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| 14750175776 | allegory | a literary work that portrays abstract ideas concretely (characters in an allegory are frequently personifications of abstract ideas and are given names that refer to these ideas) | 0 | |
| 14750175777 | allusion | a reference to another work of literature, or to art, historoy, or current events | 1 | |
| 14750175778 | analogy | in literature, a comparison between two things that helps explain or illustrate one or both of them | 2 | |
| 14750177961 | archaic language | words that were once common but that are no longer used | 3 | |
| 14750177962 | colloquial language | an expression or language construction appropriate only for casual, informal speaking or writing | 4 | |
| 14750179795 | diction | a writer's choice of words (in addition to choosing words with precise denotations and connotations, an author must choose whether to use words that are abstract or concrete, formal or informal, or literal or figurative) | 5 | |
| 14750179796 | enjambment | A poetic technique in which one line ends without a pause and must continue on to the next line to complete its meaning; also referred to as a "run-on line" | 6 | |
| 14750179797 | imagery | a description of how something looks, feels, tastes, smells, or sounds; the verbal expression of a sensory experience: visual (sight), auditory (sound), olfactory (scent), gustatory (taste), tactile (touch), or kinesthetic (movement/tension); may use literal or figurative language | 7 | |
| 14750182493 | dramatic irony | tension created by the contrast between what a character says or thinks and what the audience or readers know to be true as a result of this technique, some words and actions in a story or play take on a different meaning for the reader than they do for the characters | 8 | |
| 14750182494 | situational irony | a pointed discrepancy between what seems fitting or expected in a story and what actually happens | 9 | |
| 14750184084 | verbal irony | a figure of speech that occurs when a speaker or character says one thing but means something else, or when what is said is the opposite of what is expected, creating a noticeable incongruity (sarcasm involves verbal irony used derisively) | 10 | |
| 14750184085 | juxtaposition | placing two things side by side for the sake of comparison or contrast (authors sometimes use incongruous juxtapositions to produce verbal irony) | 11 | |
| 14750184086 | extended metaphor | a metaphor that continues over several lines or throughout an entire literary work | 12 | |
| 14750186182 | metonymy | a figure of speech in which something is represented by another thing that is related to it | 13 | |
| 14750186183 | paradox | a statement that seems contradictory but actually is not | 14 | |
| 14750186184 | pastoral | literature that employs a romanticized description of leisurely farm or rural life | 15 | |
| 14750188246 | personification | a figure of speech in which an animal or an inanimate object is imbued with human qualities | 16 | |
| 14750188247 | simile | a figure of speech used to explain or clarify an idea by comparing it explicitly to something else, using the words "like", "as", or "as though" to do so | 17 | |
| 14750188248 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which part of something is used to represent the whole | 18 | |
| 14750191847 | syntax | the arrangement of words into phrases, clauses, and sentences in a prose passage this includes word order; the length and structure of sentences, phrases, and clauses; the chronology of passages; the preference of various parts of speech over others; the use of connectors between and within sentences; etc. | 19 |
