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| 6575738248 | Form | The structure of a piece of writing | 0 | |
| 6575738249 | Genre | A major literary category (prose, drama, poetry, etc) | 1 | |
| 6575738250 | Allegory | When one idea or object is represented in the shape of another | 2 | |
| 6575738251 | Anecdote | A brief story that gets the reader's interest and sheds light on the writer's main idea and theme | 3 | |
| 6575738252 | Ballad | A story told in song form with simple words and a strong beat | 4 | |
| 6575738253 | Bildungsroman | A novel that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of its main character from his or her youth to adulthood ("coming of age" story) | 5 | |
| 6575738254 | Comedy | A humorous play that has a happy ending | 6 | |
| 6575738255 | Diary | A writer's record of his or her experiences, ideas, and feelings | 7 | |
| 6575738256 | Epistolary | A text that is comprised of a series of letters | 8 | |
| 6575738257 | Fable | A short, easy-to-read story that teaches a lesson about people, often featuring animals | 9 | |
| 6575738258 | Fabliau | A short narrative in verse that is satiric, sarcastic, and sexual for a bourgeois audience | 10 | |
| 6575738259 | Fairy Tale | A fictional story that features folkloric characters and enchantments , often involving a far-fetched sequence of events | 11 | |
| 6575738260 | Farce | A humorous play that is based on a silly plot, ridiculous situations, and comic dialogue often with one-dimensional, stereotypical characters | 12 | |
| 6575738261 | Myth | A story from ancient days that explains certain aspects of life and nature | 13 | |
| 6575738262 | Novel | A long work of fiction with plot, characterization, setting, and theme | 14 | |
| 6575738263 | Novella | A work of fiction that is shorter than a novel but longer than a short story | 15 | |
| 6575738264 | Parable | A short story that contains a moral or lesson, similar to a fable | 16 | |
| 6575738265 | Parody | An imitation of a writer, artist, subject, or genre in such a way as to make fun of or comment on the original work | 17 | |
| 6575738266 | Prose | All written work that is not poetry, drama, or song | 18 | |
| 6575738267 | Quest | A difficult journey by the protagonist toward a goal that is often symbolic or allegorical | 19 | |
| 6575738268 | Verse | A stanza in a poem | 20 | |
| 6575738269 | Tragedy | A literary work in which the main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow, especially as a consequence of a tragic flaw, moral weakness, or inability to cope with unfavorable circumstances | 21 | |
| 6575738270 | Catharsis | The cleansing of negative emotion experienced by the characters and/or audience | 22 | |
| 6575738271 | Hamartia | A fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero | 23 | |
| 6575738272 | Hubris | A character's excessive pride, confidence, or arrogance | 24 | |
| 6575738273 | Anagnorisis | The moment at which the hero makes the realization that he or she is doomed and expresses that | 25 | |
| 6575738274 | Fiction | Writing that tells about made-up events and characters | 26 | |
| 6575738275 | Narration | Writing that tells a story | 27 | |
| 6575738276 | Narrative Voice | Whose eyes the reader experiences the story through | 28 | |
| 6575738277 | Point of View | The position from which a story is told | 29 | |
| 6575738278 | First-Person | The narrator is one of the characters in the story, using the pronouns I and me | 30 | |
| 6575738279 | Objective | A narrator who "shows rather than tells" and does not explicitly comment on or evaluate the actions | 31 | |
| 6575738280 | Omniscent | A narrator who knows everything about all the characters and events | 32 | |
| 6575738281 | Limited | The narrative is controlled by the limited perspectives of one main character who does not know everything | 33 | |
| 6575738282 | Third-Person | The narrator is not one of the characters in the story, using the pronouns he, she, and they | 34 | |
| 6575738283 | Free Indirect Discourse | A technique that involves both a character's speech and the narrator's comments or presentation, lacking introductory expressions | 35 | |
| 6575738284 | Reliable | A narrator who is in close proximity to the story and has extensive knowledge of the events it entails | 36 | |
| 6575738285 | Unreliable | A narrator whose credibility has been compromised | 37 | |
| 6575738286 | Intrusive | A narrator that comments on and evaluates characters and actions, establishing what counts as facts and values in the narrative | 38 | |
| 6575738287 | Stream of Consciousness | A method of narration that describes the flow of thoughts in the minds of the characters | 39 | |
| 6575738288 | Theme | The main idea of a literary work that is a general statement about life | 40 | |
| 6575738289 | Moral | A lesson about right and wrong | 41 | |
