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| 5389699707 | Diction | The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing. | 0 | |
| 5389705909 | Denotation | The literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests. | 1 | |
| 5389705910 | Connotation | An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning. | 2 | |
| 5389708274 | Formal Diction | Contains language that creates and elevated tone. It is free of slang, idioms, colloquialisms, and contractions. It often contains polysyllabic words, sophisticated syntax, and elegant word choice. | 3 | |
| 5389708275 | Informal Diction | The relaxed, conversational language that we use every day and is used to address a familiar audience such as family or friends. | 4 | |
| 5389711117 | Colloquialism | A word or phrase that is not formal or literary, typically one used in ordinary or familiar conversation. | 5 | |
| 5389714048 | Abstract Diction | The language (words and phrases) we use to describe qualities that cannot be perceived with our five senses (sight, touch, smell, taste and hearing). | 6 | |
| 5389714049 | Concrete Diction | Consists of specific words that describe physical qualities or conditions. | 7 | |
| 5389717459 | Figurative Language | Using figures of speech to be more effective, persuasive and impactful. | 8 | |
| 5389717460 | Simile | A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid. | 9 | |
| 5389720019 | Metaphor | A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. | 10 | |
| 5389724148 | Personification | The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form. | 11 | |
| 5389724149 | Analogy | A comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification. | 12 | |
| 5389727097 | Extended Metaphor | Refers to a comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem. | 13 | |
| 5389729155 | Hyperbole | Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. | 14 | |
| 5389729156 | Understatement | The presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. | 15 | |
| 5389732215 | Paradox | A statement or proposition that, despite sound (or apparently sound) reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory. | 16 | |
| 5389732216 | Situational Irony | When something happens that is very different than what was expected. | 17 | |
| 5389735442 | Verbal Irony | When words express something contrary to truth or someone says the opposite of what they really feel or mean. It is often sarcastic. | 18 | |
| 5389735443 | Dramatic Irony | Occurs when the audience knows something that some characters in a narrative do not. | 19 | |
| 5389738632 | Imagery | Visually descriptive or figurative language. | 20 | |
| 5389738633 | Syntax | The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. | 21 | |
| 5389741767 | Simple Sentence | A sentence consisting of only one clause, with a single subject and predicate. | 22 | |
| 5389741768 | Complex Sentence | Contains an independent clause and at least one dependent clause. | 23 | |
| 5389745735 | Inverted Syntax | Occurs when lines do not follow traditional sentence patterns, for example when the subject and verb or the object and subject are reversed. | 24 | |
| 5389745736 | Tone | Expresses the writer's attitude toward or feelings about the subject matter and audience. | 25 | |
| 5389746698 | Mood | Evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions. | 26 | |
| 5389654922 | Plot | Refers to the sequence of events inside a story which affect other events through the principle of cause and effect. | 27 | |
| 5389654923 | Elements of a Conventional Narrative | 28 | ||
| 5389667338 | Protagonist | 29 | ||
| 5389667339 | Antagonist | 30 | ||
| 5389671355 | Bildungsroman | 31 | ||
| 5389673052 | Epiphany | 32 | ||
| 5389675768 | Round (dynamic) Characters | 33 | ||
| 5389679096 | Flat (static) characters | 34 | ||
| 5389681012 | Foil | 35 | ||
| 5389681013 | Stock Characters | 36 | ||
| 5389686508 | Direct Characterization | 37 | ||
| 5389689315 | Indirect Characterization | 38 | ||
| 5396000166 | Unreliable Narrator | The perspective of someone who is naive, mentally ill, biased, corrupt, or immoral. | 39 | |
| 5396010422 | Omniscient | Readers have access to what all the characters are thinking and feeling. | 40 | |
| 5396012326 | Limited Omniscient | Narrator tells us what just one major or minor character is thinking and feeling. | 41 | |
| 5396017864 | Objective Narrator | Recounts only what characters say and do, offering no insight into their thinking or analysis of events. Think of the it as a camera that films events. | 42 |
