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| 4768220717 | parallelism | (n) when the writer establishes similar patterns of grammatical structure and length. | 0 | |
| 4768220718 | parody | (n) a kind of burlesque that is a humorous imitation of serious writing, usually for the purpose of making the style of an author appear ridiculous. | 1 | |
| 4768221417 | persona | (n) the speaker or narrator of a text or poem. Cannot be assumed to be the author. | 2 | |
| 4768221418 | personification | (n) the representation of abstractions, ideas, animals, or inanimate objects as human beings by endowing them with life-like qualities. | 3 | |
| 4768221419 | plot | (n) the series of happenings in a literary work. | 4 | |
| 4768221420 | point of view | (n) the relation between the teller of the story and the characters in it. | 5 | |
| 4768222039 | polysyndeton | (n) using many conjunctions to achieve an overwhelming effect in a sentence. | 6 | |
| 4768222040 | prosody | (n) the mechanics of verse poetry - its sounds, rhythms, scansions and meter, stanzaic form, alliteration, assonance, euphony, onomatopoeia, and rhyme. | 7 | |
| 4768222041 | protagonist | (n) the leading character in a literary work. | 8 | |
| 4768222042 | pun | (n) a play on words; a humorous use of a word that has different meanings or of two or more words with the same or nearly the same sound but different meanings. | 9 | |
| 4768222043 | rhyme | (n) exact repetition of sounds in at least the final accented syllables of two or more words. | 10 | |
| 4768222640 | rhyme scheme | (n) the pattern of rhyme. The traditional way to mark these patterns of rhyme is to assign a letter of the alphabet to each rhyming sound at the end of each line. | 11 | |
| 4768222641 | satire | (n) the technique that employs wit to ridicule a subject, usually some social institution or human foible, with the intention of inspiring reform. | 12 | |
| 4768222642 | setting | (n) the time, place, societal situation, and weather in which the action of a narrative occurs. | 13 | |
| 4768222643 | simile | (n) a figure of speech involving a comparison of two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'. | 14 |
