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| 4225741126 | allegory | device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to literal meaning usually deals with moral truth or generalization about human existence | 0 | |
| 4225770820 | alliteration | repetition of sounds; initial consonant sounds; reinforces meaning, unifies ideas ect |  | 1 |
| 4225776839 | allusion | direct or indirect reference to something that is known; book, art, myth, place | 2 | |
| 4225780540 | ambiguity | multiple meanings (intentional/unintentional) of a word, phrase, sentence or passage | 3 | |
| 4225785611 | Analogy | similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them. represent something unfamiliar by associating it with or pointing out its similarity to something more familiar | 4 | |
| 4225800290 | antecedent | word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun In a sentence it is what "it, he, she or them" refers to |  | 5 |
| 4225809629 | antithesis | opposition or contrast of ideas; direct oppostie |  | 6 |
| 4225814158 | aphorism | terse statement which expresses a general truth or moral principle. known author |  | 7 |
| 4225821867 | apostrophe | figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction; addressed to something that can't answer | 8 | |
| 4225831847 | atmosphere | emotional nod created by entirety of a literary work, established by setting and author's choice of objects described; weather descriptions can contribute |  | 9 |
| 4225842628 | caricature | verbal description that exaggerates or distorts for comic effect a person's physical characterisitcs |  | 10 |
| 4225851621 | clause | grammatical unit that contains a subject and a verb; independent clause expresses complete thought and dependent can't stand alone | 11 | |
| 4225858044 | Colloquial/colloquialism | use of slang or informalities in speech or writing; gives familiar tone |  | 12 |
| 4225866992 | conciet | fanciful expression in the form of extended metaphor or analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects; displays intellectual cleverness love is like an oil change | 13 | |
| 4225884114 | connotation | non-literal, associative meaning of a word; implied, suggested meaning home suggests family | 14 | |
| 4225897528 | denotation | strict, literal definition of word, devoid of emotions knife is used to cut food |  | 15 |
| 4225901717 | diction | writer's word choices, especially with regard to correctness, clearness, effectiveness combined with syntax, figurative language, literary devices |  | 16 |
| 4225912446 | didactic | "teaching"; primary aim its to teach or instruct, especially moral or ethical principles | 17 | |
| 4225914709 | euphemism | "good speech"; more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant work or concept passed away instead of dead | 18 | |
| 4225929009 | extended metphor | metaphor developed at great length throughout a work | 19 | |
| 4225934470 | figurative language | writing or speech that is not intended to carry a literal meaning | 20 | |
| 4225936171 | figure of speech | device used to produce figurative language; compares dissimilar things ex. irony, metaphor, oxymoron, paradox, simile |  | 21 |
| 4225940589 | generic conventions | traditions of each genre; help to define genre | 22 | |
| 4225948188 | genre | major category into which a literary work fits prose, poetry, drama | 23 | |
| 4225955302 | homily | "sermon"; serious talk, speech about moral or spiritual advice |  | 24 |
| 4225962835 | hyperbole | deliberate exaggeration or overstatement; "overshoot" opposite of understatement |  | 25 |
| 4225969201 | imagery | sensory details or figurative language used to describe, arouse or represent abstractions. five senses or deeper meaning |  | 26 |
| 4225977077 | inference/infer | draw a reasonable conclusion from the information presented |  | 27 |
| 4225983792 | invective | emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language |  | 28 |
| 4225991476 | irony | contrast between what is stated and what is meant | 29 | |
| 4225993582 | verbal irony | when the words literally state the opposite of the writer's meaning |  | 30 |
| 4226008348 | situational irony | events are opposite of what is expected; what is thought to happen doesn't happen |  | 31 |
| 4226012315 | dramatic irony | facts or events unknown to character, but known to audience or reader |  | 32 |
| 4226019320 | litotes | form of understatement that involved making an affirmative point by denying its opposite "not a bad idea" |  | 33 |
| 4226031787 | loose sentence/non-periodic sentence | sentence in which the main idea comes first, followed by dependent grammatical units i called my friend sally after i got to the party writing is more relaxed; informal | 34 | |
| 4226041131 | metaphor | figure of speech that compares things without using like or as |  | 35 |
| 4226046742 | metonymy | "changed label" "substitute name" name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it; crown refers to the queen |  | 36 |
| 4226061111 | mood | prevailing atmosphere or emotional aura of the work | 37 | |
| 4226065589 | narrative | telling of story or account of events or series of events | 38 | |
