3654520073 | Allegory | A device using characters and or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to literal meaning. For example using a character to represent hope or freedom. | 0 | |
3654520074 | Anaphora | A device of repetition which the same phrase or word is repeated at the beginning of a line | 1 | |
3654520075 | Atmosphere | A emotional mood created by the entirety of a literary work like the weather. | 2 | |
3654520076 | Connotation | The nonliteral meaning of a word, the implied suggested meaning. | 3 | |
3654520077 | Exposition | It explains a piece of work. For example the _________ in a drama is the setting and introductory detail that creates the mood. | 4 | |
3654520078 | Genre | A major category were a literary work fits. Some ______ are prose, poetry, and drama | 5 | |
3654520079 | Invective | An emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language. | 6 | |
3654520080 | Mood | _____ deals with verbal units and speakers attitude. also it can be the prevailing atmosphere or emotional aura. | 7 | |
3654520081 | Parallelism | Grammatical or rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs to give structural similarity. For example it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, which can emphasize on a point. | 8 | |
3654520082 | Point of view | A perspective of which a story is told | 9 | |
3654520083 | Rhetoric | Term that governs the art of writing effectively, eloquently, and persuasively. | 10 | |
3654520084 | Style | An evaluation of the sum of the choices an author makes with blending diction, syntax, figurative language and much more. It also can classify a group of authors | 11 | |
3654520085 | Syntax | The way an author a joins phrases, clauses and sentences. Similar to diction but is a group of words. | 12 | |
3654520086 | Understatement | The ironic minimizing of a fact, ________________ presents something as less significant than what it really is. | 13 |
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