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| 4352800307 | Ad hominem | 1. Appealing to prejudice and emotion rather than to reason. 2. Attacking the character, motives, etc. of an opponent rather than debating the issue on logical grounds. | 0 | |
| 4352800308 | Allegory | 1. A story in which people, things, and happenings have a hidden or symbolic meaning | 1 | |
| 4352800309 | Alliteration | The repetition of sounds, especially initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words (as in "she sells sea shells") | 2 | |
| 4352801582 | Allusion | A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work or art. | 3 | |
| 4352801583 | Ambiguity | The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage. | 4 | |
| 4352801584 | Analogy | A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them. | 5 | |
| 4352803036 | Antecedent | the word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun. | 6 | |
| 4352803037 | Antithesis | An opposition or contrast of ideas that is often expressed in balanced phrases or clauses. "Whereas he was boisterous, I was reserved." | 7 | |
| 4352803038 | Aphorism | a terse statement of known authorship, which expresses a general truth or moral principle (If the authorship is unknown, the statement is generally considered to be a folk proverb.) | 8 | |
| 4352803039 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. | 9 | |
| 4352803046 | Apotheosis | When a character or a thing is elevated to such a high status that it appears godlike. | 10 | |
| 4352804338 | Appositive | Phrase that follows a noun or pronoun for emphasis or clarity. Appositives are usually set off by commas. | 11 | |
| 4352804339 | Assonance | A type of internal rhyming in which vowel sounds are repeated. | 12 | |
| 4352804340 | Asyndeton | When the conjunctions (such as and or but) that would normally connect a string of words, phrases, or clauses are omitted from a sentence. | 13 | |
| 4352805756 | Atmosphere | The emotional mood created by the entirety of a literary work, established partly by the setting and partly by the author's choice of objects that are described. | 14 | |
| 4352805757 | Attitude | The feeling of a particular speaker or a piece of writing toward a subject, person, or idea. | 15 | |
| 4352805758 | Bathos | False or forced emotion that is often humorous. Opposite of Pathos | 16 | |
| 4352805759 | Clause | A grammatical unit that contains a subject and a verb. | 17 | |
| 4352806884 | Connotation | The non-literal, associative meaning of a word | 18 | |
| 4352806885 | Contrast | Writers often use contracts, or oppositions, to elaborate ideas. | 19 | |
| 4352806886 | Denotation | The strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word, devoid of any emotion, attitude or color. | 20 | |
| 4352808343 | Diction | Writer's word choice | 21 | |
| 4352808344 | Didactic | Words that have the primary aim of teaching or instructing, especially the teaching of moral or ethical principles. | 22 | |
| 4352809782 | Elegiac | A work (of music, literature, dance, or art) that expresses sorrow. It mourns the loss of something, such as the death of a loved one. | 23 | |
| 4352809783 | Ethos | Characteristic spirit, person, or ideal that informs a work. | 24 | |
| 4352809784 | Euphemism | a more agreeable or less offensive substitute for generally unpleasant words or concepts. \ | 25 | |
| 4352809785 | Extended Metaphor | A comparison developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work | 26 | |
| 4352811818 | Exposition | Refers to beginning of writing or speech that is organized to explain. | 27 | |
| 4352811819 | Fiction | Works that have been imagined or create | 28 | |
| 4421057488 | Figurative Language | 29 | ||
| 4352813267 | Figure of Speech | A device used to produce figurative language. Many compare dissimilar things. Figures of speech include, for example, apostrophe, hyperbole, irony, metaphor, metonymy, oxymoron, paradox, personification, simile, synecdoche, and understatement. | 30 | |
| 4352813268 | Foreshadowing | A purposeful hint placed in a work of literature to suggest what may occur later in the narrative. For instance, a seemingly unrelated scene in a mystery story that focuses on a special interest of the detective may actually foreshadow the detective's use of that expertise in solving the mystery. | 31 | |
| 4352813269 | Genre | : The major category into which a literary work fits. The basic divisions of literature are prose, poetry, and drama. | 32 | |
| 4352814755 | Grammar | A set of rules that specify how a given language is used effectively | 33 | |
| 4352814756 | Hyperbole | A figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement | 34 | |
| 4352814757 | Imagery | The sensory details or figurative language used to describe, arouse emotion, or represent abstractions. | 35 | |
| 4352814758 | Irony/Ironic | The contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant; the difference between what appears to be and what actually is true. | 36 | |
| 4352816727 | Juxtaposition | When two contrasting things—ideas, words, or sentence elements—are placed next to each other for comparison, | 37 | |
