| 8239417220 | Antagonist | A character or force in conflict with the main character | | 0 |
| 8239417221 | Antihero | Protagonist of a drama or narrative who is notably lacking heroic quality | | 1 |
| 8239417222 | Apotheosis | When a character in a piece of literature shows nonhuman abilities and appearances | | 2 |
| 8239417223 | Dramatic Irony | when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't | | 3 |
| 8239417224 | Foil | A character who acts as a contrast to another character | | 4 |
| 8239417225 | Inversion | A change of position, order, or relationship, of things so that they are the opposite of what they had been | | 5 |
| 8239417226 | Protagonist | Central character or leading figure in any story | | 6 |
| 8239417227 | Stock Characters | A dramatic or literary character representing a type in a conventional manner and recurring in many works | | 7 |
| 8239417228 | Batho/Patho | When an author goes into a phase in the story that is metaphors, descriptions, or ideas to show deep emotions | | 8 |
| 8243239227 | Catharsis | A release of emotional tension | | 9 |
| 8243239228 | Hubris | Excessive pride or self-confidence | | 10 |
| 8243239229 | Objectivity | Not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts | | 11 |
| 8243239230 | Subjectivity | based on or influenced by the authors personal feelings, tastes, or opinion | | 12 |
| 8243239231 | Pathos | Appeal to emotion | | 13 |
| 8243239232 | Personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes | | 14 |
| 8243239233 | Travesty | An absurd or inferior imitation | | 15 |
| 8243239234 | Aesthetic | Ship to human emotion or to "reality" or "the world" | | 16 |
| 8243239235 | Ambiguity | A word, phrase, or statement with more than one meaning | | 17 |
| 8260440239 | Analogy | A comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it | | 18 |
| 8260440240 | Anthromorphism | attributing human characteristics to an animal or inanimate object (personification) | | 19 |
| 8260440241 | Bombast | To make something sound much more important than it is | | 20 |
| 8260440242 | Colloquialism | The use of slang or informalities in speech or writing | | 21 |
| 8260440243 | Conceit | A type of metaphor that compares 2 unlike things in a surprising and clever way | | 22 |
| 8260440244 | Connotation | All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests | | 23 |
| 8260440245 | Denotation | The dictionary definition of a word | | 24 |
| 8260440246 | interior monolouge | A literary technique used in poetry and prose to reveal a character's unspoken thoughts and feelings | | 25 |
| 8260440247 | Metaphor | A figure of speech that describes an object or action in a way that isn't literally true, but helps explain an idea or make a comparison | | 26 |
| 8260440248 | Simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" | | 27 |
| 8260440249 | Motif | A recurring theme, subject or idea | | 28 |
| 8260440250 | Onomatopoeia | the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named | | 29 |
| 8260440251 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction | | 30 |
| 8260440252 | Pun | A play on words | | 31 |
| 8260440253 | rhetorical questions | a question that doesn't invite an actual response but just makes the audience think | | 32 |
| 8260440254 | Satire | A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies. | | 33 |
| 8260440255 | disbelief | doubt about the truth of something | | 34 |
| 8260440256 | Symbolism | the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities | | 35 |
| 8260440257 | Synechdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | | 36 |
| 8260440258 | Synesthesia | describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound") | | 37 |
| 8260440259 | Classic (novel) | Expresses life, truth, and/or beauty; stands the test of time; often has a universal appeal | | 38 |
| 8260440260 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts | | 39 |
| 8260440261 | Melodrama | A sensational dramatic piece with exaggerated characters and exciting events intended to appeal to the emotions | | 40 |
| 8260440262 | Prelude | An introduction | | 41 |
| 8260440263 | Utopia | an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect | | 42 |
| 8260440264 | Denouement | an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot | | 43 |
| 8260440265 | Epiphany | A moment of sudden revelation or insight | | 44 |
| 8260440266 | Genre | a kind of literary or artistic work | | 45 |
| 8260440267 | in medias res | in or into the middle of a plot; into the middle of things | | 46 |
| 8260440268 | point of view | the perspective from which a story is told | | 47 |
| 8260440269 | Theme | Central idea of a work of literature | | 48 |
| 8260440270 | dissonance | harsh, inharmonious, or discordant words | | 49 |
| 8260440271 | Lament | to express sorrow; to grieve | | 50 |
| 8260440272 | Lyric | Expressing the writer's emotions in a collection of verses and choruses making a complete song or poem | | 51 |
| 8260440273 | Masculine rhyme | A line of final stressed syllables | | 52 |
| 8260440274 | Plaint | A formerly popular variety of poem that laments or protests misfortune | | 53 |
| 8260440275 | Pastoral (poetry) | Class of literature that represents the society of shepherds as free from the complexity and corruption of city life | | 54 |
| 8260440276 | Refrain | a regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem or song | | 55 |
| 8260440277 | Requiem | A song of prayer for the dead | | 56 |
| 8260440278 | Rhapsody | An epic poem, or part of it, of a suitable length for recitation at one time | | 57 |
| 8276203362 | Stanza | a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse. | | 58 |
