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| 4229504652 | allusion | a reference in a work of literature to something outside the work, especially to a well-konwn historical or literary event, person, or work | 0 | |
| 4229508492 | attitude | a speaker's, author's, or character's disposition toward or opinion of a subject | 1 | |
| 4229511529 | details | items or parts that make up a larger picture or story | 2 | |
| 4229514969 | devices of sound | the techniques of deploying the sound of words, especially in poetry | 3 | |
| 4229521183 | diction | word choice | 4 | |
| 4229524461 | figurative language | uses words to mean something other than their literal meaning | 5 | |
| 4229526882 | imagery | the images, sensory details, or figurative language of a work. The visual, auditory, or tactile images evoked by the words of a literary work or the images that figurative language evokes | 6 | |
| 4229533250 | irony | a figure of speech in which intent and actual meaning differ, characteristically praise for blame or blame for praise; a pattern of words that turns away from direct statement of its own obvious meaning; discrepancy | 7 | |
| 4229539390 | metaphor | a figurative use of language in which a comparison is expressed without the use of a comparative term like "as," "like," or "than" | 8 | |
| 4229542672 | narrative techniques | the methods involved in telling a story; the procedures used by a write of stories or accounts | 9 | |
| 4229545484 | omniscient point of view | the vantage point of a story in which the narrator can know, see, and report whatever he or she chooses | 10 | |
| 4229549015 | point of view | any of several possible vantage points from which a story is told | 11 | |
| 4229550442 | resources of language | a general phrase for the linguistic devices or techniques that a writer can use | 12 | |
| 4229552580 | symbol | something that is simultaneously itself and a sign of something else | 13 | |
| 4229555339 | syntax | the structure of a sentence; the arrangement of words in a sentence | 14 | |
| 4229557435 | theme | the main thought expressed by a work | 15 | |
| 4229559189 | tone | the manner in which an author expresses his or her attitude; the intonation of the voice that expresses meaning. Described by adjectives, and the possibilities are nearly endless | 16 | |
| 4229564974 | allegory | a story in which people, things, and events have another meaning | 17 | |
| 4229566975 | ambiguity | multiple meanings as a literary work may communicate, especially two meanings that are incompatible | 18 | |
| 4229569260 | apostrophe | direct adress, usually to someone or something that is not present | 19 | |
| 4229572430 | connotation | the implications of a word or phrase, as opposed to its exact meaning | 20 | |
| 4229575441 | convention | a device of style or subject matter so often used that it becomes a recognized means of expressions. (Ex. a lover observing the literary love connections cannot ear or sleep and grows pale and lean. Romeo, at the beginning of the play, is a conventional lover, while an overweight lover in Chaucer is consciously mocking the convention | 21 | |
| 4229585870 | denotation | the dictionary meaning of a word | 22 | |
| 4229587868 | didactic | explicitly instructive (can be good or bad) | 23 | |
| 4229589288 | digression | the use of material unrelated to the subject of a work | 24 | |
| 4229591015 | epigram | a pithy saying, often using contrast. The epigram is also a verse form, usually brief and pointed | 25 | |
| 4229594751 | euphemism | a figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness, such as "deceased" for "dead" | 26 | |
| 4229600570 | grotesque | characterized by distortions or incongruities | 27 | |
| 4229602626 | hyperbole | deliberate exaggeration or overstatement. As a rule, it is self-conscious without the intent of being accepted literally | 28 | |
| 4229607221 | jargon | the special language of a profession or group. Usually has pejorative associations, with the implication that jargon is evasive, tedious, and unintelligible to outsiders | 29 | |
| 4229613264 | literal | not figurative, accurate to the letter; matter of fact or concrete | 30 | |
| 4229615232 | lyrical | songlike; characterized by emotion, subjectivity, and imagination | 31 | |
| 4229617397 | oxymoron | a combination of opposites; the union of contradictory terms | 32 | |
| 4229619685 | parable | a story designed to suggest a principle, illustrate a moral, or answer a question. Allegorical stories. | 33 | |
| 4229621818 | paradox | a statement that seems to be self-contradicting but, in fact, is true | 34 | |
