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| 6680405265 | allegory | a story/picture/poem that can be interpreted to have hidden meaning, usually moral or political | 0 | |
| 6680405266 | alliteration | repetition of the same consonant sounds at the beginning of words that are in close proximity to each other | 1 | |
| 6680405267 | allusion | A reference to a historical event, a person, or something else outside the work of literature | 2 | |
| 6680405268 | analogy | a comparison of a thing/idea to a different thing/idea; aims to explain the first thing by comparing it to something that is familiar to the reader | 3 | |
| 6680405269 | anaphora | the repetition of a word/phrase at the start of sucessive clauses | 4 | |
| 6680405270 | antagonist | The adversary of the hero or protagonist of a drama or other literary work | 5 | |
| 6680405271 | antithesis | two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect. | 6 | |
| 6680405272 | aphorism | a statement of truth expressed in a concise and witty manner. | 7 | |
| 6680405273 | apologue | a moral fable, especially one with animals as characters. | 8 | |
| 6680405274 | apostrophe | a literary device used when an absent person, a personified inanimate being, or an abstraction is addressed as though present. | 9 | |
| 6680405275 | archetype | a typical character, an action or a situation that seems to represent such universal patterns of human nature in literture | 10 | |
| 6680405276 | assonance | Assonance is the repetition of a vowel sound; the words must be close enough for the repetition of the sound to be noticeable. | 11 | |
| 6680405277 | asyndeton | the omission of a conjunction between parts of a sentence. | 12 | |
| 6680405278 | ballad | a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas | 13 | |
| 6680405279 | bildungsroman | Coming of age story, specificaly dealing with the main character's formative years | 14 | |
| 6680405280 | blank verse | verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter. | 15 | |
| 6680405281 | cacophony | mixture of harsh and inharmonious sounds | 16 | |
| 6680405282 | caesura | a pause near the middle of a line | 17 | |
| 6680405283 | canto | subdivision or part in a narrative or epic poem, consisting of five or more lines such, as a stanza | 18 | |
| 6680405284 | caricature | Used in descriptive writing where aspects of characters are exaggerated to create a comedic effect | 19 | |
| 6680405285 | carpe diem poem | "Carpe diem" means "Seize the day" in Latin, and this type of poetry involves inspirational poems about seizing life and not letting it pass you by | 20 | |
| 6680405286 | catharsis | The release of emotions in either a character or a reader, often taking place at the end of tragedies | 21 | |
| 6680405287 | chiasmus | words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order | 22 | |
| 6680405288 | colloquialism | the use of informal words, phrases or even slang in a piece of writing. | 23 | |
| 6680405289 | conceit | extended metaphor that compares two very unlike things | 24 | |
| 6680405290 | conflict | a conflict is a literary element that involves a struggle between two opposing forces usually a protagonist and an antagonist. | 25 | |
| 6680405291 | connotation | an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning | 26 | |
| 6680405292 | consonance | Repetition of consonant sounds in a phrase, line, or sentence | 27 | |
| 6680405293 | couplet | Two successive rhyming lines in a verse with the same meter | 28 | |
| 6680405294 | denotation | Refers to the dictionary meaning of a word and not the implied associations | 29 | |
| 6680405295 | denouement | the final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved. | 30 | |
| 6680405296 | deus ex machina | a plot device whereby a seemingly unsolvable problem is suddenly and abruptly resolved by the inspired and unexpected intervention of some new event, character, ability or object (god from the machine) | 31 | |
| 6680405297 | diction | the choice of words and style of expression that an author makes and uses in a work of literature | 32 | |
| 6680405298 | didactic | intended for instruction, inclined to teach or lecture others too much | 33 | |
| 6680405299 | direction characterization | writer makes direct statements about a character's personality and tells what the character is like. | 34 | |
