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| 5836951180 | Diction | style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words. | 0 | |
| 5836953064 | Syntax | a system or orderly arrangement of words. | 1 | |
| 5836953065 | Tone | attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience. | 2 | |
| 5836953066 | Imagery | figurative description or illustration; rhetorical images collectively. | 3 | |
| 5836953660 | Figurative Langauge | language that uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation. | 4 | |
| 5836953661 | Point of View | the narrator's position in relation to the story being told. | 5 | |
| 5836953662 | Detail | details that the author reveals for the purpose of adding to the desired dominant impression. | 6 | |
| 5836954618 | Pacing | shows how fast a story unfolds. | 7 | |
| 5836954619 | Shift | change in mood or attitude that is typically accompanied by a corresponding change in the focus and language of a literary scene, passage or theme. | 8 | |
| 5836954941 | Connotation | meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing which it describes explicitly. | 9 | |
| 5836954942 | Denotation | literal or dictionary meanings of a word | 10 | |
| 5836954943 | Theme | main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work | 11 | |
| 5836954944 | Allegory | when the characters, images, and/or events act as symbols. | 12 | |
| 5836954945 | Allusion | a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance. | 13 | |
| 5836955186 | Alliteration | the repeated sound of the first letter in a series of multiple words, or the repetition of the same letter sounds in stressed syllables of a phrase. | 14 | |
| 5836955187 | Ambiguity | a word, phrase, or statement which contains more than one meaning. | 15 | |
| 5836955368 | Antagonist | a character or a group of characters which stand in opposition to the protagonist | 16 | |
| 5836955369 | Apostophe | when a speaker breaks off from addressing one party and instead addresses a third party. | 17 | |
| 5836955370 | Analogy | a comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it. | 18 | |
| 5836955570 | Anecdote | a short and interesting story or an amusing event often proposed to support or demonstrate some point | 19 | |
| 5836955571 | Aside | happens when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by the other actors on the stage. | 20 | |
| 5836955572 | Assonance | repetition of a vowel sound or diphthong in non-rhyming words. | 21 | |
| 5836955930 | Atmosphere | refers to the feeling, emotion, or mood a writer conveys to a reader through the description of setting and objects. | 22 | |
| 5836955931 | Attitude | a behavior a person adopts toward other people, things, incidents or happenings. | 23 | |
| 5836956303 | Bildungsroman | a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood | 24 | |
| 5836956304 | Cacophany | a situation where there is a mixture of harsh and inharmonious sounds. | 25 | |
| 5836956305 | Characterization | used step by step in literature to highlight and explain the details about a character in a story. | 26 | |
| 5836956522 | Caesura | a rhythmical pause in a poetic line or a sentence. | 27 | |
| 5836956523 | Climax | the particular point in a narrative at which the conflict or tension hits the highest point. | 28 | |
| 5836956958 | Colloquialism | the use of informal words, phrases or even slang in a piece of writing. | 29 | |
| 5836956959 | Conceit | a kind of metaphor that compares two very unlike things in a surprising and clever way. | 30 | |
| 5836957321 | Conflict | any struggle between opposing forces. | 31 | |
| 5836957693 | Consonance | repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase. (pitter, patter...) | 32 | |
| 5836957694 | Enjambment | moving over from one line to another without a terminating punctuation mark. | 33 | |
| 5836957695 | Epiphany | the moment in the story where a character achieves some realization. | 34 | |
| 5836958071 | Euphony | the use of words and phrases that are distinguished as having a wide range of noteworthy melody or loveliness in the sounds they create. | 35 | |
| 5836958072 | Flashback | an interruption of the chronological sequence | 36 | |
| 5836958073 | Foil | a character who contrasts with another character in order to highlight particular qualities of the other character. | 37 | |
| 5836958601 | Foreshadowing | a hint of what is to come later in the story. | 38 | |
| 5836958602 | Genre | a category of literary composition. | 39 | |
| 5836958603 | Hyperbole | a figure of speech, which involves an exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis. | 40 | |
| 5836959159 | Irony | a figure of speech in which words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words. It may also be a situation that may end up in quite a different way than what is generally anticipated. | 41 | |
| 5836959160 | Juxtaposition | when two or more ideas, places, characters and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts. | 42 | |
| 5836959161 | Litotes | a figure of speech which employs an understatement by using double negatives or, in other words, positive statement is expressed by negating its opposite expressions. | 43 | |
| 5836959594 | Metaphor | a figure of speech which makes an implicit, implied or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated but share some common characteristics. | 44 | |
| 5836960080 | Metonymy | a figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated. | 45 | |
| 5836960081 | Mood | evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions. | 46 | |
| 5836960082 | Motif | an image, sound, action or other figures that have a symbolic significance and contributes toward the development of theme. | 47 | |
| 5836960083 | Objective | the goal or mission of an individual. | 48 | |
| 5836960452 | Onomatopoeia | a word, which imitates the natural sounds of a thing. | 49 | |
| 5836960453 | Omniscient | technique of writing narrative in third person in which a narrator knows the feelings and thoughts of every character in the story. | 50 | |
| 5836960923 | Oxymoron | a figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect. | 51 |
