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| 5274484838 | vernacular | language spoken by people who live in a particular locality | 0 | |
| 5274487652 | unity | unified parts of writing are related to one central idea or organizing principle | 1 | |
| 5274496146 | tricolon | sentence of three parts of equal importance | 2 | |
| 5274498896 | telegraphic sentence | sentence shorter than five words | 3 | |
| 5274500786 | syntactic permutation | sentence structure is very complex and difficult to follow | 4 | |
| 5274504910 | syntactic fluency | ability to create variety of sentence structures | 5 | |
| 5274507403 | romance | idealized hero undertake a quest and is successful | 6 | |
| 5274511392 | rhetoric | art of effective communication, especially persuasive discourse | 7 | |
| 5274512982 | refrain | word, phrase, line, or group of lines that are repeated several times in a poem | 8 | |
| 5274516956 | quatrain | poem of four lines/ four lines of poem that can be considered a unit | 9 | |
| 5274522372 | periodic | main idea is at end of sentence | 10 | |
| 5274525685 | paratactic sentence | juxtaposes clauses or sentences | 11 | |
| 5274532391 | motif | recurring image, word, phrase, idea unifying the work | 12 | |
| 5274535800 | metonymy | something is referred to by something closely associated with it | 13 | |
| 5274540600 | mixed metaphor | mixes its terms so they are visually incompatible | 14 | |
| 5274547082 | dead metaphor | overused metaphor; no longer vivid | 15 | |
| 5274550124 | implied metaphor | metaphor without stating two terms of comparison | 16 | |
| 5274552161 | lyric poem | poem that expresses personal feelings/ thoughts of speaker | 17 | |
| 5274554794 | loose sentence | main clause comes first | 18 | |
| 5274557280 | local color | fiction/poetry; place emphasis on setting (customs, clothing, dialect, etc) | 19 | |
| 5274563893 | litotes | understatement where positive is emphasized through negation of negative | 20 | |
| 5274567236 | irony | discrepancy between appearance and reality | 21 | |
| 5274571111 | inversion | reversal of normal word order in sentence or phrase | 22 | |
| 5274572866 | hypotactic | sentence marked by use of connecting words between clauses; shows relationship | 23 | |
| 5274576722 | free verse | poetry that does not conform to regular meter or rhyme scheme | 24 | |
| 5274579316 | foil | character who acts as contrast to another character | 25 | |
| 5274580800 | farce | comedy with exaggerations/stereotypes | 26 | |
| 5274583755 | explication | act of interpreting or discovering meaning of text | 27 | |
| 5274585742 | fable | short story in poetry or prose that teaches practical lesson about succeeding in life | 28 | |
| 5274588446 | exposition | discourse where something is explained | 29 | |
| 5274590664 | narrative | discourse that tells series of event | 30 | |
| 5274591828 | description | discourse that uses language to create mood | 31 | |
| 5274594201 | casual relationship | writer claims one thing is result from another | 32 | |
| 5274595697 | persuasion | relies more on emotion | 33 | |
| 5274595698 | essay | non fiction prose where writer discusses aspect of subject | 34 | |
| 5274599396 | epithet | adjectives/ phrase applied to person that is used to emphasize a quality (father of our nation=washington) | 35 | |
| 5274606272 | epistrophe | repetition occurs at end of more than two lines | 36 | |
| 5274610121 | epic | long narrative poem which recounts deeds of hero and embodies value of society | 37 | |
| 5274782104 | epanalepsis | device of repetition in which same expression is repeated both at beginning and end of line | 38 | |
| 5274789433 | elegy | poem of mourning | 39 | |
| 5274790954 | eulogy | great praise about someone who has died | 40 | |
| 5274792525 | didactic | form of fiction or nonfiction that teaches specific lesson or moral or provides model of correct behavior | 41 | |
| 5274797836 | dynamic character | character who changes in important ways | 42 | |
| 5274799659 | flat character | has only one or two personality traits | 43 | |
| 5274801572 | round character | many dimensions to personality | 44 | |
| 5274802792 | chiasmus | rhetorical balance where second part is syntactically balanced with first (antimetabole for poetry) | 45 | |
| 5274808180 | conceit | elaborate metaphor that compares things that are really different | 46 | |
| 5274810282 | confessional poetry | poetry that uses intimate material from poet's life | 47 | |
| 5274813987 | static character | doesn't change in story | 48 | |
| 5274816662 | indirect characterization | reveals personality by description and thoughts | 49 | |
| 5274821761 | apostrophe | calling out to imaginary, dead, absent person | 50 | |
| 5274823651 | invocation | asking god or goddess for inspiration | 51 | |
| 5274825602 | aphorism (maxim, epigram) | brief, clever worded statement that makes observation about life | 52 | |
| 5274830996 | anthropomorphism | attributing human characters to animals or inanimate | 53 | |
| 5274834581 | antihero | central character who lacks traditional qualities of hero (courage, etc) | 54 | |
| 5274838746 | anastrophe | inversion of usual, logical order of parts of sentence | 55 | |
| 5274843015 | ambiguity | suggesting two or more different sometimes conflicting meanings in work on purpose | 56 | |
| 5274846020 | allegory | story or poem in which characters. settings, stand for people or events or abstract ideas or qualities | 57 |
