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| 197176227 | Genre | The major category into which a literary work fits. The basic divisions of literature are prose, poetry, and drama. | |
| 197176228 | Allegory | A work that functions on a symbolic level (a kind of extended symbolism) | |
| 197176229 | Parallelism | similarity in structure and syntax in a series of related words, phrases, clauses, sentences, or paragraphs that develops balance. Ex. "When you are right, you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative"- MLK | |
| 197176230 | Analogy | Drawing a comparison to show a similarity in some respect. It is assumed that what applies to a parallel situation also applies to the original circumstance. | |
| 197176231 | Rhetoric | The techniques an author uses to achieve an effect on his audience. | |
| 197176232 | Character | Those who carry out the action of the plot in literature. Major, minor, static, and dynamic are the types. | |
| 197176233 | Colloquialism | Slang in writing, used often to create local color and to provide an informal tone. Twain's Huck Finn | |
| 197176234 | Antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause that a pronoun refers to. | |
| 197176235 | Thesis | The sentence or group of sentences that directly expresses the author's opinion, purpose, meaning, or proposition. | |
| 197176236 | Chiasmus | Arrangement of repeated thoughts in the pattern of X Y Y X. It is often short and summarizes a main idea. | |
| 197176237 | Tone | describes the author's attitude toward his or her material, the audience, or both. Differs from mood in that it is how the author feels, which may be different from how the work feels. | |
| 197176238 | Prose | The literary genre that is written in ordinary language and most closely resembles everyday speech. | |
| 197176239 | Asyndeton | Commas used (with no conjunction) to separate a series of words, speeds up flow of sentence. X, Y, Z as opposed to X, Y, and Z. | |
| 197176240 | Point of View | Who tells a story and how it is told. (1st, 2nd, 3rd limited, 3rd omniscient) | |
| 197176241 | Deductive reasoning | reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect). "People suck, so you probably suck too." | |
| 197176242 | Mood | the prevailing atmosphere or emotional aura of a work. (Poe with eerie intensity) | |
| 197176243 | Diction | the author's choice of words that creates tone, attitude, and style, as well as meaning | |
| 197176244 | Independent clause | expresses a complete thought and can stand alone as a sentence. Has both a subject and a verb. | |
| 197176245 | Dependent clause | does not express a complete thought and cannot stand alone as a sentence, even though it has a subject and a verb, | |
| 197176246 | Apostrophe | A direct address to an absent person or thing as if it were present and sentient. A figure of speech in which one directly addresses an absent or imaginary person, or some abstraction. | |
| 197176247 | Extended Metaphor | A metaphor that continues beyond it's initial use, often developed at great length, occurring frequently throughout a work. | |
| 197176248 | Polysyndeton | Deliberate use of many conjunctions in close succession, especially where some might be omitted. Hemingway and the Bible both use extensively. Ex. "he ran and jumped and laughed for joy" | |
| 197176249 | Inductive reasoning | reasoning from detailed facts to general principles. Ex. "All of the ice we have examined so far is cold.Therefore, all ice is cold." | |
| 197176250 | Purpose | why the author has written the piece: to educate/inform/entertain | |
| 197176251 | Exigence | context, situation, circumstance, or occasion for which the piece is written | |
| 197176252 | Persona | how does the author relate to the audience | |
| 197176253 | Sentence Structure | the author's choice of length, variety, and style of sentences | |
| 197176254 | Organization | the author's meaningful selection of form and structure | |
| 197176255 | Arrangement | the author's meaningful placement of structure and form in a piece | |
| 197176256 | Allusion | A reference to another work outside of the present work. |
