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A story in which people, places, things and events have another meaning.
What is allegory
100
A pause in a line of poetry, either with or without punctuation
What is caesura
100
This is the most common type of rhyme that occurs at the end of lines in verse.
end-rhyme
100
This is the surface reading overview of a poem or other literary piece
What is explication
100
A short, fictional prose or verse with a specific moral
What is fable
200
A reference in a work of literature to something outside the work, historical, biblical or literary.
What is allusion
200
A rhetorical balance created by the inversion of one or two phrases or clauses.
What is chiasmus
200
The running on on one line of poetry into another
What is enjambment
200
A philosophical school whose proponents maintain that existence precedes essence
What is existentialism
200
Rhyme in which rhyming stressed syllable are followed by identical unstressed syllables
What is feminine rhyme
300
The repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses.
What is anaphora
300
The implications of a word or phrase as opposed to its exact meaning
What is connotation
300
A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness
What is euphemism
300
Words that appear to rhyme due to their spelling, but do not actually rhyme
Words that eye-rhyme
300
A character who, by contrast to the main character, serves to accentuate that character's distinctive qualities or characteristics
What is foil
400
A sudden descent from the impressive to the trivial
What is anticlimax or bathos
400
The repetition of a consonant sound with a series of words to produce a harmonious effect
What is consonance
400
The omission of words for rhetorical effect. "Drop dead" instead of "You drop dead."
What is ellipsis
400
A novel whose plot is entirely developed through letters exchanged between characters or through correspondence of only one character
What is epistolary novel
400
A story that contains another story or stories
What is frame story
500
The deliberate omission of conjunctions in a series of related clauses
What is asyndeton
500
A device of style or subject matter so often used that it becomes a recognizable means of expression.
What is convention
500
The form os a work containing a series of incidents that are loosely connected by a larger thematic structure
What is episodic structure
500
Pleasing and harmonious sounds
What is euphony
500
A style of literature characterized by a general mood of decay, overly dramatic and/or violent action, and destructive passions.
What is Gothic
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