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| 3729466131 | Allusion | A brief reference to a literary, mythological, famous, or historical person, place, thing, or event | 0 | |
| 3729466132 | Dramatic Irony | when a reader or viewer knows something that a character does not | 1 | |
| 3729466133 | Situational Irony | when something happens that the reader or character does not expect | 2 | |
| 3729466134 | Verbal Irony | when someone says one thing but means another | 3 | |
| 3729466135 | Foreshadowing | The use in a literary work of clues that suggest events that have yet to occur | 4 | |
| 3729466136 | Symbol | The use of any object, person, place or action that both has a meaning in itself and that stands for something larger than itself, such as a quality, attitude, belief or value | 5 | |
| 3729466137 | Mood | The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage | 6 | |
| 3729466138 | Suspense | The quality of a literary work that makes the reader uncertain or tense about the outcome of events | 7 | |
| 3729466139 | Motif | A recurrent element in a literary work; A pattern or strand of imagery or symbolism in a work of literature | 8 | |
| 3729466140 | Archetype | A type of character, action, or situation that occurs over and over in literature; a pattern or example that occurs in literature and life | 9 | |
| 3729466141 | Tone | The writer's attitude or feeling toward a person, a thing, a place, an event or situation | 10 | |
| 3729484763 | Theme | A central message, or insight into life, explored through the literary work | 11 | |
| 3729466143 | Point of View | The perspective from which a story is told. This can be as simple as 1st, 2nd, 3rd person, etc. Often, it refers to the person who is telling the story (a close friend; a classmate; a neighbor; a boyfriend/girlfriend) | 12 | |
| 3729466144 | Setting | The background against which action takes place (the geographical location; the occupations and daily manner of living of the character; the time or period in which the action takes place; the general environment of the characters: i.e. social, moral, emotional) | 13 | |
| 3729466145 | Imagery | the words or phrases a writer uses to represent persons, objects, actions, feelings, and ideas descriptively by appealing to the five senses (light, sound, smell, taste, and touch). An author may also use animal imagery, as well as light and/or dark imagery | 14 | |
| 3729466146 | Detail | facts revealed by the author or speaker that support the attitude or tone in the work | 15 | |
| 3729466147 | Emphasis | When important aspects of a story are given important positions and in-depth development. This is created by the use of: Repetition—reiteration of a word, sound, phrase, or idea; Parallelism—the arrangement and repetition of words, phrases, or sentence structures (|| Parallelism adds rhythm and emotional impact to writing); Extensive Detail / Description; Mechanical Devices such as capitalization, italics, symbols, and/or different colors of ink | 16 | |
| 3729466148 | Characterization | The methods used by an author to create a character, including: the character's physical appearance; the character's own speech, thoughts, actions, and/or feelings; OTHER characters' speech, thoughts, actions, and/or feelings about the character; and direct comments by the author about the character | 17 | |
| 3729466149 | Motivation | A reason that explains a character's thoughts, feelings, or behavior | 18 | |
| 3729466150 | Protagonist | The central character—and focus of interest—who is trying to accomplish or overcome an adversity and who has the ability to adapt to new circumstances | 19 | |
| 3729466151 | Antagonist | The character opposing the protagonist; this can be a person, idea, or force | 20 | |
| 3729466152 | Dynamic Character | A character that undergoes a change in actions or beliefs during the course of a story | 21 | |
| 3729466153 | Static Character | A character who does not grow or change throughout the story and who ends as he/she began | 22 | |
| 3729466154 | Diction | Word choice (An author often chooses a word because it suggests a connotative meaning that comes from its use in various social contexts.) | 23 | |
| 3729466155 | Connotation | The emotions or associations a word normally aroused in people using, hearing, or reading the word | 24 | |
| 3729466156 | Pun | A play on words that are identical or similar in sound but have sharply different meanings; they can have serious uses, as well as humorous uses | 25 | |
| 3729466157 | Idiom | An accepted phrase or expression having a meaning different from the literal | 26 | |
| 3729466158 | Hyperbole | A deliberate, extravagant and often outrageous exaggeration; it may be used for either serious or comic effect | 27 | |
| 3729466159 | Paradox | A statement that seems to contradict itself but—on on closer inspection—does not; a statement that does not seem logical on one level but which makes sense on another level | 28 | |
| 3729466160 | Oxymoron | Paired terms that contradict each other on one level but actually do make sense on another level | 29 | |
| 3729466161 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part of something represents the whole thing; an example is calling a car "wheels" when meaning the whole car. It is also a figure of speech in which a whole represents a part of it; an example is saying Mexico won seven gold medals when, in fact, seven individuals from Mexico won medals. | 30 | |
| 3729531723 | Metonomy | A figure of speech in which something closely associated with an object, idea, person, or group represents the actual object, idea, person, or group. An example is calling police officers "badges" or calling construction workers "hardhats." | 31 | |
| 3753721233 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply | 32 | |
| 3759688712 | Concession | An argumentative strategy by which a speaker or writer acknowledges the validity of an opponent's point. | 33 |
