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| 5149166037 | Allusion | A reference in a work of literature to something outside the work, especially to a well known historical or literary event, person, or work. | 0 | |
| 5149166038 | Attitude | A speaker's, author's, or character's disposition toward or opinion of a subject. | 1 | |
| 5149255133 | Details | Items or parts that make up a larger picture or story. | 2 | |
| 5149257773 | Devices of Sound | Alliteration, Assonance, consonance, and onomatopoeia are examples of this. | 3 | |
| 5149257774 | Diction | Any word that is important to the meaning and effect of the passage. | 4 | |
| 5149259960 | Figurative Language | Metaphor, simile, and irony are examples of this. | 5 | |
| 5149259961 | Imagery | The images of a literary work; the sensory details of a work; the figurative language of a work. | 6 | |
| 5149259962 | Irony | A figure of speech in which intent and actual meaning differ. | 7 | |
| 5149262531 | Metaphor | A figurative comparison NOT using "like, as, or than". | 8 | |
| 5149262532 | Narrative Techniques | The methods involved in telling a story; the procedures used by a writer of stories or accounts. | 9 | |
| 5149265200 | Omniscient Point of View | The vantage point from which the narrator can know, see, and report whatever he or she chooses. | 10 | |
| 5149265201 | Point of View | Any of several vantage points from which a story is told. | 11 | |
| 5149268797 | Resources of Langauge | A general phrase for the linguistic devices or techniques that a writer can use. | 12 | |
| 5149268798 | Rhetorical Strategies | The devices used in effective or persuasive language such as apostrophe, contrast, repetitions, paradox, understatement, sarcasm, and rhetorical question to name a few. | 13 | |
| 5149270678 | Satire | Writing that seeks to arouse a reader's disapproval of an object by ridicule. This is usually comedy that exposes errors with an eye to correct vice and folly. | 14 | |
| 5149270679 | Setting | The background to a story; the physical location of a play, story, or novel. This term usually involves both time and place. | 15 | |
| 5149270680 | Simile | A directly expressed comparison; a figure of speech comparing tow objects, usually with "like," "as," or "than." It is easier to recognize one of these than a metaphor because the comparison is explicit. | 16 | |
| 5149276144 | Strategy (or Rhetorical Strategy) | The management of language for a specific effect. There is planning for this term and for poems there is a planned placement of elements to achieve an affect. | 17 | |
| 5149276145 | Structure | The arrangement of materials within a work the relationship of the parts of a work; the relationship of the parts of a work to the whole; the logical divisions of a work. The most common principles of structure are series (A, B, C, D, E), contrast (A vs. B, C vs. D, E vs. A), and repetition (AA, BB). The most common units of this term are - play: scene, act; novel: chapter; poem: line, stanza. | 18 | |
| 5149276146 | Style | The mode of expression in language; the characteristic manner of expression of an author. Within this term the reader can discuss/analyze the terms techniques such as diction, syntax, figurative language, imagery, selection of detail, sound effects, and tone, using the ones that are appropriate. | 19 | |
| 5149278154 | Symbol | Something that is simultaneously itself and a sign of something else. (Winter, darkness, and cold are real things, but in literature they are also likely to be used as symbols of death). | 20 | |
| 5149278155 | Syntax | The structure of a sentence; the arrangement of words in a sentence. This could include such considerations to be examined as the length or brevity of the sentences, the kinds of sentences (questions, exclamations, declarative sentences, rhetorical questions-or periodic or loose; simple, complex, or compound). | 21 | |
| 5149278156 | Tone | The manner in which an author expresses his or her attitude; the intonation of the voice that expresses meaning. This is described by adjectives, and the possibilities will not be enough and this may change from chapter to chapter or even line to line. This is the result of allusion, diction, figurative language, imagery, irony, symbol, syntax, and style, for example. | 22 |
