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| 7526591082 | Allusion | A reference to something outside the work | 0 | |
| 7526594092 | Attitude | A speaker's, author's, or character's disposition toward or opinion of a subject | 1 | |
| 7526606428 | Details (also choice of details) | Items or parts that make up a larger picture or story | 2 | |
| 7526684959 | Devices of Sound | The techniques of deploying the sound of words, especially in poetry. Ex: rhyme, alliteration, assonance, later defined under metrical terms. | 3 | |
| 7526695940 | Diction | Word choice. Specific word choices that are central to the meaning of a sentence | 4 | |
| 7526710575 | Figurative Language | Writing that uses figures of speech (metaphor, simile, irony) | 5 | |
| 7526729443 | Imagery | The images of a literary work, including sensory details and figurative language | 6 | |
| 7526747381 | Irony | A figure of speech in which intent and actual meaning differ, characteristically praise for blame and blame for praise. | 7 | |
| 7526765387 | Metaphor | Figurative language that expresses a comparison without the use of comparative terms like "as," "like," or "than" | 8 | |
| 7526825495 | Narrative Techniques | The methods used in telling a story (point of view, manipulation of time, dialogue, interior monologue) | 9 | |
| 7526861906 | Omniscient Point of View | The vantage point of a story in which a narrator can know, see, and report whatever he or she chooses. | 10 | |
| 7526871377 | Point of View | Any of several possible vantage points from which a story is told. | 11 | |
| 7526877060 | Resources of Language | General phrase for the linguistic devices or techniques that a writer can use. Style and rhetoric (diction, syntax, figurative language etc...) | 12 | |
| 7526891456 | Rhetorical Techniques | Devices used in effective or persuasive language. Includes many including contrast, repetitions, paradox | 13 | |
| 7526908158 | Satire | Writing that seeks to arouse a reader's disapproval of an object by ridicule | 14 | |
| 7526922959 | Setting | The background to a story, physical location | 15 | |
| 7526925825 | Simile | A directly expressed comparison, usually with "like," "as," or "than" | 16 | |
| 7526942137 | Strategy | Management of language for a specific effect. | 17 | |
| 7526966370 | Structure | Arrangement of materials within a work, relationship of the parts of a work to the whole | 18 | |
| 7527009536 | Style | The mode of expression in language, characteristic manner of expression of an author | 19 | |
| 7527033960 | Symbol | Something that is simultaneously itself and a sign of something elese. | 20 | |
| 7527108895 | Syntax | The structure of a sentence | 21 | |
| 7527111809 | Tone | The manner in which an author expresses his or her attitude. | 22 | |
| 7527136985 | Allegory | A story in which people, things, and events have another meaning | 23 | |
| 7527141679 | Ambiguity | Multiple meanings a literary meaning may communicate, particularly incompatible ones | 24 | |
| 7527155295 | Apostrophe | Direct address, usually to something not presents ("Bright star! Would I were steadfast.") | 25 | |
| 7527165400 | Connotation | Implications of a word or phrase, as opposed to its exact meaning ("China" v. "The orient") | 26 | |
| 7527173496 | Convention | A device of style or subject matter so often used it becomes a recognized means of expression | 27 | |
| 7527190604 | Denotation | Dictionary meaning of a word | 28 | |
| 7527193360 | Didactic | Explicitly instructive | 29 | |
| 7527199430 | Digression | The use of material unrelated to the subject of a work. | 30 | |
| 7527206008 | Epigram | A pithy saying, often using contrast | 31 | |
| 7527220853 | Euphemism | A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness | 32 | |
| 7527224663 | Grotesque | Characterized by distortions or incongruities | 33 | |
| 7527259747 | Hyperbole | Deliberate exaggeration, overstatement | 34 | |
| 7527262933 | Jargon | The special language of a profession or group | 35 | |
| 7527266514 | Literal | Not figurative | 36 | |
| 7527314264 | Lyrical | Songlike | 37 | |
| 7527317104 | Oxymoron | A combination of opposites | 38 | |
| 7527320941 | Parable | A story designed to suggest a principle or moral | 39 | |
| 7527323933 | Paradox | A statement that seems to be self-contradicting but is true | 40 | |
| 7527339603 | Parody | A composition that imitates the style of another composition for comic effect | 41 | |
| 7527347314 | Personification | Figurative language that endows the nonhuman with human characteristics | 42 | |
| 7527357129 | Reliability | A quality of some fictional narrators whose word the reader can trust | 43 | |
| 7527365323 | Rhetorical question | A question asked purely for effect | 44 | |
| 7527402341 | Soliloquy | A speech in which a character who is alone speaks his or her thoughts aloud | 45 | |
| 7527409756 | Stereotype | A conventional pattern, expression, character, or idea | 46 | |
| 7527415645 | Syllogism | A form of reasoning in which two statements are made and a conclusion is drawn from them ("All tragedies end unhappily." - "Hamlet is a tragedy" - "Hamlet end unhappily") | 47 | |
| 7527660708 | Thesis | The theme, meaning, or poisiton that a writer undertakes | 48 | |
| 7527665503 | Alliteration | The repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds, normally at the beginning of words | 49 | |
| 7527690305 | Assonance | The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds | 50 | |
| 7527692947 | Ballad Meter | A four-line stanza rhymed abcd with four feet in lines 1 & 3, three feet in lines 2&4 | 51 | |
| 7527700956 | Blank verse | Unrhymed iambic pentatmeter | 52 | |
| 7527766487 | Dactyl | A metrical foot of three syllables, accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables | 53 | |
| 7527778545 | End-stopped | A line with a pause at the end (period, comma, colon, semicolon, exclamation point, question mark) | 54 | |
| 7527787201 | Free verse | Poetry which is not written in a traditional meter but is still rhythmic | 55 | |
| 7527797898 | Heroic couplet | Two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, cc | 56 | |
| 7527807433 | Hexameter | A line containing six feet | 57 | |
| 7527810018 | iamb | A two-syllable foot with an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable. Most common foot | 58 | |
| 7527838748 | Internal rhyme | Rhyme that occurs within a line | 59 | |
| 7527846174 | Onomatopoeia | The use of words whose sound suggests their meaning | 60 | |
| 7527849577 | Pentameter | A line containing five feet | 61 | |
| 7527861528 | Rhyme royal | A seven-line stanza of iambic pentameter rhymed ababbcc | 62 | |
| 7527865517 | Sonnet | Fourteen line iambic pentameter poem | 63 | |
| 7527869178 | Stanza | Usually a repeated grouping of three or more lines with the same meter and rhyme scheme | 64 | |
| 7527895048 | Terza Rima | Three-line stanza rhymed aba | 65 | |
| 7527898000 | Tetrameter | A line of four feet | 66 | |
| 7527898001 | Antecedent | That which goes before, especially the word, phrase, or clause to whihc a pronoun refers. In "The witches cast their spells," the antecedent of "their" is "witches" | 67 | |
| 7527938069 | Clause | A group of words containing a subject and its verb | 68 | |
| 7527981510 | Ellipsis | The omission of a word necessary for complete construction that is still meaningful "If rainy, bring an umbrella | 69 | |
| 7527990239 | Imperative | The mood of a verb that gives an order | 70 | |
| 7528000891 | Modify | To restrict or limit in meaning. | 71 | |
| 7528005946 | Parallel structure | A similar grammatical structure within a sentence or paragraph | 72 | |
| 7528010621 | Periodic sentence | A sentence grammatically complete only with the last word. | 73 | |
| 7528013637 | Syntax | The structure of a sentence | 74 |
