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| 11549407333 | Anaphora | a device of repetition in which the same expression is repeated at the beginning of 2 or more lines. | 0 | |
| 11549412556 | Anecdote | a short narrative detailing particulars of an interesting episode or event. | 1 | |
| 11549417131 | Adage | A proverb or saying made familiar by using it a lot | 2 | |
| 11549419456 | Allegory | A form of extended metaphor in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative are equated with meanings that lie outside the narrative itself | 3 | |
| 11549424502 | Alliteration | the repetition of initial identical consonant sounds in adjacent words | 4 | |
| 11549427133 | Allusion | A figure of speech that makes a brief reference to a historical, mythological, or literacy figure, event, or object. | 5 | |
| 11549431060 | Amplification | A figure of speech in which bare expressions, likely to be ignored, misunderstood, or underestimated because of bluntness, are emphasized through restatement with additional detail | 6 | |
| 11549437347 | Anadiplosis | When the last word of a line is the first word of the adjacent line | 7 | |
| 11549443042 | Analogy | a comparison of 2 things, alike in certain aspects; particularly a method used in expsotion and description by which something unfamiliar is explained by being compared to something familiar | 8 | |
| 11549449424 | Anapest | A poetic foot with 2 unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable | 9 | |
| 11549453813 | Antagonist | the character directly opposed to the protagonist; a rival, opponent, or enemy of the protagonist | 10 | |
| 11549457685 | Antihero | A hero who is graceless, sometimes stupid, and sometimes dishonest | 11 | |
| 11549464572 | Antimetabole | the repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order. Ex: one should eat to live, not live to eat | 12 | |
| 11549469441 | Antithesis | a figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas | 13 | |
| 11549473148 | Aphorism | A concise statement of a principle or precept given in pointed words. | 14 | |
| 11549480722 | Apostrophe | a figure of speech in which someone, some abstract quality, or nonexistent personage is directly addressed as though present. | 15 | |
| 11549485684 | Archetype | A plot pattern, descriptive detail, or character type that occurs frequently in literature, myth, religion, or folklore, and is therefore believed to invokes strong responses | 16 | |
| 11549496428 | Aside | a dramatic convention by which an actor directly addresses the audience but is not supposed to be heard by the other actors | 17 | |
| 11549500211 | Assonance | patterning of vowel sounds without regard to consonants. Different from rhyme because consonants can be different | 18 | |
| 11549508736 | Asyndeton | A condensed form of expression in which elements customarily joined by conjunctions are presented in series without the conjunctions | 19 | |
| 11549514864 | Aubade | a lyric about dawn or a morning serenade, a song of lovers parting in the dawn | 20 | |
| 11549518042 | Balance | balance characterizes a structure in which parts of the whole are set off against each other so as to emphasize a contract. | 21 | |
| 11549523710 | Ballad | a form of verse to be sung or recited and characterized by its presentation of a dramatic/exciting episode in a simple narrative form. | 22 | |
| 11549529201 | Bathos | the effect resulting from the unsuccessful efforts to achieve dignity or sublimity of style; an unintentional anticlimax, dropping from the sublime to the ridiculous. | 23 | |
| 11549535452 | Blank Verse | rhymed but otherwise regular verse usually iambic pentameter. Commonly used in long poems | 24 | |
| 11549543049 | Blazon | generally a rationally ordered poem of praise or blame. Shakespeare's sonnet 130 is an example of a blazon | 25 | |
| 11549563759 | Caesura | a pause or break in a line of verse originally in classical literature. It divides a foot between 2 words, usually near the middle of a line | 26 | |
| 11549568045 | Canto | a section of division of a long poem. Derived from the Latin cantus (song) the word originally signified a section of a narrative poem of such length as to be sung by a minstrel in one singing. | 27 | |
| 11549574181 | Carpe diem poem | applied to lyric poems to exemplify the spirit of "let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die" | 28 | |
| 11549579391 | Catalog | A list of people, things, or attributes. Sometimes extended to great length, catalogs are characteristics of much primitive literature and of much that isn't so primitive as well. | 29 | |
| 11549585634 | Catharsis | the process by which an unhealthy emotional state, produced by an imbalance of feelings is corrected and emotional health is restored. | 30 | |
| 11549589924 | Chiasmus | a pattern in which the 2nd part is balanced against the 1st but with the parts reversed | 31 | |
| 11549592619 | Chorus | the groups of dancers/singers who participate in dramatic performances. They view the actions of the play and comment, summarize, or explain. | 32 | |
| 11549597552 | Cliche | any expression so often used that its freshness and clarity have worn off | 33 | |
| 11549602507 | closed couplet | 2 successive lines rhyming "AA" and containing a grammatically complete, independent statement. "Closed" - the meaning is complete within the 2 lines and does not depend on what proceeds or follows | 34 | |
| 11549610387 | colloquialism | an expression used in informal conversation but not accepted universally in formal speech or writing. | 35 | |
| 11549613615 | complaint | a lyric poem, common in middle ages and Renaissance, in which the poet 1.) laments the unresponsiveness of his mistress, 2.) bemoans his unhappy lot and seeks to remedy it, 3.) regrets the sorry state of the world. Usually takes the form of a monologue | 36 | |
| 11549620283 | conceit | an extended metaphor that designates a fanciful notion, usually expressed through an elaborate analogy and pointing to a striking parallel between ostensibly dissimilar things. | 37 | |
| 11549625972 | consonance | the repetition of consonant sounds in the middle or at the end of words | 38 | |
| 11549627703 | couplet | 2 consecutive lines of verse with end rhymes | 39 | |
| 11568783832 | dactyl | a foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by 2 unaccented, as in "manikin" | 40 | |
| 11568790399 | diction | the author's word choice. Diction includes vocabulary, which generally means words one at a time, and syntax, the word order | 41 | |
| 11568799531 | dissonance | harsh and inharmonious sounds, a marked break in the music of poetry, which may be intentional | 42 | |
| 11568806996 | dramatic irony | the words or acts of a character may carry a meaning unperceived by the character but understood by the audience | 43 | |
| 11568814077 | dramatic monologue | a poem that reveals "a soul in action" through the speech of one character in a dramatic situation. The character is speaking to an identifiable but silent listener at a dramatic moment in the speaker's life. | 44 | |
| 11568825907 | dynamic character | a character who develops or changes as a result of the actions of the plot | 45 | |
| 11568835007 | eclipsis | omission of material that may be necessary for full clarity. Ex: " A friend in need is a friend in deed" means "A friend when one is in need is a friend in deed." | 46 | |
| 11568846242 | elegy | a sustained and formal poem setting forth meditations on death of another solemn theme. | 47 | |
| 11568854279 | ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that, while essential to a grammatic structure, are easily supplied. | 48 | |
| 11568861029 | English sonnet | a sonnet consisting of 3 quatrains followed by a couplet, rhyming ababcdcdefefgg. Called Shakespearean since he is the most distinguished user. | 49 |
