6046097201 | Mode | The general form, pattern, and manner of expression of a work of literature. | 0 | |
6046104621 | Montage | A quick succession of images or impressions used to express an idea. | 1 | |
6046106309 | Mood | The emotional tone in a work of literature. | 2 | |
6046107491 | Moral | A brief and often simplistic lesson that a reader may infer from a work of literature | 3 | |
6046110513 | Motif | A phrase, idea, or event, that through repetition serves to unify or convey a theme in a work of literature. | 4 | |
6046114265 | Muse | One of the ancient Green goddesses presiding over the arts. The imaginary source of inspiration for an artist or writer. | 5 | |
6046119299 | Myth | An imaginary story that has become an accepted part of the cultural or religion tradition of a group or society | 6 | |
6046125870 | Narrative | A form of verse or prose that tells a story. | 7 | |
6046127804 | Naturalism | A term often used as a synonym for realism; also a view of experience that is generally characterized as bleak and pessimistic. | 8 | |
6046132260 | Non sequitur | A statement or idea that fails to follow logically from the one before. | 9 | |
6046134712 | Novella | A work of fiction of roughly 20,000 to 50,000 words- longer than a short story, but shorter than a novel. | 10 | |
6046141468 | Novel of Manners | A novel focusing on the describing the social customs and habits of a particular social group. | 11 | |
6046145217 | Ode | A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject. | 12 | |
6046150308 | Old English | The Anglo-Saxon language spoken in what is now England from approximately 450 to 1150 A.D | 13 | |
6046157538 | Omniscient Narrator | A narrator with unlimited awareness, understanding and insight of characters, setting, background, and all other elements of the story. | 14 | |
6046161167 | Onomatopoeia | The use of words whose sounds suggest their meaning. | 15 | |
6046163953 | Ottava Rima | An eight-line rhyming stanza of a poem. | 16 | |
6046167296 | Oxymoron | A term consisting of contradiction elements juxtaposed to create a paradoxical effects. | 17 |
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