5092449222 | Grotesque | Anything to do with horror | 0 | |
5092449223 | Arabesque | Anything to do with wonder | 1 | |
5092449224 | Hyperbole | Deliberate exageration for desired effect | 2 | |
5092449225 | Local color | The costons, manner od speech, dress, or other typical features of a place or period that contribute to its particular character | 3 | |
5112636340 | Metaphysical Conceit | a clever figure of speech that makes a surprising comparison between two dissimilar things | 4 | |
5112643599 | Metonymy | the name of a thing is applied to another thing or person with which it is closely associated | 5 | |
5112647043 | Narrative | telling a story or depicting a series of related events, usually in chronological order | 6 | |
5112650292 | Novel of Manners | A work of fiction that recreates a social world, conveying with finely detailed observations, aspects of behavior, language, customs and values characteristic of a particular class of people in a specific historical context | 7 | |
5112659420 | occasion | the event for which we write | 8 | |
5112660495 | Persona | naming of speakers in literature, stressing that they are part of fiction, invented for a particular artistic purpose | 9 | |
5112667829 | Pastoral | depicts rual life in an ideal manner but is naieve | 10 | |
5112668813 | Pathetic Fallacy | attributing human emotions to inanimate objects | 11 | |
5112670577 | Point of view | the mode or perspective established by the author, either 1st person, 3rd person observer, 3rd person limited or third person omniscient | 12 |
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