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| 13736109012 | active voice | The subject of the sentence performs the action | 0 | |
| 13736110738 | allusion | an indirect reference to something which with the reader is supposed to be familiar | 1 | |
| 13736116011 | alter-ego | a character that is used by the author to speak the author's own thoughts; when an author speaks directly to the audience through a character | 2 | |
| 13736162202 | anecdote | a brief recounting of a relevant episode | 3 | |
| 13736165921 | antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. | 4 | |
| 13736170079 | classicism | art or literature characterized by a realistic view of people and the world; sticks to traditional themes and structures | 5 | |
| 13736175617 | comic relief | A humorous scene or speech intended to lighten the mood | 6 | |
| 13736202007 | diction | Word choice, particularly as an element of style. | 7 | |
| 13736207161 | colloquial | Ordinary or familiar type of conversation. A "colloquialism" is a common or familiar type of saying, similar to an adage or an aphorism. (DICTION) | 8 | |
| 13736214114 | Connotation | implied meaning rather than literal meaning(DICTION) | 9 | |
| 13736219390 | denotation | The literal, explicit meaning of a word, without its connotations. (DICTION) | 10 | |
| 13736224261 | jargon | diction used by a group which practices a similar profession or activity | 11 | |
| 13736238511 | vernacular | language or dialect of particular country, regional clan or group. Plain everyday speech | 12 | |
| 13736244408 | Didactic | A term used to describe fiction, nonfiction or poetry that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking. | 13 | |
| 13736254790 | adage | a folk saying with a lesson | 14 | |
| 13736256631 | allegory | a story, fictional or non ficitonal, in which characters, things, and events represent qualities or concepts. The interaction of these characters, things, and events is meant to reveal an abstraction or a truth. | 15 | |
| 13736265229 | aphorism | A terse statement which expresses a general truth or moral principle | 16 | |
| 13736274179 | ellipsis | The deliberate omission of a word or phrase from prose done for effect by the author. | 17 | |
| 13736277450 | euphemism | a more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept | 18 | |
| 13736306009 | figurative language | writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally | 19 | |
| 13736310873 | analogy | comparison of one pair of variables to a parallel set of variable. When a writer uses an analogy, he or she argues that the relationship between the first pair of variables is the same as the relationship between the second pair of variables | 20 | |
| 13736318968 | hyperbole | exaggeration | 21 | |
| 13736321046 | idiom | a common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally | 22 | |
| 13736325546 | metaphor | implied comparison | 23 | |
| 13736326955 | metonymy | replacing an actual word or idea, with a related word or concept | 24 | |
| 13736332874 | synecdoche | A kind of metonymy when a whole is represented by naming one of its parts, or vice versa. | 25 | |
| 13736337074 | simile | A direct comparison using like or as | 26 | |
| 13736340989 | synthesia | description involving a "crossing of the senses" | 27 | |
| 13736361001 | foreshadowing | When an author gives hints about what will occur later in a story. | 28 | |
| 13736362799 | gothic | writing characterized by gloom, mystery, fear and/or death. Also refers to an architectural style of the middle ages, often seen cathedrals of this period | 29 | |
| 13736368634 | imagery | word or words that create a picture in the reader's mind. Usually this involves the five sense. Authors often use imagery in conjunction with metaphors, similes, or figures of speech | 30 | |
| 13736388763 | invective | A long, emotionally violent, attack using strong, abusive language. | 31 | |
| 13736390171 | irony | when the opposite of what you expect to happen does | 32 | |
| 13736448386 | verbal irony | When you say something and mean the opposite/something different. | 33 | |
| 13736470096 | dramatic irony | when the audience knows something the characters do not | 34 | |
| 13736474238 | situational irony | irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected. | 35 | |
| 13736478110 | juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts | 36 | |
| 13736480855 | mood | Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader | 37 | |
| 13736484322 | motif | A recurring theme, subject or idea | 38 | |
| 13736486137 | oxymoron | when apparently contradictory terms a grouped together and suggest a paradox | 39 | |
| 13736489556 | pacing | the movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another | 40 | |
| 13736494432 | paradox | A seemingly contradictory situation which is actually true | 41 | |
| 13736499513 | parallelism | sentence construction which places equal grammatical constructions near each other, or repeats identical grammatical patterns | 42 | |
| 13736529373 | anaphora | Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row. This is a deliberate form of repetition and helps make the writer's point more coherent. | 43 | |
| 13736538264 | chiasmus | when the same words are used twice in succession, but the second time, the order of the words is reversed | 44 | |
| 13736547103 | antithesis | Two opposite or contrasting words, phrases, or clauses, or even ideas, with parallel structure. | 45 | |
| 13736553073 | Zuegma (Syllepsis) | When a single word governs or modifies two or more other words, and the meaning of the first word must change for each of the other words it governs or modifies. "The butler killed the lights, and then the mistress." "I quickly dressed myself and the salad." | 46 | |
