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| 4747040512 | Abstract | as a noun, a short summary or outline of a longer work; as an adjective, to name things not known through the five senses | 0 | |
| 4747040513 | Allegory | extending a metaphor so that objects, persons, and actions in a text are equated with meanings that lie outside the text | 1 | |
| 4747041331 | Allusion | a brief, usually indirect reference to a person, place, or event - real or fictional | 2 | |
| 4747041332 | Ambiguity | presence of two or more possible meanings in a passage | 3 | |
| 4747041333 | Analogy | reasoning or arguing from parallel cases | 4 | |
| 4747041829 | Anecdote | short and interesting story or an amusing event often proposed to support or demonstrate some point | 5 | |
| 4747045421 | Antagonist | character or a group of characters which stand in opposition to the protagonist or the main character | 6 | |
| 4747045670 | Achetype | typical character, action or situation that seems to represent such universal patterns of human nature; universal symbol shown through a character, theme, or setting | 7 | |
| 4747045671 | Atmosphere | the feeling, emotion, or mood a writer conveys to a reader through the description of setting and objects | 8 | |
| 4747045672 | Cliche | an expression that has been overused to the extent that it loses its original meaning or novelty | 9 | |
| 4747045673 | Colloquial | characteristic of writing that seeks the effect of informal spoken language as distinct from formal or literary English; slang | 10 | |
| 4747047469 | Concrete | constituting an actual thing or instance; real | 11 | |
| 4747047470 | Connotation | emotional implications and associations of a word | 12 | |
| 4747047471 | Denotation | direct dictionary definition of a word | 13 | |
| 4747047472 | Dialect | regional or social variety of a language distinguished by pronunciation, grammar, and/or vocabulary | 14 | |
| 4747047479 | Diction | choice and use of words in speech or writing; way of speaking, usually assessed in terms of prevailing standards of pronunciation and elocution | 15 | |
| 4747047748 | Epic | a long narrative poem written in elevated style, in which heroes of great historical or legendary importance perform valorous deeds, in a vast setting, covering great nations, the world, or the universe, with actions important to the history of a nation or people | 16 | |
| 4747049072 | Euphemism | substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensively explicit | 17 | |
| 4747049073 | Exposition | statement or type of composition intended to give information about an issue, subject, method, or idea | 18 | |
| 4747049074 | Extended Metaphor | comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem | 19 | |
| 4747050263 | Figurative Language | language in which figures of speech (metaphor, simile, hyperbole) freely occur | 20 | |
| 4747051825 | First Person Point of View | story told from the perspective of a main character, using the first person pronouns and speaking of personal events or experiences | 21 | |
| 4747051826 | Foil | a character who contrasts with another character (usually the protagonist) in order to highlight particular qualities of the other character; a bad character who's bad qualities are highlighted to show the good qualities in the protagonist | 22 | |
| 4747051827 | Footnote | a note of reference, explanation, or comment usually placed below the text on a printed page | 23 | |
| 4747051828 | Genre | category of artistic composition marked by a distinctive style, form, or content | 24 | |
| 4747052428 | Hyperbole | figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect | 25 | |
| 4747052726 | Inference | literary device used commonly in literature and in daily life where logical deductions are made based on premises assumed to be true; making a conclusion from known ideas | 26 | |
| 4747052727 | Imagery | vivid descriptive language that appeals to one or more of the sense | 27 | |
| 4747052728 | Irony | use of words to convey the opposite of its literal meaning; statement when the meaning is directly contradicted by the appearance of the idea | 28 | |
| 4747052729 | Jargon | specialized language for a specific group or occupation | 29 | |
| 4747053180 | Juxtaposition | literary technique in which two or more ideas, places, characters and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts | 30 | |
| 4747053181 | Limited Point of View | third person narration in which the narrator only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character, usually the main character | 31 | |
| 4747053182 | Metaphor | figure of speech when an implied comparison is made between two unlike thinks that actually have something important in common | 32 | |
| 4747053640 | Metonymy | figure of speech when one word or phrase is substituted for another that it is closely associated; "crown" for "royalty" | 33 | |
| 4747053641 | Mood | emotion invoked by text; reader's attitude | 34 | |
| 4747053642 | Motif | any recurring element that has symbolic significance in a story; helps establish the theme or mood through repetition | 35 | |
| 4747053643 | Narrator | the person who tells the story | 36 | |
| 4747054399 | Omniscient Point of View | when the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in the story and told through the third person | 37 | |
| 4747054400 | Onomatopoeia | formation of words that imitate a sound; boom! | 38 | |
| 4747054401 | Oxymoron | figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side | 39 | |
| 4747054960 | Paradox | statement that appears to contradict itself | 40 | |
| 4747054961 | Personification | figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is given human qualities or abilities | 41 | |
| 4747054962 | Persuasion | literary technique in which writers present their ideas through reasons and logic to influence the audience | 42 | |
| 4747054963 | Plot | literary term used to describe the events that make up a story or the main part of a story; relate in a pattern or sequence; used to develop the structure of a story | 43 | |
| 4747055293 | Protagonist | central character or leading figure in poetry, narrative, novel or any other story; sometimes called a "hero" | 44 | |
| 4747055294 | Repetition | an instance of using a word, phrase, or clause more than once in a short passage-dwelling on a point | 45 | |
| 4747055295 | Rhetoric | study and practice of effective communication | 46 | |
| 4747055922 | Round Character | complex characters who undergo development throughout the story; opposite of static character | 47 | |
| 4747055923 | Satire | text or performance that uses irony, derision, or wit to expose or attack human vice, foolishness, or stupidity | 48 | |
| 4747055924 | Simile | figure of speech in which two fundamentally unlike things are explicitly compared, usually in a phrase introduced by "like" or "as" | 49 | |
| 4747056472 | Slang | words that are not a part of standard vocabulary or language and are used informally | 50 | |
| 4747056473 | Speaker | voice behind a story | 51 | |
| 4747056474 | Static Character | a literary character who undergoes little or no inner change and does not grow or develop; opposite of a round character | 52 | |
| 4747056865 | Style | narrowly interpreted as those figures that ornament speech or writing; representing a manifestation of the person speaking or writing | 53 | |
| 4747056866 | Symbol | person, place, action, or thing that represents something other than itself | 54 | |
| 4747056867 | Syncedoche | figure of speech in which a part is sued to represent the whole or the whole for a part | 55 | |
| 4747056868 | Syntax | study of the rules that govern the way words combine to form phrases, clauses, or sentences; arrangement of words in a sentence | 56 | |
| 4747057155 | Theme | the central topics within a story; main idea or underlining ideas | 57 | |
| 4747057156 | Tone | writer's attitude toward the subject and audience | 58 | |
| 4747057157 | Understatment | figure of speech in which a writer deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is | 59 |
