| 9605010299 | Aestheticism | devotion to or emphasis on beauty or the cultivation of the arts | | 0 |
| 9605012915 | Allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one (Story represents a meaning vs. Symbolism - object represents a meaning) | | 1 |
| 9605020760 | Alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
"Alice's aunt ate apples and acorns around August." | | 2 |
| 9605025576 | Allusion | an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference
"Chocolate was her Achilles' heel." | | 3 |
| 9605025577 | Ambiguity | the quality of being open to more than one interpretation; inexactness
"Foreigners are hunting dogs" | | 4 |
| 9605029629 | Anadiplosis | the repetition of a word or words in successive clauses in such a way that the second clause starts with the same word which marks the end of the previous clause
"you must make every effort to support your faith with GOODNESS, and GOODNESS with knowledge, and knowledge with SELF-CONTROL, and SELF-CONTROL with endurance, and endurance with GODLINESS, and GODLINESS with mutual affection, and mutual affection with love" | | 5 |
| 9605029630 | Analogy | a comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification | | 6 |
| 9605029631 | Anapest | a metrical foot consisting of two short or unstressed syllables followed by one long or stressed syllable | | 7 |
| 9605032957 | Anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses
"EVERY day, EVERY night, in EVERY way, I am getting better and better." | | 8 |
| 9605032958 | Anastrophe | the inversion of the usual order of words or clauses
"Patience I lack." | | 9 |
| 9605032959 | Antagonist | a character, or a group of characters, which stands in opposition to the protagonist | | 10 |
| 9605036641 | Antanaclasis | a rhetorical device in which a phrase or word is repeatedly used, though the meaning of the word changes in each case
Viola: "Save thee, friend, and thy music! Dost thou LIVE by thy tabour?"
Clown: "No, sir, I LIVE by the church."
Viola: "Art thou a churchman?"
Clown: "No such matter, sir: I do LIVE by the church; for I do LIVE at my house, and my house doth stand by the church." | | 11 |
| 9605036642 | Anthimeria | a rhetorical device that uses a word in a new grammatical shape, often as a noun or a verb
"Let me not suppose that she dares go about, Emma WOODHOUSE-ING me!" | | 12 |
| 9605036850 | Anti-hero | a literary device used by writers for a prominent character in a play or book that has characteristics opposite to that of a conventional hero | | 13 |
| 9605040913 | Antimetabole | a literary term or device that involves repeating a phrase in reverse order
"You like it; it likes you." | | 14 |
| 9605052564 | Antistrophe | a rhetorical device that involves the repetition of the same words at the end of consecutive phrases, clauses, sentences, and paragraphs
"When I was a child, I spake AS A CHILD, I understood AS A CHILD, I thought AS A CHILD; but when I became a man, I put away childish things..." | | 15 |
| 9605052565 | Antithesis | rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect
"Patience is bitter, but it has a sweet fruit." | | 16 |
| 9605056451 | Aphorism | a statement of truth or opinion expressed in a concise and witty manner | | 17 |
| 9605056452 | Apostrophe | writer or a speaker detaches himself from the reality and addresses an imaginary character in his speech
"Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky." | | 18 |
| 9605059747 | Apposition | When we use two noun phrases next to each other in a clause, and they refer to the same person or thing
"The living room, the biggest room in the house, looks out on to a beautiful garden." | | 19 |
| 9605064614 | Approximate/Slant Rhyme | words in a rhyming pattern that have some kind of sound correspondence but are not perfect rhymes
"I never saw a moor; I never saw the sea; Yet I know how the heather looks; And what a billow be." | | 20 |
| 9605064615 | Aside | a short comment or speech that a character delivers directly to the audience, or to himself, while other actors on the stage appear not to hear | | 21 |
| 9605064616 | Assonance | when two or more words, close to one another repeat the same vowel sound, but start with different consonant sounds.
