7219665929 | alliteration | repetition of one or more initial consonants in a group of words or line of poetry or prose | 0 | |
7219669823 | allusion | a reference to a person, place, event, or work | 1 | |
7219671466 | ambiguity | vagueness | 2 | |
7219672171 | annotation | a brief explanation, summary, or evaluation of a text or work | 3 | |
7219676548 | antagonist | a character or force working against the main character | 4 | |
7219681936 | "Bildungsroman" | a coming of age story | 5 | |
7219683360 | canon | the works considered most important in a national literature or period | 6 | |
7219684823 | connotation | suggested or implied meaning of a word | 7 | |
7219685813 | denotation | the dictionary definition of a word | 8 | |
7219686450 | diction | choice of words | 9 | |
7219687860 | first-person narrative | narrative told with pronouns such as "I" and "we" | 10 | |
7219689149 | foreshadowing | providing hints of things to come in a story | 11 | |
7219690153 | metaphor | a figure of speech that compares unlike objects | 12 | |
7219693797 | point of view | the relation in which a narrator stands to the story | 13 | |
7219695781 | protagonist | the main character | 14 | |
7219696355 | setting | the total environment of the action of a work | 15 | |
7219698892 | style | the manner in which an author uses and arranges words, shapes ideas, structures sentences, etc. | 16 | |
7219701101 | symbolism | the use of an object to evoke ideas or associations beyond the actual, physical thing | 17 | |
7219702965 | syntax | sentence structure | 18 | |
7219704005 | tone | the author's attitude | 19 |
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