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| 3766372901 | Abstract | Type of style that is complex, discusses intangible qualities like good and evil, and seldom used examples to support its points | 0 | |
| 3766372902 | Academic | Dry and theoretical writing Ex. Analysis | 1 | |
| 3766388034 | Accent | In poetry, it is the stressed portion of a word | 2 | |
| 3766388035 | Aesthetic | "Appealing to the senses" | 3 | |
| 3766388036 | Allegory | Story in which each aspect of the story has symbolic meaning outside the tale itself Ex. Ant&Grasshopper Allegory-summer and winter | 4 | |
| 3766388037 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds | 5 | |
| 3766388038 | Allusion | Classical-reference to Greek and Roman mythology or literature such as The Illiad Topical-current event Popular-pop culture such as tv show | 6 | |
| 3766388039 | Anachronism | "misplaced in time" Ex. Brutus in Julius Carsar forgets to take off his wrist watch | 7 | |
| 3766388040 | Analogy | Comparison | 8 | |
| 3766388041 | Anecdote | Short narrative | 9 | |
| 3766388042 | Antecedent | Word, phrase, or clause that a pronoun refers to to or replaces Ex. The principal asked the children where they were going; they is pronoun and children is antecedent | 10 | |
| 3766388043 | Anthropomorphism | Inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena are given human characteristics, behavior, or motivation Ex.In the forest, the darkness waited for me, I could hear it's breathing... | 11 | |
| 3766388044 | Anticlimax | Action produces far smaller results than one had been led to expect | 12 | |
| 3766388045 | Antihero | A protagonist(main character) who is markedly unheroic: morally weak, cowardly, dishonest, etc | 13 | |
| 3766431673 | Aphorism | Short and witty saying Ex."classic? A book which people praise and don't read"-mark twain | 14 | |
| 3766431674 | Apostrophe | An address to someone not present or to a personified object or idea | 15 | |
| 3766431675 | Archaism | Use of deliberately old fashioned language Ex."Ye olde candle shoppe"-yeech! | 16 | |
| 3766431676 | Aspect | Trait or characteristic | 17 | |
| 3766453233 | Assonance | Repeated use of vowel sounds Ex."old King Cole was a merry old soul" O sound | 18 | |
| 3766453234 | Atmosphere | Emotional tone or background that surrounds a scene | 19 | |
| 3766453235 | Ballad | A long, narrative poem usually in very regular meter and rhyme | 20 | |
| 3766453236 | Pathos | Writing of a scene evokes feelings of dignified pity and sympathy | 21 | |
| 3766453237 | Caricature | A portrait(verbal or otherwise) that exaggerates a facet of personality | 22 | |
| 3766453238 | Conceit | In poetry, a startling or unusual metaphor, or one developed and expanded upon over several lines | 23 | |
| 3766453239 | Couplet | A pair of pines that end in rhyme Ex. But at my back I always hear Times winged chariot hurrying near Rhyme:hear&near | 24 | |
| 3766453240 | Diction | The authors choice of words | 25 | |
| 3766453241 | Syntax | Ordering and structuring of words | 26 | |
| 3766453242 | Dramatic irony | When the audience knows something that the characters in the drama do not | 27 | |
| 3766453243 | Enjambment | The continuation of a syntactic unit from one line or couplet of a poem to the next with no pause | 28 | |
| 3766453244 | Foreshadowing | An event or statement in a narrative that suggests, in miniature, a larger event that comes later | 29 | |
| 3766453245 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration or deliberate overstatement | 30 | |
| 3766453246 | Irony | Statement that means the opposite of what it seems to mean | 31 | |
| 3766453247 | Metaphor | A comparison or analogy that states one thing is another Ex. "his eyes were burning coals" or "in the morning, the lake is covered in liquid gold" | 32 | |
| 3766453248 | Simile | Comparison or analogy that states one thing is another that uses like or as Ex. "His eyes were like burning coals" or "in the morning the lake is covered in what seemed to be liquid gold" | 33 | |
| 3766453249 | Objectivity | Treatment of subject matter is an impersonal or outside view of events | 34 | |
| 3766453250 | Subjectivity | Treatment uses the interior or personal view of a single observer and is typically colored with that observer's emotional responses | 35 | |
| 3766453251 | Omniscient narrator | Third person narrator who sees, like God, into each characters mind and understands all the action going on | 36 |
