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| 8985521765 | Bildungsroman | A story of the "growing up" of a sensative person who looks for answers to his or her questions through different experiences. | 0 | |
| 8985521766 | Bildungsroman | During the journey, the protagonist gains maturity gradually and with difficulty. Usually the plot depicts a conflict between the protagonist and values of society. | 1 | |
| 8985521767 | Illusion | A false impression or illustration/belief. It's something that is false and not factual, intended to mislead the perception of readers and deceive their senses. | 2 | |
| 8985521768 | Free verse | Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme but still provide artistic expression. | 3 | |
| 8985521769 | Foil | A character who contrasts and parallels the main character in a play or story. May also be used for any comparison that is drawn to portray a difference between two things. | 4 | |
| 8985521770 | Intertexuality | A sophisticated literary device that is a textual reference within the same text that reflects the text used as a reference. | 5 | |
| 8985521771 | Litotes | Figure of speech which employs an understatement by using double negatives. | 6 | |
| 8985521772 | Utopia | Place of perfection, ideal society | 7 | |
| 8985521773 | Sonnet | A verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme with 10 syllables in each line. | 8 | |
| 8985521774 | Round character | A character who demonstrates some complexity and who develops or changes in the course of a work. It's the character the audience can sympathize with and relate to. | 9 | |
| 8985521775 | Situational irony | An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected. It's used to allow readers to make a distinction between appearances and realities and associate them to the theme of the story. | 10 | |
| 8985521776 | Static character | A character that does not change from the beginning of the story to the end. They don't have or develop the inner understanding to know their environment or the impact their actions have on others. | 11 | |
| 8985521777 | Vernacular | Everyday language of ordinary people. | 12 | |
| 8985521778 | Eulogy | A formal statement of commendation; high praise. A laudatory expression in speech or a written tribute to a recently deceased person. | 13 | |
| 8985521779 | Dialect | A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, grammar, spelling, and pronunciation. | 14 | |
| 8985521780 | Hubris | Excessive pride or self-confidence, or arrogance shown by a character that ultimately brings about his own downfall. Portrayal of these characters serve to achieve or moralistic end. | 15 | |
| 8985521781 | Anti-hero | a central character in a story, movie, or drama who lacks conventional heroic attributes. | 16 | |
| 8985521782 | Band wagon | "everyone else is doing it, so you should too" | 17 | |
| 8985521783 | Band wagon function | The purpose is to make the audience think and act in a way that majority follows. This occurs when the audience sees others are also confirming. | 18 | |
| 8985521784 | Propaganda | Easily found in mass media advertising, politics, and literature. Used to persuade readers and mold their perceptions about a particular cause. | 19 | |
| 8985521785 | Propaganda-Transfer | Appeals to a person's imagination of something we like or trust. | 20 | |
| 8985521786 | Propaganda glittering generalities | These words are used to trick us into accepting and approving things without examining the evidence carefully. | 21 | |
| 8985521787 | Propaganda- testimonial | When a well known person claims a product or idea to be good or bad it convinces us without examining facts carefully | 22 | |
| 8985521788 | Propaganda- plain folks | Used to convince an audience an idea is good because they're the same ideas of the vast majority of people like themselves. | 23 |