"If I blEAt when I spEAk it's because I just got . . . flEE" | | 22 |
| 9605068629 | Asyndeton | a stylistic device used in literature and poetry to intentionally eliminate conjunctions between the phrases, and in the sentence, yet maintain grammatical accuracy | | 23 |
| 9605068630 | Audience | the person for whom a writer writes, or composer composes | | 24 |
| 9605072629 | Balance | an even distribution of weight | | 25 |
| 9605072630 | Ballad | a type of poetry or verse which was basically used in dance songs in ancient France | | 26 |
| 9605072631 | Black Humor | a comic style that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo | | 27 |
| 9605075922 | Blank Verse | a literary device defined as un-rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter | | 28 |
| 9605075923 | Blocking Agent | A person, circumstance, or mentality that prevents two potential lovers from being together romantically | | 29 |
| 9605078939 | Brachylogy | a rhetorical term for a concise or condensed form of expression in speech or writing | | 30 |
| 9605078940 | Cacophony | the use of words with sharp, harsh, hissing and unmelodious sounds primarily those of consonants to achieve desired results
"I detest war BECAUSE CAUSE of war is always trivial." | | 31 |
| 9605080966 | Caesura | a rhythmical pause in a poetic line or a sentence
"I hear lake water lapping || with low sounds by the shore..."
"of reeds and stalk-crickets, || fiddling the dank air,
lacing his boots with vines, || steering glazed beetles" | | 32 |
| 9605080967 | Carpe Diem | enjoy today and the moment, without wasting time, because no one knows what may happen in the future | | 33 |
| 9605084132 | Catalyst | someone or something that speeds up or brings about an event | | 34 |
| 9605084133 | Catastrophe | a final resolution that appears in a narrative plot or a long poem | | 35 |
| 9605084134 | Catharsis | an emotional discharge through which one can achieve a state of moral or spiritual renewal, or achieve a state of liberation from anxiety and stress | | 36 |
| 9605087990 | Character | any person, a figure, an inanimate object, or animal | | 37 |
| 9605087991 | Chiasmus | two or more clauses are balanced against each other by the reversal of their structures in order to produce an artistic effect
"Bad men live that they may eat and drink,
whereas good men eat and drink that they may live." | | 38 |
| 9605090977 | Chorus | a large organized group of singers, especially one that performs together with an orchestra or opera company | | 39 |
| 9605090978 | Cinquain | a stanza of five lines, which may be rhymed or unrhymed, and has a typical stress pattern | | 40 |
| 9605094322 | Climax | that particular point in a narrative at which the conflict or tension hits the highest point | | 41 |
| 9605098422 | Comedia D'ell Arte | an improvised kind of popular comedy in Italian theaters in the 16th-18th centuries, based on stock characters | | 42 |
| 9605098423 | Comedy of Manners | a comedy that satirizes behavior in a particular social group, especially the upper classes | | 43 |
| 9605098703 | Complication | a circumstance that complicates something | | 44 |
| 9605103673 | Conceit | a figure of speech in which two vastly different objects are likened together with the help of similes or metaphors
"Oh stay! three lives in one flea spare
Where we almost, yea more than married are.
This flea is you and I, and this
Our marriage-bed and marriage-temple is" | | 45 |
| 9605103674 | Concrete Poem | a typeface that creates a visual image of the topic | | 46 |
| 9605103744 | Connotation | a meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing which it describes explicitly
"A dove implies peace or gentility." | | 47 |
| 9605107547 | Consonance | repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase
"Shelley sells shells by the seashore." | | 48 |
| 9605107548 | Conventional Symbol | widely recognized signs or sign systems that signify a concept or idea that all members of a group understand based on a common cultural understanding | | 49 |
| 9605110918 | Cosmic Irony | the idea that fate, destiny, or a god controls and toys with human hopes and expectations | | 50 |
| 9605110919 | Couplet | a literary device which can be defined as having two successive rhyming lines in a verse and has the same meter to form a complete thought
"The time is out of joint, O cursed spite
That ever I was born to set it right!" | | 51 |
| 9605110920 | Dactyl | a metrical foot, or a beat in a line, containing three syllables in which the first one is accented, followed by second and third unaccented syllables | | 52 |
| 9605114226 | Dadaism | A European artistic and literary movement (1916-1923) that flouted conventional aesthetic and cultural values by producing works marked by nonsense, travesty, and incongruity | | 53 |
| 9605114227 | Dark Romantics | a literary subgenre of Romanticism, reflecting popular fascination with the irrational, the demonic and the grotesque | | 54 |
| 9605114228 | Dead Metaphor | figure of speech which has lost the original imagery of its meaning due to extensive, repetitive, and popular usage | | 55 |
| 9605116887 | Denotation | literal or dictionary meanings of a word in contrast to its connotative or associated meanings
"And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the WALL between us once again.
