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| 31427103 | rhetorical question | question designed to draw attention, pause for thought | |
| 31427104 | setting | time, place and social context in which a story takes place | |
| 31427105 | symbol | an image that is itself but also stands for something more | |
| 31427106 | situational irony | what we expect and what happens are not the same | |
| 31427107 | repetition | use of key words, phrases, or ideas more than once, in close proximity | |
| 31427108 | syllogism | a logical deduction that has three parts: a main premise, a secondary premise, and a conclusion | |
| 31427109 | synecdoche | a part is substituted or used to represent the whole | |
| 31427110 | sound devices | any of a number of literary elements such as onomatopoeia, alliteration, etc. | |
| 31427111 | theme | main idea of a work of literature | |
| 31427112 | sarcasm | cruel, rude form of verbal irony | |
| 31427113 | scansion | analyzing and graphically marking poetry for stressed and unstressed patterns | |
| 31427114 | syntax | the way words and phrases are connected to form sentences | |
| 31427115 | stanza | a group of verse lines of the same structure and rhythm and rhyme scheme | |
| 31427116 | satire | a type of writing that points out the follies and failings of man | |
| 31427117 | stream of consciousness | literary style that attempts to capture thoughts, memories, impressions, often without punctuation or structure | |
| 31427118 | structure | the organized, planned framework of a piece of literature | |
| 31427119 | stereotyped character | stock character; character created to represent some standard archetypes | |
| 31427120 | slang | informal words and expressions | |
| 31427121 | alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounds | |
| 31427122 | ambiguity | vague, unclear, in literature, done on purpose | |
| 31427123 | aphorism | short saying known for its wit and wisdom | |
| 31427124 | anecdote | a short story used to illustrate a point | |
| 31427125 | aside | speech in a drama where character speaks his mind and other characters on stage don't "hear" | |
| 31427126 | bathos | moving from the serious to the ridiculous | |
| 31427127 | cacophony | harsh sounds; should reflect meaning and content | |
| 31427128 | cliche | an overused expression that has lost meaning such as quick as lightning | |
| 31427129 | catharsis | an emotional release - crying, laughing, fear | |
| 31427130 | apostrophe | addressing an inanimate object as if it were alive and could respond | |
| 31427131 | antagonist | character in opposition to the protagonist | |
| 31427132 | assonance | repetition of the same vowel sounds in close proximity | |
| 31427133 | confidante | one in whom others confide their confidences, secrets | |
| 31427134 | denotation | dictionary definition of a word | |
| 31427135 | diction | word choice | |
| 31427136 | dramatic irony | the reader or audience knows more than the characters | |
| 31427137 | conceit | an extended metaphor | |
| 31427138 | consonance | repeated consonant sounds; not at the beginning of words | |
| 31427139 | couplet | two lines, in successive order, that have end rhyme | |
| 31427140 | enjambment | when a line of poetry runs from the end of one into another without stopping or pausing for punctuation | |
| 31427141 | imagery | language that appeals to the five senses; creating pictures with words | |
| 31427142 | free verse | poetry without formal structure, stanzas, or rhyme scheme | |
| 31427143 | blank verse | poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter | |
| 31427144 | heroic couplet | couplet that rhymes and is written in iambic pentameter | |
| 31427145 | metaphor | a comparison of two dissimilar items through direct comparision | |
| 31427146 | jargon | specialized language of a group or profession | |
| 31427147 | quatrain | a verse stanza of four lines | |
| 31427148 | ode | a long lyrical poem on a serious subject | |
| 31427149 | narrative | a poem or other work of literature that tells a story | |
| 31427150 | onomatopoeia | words that sound like they are spelled and create aural imagery like fizz and whirr | |
| 31427151 | pun | a clever play on words, usually involves double entendres | |
| 31427152 | tragedy | a work of literature that raises emotions of pity and fear and shows the fall of a noble person | |
| 31427153 | verbal irony | saying one thing but really meaning another | |
| 31427154 | vernacular | common every day language | |
| 31427155 | point of view | the vantage from which a story is told: first or third person, omniscient, limited, or not at all | |
| 31427156 | narrative pace | speed at which a story and its plot move along; should reflect the content | |
| 31427157 | meter | the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables | |
| 31427158 | metonymy | a word related to the topic is substituted for it | |
| 31427159 | protagonist | the main character in a story | |
| 31427160 | parallel events | events that are similar in scope | |
| 31427161 | end rhyme | words that rhyme at the ends of lines of poetry | |
| 31427162 | epic | a long narrative poem that spans a long time period, uses grand language, involves the fate of an entire people, and has a hero of super human characteristics, among other things | |
| 31427163 | euphemism | using a less offensive word for one that could be offensive | |
| 31427164 | climax | the point of highest tension in a plot | |
| 31427165 | ballad | a poem with an abcb rhyme scheme, characters that pop in and out, and have repetition | |
| 31427166 | characterization | how a character acts and talks, what other characters say about him, and how others react to him | |
| 31427167 | masculine rhyme | words with one syllable word that rhymes such as man and can | |
| 31427168 | feminine rhyme | words with two syllables that rhyme such as mister and blister | |
| 32631704 | simile | an explicit comparison between two unlike things signaled by the use of like or as | |
| 32631705 | personification | attributing human qualities to an inanimate object | |
| 32631706 | anaphora | the regular repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases or causes | |
| 32631707 | anastrophe | word order is reversed or rearranged | |
| 32631708 | apposition | the placing next to a noun, another noun or phrase that explains it | |
| 32631709 | asyndenton | conjunctions are omitted, producing a fast paced and rapid prose | |
| 32631710 | epanalepsis | repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning | |
| 32631711 | epistrophe | repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses (opposite of anaphora) | |
| 32631712 | polysyndenton | the use of many conjunctions to slow the pace | |
| 32631713 | parenthesis | the insertion of words, phrases, or a sentence that is not syntactically related to the rest of the sentence, set off from the rest of the sentence by dashes or parentheses | |
| 32631714 | oxymoron | contradiction; two contradictory terms or ideas used together | |
| 32631715 | paradox | a statement that appears to be contradictory but, in fact, has some truth | |
| 32631716 | parallelism | expresses similar or related ideas in similar grammatical structures | |
| 32631717 | chiasmus | grammatical structure of the first clause or phrase is reversed in the second, sometimes repeating the same words | |
| 32631718 | antithesis | the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas | |
| 32631719 | zeugma | when two different words that sound exactly alike are yoked together. "He bolted the door and his dinner." | |
| 32631720 | irony | when the writer takes on another voice or role that states the opposite of what is expressed | |
| 32631721 | hyperbole | exaggeration; deliberation exaggeration for emphasis | |
| 32631722 | litotes | opposite of hyperbole; intensifies an idea by understatement | |
| 32631723 | pathos | the emotional effect an author wishes to achieve on his audience | |
| 32631724 | ethos | the persona or credibility of an author |
