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| 2866044772 | alliteration | Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words or stressed syllables | 0 | |
| 2866044773 | diction | A speaker or writer's choice of words (formal, informal, colloquial, full of slang, poetic, ornate, plain, abstract, concrete, etc.); diction has a powerful effect on tone | 1 | |
| 2866044774 | figurative language | A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words. | 2 | |
| 2866044775 | hyperbole | A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor | 3 | |
| 2866044776 | imagery | A technique a writer uses to create pictures in the reader's mind and to appeal to the senses of touch, taste, smell, or hearing. | 4 | |
| 2866044777 | dramatic irony | ..., In this type of irony, facts or events are unknown to a character in a play or a piece of fiction but known to the reader, audience, or other characters in the work | 5 | |
| 2866044778 | irony | A contrast or discrepancy between what is stated and what is really meant, or between what is expected to happen and what actually does happen. | 6 | |
| 2866044779 | verbal irony | A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant | 7 | |
| 2866044780 | cosmic irony | Type of irony where it seems that God or fate is manipulating events so as to inspire false hopes, which are inevitably dashed. | 8 | |
| 2866044781 | metaphor | A comparison of two unlike things without using the word like or as. | 9 | |
| 2866044782 | narrator | A speaker or character who tells a story. | 10 | |
| 2866044783 | first person | The narrator is a character in the story who can reveal only personal thoughts and feelings and what he or she sees and is told by other characters. He can't tell us thoughts of other characters. | 11 | |
| 2866044784 | third person limited | Narrator is not a character, but sees the world through only one character's eyes and thoughts | 12 | |
| 2866044785 | third person omniscient | Point of view in which a narrator, with a godlike knowledge, is privy to the thoughts and actions of any or all characters. | 13 | |
| 2866044786 | second person | A point of view that directly addresses the reader by using "you" | 14 | |
| 2866044787 | personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes | 15 | |
| 2866044788 | setting | The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs. | 16 | |
| 2866044789 | simile | A comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as" | 17 | |
| 2866044790 | tone | Attitudes and presuppositions of the author that are revealed by their linguistic choices (diction, syntax, rhetorical devices) | 18 |
