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| the central idea or unifying generalization implied or stated by a literary work | ||
| characteristic manner of linguistic expression | ||
| the sequential arrangement of plot elements in fiction or drama; in poetry, the internal organization of content | ||
| language that cannot be taken literally or only literally | ||
| the representation through language of sense experience | ||
| something that means more than what it is | ||
| the writer's or speaker's attitude toward the subject | ||
| a referenc, explicit or implicit, to something in previous literature or history | ||
| word choice | ||
| what a word suggests beyond its basic dictionary definition | ||
| the dictionary definition of a word | ||
| a figure of speech in which an implicit comparison is made between two things essentially unlike | ||
| a figure of speech in which an explicit comparison is made between two things essentially unlike | ||
| any of the persons presented in a story or play | ||
| a character whose distinguishing moral qualities or personal traits are summed up in one or two traits | ||
| a character whose distinguishing moral qualities or personal traits are complex and many-sided | ||
| a character who is the same sort of person at the end of a word as at the beginning | ||
| a character who during the course of a work undergoes a permanent change in some distinguishing moral qualities or personal traits or outlook | ||
| the various literary means by which characters are presented | ||
| the context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs | ||
| a situation or use of language involving some kind of incongruity or discrepancy | ||
| what is said is the opposite of what is meant | ||
| an incongruity or discrepancy between what a character says or thinks and what the reader knows to be true | ||
| incongruity between appearance and reality, or between expectation and fulfillment, or between the actual situation and what would seem appropriate |