| 6575738290 | Motif | A recurring element that has symbolic significance in a story, contributing to theme and/or mood | 42 | |
| 6575738291 | Drama | A piece of literature written to be performed in front of an audience | 43 | |
| 6575738292 | Aside | When a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by the other characters present | 44 | |
| 6575738293 | Monologue | The speech or verbal presentation that a single character presents in order to express his or her collection of thoughts and ideas aloud | 45 | |
| 6575738294 | Soliloquy | A speech one character speaks while alone on stage, voicing his or her deepest thoughts or concerns | 46 | |
| 6575738295 | Diction | The style of speaking or writing determined by the choice of words by a speaker or a writer | 47 | |
| 6575738296 | Colloquialism | The use of informal words, phrases, or slang | 48 | |
| 6575738297 | Vernacular | The use of a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language | 49 | |
| 6575738298 | Archaism | The use of writing that is today considered outdated or old fashioned | 50 | |
| 6575738299 | Jargon | The use of specific phrases and words by writers in a particular situation, profession or trade | 51 | |
| 6575738300 | Plot | The arrangement of events in a work of literature with a beginning, middle, and end | 52 | |
| 6575738301 | Romance | A long, medieval narrative in prose or verse that tells of the adventures and heroic exploits of chivalric heroes | 53 | |
| 6575738302 | Conflict | A struggle or fight that makes the story interesting to the reader, either internal or external | 54 | |
| 6575738303 | Exposition | The part of a story where the characters, setting, and conflict are introduced | 55 | |
| 6575738304 | Rising Action | The part of the story where the conflict builds and the characters are developed | 56 | |
| 6575738305 | Climax | The part of the story that shows the highest point of action | 57 | |
| 6575738306 | Denouement | The part of the story where all is resolved by tying up loose ends | 58 | |
| 6575738307 | Apotheosis | The expansion of consciousness that the hero experiences after defeating a foe | 59 | |
| 6575738308 | Falling Action | The part of the story after the climax when the conflict has been resolved | 60 | |
| 6575738309 | Epilogue | A piece of writing at the end of a work of literature, usually used to bring closure to the work | 61 | |
| 6575738310 | Prologue | A piece of writing at the beginning of a work of literature, usually used to establish the setting and give background details | 62 | |
| 6575738311 | Epiphany | A moment in a story where a character achieves realization, awareness or a feeling of knowledge after which events are seen through the prism of this new light in the story | 63 | |
| 6575738312 | Subplot | A secondary plot or a strand of the main plot that runs parallel to it and supports it | 64 | |
| 6575738313 | Flashback | A scene that breaks into the story to show an earlier part of the action, filling in missing information, explaining the characters' actions, or advancing the plot | 65 | |
| 6575738314 | Foreshadowing | Clues that hint at what will happen later on in a story, used to create suspense and link related details | 66 | |
| 6575738315 | In Media Res | A narrative that begins, not at the beginning of a story, but somewhere in the middle, usually at some crucial point in the action | 67 | |
| 6575738316 | Frame Story | A shorter story within a large one | 68 | |
| 6575738317 | Episodic Structure | Structure that is made up of a series of chapters or stories linked together by the same character, place, or theme but held apart by their individual plot, purpose, and subtext | 69 | |
| 6575738318 | Character | A person or an animal in a story | 70 | |
| 6575738319 | Protagonist | The most important character in a work of literature who is at the center of the conflict and the focus of our attention | 71 | |
| 6575738320 | Antagonist | The force or person in conflict with the main character in a work of literature | 72 | |
| 6575738321 | Dynamic | A character who undergoes an important inner change, such as a change in personality or attitude | 73 | |
| 6575738322 | Flat | A character who is two-dimensional in that they are relatively uncomplicated and do not change throughout the course of a work | 74 | |
| 6575738323 | Round | A character who is complex and undergoes development throughout the course of a work | 75 | |
| 6575738324 | Static | A character who undergoes little or no inner change | 76 | |
| 6575738325 | Stock | A character representing a type in a conventional manner and recurring in many works | 77 | |
| 6575738326 | Villain | A character who constitutes an important evil agency in the plot | 78 | |
| 6575738327 | Hero | A character who is admirable for their noble traits | 79 | |
| 6575738328 | Antihero | A protagonist who is conspicuously lacking in heroic qualities | 80 | |
