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| 4332759779 | SYNTAX | The way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences. | 0 | |
| 4332762662 | SONNET | 14 lined iambic pentameter poem | 1 | |
| 4332764116 | ATECEDENT | Word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers to | 2 | |
| 4332766416 | SATIRE | A work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions and convention for reform or ridicule | 3 | |
| 4332768079 | SYMBOL | Generally, anything that represents or stands for something else | 4 | |
| 4332769560 | PATHOS | The quality in literature of appealing to the emotions | 5 | |
| 4332771859 | METAPHOR | Comparison without the use of comparative terms | 6 | |
| 4332772647 | RHETORIC | A technique of using language effectively and persuasively in spoken or written form | 7 | |
| 4332774035 | TONE | Describes the author's attitude toward his or her material, the audience, or both | 8 | |
| 4332775773 | STANZA | Repeated grouping of three or more lines with the same meter and rhyme scheme | 9 | |
| 4332779125 | PARALLELISM | Similarities in situations or structure; things that mirror each other or are moving in the same direction | 10 | |
| 4332782310 | OXYMORON | Combination of opposites | 11 | |
| 4332777262 | FOIL | Characters that are similar but still have major differences | 12 | |
| 4332786752 | ANALOGY | Drawing a comparison to another situation that applies to the original circumstance in order to show a similarity | 13 | |
| 4332783126 | PARADOX | Statement that seems to be self contradictory, but is actually true. | 14 | |
| 4332787989 | SOLIOQUY | Characters talking directly to the audience or themselves while alone | 15 | |
| 4332789332 | STEROTYPE | Conventional pattern, expression, character, or idea | 16 | |
| 4332790685 | LYRICAL | A type of poem which expresses love, inner emotions etc.; tends to be personal | 17 | |
| 4332792542 | FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE | Asing figures of speech; language that does not mean what is stated literally | 18 | |
| 4332795848 | ALLUSION | A direct or indirect reference to something that is presumable commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art | 19 | |
| 4332798755 | IRONY | Words or situation mean/turn out the opposite of what is planned | 20 | |
| 4332798765 | NARRATIVE TECHNIQUE | he style of telling that "story," even if the passage is nonfiction | 21 | |
| 4332802198 | GOTHIC | Characterized by a dark, mysterious setting; has supernatural elements | 22 | |
| 4332804659 | DICTION | Choice of words | 23 | |
| 4332806024 | STYLE | The author's word choice, sentence structure, figurative language, and sentence arrangement all work together to establish mood, images, and meaning in the text. | 24 | |
| 4332807139 | NARRARTOR | A person who narrates something, especially a character who recounts the events of a narrative | 25 | |
| 4332810880 | STRUCTURE | The way a work is built or composed | 26 | |
| 4332814039 | GUSTATORY IMAGERY | Imagery that pertains to the sense of taste | 27 | |
| 4332815986 | RESOURCES OF LANGUAGE | This phrase refers to all the devices of composition available to a writer | 28 | |
| 4332817792 | THEME | The central idea or message of a work, the insight it offers into life. | 29 | |
| 4332819193 | AMBIGUITY | The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage. | 30 | |
| 4332820332 | ALLEGORY | A work with a secondary or symbolic meaning underlying the literal meaning | 31 | |
| 4332821269 | APOSTROPHE | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. | 32 | |
| 4332822711 | DYSTOPIA | Imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad | 33 | |
| 4332824098 | Bildungsroman (coming of age novel) | The protagonist is a child whose experiences over the course of the work teach him about the realities of the adult world | 34 | |
| 4332826293 | ELIPSIS | The omission of a word or several words | 35 | |
| 4332827449 | MENTONYMY | A type of metaphor in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it | 36 | |
| 4332829255 | PACE | Determines how quickly or how slowly the writer takes a reader through a story | 37 | |
| 4332830914 | END | Stopped A line with a pause at the end | 38 | |
| 4332832816 | SYLLOGISM | A form of reasoning in which two statements are made and a conclusion is drawn from them | 39 | |
| 4332833929 | ASSONANCE | Repetition of vowel sounds | 40 | |
| 4332834720 | DIGRESSION | Use of material unrelated to the subject of a work | 41 | |
| 4332836769 | VERNACULAR | Ordinary, everyday speech of a region | 42 | |
| 4332867787 | CONNOTATION | The various positive or negative implications of a word | 43 | |
| 4332869526 | EUPHEISM | a more agreeable or less offensive substitute for generally unpleasant words or concepts. | 44 | |
| 4332870589 | LITERAL | Not figurative, accurate to the letter | 45 | |
| 4332871738 | HYPERBOLE | Deliberate exaggeration or overstatement | 46 | |
| 4332876270 | RHETORICAL TECHNIQUES | Uses words in a certain way to convey meaning or to persuade. It can also be a technique to evoke an emotion on the part of the reader or audience | 47 | |
| 4332877781 | VERISIMILITUDE | The quality in literature of being true to life, details seem realistic and believable | 48 | |
| 4332880167 | OXYMORON | Combination of opposites | 49 |
