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| 44013702 | Truism | a way too obvious truth: "the sun rises and sets." | |
| 44013703 | Understatement | Ironic minimizing of fact, also called meiosis. ex. "one could do worse than be a swinger of birches" | |
| 44013704 | Unreliable Narrator | first person narrator is crazy, very young, or not entirely credible | |
| 44013705 | Utopia | An idealized place: Huxley's brave new world | |
| 44013706 | Verisimilitude | how precisely the characters/events in fiction match reality: a teenager goes somewhere without permission and tells her parents she was really at the library. If she is adding creative details about what happened she is attempting to add verisimilitude to her story. | |
| 44013707 | Villanelle | 19 lines of 5 tercets (aba) + a quatrain (abaa); a nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition. The first and third lines alternate throughout the poem, which is structured in six stanzas. | |
| 44013708 | Voice | associated with the basic vision of a writer; the author's general attitude toward the world. | |
| 44013709 | Weak Specification | imprecise, abstract language: ex. the house is bigger than I am. | |
| 44013710 | Wit | words that are intellectually amusing; delight that surprises: Mark Twain's "what is the chief end of man- to get rich. In what way?- dishonestly if he can; honestly if he must." | |
| 44013711 | Zeugma | Word modifies two or more words for different meanings: ex. the dance floor was as square as his personality, on his fishing trip he caught three fish and a cold. |