| 4352816728 | Logos | Refers to the use of reason as a controlling principle in an argument. | 38 | |
| 4352816729 | Metaphor | a figure of speech using implied comparison of seemingly unlike things or the substitution of one for the other, suggesting some similarity | 39 | |
| 4352816730 | Metonymy | the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it. A news release that claims "the White House declared" rather than "the President declared" | 40 | |
| 4352816731 | Mood | Speaker's Attitude | 41 | |
| 4352818175 | Onomatopoeia | A figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words. | 42 | |
| 4352818176 | Overview | a brief summary of a whole work | 43 | |
| 4352818982 | Oxymoron | a figure of speech wherein the author groups apparently contradictory terms to suggest paradox | 44 | |
| 4352818983 | Pacing | A speed of a story's action, dialogue, or narration | 45 | |
| 4352818984 | 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. | 46 | |
| 4352818985 | Parallelism | It refers to the grammatical or rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs to give structural similarity. | 47 | |
| 4352820239 | Parody | A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule. | 48 | |
| 4352820240 | Pathos | a sympathetic feeling of pity or compassion evoked by an artistic work. | 49 | |
| 4352820241 | Person | A grammatical tern that describes the relationship of a writer or speaker to an audience by examining the pronouns that are used. | 50 | |
| 4352820242 | Persona | Character created by the voice and narration of the speaker of a text | 51 | |
| 4352820243 | Personification | A figure of speech in which the author presents or describes concepts, animals, or inanimate objects by endowing them with human attributes or emotions. | 52 | |
| 4352820256 | Point of View | the perspective from which a story is told | 53 | |
| 4352821932 | Pun | A play on words | 54 | |
| 4352821933 | Repetition | The duplication, either exact or approximate, of any element of language, such as a sound, word, phrase, clause, sentence, or grammatical pattern | 55 | |
| 4352821934 | Rhetoric | this term describes the principles governing the art of writing effectively, eloquently, and persuasively. | 56 | |
| 4352823374 | Rhetorical/Stylistic Devices | specific language tools that an author uses to carry out a rhetorical strategy, and thus achieve a purpose for writing. | 57 | |
| 4352823375 | Rhetoric Modes | this flexible term describes the variety, the conventions, and the purposes of the major kinds of writing. | 58 | |
| 4352824858 | Rhetorical Question | A question that is asked merely for effect and does not expect a reply | 59 | |
| 4352824859 | Rhetorical Strategy | the way an author organizes words, sentences, and overall argument in order to achieve a discussion of how this term fits into a broader picture of rhetoric | 60 | |
| 4352824860 | Satire | : A work that targets human vices and follies, or social institutions and conventions, for reform or ridicule. | 61 | |
| 4352826522 | Selection of Detail | The specific words, incidents, images, or events the author uses to create a scene or narrative are referred to as the selection of detail. | 62 | |
| 4352826523 | Simile | an explicit comparison, normally using like, as, or if. | 63 | |
| 4352826524 | Speaker | the narrator of the story, poem, or drama | 64 | |
| 4352827934 | Style | An evaluation of the sum of the choices an author makes in blending diction, syntax, figurative language, and other literary devices | 65 | |
| 4352827935 | Strategy | the way an author organizes words, sentences, and overall argument in order to achieve a particular purpose. | 66 | |
| 4352827936 | Syllogism | a deductive system of formal logic that presents two premises-the first one called "major" and the second "minor"- that inevitable lead to a sound conclusion. | 67 | |
| 4352828834 | Symbol/Symbolism | anything that represents or stands for something else | 68 | |
| 4352830280 | Synonym | A word that has the same, or nearly the same meaning as another word | 69 | |
| 4352830281 | Syntax | The way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences | 70 | |
| 4352830282 | Tension | a work of literature, is a feeling of excitement and expectation the reader or the audience feels because of conflict, mood, or atmosphere. | 71 | |
| 4352830283 | Texture | Describes the way the elements of a work of prose or poetry are joined together. It suggests an association with the style of the author | 72 | |
| 4352830284 | Theme | The central idea or message of a work, the insight it offers into life | 73 | |
| 4352831526 | Thesis | a proposition maintained or defended in argument | 74 | |
| 4352831527 | Tone | The author's attitude toward his or her material, the audience, or both | 75 | |
| 4352831528 | Understatement | The ironic minimalizing of fact; | 76 | |
| 4352831529 | Voie | How the speaker of literary work presents him or herself to the reader determines that speaker's unique voice. | 77 | |
| 4352831723 | Zeugma | a particular breech of sense in a sentence. It occurs when a word is used with two adjacent words in the same construction, but only makes literal sense with one of them. | 78 |
