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| 2813251444 | Juxtaposition | One thing is placed adjacent to another to create an effect, reveal an attitude, or accomplish some other purpose. | 0 | |
| 2813251445 | Litote | A figure of speech that emphasizes it's subject by conscious understatement. | 1 | |
| 2813251446 | Loose sentence | A sentence that is grammatically complete before its end. | 2 | |
| 2813251447 | Metaphor | One thing pictured as if it were something else, suggesting a likeness or analogy. It is an implicit comparison or identification of one thing with another, without the use of "like" or "as". | 3 | |
| 2813251448 | Metonymy | A figure of speech that uses the name of an object, person, or idea to represent something with which it is associated. | 4 | |
| 2813251449 | Mode of discourse | The manner in which the information is presented in written or spoken form: narration, description, argumentation, and exposition. | 5 | |
| 2813251450 | Mood | A feeling of ambience resulting from the tone of a piece as well as the emotional attitude and point of view of the writer/narrator. It establishes the atmosphere in a work of literature or other discourse. | 6 | |
| 2813251451 | Motif | The main theme or subject of a work elaborated on in the development of the piece; a recurrent pattern or idea. | 7 | |
| 2813251452 | Narrative/narration | A mode of discourse that tells a story and is based on sequences of connected events, usually presented in a straightforward, chronological framework. | 8 | |
| 2813251453 | Naturalism | A literary movement that grew out of the realism in France, England, and the U.S. In the late 19th/early-20th centuries; it portrays humans as having no free will, driven only by the natural forces of heredity, environment, and animalistic urges over which they have no control. | 9 | |
| 2813251454 | Objectivity | An impersonal presentation of characters and events. | 10 | |
| 2813251455 | Onomatopoeia | The use of words that sound like what they mean, such as hiss, boom, and buzz, intended to enhance a passage for the reader or listener. | 11 | |
| 2813251456 | Oxymoron | Composed of contradictory words or phrases, such as silent alarm or deadening silence. | 12 | |
| 2813251457 | Parable | A short tale that teaches moral; similar to but shorter than allegory. | 13 | |
| 2813251458 | Paradox | A statement that seems contradictory or absurd but has a rational meaning. | 14 | |
| 2813251459 | Parallelism/parallel structure | A structural arrangement of parts of a sentence, sentences, paragraphs, and larger units of composition by which one element of equal importance with another is equally developed and similarly phrases. | 15 | |
| 2813251460 | Parody | A work that ridicules the style of another work by imitating and exaggerating its elements. | 16 | |
| 2813251461 | Pastoral | A short descriptive narrative. Usually a poem, about an idealized country life; also called an idyll. | 17 | |
| 2813251462 | Pathos | That element in literature which stimulates pity or sorrow. In argument or persuasion it tends to be the evocation of pity from the reader/listener. | 18 | |
| 2813251463 | Periodic sentence | A sentence that is not grammatically complete until its last phrase. | 19 | |
| 2813251464 | Persona | A fictional voice that a writer adopts to tell a story, determined by subject matter and audience. | 20 | |
| 2813251465 | Personification | The attribution of human qualities to a nonhuman or inanimate object. | 21 | |
| 2813251466 | Persuasion | One of the fours modes of discourse, it is a form of argumentation in which the language is intended to convince through the appeals to reason or emotion. | 22 | |
| 2813251467 | Prose | The ordinary form of written language whiteout metrical structure, in contrast to verse and poetry. | 23 | |
| 2813251468 | Protagonist | The main character of a literary work. | 24 |
