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| 263348539 | Allegory | a story with two meanings, literal meaning and a symbolic meaning | 0 | |
| 263348540 | Alliteration | repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words | 1 | |
| 263348541 | Allusion | a brief reference to a person, event, place, or work of art; used to enhance writing | 2 | |
| 263348542 | Anachronism | placing an event, person, item, or verbal expression in the wrong historical period | 3 | |
| 263348543 | Anastrophe | deliberate inversion of word order (example: To market went she) | 4 | |
| 263348544 | Anecdote | A short narrative account for an amusing, unusual, revealing, or interesting event | 5 | |
| 263348545 | Aphorism | brief saying embodying a moral, or a concise statement of a principle or precept | 6 | |
| 263348546 | Apostrophe | directly addressing an absent person, an abstract concept, or an important object | 7 | |
| 263348547 | Archetype | generic, idealized model of a person, object, or concept from which similar instances are derived, copied, patterned, or emulated | 8 | |
| 263348548 | Archaism | A word, expression, spelling, or phrase that is out of date, in the common speech of an era, but still deliberately used by a writer, poet, or playwright for artistic purposes | 9 | |
| 263348549 | Assonance | repetition of vowel sounds (ex. fleet feet sweep by sleeping geeks) | 10 | |
| 263348550 | Blank Verse | unrhymed lines of ten syllables form for dramatic works, since it supposedly is the verse form most close to natural rhythms of English speech | 11 | |
| 263348551 | Bildungsroman | protagonist who undergoes growth through entire narrative; growth is often impeded by opposition of their desires by other characters "A coming of age story" | 12 | |
| 263348552 | Cacophony | harsh, discordant sounds | 13 | |
| 263348553 | Direct Characterization | specifically writing about a character "She is a nice person" | 14 | |
| 263348554 | Indirect Characterization | writing that implies what a character is "She would give you her last penny | 15 | |
| 263348555 | Dynamic Character | character who changes in an important way | 16 | |
| 263348556 | Static Character | character who does not change significantly | 17 | |
| 263348557 | Flat Character | character with only one or 2 traits (ex. dumb blonde, mean step-mother) | 18 | |
| 263348558 | Round Character | character with many character traits, fully developed character | 19 | |
| 263348559 | Chiasmus | writing in which elements are presented in the order ABBA | 20 | |
| 263348560 | Colloquialism | a word or phrase used every day in plain relaxed speech, but rarely found in formal writing | 21 | |
| 263348561 | Conceit | a far-fetched simile or metaphor, occurs when the speaker compares two highly dissimilar things | 22 | |
| 263348562 | Connotation | implied meaning of a word | 23 | |
| 263348563 | Consonance | repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels | 24 | |
| 263348564 | Dialect | form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group | 25 | |
| 263348565 | Denotation | dictionary definition of a word | 26 | |
| 263348566 | Diction | writer's choice of words, phrases, sentence structures, and figurative language, to help create meaning | 27 | |
| 263348567 | Didactic Literature | Writing designed explicitly to instruct | 28 | |
| 263348568 | Eulegy | type of lyric poem, usually a formal lament for someone's death | 29 | |
| 263348569 | Epiphany | the sudden flare into revelation of an ordinary object or scene, a revelation of such power and insight that it alters the entire world-view of the thinker | 30 | |
| 263348570 | Euphenism | commonly used term used to express a certain idea without bluntly declaring that idea; often called "double speak" (instead of "used car, it is a "guaranteed previously owned car") | 31 | |
| 263348571 | Euphony | soothing pleasant sounds | 32 | |
| 264525500 | Foreshadowing | use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in literature | 33 | |
| 264525501 | Freudian Slip | a slip of the tongue in which a person means to say one thing, but accidentally says another word or phrase | 34 | |
| 264525502 | Hyperbole | exaggeration of overstatement (ex. Ive told you a million times not to do that) | 35 | |
| 264525503 | Imagery | descriptive language used to evoke sensory (sight, touch, smell) emotions "create a picture in the readers head" | 36 | |
| 264525504 | In media res | "into the middle of things", usually describes a narrative that begins, not at the beginning of a story, but the middle | 37 | |
| 264525505 | Irony | an implied discrepancy between what is said and what is meant | 38 | |
| 264525506 | Verbal irony | when an author says one thing and means something else | 39 | |
| 264525507 | Dramatic irony | when an audience knows something that a character in the literature does not know | 40 | |
| 264525508 | Situational irony | discrepancy between the expected result and actual result | 41 | |
| 264525509 | Jargon | words and phrases used in a particular occupation, trade, or field of study (ex: medical jargon: "iv"; police jargon: "vic") | 42 | |
| 264525510 | Local Color | use of characters and details unique to a particular geographic area, could be using dialect, customs, clothing, manners, atittitudes | 43 | |
| 264525511 | Metaphor | comparing two unlike things using the verb "to be" not using like or as | 44 | |
| 264525512 | Metonymy | substituting a word for another word closely associated with it (example: bowing to the sceptered isle (using isle to mean great britain) | 45 | |
| 264525513 | Onomatopoeia | a word that imitates the sound it represents | 46 | |
| 264525514 | Oxymoron | putting two contradictory words together | 47 | |
| 264525515 | Paradox | a statement that seems to be contradictory but that actually presents a truth | 48 | |
| 264525516 | Parallel Structure | repetition of sentences/phrases/ words using the same structure, done to emphasize | 49 | |
| 264525517 | Periodic structure | sentence in which the main clause or its predicate is withheld until the end (ex. Despite heavy winds and nearly impenetrable ground fog, the plane landed safely) | 50 | |
| 264525518 | Personification | giving human qualities to animals or non-human objects | 51 | |
| 264525519 | First Person | narrator is character in the story who can reveal only personal thoughts/ feelings and what he/she sees and is told by other characters. He can't tell us thoughts of other characters | 52 | |
| 264525520 | Third-Person Objective | narrator is an outsider who can report only what he/she sees and hears. This narrator can tell us what is happening but he can't tell us the thoughts of the characters | 53 | |
| 264525521 | Third-Person Limited | narrator is an outsider who sees into the mind of one of the characters | 54 | |
| 264525522 | Omniscient | narrator is all-knowing outsider who can enter the minds of more than one character | 55 | |
| 264525523 | Pun | play on two words similar in sound but different in meaning (example "sun" and "son") | 56 | |
| 264525524 | Satire | literary tone used to ridicule or make fun of human vice or weakness, often with the intent of correcting, or changing, the subject of the attack | 57 | |
| 264525525 | Simile | comparison of two unlike things using like or as | 58 | |
| 264525526 | Slant Rhyme | approximate rhyme, occuring when the rhyming sounds are similar (Emily Dickinsong used this) | 59 | |
| 264525527 | Stream of consciousness | writing in which a characters perceptions, thoughts, and memories are presented in an apparent random form, without regard for logical sequence, chronology, or syntax, writing that often makes no distinction between various levels of reality | 60 | |
| 264525528 | Synedoche | when one uses a part to represent the whole (Example: lend me your ears - to ask for attention) | 61 | |
| 264525529 | Syntax | way in which linguistic elements (as words) are put together to form phrases/ clauses/ sentences | 62 | |
| 264525530 | Theme | general idea or insight about life that a writer wishes to express, often state in a single sentence | 63 | |
| 264525531 | Tone | author's attitude, stated or implied, towards a subject or character (Ex: serious, humorous, sarcastic, ironic, satirical, tongue in cheek) | 64 | |
| 264525532 | Understatement | device used to "play down" the obvious | 65 |
