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| 4788645131 | foreshadowing | An author's use of hints or clues to suggest events that will occur later in the story |  | 0 |
| 4788645482 | manipulation of time | When a novelist changes the pattern of sun up to sun down for an artistic reason or for the plot. They can create flashbacks or flash forwards by doing this |  | 1 |
| 4788645895 | stream of consciousness | a style of writing in which the author tries to reproduce the random flow of thoughts in the human mind |  | 2 |
| 4788646420 | flashback | A scene that interrupts the normal chronological sequence of events in a story to depict something that happened at an earlier time |  | 3 |
| 4788647200 | frame story | A secondary story or stories embedded in the main story |  | 4 |
| 4788647666 | flash forward | A scene that takes the narrator forward in time from the current point of the story in literature, film, or T.V. |  | 5 |
| 4788648142 | narrative pace | Speed at which a story moves along; should reflect the content |  | 6 |
| 4788648368 | point of view | The perspective from which a story is told |  | 7 |
| 4788648593 | speaker | A term used for the author, speaker, or the person whose perspective (real or imagined) is being advanced in a speech or piece of writing |  | 8 |
| 4788648789 | narrator | The person telling the story |  | 9 |
| 4788649214 | persona | An individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting. |  | 10 |
| 4788649648 | dialogue | Conversation between two or more characters |  | 11 |
| 4788649946 | interior monologue | writing that records the conversation that occurs inside a character's head |  | 12 |
| 4788650499 | parallel scenes | scenes in a work of literature that mirror or contrast each other. |  | 13 |
| 4788651828 | denouement | conclusion; resolution; the falling action of a story after its climax |  | 14 |
| 4788652157 | rhetorical questions | A question that does not require an answer |  | 15 |
| 4788653145 | gaps | lull |  | 16 |
| 4788658721 | subplots | events or actions of secondary interest are developed often providing contrast to or commentary on the main plot |  | 17 |
| 4788659803 | contrast | Give an account of the differences between two (or more) items or situations, referring to both (all) of them throughout. |  | 18 |
| 4788660057 | repetition | Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis |  | 19 |
| 4788660254 | paradox | A figure of speech or statement that seems contradictory but actually contains a hidden truth |  | 20 |
| 4788661025 | understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. |  | 21 |
| 4788661324 | sarcasm | the use of irony to mock or convey contempt |  | 22 |
| 4788661817 | irony | Contrast between appearance and reality |  | 23 |
| 4788662844 | symbolism | A device in literature where an object represents an idea. |  | 24 |
| 4788663842 | didactic attitude/language | persuades reader that some doctrine is true; instructs or provides for a particular purpose, often to teach a lesson. (a book of manners, guide to life). Can be an insult to literature. | 25 | |
| 4788668044 | creation of empathy | involuntary projection of ourselves into story. We feel what the character feels. Stronger than sympathy (you cry vs. you feel sorry for someone) |  | 26 |
| 4788670445 | allusion | A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance. |  | 27 |
| 4788671493 | tragic hero | A protagonist with a fatal flaw which eventually leads to his demise |  | 28 |
| 4788672369 | caricature | (n.) a respresentation (especially a drawing) in which the subject's features are deliberately exaggerated; (v.) to present someone or something in a deliberately distorted way |  | 29 |
| 4788672656 | epiphany | A moment of sudden revelation or insight |  | 30 |
| 4788673122 | diction | A writer's or speaker's choice of words |  | 31 |
| 4788673867 | connotation | An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning |  | 32 |
| 4788674544 | syntax | The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. |  | 33 |
| 4788675030 | figurative language | Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling. |  | 34 |
| 4788675436 | metaphor | A comparison of two unlike things without using the word like or as. |  | 35 |
| 4788675799 | simile | A comparison of two unlike things using like or as |  | 36 |
| 4788676413 | personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes |  | 37 |
| 4788676902 | apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. |  | 38 |
| 4788677807 | antithesis | (n.) the direct opposite, a sharp contrast |  | 39 |
| 4788678196 | hyperbole | A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor |  | 40 |
| 4788678869 | oxymoron | A figure of speech consisting of two apparently contradictory terms |  | 41 |
| 4788679139 | chiasmus | A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed |  | 42 |
| 4788679487 | cliche | A worn-out idea or overused expression |  | 43 |
| 4788679968 | parody | A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule. |  | 44 |
| 4788680392 | romance | in general, a story in which an idealized hero or heroine undertakes a quest and is successful. |  | 45 |
| 4788682067 | satire | A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies. |  | 46 |
| 4788683211 | pathos | Appeal to emotion |  | 47 |
| 4788684082 | malapropism | humorous misuse of a word |  | 48 |
| 4788685362 | realism | A 19th century artistic movement in which writers and painters sought to show life as it is rather than life as it should be |  | 49 |
| 4788687165 | pastoral | relating to rural life and the countryside, simple and peaceful; relating to shepherds; relating to pastors, the clergy. Category: people/places. adjective |  | 50 |
| 4788687618 | allegory | A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. |  | 51 |
| 4788688800 | genre | A type or category of literature |  | 52 |
| 4788689147 | imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) |  | 53 |
| 4788689678 | selection/omission of detail | Facts, circumstances, characteristics, techniques, etc., used/or not used by the writer to convey tone, purpose or effect |  | 54 |
| 4788690388 | sound effects | Sounds introduced to create mood or to indicate the presence of something |  | 55 |
| 4788691264 | rhythm | A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound. |  | 56 |
| 4788691619 | meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry |  | 57 |
| 4788692108 | rhyme | Repetition of sounds at the end of words |  | 58 |