| 6575738329 | Byronic Hero | An antihero who is rebellious, arrogant, anti-social or in exile, and darkly, enticingly romantic | 81 | |
| 6575738330 | Dystopian Hero | A protagonist that stands alone against a society in chaos and control | 82 | |
| 6575738331 | Foil | A character who contrasts with another character in order to highlight particular qualities of the other character | 83 | |
| 6575738332 | Style | An author's distinctive way or writing, made up of diction, sentence structure, figurative language, and tone | 84 | |
| 6575738333 | Archetype | A universally recognizable original model of an idea; a repeated pattern in literature | 85 | |
| 6575738334 | Atmosphere | The feeling, emotion, or mood a writer conveys to a reader | 86 | |
| 6575738335 | Connotation | The generally accepted meaning of a word | 87 | |
| 6575738336 | Denotation | The dictionary meaning of a word | 88 | |
| 6575738337 | Dialect | The way people speak in a certain region or area, used to describe characters and settings more fully | 89 | |
| 6575738338 | Dialogue | The conversation in fiction or drama; the exact words a character says | 90 | |
| 6575738339 | Epigram | A cleverly expressed thought in verse or prose or an inscription | 91 | |
| 6575738340 | Irony | When something happens that is different from what was expected | 92 | |
| 6575738341 | Dramatic Irony | A contrast between what a character believes and what the audience knows is true | 93 | |
| 6575738342 | Situational Irony | An event that reverses what the readers or characters expected | 94 | |
| 6575738343 | Verbal Irony | A contrast between what is stated and what is suggested | 95 | |
| 6575738344 | Mood | The strong feeling we get from a literary work, created by characterization, description, images, and dialogue | 96 | |
| 6575738345 | Paradox | A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or silly but may include a latent truth | 97 | |
| 6575738346 | Pun | A play on words which usually hinges on a word with more than one meaning or the substitution of a homonym that changes the meaning of the sentence for humorous or rhetorical effect | 98 | |
| 6575738347 | Sarcasm | Crude and heavy-handed verbal irony | 99 | |
| 6575738348 | Satire | A literary work that exposes and criticizes the foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society by using humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule | 100 | |
| 6575738349 | Slang | Words that are not a part of standard vocabulary or language and are used informally | 101 | |
| 6575738350 | Tone | The writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter | 102 | |
| 6575738351 | Voice | The author's unique attitude toward the material | 103 | |
| 6575738352 | Figure of Speech | Any way of saying one thing and meaning another | 104 | |
| 6575738353 | Trope | The use of figurative language, or words and expressions not meant to be taken literally | 105 | |
| 6575738354 | Allusion | A reference to a well-known place, event, person, work of art, or other work of literature used to enrich a story or poem by suggesting powerful comparisons | 106 | |
| 6575738355 | Anachronism | Something or someone that is not in the correct chronological time period | 107 | |
| 6575738356 | Apostrophe | When a thing is addressed directly, as though it were a person listening to the conversation | 108 | |
| 6575738357 | Cliche | An expression that has been overused to the extent that it loses its original meaning or novelty | 109 | |
| 6575738358 | Epic Simile | An extended simile often running to several lines, used typically in epic poetry to intensify the heroic stature of the subject and to serve as decoration | 110 | |
| 6575738359 | Euphemism | A polite, indirect expression which replaces words and phrases considered harsh and impolite or which suggest something unpleasant | 111 | |
| 6575738360 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration used for a literary effect such as emphasis, drama, or humor | 112 | |
| 6575738361 | Inversion | A literary technique in which the normal order of words is reversed in order to achieve a particular effect of emphasis or meter | 113 | |
| 6575738362 | Litotes | A special form of understatement that affirms something by negating its opposite | 114 | |
| 6575738363 | Metaphor | A figure of speech that compares two unlike things without words of comparison | 115 | |
| 6575738364 | Onomatopoeia | When the sound of a word echoes or suggests the meaning of the word | 116 | |
| 6575738365 | Personification | Giving human traits to nonhuman things | 117 | |
| 6575738366 | Simile | A figure of speech that compares two unlike things using words of comparison | 118 | |
| 6575738367 | Symbol | A person, place, or object that represents an abstract idea | 119 | |
