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| 8025391967 | Satire | A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies; form of literature in which irony, sarcasm, and ridicule are employed to attack human vice and folly | 0 | |
| 8025395046 | Semantics | The analysis of the meaning of language, especially of individual words. | 1 | |
| 8025395047 | Style | the way a writer writes and the technique which an individual author uses in his writing; how an author blends diction, syntax, figurative language, and other literary devices | 2 | |
| 8025395048 | Subject Complement | the adjective, noun, or pronoun that follows a linking verb; a word or group of words that follows a linking verb and renames or describes the subject. (Ex: The box is a present; The box is ugly) | 3 | |
| 8025397527 | Subordinate Clause | part of a sentence but doesn't express a complete thought and cannot stand by itself; dependent clause; group of words with subject and verb that cannot stand alone. | 4 | |
| 8025397528 | Syllogism | A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion; from the Greek "reckoning together" | 5 | |
| 8025399943 | Symbol | A thing that represents or stands for something else; an object or action that means something more than its literal meaning; something concrete that represents something abstract (dawn = hope; tree = knowledge; rose = love) | 6 | |
| 8025402028 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is substituted for the whole; using one part of an object to represent the entire object (ex: Farmer Joe has 200 head of cattle; all hands on deck; put on your best threads; ask for Jane's hand in marriage; nice wheels) | 7 | |
| 8025402029 | Syntax | Sentence structure; the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences; the way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences. | 8 | |
| 8025402030 | Theme | Central idea of a work of literature; A message about life or human nature that the writer shares with the reader; underlying meaning of a literary work that may be stated directly or indirectly. | 9 | |
| 8025402031 | Thesis | the primary position taken by a writer or speaker; a statement or theory that is put forward as a premise to be maintained or proved | 10 | |
| 8025402032 | Tone | an attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience | 11 | |
| 8025404705 | Transition | A word or phrase that links different ideas | 12 | |
| 8025404706 | Understatement | The ironic minimizing of fact; presents something as less significant than it is; litotes | 13 | |
| 8025404707 | Undertone | An underlying quality or feeling or attitude in a piece of literature; the hidden attitude or opinion the author may have of the content or the audience or both | 14 | |
| 8025406642 | Wit | a natural aptitude for using words and ideas in a quick and inventive way to create humor; In modern usage, intellectually amusing language that surprises and delights. | 15 |
