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| 6758173483 | Anaphora | Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences or clauses in a row. -deliberate repetition helps make the writer's point more coherent. EX: "I came, I saw, I conquered. | 0 | |
| 6758173484 | Asyndeton | stylistic device used in literature and poetry to intentionally eliminate conjunctions between the phrases and in the sentence, yet maintain the grammatical accuracy --basically: the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence EX: "An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest." --Heart of Darkness by James Conrad EX: "It is a northern country; they have cold weather, they have cold hearts."-- The Werewolf by Angela Carter | 1 | |
| 6758173485 | Chiasmus | When the same words are used twice in succession, but the second time, the order of the words is reversed EX: "Fair is foul and foul is fair." EX: "When the going gets tough, the tough get going." | 2 | |
| 6758173486 | Foil | a character that shows qualities that are in contrast with the qualities of another character with the objective to highlight the traits of the other character EX: Milton's "Paradise Lost": God and Satan EX: William Shakespeare's play "Julius Caesar": Cassius is a foil to Brutus and Brutus is a foil to Antony. | 3 | |
| 6758173487 | Voice | the form or a format through which narrators tell their stories EX: Harper Lee's, To Kill a Mockingbird: Scout is the narrator (character voice) EX: William Faulkner's novel, As I Lay Dying: story told through thought processes of characters (stream of consciousness) | 4 | |
| 6758173488 | Absolutes | group of words that modifies an independent clause as a whole EX: "The man stood laughing, his weapons at his hips." (Stephen Crane, "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky") EX: "Harry froze, his cut finger slipping on the jagged edge of the mirror again." (J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) | 5 | |
| 6758173489 | Denouement | final outcome of the story, generally occurring after the climax of the plot -where all the secrets (if there are any) are revealed and loose ends are tied up EX: the denouement of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet comes just after the Romeo and Juliet take their own lives. When the families find their dead bodies, Escalus explains that their deaths are a result of the family feud, leaving members of both sides to feel guilty EX: The denouement in The Great Gatsby happens when Nick decides to go back to Minnesota to get away from the rich people who are engaged in all those things which Nick thinks are part of the moral worthlessness in Gatsby's life | 6 | |
| 6758173490 | Deux ex Machina | an implausible concept or a divine character is introduced into a storyline for the purpose of resolving its conflict and procuring an interesting outcome EX: Medea: When Medea is shown in the chariot of the sun god Helios, the god himself isn't present. From her vantage point in the chariot she watches the grieving Jason EX: Andromache: In the end of the play, Thetis the sea goddess appears to Peleus. She comes to take Peleus back with her to her ocean home. The play ends with Peleus going with Thetis his wife, into the ocean. | 7 | |
| 6758173491 | Refrain | verse, a line, a set, or a group of some lines that appears at the end of stanza, or appears where a poem divides into different sections EX: One Art by Elizabeth Bishop EX: Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe | 8 | |
| 6758173492 | Hubris | extreme pride and arrogance shown by a character that ultimately brings about his downfall EX: "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles: King Oedipus attempts to defy prophecies of gods but ended up doing what he feared the most and what he was warned against. EX: "Paradise Lost" by Milton: Satan loses his glorious position through giving in to his excessive pride. | 9 |
