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| 4386717698 | allusion | a reference in a work of literature to something outside of the work, especially a well known historical or literary person, event, or work. | 0 | |
| 4386726567 | attitude | the disposition toward or opinion of a subject by a speaker, author, or character | 1 | |
| 4386740276 | details (choice of details) | the individual items or parts that make up a larger picture or story | 2 | |
| 4386747535 | devices of sound | the techniques of deploying the sound of words, especially in poetry (rhyme, alliteration, assonance, consonance, and onomatopoeia) they are used for many reasons, including to create a general effect of pleasant or of discordant sound, to imitate another sound, or to reflect a meaning | 3 | |
| 4386782614 | diction | word choice | 4 | |
| 4386790037 | figurative language | writing that uses figures of speech, such as metaphor, simile, and irony. uses words to mean something other than their literal meaning | 5 | |
| 4386800060 | imagery | the images created by a literary work; the sensory details of a work; the figurative language of a work. the visual, auditory, or tactile images evoked by the words of a literary work, and the images that figurative language evokes | 6 | |
| 4386819843 | irony | a figure of speech in which the intended meaning and the actual meaning differ, characteristically using praise to indicate blame or using blame to indicate praise; a pattern of words that turns away from direct statement of its own obvious meaning | 7 | |
| 4386830051 | metaphor | a figurative use of language in which a comparison is expressed without the use of comparative terms like "as," "like," or "than." | 8 | |
| 4386842797 | narrative techniques | the methods involved in telling a story; the procedures used by a writer of stories or accounts. asks you to discuss the procedures used in the telling of a story | 9 | |
| 4386851090 | 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 | |
| 4386857846 | point of view | any of several possible vantage points from which a story is told. may be omniscient, limited to several characters, or to just a single character | 11 | |
| 4386865420 | resources of language | a general phrase for the linguistic devices or techniques that a writer can use. asks you to discuss the style and rhetoric of a passage. (examples: diction, syntax, figurative language, imagery) | 12 | |
| 4386879081 | rhetorical techniques | the devices used in effective or persuasive language (contrast, repetition, paradox, understatement, sarcasm, and rhetorical question | 13 | |
| 4386887234 | satire | writing that uses ridicule to arouse a reader's disapproval of the subject. comedy that exposes errors with an eye to correct vice and folly | 14 | |
| 4386908519 | setting | the background of a story; the physical location of a play, story , or novel. includes both time and place | 15 | |
| 4386923672 | simile | a directly expressed comparison; a figure of speech comparing two objects, usually with like or as or than. | 16 | |
| 4386929029 | strategy (rhetorical strategy) | the management of language for a specific effect. the planned placing of elements to achieve an effect | 17 | |
| 4386951062 | structure | the arrangement of materials within a work; the relationship of the parts of a work to the whole; the logical divisions of a work | 18 | |
| 4386962174 | style | the mode of expression in language; the characteristic manner of expression of an author. can discuss diction, syntax, figurative language, imagery, selection of detail, sound effects, and tone | 19 | |
| 4386979502 | symbol | something that is simultaneously itself and also a sign of something else | 20 | |
| 4386983745 | syntax | the structure of a sentence; the arrangement of words in a sentence. could include the length or brevity of sentences, and the kinds of sentences. (questions, exclamations, declarative, rhetorical questions, periodic or loose sentences, and simple, complex, or compound sentences | 21 | |
| 4386998918 | theme | the main thought expressed by a work | 22 | |
| 4387009113 | tone | the manner in which an author expresses his or her attitude; the intonation of the voice that expresses meaning. it is described by adjectives. it is the result of allusion, diction, figurative language, imagery, irony, symbol, syntax, and style | 23 | |
| 4387032396 | allegory | a story in which the people, things, and events have another extended, frequently abstract, meaning | 24 | |
| 4387036937 | ambiguity | multiple meanings that a literary work may communicate, especially when two meanings are incompatible | 25 | |
| 4387094373 | apostrophe | direct address, usually to someone or something that is not present | 26 | |
| 4387098020 | connotation | the implications of a word or phrase, or the emotions associated with it, as opposed to its exact meaning | 27 | |
| 4387107599 | convention | a device or style or subject matter that is used so often that it becomes a recognized means of expression. For example, a character observing the literary conventions of an impassioned lover cannot eat, or sleep, and he grows pale and lean | 28 | |
| 4387127933 | denotation | the specific, literal meaning of a word to be found in a dictionary, as opposed to connotation | 29 | |
| 4387131873 | didactic | explicitly instructive | 30 | |
| 4387133916 | digression | the inclusion of material unrelated to the actual subject of a work | 31 | |
| 4387145640 | epigram | a pithy staying, often employing contrast. also a verse form that is brief and pointed | 32 | |
| 4387155914 | euphemism | a figure of speech utilizing indirection to avoid offensive bluntness, such as "deceased" for "dead" or "remains" for "corpse" | 33 | |
