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| 4373460116 | Allegory | work in which characters, settings, and events stand for an abstract idea or something greater than the original meaning (EX. Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies). | 0 | |
| 4373478404 | Alliteration | repeated sound at the beginning of words (EX. Morgan makes music). | 1 | |
| 4373511501 | Allusion | Reference to history, literature, religion, politics, or other culture based topics. | 2 | |
| 4373521278 | Ambiguity | Deliberate suggestion of two or more different (often conflicting) pieces of work. Leaves room for a variety of interpretations. | 3 | |
| 4373542414 | Analogy | comparison made between two things to show similarities. | 4 | |
| 4373550012 | Anaphora | Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row. | 5 | |
| 4373562580 | Apostrophe | Calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to a place or thing, or a personified abstract idea (EX. "bright star!" opening Keats' poem) | 6 | |
| 4373578573 | Assonance | the repetition of similar vowel sounds within words (not necessarily at the beginning of the word). | 7 | |
| 4373592498 | Indirect characterization | the author reveals to the reader what the character is like by describing how the character looks and dresses, by letting the reader hear what the character says, by revealing the character's private thoughts and feelings, by revealing the characters effect on other people (showing how other characters feel or behave toward the character), or by showing the character in action. | 8 | |
| 4373645588 | Direct characterization | Character is revealed by the author telling us directly what the character is like: sneaky, generous, etc... Romantic style literature relied more heavily on this form. | 9 | |
| 4373678125 | Colloquialism | a word or phrase in everyday use in conversation and informal writing but is inappropriate for formal situations. (EX. "He's out of his head if he thinks I'm gonna go for such a stupid idea). | 10 | |
| 4373690339 | Connotation | the associations and emotional overtones that have become attached to a word or phrase, in addition to its strict dictionary definition. | 11 | |
| 4373701446 | Elegy | poem of mourning for someone who has passed (not to be confused with eulogy, a piece aimed to praise the dead) | 12 | |
| 4373745488 | Epistrophe | repetition of a word or phrase at the end of a line (opposite of anaphora) | 13 | |
| 4373778214 | Farce | a type of comedy in which ridiculous and often stereotyped characters are involved in silly, far-fetched situations. | 14 | |
| 4373782277 | Foil | a character to contrast another, usually a sidekick type | 15 | |
| 4373787517 | Hyperbole | an exaggeration or overstatement for effect | 16 | |
| 4373793964 | Imagery | use of descriptive language to evoke a picture or a concrete image of a person, place, or thing. | 17 | |
| 4373801254 | Irony | Discrepancy between appearance and reality | 18 | |
| 4373808712 | Verbal irony | when someone says one thing but means another | 19 | |
| 4373814526 | Situational Irony | takes place when there is a discrepancy between what is expected to happen, or what would be appropriate to happen, and what really does happen. | 20 | |
| 4373820582 | Dramatic irony | created by the character knowing one truth, while the reader or audience knows better (knows the real truth) | 21 | |
| 4373828775 | Litotes | is a form of understatement in which the positive form is emphasized through the negation of a negative form | 22 | |
| 4373836674 | Lyric poetry | expression of the personal thoughts or feelings of the speaker | 23 | |
| 4373840054 | Metaphor | a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without the use of such specific words of comparison as like, as, than, or resembles. | 24 | |
| 4373856203 | Implied metaphor | does not state explicitly the two terms of the comparison: "I like to see it lap the miles" is an implied metaphor in which the verb lap implies a comparison between "it" and some animal that "laps" up water. | 25 | |
| 4373888070 | Extended metaphor | is a metaphor that is extended or developed as far as the writer wants to take it. | 26 | |
| 4373895825 | Dead metaphor | is a metaphor that has been used so often that the comparison is no longer vivid: "The head of the house", "the seat of the government", "a knotty problem" are all dead metaphors. | 27 | |
| 4373898915 | Mixed metaphor | A metaphor that has gotten out of control and mixes its terms so that they are visually or imaginatively incompatible. "The President is a lame duck who is running out of gas." | 28 | |
| 4373907725 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which a person, place, or thing, is referred to by something closely associated with it. "We requested from the crown support for our petition." The crown is used to represent the monarch. | 29 | |
| 4373912845 | Mood | Atmosphere created by the writer's diction and the details selected | 30 | |
| 4373921802 | Motif | a recurring image, word, phrase, action, idea, object, or situation used throughout a work (or in several works by one author), unifying the work by tying the current situation to previous ones, or new ideas to the theme | 31 | |
| 4373929995 | Oxymoron | figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. (EX. "Jumbo shrimp.") | 32 | |
| 4373934192 | Parable | short story with a moral lesson on life | 33 | |
| 4373939074 | Paradox | a statement that appears self-contradictory, but that reveals a kind of truth. Koan is a type of paradox in Buddhism that is used to gain intuitive knowledge ("what is the sound of one hand clapping?") | 34 | |
| 4373958647 | Personification | a figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes. | 35 | |
| 4373981072 | PLOT: 1. Exposition 2. rising action 3. climax 4. resolution | series of related events in a work 1. Intro of characters, situation, and setting 2. complications in circumstance (conflict) 3. that point in a plot that creates the greatest intensity, suspense, or interest. Also called "turning point" 4. the conclusion of a story, when all or most of the conflicts have been settled; often called the "dénouement"(french). | 36 | |
| 4374166149 | Simile | comparison of two unlike things using like or as | 37 | |
| 4374184703 | Style | the distinctive way in which a writer uses language: a writer's distinctive use of diction, tone, and syntax. | 38 | |
| 4374188047 | Symbol | a person, place, thing, or event that has meaning in itself and that also stands for something more than itself. | 39 | |
| 4374192389 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part represents the whole. "If you don't drive properly, you will lose your wheels." (wheels representing the entire car) | 40 | |
| 4374212829 | Telegraphic sentence | sentence shorter than 5 words in length | 41 | |
| 4374215215 | Theme | the insight about human life that is revealed in a literary work. | 42 | |
| 4374220024 | Tone | the attitude a writer takes toward the subject of a work, the characters in it, or the audience, revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization. | 43 | |
| 4374228203 | Tragedy | in general, a story in which a heroic character either dies or comes to some other unhappy end. | 44 | |
| 4374234247 | Modernism | a term for the bold new experimental styles and forms that swept the arts during the first third of the twentieth century. | 45 | |
| 4374253148 | Realism | a style of writing, developed in the nineteenth century, that attempts to depict life accurately without idealizing or romanticizing it. | 46 | |
| 4374239007 | Important timeline for writing styles: | TIME LINE: Puritanism 1620 - 1770s Neoclassic 1770s - early 1800s Romanticism early 1800s - 1870s Realism 1850s -early 1900s Regionalism 1884 - early 1900s Naturalism - late 1800s - mid 1900s Modernism - 1920s - [1945] [Post-Modernism - 1945 - ] | 47 |
