| 4008622326 | Accent | the stressed portion of a word | | 0 |
| 4008622327 | Allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one | | 1 |
| 4008622328 | Alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. | | 2 |
| 4008622329 | Allusion | an expression designed to bring something to mind without mentioning it plainly | | 3 |
| 4008622330 | Anachronism | a thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists; something that is old-fashioned | | 4 |
| 4008622331 | Analogy | a comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification | | 5 |
| 4008622332 | Anecdote | a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person | | 6 |
| 4008622333 | Aphorism | a witty observation that contains a general truth about life, such as, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." | | 7 |
| 4008622334 | Apostrophe | an exclamatory passage in a speech or poem addressed to a person or thing | | 8 |
| 4008622335 | Aside | a remark or passage by a character in a play that is intended to be heard by the audience but unheard by the other characters in the play. | | 9 |
| 4008622336 | Assonance | in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel in non-rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for an echo effect | | 10 |
| 4008622337 | Ballad | a long narrative poem or song narrating a single story, which is often tragic or violent, in short stanzas. | | 11 |
| 4008622338 | Caesura | a break between words within a metrical foot; "To err is human forgive, divine" | | 12 |
| 4008622339 | Folk Ballad | Traditional ballads are typically of unknown authorship, having been passed on orally from one generation to the next as part of the folk culture. | | 13 |
| 4008622340 | Literary Ballad | also called an art ballad that imitates the form and spirit of the folk ballad, but is more polished and uses a higher level of poetic diction | | 14 |
| 4008622341 | Blank Verse | poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter; often found in Shakespeare's works | | 15 |
| 4008622342 | Burlesque | an absurd or comically exaggerated imitation of something in a literary or dramatic work; a parody | | 16 |
| 4008622343 | Cacophony | a harsh, discordant mixture of sounds; opposite of euphony | | 17 |
| 4008622344 | Caricature | a picture, description, or imitation of a person or thing in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic or grotesque effect | | 18 |
| 4008622345 | Catharsis | the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions. | | 19 |
| 4008622346 | Chorus | a group of performers, in Greek drama, who comment on the main action, typically speaking and moving together. | | 20 |
| 4008622347 | Classicism | the following of ancient Greek or Roman principles and style in art and literature, generally associated with harmony, restraint, and adherence to recognized standards of form and craftsmanship | | 21 |
| 4008622348 | Colloquialism | a word or phrase that is not formal or literary, typically one used in ordinary or familiar conversation. | | 22 |
| 4008622349 | Conceit | a fanciful expression in writing or speech; an elaborate metaphor | | 23 |
| 4008622350 | Consonance | the recurrence of similar sounds, such as consonants, in close proximity | | 24 |
| 4008622351 | Conundrum | a riddle whose answer is or involves a pun; may also be a paradox or difficult problem | | 25 |
| 4008622352 | Description | the picturing in words of something or someone through detailed observation of color, motion, sound, taste, smell, and touch; one of the four modes of discourse | | 26 |
| 4008622353 | Diction | word choice; also called syntax | | 27 |
| 4008622354 | Discourse | written or spoken language and literary works | | 28 |
| 4008622355 | Dissonance | the grating of sounds that are harsh or do not go together | | 29 |
| 4008622356 | Elegy | a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead | | 30 |
| 4008622357 | End Rhyme | a rhyme that comes at the end of lines of poetry | | 31 |
| 4008622358 | Epic | a long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures or the history of a nation | | 32 |
| 4008622359 | Epigram | a pithy saying or remark expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way; a short poem having a witty or ingenious ending | | 33 |
| 4008622360 | Euphony | the quality of being pleasing to the ear through a harmonious combination of words | | 34 |
| 4008622361 | Exemplum | a model moralizing or illustrative story | | 35 |
| 4008622362 | Exposition | the part of a play or work of fiction in which the background to the main conflict is introduced and revealed | | 36 |
| 4008622363 | Farce | a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations | | 37 |
| 4008622364 | Figurative Language | language that contains figures of speech such as similes and metaphors in order to create associations that are imaginative rather than literal | | 38 |
| 4008622365 | Figures of Speech | expressions such as similes, metaphors, and personifications that make imaginative, rather than literal, comparisons or asscociatons | | 39 |
| 4008622366 | Foil | a character who, by contrast, highlights the characteristics of another character | | 40 |