We keep the WALL between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each." | | 56 |
| 9605116888 | Denouement | the resolution of the issue of a complicated plot in fiction | | 57 |
| 9605122309 | Deux Ex Machina | the circumstance where an implausible concept or a divine character is introduced into a storyline, for the purpose of resolving its conflict and procuring an interesting outcome | | 58 |
| 9605122310 | Dialect | the language used by the people of a specific area, class, district, or any other group of people | | 59 |
| 9605124493 | Dialogue | Conversation between two or more characters | | 60 |
| 9605124494 | Diction | style of speaking or writing determined by the choice of words by a speaker or a writer | | 61 |
| 9605124495 | Dimeter | A metrical line containing two feet | | 62 |
| 9605127203 | Donnee | the set of assumptions on which a work of fiction or drama proceeds | | 63 |
| 9605127204 | Dramatic Irony | when the audience knows what is occurring in the story but the characters do not | | 64 |
| 9605130538 | Dramatic Monologue | When a single speaker in literature says something to a silent audience. | | 65 |
| 9605130539 | Dynamic Character | A character who grows, learns, or changes as a result of the story's action | | 66 |
| 9605133431 | Edwardian | of or relating to or characteristic of the era of Edward VII in England (1901-1914) | | 67 |
| 9605133432 | Elegy | A sad or mournful poem | | 68 |
| 9605135837 | Elizabethan Age | The period of the rule of Queen Elizabeth I in England, from 1558 to 1603. | | 69 |
| 9605135838 | Ellipsis | literary device that is used in narratives to omit some parts of a sentence or event, which gives the reader a chance to fill the gaps while acting or reading it out | | 70 |
| 9605135839 | End Rhyme | Rhyme that occurs at the end of two or more lines of poetry | | 71 |
| 9605140465 | End-Stopped Line | a pause comes at the end of a syntactic unit (sentence, clause, or phrase), opposite of enjambment | | 72 |
| 9605147595 | English/Shakespearian/Elizabethan Sonnet | abab-cdcd-efef-gg rhyme scheme | | 73 |
| 9605147596 | Enjambment | moving over from one line to another without a terminating punctuation mark, opposite of end-stopped line
"Autumn showing off colors slowly
Letting the splendid colors
Flow softly to earth below." | | 74 |
| 9605147650 | Envoy | A representative or messenger | | 75 |
| 9605151909 | Epanalepsis | repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning of the clause | | 76 |
| 9605151910 | Epic | A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds | | 77 |
| 9605151911 | Epigram | A brief witty poem, often satirical | | 78 |
| 9605155901 | Episodia | in ancient Greek theater, dialogues, often heated, that dramatized the play's conflicts | | 79 |
| 9605155902 | Epistrophe | the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences | | 80 |
| 9605155903 | Epitaph | A piece of writing in praise of a deceased person | | 81 |
| 9605160852 | Epithet | describes a place, a thing or a person in such a way that it helps in making the characteristics of a person, thing or place more prominent than they actually are
"Sailing across the wine-dark sea to men
Whose style of speech is very different..." | | 82 |
| 9605160853 | Euphony | the use of words and phrases that are distinguished as having a wide range of noteworthy melody or loveliness in the sounds they create
"Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky."
