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| 14912431247 | active voice | The subject of the sentence performs the action | 0 | |
| 14912431248 | Allusion | an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference. | 1 | |
| 14912431249 | 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 | |
| 14912431250 | Anecdote | A brief recounting of a relevant episode, often for the sake of humor. | 3 | |
| 14912431251 | Antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. | 4 | |
| 14912431252 | Classicism | Art or literature characterized by a realistic view of people and the world; sticks to traditional themes and structures. | 5 | |
| 14912431253 | comic relief | A humorous scene or speech intended to lighten the mood | 6 | |
| 14912431254 | Diction | A writer's or speaker's choice of words | 7 | |
| 14912431255 | Colloquial | Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing | 8 | |
| 14912431256 | Connotation | implied meaning of a word, associations suggested by the word | 9 | |
| 14912431257 | Denotation | the literal meaning of a word | 10 | |
| 14912431258 | Jargon | special words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or group | 11 | |
| 14912431259 | Vernacular | the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region. | 12 | |
| 14912431260 | didactic | Literature meant to teach a specific lesson or moral | 13 | |
| 14912431261 | Adage | A folk saying with a lesson. "A rolling stone gathers no moss" | 14 | |
| 14912431262 | Allegory | A literary work in which characters, objects, or actions represent abstractions | 15 | |
| 14912431263 | Aphorism | A terse statement which expresses a general truth or moral principle. "God helps them that help themselves" | 16 | |
| 14912431264 | Ellipsis | The deliberate omission of a word or phrase from prose done for effect by the author. "The whole day, rain, torrents of rain" | 17 | |
| 14912431265 | Euphemism | a more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept | 18 | |
| 14912431266 | figurative language | Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling. | 19 | |
| 14912431267 | Analogy | A comparison of two different things that are similar/parallel in some way | 20 | |
| 14912431268 | Hyperbole | exaggeration | 21 | |
| 14912431269 | Idiom | A common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally. | 22 | |
| 14912431270 | Metaphor | A comparison without using like or as | 23 | |
| 14912431271 | Metonymy | Replacing an actual word or idea, with a related word or concept. "Relations between London and Washington have been strained" | 24 | |
| 14912431272 | Synecdoche | A kind of metonymy when a whole is represented by naming one of its parts, or vice versa."Check out my new wheels" | 25 | |
| 14912431273 | Simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" | 26 | |
| 14912431274 | Synthesia | A description involving a "crossing of the senses", "A purplish sent filled the room | 27 | |
| 14912431275 | personification | giving human qualities to non-human things | 28 | |
| 14912431276 | Foreshadowing | When an author gives hints about what will occur later in a story. | 29 | |
| 14912431277 | Genre | The major category into which a literary work fits. | 30 | |
| 14912431278 | Gothic | Writing characterized by gloom, mystery, fear and/or death. | 31 | |
| 14912431279 | Imagery | Words that create a picture in the reader's mind. | 32 | |
| 14912431280 | Invective | An emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language. | 33 | |
| 14912431281 | Irony | when the opposite of what is expected happens | 34 | |
| 14912431282 | Verbal irony | when a character says one thing but means another | 35 | |
| 14912431283 | Dramatic irony | when the audience knows something the characters do not | 36 | |
| 14912431284 | Situational irony | Irony within the plot of a book, story, or movie | 37 | |
| 14912431285 | Juxtaposition | Placing two things side by side, usually to show contrast. | 38 | |
| 14912431286 | Mood | The atmosphere created by the literature and accomplished through word choice. | 39 | |
| 14912431287 | Motif | A recurring theme, subject or idea | 40 | |
| 14912431288 | Oxymoron | When apparently contradictory terms are grouped together and suggest a paradox | 41 | |
| 14912431289 | Pacing | The speed or tempo of an author's writing. | 42 | |