| 4387163764 | grotesque | characterized by distortions or incongruities | 34 | |
| 4387167103 | hyperbole | deliberate exaggeration, overstatement. it is self conscious with the intention of not being accepted literally | 35 | |
| 4387172602 | jargon | the specialized language or a profession or group may be evasive, tedious, and unintelligible to outsiders | 36 | |
| 4387182093 | literal | the precise, explicit meaning; accurate to the letter; a matter of fact, as opposed to figurative language | 37 | |
| 4387186941 | lyrical | songlike; characterized by emotion, subjectivity, and imagination | 38 | |
| 4387195281 | oxymoron | a combination of juxtaposition of opposites; a union of contradictory terms "bright smoke" "feather of lead" "cold fire" | 39 | |
| 4387201127 | parable | a story designed to suggest a principle, to illustrate a moral, or to answer a question. they are allegorical stories | 40 | |
| 4387205457 | paradox | a statement that seems to be self-contradictory but is in fact, true. "chaste but you ravish me" "fair is foul and foul is fair" | 41 | |
| 4387215376 | parody | a composition that imitates the style of another composition, normally done for comic effect | 42 | |
| 4387223698 | personification | a figurative use of language that endows the nonhuman (ideas, inanimate objects, animals, abstractions) with human characteristics | 43 | |
| 4387251663 | reliability | a quality of some fictional narrators in whose word the reader can place his trust. There are both reliable and unreliable narrators, that is, tellers of a story who should or should not be trusted | 44 | |
| 4387263015 | rhetorical question | a question asked for effect, not in expectation of a reply. a reply is not expected because the question presupposes only one possible answer | 45 | |
| 4387269860 | soliloquy | a speech in which a character who is alone speaks his or her thoughts aloud. | 46 | |
| 4387275589 | stereotype | a conventional pattern, expression, character, or idea | 47 | |
| 4387279757 | syllogism | a form of reasoning in which two statements are made and a conclusion is drawn from them. "all tragedies end unhappily. hamlet is a tragedy. therefore, hamlet ends unhappily | 48 | |
| 4387288096 | thesis | the theme, meaning, or position that a writer endeavors to prove or support | 49 | |
| 4387295735 | alliteration | the repetition of similar or identical consonant sounds, normally at the beginning of the words. "Gnus never know pneumonia" (all have the n sound) | 50 | |
| 4387302297 | assonance | the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds. "a land laid waste with all its young men slain" repeats the same a sound in laid, waste, and slain | 51 | |
| 4387310166 | ballad meter | a four-line stanza rhymed abcb in which lines one and three have four feet and lines two and four have three feet | 52 | |
| 4387322517 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter (meter of most of Shakespeare's plays) | 53 | |
| 4387328019 | dactyl | a metrical foot of three syllables, including an accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables | 54 | |
| 4387333318 | end-stopped | a line with a pause at the end. lines that end with a period, comma, colon, semicolon, exclamation point, or question mark | 55 | |
| 4387339285 | free verse | poetry that is not written in a traditional meter but is still rhythmical | 56 | |
| 4387345020 | heroic couplet | two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, cc, usually containing a complete thought in the two-line unit | 57 | |
| 4387357169 | hexameter | a line containing six feet | 58 | |
| 4387358940 | iamb | a two-syllable foot with an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable. most common foot in English poetry | 59 | |
| 4387362158 | internal rhyme | rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end | 60 | |
| 4387370679 | onomatopoeia | the use of words whose very sound suggests their actual meaning. buzz, hiss, honk | 61 | |
| 4387373386 | pentameter | a line containing five feet. the iambic pentameter is the most common line used in English verse before 1950 | 62 | |
| 4387378956 | rhyme royal | a seven-line stanza of iambic pentameter rhymed ababbcc | 63 | |
| 4387384985 | sonnet | a poem written in iambic pentameter, normally composed of 14 lines. Italian/Petrarchan is abba abba cde cde. English/Shakespearean is abab cdcd efef gg | 64 | |
| 4387397258 | stanza | a repeated grouping of three or more lines, usually with the same meter and rhyme scheme | 65 | |
| 4387401389 | terza rima | a three-line stanza rhymed aba bcb cdc | 66 | |
| 4387404206 | tetrameter | a line of four feet | 67 | |
| 4387415776 | antecedent | that which has gone before, especially the word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers. "the witches cast their spells" the antecedent of the pronoun their is the noun witches | 68 | |
| 4387424897 | clause | a group of words containing a subject and its verb that may or may not form a complete sentence | 69 | |
| 4387429882 | ellipsis | a phrase that omits some words that would be necessary for a complete construction, yet which is still understandable. "if rainy, bring an umbrella" | 70 | |
| 4387436351 | modify | to restrict or limit in meaning. in the phrase "large, shaggy dog," the two adjectives modify the noun. | 71 | |
| 4387441021 | parallel structure | a similar grammatical structure within a sentence or within a paragraph | 72 | |
| 4387448655 | periodic sentence | a sentence that becomes grammatically complete only at the end. "when conquering love did first my heart assail, unto mine aid I summoned every sense" | 73 | |
| 4387452839 | loose sentence | grammatically complete before the period "fair is my love, and cruel as she's fair" | 74 | |
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