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10743936528Imageryvisually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.0
10743936529Mooda literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions1
10743936530ToneAttitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character2
10743936531Syntaxthe actual way in which words and sentences are placed together in the writing3
10743936532Dictionstyle of speaking or writing determined by the choice of words by a speaker or a writer4
10743936533round charactercomplex and undergo development5
10743936534flat charactertwo-dimensional in that they are relatively uncomplicated and do not change throughout the course of a work6
10743936535Allusiona figure of speech that refers to a well-known story, event, person, or object in order to make a comparison in the readers' minds7
10743936536ApostropheA figure of speech sometimes represented by a exclamation8
10743936537SyncedocheA part of something represents the whole, or it may use a whole to represent a part9
10743936538extended metaphorA comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem.10
10743936539HyperboleA figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor11
10743936540Onomatopoeiaa poetic structure of words to convey how something sounds12
10743936541Understatementa figure of speech employed by writers or speakers to intentionally make a situation seem less important than it really is13
10743936542Oxymorona figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect14
10743936543Paradoxa statement that contradicts itself15
10743936544Analogya comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it16
10743936545Allegorya story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.17
10743936546Anaphorathe repetition of a certain word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines of writing or speech18
10743936547AlliterationTwo or more words in a phrase that share the same beginning consonant sound19
10743936548AssonanceRepetition of vowel sounds20
10743936549Rythma literary device which demonstrates the long and short patterns through stressed and unstressed syllables particularly in verse form.21
10743936550Rhymecorrespondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.22
10743936551Ballada poem that is typically arranged in quatrains with the rhyme scheme ABAB23
10743936552English Sonnet (Shakespearean)fourteen line poem consisting of three quatrains and a couplet24
10743936553blank versea literary device defined as un-rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter25

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