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| 9739231744 | lyric | subjective, reflective poetry with regular rhyme scheme and meter which revels the poet's thoughts and feelings to create a single, unique impression | 0 | |
| 9739244300 | narrative | nondramatic, objective verse with regular rhyme scheme and meter which relates a story or narrative | 1 | |
| 9739257444 | rhetorical question | a question that expects no answer | 2 | |
| 9739260782 | juxtaposition | normally unassociated ideas, words, or phrases are placed next to one another, creating an effect of surprise and wit | 3 | |
| 9739280263 | syntax | the way in which words are put together to form phrases, clauses, and sentences | 4 | |
| 9739284131 | stream of consciousness | writing style that tries to depict the random flow of thoughts, emotions, memories, and associations rushing through a character's mind (interior monologue) | 5 | |
| 9739300325 | satire | writing that ridicules human weakness, vice, or folly in order to bring about social reform | 6 | |
| 9744053538 | point of view | the vantage point from which the writer tells a story | 7 | |
| 9744060584 | first person point of view | narrator is a character in the story who tells the story from his/her own perspective | 8 | |
| 9745015977 | limited third person point of view | narrator can enter the mind of only one character to tell the story | 9 | |
| 9745033406 | omniscient third person point of view | narrator is outside the story; a godlike observer who can tell us what all the characters are thinking/feeling | 10 | |
| 9745043459 | pastoral elements | presents rustic life in idealistic terms | 11 | |
| 9745053899 | parallelism | repetition of words, phrases, or sentences that have the same grammatical structure | 12 | |
| 9745076954 | narrator | one who tells the story | 13 | |
| 9745086828 | motif | a word, character, object, image, metaphor, or idea that recurs (within a work on in several works) | 14 | |
| 9745089510 | mood | the atmosphere of a literary work | 15 | |
| 9745091085 | In Media Res | the technique of starting a story in the middle of the action and then using a flashback to tell what happened earlier | 16 | |
| 9745094413 | frame story | an introductory narrative that "contains" another narrative or narratives | 17 | |
| 9745096386 | foreshadowing | the use of clues to hint at what is going to happen later in the story | 18 | |
| 9745099344 | foil | a character who sets off another character by strong contrast | 19 | |
| 9745103067 | flashback | a scene that interrupts the present action of the plot to tell us what happened earlier | 20 | |
| 9745119932 | epiphany | a moment of sudden insight or revelation that a character experiences in a literary work | 21 | |
| 9745128157 | dialect | a way of speaking that is characteristic of a particular region or group of people | 22 | |
| 9745132064 | conflict | struggle between opposing characters, forces, or emotions (external or internal) | 23 | |
| 9745137302 | round character | has more dimension to his/her personality; complex, solid, multifaceted, like real people | 24 | |
| 9745140125 | flat character | has only one or two personality traits | 25 | |
| 9745143996 | dynamic character | a character that changes in some important way as a result of the story's action | 26 | |
| 9745145383 | static character | a character who does not change much in the course of the story | 27 | |
| 9745154068 | characterization | how a writer reveals a character | 28 | |
| 9745162561 | direct characterization | by telling us directly what the character is like | 29 | |
| 9745164963 | indirect characterization | - by describing how the character looks and dresses - by letting us hear the character speak - by revealing the character's private thoughts and feelings - by revealing the character's effect on other people - by showing the character's actions | 30 | |
| 9745179404 | carpe diem | seize the day (make the most of the present moment) | 31 | |
| 9745183541 | connotation | the meanings, associations, and/or emotions that a word suggests | 32 | |
| 9745185350 | denotation | literal, dictionary definition of a word | 33 | |
| 9745192508 | diction | choice of words | 34 | |
| 9745193555 | style | the manner in which writers or speakers say what they wish to say (look for diction and tone) | 35 | |
| 9745196592 | speaker | imaginary voice or persona assumed by the author (the voice we hear in a poem) | 36 | |
| 9745200368 | theme | author's major idea or meaning | 37 | |
| 9745201759 | tone | author's attitude toward his/her subject or audience | 38 | |
| 9745206144 | allusion | a reference (to something usually presumed to be well known) | 39 | |
| 9745209028 | oxymoron | a figure of speech which combines apparently contradictory or incongruent ideas (eloquent silence) | 40 | |
| 9745221417 | paradox | a statement which appears self-contradictory but is actually true (or represents the truth) | 41 | |
| 9745224633 | imagery | language that appeals to the senses | 42 | |
| 9745233969 | symbol | a person, place, thing, event that functions as itself and represents something beyond itself | 43 | |
| 9745244950 | irony | a contrast between expectation and reality | 44 | |
| 9745246559 | verbal irony | meaning on thing and saying another | 45 | |
| 9745247857 | dramatic irony | two levels of meaning- what the speaker says and what he/she means or what the speaker says and what the author means | 46 | |
| 9745254908 | situational irony | when the reality of the situation differs from the anticipated or intended effect | 47 | |
| 9745263635 | hyperbole | gross exaggeration of effect; overstatement | 48 | |
| 9745267274 | synecdoche | the substitution of a part for the whole | 49 | |
| 9745270043 | metonymy | substitution of a word which relates to the object of person for the name itself | 50 | |
| 9745275127 | apostrophe | direct address to a person or personified object not present or unable to answer | 51 |