In this case, the euphony comes from consonants such as l, r, w, n, and h, but also from the mellifluous rhyme scheme of AABB and the regular trochaic rhythm. | | 83 |
| 9605160854 | Exact Rhyme | rhyming two words in which both the consonant sounds and vowel sounds match to create a rhyme
"pain,pane" | | 84 |
| 9605164134 | Existentialism | A philosophical approach that emphasizes the inevitable dilemmas and challenges of human existence. | | 85 |
| 9605164135 | Exodus | A large-scale departure or flight | | 86 |
| 9605164136 | Exposition | Background information presented in a literary work. | | 87 |
| 9605166931 | Expressionistic | devoted to representing subjective emotions and experiences instead of objective or external reality | | 88 |
| 9605166932 | Extended Metaphor | a comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph, or lines in a poem
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts." | | 89 |
| 9605171827 | External Conflict | A struggle between a character and an outside force | | 90 |
| 9605171828 | Eye Rhyme | comprises of similar spellings, though not pronunciation, such as in "rough" and "through." | | 91 |
| 9605171829 | Farce | a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations | | 92 |
| 9605176661 | Feminine Rhyme | a rhyme between stressed syllables followed by one or more unstressed syllables | | 93 |
| 9605176662 | Feminist Criticism | is literary criticism informed by feminist theory, or by the politics of feminism more broadly. | | 94 |
| 9605180839 | Figurative Language | writing or speech not meant to be interpreted literally | | 95 |
| 9605180840 | First Person POV | Told from the viewpoint of one of the characters using the pronouns "I" and We" | | 96 |
| 9605184326 | Fixed Form | A poem that may be categorized by the pattern of its lines, meter, rhythm, or stanzas. | | 97 |
| 9605184327 | Flashback | a scene in a movie, novel, etc., set in a time earlier than the main story. | | 98 |
| 9605187637 | Flat Character | A character who embodies a single quality and who does not develop in the course of a story | | 99 |
| 9605187638 | Foil | A character who acts as a contrast to another character | | 100 |
| 9605187639 | Foot | A metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables. | | 101 |
| 9605190655 | Foreshadowing | A narrative device that hints at coming events; often builds suspense or anxiety in the reader. | | 102 |
| 9605190656 | Free Verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme | | 103 |
| 9605193990 | Freytag Pyramid | A convenient diagram that describes the typical pattern of a dramatic or fictional work |  | 104 |
| 9605193991 | Geographic Setting | Place the story was set in | | 105 |
| 9605197452 | Gothic Literature | A genre of literature that combines elements of both horror and romantic literature | | 106 |
| 9605197453 | Haiku | 3 unrhymed lines (5, 7, 5) usually focusing on nature | | 107 |
| 9605200514 | Hamartia | a fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine | | 108 |
| 9605200515 | Harlem Renaissance | A period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished | | 109 |
| 9605200516 | Heptameter | A line of poetry that has seven metrical feet. | | 110 |
| 9605204805 | Heroic Couplets | two rhyming lines of iambic pentameter | | 111 |
| 9605204806 | Hexameter | A metrical line containing six feet | | 112 |
| 9605207329 | High Comedy | characterized by grace, elegance and wit; intellectual comedy | | 113 |
| 9605207330 | Historical Criticism | Determines historical context of biblical text | | 114 |
| 9605212598 | Historical Setting | The historical events that happened when the story was set or the social context of the story | | 115 |
| 9605212599 | Hubris | Excessive pride or self-confidence | | 116 |
| 9605212600 | Hyperbole | a figure of speech that involves an exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis
"I am trying to solve a million issues these days." | | 117 |
| 9605217795 | Iamb | An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable | | 118 |
| 9605217796 | Idiom | A common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally.
