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| 10577716739 | Allegory | A form of extended metaphor in which the objects, persons, places, and actions in a narrative are equated with meanings outside the narrative itself. | 0 | |
| 10577716740 | Alliteration | The repetition of initial sounds in successive or neighboring words. | 1 | |
| 10577716741 | Allusion | A figure of speech that makes brief reference to a historical or literary figure, event, or object. | 2 | |
| 10577716742 | Anachronism | assignment of something to a time when it was not in existence | 3 | |
| 10577716743 | Analogy | A comparison of two things that are alike in certain aspects. Often used to use something familiar to explain the unfamiliar. | 4 | |
| 10577716744 | Antithesis | a figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas. It is the balancing of one term against another. | 5 | |
| 10577716745 | Archetype | An image, a descriptive detail, a plot pattern, or a character type that occurs frequently in literature, myth, religion, or folklore. | 6 | |
| 10577716746 | Asyndeton | Omission of connecting words in a list. | 7 | |
| 10577716747 | Anaphora | The same expression (word or words) is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines. | 8 | |
| 10577716748 | Apostrophe | The speaker addresses a dead (or absent) person or an abstraction or inanimate object-it provides the speaker an opportunity to think aloud. | 9 | |
| 10825174313 | Verse | Metrical language; the opposite of prose | 10 | |
| 10825174314 | Meter | The measurable repetition of accented and unaccented syllables in poetry. | 11 | |
| 10825174315 | Prose | the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure; not poetry. | 12 | |
| 10825174316 | Structure | internal organization of a poem's content | 13 | |
| 10825174317 | Form | the external pattern or shape of a poem, describable without reference to its content | 14 | |
| 10825174318 | Blank verse | unrhymed but otherwise regular verse, usually iambic pentameter | 15 | |
| 10825174319 | Free verse | Nonmetrical poetry that does not follow established norms. | 16 | |
| 10825174320 | Characterization | the creation of imaginary persons so that they seem lifelike | 17 | |
| 10825174321 | Direct characterization | the writer tells the reader what the character is like | 18 | |
| 10825174322 | Indirect characterization | The writer shows the reader what a character is like through his/her dialogue and/or actions or through other characters. | 19 | |
| 10825174323 | Coloquialism | An expression used in informal conversation but not accepted universally in formal speech or writing. | 20 | |
| 10825174324 | Satire | A mode of writing that exposes the failings of individuals, institutions, or societies to ridicule and scorn. | 21 | |
| 10825174325 | Simile | A figure of speech in which a similarity between two objects is directly expressed, most often introduced by words such as like, as, compare, liken, resemble, etc. | 22 | |
| 10825174326 | Understatement | To represent with restraint; to say less than is meant. | 23 |