| 14912431290 | Paradox | a seemingly contradictory statement that may nonetheless be true | 43 | |
| 14912431291 | Anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | 44 | |
| 14912431292 | Chiasmus | When the same words are used twice in succession, but the second time, the order of the words is reversed. Also called antimetabole | 45 | |
| 14912431293 | Antithesis | Two opposite or contrasting words, phrases, or clauses, or even ideas, with parallel structure. | 46 | |
| 14912431294 | 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." | 47 | |
| 14912431295 | parenthetical idea | Parentheses are used to set off an idea from the rest of the sentence. | 48 | |
| 14912431296 | Parody | An exaggerated imitation of a serious work for humorous purposes. | 49 | |
| 14912431297 | Persona | The fictional mask or narrator that tells a story | 50 | |
| 14912431298 | Poetic device | A device used in poetry to manipulate the sound of words, sentences or lines. | 51 | |
| 14912431299 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds | 52 | |
| 14912431300 | Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds | 53 | |
| 14912431301 | Consonance | Repetition of consonant sounds at the end of or within words | 54 | |
| 14912431302 | Onomatopoeia | the use of words that imitate sounds | 55 | |
| 14912431303 | internal rhyme | When a line of poetry contains a rhyme within a single line | 56 | |
| 14912431304 | Slant rhyme | two words that have some sound in common but do not rhyme exactly | 57 | |
| 14912431305 | end rhyme | Rhyme that occurs at the end of two or more lines of poetry | 58 | |
| 14912431306 | rhyme scheme | A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem | 59 | |
| 14912431307 | stressed syllable | part of the word that is emphasized when said aloud | 60 | |
| 14912431308 | unstressed syllable | the part of the word that you don't emphasize or accent | 61 | |
| 14912431309 | Meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry | 62 | |
| 14912431310 | free verse | poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter | 63 | |
| 14912431311 | iambic pentameter | Poetry that is written in lines of 10 syllables, alternating stressed and unstressed syllables. | 64 | |
| 14912431312 | Sonnet | A 14 line poem written in iambic pentameter often divided into three quatrains and a couplet. | 65 | |
| 14912431313 | Polysndeton | When a writer creates a list of items which are all separated by conjunctions | 66 | |
| 14912431314 | Pun | When a word that has two or more meanings is used in a humorous way | 67 | |
| 14912431315 | Rhetoric | the art of using language effectively and persuasively | 68 | |
| 14912431316 | Aristotle's Rhetorical Triangle | The relationships between the writer, the audience, and the subject. | 69 | |
| 14912431317 | rhetorical question | A question asked merely for effect with no answer expected. | 70 | |
| 14912431318 | Romanticism | Art or literature characterized by an idealistic, perhaps unrealistic view of people and the world, and an emphasis on nature. | 71 | |
| 14912431319 | Sarcasm | the use of irony to mock or convey contempt | 72 | |
| 14912431320 | Satire | A work that reveals a critical attitude toward some element of life to a humorous effect. | 73 | |
| 14912431321 | Appositive | A noun or noun phrase that follows another noun immediately or defines or amplifies its meaning | 74 | |
| 14912431322 | Sentence | A group of words that expresses a complete thought | 75 | |
| 14912431323 | clause | A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb. | 76 | |
| 14912431324 | independent clause | expresses a complete thought and can stand alone as a sentence. | 77 | |
| 14912431325 | subordinate clause (dependent clause) | word group that contains both a subject and a verb, plus any accompanying phrases or modifiers, cannot stand alone, does not express a complete thought | 78 | |
| 14912431326 | balanced sentence (parallelism) | a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast | 79 | |
| 14912431327 | compound sentence | a sentence with two or more coordinate independent clauses, often joined by one or more conjunctions | 80 | |
| 14912431328 | complex sentence | A sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause | 81 | |
| 14912431329 | Cumulative sentence (loose sentence) | a sentence in which the main independent clause is elaborated by the successive addition of modifying clauses or phrases | 82 | |