"Break a leg" | | 119 |
| 9605217829 | Imagery | represent objects, actions, and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our physical senses
"The fresh and juicy orange is very cold and sweet." | | 120 |
| 9605223571 | In Media Res | in or into the middle of a sequence of events as in a literary narrative | | 121 |
| 9605223572 | Internal Conflict | a poetic device that can be defined as metrical lines in which its middle words and its end words rhyme with one another
"Once upon a midnight DREARY, while I pondered, weak and WEARY," | | 122 |
| 9605226233 | Internal Rhyme | a rhyme between words in the same line | | 123 |
| 9605226234 | Irony | words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words
The name of Britain's biggest dog was "Tiny." | | 124 |
| 9605226235 | Isocolon | a succession of sentences, phrases, and clauses of grammatically equal length
"What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?" | | 125 |
| 9605229868 | Italian/Petrarchian Sonnet | abba-abba-cdc-dcd, remaining six lines are called a sestet, and might have a range of rhyme schemes | | 126 |
| 9605229869 | Jargon | Vocabulary distinctive to a particular group of people | | 127 |
| 9605233657 | Juxtaposition | placing two elements side by side to present a comparison or contrast | | 128 |
| 9605233658 | Limerick | A five line poem in which lines 1, 2 and 5 rhyme and lines 3 and 4 rhyme. | | 129 |
| 9605237402 | Limited POV | When narration is restricted to relating the thoughts, feelings and knowledge about characters | | 130 |
| 9605240410 | Literary Symbol | An object with symbolic meaning limited to the context of a story or poem. | | 131 |
| 9605240411 | Litotes | an understatement by using double negatives
"The ice cream was not too bad." | | 132 |
| 9605240412 | Low Comedy | crude, boisterous comedy; slapstick and crude jokes; physical comedy | | 133 |
| 9605243505 | Lyric Poem | A type of poem characterized by brevity, compression, and the expression of feeling. | | 134 |
| 9605243506 | Magical Realism | A genre developed in Latin America which juxtaposes the everyday with the marvelous or magical. | | 135 |
| 9605246800 | Marxist Criticism | Concerns itself with class structure, class struggle, and social justice; openly political | | 136 |
| 9605246801 | Masculine Rhyme | A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable | | 137 |
| 9605250749 | Melodrama | A literary form in which events are exaggerated in order to create an extreme emotional response. | | 138 |
| 9605250750 | Metaphor | comparison without like or as | | 139 |
| 9605250751 | Meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry | | 140 |
| 9605250789 | Metonymy | replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated
Let me give you a hand. (Hand means help.) | | 141 |
| 9605256113 | Medieval Literature | all written works available in Europe and beyond during the Middle Ages | | 142 |
| 9605256114 | Medieval Romances | Adventure stories with kings, knights, and damsels in distress | | 143 |
| 9605259663 | Mixed Metaphor | a combination of two or more metaphors that together produce a ridiculous effect | | 144 |
| 9605259664 | Modernism | practices typical of contemporary life or thought | | 145 |
| 9605259665 | Monologue | A long speech made by one performer or by one person in a group. | | 146 |
| 9605262070 | Monometer | A metrical line containing one foot | | 147 |
| 9605262071 | Mood | Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader | | 148 |
| 9605262072 | Motivation | the reason or reasons one has for acting or behaving in a particular way. | | 149 |
| 9605262284 | Narrator | The person telling the story | | 150 |
| 9605266234 | Naturalism | the depiction of human figures as they appear in nature | | 151 |
| 9605266235 | Neo-Classical Literature | 1660 and 1798
broken down into three parts: the Restoration period, the Augustan period, and the Age of Johnson | | 152 |
| 9605266287 | Nonometer | 9 feet per line | | 153 |
| 9605269809 | Objective POV | statements that reflect only what is seen, heard, and observed; can NOT be argued against | | 154 |
| 9605269810 | Octameter | A line of verse with eight feet | | 155 |
| 9605269811 | Octave | a verse form that contains eight lines, which usually appear in an iambic pentameter | | 156 |
| 9605270105 | Ode | A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject. | | 157 |
| 9605274498 | Omniscient POV | When the speaker knows everything including the actions, motives, and thoughts of all the characters | | 158 |
| 9605277338 | Onomatopoeia | a word which imitates the natural sounds of a thing | | 159 |
