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| 11115690628 | narrative | The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events. | 0 | |
| 11115690629 | onomatopoeia | A figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words | 1 | |
| 11115690630 | oxymoron | "Pointedly foolish" - a figure of speech wherein the author *groups apparently contradictory terms to suggest a paradox.* | 2 | |
| 11115690631 | paradox | *A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense* but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity. | 3 | |
| 11115690632 | parallelism | "Beside one another" - *the grammatical or rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs to give structural similarity.* | 4 | |
| 11115690634 | parody | A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule. | 5 | |
| 11115690635 | pedantic | An adjective that describes words, phrases, or general tone that is overly scholarly, academic, or bookish | 6 | |
| 11115690636 | periodic sentence | A sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end, preceded by a phrase or clause that cannot stand alone. | 7 | |
| 11115690637 | personification | A figure of speech in which the author presents or describes concepts, animals, or inanimate objects by endowing them with human attributes or emotions. | 8 | |
| 11115690638 | point of view | In literature, the perspective from which a story is told. 1) *first person narrator* - tells the story with the first person pronoun (I) and is a character 2) *third person narrator* - relates the events with the third person pronouns (he, she, it) a. *third person omniscient* - the narrator presents the thoughts and actions of any or all characters b. *third person limited omniscient* - the narrator presents the feelings and thoughts of only one character and just the actions of the other characters | 9 |