| 6575738368 | Synecdoche | The substitution of a part of something for the whole, or the whole is used in place of one of the parts | 120 | |
| 6575738369 | Metonymy | The substitution of one item for another item that it suggests or to which it is closely related | 121 | |
| 6575738370 | Poetry | A type of literature in which words are selected for their beauty, sound, and power to express feelings | 122 | |
| 6575738371 | Alliteration | The repetition of initial consonant sounds in several words in a sentence or line of poetry which is used to create musical effects, link related ideas, stress certain words, or mimic specific sounds | 123 | |
| 6575738372 | Assonance | A type of rhyme in which the vowels in the words are the same but the consonants are not | 124 | |
| 6575738373 | Blank Verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter | 125 | |
| 6575738374 | Cacophony | The use of words and phrases with sharp, harsh, hissing and unmelodious sounds, primarily those of consonants | 126 | |
| 6575738375 | Euphony | The use of words and phrases with melodious, pleasant sounds | 127 | |
| 6575738376 | Cadence | The rising and falling of the voice when reading a literary piece, including momentary changes in rhythm and pitch | 128 | |
| 6575738377 | Caesura | A pause in a poetic line or a sentence | 129 | |
| 6575738378 | Conceit | A long, complex metaphor that compares two unlike things in a surprising way | 130 | |
| 6575738379 | Consonance | A type of half-rhyme in which the consonants agree but the vowels do not | 131 | |
| 6575738380 | Dissonance | The use of impolite, harsh-sounding, and unusual words in poetry | 132 | |
| 6575738381 | Elegy | A poem that deals solemnly with death | 133 | |
| 6575738382 | Elision | The elimination of a vowel, consonant, or syllable in pronunciation | 134 | |
| 6575738383 | End-Stopped Line | When the end of the line corresponds with a natural pause in speech | 135 | |
| 6575738384 | Enjambment | Running lines of poetry from one to the next without using any kind of punctuation to indicate a stop | 136 | |
| 6575738385 | Epic | A long and serious narrative poem about a hero and his heroic companions often set in a past that is pictured as greater than the present | 137 | |
| 6575738386 | Free Verse | Poetry composed of rhythmical lines varying in length, following no fixed metrical pattern, usually unrhymed, and often with a pattern based on repetition and parallel grammatical structure | 138 | |
| 6575738387 | Imagery | Words that appeal to one or more of the five senses | 139 | |
| 6575738388 | Auditory Imagery | Imagery that appeals to the sense of hearing | 140 | |
| 6575738389 | Olfactory Imagery | Imagery that appeals to the sense of smell | 141 | |
| 6575738390 | Gustatory Imagery | Imagery that appeals to the sense of taste | 142 | |
| 6575738391 | Visual Imagery | Imagery that appeals to the sense of sight | 143 | |
| 6575738392 | Kinesthetic Imagery | Imagery that appeals to the sense of movement | 144 | |
| 6575738393 | Tactile Imagery | Imagery that appeals to the sense of touch | 145 | |
| 6575738394 | Limerick | A jingling poem composed of three long and two short lines that rhyme respectively | 146 | |
| 6575738395 | Villanelle | A poetic form that rhymes and repeats lines in a predetermined manner, both as a refrain and as a part of the poem itself | 147 | |
| 6575738396 | Sestina | A type of a poem that contains six stanzas, each stanza having six lines, concluding with a seventh stanza having three lines | 148 | |
| 6575738397 | Ode | A very long lyric poem characterized by elevated feelings | 149 | |
| 6575738398 | Sonnet | A fourteen-line lyric poem written in iambic pentameter | 150 | |
| 6575738399 | Pastoral | Any writing concerning itself with shepherds, showcasing rural life | 151 | |
| 6575738400 | Refrain | A line or group of lines that are repeated at the end of a poem or song, reinforcing the main point and creating musical effects | 152 | |
| 6575738401 | Pathetic Fallacy | A specific kind of personification in which inanimate objects are given human emotions | 153 | |
| 6575738402 | Stanza | A group of lines in a poem | 154 | |
| 6575738403 | Octave | A verse form consisting of eight lines of iambic pentameter | 155 | |
| 6575738404 | Setset | A verse form consisting of six lines, usually at the end of a sonnet | 156 | |
| 6575738405 | Quatrain | A four-line stanza | 157 | |
| 6575738406 | Couplet | A two-line stanza | 158 | |
| 6575738407 | Heroic Couplet | A stanza of two rhyming lines of iambic pentameter | 159 | |
| 6575738408 | Turn | A rhetorical shift or dramatic change in thought or emotion | 160 | |
| 6575738409 | Shift | A change in mood or attitude that is typically accompanied by a corresponding change in the focus and language | 161 | |
| 6575738410 | Rhyme | The repeated use of identical or nearly identical sounds, used to create a musical sound, meaning, or structure | 162 | |
