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| 241062257 | alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds through a sequence of words. | |
| 241062258 | ambiguity | two or more, sometimes confliciting meanings in a work. | |
| 241062259 | analogy | a resemblance in some particulars between things otherwise unlike: similarity. | |
| 241062260 | anaphora | a rhetorical device that consists of repeating a sequence of words at the beginnings of neighboring clauses, thereby lending them emphasis. | |
| 241062261 | anastrophe | a figure of speech in which a language's usual word order is inverted. | |
| 241062262 | antimetabole | the repetition of words in successive clauses, but in reverse grammatical order. ex) I know what I like and I like what i know. | |
| 241062263 | antihero | a protagonist who is in one way or another very opposite of a traditional hero. (timid, hypersensitive, and indecisisve). | |
| 241062264 | anthropomorphism | any attribution of human charactristics to animals, non-lving things, phenomena, material states, objects or abstract concepts, such as spirits or deities. | |
| 241062265 | aphorism | a breif, clever statement that makes a wise observation about life. | |
| 241062266 | apostrophe | calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to a place or thing, or a personified abstract idea. | |
| 241062267 | asyndeton | a stylistic scheme in which conjunctions are deliberatly omitted from a sries of related clauses. Commas are used without conjunctions to separate a series of words, thus emphasizing each part equally. | |
| 241062268 | indirect characterization | when a charactr's traits are revealed implicitly, through his or her speech, behavior, thoughts, appearance, and so on. | |
| 241062269 | direct charactrization | when a narrator explicitly tells us what a character is like. | |
| 241062270 | static character | do not change throughout the story. | |
| 241062271 | dynamic character | do change in the story. | |
| 241062272 | flat character | relatively simple, have a few dominant traits, and tend to be predictable. | |
| 241062273 | round character | complex and multifaced and act in a way that readers might not expect but accept as possible. | |
| 241062274 | chiasmus | the figure of speech in which two or more clauses are related to each other through a reversal of structures in order to make a larger point; that is, the clauses display inverted parallelism. | |
| 242008374 | conceit | an elabrorate metaphor that compares things that are startling different ex) Love is a battlefield. | |
| 242008375 | diadactic | a form of fiction or nonfictino that teaches a specific lesson or moral. | |
| 242008376 | epanalepsis | thedevise of repetition in which the same expression is repeated both at the beginning and ending of the line, clause, or sentence. ex) Common sense isn ot so common. | |
| 242008377 | epistrophe | the devise of repetition in which the same expression is repeated at the end of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences. ex) For no government is better than the men who composeit, and I want the best, and we need the best, and we deserve the best. | |
| 242008378 | epithet | an adjective or adjective phrase applied to a person or thing that is frequently used to emphasize a characteristic quality. ex) Father of our country. | |
| 242008379 | explication | the act of interpreting a meaning of a text. | |
| 242008380 | figurative language | words and groups of words, that exaggerate or alter the usual meanings of the component words. ex) similies and metaphors | |
| 242008381 | flashback | interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point in the story. | |
| 242008382 | foil | a character who contrasts with another character (usually the protagonist) in order to highlight various features of that other character's personality. | |
| 242008383 | hyperbole | the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech. | |
| 242008384 | hypotactic | a sentnce marked by the use of connecting words between clauses or sentences, explicitly showing the logical relationships between them. ex)I am tired because it is hot. | |
| 242008385 | imagery | the use of language to evoke a picture or concrete sensation. (using sensory details) ex) I am as cold as ice. | |
| 242008386 | verbal irony | when a word or expressoion in context means something different from, and usually the opposite of, what it appears to mean. (sarcasm) | |
| 242008387 | situational irony | when a character holds a position or has an expectation that is reverse or fulfilled in an unexpected way. When there is a discrepancy between what happens and what is expected. | |
| 242008388 | dramatic irony | when there is a gap between what an audience knows and what a character believes or expects. | |
| 242008389 | litotes | a figure of speech in which understatement is employed for rhetorical effect when an idea is expressed by a denial of its opposite, principally via double negatives. (opposite of hyperbole). ex) "not unattractive" and "It will only take me a second." | |
| 242008390 | loose sentence | (cumulative sentence) a type of sentence in which the main clause comes first, followed by further dependent grammatical units. ex)hester gazed after him a little while, looking with a half-fantastic curiosity to see whether the tender grass of early spring... | |
| 242008391 | metonymy | a figure of speech in which the name of one thing is used torefer to another thing associated with it. ex) "The White House has promised to veto the bill," we use the white house as a metonymy for the president and his administration. | |
| 242973432 | parallel structure | the repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structure. ex) Jill was laughing, giggling, and smiling at the cute boy. | |
| 242973433 | paratactic sentence | simply juxtaposes clauses or sentences. ex) I came; I saw; I conquered. "I am tired; it is hot." | |
| 242973434 | periodic sentence | sentence that places the main idea or central thought at the end of the sentence after all introductory elements. ex) After a long day at school, Jill loves to take a nap. | |
| 242973435 | polysyndeton | sentence which uses a conjunction with no cammas that is used to seperate items in a series. ex) Jeff jumped and laughed and made silly faces at his brother. | |
| 242973436 | pun | a play on words based on multiple meanings of a word that sounds alike but different meanings. ex) Kings worry about a receding heir line. | |
| 242973437 | quatrain | a poem consisting of four lines or fourlines of a poem that are considered to be a unit. | |
| 242973438 | rhetoric | the art of effective communication whether in writing or speech. ex) metaphor, Onomatopoeia. | |
| 242973439 | romance | a story in which an idealized hero undertakes a quest and is successful. ex) shrek. | |
| 242973440 | stream of consciousness | a style of writing that portrays the inner working of a character's mind. | |
| 242973441 | suspense | a feeling of uncertainty of what will happen next in the story. | |
| 242973442 | tall tale | an outrageously exaggerated humorous story that is obviously unbelievable. | |
| 242973443 | telegraphic sentence | a straightforward sentence with no more than 5 words. ex) the weather is uncomfortable. | |
| 242973444 | tricolon sentence | a sentence in three parts of equal importance and length, usually three independent clauses. ex) I require three things in a man, He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid. | |
| 242973445 | Unity | when there are unified parts of writing that are related to a central idea or an organizing principal. |
