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3654520073AllegoryA 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
3654520074AnaphoraA device of repetition which the same phrase or word is repeated at the beginning of a line1
3654520075AtmosphereA emotional mood created by the entirety of a literary work like the weather.2
3654520076ConnotationThe nonliteral meaning of a word, the implied suggested meaning.3
3654520077ExpositionIt explains a piece of work. For example the _________ in a drama is the setting and introductory detail that creates the mood.4
3654520078GenreA major category were a literary work fits. Some ______ are prose, poetry, and drama5
3654520079InvectiveAn emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language.6
3654520080Mood_____ deals with verbal units and speakers attitude. also it can be the prevailing atmosphere or emotional aura.7
3654520081ParallelismGrammatical 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
3654520082Point of viewA perspective of which a story is told9
3654520083RhetoricTerm that governs the art of writing effectively, eloquently, and persuasively.10
3654520084StyleAn 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 authors11
3654520085SyntaxThe way an author a joins phrases, clauses and sentences. Similar to diction but is a group of words.12
3654520086UnderstatementThe ironic minimizing of a fact, ________________ presents something as less significant than what it really is.13

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