| 6680405300 | dynamic character | dramatic character that undergoes an important inner change | 35 | |
| 6680405301 | elegy | a poem written in praise/sorrow for someone who is dead | 36 | |
| 6680405302 | end-stopped line | when a pause comes at the end of a sentence, clause or phrase | 37 | |
| 6680405303 | English sonnet | A sonnet consisting of 3 quatrains and a couplet with the rhyme scheme "abab cdcd efef gg" | 38 | |
| 6680405304 | enjambment | the meaning runs-over from one poetic line to the next without a terminating punctuation mark | 39 | |
| 6680405305 | epic | A long poetic narrative about the exploits of a legendary hero | 40 | |
| 6680405306 | epigram | rhetorical device that is a memorable, brief, interesting and surprising satirical statement | 41 | |
| 6680405307 | epiphany | that moment in the 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. | 42 | |
| 6680405308 | epitaph | Brief writing or saying honoring a deceased person; usually an inscription on a grave | 43 | |
| 6680405309 | epithet | phrase used to express the characteristic of a person | 44 | |
| 6680405310 | euphemism | polite, indirect expressions that used to replace those which may be considered harsh or unpleasant | 45 | |
| 6680405311 | euphony | Very pleasing to the ear; an audibly nice combination of words | 46 | |
| 6680405312 | fable | a short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral. | 47 | |
| 6680405313 | farce | sub genre of comedy where humor is created by putting people in ridiculous and absurd situations. It is characterized by physical and slapstick humor and usually a lack of character development. | 48 | |
| 6680405314 | foil | a character that contrasts with another to highlight their characteristics (can also be contrast of places or plots) | 49 | |
| 6680405315 | foreshadowing | A warning or indication of a future event | 50 | |
| 6680405316 | frame story | is a set story within a story, narrative or movie told by characters | 51 | |
| 6680405317 | free verse | verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern. | 52 | |
| 6680405318 | gothic | a style of literature which suggests a dark or gloomy output and combines aspects of horror and romance to be included within its story combining both supernatural and real aspects | 53 | |
| 6680405319 | hamartia | A hero's tragic flaw that leads to their downfall | 54 | |
| 6680405320 | heroic couplet | a pair of rhymed lines with iambic pentameter | 55 | |
| 6680405321 | Horatian satire | Horatian satire, named for the Roman satirist Horace, playfully criticizes some social vice through gentle, mild, and light-hearted humor | 56 | |
| 6680405322 | hubris | excessive pride or self-confidence. | 57 | |
| 6680405323 | hyperbole | exaggerated statements. | 58 | |
| 6680405324 | imagery | Figurative language to represent objects, actions and ideas, usually creating visual representations in the reader's mind | 59 | |
| 6680405325 | in medias res | "in the midst of things"/in the middle of things. The story begins in the middle of a crisis or crucial situation that is related to a chain of events. | 60 | |
| 6680405326 | indirect characterization | -showing a character's personality through thoughts, speech, actions, appearance, and effect | 61 | |
| 6680405327 | internal conflict | a struggle within the mind of a character; the resloution creates the plots suspense | 62 | |
| 6680405328 | Italian sonnet | A sonnet with octave rhyming such as abba abba or a sestet with any rhyme scheme such as cdc dcd | 63 | |
| 6680405329 | Juvenalian satire | Bitter and ironic criticism of current persons and institutions that is filled with anger and pessimism | 64 | |
| 6680405330 | litote | An understatement that expresses a positive by using a negative (usually with double negatives) | 65 | |
| 6680405331 | lyric poem | A poem that speaks of personal and emtional feelings with a song-like quality | 66 | |
| 6680405332 | magical realism | a literary or artistic genre in which realistic narrative and naturalistic technique are combined with surreal elements of dream or fantasy | 67 | |
| 6680405333 | metaphor | Metaphor is a figure of speech which makes an implicit, implied or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated but share some common characteristics. | 68 | |
| 6680405334 | meter | pattern of stressed and unstressed syallables | 69 | |
