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| 5047088798 | Anachronism | Something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred. An artifact that belong to another time. A person who seems to be displaced in time - who belongs to another age. | 0 | |
| 5047088799 | Anthropomorphism | The act of attributing human forms or qualities to entities which are not human. Describing of gods or goddesses in human forms and possessing human characteristics such as jealousy, hatred, or love. | 1 | |
| 5047088800 | Archetype | A theme, motif, symbol, or stock character that holds a familiar place in a culture's consciousness. Think of it as the biggest cliché ever: but one that never dies. | 2 | |
| 5047088801 | Example and Explanation of Archetype | The Odyssey is so full of archetypes that there is probably at least one of every kind. Odysseus is the archetypical hero, Hydra and Charybdis and the Cyclops are the archetypical monsters... | 3 | |
| 5047088802 | Prose | The ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry. | 4 | |
| 5047088803 | Theme | The central idea or message in a work of literature. | 5 | |
| 5047088804 | Mood | The atmosphere or emotional state created by a piece of literature. The words and sentence structure that a writer uses contribute to it. Usually described in expressions of feelings and emotions, such as fear, surprise, anger, hatred, contentment, or jealousy, to name a few. | 6 | |
| 5047088805 | Tone | The emotional quality of the words that the author has chosen. It is also the author's attitude and point of view toward a subject; it reflects the feelings of the writer, and can affect the emotional response of the reader to the piece. | 7 | |
| 5047088806 | Foible | A minor weakness or failing of character. | 8 | |
| 5047088807 | Irony | A trope in which a word or phrase is used to mean the opposite of its literal meaning. Example: "I just love scrubbing the floor. | 9 | |
| 5047088808 | Juxtaposition | When one theme or idea or person or whatever is paralleled to another. | 10 | |
| 5047088809 | Paradox | Reveals a kind of truth which at first seems contradictory. Two opposing ideas. The middle ground between two seemingly contradictory points. | 11 | |
| 5047088810 | Explanation of Paradox | in teaching: wanting a safe school but also wanting kids to have freedom; wanting them to have choice and interest in what they learn but wanting them to "get" certain "stuff"; wanting a friendly relationship with colleagues but being able to say the tough stuff to each other, etc. | 12 | |
| 5047088811 | Montage | A quick succession of images or impressions used to express and idea. | 13 | |
| 5047088812 | Motif | A phrase, idea, symbol, or event that through repetition serves to unify or convey a theme in an essay or other discourse. | 14 | |
| 5047088813 | Omniscient narrator | A narrator with unlimited awareness, understanding and insight of characters, setting, background, and all other elements of the story | 15 | |
| 5047088814 | Stream of consciousness | A style of writing in which the author tries to reproduce the random flow of thoughts in the human mind | 16 |
