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| 4241366549 | allusion | a reference to something outside the work, usually to another work of popularity | 0 | |
| 4241366550 | attitude | character's disposition or opinion towards a subject | 1 | |
| 4241366563 | details | items or parts that make up a larger picture in a story | 2 | |
| 4241369245 | devices of sound | techniques of deploying words: such as rhyme, alliteration, assonance, consonance, and onomatopoeia. | 3 | |
| 4241369246 | figurative language | Writing or speech that is not intended to carry literal meaning and is usually meant to be imaginative and vivid, such as that in a metaphor or simile | 4 | |
| 4241371289 | imagery | Descriptive or figurative language in a literary work; the use of language to create sensory impressions. | 5 | |
| 4241371297 | irony | figure of speech in which intent and actual meaning differ | 6 | |
| 4241373235 | metaphor | A comparison without using like or as | 7 | |
| 4241373236 | narrative techniques | methods involved in telling a story. discuss the procedures used in the telling of a story. ie: point of view, manipulation of time, dialogue, interior monologue. | 8 | |
| 4241375577 | omniscient point of view | the narrator is capable of knowing, telling, and seeing all | 9 | |
| 4241375578 | point of view | The vantage point from which a story is told | 10 | |
| 4241377507 | resources of language | a general phrase for the linguistic devices or techniques that a writer can use | 11 | |
| 4241377508 | rhetorical techniques | the devices used in effective or persuasive language, such as apostrophe, contrast, repetition, paradox, understatement, sarcasm, satire, and rhetorica | 12 | |
| 4241378827 | satire | A type of writing that ridicules the shortcomings of people or institutions in an attempt to bring about a change | 13 | |
| 4241378828 | setting | The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs. | 14 | |
| 4241380433 | simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" | 15 | |
| 4241380434 | strategy | the management of language for a specific effect. | 16 | |
| 4241381548 | structure | the arrangement of materials within a work | 17 | |
| 4241383479 | style | The distinctive quality of speech or writing created by the selection and arrangement of words and figures of speech. | 18 | |
| 4241383480 | symbol | A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract. | 19 | |
| 4241384803 | syntax | Sentence structure | 20 | |
| 4241387186 | tone | manner in which author expresses his or her attitude | 21 | |
| 4241521569 | theme | the main thought expresses by a work | 22 | |
| 4241387187 | allegory | A literary work in which characters, objects, or actions represent abstractions | 23 | |
| 4241387188 | ambiguity | The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage. | 24 | |
| 4241388795 | apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. | 25 | |
| 4241388796 | connotation | Implied meaning | 26 | |
| 4241389981 | convention | a divide of style or subject matter so often used that it becomes a recognized means of expression | 27 | |
| 4241389982 | denotation | The literal meaning of a word | 28 | |
| 4241391433 | didactic | Instructive | 29 | |
| 4241391434 | digression | use of material unrelated to the subject of work | 30 | |
| 4241391435 | epigram | a pithy saying, a short, cleverly-worded statement | 31 | |
| 4241393027 | euphemism | An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant | 32 | |
| 4241394488 | grotesque | Absurd; distorted | 33 | |
| 4241394489 | hyperbole | A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor | 34 | |
| 4241394490 | jargon | nonsensical talk; specialized language | 35 | |
| 4241395937 | literal | Exactly true, rather than figurative or metaphorical | 36 | |
| 4241395938 | lyrical | melodious; songlike; poetic | 37 | |
| 4241397672 | oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. | 38 | |
| 4241397673 | parable | A simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson | 39 | |
| 4241397674 | paradox | A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. | 40 | |
| 4241399195 | parody | A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule. | 41 | |
| 4241399196 | personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes | 42 | |
| 4241400847 | reliability | quality of select fictional narrators whose word the reader can trust. | 43 | |
| 4241402162 | rhetorical question | A question asked merely for effect and not requiring an answer | 44 | |
| 4241402163 | soliloquy | A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage | 45 | |
| 4241404204 | stereotype | A generalized belief about a group of people | 46 | |
| 4241405703 | syllogism | A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion. | 47 | |
| 4241405704 | thesis | a statement or theory that is put forward as a premise to be maintained or proved. | 48 | |
| 4241407081 | alliteration | Repetition of consonant sounds | 49 | |
| 4241408502 | assonance | Repetition of similar vowel sounds | 50 | |
| 4241408503 | ballad meter | a four-line stanza rhymed abcd with four feet in lines one and three and three feet in lines two and four. | 51 | |
| 4241409878 | blank verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter | 52 | |
| 4241409879 | dactyl | A metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables | 53 | |
| 4241411172 | end-stopped | a term that describes a line of poetry that ends with a natural pause often indicated by a mark of punctuation | 54 | |
| 4241411173 | free verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme but that still has rhythm | 55 | |
| 4241413726 | heroic couplet | two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, cc with the thought usually completed in the two-line unit | 56 | |
| 4241415055 | hexameter | Six feet per line | 57 | |
| 4241415056 | iamb | A foot is an iamb if it consists of one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, so the word remark is an iamb. Pent means five, so a line of iambic pentameter consists of five iambs - five sets of unstressed syllables followed by stressed syllables. | 58 | |
| 4241416178 | internal rhyme | Rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end | 59 | |
| 4241418328 | onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. | 60 | |
| 4241419551 | pentameter | a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet | 61 | |
| 4241420566 | rhyme royal | A seven-line stanza of iambic pentameter rhymed ababbcc, used by Chaucer and other medieval poets. | 62 | |
| 4241420567 | sonnet | 14 lines of iambic pentameter. | 63 | |
| 4241422594 | stanza | A grouping of two or more lines of a poem in terms of length, metrical form, or rhyme scheme | 64 | |
| 4241422595 | terza rima | A three-line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc. Example: Dante's Divine Comedy | 65 | |
| 4241424391 | tetrameter | 4 feet per line | 66 | |
| 4241424392 | antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. | 67 | |
| 4241425917 | clause | A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb. | 68 | |
| 4241425918 | ellipsis | in a sentence, the omission of a word or words replaced by three periods | 69 | |
| 4241425919 | imperative | the mood of a verb that gives an order: Eat your spinach | 70 | |
| 4241427444 | modify | to restrict or limit in meaning | 71 | |
| 4241428772 | parallel structure | the repetition of similar grammatical or syntactical structures | 72 | |
| 4241428773 | periodic sentence | A sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end. The independent clause is preceded by a phrase or clause that cannot stand alone. The effect is to add emphasis and structural variety. | 73 |
