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| 1958412 | Abstract Language | Lauguage descirbing ideas and qualities rather than observable or specific things, people or places. | |
| 1958413 | Active voice | The subject of the sentence performs the action. | |
| 1958414 | Allusion | An indirect reference to something with which the reader is supposed to be familiar. | |
| 1958415 | Ambiguity | An event or situation that may be interpreted in more than one way. | |
| 1958416 | Analogy | A comparison to a directly parallel case. | |
| 1958417 | Anecdote | A brief recounting of a relevant episode. | |
| 1958418 | Annotation | Explanatory notes added to a text to explain, clarify, or prompt futher thought. | |
| 1958419 | Antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. | |
| 1958420 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. The effect may add familiarity or emotional intensity. | |
| 1958421 | Attitude of the author/tone | A writer's attitude toward his subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization. | |
| 1958422 | Classicism | Art or literature characterized by a realistic view of people and the world; sticks to traditional themes and structures. | |
| 1958423 | Concrete Language | Language that describes specific, observable things, peoples or places, rather than ideas or qualities. | |
| 1958424 | Diction | Word choice, particularly as an element of style. | |
| 1958425 | Colloquial | Ordinary or familiar type of conversation. | |
| 1958426 | Connotation | Implied meaning rather than literal meaning. | |
| 1958427 | Denotation | the literal, explicit meaning of a word, without its connotations. | |
| 1958428 | Jargon | The diction used by a group which practices a similar profession or activity. | |
| 1958429 | Vernacular | Language or dialect of a particular country, language or dialect of a regional clan or group, plain everyday speech. | |
| 1958430 | Didactic | A term used to describe fiction, nonfiction or poety that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking. | |
| 1958431 | Adage | A folk saying with a lesson | |
| 1958432 | Allegory | A story, fictional or non fictional, in which characters, things, and events represent qualities or concepts. | |
| 1958433 | Aphorism | A terse statement which expresses a general truth or moral principle. | |
| 1958434 | Homily | This term literally means "sermon," but more informally, it can include any serious talk, speech, or lecture involving moral or spiritual advice. | |
| 1958435 | Ellipsis | The deliberate omission of a word or phrase from prose done for effect by the author. | |
| 1958436 | Epigram | A short poem with a clever twist at the end, or a concise and witty statement. | |
| 1958437 | Epigraph | A quotation or aphorism at the beginnning of a literary work suggestive of theme. | |
| 1958438 | Euphemism | A more agreeable or less offensive substitute for generally unpleasant words or concepts. | |
| 1958439 | Explication | The act of interpreting or discovering the meaning of a text. | |
| 1958440 | Figurative Language | The opposite of "literal language"; writing that is not meant to be taken literally | |
| 1958441 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration | |
| 1958442 | Idiom | A common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally. | |
| 1958443 | Metaphor | Making an implied comparsion, not using "like," "as," or other such words. | |
| 1958444 | Simile | Using words such as "like" or "as" to make a direct comparison between two very different things. | |
| 1958445 | Genre | The major category into which a literary work fits. | |
| 1958446 | Gothic | Writing characterized by gloom, mystery, fear and/or death. | |
| 1958447 | Imagery | Word or words that create a picture in the reader's mind. | |
| 1958448 | Invective | An emotionall violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language. | |
| 1958449 | Irony | When the opposite of what you expect to happen does. | |
| 1958450 | Verbal irony | When you say something and mean the opposite/something different. | |
| 1958451 | Dramatic irony | When the audience of a drama, play, movie, etc. knows something that the character doesn't and would be surprised to find out. | |
| 1958452 | Situational irony | Found in the plot of a book, story, or movie. | |
| 1958453 | Juxtaposition | Placing things side by side for the purposes of comparison. | |
| 1958454 | Mood | The atmosphere created by the literature and accomplished through word choice. | |
| 1958455 | Objectivity | An author's stance that distances himself from personal involvement. | |
| 1958456 | Oxymoron | When apparently contradictory terms are grouped together and suggest a paradox. | |
| 1958457 | Paradox | A seemingly contradictory statement which is actually true. | |
| 1958458 | Parallelism/parallel structure | Sentence construction which places equal grammatical construction near each other, or repeats identical grammatical patterns. | |
| 1958459 | Anaphora | Repetition or a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row. | |
| 1958460 | Antithesis | Two opposite or contrasting words, phrases, or clauses, or even ideas, with parallel structure. | |
| 1958461 | Parenthetical idea | An idea that is set off from the rest of the sentence. | |
| 1958462 | Parody | An exaggerated imitation of a serious work for humorous purposes. | |
| 1958463 | Passive voice | The subject of the sentence receives the action. | |
| 1958464 | Pedantic | Observing strict adherence to formal rules or literal meaning at the expense of a wider view. | |
| 1958465 | Persona | The fictional mask or narrator that tells a story. | |
| 1958466 | Rhetoric | The art of effective communication. | |
| 1958467 | Rhetorical question | A question not asked for information but for effect. | |
| 1958468 | Romanticism | Art or literature characterized by an idealistic, perhaps unrealistic view of people and the world, and an emphasis on nature. | |
| 1958469 | Sarcasm | A generally bitter comment that is ironically worded. | |
| 1958470 | Satire | A work that reveals a critical attitude toward some element of life to a humorous effect. | |
| 1958471 | Sentence | A group of words (including subject and verb) that expresses a complete thought. | |
| 1958472 | Appositive | A word or group or words placed beside a noun or noun substitute to supplement its meaning. | |
| 1958473 | Clause | A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb. | |
| 1958474 | Simple sentence | Contains one independent clause. | |
| 1958475 | Compound sentence | Contains at least two independent clauses but no dependent clauses. | |
| 1958476 | Complex sentence | Contains only one independent clause and at least one dependent clause. | |
| 1958477 | Compound-complex sentence | contains two or more independent clauses and at least one dependent clause. | |
| 1958478 | Balanced sentence | One in which two parallel elements are set off against each other like equal weights on a scale. | |
| 1958479 | Loose sentence | A complex sentence in which the main clause comes first and the subordinate clause follows. | |
| 1958480 | Periodic sentence | When the main idea is not completed until the end of the sentence. | |
| 1958481 | Declarative sentence | States an idea | |
| 1958482 | Imperative sentence | Issues a command. | |
| 1958483 | Interrogative sentence | Sentences incorporating interrogative pronouns. | |
| 1958484 | Style | The choices in diction, tone, and syntax that a writer makes. | |
| 1958485 | Symbol | Anything that represents or stands for somthing else. | |
| 1958486 | Syntax/sentence variety | Grammatical arrangement of words. | |
| 1958487 | Theme | The central idea or message of a work. | |
| 1958488 | Thesis | The sentence or groups of sentences that directly expresses the author's opinion, purpose, meaning, or proposition. | |
| 1958489 | Transition | Smooth movement from one paragraph (or idea) to another. | |
| 1958490 | Understatement | the ironice minimizing of fact, presents something as less significant than it is. | |
| 1958491 | Litotes | A particular form of understatement, generated by denying the opposite of the statement which otherwise would be used. |