| 8276203363 | Versification | The adaptation of verses; a particular metrical structure or style | | 59 |
| 8276203364 | Aside | a line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage | | 60 |
| 8276203365 | Chorus (theatre) | A summary or an introduction to a story or play | | 61 |
| 8276203366 | Aphorism | An opinion or observation being told in a witty or comprehensive way | | 62 |
| 8276203367 | Explicit | Clear, precise, plain to see | | 63 |
| 8276203368 | Hyperbole | A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor | | 64 |
| 8276203369 | Tone | Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character | | 65 |
| 8276203370 | Voice | The fluency, rhythm, and liveliness in a text that make it unique to the author. | | 66 |
| 8276203371 | Loose periodic sentence | A sentence where the main clause comes at the beginning | | 67 |
| 8276203372 | Paradigm (structure) | a widely accepted example, belief or concept. | | 68 |
| 8276203373 | parallelism (parallel structure) | Phrases or sentences of a similar construction/meaning placed side by side, balancing each other | | 69 |
| 8276203374 | Trope | A figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression | | 70 |
| 8276203375 | Zeugma | a literary term for using one word to modify two other words, in two different ways | | 71 |
| 8777176054 | Academic | Forms of expository and argumentative prose used by universities and researchers to convey info | | 72 |
| 8777176055 | Accent | In poetry, the stressed portion of a word. | | 73 |
| 8777176056 | Allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning | | 74 |
| 8777176057 | Alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. | | 75 |
| 8777176058 | Allusion | an indirect reference | | 76 |
| 8777176059 | Anachronism | something or someone out of place in terms of historical or chronological context | | 77 |
| 8777176060 | Anecdote | a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person | | 78 |
| 8777176061 | Antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. | | 79 |
| 8777176062 | Anticlimax | A disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events | | 80 |
| 8777176063 | Antithesis | a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else | | 81 |
| 8777176064 | Apostrophe | Grammatical convention used to combine 2 words into a contraction | | 82 |
| 8777176065 | Archaism | use of an older or obsolete form | | 83 |
| 8777176066 | Aspect | a particular part or feature of something | | 84 |
| 8777176067 | Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds | | 85 |
| 8777176068 | Atmosphere | Tone or mood of a place or situation. | | 86 |
| 8777176069 | Ballad | A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas | | 87 |
| 8777176070 | Black humor | Use of disturbing themes in comedy | | 88 |
| 8777176071 | Burlesque | Involving ludicrous or mocking treatment of a solemn subject | | 89 |
| 8777176072 | Cacophony | A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds | | 90 |
| 8777176073 | Cadence | rhythmic flow of a sequence of sounds or words | | 91 |
| 8777176074 | Canto | Division of a long poem | | 92 |
| 8777176075 | Caesura | A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line. | | 93 |
| 8777176076 | Chiasmus | A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed | | 94 |
| 8777176077 | Coinage | A newly invented word or phrase | | 95 |
| 8777176078 | Complex/dense | Uses a lot of information or complicated language | | 96 |
| 8777176079 | Conceit | Extended metaphor | | 97 |
| 8777176080 | Consonance | Repetition of consonant sounds | | 98 |
| 8777176081 | Couplet | Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme | | 99 |
| 8777176082 | Decorum | appropriateness of behavior or conduct; propriety | | 100 |
| 8777176083 | Diction/syntax | The authors choice of words | | 101 |
| 8777176084 | Didactic verse | A term for a poem that teaches, almost preaches | | 102 |
| 8777176085 | Dirge | Funeral song | | 103 |
| 8777176086 | Doggerel | Loosely structured verse of a humorous or trivial nature | | 104 |
| 8777176087 | Dramatic monologue | Poem in the form of a speech | | 105 |
| 8777176088 | Elegy | a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead. | | 106 |
| 8777176089 | Enjambment | the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza. | | 107 |
| 8777176090 | Epic | A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds | | 108 |
| 8777176091 | Epitaph | A brief statement written on a tomb or gravestone | | 109 |
| 8777176092 | Euphemism | Words or phrases inserted in place of other words or phrases that may be thought of as rude or impolite | | 110 |
| 8777176093 | Euphony | pleasant, harmonious sound | | 111 |
| 8777176094 | Farce | a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations | | 112 |
| 8777176095 | Feminine rhyme | Lines rhymed by their final two syllables | | 113 |
| 8777176096 | Figurative language | Make writing more effective, persuasive, and impactful | | 114 |
| 8777176097 | Flashback | Interruptions that consist of past events with the purpose to provide background info | | 115 |
| 8777176098 | Foot | Metrical unit by which a line of poetry is measured | | 116 |
| 8777176099 | Foreshadowing | A narrative device that hints at coming events; often builds suspense or anxiety in the reader. | | 117 |
| 8777176100 | Free verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme | | 118 |
| 8777176101 | Gothic | Style of writing categorized by fear, horror, death, and gloom | | 119 |
| 8777176102 | Implicit | Implied though not plainly expressed | | 120 |
| 8777176103 | Irony | | | 121 |