| 6680405335 | metonymy | the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant | 70 | |
| 6680405336 | motif | an object or idea that repeats itself throughout a literary work. | 71 | |
| 6680405337 | narrative poem | Poetry that tells a story, includes epics and ballads | 72 | |
| 6680405338 | octave | a poem or stanza of eight lines | 73 | |
| 6680405339 | ode | a lyrical stanza written in praise for a person, event, or thing | 74 | |
| 6680405340 | omniscient | a literary technique of writing narrative in third person in which a narrator knows the feelings and thoughts of every character in the story. | 75 | |
| 6680405341 | onomatopoeia | a word that imitates the natural sounds of thing | 76 | |
| 6680405342 | oxymoron | a figure of speech in which apparently contradictionary terms are used in conjunction | 77 | |
| 6680405343 | paradox | a statement that appears to be self-contradictory but has hidden truth | 78 | |
| 6680405344 | parallelism | the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc. | 79 | |
| 6680405345 | parody | a humorous imitation of a serious work | 80 | |
| 6680405346 | pastoral poem | works that idealize rural life and landscapes (simple life) | 81 | |
| 6680405347 | peripeteia | a reversal of circumstances, or turning point in a story | 82 | |
| 6680405348 | personification | a figure of speech in which a thing, an idea or an animal is given human attributes. | 83 | |
| 6680405349 | protagonist | the main character in any story, such as aliterary work or drama | 84 | |
| 6680405350 | psalm | a sacredsong, hymn, or poem | 85 | |
| 6680405351 | quatrain | a verse with four lines, or even a full poem containing four lines, having an independent and separate theme | 86 | |
| 6680405352 | refrain | a repeated line or number of lines in a poem , typically at the end of each verse | 87 | |
| 6680405353 | repetition | a word, phrase, full sentence, or poetical line repeated to emphasie its significance in the entire text | 88 | |
| 6680405354 | rhyme scheme | A pattern of rhyme that typically manifests at the end of lines in poetry | 89 | |
| 6680405355 | rhythm | Recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllables | 90 | |
| 6680405356 | romance | Tale based on legend, chivalric love and adventure, or the supernatural | 91 | |
| 6680405357 | sestina | A type of poem that contains six stanzas, each stanza having six lines.It does not rhyme and the end word of the poem repeat. | 92 | |
| 6680405358 | similie | comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as" | 93 | |
| 6680405359 | soliloquy | An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play. | 94 | |
| 6680405360 | stanza | a division of four or more lines having a fixed length, meter or rhyming scheme | 95 | |
| 6680405361 | suspense | The feling of anxiety or excitment about what might happen next or an upcomming event. | 96 | |
| 6680405362 | syllogism | starts an argument with a reference to something general and from this it draws conclusion about something more specific. | 97 | |
| 6680405363 | symbol | Signifying ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meanings that are different than their literal definitions | 98 | |
| 6680405364 | synecdoche | Part of something is used to represent the whole of something in a description of that object. | 99 | |
| 6680405365 | synesthesia | describes things using more than one sense (sight, smell, etc.) | 100 | |
| 6680405366 | syntax | words from different parts of speech are put together in order to convey a complete thought. | 101 | |
| 6680405367 | terza rima | rhyming verse stanza form consisting of an interlocking three-line rhyme scheme; often in iambic pantemeter. aba bcb cdc. | 102 | |
| 6680405368 | theme | a main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work that may be stated directly or indirectly | 103 | |
| 6680405369 | tone | The writer's attitude toward the attitude and/or the audience | 104 | |
| 6680405370 | tragic flaw | The writer's attitude toward the attitude and/or the audience | 105 | |
| 6680405371 | villanelle | 19 line poem with 2 repeating rhymes and 2 refrains made up of 5 tercets and 1 quatrain at the end with the refrains being the first and third lines and alternating at the end of the tercets and both repeated at the end of the quatrain | 106 |
