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| 8187770553 | Persona | In literature, it is the narrator, or the storyteller, of a literary workcreated by the author. It is not the author, but the author's creation--the voice "through which the author speaks" | 0 | |
| 8187770554 | Personification | Figure of speech where animals, ideas, or inorganic objects are given human characteristics. Ex: "The wind stood up and gave a shout. He whistled on his two fingers" | 1 | |
| 8187770555 | Point of View | The point from which the narrative is passed from author to the reader. In the omniscient point of view, the person telling the story, or narrator, knows everything that's going on in the story | 2 | |
| 8187770556 | Polemic | A controversial argument, especially one refuting or attacking a specific opinion or doctrine | 3 | |
| 8187770557 | Polysendeton | The use of several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some could otherwise be omitted Ex: he ran and jumped and laughed for joy It can increase the rhythm of prose, speed or slow its pace, convey solemnity or even ecstasy and childlike exuberance. It is also used to create a sense of being overwhelmed, or in fact directly overwhelm the audience by using conjunctions, rather than commas, leaving little room for a reader to breathe | 4 | |
| 8187770558 | Protagonist | The central character of a literary work | 5 | |
| 8187770559 | Realism | Broadly defined as "the faithful representation of reality" or "verisimilitude" Although strictly speaking, it is a technique, it also denotes a particular kind of subject matter, especially the representation of middle-class life | 6 | |
| 8187770560 | Rhetoric | The art of persuasive argument through writing or speech--the art of eloquence and charismatic language | 7 | |
| 8187770561 | Roman a clef | A novel in which actual persons and events are disguised as fictional characters | 8 | |
| 8187770562 | Romanticism | Favoring feeling over reason, placed great emphasis on the subjective, or personal, experience of the individual | 9 | |
| 8187770563 | Satire | A literary work which exposes and ridicules human vices or folly. It is usually intended as a moral criticism directed against the injustice of social wrongs | 10 | |
| 8187770564 | Stock Character | A fictional character that relies heavily on cultural types or stereotypes for its personality, manner of speech, and other characteristics. They are instantly recognizable to members of a given culture. | 11 | |
| 8187770565 | Stream of Consciousness | Technique that records the thoughts and feelings of a character without regard to logical argument or narrative sequence. Used to reflect all the forces, external and internal, influencing the psychology of a character at a single moment | 12 | |
| 8187770566 | Subtext | The hidden meaning lying behind the overt | 13 | |
| 8187770567 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part of something stands for the whole or the whole for a part, as wheels for automobile or society for high society | 14 |
