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13307518744AllusionA reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art0
13307525130AttitudeThe disposition toward or opinion of a subject by a speaker, author, or character.1
13307542100Detailsthe individual items or parts that make up a larger picture or story.2
13307549810Devices of soundthe techniques of deploying the sound of words, especially in poetry, such as rhyme, alliteration, assonance, etc.3
13307572816Dictionword choice4
13307584789Figurative languagewriting that uses figures of speech, such as metaphor, simile, and irony.5
13307616673Imagerythe images created by a literary work; the sensory details of a work; the figurative language of a work.6
13307632500Ironya figure of speech in which the intended meaning and the actual meaning different, characteristically using praise to indicate blame or using blame to indicate praise;7
13307668247Metaphora figurative use of language in which a comparison is expressed without the use of a comparative term like "as", "like", or "than."8
13307696227Narrative techniquesthe methods involved in telling a story; the procedures used by a writer of stories or accounts.9
13307711720Omniscient point of viewvantage point of a story in which the narrator can know, see, and report whatever he or she chooses.10
13307723529Point of viewany of several possible vantage points from which a story is told.11
13307748122Resources of languagea general phrase for the linguistic devices or techniques that a writer can use.12
13307773491Rhetorical techniquesThe devices used in effective or persuasive language.13
13307796284Satirewriting that uses ridicule to arouse a reader's disapproval of the subject.14
13307807120Settingthe background of a story; the physical location of a play or story.15
13307815110Similea directly expressed comparison; a figure of speech comparing two objects, usually with "like", "as", or "than".16
13307832651Strategy (or rhetorical stragegy)the management of language for a specific effect.17
13307848134Structurethe arrangement of materials within a work18
13307854498Stylethe mode of expression in language; the characteristic manner of expression of an author.19
13307864688Symbolsomething that is simultaneously itself and also a sign of something else.20
13307883888Syntaxthe structure of a sentence; the arrangement of words in a sentence21
13307889464Themethe main thought expressed by a work22
13307895681Tonethe manner in which an author expresses his or her attitude; the intonation of the voice that expresses meaning.23

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