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| 7454424053 | allegory | story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people/settings/events OR for abstract ideas/qualities | 0 | |
| 7454424054 | alliteration | the repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds, normally at the beginnings of words | 1 | |
| 7454424055 | allusion | a reference in a work of literature to something outside the work, especially to an event, person, or work well-known in history, religion, or literature | 2 | |
| 7454426283 | antithesis | - a figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas | 3 | |
| 7454426284 | apostrophe | a figure of speech in which an absent person, an abstract quality, or a nonexistent personage is directly addressed as though present | 4 | |
| 7454426285 | archetype | - a typical character, an action or a situation that seems to represent such universal patterns of human nature. Also known as universal symbol | 5 | |
| 7454428829 | aside | a comment from a character in a play meant to be heard only by the audience, not by other characters onstage | 6 | |
| 7454428830 | assonance | the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds | 7 | |
| 7454429538 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | 8 | |
| 7454430764 | cacophony | a harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds | 9 | |
| 7454430765 | catharsis | the purging of emotions achieved through tragedy; can refer to the effect on the audience and/or or on a character(s) | 10 | |
| 7454430766 | connotation | the "feeling" of a word - the emotional weight or associations that a word carries | 11 | |
| 7454434325 | consonance | the repetition of similar consonant sounds in a group of words | 12 | |
| 7454435409 | couplet | a set of two lines that rhyme. | 13 | |
| 7454436224 | diction | an author's word choice in a literary work | 14 | |
| 7454437038 | dramatic irony | occurs when the audience knows something a character (or characters) does not know | 15 | |
| 7454437039 | end-stopped | a line with a punctuation pause at the end - lines that end with a period, a comma, a colon, a semicolon, an exclamation point, a hyphen, or a question mark are; lines that have a sense closure | 16 | |
| 7454440125 | enjambment | - the continuation of the sense and grammatical construction from one line of poetry to the next | 17 | |
| 7454440126 | extended metaphor | an implied analogy, or comparison, which is carried throughout a stanza or an entire poem | 18 | |
| 7454441036 | euphony | a combination of pleasant sounds | 19 | |
| 7454442947 | foil | a character who contrasts with another character - usually the protagonist - in order to highlight particular qualities of the other character | 20 | |
| 7454442948 | free verse | poetry that lacks both rhyme and regular meter | 21 | |
| 7454443639 | hubris | one of the most common tragic flaws, defined as excessive pride or self-confidence | 22 | |
| 7454446078 | hyperbole | a deliberate, often outrageous, exaggeration. It may be used for either serious or comic effect. | 23 | |
| 7454446079 | juxtaposition | when contrasting ideas, places, images, characters, actions, etc. are placed side by side in order to emphasize similarities, differences, and/or paradoxes | 24 | |
| 7454446080 | meter | the repetition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line of poetry | 25 | |
| 7454450515 | iambic pentameter | a common type of meter in which a line has ten syllables that follow a pattern of unstressed syllables followed by stressed syllables | 26 | |
| 7454451468 | mood | the feelings/vibes evoked in the reader by a piece of text as a result of the author's stylistic choices | 27 | |
| 7454451469 | motif | an object or idea that repeats itself throughout a literary work; basically, a literary pattern within a work | 28 | |
| 7454453392 | onomatopoeia | the use of words whose sound suggests their meaning | 29 | |
| 7454453393 | oxymoron | a form of paradox and juxtaposition that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single expression | 30 | |
| 7454453394 | paradox | a situation, action, feeling that appears to be impossibly contradictory but, upon close inspection, turns out to be true or at least to make sense | 31 | |
| 7454455917 | parallel structure | a similar grammatical structure within a line or lines of poetry. Basically a listing of grammatically equal parts | 32 | |
| 7454455918 | poetic foot | a group of syllables in verse usually consisting of one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables associated with it | 33 | |
| 7454456538 | pun | a play on words that are identical or similar in sound but have sharply diverse meanings | 34 | |
| 7454456539 | refrain | a group of words forming a phrase or sentence and consisting of one or more lines repeated at intervals in a poem | 35 | |
| 7454458316 | rhythm | the recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry (aka meter) | 36 | |
| 7454458317 | satire | writing that seeks to arouse a reader's disapproval of an object, person, or idea by ridicule; usually, comedy that exposes errors with the hope of correcting vice and folly | 37 | |
| 7454458450 | situational irony | occurs when there is a discrepancy between purpose and results | 38 | |
| 7454461514 | soliloquy | a speech delivered by a character who is alone on stage. Usually reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings | 39 | |
| 7454461515 | sonnet | normally a fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter with a regular rhyme scheme | 40 | |
| 7454461516 | stanza | a repeated grouping of two or more lines within a poem; basically, the poetic equivalent of a paragraph | 41 | |
| 7454462773 | style | the characteristic manner of expression of an author | 42 | |
| 7454463486 | syntax | the ordering of words into patterns or sentences | 43 | |
| 7454463487 | theme | the main thought expressed by a wor; the abstract concept which is made concrete through its representation in person, action, and image in the work | 44 | |
| 7454465921 | tone | the author's attitude toward the subject | 45 | |
| 7454465922 | tragic flaw | the trait in a character the leads to his/her downfall | 46 | |
| 7454465923 | tragic hero | a character who is led to his/her downfall by an error in judgment and/or a tragic flaw | 47 | |
| 7454468990 | understatement/litotes | the opposite of hyperbole. It is a kind of irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is | 48 | |
| 7454468991 | verbal irony | a figure of speech in which the actual intent is expressed in words which carry the opposite meaning | 49 | |
| 7454633208 | metonymy | a figure of speech which is characterized by the substitution of a term naming an object closely associated with the word in mind for the word itself | 50 | |
| 7454633209 | synecdoche | a form of metaphor which in mentioning a part signifies the whole | 51 | |
| 7454633210 | polysyndeton | a literary technique in which conjunctions (e.g. and, but, or) are used repeatedly in quick succession, often with no commas, even when the conjunctions could be removed | 52 | |
| 7454634772 | asyndeton | - a literary technique in which a conjunction is omitted and items in a list are separated only by commas | 53 |
