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| 7413154361 | allusion | a reference to history, literature, religion, politics, sports, science, or another branch of culture. | 0 | |
| 7413154362 | ambiguity | Deliberately suggesting two or more differenct, and sometimes conflicting meanings in a work. | 1 | |
| 7413154363 | anaphora | Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row | 2 | |
| 7413156262 | antimetabole | Repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order (e.g. "One should eat to live, not live to eat." | 3 | |
| 7413157853 | antithesis | Balancing words, phrases, or ideas that are strongly contrasted, often by means of grammatical structure | 4 | |
| 7413157854 | asyndeton | Commas used without conjuction | 5 | |
| 7413159042 | direct characterization | Author tells us directly what the character is like. Romantic style literature relied more heavily on this | 6 | |
| 7413159043 | dynamic character | a character that changes in some important way as a result of the story's action | 7 | |
| 7413160179 | indirect characterization | the author reveals what the character is like through the character's words, actions, and thoughts. Common in modern literature | 8 | |
| 7413160180 | round character | a character that has more dimensions to their personalities - they are complex, just like real people | 9 | |
| 7413160181 | static character | a characterthat does not change much in the course of the story | 10 | |
| 7413161361 | connotation | the implied meaning of words through associations and emotional overtones | 11 | |
| 7413161362 | metaphor | a comparison between two unlike things without the use of such specific words of comparison | 12 | |
| 7413161363 | mood | An atmosphere created by a writer's diction and the details selected | 13 | |
| 7413161364 | motif | a recurring image, word, phrase, action, idea, object, or situation used throughout a work that ties ideas to the theme | 14 | |
| 7413162593 | personification | a figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes | 15 | |
| 7413162594 | polysyndeton | sentence which uses a conjunction with no commas | 16 | |
| 7413162595 | simile | a figure of speech that compares two unlike things using comparison words | 17 | |
| 7413163977 | synecdoche | a part repreasents the whole (e.g. 100 head of cattle) | 18 | |
| 7413163978 | theme | the insight about human life that is revealed in a literary work | 19 | |
| 7413165821 | tone | an attitude that a wrtier takes towardd the subject of a work, the characters in it, or the audience, revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization | 20 | |
| 7741432127 | Allegory | story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities. | 21 | |
| 7741450350 | Anastrophe | Inversion of the usual, normal, or logical order of the parts of a sentence. Purpose is rhythm or emphasis or euphony | 22 | |
| 7741458191 | antagonist | the opponent who struggles against or blocks the hero, or protagonist, in a story. | 23 | |
| 8568630437 | chiasmus | In poetry, a second sentence is syntactically balanced against a first, but reversed. "Flowers are lovely, love is flowerlike" In prose, called antimetabole. | 24 | |
| 8568639014 | confessional poetry | a 20th century term used to describe poetry that uses intimate material from the poet's life. | 25 | |
| 8568641634 | couplet | two consecutive rhyming lines of poetry | 26 | |
| 8568642924 | elegy | a poem of mourning, usually about someone who has died. | 27 | |
| 8568645169 | Eulogy | a laudatory speech, often about someone who has died | 28 | |
| 8568647318 | epic | a long narrative poem, written in heightened language, which recounts the deeds of a heroic character who embodies the values of a particular society. | 29 | |
| 8568650960 | free verse | poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme. | 30 | |
| 8568654327 | lyric poem | a poem that doesn't tell a story bu expresses the personal feelings or thoughts of the speaker. | 31 | |
| 8568657511 | quatrain | a poem consisting of four lines, or four lines of a poem that can be considered as a unit | 32 | |
| 8568661403 | refrain | a word, phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated, for effect, several times in a poem | 33 | |
| 8568663506 | style | the distinctive way in which a writer uses language: a writer's distinctive use of diction, tone, and syntax. | 34 | |
| 8568665175 | syntactic fluency | ability to create a variety of sentence structures, appropriately complex and/or simple and varied in length. | 35 |
