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| 7867200590 | Personification | The assigning of human qualities to inanimate objects or concepts. An example: Wordsworth's "the sea that bares her bosom to the moon." | 0 | |
| 7867200591 | Oxymoron | From the Greek for "pointedly foolish," ___ is a figure of speech wherein the author groups apparently contradictory terms. Simple examples include "jumbo shrimp" and "cruel kindness." | 1 | |
| 7867200592 | Sarcasm | from the Greek meaning "to tear flesh," ___ involves bitter, caustic language that is meant to hurt or ridicule someone or something. It may use irony as a device. | 2 | |
| 7867200593 | Hyperbole | a figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement | 3 | |
| 7867200595 | Theme | The central idea or message of a work, the insight it offers into life. Usually, __ is unstated in fictional works, but in nonfiction, the __ may be directly stated, especially in expository or argumentative writing. | 4 | |
| 7867200596 | Paradox | A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity. | 5 | |
| 7867200597 | Transition | a word or phrase that links one idea to the next and carries the reader from sentence to sentence, paragraph to paragraph. | 6 | |
| 7867200598 | Onomatopoeia | a figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words. Simple examples include such words as buzz, hiss, hum. | 7 | |
| 7867200600 | Metaphor | a direct comparison between dissimilar things. "Your eyes are stars" is an example. | 8 | |
| 7867200601 | Symbol | generally, anything that represents, stands for, something else. Usually, a ___ is something concrete—such as an object, action, character, or scene—that represents something more abstract. | 9 | |
| 7867200602 | Understatement | the opposite of exaggeration. It is a technique for developing irony and/or humor where one writes or says less than intended. | 10 | |
| 7867200603 | Imagery | The sensory details or figurative language used to describe, arouse emotion, or represent abstractions. On a physical level, __ uses terms related to the five senses; we refer to visual, auditory, tactile, gustatory, or olfactory. For example, a rose may present visual __ while also representing the color in a woman's cheeks. | 11 | |
| 7867200604 | Euphemism | a more acceptable and usually more pleasant way of saying something that might be inappropriate or uncomfortable. "He went to his final reward" is a common __ for "he died." They are also used to obscure the reality of the situation. | 12 | |
| 7867200605 | Irony | The contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant. The difference between what appears to be and what actually is true. | 13 | |
| 7867200606 | Alliteration | The repetition of initial consonant sounds, such as "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers." | 14 | |
| 7867200607 | Situational Irony | a type of irony in which events turn out the opposite of what was expected. | 15 | |
| 7867200608 | Consonance | Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity. | 16 | |
| 7867200611 | Verbal Irony | In this type of irony, the words literally state the opposite of the writer's true meaning | 17 | |
| 7867200612 | Anecdote | A story or brief episode told by the writer or a character to illustrate a point. | 18 | |
| 7867200614 | Denotation | the literal or dictionary meaning of a word | 19 | |
| 7867200615 | Dramatic Irony | In this type of irony, facts or events are unknown to a character in a play or a piece of fiction but known to the reader, audience, or other characters in the work | 20 | |
| 7867200616 | Connotation | the interpretive level or a word based on its associated images rather than its literal meaning. | 21 | |
| 7867200617 | Repetition | The duplication, either exact or approximate, or any element of language, such as sound, word, phrase, clause, sentence, or grammatical pattern. | 22 | |
| 7867200620 | Voice | can refer to two different areas of writing. One refers to the relationship between a sentence's subject and verb (active and passive). The second refers to the total "sound" of the writer's style. | 23 | |
| 7867200622 | Argument | A single assertion or a series of assertions presented and defended by the writer | 24 | |
| 7867200623 | Allusion | A reference contained in a work | 25 | |
| 7867200625 | Allegory | A work that functions on a symbolic level | 26 | |
| 7867200627 | Parallelism | refers to the grammatical or rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs to give structural similarity. | 27 | |
| 7867200628 | Analogy | a literary device employed to serve as a basis for comparison. It is assumed that what applies to the parallel situation also applies to the original circumstance. In other words, it is the comparison between two different items. | 28 | |
| 7867200634 | Attitude | the relationship an author has toward his or her subject, and/or his or her audience | 29 | |
| 7867200637 | Rhetoric | from the Greek for "orator," this term describes the principle governing the art of writing effectively, eloquently, and persuasively. | 30 | |
| 7867200639 | Colloquial | the use of slang in writing, often to create local color and to provide an informal tone. Huckleberry Finn in written in a __ style. | 31 | |
| 7867200641 | Style | an evaluation of the sum of the choices an author makes in blending diction, syntax, figurative language, and other literary devices. | 32 | |
| 7867200645 | Tone | Similar to mood, __ describes the author's attitude toward his or her material, the audience, or both. | 33 | |
| 7867200649 | Mood | This term has two distinct technical meanings in English writing. The first meaning is grammatical and deals with verbal units and a speaker's attitude (like, the subjunctive). The second meaning is literary, meaning the prevailing atmosphere or emotional aura of a work. | 34 |