| 4008622367 | Folklore | the traditional beliefs, customs, stories, and songs of a community, passed through the generations by word of mouth | | 41 |
| 4008622368 | Foot | the combination of stressed and unstressed syllables that makes up the basic rhythmic unit of a line of poetry | | 42 |
| 4008622369 | Anapest | a metrical foot consisting of two short or unstressed syllables followed by one long or stressed syllable; in-ter-rupt | | 43 |
| 4008622370 | Dactyl | a metrical foot consisting of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables or one long syllable followed by two short syllables; beau-ti-ful | | 44 |
| 4008622371 | Iamb | a metrical foot consisting of one short unstressed syllable followed by one long stressed syllable; dis-turb | | 45 |
| 4008622372 | Spondee | a foot consisting of two long or stressed syllables; hodge-podge | | 46 |
| 4008622373 | Trochee | a foot consisting of one long or stressed syllable followed by one short or unstressed syllable; in-jure and con-stant | | 47 |
| 4008622374 | Foreshadowing | be a warning or indication of a future event in a story | | 48 |
| 4008622375 | Free Verse | poetry that is written without a regular meter, usually without ryme | | 49 |
| 4008622376 | Genre | a category of literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter | | 50 |
| 4008622377 | Gothic | referring to a type of novel that emerged in the eighteenth century that uses mystery, suspense, and sensational and supernatural occurrences to evoke terror | | 51 |
| 4008622378 | Hubris | in Greek tragedies, excessive pride toward or defiance of the gods, leading to nemesis | | 52 |
| 4008622379 | Humor | anything that causes laughter or amusement | | 53 |
| 4008622380 | Hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally | | 54 |
| 4008622381 | Idyll | a short description in verse or prose of a picturesque scene or incident, esp. in rustic life | | 55 |
| 4008622382 | Imagery | visually descriptive or figurative language in a literary work | | 56 |
| 4008622383 | Interior Monologue | writing that records the conversation that occurs inside a character's head | | 57 |
| 4008622384 | Internal Rhyme | a rhyme occurring within a line of poetry | | 58 |
| 4008622385 | Inversion | reversal of the normal order of words, typically for rhetorical effect but also found in the regular formation of questions in English | | 59 |
| 4008622386 | Irony | the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect | | 60 |
| 4008622387 | Loose Sentence | a sentence that is grammatically complete before its end | | 61 |
| 4008622388 | Lyric | expressing the writer's emotions, usually short and briefly and in stanzas or recognized form | | 62 |
| 4008622389 | Metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable | | 63 |
| 4008622390 | Meter | the repetition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line of peotry | | 64 |
| 4008622391 | Monometer | One foot | | 65 |
| 4008622392 | Dimeter | Two feet | | 66 |
| 4008622393 | Trimeter | Three feet | | 67 |
| 4008622394 | Tetrameter | Four feet | | 68 |
| 4008622395 | Pentameter | Five feet | | 69 |
| 4008622396 | Hexameter | Six feet | | 70 |
| 4008622397 | Heptameter | Seven feet | | 71 |
| 4008622398 | Metonymy | the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant | | 72 |
| 4008622399 | Mode | the method or form of a literary work: a manner in which a work of literature is written | | 73 |
| 4008622400 | Mood | similar to tone, it is the primary emotional attitude of a work | | 74 |
| 4008622401 | Myth | a traditional story, concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events | | 75 |
| 4008622402 | Narration | the action or process of narrating a story | | 76 |
| 4008622403 | Naturalism | 19th-century artistic and literary movement, influenced by contemporary ideas of science and society, that rejected the idealization of experience and adopted an objective and often uncompromisingly realistic approach to art. | | 77 |
| 4008622404 | Objectivity | an impersonal presentation of events and characters | | 78 |
| 4008622405 | Ode | a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter | | 79 |
| 4008622406 | Onomatopoeia | the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named; cuckoo; sizzle | | 80 |
| 4008622407 | Oxymoron | a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction | | 81 |
| 4008622408 | Parable | a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson, as told by Jesus in the Gospels | | 82 |
| 4008622409 | Paradox | a statement or proposition that leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory | | 83 |
| 4008622410 | Parallelism | the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning | | 84 |
| 4008622411 | Parody | an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect | | 85 |
| 4008622412 | Pastoral | a work of literature portraying or evoking country life, typically in a romanticized or idealized form | | 86 |
| 4008622413 | Periodic Sentence | a sentence that is not grammatically complete until it's last phrase | | 87 |