| 9605277339 | Oxymoron | two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect
"Open secret" "tragic comedy" | | 160 |
| 9605277340 | Paradox | a statement that appears to be self-contradictory or silly but may include a latent truth | | 161 |
| 9605281891 | Parallelism | the use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same | | 162 |
| 9605281892 | Parenthesis | a qualifying or explanatory sentence, clause, or word that writers insert into a paragraph or passage | | 163 |
| 9605281893 | Parody | A work which imitates another in a ridiculous manner | | 164 |
| 9605285829 | Paronomasia | Use of words alike in sound but different in meaning | | 165 |
| 9605285830 | Pathetic Fallacy | attributes human qualities and emotions to inanimate objects of NATURE | | 166 |
| 9605289031 | Pathos | Appeal to emotion | | 167 |
| 9605289032 | Pentameter | a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet | | 168 |
| 9605293132 | Periphrasis | the use of excessive and longer words to convey a meaning which could have been conveyed with a shorter expression, or in a few words | | 169 |
| 9605293133 | Persona | An individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting. | | 170 |
| 9605293190 | Personification | giving human characteristics to an object | | 171 |
| 9605297913 | Phonetic Intensives | A word whose sound to some degree suggests its meaning | | 172 |
| 9605297914 | Physical Setting | location in which the story takes place | | 173 |
| 9605297915 | Plot | Sequence of events in a story | | 174 |
| 9605303106 | Point of View | The perspective from which a story is told | | 175 |
| 9605303107 | Polyptoton | a rhetorical repetition of the same root word | | 176 |
| 9605306847 | Polysyndenton | several coordinating conjunctions are used in succession in order to achieve an artistic effect
It makes use of coordinating conjunctions like and, or, but, and nor (mostly and and or) | | 177 |
| 9605306848 | Post Modernists | a late-20th-century style and concept in the arts, architecture, and criticism that represents a departure from modernism | | 178 |
| 9605311414 | Pre-Raphaelitism | a group of English artists who aimed to revive the style and spirit of the Italian artists before the time of Raphael | | 179 |
| 9605311415 | Prologue | Introductory remarks in a speech, play or literary work, introductory action | | 180 |
| 9639396712 | Prosody | the patterns of rhythm and sound used in poetry | | 181 |
| 9605314952 | Protagonist | the main character in a literary work | | 182 |
| 9605314953 | Purgation | The process of getting rid of impurities | | 183 |
| 9605314954 | Quatrain | a stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes | | 184 |
| 9605318695 | Raisonneur | character in a play or other work who expresses the author's message, point of view, or philosophy | | 185 |
| 9605318696 | Realism | the attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth | | 186 |
| 9605321270 | Recognition | the startling discovery that produces a change from ignorance to knowledge | | 187 |
| 9605321271 | Renaissance Literature | The cultural rebirth that occurred in Europe from roughly the fourteenth through the middle of the seventeenth centuries | | 188 |
| 9605323034 | Repetition | Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis | | 189 |
| 9639283861 | Villanelle | A 19 line form using only two rhymes and repeating two of the lines according to a set pattern | | 190 |
| 9639353741 | Resolution | End of the story where loose ends are tied up | | 191 |
| 9639283862 | Volta | the turn of thought or argument | | 192 |
| 9639351440 | Reversal | The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist. | | 193 |
| 9639351441 | Rhetoric | The art of using language effectively and persuasively | | 194 |
| 9639286152 | Verisimilitude | the appearance of being true or real | | 195 |
| 9639348629 | Rhetorical Question | A question asked merely for rhetorical effect and not requiring an answer | | 196 |
| 9639348630 | Rhyme Scheme | A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem | | 197 |
| 9639286153 | Victorian Period | 1837-1901 | | 198 |
| 9639288646 | Universal Symbol | A symbol that is common to all mankind. | | 199 |
| 9639344893 | Rhythm | Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables | | 200 |
| 9639288647 | Verbal Irony | A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant | | 201 |
| 9639342325 | Romantic Comedy | type of drama in which there are typically no deaths and multiple marriages. | | 202 |
