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| 4818388066 | Allegory | An extended NARRATIVE in PROSE or VERSE in which Characters , events, and settings represent abstract qualities and in which the writer intends a second meaning to be read beneath the surface story. The underlying meaning may be moral, religious, political, social, or satiric. The characters are often PERSONIFICATIONS of such abstractions as greed, envy, hope, charity, or fortitude. | 0 | |
| 4818388067 | Alliteration | The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words or writhing the words. | 1 | |
| 4818388068 | Allusion | A passing reference to historical or fictional CHARACTERISTICS, place, or events, or to other works the writer assumes the reader will recognize. | 2 | |
| 4818388069 | Ambiguity | Double or even multiple meaning. Unintentional ability is considered a defect in specific writing and wherever clarity is prized. | 3 | |
| 4818388070 | Anachronism | An event, object, person, or thing that is out of its order in time. Anachronisms abound in Shakespeare. | 4 | |
| 4818388071 | Analogy | A comparison of similar things, often for the purpose of using something familiar to explain something unfamiliar. | 5 | |
| 4818388072 | Anecdote | A brief NARRATIVE of an entertaining and presumably true incident. Anecdotes are used in biographical writing, ESSAYS, and speeches to reveal a personality trait or to illustrate a point. | 6 | |
| 4818388073 | Antecedent | Something that comes before. In the context of grammar the antecedent of a pronoun is the word that the pronouns stands for. | 7 | |
| 4818388074 | Antithesis | 1. A figure of speech in which opposing or contrasting Ideas are balanced against each other in a grammatically parallel syntax. | 8 | |
| 4818388075 | Aphorism | A terse statement of a principle or truth, usually an observation about life; a maxim. "The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history" | 9 | |
| 4818388076 | Apostrophe | The device, usually in poetry, of calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to a place, thing, or personified abstraction either to begin a poem or to make a dramatic break in thought somewhere within the poem. | 10 | |
| 4818388077 | Archetype | A pattern or model of an action (such as lamenting the dead), a character type (rebellious youth), or and image (paradise as a garden) that occurs consistently enough in life and literature to be considered universal. | 11 | |
| 4818388078 | Argument | Discourse intended to convince or persuade through appeals to on or to the emotions, the objective being to influence belief or motivate action. | 12 | |
| 4818388079 | Canon | Generally, any group of writing that has been established as authentic; more specifically, those books of the Christian Bible that are accepted as scripture. This term is used to describe collectively those works of a particular author that have been proven or see considered genuine. | 13 | |
| 4818388080 | Caricature | Descriptive writing that exaggerates specific features of appearance of personality, usually for a comic effect. | 14 | |
| 4818388081 | Colloquial/colloquialism | A word or phrase in everyday use in conversation an informal writing, but sometimes inappropriate in a formal essay | 15 | |
| 4818388082 | Connotation | The Associations, images, or impressions carried by a word, as opposed to the word's literal meaning. For example, the word mother literally "a female parent" but it usually connotes warmth, love, sympathy, security, and nature. | 16 | |
| 4818388083 | Denotation | The precise, literal meaning of a word, without emotional associations or overtones | 17 | |
| 4818388084 | Dialect | The version of a language spoken by the people of a particular region or social group. | 18 | |
| 4877768134 | Diction | Word Choice. Two standards - not mutually exclusive - by which a speaker or writer's diction is usually judged: clarity and appropriateness | 19 | |
| 4877774522 | Didactic | Poetry, plays, novels, and stories whose primary purpose is to guide, instruct, or teach. | 20 | |
| 4877777822 | Digression | A portion of speech or written work that interrupts the development of the THEME or PLOT. | 21 | |
| 4877787375 | epiphany | a moment of revelation or profound insight. Greek mythology- sudden revelation to a human being of the hidden or disguised divinity of a god or goddess. | 22 | |
| 4877790612 | epithet | an adjective or adjective phrase applied to a person or thing to emphasize a characteristic quality or attribute, such as "lily-livered coward" or "murmuring book" | 23 | |
| 4877795083 | eulogy | a formal composition or speech in high praise of someone (living or dead) or something | 24 | |
| 4877797281 | euphemism | a mild expression substitute for one considered too harsh or improper. | 25 | |
| 4877805648 | figurative language | language that contains figures of speech such as metaphor, simile, personification, and hyperbole | 26 | |
| 4877807071 | figure of speech | expressions, such as metaphors, similes, personifications, that make comparisons or associations meant to be taken imaginatively rather than literally | 27 | |
| 4877809849 | hyperbole | obvious, extravagant exaggeration or overstatement, not intended to be taken literally, but used figuratively to create humor or emphasis | 28 | |
| 4877812866 | imagery | the making of "pictures with words". Synonymous with figure of speech or figurative language. | 29 | |
| 4877816337 | incongruity | the quality of being inharmonious or incompatible or inconsistent | 30 | |
| 4877819138 | inference/infer | a general conclusion drawn from particulars | 31 | |
| 4877820372 | irony | the recognition of the incongruity or difference, between reality and appearance. Verbal is the contrast between what is said and what is meant. Situational irony refers to the contrast between what is intended or expected and what actually occurs. Dramatic occurs when a character unwittingly makes a remark that the audience is intended to understand as ironic, or in contradiction to the full truth. | 32 | |
| 4878297541 | Local color | The use in writing of the physical setting, dialect, customs and attitudes that typify a particular region. | 33 | |
| 4878297542 | Mood | A prevailing emotional attitude in a literary work or in part of a work. Mood is the authors attitude toward the subject or the theme | 34 | |