| 4008622414 | Personification | the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman | | 88 |
| 4008622415 | Persuasion | a mode of discourse in which the action or fact of persuading someone or of being persuaded to do or believe something | | 89 |
| 4008622416 | Petrarchan Sonnet | one of the most important types of sonnets, composed of an octave with abba abba rhyme scheme and ending in a sestet with cde cde rhyme scheme; also called an Italian sonnet | | 90 |
| 4008622417 | Point of View | the perspective from which a story is presented | | 91 |
| 4008622418 | First Person Narrator | character in a story who relates their actions and thoughts through his or her perspective | | 92 |
| 4008622419 | Stream of Consciousness Narrator | similar to first person, but places the reader in the character's head | | 93 |
| 4008622420 | Omniscient Narrator | a third person narrator who is able to see into other character's minds and understand all their actions | | 94 |
| 4008622421 | Limited Omniscient Narrator | a third person narrator who only reports the thoughts of one character and generally only what the one character sees | | 95 |
| 4008622422 | Objective Narrator | a third person narrator who only reports what would be visible to a camera; thoughts and feelings are only revealed if the character speaks of them | | 96 |
| 4008622423 | Protagonist | the leading character or one of the major characters in a literary work | | 97 |
| 4008622424 | Realism | late 19th-century movement that meant to portray and focus on simple and unidealized treatment of contemporary life | | 98 |
| 4008622425 | Refrain | repeated line or number of lines in a poem or song, typically at the end of each verse | | 99 |
| 4008622426 | Regionalism | an element in literature that conveys a realistic portrayal of a specific geographical locale, using the locale and its influences as a major part of the plot | | 100 |
| 4008622427 | Rhyme | a similarity of accented sounds between two words | | 101 |
| 4008622428 | Masculine Ryhme | the rhyme sound is the last syllable of a line | | 102 |
| 4008622429 | Feminine Ryhme | the accented syllable is followed by an unaccented syllable | | 103 |
| 4008622430 | Romanticism | a movement in the arts and literature that originated in the late 18th century, emphasizing inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual | | 104 |
| 4008622431 | Sarcasm | the use of irony to mock or convey contempt | | 105 |
| 4008622432 | Simile | a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid | | 106 |
| 4008622433 | Soliloquy | an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play | | 107 |
| 4008622434 | Sonnet | a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line | | 108 |
| 4008622435 | Speaker | the voice of a poem; an author may speak as himself or herself or as a fictional character | | 109 |
| 4008622436 | Stanza | a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse | | 110 |
| 4008622437 | Couplet | the simplest stanza, consisting of two rhymed lines | | 111 |
| 4008622438 | Tercet | three lines, usually having the same rhyme | | 112 |
| 4008622439 | Quatrain | Four lines | | 113 |
| 4008622440 | Cinquain | Five lines | | 114 |
| 4008622441 | Sestet | Six lines | | 115 |
| 4008622442 | Octave | Eight lines | | 116 |
| 4008622443 | Stereotype | a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing | | 117 |
| 4008622444 | Stock Character | a standard character who may be stereotyped such as the miser or fool | | 118 |
| 4008622445 | Style | an author's characteristic manner of expression | | 119 |
| 4008622446 | Subjectivity | based on or influenced by the authors personal feelings, tastes, or opinion | | 120 |
| 4008622447 | Suspension of Disbelief | the demand made of a theater audience to provide some details with their imagination and to accept the limitations of reality and staging; also the acceptance of the incident of the plot by the reader or audience | | 121 |
| 4008622448 | Symbolism | the use of symbols to represent both literal and representative ideas or qualities with a more complex significance | | 122 |
| 4008622449 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | | 123 |
| 4008622450 | Syntax | the word choice of diction | | 124 |
| 4008622451 | Theme | the central idea or message of a literary work | | 125 |
| 4008622452 | Tone | the characteristic emotion of attitude of an author toward the characters, subject, and audience | | 126 |
| 4008622453 | Tragic Flaw | the one weakness that causes the downfall of the hero in a tragedy | | 127 |
| 4008622454 | Villanelle | a lyric poem consisting of five tercets ad a final question | | 128 |
| 4008622455 | Voice | the way a written work conveys an author's atittude | | 129 |
| 4008622456 | Rhythm | Four strong beats; "To err is human forgive, divine" | | 130 |
| 4008622457 | Kenning | Two word poetic renaming; sea-paths (rivers); Lord of life, Ruler of glory (God) | | 131 |
| 4008622458 | Epithets | Brief, descriptive phrases used to characterize people or things | | 132 |
| 4008622459 | Hamartia | Greek word for character flaws. (Often used instead of "character flaws" on AP Test) | | 133 |
