10743936528 | Imagery | visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work. | 0 | |
10743936529 | Mood | a literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions | 1 | |
10743936530 | Tone | Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character | 2 | |
10743936531 | Syntax | the actual way in which words and sentences are placed together in the writing | 3 | |
10743936532 | Diction | style of speaking or writing determined by the choice of words by a speaker or a writer | 4 | |
10743936533 | round character | complex and undergo development | 5 | |
10743936534 | flat character | two-dimensional in that they are relatively uncomplicated and do not change throughout the course of a work | 6 | |
10743936535 | Allusion | a figure of speech that refers to a well-known story, event, person, or object in order to make a comparison in the readers' minds | 7 | |
10743936536 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech sometimes represented by a exclamation | 8 | |
10743936537 | Syncedoche | A part of something represents the whole, or it may use a whole to represent a part | 9 | |
10743936538 | extended metaphor | A comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem. | 10 | |
10743936539 | Hyperbole | A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor | 11 | |
10743936540 | Onomatopoeia | a poetic structure of words to convey how something sounds | 12 | |
10743936541 | Understatement | a figure of speech employed by writers or speakers to intentionally make a situation seem less important than it really is | 13 | |
10743936542 | Oxymoron | a figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect | 14 | |
10743936543 | Paradox | a statement that contradicts itself | 15 | |
10743936544 | Analogy | a comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it | 16 | |
10743936545 | Allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. | 17 | |
10743936546 | Anaphora | the repetition of a certain word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines of writing or speech | 18 | |
10743936547 | Alliteration | Two or more words in a phrase that share the same beginning consonant sound | 19 | |
10743936548 | Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds | 20 | |
10743936549 | Rythm | a literary device which demonstrates the long and short patterns through stressed and unstressed syllables particularly in verse form. | 21 | |
10743936550 | Rhyme | correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry. | 22 | |
10743936551 | Ballad | a poem that is typically arranged in quatrains with the rhyme scheme ABAB | 23 | |
10743936552 | English Sonnet (Shakespearean) | fourteen line poem consisting of three quatrains and a couplet | 24 | |
10743936553 | blank verse | a literary device defined as un-rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter | 25 |
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