| 13736561647 | parenthetical idea | Parentheses are used to set off an idea from the rest of the sentence. | 47 | |
| 13736566601 | parody | an exaggerate imitation of a serious work for humorous purposes. It borrows words or phrases from an original, and pokes fun at it. Form of allusion | 48 | |
| 13736581420 | persona | the fictional mask or narrator that tells a story | 49 | |
| 13736585599 | alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds | 50 | |
| 13736585600 | assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds | 51 | |
| 13736587254 | consonance | Repetition of consonant sounds | 52 | |
| 13736592298 | onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. | 53 | |
| 13736595089 | internal rhyme | A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line | 54 | |
| 13975387277 | slant rhyme | when a poet creates a rhyme but the two words do not rhyme exactly, they are merely similar | 55 | |
| 13975392923 | end rhyme | When the last word of two different lines of poetry rhyme | 56 | |
| 13975394889 | rhyme scheme | The pattern of a poem's end rhymes. | 57 | |
| 13975399006 | stressed and unstressed syllables | In every word of more than one syllable, one of the syllables is stressed, or said with more force than the other syllable(s). In the name "Nathan," the first syllable is stressed. In the word "unhappiness," the second of the four syllables is stressed. | 58 | |
| 13975400398 | meter | a regular pattern to the syllables in lines of poetry | 59 | |
| 13975402520 | free verse | poetry that doesn't have much meter or rhyme | 60 | |
| 13975405880 | sonnet | 14 line poem written in iambic pentameter | 61 | |
| 13975407448 | Polysyndeton | When a writer creates a list of items which are all separated by conjunctions | 62 | |
| 13975409840 | pun | When a word that has two or more meanings is used in a humorous way. | 63 | |
| 13975413087 | rhetoric | the art of effective communication | 64 | |
| 13975418099 | rhetorical question | Question not asked for information but for effect | 65 | |
| 13975420793 | romanticism | Art or literature characterized by an idealistic, perhaps unrealistic view of people and the world, and an emphasis on nature. | 66 | |
| 13975422703 | sarcasm | A generally bitter comment that is ironically or satirically worded. | 67 | |
| 13975425582 | satire | A work that reveals a critical attitude toward some element of human behavior by portraying it in an extreme way. It doesn't simply abuse (as in invective) or get personal (as in sarcasm). It targets groups or large concepts rather than individuals. | 68 | |
| 13975430919 | appositive | A word or group of words placed beside a noun or noun substitute to supplement its meaning | 69 | |
| 13975433810 | clause | A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb. | 70 | |
| 13975434924 | balanced sentence | a sentence in which two parallel elements are set off against each other like equal weights on a scale. Both parts a parallel grammatically | 71 | |
| 13975441569 | compound sentence | contains at least two independent clauses but no dependent clause | 72 | |
| 13975444432 | complex sentence | Contains only one independent clause and at least one dependent clause. | 73 | |
| 13975446164 | cumulative sentence | When the writer begins with an independent clause, then adds subordinate elements | 74 | |
| 13975447198 | periodic sentence | When the main idea is not completed until the end of the sentence. the writer begins with subordiante elements and postpones the main clause | 75 | |
| 13975453684 | simple sentence | contains only one independent clause | 76 | |
| 13975458024 | declarative sentence | States an idea. It does not give a command or request, nor does it ask a question. "The ball is round." | 77 | |
| 13975459292 | imperative sentence | Issues a command | 78 | |
| 13975460561 | Interrogative | sentences incorporating interrogative pronouns (what, which, who, whom, and whose?) | 79 | |
| 13975464920 | Style | The choices in diction, tone, and syntax that a writer makes. | 80 | |
| 13975466888 | symbol | anything that stands for or represents something else | 81 | |
| 13975470249 | syntax/ sentence variety | Grammatical arrangement of words. This is perhaps one of the most difficult concepts to master. First, a reader should examine the length of sentences (short or long). How does sentence length and structure relate to tone and meaning. Are they simple, compound, compound-complex sentences? How do they relate to one another? Syntax is the grouping of words, while diction refers to the selection of individual words. | 82 | |
| 13975474595 | theme | The central idea or message of a work, the insight it offers into life | 83 | |
| 13975478912 | thesis | the sentence or group of sentences that directly expresses the author's opinion, purpose, meaning, or position | 84 | |
| 13975478913 | tone | A writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization on the sentence and global levels. | 85 | |
| 13975480337 | understatement | the ironic minimalizing of fact, understatement presents something as less significant than it is. The effect can frequently be humorous and emphatic. Understatement is the opposite of hyperbole. Example: Jonathan Swift's A Tale of a Tub: "Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe how much it altered her person for the worse." | 86 | |
| 13975485879 | litotes | a particular form of understatement, is generated by denying the opposite or contrary of the word which otherwise would be used | 87 |
