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| 570216754 | tone | A writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization on the sentence and global levels. | 0 | |
| 341285609 | Realism | A 19th century artistic movement in which writers and painters sought to show life as it is rather than life as it should be. | 1 | |
| 795517577 | Social Commentary | writing that offers insight into society, its value, and its customs. | 2 | |
| 771937341 | Point of View | Perspective from which a story is told. Perspectives can be First, second, Third-limited, Third omniscient. You should consider the reliability and bias (or objectivity) of the narrator when considering analysis of theme, tone, style, character or other literary element. | 3 | |
| 878335661 | Anaphora | A sub-type of parallelism, when the exact repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive lines or sentences. MLK used anaphora in his famous "I Have a Dream" speech (1963). | 4 | |
| 769913986 | Allegory | A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself. | 5 | |
| 2199494745 | Style | all the distinctive ways an author, genre, movement or historical period use language to create a work. | 6 | |
| 2199503857 | Irony | A contrast or discrepancy between what is stated and what is really meant, or between what is expected to happen and what actually does happen. | 7 | |
| 2199506522 | Persona | fictional character created by an author or poet to be the speaker. This character may or may not share the values of the author. | 8 | |
| 2204204691 | Syntax | Sentence structure | 9 | |
| 3373685563 | satire | A literary technique in which ideas, customs, behaviors, or institutions are ridiculed for the purpose of improving society. Often, satirical works will utilize devices such as persona, hyperbole, sarcasm, understatement and irony. | 10 | |
| 3546923130 | epiphany | sudden overwhelming insight, discovery or revelation by which a character's life is greatly altered. It generally occurs at the end of a story. | 11 | |
| 3546946244 | psychological realism | emphasis on interior characterization, and on the motives, circumstances, and internal action which springs from, and develops, external action. | 12 | |
| 3550859297 | indirect characterization | determining character based on evidence gathered about appearance or other sensory detail, actions, inner thoughts, words and speech, how other characters react or interact with the character and / or potentially other details. | 13 | |
| 6167913697 | parallelism | The repetition of similar grammatical or syntactical patterns. Often these phrases are close to each other. | 14 | |
| 6167924636 | allusion | A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art. Allusions can be historical, literary, religious, topical, or mythical. There are many more possibilities, and a work may simultaneously use multiple layers of allusion. | 15 | |
| 6167930183 | direct characterization | When the author or narrator directly tells us what kind of person the character is. | 16 | |
| 6167934163 | round characters | Characters who have some or many different traits that form a complex personality. | 17 | |
| 6167938611 | dynamic character | A character who grows, learns, or changes as a result of the story's action | 18 | |
| 6167939836 | flat character | A character who embodies a single quality and who does not develop in the course of a story | 19 | |
| 6167940668 | static character | A character that does not change from the beginning of the story to the end | 20 | |
| 6167942636 | stock character | A character type that appears repeatedly in a particular literary genre, one which has certain conventional attributes or attitudes. | 21 |
