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| 4850134110 | allegory | a narrative that has at least two levels of meaning | 0 | |
| 4850134111 | antagonist | the character who usually has evil or distasteful qualities but they are not all bad | 1 | |
| 4850134112 | denotation | a word's literal meaning | 2 | |
| 4850134113 | connotation | association evoked by a word beyond its literal meanin | 3 | |
| 4850134114 | detail | fact revealed by the author or speaker that support the attitude or tone | 4 | |
| 4850134115 | dialect | regional variety of a language distinguished by pronunciation, grammar, or vocabulary | 5 | |
| 4850134116 | dialogue | character's voice | 6 | |
| 4850134117 | first person point of view | the character tells the story as though it has happened to him | 7 | |
| 4850134118 | foil | a character who, by contrast with the main character, serves to accentuate that character's distinctive qualities | 8 | |
| 4850134119 | imagery | the actual language that a writer uses to convey a visual picture | 9 | |
| 4850134120 | mood | general feeling created in the reader | 10 | |
| 4850134121 | satire | a work that targets vices and follies for reform and ridicule | 11 | |
| 4850134122 | suspense | what builds the reader's attention | 12 | |
| 4850134123 | third person omniscient | the author tells the story as though he knows everything about all of the characters | 13 | |
| 4850134124 | vocabulary | the degree of difficulty, complexity, abstractness, formality | 14 | |
| 4850134125 | catharsis | a dramatic, serious, or complete action that allows the character to experience a "purification" | 15 | |
| 4850134126 | conflict | a confrontation or struggle between opposing characters or forces in the plot | 16 | |
| 4850134127 | diction | a speaker's word choice intended to convey a certain effect | 17 | |
| 4850134128 | epiphany | insight or revelation gained | 18 | |
| 4850134129 | indirect characterization | author presents the characters talking and acting and leaves the reader to infer the motives and dispositions that lie behind what they say and do | 19 | |
| 4850134130 | meter | rhythm that continuously repeats a single basic pattern | 20 | |
| 4850134131 | protagonist | the most important or leading character in a work | 21 | |
| 4850134132 | rhythm | the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a sentence or line of poetry | 22 | |
| 4850134133 | spatial | organization of information using cues such as top to bottom | 23 | |
| 4850134134 | static | character stays the same throughout the work from beginning to end | 24 | |
| 4850134135 | style | the devices the author uses to express his or her thoughts and convey the work's subject matter | 25 | |
| 4850134136 | third person limited | the author tells the story as thought he or she can only perceive the thoughts of one of the characters | 26 | |
| 4850134137 | chronological | order of events in which they occur | 27 | |
| 4850134138 | direct characterization | author intervenes authoritatively in order to describe, and often to evaluate, the motives and dispositional qualities of the characters | 28 | |
| 4850134139 | flashback | a scene that interrupts the present action of a narrative work to depict some earlier event | 29 | |
| 4850134140 | flat | undeveloped characters | 30 | |
| 4850134141 | foreshadowing | a technique by which an author suggests or predicts an outcome of plot | 31 | |
| 4850134142 | hubris | arrogance before the gods | 32 | |
| 4850134143 | round | characters that are fully developed | 33 | |
| 4850134144 | tone | writer's or speaker's attitude toward the subject and audience | 34 | |
| 4850134145 | transitional devices | techniques used to connect different events or ideas | 35 | |
| 4850134146 | hamartia | tragic flaw | 36 | |
| 4850134147 | motif | a unifying element in an artistic work | 37 | |
| 4850134148 | motivation | the mixture of situation and personality that impels a character to behave the way he or she does | 38 | |
| 4850134149 | rhyme | repetition of sounds at the end of words | 39 | |
| 4850134150 | stock | a stereotyped character | 40 | |
| 4850134151 | euphemism | a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing. | 41 | |
| 4850134152 | visual imagery | deals with sight | 42 | |
| 4850134153 | auditory imagery | deals with hearing | 43 | |
| 4850134154 | tactile imagery | deals with touch | 44 | |
| 4850134155 | papillary imagery | deals with taste | 45 | |
| 4850134156 | olfactory imagery | deals with smell | 46 | |
| 4850134157 | personification | the attribution of human like characters to inanimate or nonhuman things | 47 | |
| 4850134158 | juxtaposition | the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect. | 48 | |
| 4850134159 | ellipsis | . . . | 49 | |
| 4850134160 | apostrophe | address(location) of an inanimate object or someone who is not alive | 50 | |
| 4850134161 | metonymy | the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example suit for business executive, or the track for horse racing. | 51 | |
| 4850134162 | antithesis | a figure of speech in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words that are the opposites of, or strongly contrasted with, each other, such as "hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all sins" | 52 | |
| 4850134163 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, as in Cleveland won by six runs (meaning "Cleveland's baseball team"). | 53 | |
| 4850134164 | allusion | brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance | 54 | |
| 4850134165 | oxymoron | a figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect | 55 | |
| 4850134166 | paradox | a statement that appears to be self-contradictory or silly but may include a latent truth | 56 | |
| 4850134167 | pun | a play on words in which a humorous effect is produced by using a word that suggests two or more meanings or by exploiting similar sounding words having different meanings | 57 | |
| 4850134168 | assonance | takes place when two or more words close to one another repeat the same vowel sound but start with different consonant sounds; ex. Men sell the wedding bells. | 58 | |
| 4850134169 | consonance | repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase | 59 | |
| 4850134170 | dramatic irony | audience knows more about the situations, the causes of conflicts and their resolutions before leading characters or actors | 60 | |
| 4850134171 | situational irony | it occurs when incongruity appears between expectations of something to happen, and what actually happens instead | 61 | |
| 4850134172 | verbal irony | occurs when a speaker speaks something contradictory to what he intends to | 62 | |
| 4850134173 | sarcasm | the use of irony to mock or convey contempt. | 63 |
