5895317227 | Allegory | A story in which people, things, and events have another meaning. Ex: The Crucible | 0 | |
5895317228 | Allusion | A reference I'm a work of lit. To something outside of the work, typically a well known subject. | 1 | |
5895317229 | Anaphora | The rep. of the same words or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses. | 2 | |
5895317230 | Anticlimax | A sudden descentfrom the impressive to the trivial. Anticlimactic | 3 | |
5895317231 | Antithesis | A contrast used for emphasis | 4 | |
5895317232 | Apostrophe | Direct addres, usually to someone or somethingthat is not present | 5 | |
5895317233 | Asyndeton | The abstence of conjunctions in a series of related clauses. Ex: I came, I saw, I conqured. | 6 | |
5895317234 | Bathos | Slip from sublime to ridiculous; anticlimax, sentimental pathos; triteness or dullness | 7 | |
5895317235 | Caesura | A pause in a line of poetry | 8 | |
5895317236 | Chiasmus | Rhetorical balance created by the inversion of 1 or 2 clauses. Ex: he is the cook of kings and the king of cooks. | 9 | |
5895317237 | Conceit | Very elaborate comparisons between 2 unlike things | 10 | |
5895317238 | Didatic | Explicitly instructive | 11 | |
5895317239 | Epigram | A pithy saying, often using contrast. Also a brief or pointed verse | 12 | |
5904070193 | Ellipsis | The omission of words for rhetorical effect: drop dead for you drop dead | 13 | |
5904070194 | Enjambement | The running of one line of poetry into another. | 14 | |
5904070195 | Euphemism | A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness. | 15 | |
5904070196 | Grotesque | Characterized by distortions or incongrueities. The fiction of Poe or Flannery O'Connor is often described as grotesque | 16 | |
5904070197 | Homily | A religious discoure or sermon: emphasizes spiritual or moral advice | 17 | |
5904070198 | Lyrical | Song like; characterized by emotion, subjectivity, and imagination | 18 | |
5904070199 | Metonymy | The substitution of 1 item that suggests what it's related to. Ex: the crown to rep. A king | 19 | |
5904070200 | Motif | Reoccurring images or idea in a work which is used to develop theme | 20 | |
5904070201 | Pathetic fallacy | A specific kind of personification is which inanimate objects are giving human emotions. | 21 | |
5904070202 | Pathos | The aspects of a literary work that elicit pity from the audience. | 22 |
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