| 4878297543 | Metaphor | (Extended, dead, mixed) a figure of speech, and implied analogy in which one thing is imaginatively compared to or identified with another dissimilar thing. Extended is sustained throughout the work and functions as a controlling imagine. Dead is one that has been used so often it has ceased to be figurative and is taken literally. Mixed combines two or more inconsistent metaphors in a single expression, often resulting in unintentional humor. | 35 | |
| 4878297544 | Metonymy | A figure of speech that substitutes the name of a related object, person, or idea for the subject at hand. | 36 | |
| 4878803650 | Motif | In literature, a recurring imagine, word, phrase, action, idea, object, or situation that appears in various works or the same work. | 37 | |
| 4878803651 | Narrative | A recounting of a series of actual or fictional events in which some connection between the events is established or implied | 38 | |
| 4878803652 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech in which two contradictory words or phrases are combined in a single expression, giving an effect of a condensed paradox | 39 | |
| 4878803653 | Parable | A short tale illustrating a moral lesson | 40 | |
| 4878803654 | Paradox | A statement that, while apparently self-contradictory, is nonetheless essentially true. | 41 | |
| 4878803655 | Parallelism | The technique of showing that words, phrases, clauses, or larger structures are comparable in content and importance by placing them side by side and making them in similar in form | 42 | |
| 4878803656 | Parody | A composition that ridicules another composition by imitating and exaggerating aspects of its content, structure, and style, accomplishing in words what caricature achieves in drawing | 43 | |
| 4878803657 | Pathetic fallacy | A term coined by John Ruskin to criticize the use of personification, in which human emotions are attributed to nature. | 44 | |
| 4878803658 | Plagiarism | Using another writer's ideas or words as one's own. | 45 | |
| 4878803659 | Point of view | The vantage point, or stance, from which s story is told, the eye and mind through which the action is perceived and filtered | 46 | |
| 4878803660 | Prose | All forms of ordinary writing and speech lacking the sustained and regular rhythmic patterns found in POETRY. | 47 | |
| 4878803661 | Rhetoric | The art of persuasion, in speaking or writing. | 48 | |
| 4878803662 | Sarcasm | Harsh, cutting, personal remarks to or about someone, not necessarily ironic. | 49 | |
| 4878803663 | Satire | A term used to describe any form of LITERATURE that blends ironic HUMOR and WIT with criticism for the purpose of ridiculing folly, vice, stupidity-the whole range of human foibles and frailties-in individuals and institutions. | 50 | |
| 4878803664 | Stream of consciousness | A method and a subject matter of NARRATIVE FICTION that attempts to represent the inner workings of a Character's mind at all levels of awareness to recreate the continuous, chaotic flow, thoughts, memories, images, feelings, and reflections that constitute character's "consciousness" | 51 | |
| 4878803665 | Synecdoche | A FIGURE OF SPEECH in which a part of something stands for the whole thing. | 52 | |
| 4878803666 | Symbolism | The conscious and artful use of SYMBOLS, objects, actions, or CHARACTERS meant to be taken both literally and as representative of some high more complex and abstract significance that lies beyond ordinary meaning | 53 | |
| 4878803667 | Syntax | The arrangement and grammatical relation of words, phrases, and clauses in sentences; the ordering of words into phrases, clauses, and sentences | 54 | |
| 4878803668 | Tone | The reflection in a work of the author's attitude toward his or her SUBJECT, CHARACTERISTICS, and readers. | 55 | |
| 4878803669 | Understatement | A type of verbal IRONY in which something is purposely represented as being far less important than it actually is; also called meiosis | 56 | |
| 4878803670 | Voice | A term used in LITERARY CRITICISM to identify the sense a written work conveys to a reader of its writer's attitude, personality, and character | 57 | |
| 4878803671 | Affect | To assume, pretend to have, put on, imitate, fake | 58 | |
| 4878803672 | Affected | Artificial, pretentious, unnatural | 59 | |
| 4878803673 | Ethos | character, to demonstrate that they are credible and trustworthy. A speaker's reputation immediately | 60 | |
| 4878803674 | Logos | Reason by offering clear, rational ideas. Ideas are supported logically with examples, fact, statistics, or expert | 61 | |
| 4878803675 | Pathos | Emotion, using words with strong connotations, vivid concrete description, and figurative language | 62 | |
| 4878803676 | Cadence | Rhythm, lilt, intonation, inflection, tone | 63 | |
| 4878803677 | Clause | A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb. Independent expresses a complete thought and can stand alone in a sentence. | 64 | |
| 4878803678 | Subordinate clause | Contains both a subject and a verb. Can not stand alone. It does not express a complete thought. | 65 | |
| 4878803679 | Homily | Means "sermon" but more informally it can include any serious talk, speech, or lecture involving moral or spiritual advice. | 66 | |
| 4878803680 | Loose sentence | A type of sentence in which the main idea comes first, followed by dependent grammatical units such as phrases and clauses. | 67 | |
| 4878803681 | Periodic sentence | A sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end. | 68 | |
| 4878803682 | Pendantic | Describes words, phrases, or general tone that is overly scholarly, academic, or bookish. | 69 | |
| 4878803683 | Discourse or rhetorical modes | Describes the variety, the conventions, and the purposes of the major kinds of writing. 1. Exposition (expository writing) explain and analyze information by presenting an idea, relevant evidence, and appropriate discussion. 2. Argumentation- to prove the validity of an idea, r point of view, by presenting sound reasoning, discussion, and argument that thoroughly convince the reader (persuasive) 3. Narration is to tell a story or narrate an event or series of events. | 70 | |
| 4878803684 | Syllogism | A deductive system of formal logic that presents two premises that inevitably lead to a sound conclusion. | 71 | |
| 4878803685 | Thesis | A group of sentences that directly expresses the author's opinion, purpose, meaning, or position | 72 |
