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| 43171949 | motif | the repitition or variations of an image or idea in a work used to develop theme or characters | |
| 43171950 | narrator | the speaker of a literary work | |
| 43171951 | onomatopoeia | words that sound like the sound they represent | |
| 43171952 | oxymoron | an image of contradictory terms | |
| 43171953 | pacing | the movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another | |
| 43171954 | parable | a story that operates on more than one level and usually teaches a moral lesson | |
| 43171955 | parody | a comic imitation of a work that ridicules the original | |
| 43171956 | pathos | the aspects of a literary work that elicit pity from the audience | |
| 43171957 | pedantic | a term used to describe writing that borders on lecturing | |
| 43171958 | periodic sentence | presents its main clause at the end for emphasis and variety | |
| 43171959 | personification | the assigning of human qualities to inanimate objects or concepts | |
| 43171960 | persuasion | a type of argument that has as its goal an action on the part of the audience | |
| 43171961 | plot | a sequence of events in a literary work | |
| 43171962 | point of view | the method of narration in a literary work | |
| 43171963 | pun | a play on words that often has a comic effect | |
| 43171964 | reduction ad absurdum | the Latin for "to reduce to the absurd" | |
| 43171965 | rhetorical question | one that does not expect an explicit answer | |
| 43171966 | sarcasm | a comic technique that ridicules through caustic language | |
| 43171967 | satire | a mode of writing based on ridicule, that criticizes the foibles of society without necessarily offering a solution | |
| 43171968 | setting | the time and place of a literary work | |
| 43171969 | simile | an indirect comparison that uses the words like or as to link the differing items in the comparison | |
| 43171970 | stage directions | the specific instructions a playwright includes concerning sets, characterization, delivery, etc. | |
| 43171971 | stanza | a unit of a poem, similar in rhyme, meter, and length to other units in the poem | |
| 43171972 | structure | the organization and form of a work | |
| 43171973 | style | the unique way an author presents his ideas. Diction, syntax, imagery, structure, and content all contribute to this | |
| 43171974 | syllogism | the format of a formal argument that consists of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion | |
| 43171975 | symbol | something in a literary work that stands for something else | |
| 43171976 | synecdoche | a figure of speech that utilizes a part as representative of the whole | |
| 43171977 | syntax | the grammatical structure of prose and poetry | |
| 43171978 | theme | the underlying ideas the author illustrates through the characterization, motifs, language, plot, etc. | |
| 43171979 | thesis | the main idea of a piece of writing. It presents the author's assertion or claim. | |
| 43171980 | tone | the authors attitude toward his subject | |
| 43171981 | transition | a word or phrase that links on idea to the next and carries the reader from sentence to sentence, paragraph to paragraph. | |
| 43171982 | understatement | the opposite of exaggeration. It is a technique for developing irony and/or humor where one writes or says less than intended | |
| 43171983 | voice | refers to the relationship between a sentence's subject and verb, as well as to the total "sound" of a writer's style | |
| 43171984 | apostrophe | type of soliloquy where nature is addressed as though human | |
| 43171985 | anadiplosis | the repitition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause | |
| 43171986 | anthimeria | the substitution of one part of speech for another | |
| 43171987 | antimetabole | the repitition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order | |
| 43171988 | assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds in the stressed syllables of two or more adjacent words | |
| 43171989 | appositive | a noun or noun phrase that follows another noun immediately or defines or amplifies its meaning | |
| 43171990 | antagonist | one who contends against another; an adversary | |
| 43171991 | asyndeton | the omission of conjunctions between related clauses | |
| 43171992 | apologist | a person or character who makes a case for some controversial, even contentious position | |
| 43171993 | anaphora | the repitition of a group of words at the beginning of successive clauses | |
| 43171994 | enthymeme | logical reasoning with one premise by the overall context of a passage | |
| 43171995 | jargon | the specialized vocabulary of a particular group | |
| 43171996 | litotes | understatement | |
| 43171997 | double entendre | the double (or multiple) meanings of a group of words that the speaker or writer has purposely left ambiguous | |
| 43171998 | logos | the appeal of a text based on the logical structure of its argument or central ideas | |
| 43171999 | heuristic | a systematic strategy or method for solving problems | |
| 43172000 | epistrophe | the repetition of a group of words at the end of successive clauses | |
| 43172001 | genre | a piece of writing classified by type | |
| 43172002 | ethos | the appeal of a text to the credibility and character of the speaker, writers, or narrator | |
| 43172003 | epithet | a word or phrase adding a characteristics to a persons name |
