\n| Words<\/b><\/td>\n | Meaning<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n| Allegory<\/b><\/td>\n | An allegory generally teaches a lesson by means of an interesting story.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| Alliteration<\/b><\/td>\n | The repetition at close intervals of consonant sounds for a purpose.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| Allusion<\/b><\/td>\n | A reference to something in literature, history, mythology, religious texts, etc., is considered common knowledge.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| Ambiguity<\/b><\/td>\n | Double or even multiple meanings.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| Analogy<\/b><\/td>\n | A point by point comparison between two dissimilar things for the purpose of a completely different explanatory meaning<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| Antagonist<\/b><\/td>\n | The character or force that opposes the protagonist.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| Apostrophe<\/b><\/td>\n | The device, usually in poetry, of calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to a place, thing, or personified abstraction either to begin a poem or to make a dramatic break in thought somewhere within the poem.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| Assonance<\/b><\/td>\n | The repetition at close intervals of vowel sounds for a purpose.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| Ballad<\/b><\/td>\n | A narrative poem that was originally meant to be sung.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| Cacophony<\/b><\/td>\n | Harsh, clashing, or dissonant sounds, are often produced by combinations of words that require a clipped, explosive delivery, or words that contain a number of plosive consonants.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| Catalog<\/b><\/td>\n | A long list of anything<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| Climax<\/b><\/td>\n | The point at which the conflict of the story begins to reach a turning point and begins to be resolved.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| Conceit<\/b><\/td>\n | An elaborate figure of speech comparing two very dissimilar things.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| Conflict<\/b><\/td>\n | the struggle between two opposing forces that is the basis of the plot.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| Connotation<\/b><\/td>\n | The associations, images, or an impression carried by a word, as opposed to the word\u2019s literal meaning.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| Consonance<\/b><\/td>\n | the close repetition of identical consonant sounds before and after differing vowel sounds.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| Denotation<\/b><\/td>\n | The precise, literal meaning of a word, without emotional associations or overtones.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| Denouement<\/b><\/td>\n | The final unraveling or outcome of the plot in drama or fiction during which the complications and conflicts of the plot are resolved.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| Diction<\/b><\/td>\n | Word choice.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| Enjambment<\/b><\/td>\n | The carrying of sense and grammatical structure in a poem beyond the end of one line, COUPLET, or STANZA and into the next.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| Epigram<\/b><\/td>\n | Any witty, pointed saying<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| Epigraph<\/b><\/td>\n | A motto or quotation that appears at the beginning of a book, play, chapter, or poem.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| Epitaph<\/b><\/td>\n | The inscription on a tombstone or monument in memory of the person or people buried there.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| Euphony<\/b><\/td>\n | A succession of sweetly melodious sounds; the opposite of CACOPHONY.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| Exposition<\/b><\/td>\n | Background information at the beginning of the story.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n| Fable<\/b><\/td>\n | A brief tale typically with animals or characters told to illustrate a moral.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n| Foreshadowing<\/b><\/td>\n | A writer\u2019s use of hints or clues to indicate events that will occur later in the narrative.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n| Hyperbole<\/b><\/td>\n | An exaggeration for emphasis or humorous effect.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n| Irony<\/b><\/td>\n | A contrast between appearance and actuality.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n| Dramatic irony<\/b><\/td>\n | Occurs when the reader knows information that the characters do not.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n| Metaphor<\/b><\/td>\n | A figure of speech in which a comparison or analogy is made between two seemingly unlike things.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n| Metonymy<\/b><\/td>\n | A figure of speech that substitutes the name of a related object, person, or idea for the subject at hand.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n| Narrator<\/b><\/td>\n | The person from whose point of view events are conveyed.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n| Onomatopoeia<\/b><\/td>\n | The formation or use of words.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n| Oxymoron<\/b><\/td>\n | A figure of speech in which two contradictory words or phrases are combined in a single expression, giving the effect of a condensed paradox<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n| Paradox<\/b><\/td>\n | A statement or situation containing obvious contradictions, but is nevertheless true.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n| Parallelism<\/b><\/td>\n | The use of similar grammatical forms gives items equal weight.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n| Parody<\/b><\/td>\n | An imitation of a serious work of literature for the purpose of criticism or humorous effect or for flattering trib.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n| Protagonist<\/b><\/td>\n | The central character in a story.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n| Pun<\/b><\/td>\n | A form of wit, not necessarily funny, involves a play on a word with two or more meanings.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n| Resolution<\/b><\/td>\n | The final unwinding, or resolving of the conflicts and complications in the plot.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n| Rhyme scheme<\/b><\/td>\n | The pattern of end rhyme in a poem.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n| Satire<\/b><\/td>\n | A literary technique in which foolish ideas or customs are ridiculed for the purpose of improving society.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n| Soliloquy<\/b><\/td>\n | A dramatic convention in which a character in a play, alone on stage, speaks his or her thoughts aloud.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n| Syllogism<\/b><\/td>\n | A logical argument based on deductive reasoning.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n| Synecdoche<\/b><\/td>\n | A figure of speech in which a part of something stands for the whole thing.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n| Theme<\/b><\/td>\n | The central idea in a literary work.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n| Tone<\/b><\/td>\n | The writer\u2019s or speaker\u2019s attitude toward a subject.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n| Understatement<\/b><\/td>\n | A type of verbal IRONY in which something is purposely represented as being far less important than it actually is; 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