| 6575738411 | End Rhyme | When words at the end of lines of poetry have the same sound | 163 | |
| 6575738412 | Internal Rhyme | When words within a sentence share the same sound | 164 | |
| 6575738413 | Feminine Rhyme | Rhyme sounds involving two or more syllables | 165 | |
| 6575738414 | Masculine Rhyme | Rhyme sounds involving only one syllable | 166 | |
| 6575738415 | Eye Rhyme | Rhyme in which two words are spelled similarly but pronounced differently | 167 | |
| 6575738416 | Half Rhyme | Rhyme in which only half the word rhymes | 168 | |
| 6575738417 | Scansion | Defining the metrical form of a poem, identifying the prevailing foot, naming the number of feet in a line, and describing the stanzaic pattern | 169 | |
| 6575738418 | Foot | A group of stressed and unstressed syllables combining to form a unit of verse | 170 | |
| 6575738419 | Iambic | Duple meter with an unaccented/accented pattern | 171 | |
| 6575738420 | Anapestic | Triple meter with an unaccented/unaccented/accented pattern | 172 | |
| 6575738421 | Trochaic | Duple meter with an accented/unaccented pattern | 173 | |
| 6575738422 | Dactylic | Triple meter with an accented/unaccented/unaccented pattern | 174 | |
| 6575738423 | Spondaic | Meter with syllables of equal accent | 175 | |
| 6575738424 | Meter | The beat or rhythm in a poem created by a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables | 176 | |
| 6575738425 | Monometer | Metrical line of one foot | 177 | |
| 6575738426 | Dimeter | Metrical line of two feet | 178 | |
| 6575738427 | Trimeter | Metrical line of three feet | 179 | |
| 6575738428 | Tetrameter | Metrical line of four feet | 180 | |
| 6575738429 | Pentameter | Metrical line of five feet | 181 | |
| 6575738430 | Hexameter | Metrical line of six feet | 182 | |
| 6575738431 | Heptameter | Metrical line of seven feet | 183 | |
| 6575738432 | Octameter | Metrical line of eight feet | 184 | |
| 6575738433 | Syntax | The way in which words and sentences are placed together in the writing | 185 | |
| 6575738434 | Anaphora | The repetition of the first part of the sentence | 186 | |
| 6575738435 | Antithesis | The use of contrasting concepts, words, or sentences within parallel grammatical structures | 187 | |
| 6575738436 | Parallelism | The use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same or similar in their construction, sound, meaning or meter | 188 | |
| 6575738437 | Ellipsis | The omission of a word or series of words | 189 | |
| 6575738438 | Chiasmus | Two or more clauses which are related grammatically and conceptually, but in which the grammar and concepts are reversed | 190 | |
| 6575738439 | Complex Sentence | The combination of two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses with appropriate modifiers | 191 | |
| 6575738440 | Independent Clause | A complete thought with a subject and a verb | 192 | |
| 6575738441 | Dependent Clause | An incomplete thought with a subject and a verb | 193 | |
| 6575738442 | Agreement | Different parts of a sentence agreeing with each other in grammatical number, gender, case, mood, or tense | 194 | |
| 6575738443 | Asyndeton | The omission of a conjunction such as "and" or "as" from a series of related clauses | 195 | |
| 6575738444 | Polysyndeton | The use of several conjunctions in close succession where they are not necessary | 196 | |
| 6575738445 | Ancient Literature | Period beginning with Homer in the 8th century BC and ending with the decline of the Roman Empire in the 5th century AD; includes Greek and Latin literature (balance, order) | 197 | |
| 6575738446 | Medieval Literature | Period beginning with the fall of the Roman empire and ending with the start of the Renaissance (romance, chivalry) | 198 | |
| 6575738447 | Renaissance Literature | Period beginning in the 15th century and ending after Shakespeare's death in the 17th century (humanism, rebirth of classics) | 199 | |
| 6575738448 | Enlightenment Literature | Period beginning in the 17th century and ending after the start of Queen Victoria's reign in the 18th century (reason, secularism) | 200 | |
| 6575738449 | Romanticism | Period beginning with the French Revolution and ending after the start of Queen Victoria's reign (Nature, emotion) | 201 | |
| 6575738450 | Victorian Literature | Period during the reign of Queen Victoria (conservative, tradition) | 202 | |
| 6575738451 | Gothicism | Period from the 16th to the 17th century (spookiness, sublime) | 203 | |
| 6575738452 | Realism | Period during the 19th century (logic, truth) | 204 | |
| 6575738453 | Modernism | Period at the beginning of the 20th century (fragmentation, innovation) | 205 | |
| 6575738454 | Existentialism | Period during the 20th century (individual, freedom) | 206 | |
| 6575738455 | Postmodernism | Period during the 20th century (experimental, unconventional) | 207 |