| 9639342326 | Romanticism | 19th century artistic movement that appealed to emotion rather than reason | | 203 |
| 9639342327 | Round Character | A character who demonstrates some complexity and who develops or changes in the course of a work | | 204 |
| 9639291222 | Trimeter | A metrical line containing three feet | | 205 |
| 9639291223 | Trochee | A stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable | | 206 |
| 9639339004 | Sarcasm | harsh, cutting language or tone intended to ridicule (destructive) | | 207 |
| 9639339005 | Satire | A literary style used to make fun of or ridicule an idea or human vice or weakness (constructive) | | 208 |
| 9639339006 | Satiric Comedy | humor to ridicule foolish ideas or customs with the purpose of improving society. | | 209 |
| 9639295428 | Third Person POV | the narrator is outside the story or there is no narrator (use of "he, she, or they") | | 210 |
| 9639295430 | Transcendatalism | an idealistic philosophical and social movement that developed in New England around 1836 in reaction to rationalism | | 211 |
| 9639335417 | Scansion | Analysis of verse into metrical patterns | | 212 |
| 9639335418 | Septet | Seven line stanza | | 213 |
| 9639298228 | Theme | a main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work, which may be stated directly or indirectly | | 214 |
| 9639301212 | Tetrameter | a verse of four measures | | 215 |
| 9639332335 | Sestet | six lines, and also refers to a poem of six lines, or a six-lined stanza in a poem | | 216 |
| 9639332336 | Sestina | a poem that contains six stanzas, each stanza having six lines, while a concluding seventh stanza has three lines | | 217 |
| 9639301213 | Theater in the Round | a form of theatrical presentation in which the audience is seated in a circle around the stage or on at least three of its sides | | 218 |
| 9639329447 | Setting | an environment or surrounding in which an event or story takes place | | 219 |
| 9639329448 | Simile | figure of speech that makes a comparison, showing similarities between two different things using like or as | | 220 |
| 9639303906 | Tercet | a three-lined verse, or a group, or unit of three lines | | 221 |
| 9639303907 | Terza Rima | a tercet that follows iambic pentameter with rhyme scheme of ABA BCB CDC | | 222 |
| 9639306168 | Synecdoche | a literary device in which a part of something represents the whole, or it may use a whole to represent a part
The word "sails" refers to a whole ship. | | 223 |
| 9639327016 | Situational Irony | irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended | | 224 |
| 9639327017 | Slapstick | comedy based on deliberately clumsy actions and humorously embarrassing events | | 225 |
| 9639306169 | Syntax | a set of rules in a language | | 226 |
| 9639308367 | Syllepsis | a figure of speech in which a word is applied to two others in different senses
"caught the train and a bad cold" | | 227 |
| 9639325083 | Soliloquy | a popular literary device often used in drama to reveal the innermost thoughts of a character | | 228 |
| 9639295429 | Tone | an attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience | | 229 |
| 9639325084 | Speaker | the voice that speaks behind the scene | | 230 |
| 9639308368 | Symbol | an object representing another | | 231 |
| 9639312524 | Submerged/Implied Metaphor | a type of metaphor that compares two unlike things, but it does so without mentioning one of them | | 232 |
| 9639291224 | Tropes | speakers or writers intend to express meanings of words differently than their literal meanings | | 233 |
| 9639322823 | Spondee | a foot consisting of two stressed syllables | | 234 |
| 9639322824 | Stanza | a couple of lines | | 235 |
| 9639322825 | Stasimon | a stationary song, composed of strophes and antistrophes and performed by the chorus in the orchestra | | 236 |
| 9639312525 | Surrealism | a 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images | | 237 |
| 9639315099 | Strophe | a structural division of a poem containing stanzas of varying line-length, especially an ode or free verse poem | | 238 |
| 9639318195 | Stock Character | a stereotypical fictional character in a work of art such as a novel, play, or film, whom audiences recognize from frequent recurrences in a particular literary tradition | | 239 |
| 9639318196 | Stream-of-Consciousness | a person's thoughts and conscious reactions to events, perceived as a continuous flow | | 240 |
| 9639283863 | Zeugma | a figure of speech in which a word, usually a verb or an adjective, applies to more than one noun, blending together grammatically and logically different ideas.
"John lost his coat and his temper" | | 241 |
