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| 5793313238 | mnemonic device | a systematic aid to memory | 0 | |
| 5793313520 | apostrophe | directly addressing an absent person or a personified object as if he/she/it could reply | 1 | |
| 5793314611 | verisimilitude | the quality of a text that reflects the truth of actual experience | 2 | |
| 5793316032 | stream of consciusness | presents the flow of a character's seemingly unconnected thoughts, responses, and sensations | 3 | |
| 5793318256 | metonymy | an entity referred to by its attributes or associations | 4 | |
| 5793319805 | cloze test | a test of reading ability that requires a person to fill in missing words in a text | 5 | |
| 5793321179 | form | primarily the arrangement of words on the page and the use of rhyme and meter, but also the standard conventions of written language such as punctuation, spelling, grammar, capitalization | 6 | |
| 5793322409 | syntax | the order of words in a sentence | 7 | |
| 5793322640 | anastrophe | inversion or reversal of the usual order of words | 8 | |
| 5793323094 | parallelism | a set of similarly structured words, phrases, or clauses | 9 | |
| 5793324175 | rhetorical choices | the particular choices a writer or speaker makes to achieve meaning | 10 | |
| 5793324417 | dramatic monologue | a speaker addresses a silent listener in a long speech by one character | 11 | |
| 5793324746 | allusion | indirect reference to another person, place, event, or literary work | 12 | |
| 5793324943 | personification | an object, animal, or idea is given human characterisitics | 13 | |
| 5793325179 | diction | choice of words and arrangement | 14 | |
| 5793325318 | metaphor | compares two things directly | 15 | |
| 5793326197 | imagery | re-creating sensory experiences through descriptive detail | 16 | |
| 5793326495 | symbolism | person, place, or object that stands for an idea or feeling beyond itself | 17 | |
| 5793326790 | verbal irony | one thing is stated but another thing is meant | 18 | |
| 5793328185 | unity | the sense that a text is, appropriately, about only one subject and achieves one major purpose or effect | 19 | |
| 5793328527 | ellipsis | the omission of words, the meaning of which is provided by the overall context of a passage | 20 | |
| 5793329427 | double entendre | the double meanings of a group of words that the speaker or writer has purposely left ambiguous | 21 | |
| 5793329909 | scenic narration | narration in which an event or a moment of a plot is stretched out for dramatic effect | 22 | |
| 5799836349 | dialect | the describable patterns of language--grammar and vocabulary--used by a particular cultural or ethnic population | 23 | |
| 5799837815 | apologist | a person or character who makes a case for some controversial, even contentious, position | 24 | |
| 5838218224 | sensory details | words and phrases that appeal to the senses of sight, smell, touch, hearing, or taste | 25 | |
| 5838222644 | figurative language | descriptions that are not literally true | 26 | |
| 5838237356 | simile | the comparison of two unlike things using like or as | 27 | |
| 5838239611 | exaggeration | overstatement used to stress a point | 28 | |
| 5838263856 | graphic aids | informative visuals, such as photographs, charts, diagrams, and maps, that are used to make complex information easier to understand and interpret | 29 | |
| 5838272299 | image | a photograph or an illustration | 30 | |
| 5838272311 | graph | presents numerical facts or statistics | 31 | |
| 5838275994 | chart | presents facts about a topic in an easy-to-read format, often using rows and columns | 32 | |
| 5838279309 | diagram | a drawing that shows how something works or how its parts relate to each other | 33 | |
| 5838285259 | map | gives information about a physical area | 34 | |
| 5838287656 | captions | brief descriptions of what's being shown | 35 | |
| 5838331292 | main idea | the most important idea about a topic that a writer wants to convey | 36 | |
| 5838334063 | supporting details | words, phrases, or sentences that tell more about the main idea | 37 | |
| 5838352585 | historical and cultural context | the time, place, and social conditions that influence a work of literature | 38 | |
| 5838359214 | theme | message about life that a writer wants to communicate | 39 | |
| 5838373788 | tone | the writer's attitude toward his or her subject | 40 | |
| 5838377137 | conflict | the central problems described in a work of literature | 41 | |
| 5838393863 | synthesizing | the process of combining individual pieces of information in order to come up with a new idea about a subject | 42 | |
| 5838415677 | connotation | emotional association | 43 | |
| 5838420191 | formal diction | correct grammar and precise words | 44 | |
| 5838422234 | informal diction | casual language (including slang) | 45 | |
| 5838433508 | objective | unbiased | 46 | |
| 5838438514 | primary sources | firsthand accounts created by people who took part in or witnesses events | 47 | |
| 5838441281 | secondary sources | records of events created by people who were not directly involved in or present at those events | 48 | |
| 5838460047 | prose | any writing that is not poetry | 49 | |
| 5838461900 | fiction | made-up stories about characters and events | 50 | |
| 5838463741 | nonfiction | tells about real-life events, places, and people | 51 | |
| 5838499563 | inference | a conclusion reached, based on evidence and reasoning | 52 | |
| 5838587992 | restricitve | a word, phrase, or clause that provides crucial information about a previously named element | 53 | |
| 5838640546 | gerunds | verbals that act as nouns | 54 | |
| 5838668307 | transitive verb | able to have a direct object | 55 |
