrous comparisons. | 27 | |
| 8280076831 | Metonymy | A figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated. | 28 | |
| 8280081569 | Synecdoche | A literary device in which a part of something represents the whole or it may use a whole to represent a part. | 29 | |
| 8280085181 | Synesthesia | A technique adopted by writers to present ideas, characters or places in such a manner that they appeal to more than one senses like hearing, seeing, smell etc. at a given time. | 30 | |
| 8280090122 | Anthropomorphism | A literary device that can be defined as a technique in which a writer ascribes human traits, ambitions, emotions, or entire behaviors to animals, non-human beings, natural phenomena, or objects. | 31 | |
| 8280105241 | Imagery | To use figurative language to represent objects, actions, and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our physical senses. | 32 | |
| 8280105242 | Visual Imagery | Imagery that appeals to the visual senses. | 33 | |
| 8280108696 | Auditory Imagery | Imagery that appeals to the sound senses. | 34 | |
| 8280113053 | Kinesthetic IImagery | Imagery that appeals to the touch senses. | 35 | |
| 8280113054 | Olfactory Imagery | Imagery that appeals to the smell senses. | 36 | |
| 8280120904 | Gustatory Imagery | Imagery that appeals to the taste senses. | 37 |
