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| 2975191771 | naturalism | a literary movement that grew out of realism in France, the United States, and England in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries; it portrays humans as having no free will, being driven by the natural forces of heredity, environment, and animalistic urges over which they have no control | 0 | |
| 2975202672 | objectivity | an impersonal presentation of events and characters | 1 | |
| 2975205682 | onomatopoeia | the use of words that sound like what they mean, such as hiss and boom | 2 | |
| 2975208665 | oxymoron | a figure of speech composed of contradictory words or phrases, such as "wise fool" | 3 | |
| 2975211041 | parable | a short tale that teaches a moral; similar to but shorter than an allegory | 4 | |
| 2975213460 | paradox | a statement that seems to contradict itself but that turns out to have a rational meaning | 5 | |
| 2975237618 | parallelism | the technique of arranging words, phrases, clauses, or larger structures by placing them side by side and making them similar in form | 6 | |
| 2975250519 | parody | a work that ridicules the style of another work by imitating and exaggerating its elements | 7 | |
| 2975256111 | periodic sentence | a sentence that is not grammatically complete until its last phrase | 8 | |
| 2975262830 | persona | a fictional voice that a writer adopts to tell a story determined by subject matter and audience | 9 | |
| 2975273840 | personification | the attribution of human qualities to a nonhuman or an inanimate object | 10 | |
| 2975278005 | persuasion | a form of argumentation, one of the four modes of discourse; language intended to convince through appeals to reason or emotion | 11 | |
| 2975288376 | point of view | the perspective from which a story is presented | 12 | |
| 2975297419 | protagonist | the main character of a literary work | 13 | |
| 2975299650 | realism | a nineteenth-century literary movement in Europe and the United States that stressed accuracy in the portrayal of life, focusing on characters with whom middle-class readers could easily identify; it is in direct contrast with romanticism | 14 | |
| 2975321002 | regionalism | an element in literature that conveys a realistic portrayal of a specific geographical locale, using the locale and its influences as a major part of the plot | 15 | |
| 2975332173 | rhetoric | the art of using language effectively; involves (1) writer's purpose, (2) his or her consideration of the audience, (3) the exploration of the subject, (4) arrangement and organization of the idea, (5) style and tone of expression, and (6) form | 16 | |
| 2975366418 | rhetorical modes | exposition, description, narration, argumentation | 17 | |
| 2975368966 | romanticism | a literary, artistic, and philosophical movement that began in the eighteenth century as a reaction to neoclassicism; the focal points of the movement are imagination, emotion, and freedom, stressing subjectivity, individuality, the love and worship of nature, and a fascination with the past | 18 | |
| 2975388171 | sarcasm | harsh, caustic personal remarks to or about someone; less subtle than irony | 19 | |
| 2975397404 | simile | a figure of speech that uses like, as, or as if to make a direct comparison between two essentially different objects, actions, or qualities | 20 | |
| 2975406493 | speaker | the voice of a work; an author may speak as himself or herself or as a fictitious persona | 21 | |
| 2975413470 | stereotype | a character who represents a trait that is usually attributed to a particular social or racial group and who lacks individuality | 22 | |
| 2975424049 | style | an author's characteristic manner of expression | 23 | |
| 2975425166 | subjectivity | a personal presentation of events and characters, influenced by the author's feelings and opinions | 24 | |
| 2975436330 | suspension of disbelief | the demand made that the reader accept the incidents recounted in the literary work | 25 | |
| 2975441355 | symbolism | the use of symbols or anything that is meant to be taken both literally and as representative of a higher and more complex significance | 26 | |
| 2975445319 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent a whole | 27 | |
| 2975448238 | syntax | word order | 28 | |
| 2975449392 | theme | the central idea or "message" of a literary work | 29 | |
| 2975450670 | tone | the characteristic emotions or attitude of an author toward the characters, subject, and audience | 30 | |
| 2975453659 | unity | quality of a piece of writing | 31 | |
| 2975454954 | voice | the way a written work conveys an author's attitude | 32 |