| 4229625525 | parody | a composition that imitates the style of another composition normally for comic effect | 35 | |
| 4229627721 | personification | a figurative use of language that endows the nonhuman (ideas, inanimate objects, animals, abstractions) with human characteristics | 36 | |
| 4229630944 | reliability | a quality of some fictional narrators whose word the reader can trust | 37 | |
| 4229634163 | rhetorical question | a question asked for effect, not in expectation of a reply. No reply is expected because the question presupposes only one possible answer | 38 | |
| 4229639977 | soliloquy | a speech in which a character who is alone speaks his or her thoughts aloud. A monologue also has a single speaker, but the monologist speaks to others who do not interrupt | 39 | |
| 4229643776 | stereotype | a conventional pattern, expression, character, or idea | 40 | |
| 4229646432 | syllogism | a form of reason in which two statements are made and a conclusion is drawn from them. Begins with a major premise ("all tragedies end unhappily"), followed by a minor premise ("Hamlet is a tragedy"), and ending with a conclusion ("Hamlet ends unhappily") | 41 | |
| 4229654346 | thesis | the theme, meaning, or position that a writer undertakes to prove or support | 42 | |
| 4229659068 | alliteration | the repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds, normally at the beginning of words | 43 | |
| 4229662263 | assonance | the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds | 44 | |
| 4229664031 | ballad meter | a four-line stanza rhymed abcb with four feet in lines on and three and three feet in lines two and four | 45 | |
| 4229667470 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | 46 | |
| 4229668675 | dactyl | a metrical foot of three syllables, an accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables | 47 | |
| 4229673381 | end-stopped | a line with a pause at the end. Lines that end with a period, comma, semicolon, exclamation point, or question mark are this | 48 | |
| 4229676846 | free verse | poetry which is not written in a traditional meter but is still rhythmical | 49 | |
| 4229679883 | heroic couplet | two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, cc with the thought usually completed in the two-line unit | 50 | |
| 4229682959 | hexameter | a line containing six feet | 51 | |
| 4229682961 | iamb | a two-syllable for with an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable. The most common foot in English poetry | 52 | |
| 4229686931 | internal rhyme | rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end | 53 | |
| 4229688779 | onomatopoeia | the use of words whose sound suggests their meaning | 54 | |
| 4229690449 | pentameter | a line containing five feet, the most common line in English verse written before 1950 | 55 | |
| 4229692185 | rhyme royal | a seven-line stanza of iambic pentameter rhymed ababbcc, used by Chaucer and other medieval poets | 56 | |
| 4229698324 | sonnet | normally a fourteen-line iambic pentameter poem | 57 | |
| 4229702386 | Italian sonnet | rhymed abba, abba, cde, cde | 58 | |
| 4229704755 | Petrachan sonnet | rhymed abba, abba, cde, cde | 59 | |
| 4229706294 | English sonnet | rhymed abab, cdcd, efef, gg | 60 | |
| 4229708657 | Shakespearean sonnet | rhymed abab, cdcd, efef, gg | 61 | |
| 4229710432 | stanza | usually a repeated grouping of there or more lines with the same meter and rhyme scheme | 62 | |
| 4229713014 | terza rima | a three-line stanza rhymed aba, abcb, cdc | 63 | |
| 4229714707 | tetrameter | a line of four feet | 64 | |
| 4229722041 | antecedent | that which goes before, especially the word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers (ex. in "the witches cast their spells," it (of their) is "witches") | 65 | |
| 4229730301 | clause | a group of words containing a subject and its verb that may or may not be a complete sentence | 66 | |
| 4229732507 | ellipsis | the omission of a word or several words necessary for a complete construction that is still understandable | 67 | |
| 4229735961 | imperative | the mood of a verb that gives an order | 68 | |
| 4229737252 | modify | to restrict or limit in meaning (ex. "large, shaggy dog;" "large" and "shaggy" do this) | 69 | |
| 4229744475 | parallel structure | a similar grammatical structure within a sentence or within a paragraph | 70 | |
| 4229748603 | periodic sentence | a sentence grammatically complete only at the end. Put the important idea at the end | 71 | |
| 4229750147 | loose sentence | a sentence grammatically complete before the period. Put the important idea first | 72 | |
| 4229756381 | syntax | the structure of a sentence | 73 |
