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| 5566294 | allegory | an extended narrative in prose or verse in which characters, events, and settings represent abstract ideas | |
| 5566295 | anaphora | repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row | |
| 5566296 | antithesis | the presentation of two contrasting images | |
| 5566297 | aphorism | a short, often witty statement of a principle or a truth about life | |
| 5566298 | assonace | repetition of vowel sounds between different consonants | |
| 5566299 | asyndeton | commas used with no conjuction to seperate a series of words | |
| 5566300 | cacophony | harsh, awkward, or dissonant sounds used deliberately | |
| 5566301 | caricature | descriptive writing that greatly exaggerates a specific feature of a person's appearance or a faced of personality | |
| 5566302 | denotation | literal meaning of a word as defined | |
| 5566303 | discourse | spoken or written language, including literary works - four main: description, exposition, narration, and persuasion | |
| 5566304 | epigraph | the use of a quotation at the beginning of a work that hints at its theme | |
| 5566305 | euphony | a succession of harmonious sounds used in poetry or prose | |
| 5566306 | explication | the art of interpreting or discovering the meaning of a text | |
| 5566307 | exposition | the immediate revelation to the audience of the setting and other background information necessary for understanding the plot | |
| 5566308 | freight-train | sentence consisting of three or more very short independent clauses joined by conjuctions | |
| 5566309 | metonymy | a figure of speech that uses the name of an object, person, or idea to represent something with which it is associated, such as using "the crown" to refer to a monarch | |
| 5566310 | non-sequitur | when one statement isn't logically connected to another | |
| 5566311 | objectivity | an impersonal presentation of events and characters | |
| 5566312 | omniscient | third person narrator | |
| 5566313 | limited omniscient | a third person narrator who reports the thoughts of only one character and generally only what that one character sees | |
| 5566314 | objective | a third person narrator who only reports what would be visible to a camera | |
| 5566315 | polysyndeton | sentence which uses and or another conjunction with no commas to seperate the items in a series | |
| 5566316 | protagonist | the main character of a literary work | |
| 5566317 | Red Herring/Reductio ad Absurdum | when a writer raises an irrelevant issue to draw attention away from the real issue the Latin for "to reduce to the absurd" | |
| 5566318 | syllogism | a form of reasoning in which two statements are made and a conclusion is drawn from them | |
| 5566319 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent a whole, such as using "boards" to mean a stage or "wheels" to mean a car | |
| 5566320 | syntactic fluency | ability to create a variety of sentence structures, appropriately complex and /or simple and varied in length | |
| 5566321 | syntactic permutation | sentence structures that are extraordinarily complex and involved. they are often difficult for a reader to follow | |
| 5566322 | tricolon | sentence consisting of three parts of equal importance and lenght, usually three independent clauses | |
| 5566323 | voice | refers to two different areas of writing: 1. . relationship between a sentence's subject and verb (active and passive voice) 2. the total "sound" of a writer's style |