| 14912431330 | periodic sentence | When the main idea is not completed until the end of the sentence. The writer begins with subordinate elements and postponed the main clause. | 83 | |
| 14912431331 | simple sentence | A sentence consisting of one independent clause and no dependent clause | 84 | |
| 14912431332 | declarative sentence | a sentence that makes a statement | 85 | |
| 14912431333 | imperative sentence | sentence used to command or enjoin | 86 | |
| 14912431334 | interrogative sentence | A sentence that asks a question | 87 | |
| 14912431335 | Style | The choices in diction, tone, and syntax a writer makes. | 88 | |
| 14912431336 | Symbol | anything that stands for or represents something else | 89 | |
| 14912431337 | Syntax | The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. | 90 | |
| 14912431338 | Theme | Central idea of a work of literature | 91 | |
| 14912431339 | Thesis | the primary position taken by a writer or speaker | 92 | |
| 14912431340 | Tone | A writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization on the sentence and global levels. | 93 | |
| 14912431341 | Understatement | The ironic minimizing of fact, presents something as less significant than it is. | 94 | |
| 14912431342 | Litotes | A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite | 95 | |
| 14912431343 | Argument | A statement put forth and supported by evidence | 96 | |
| 14912431344 | Premises | The reasons presented to persuade someone that a conclusion is true or probably true. | 97 | |
| 14912431345 | Conclusion | End result of an argument. | 98 | |
| 14912431346 | Ethos | credibility | 99 | |
| 14912431347 | Pathos | Appeal to emotion | 100 | |
| 14912431348 | Logos | Appeal to logic | 101 | |
| 14912431349 | Concession | Accepting at least part or all of an opposing viewpoint. | 102 | |
| 14912431350 | conditional statement | if-then statement with an antecedent and a consequent | 103 | |
| 14912431351 | Contradiction | A direct opposition between things compared; inconsistency | 104 | |
| 14912431352 | Counterexample | an example used to support a claim or statement that is the opposite of another claim or statement | 105 | |
| 14912431353 | deductive argument | an argument that reasons from known premises to an inevitable conclusion. It would be impossible for it to not happen under these circumstances. | 106 | |
| 14912431354 | Fallacy | an attractive but unreliable piece of reasoning | 107 | |
| 14912431355 | ad hominem | a fallacy that attacks the person rather than dealing with the real issue in dispute | 108 | |
| 14912431356 | Appeal to Authority | Somebody famous supports an idea, the idea must be right | 109 | |
| 14912431357 | Appeal to the bandwagon | Appeal that attaches to the need to belong and keep up with others | 110 | |
| 14912431358 | Appeal to Emotion | manipulating an emotional response in place of a valid or compelling argument | 111 | |
| 14912431359 | Bad analogy | Claiming that two situations are highly similar, when they aren't. | 112 | |
| 14912431360 | Cliche thinking | Using as evidence a well-known saying, as if it is proven, or as if it has no exceptions. | 113 | |
| 14912431361 | False clause | Assuming that because two things happened, the first one caused the second one. | 114 | |
| 14912431362 | Hasty Generalization | A fallacy in which a faulty conclusion is reached because of inadequate evidence. | 115 | |
| 14912431363 | non sequitur | A statement that does not follow logically from evidence | 116 | |
| 14912431364 | Slippery Slope | a fallacy which assumes that taking a first step will lead to subsequent steps that cannot be prevented | 117 | |
| 14912431365 | inductive argument | An argument in which it is thought that the premises provide reasons supporting the probable truth of the conclusion. It is unlikely that the conclusion is false | 118 | |
| 14912431366 | sound argument | A deductive argument is said to be sound if it meets two conditions: First, that the line of reasoning from the premises to the conclusion is valid. Second, that the premises are true. | 119 | |
| 14912431367 | Unstated premises | Not every argument is fully expressed.Sometimes premises or even conclusions are left unexpressed. | 120 | |
| 14912431368 | Valid argument | An argument is valid if the conclusion logically follows from the premises. | 121 |