| 4226068570 | onomatopoeia | natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words |  | 39 |
| 4226072933 | oxymoron | "pointedly foolish"; figure of speech wherein the author groups apparently contradictory terms to suggest a paradox |  | 40 |
| 4226083245 | paradox | statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity |  | 41 |
| 4226095670 | parallelism | "beside one another"; grammatical or rhetorical framing of words, phrase, sentences, or paragraphs to give structural similarity; repetition of grammatical element | 42 | |
| 4226105069 | anaphora | sub-type of parallelism exact repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive lines or sentences | 43 | |
| 4226114987 | parody | work that imitates the style or content of another with specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule offers enlightenment about another | 44 | |
| 4226121688 | pedantic | adjective that describes words, phrases or tone that is over scholarly, academic or bookish | 45 | |
| 4226131312 | periodic sentence | presents central meaning of main clause at the end; adds emphasize and structural variety | 46 | |
| 4226134760 | personification | figure of speech in which the author presents or describes concepts, ect in ways that gives them human attribution or emotions | 47 | |
| 4226144258 | point of view | perspective from which story is told | 48 | |
| 4226145937 | first person narrator | first person pronouns | 49 | |
| 4226147981 | third person narrator and types | events with third person pronouns; third person omniscient: narrator has godlike knowledge and presents thoughts and actions of all or any characters third person limited omniscient: narrator presents the feelings and thoughts of only one character, presenting only the actions of all the remaining characters | 50 | |
| 4226162340 | prose | fiction and nonfiction; printer determines length of lines | 51 | |
| 4226166256 | repetition | duplication, exact or approximate, of any element of language | 52 | |
| 4226172684 | rhetoric | "orator"; principles governing the art of writing effectively, eloquently and persuasively | 53 | |
| 4226176559 | rhetorical modes | variety, the conventions and the purposes of the major kinds of writing | 54 | |
| 4226179718 | exposition | explain and analyze information by presenting an idea, relevant evidence and appropriate discussion | 55 | |
| 4226193238 | arguementation | prove the validity of an idea, or point of view, by presenting sound reasoning, discussion and argument that thoroughly convince the reader | 56 | |
| 4226215736 | description | recreate, invent, or visually present a person, place or event so reader can picture the scene | 57 | |
| 4226220119 | narration | to tell a story or narrate an event or series of events |  | 58 |
| 4226228945 | sarcsm | "to tear flesh"; bitter caustic language meant to hurt or ridicule someone or something | 59 | |
| 4226230986 | satire | targets humans vices or social institutions for reform or ridicule. can have wit, parody , caricature, hyperbole | 60 | |
| 4226238446 | semantics | branch of linguistics that studies the meaning of words, historical and psychological development, connotations and their relation to one another. | 61 | |
| 4226246085 | style | evaluation of the sum of choices a author makes in blending diction, syntax and figurative language classification of authors to a group and comparison of an author to similar authors | 62 | |
| 4226259078 | subject complement | word that follows a linking verb and complements or completes the subject of the sentence by either 1. renaming it or describing it | 63 | |
| 4226277225 | predicate nominative | noun that renames the subject Julia Roberts is a movie star | 64 | |
| 4226286143 | predicate adjective | adjective that modifies or describes the subject | 65 | |
| 4226298955 | subordinate clause | can't stand alone | 66 | |
| 4226302164 | syllogism | "reckoning together"; deductive system of formal logic that presents two premises (major and minor) and leads to sound conclusion | 67 | |
| 4226310239 | symbol | anything that represents or stands for something else | 68 | |
| 4226312147 | natural symbol | objects from nature that symbolize ideas commonly associated with them | 69 | |
| 4226317854 | conventional symbol | those that have been invested with meaning by a group cross | 70 | |
| 4226319752 | literary symbols | found in variety of works | 71 | |
| 4226322522 | synecdoche | part of something represents the whole; MUST BE A PART OF IT wheels present car | 72 | |
| 4226332032 | synesthesia | sensory stimulus evokes the subjective experience of another | 73 | |
| 4226335302 | syntax | way an author chooses to join words, phrases, clauses and sentences; group of words | 74 | |
| 4226337957 | theme | central message of the work | 75 | |
| 4226339653 | thesis | sentence that directly expresses the author's opinion, purpose, meaning | 76 | |
| 4226345071 | tone | describes the author's attitude toward his material | 77 | |
| 4226350202 | transition | word or phrase that links different ideas | 78 | |
| 4226352712 | understatment | ironic minimizing of fact; presents something as less significant than it is | 79 | |
| 4226358121 | wit | intellectually amusing language that surprises or delights | 80 |
