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| 5015678807 | Alliteration | the practice of beginning several consecutive or neighboring words with the same sound. | 0 | |
| 5015698670 | Allusion | a reference to a mythological, literary, or historical person, place, or thing. Example: He met his waterloo. | 1 | |
| 5015715329 | Antithesis | a direct juxtaposition of structurally parallel words, phrases, or clauses for the purpose of contrast Example: Sink or swim. | 2 | |
| 5015732327 | Apostrophe | a form of personification in which the absent or dead are spoken to as if present and the inanimate, as if animate. These are all addressed correctly. | 3 | |
| 5015757746 | Assonance | the repetition of accented vowel sounds in a series of words. | 4 | |
| 5015778144 | Consonance | the repetition of a consonant sound within a series of words in order to produce a harmonious effect. | 5 | |
| 5015808346 | Details | the facts revealed by the author or speaker that support the attitude or tone in a piece of poetry or prose. | 6 | |
| 5015817770 | Diction | word choice intended to convey a certain effect. | 7 | |
| 5015825990 | Figures of Speech | words of phrases that describe one thing in terms of something else. they always involve some sort of imaginative comparison between seemingly unlike things. not meant to be taken literally, it is used to produce images in a reader's mind and to express ideas in fresh, vivid, and imaginative ways. Examples: Simile, metaphor, personification (used in both poetry and prose). | 8 | |
| 5015873019 | Flashback | a scene that interrupts the action of a work to show a previous event. | 9 | |
| 5015882182 | Foreshadowing | the use of hints or clues in a narrative to suggest future action. | 10 | |
| 5015892145 | Hyperbole | a deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration Example: 'The shot heard 'round the world.' (may be used for serious/comic effect). | 11 | |
| 5015917143 | Imagery | consists of the words and phrases a writer uses to represent persons, objects, actions, feelings, and ideas descriptively by appealing to the senses. | 12 | |
| 5015939910 | Irony | occurs in three types. 1). Verbal: occurs when a speaker or narrator says one thing while meaning the opposite. Example: 'It is easy to stop smoking. I have done it many times.' 2). Situational: occurs when a situation turns out differently from what one would normally expect- though often the twist is oddly appropriate. Example: a deep sea diver drowning in a bathtub = ironic 3). Dramatic: occurs when a character or speaker says or does something that has different meanings from what he or she thinks it means, though the audience and other characters understand the full implications of the speech or action. Example: Oedipus curses the murderer or Laius, not realizing that he is himself the murderer and so he is cursing himself. | 13 | |
| 5016039846 | Metaphor | a comparison of two unlike things not using 'like' or 'as.' Example: time is money | 14 | |
| 5016048632 | Mood | the atmosphere or predominant emotion in a literary work. | 15 | |
| 5016057660 | Motivation | a circumstance or a set of circumstances that prompts a character to act in a certain way or that determines the outcome of a situation or work. | 16 | |
| 5016077334 | Narration | the telling of a story in writing or speaking. | 17 | |
| 5016084146 | Onomatopoeia | the use of words that mimic the sounds they describe. | 18 | |
| 5016110676 | Oxymoron | a form of paradox that combines a pair of opposite terms into a single unusual expression. | 19 | |
| 5016126938 | Paradox | occurs when the elements of a statement contradict each other. although the statement may appear illogical, impossible, or absurd, it turns out to have a coherent meaning that reveals a hidden truth. Example: much madness is divinest sense. | 20 | |
| 5016158645 | Personification | a kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics. | 21 | |
| 5016171166 | Plot | the sequence of events or actions in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem. | 22 | |
| 5016184881 | Point of View | the perspective from which a narrative is told. | 23 | |
| 5016188691 | Prosody | the study of sound and rhythm in poetry. | 24 | |
| 5016193332 | Protagonist | the central character of a drama, novel, short story, or narrative poem. | 25 | |
| 5016206302 | Antagonist | the character who stands directly opposed to the protagonist. | 26 | |
| 5016216383 | Pun | a play on words that are identical or similar in sound but have sharply diverse meanings. They can have serious or humorous uses Example: when Mercutio is bleeding to death in 'Romeo and Juliet", he says to his friends, 'ask me for tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man.' | 27 | |
| 5016275734 | Repetition | the deliberate use of any element of language more than once- sound, word, phrase, sentence, grammatical or rhythmical pattern. | 28 | |
| 5016290192 | Rhyme | the repetition of sounds in two or more words of phrases that appear close to each other in a poem. | 29 | |
| 5016327256 | Sarcasm | the use of verbal irony in which a person appears to be praising something but is actually insulting it. Example: as I fell down the stairs headfirst, I heard her say, 'look at that coordination.' | 30 | |
| 5016385381 | Setting | the time and place in which events in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem take place. | 31 | |
| 5016399716 | Shift/Turn | refers to a change or movement in a piece resulting from an epiphany, realization, or insight gained by the speaker, a character, or the reader. | 32 | |
| 5016416593 | Simile | a comparison of two different ideas or things through the use of words 'like' or 'as'. it is a definitely stated comparison in which the post says one thing is like another. Example: the warrior fought like a lion. | 33 | |
| 5016444424 | Sound Devices | stylistic techniques that convey meaning through sounds. Examples: rhyme, assonance, consonance, alliteration, and onomatopoeia. | 34 | |
| 5016469754 | Style | the writer's characteristic manner of employing language. | 35 | |
| 5016476486 | Structure | the framework or organization of a literary selection. | 36 | |
| 5016530761 | Suspense | the quality of a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem that makes the reader or audience uncertain or tense about the outcome of events. | 37 | |
| 5016548187 | Symbol | any object, person, place, or action that has both a meaning in itself and stands for something larger than itself, such as a quality, attitude, belief or value. | 38 | |
| 5016589635 | Synecdoche | a form of metaphor. a part of something is used to signify the whole. Also, the reverse, whereby the whole can represent a part | 39 | |
| 5016658209 | Metonymy | when the name of one thing is applied to another thing with which it was closely associated. | 40 | |
| 5016676043 | Syntax | the arrangement of words and the order of grammatical elements in a sentence. | 41 | |
| 5016684854 | Theme (and Subject) | the central message of a literary work. | 42 | |
| 5016758273 | Tone | the writer's or speaker's attitude toward a subject, character, or audience, and it is conveyed through the author's choice of words (diction) and detail. it can be serious, humorous, sarcastic, indignant, objective. | 43 | |
| 5016789269 | Understatement (meiosis, litotes) | it is a kind of irony that deliberately represents something as being less than it really is. | 44 |
