7206409697 | Persona | 0 | ||
7206400337 | Metonymy | substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it | 1 | |
7206403271 | Mood | Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader | 2 | |
7206403272 | Motif | a distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition | 3 | |
7206408643 | Paradox | 4 | ||
7206404843 | Narrator | Person telling the story | 5 | |
7206404844 | Onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. | 6 | |
7206408225 | Oxymoron | 7 | ||
7206409146 | Parallelism | 8 | ||
7206409147 | Parody | 9 | ||
7206409698 | Personification | 10 | ||
7206410255 | Plot | 11 | ||
7206410256 | Point of View | 12 | ||
7206411207 | Prosody | 13 | ||
7206411675 | Protagonist | 14 | ||
7206412639 | Pun | 15 | ||
7206416121 | Rhyme Scheme | 16 | ||
7206416351 | Satire | 17 | ||
7206416352 | Sestina | 18 | ||
7206418311 | Setting | 19 | ||
7206419289 | Simile | 20 | ||
7206419703 | Soliloquy | 21 | ||
7206420457 | Sonnet | 22 | ||
7206420750 | Stream of Consciousness | 23 | ||
7206421494 | Subtext | The hidden or underlying meaning of something | 24 | |
7206421495 | Symbol | Anything that stands for or represents something else | 25 | |
7206423712 | Synesthesia | describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound") | 26 | |
7206424168 | Symbol | Anything that stands for or represents something else | 27 | |
7206424432 | Syntax | The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. | 28 | |
7206426702 | Theme | 29 | ||
7206427823 | Thesis | a statement or theory that is put forward as a premise to be maintained or proved. | 30 | |
7206428441 | Tone | the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc. | 31 | |
7206429970 | Tragedy | A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character | 32 | |
7206430144 | Unreliable narrator | a narrator who misinterprets the story due to prejudice, madness, etc. | 33 | |
7206430151 | Vignette | 34 | ||
7206430800 | Villanelle | A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition | 35 | |
7206431219 | Wit | intellectually amusing language that surprises and delights | 36 |
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