7561408378 | Allusion | Reference within a work and to a person, place, or event | 0 | |
7561408379 | Anagorisos | Moment of discovery | 1 | |
7561408380 | Bathos | Unexpected turn from the lofty to trivial | 2 | |
7561408381 | Caricature | An exaggeration of someone's features | 3 | |
7561408382 | deus ex machina | a plot twist that brings about a plot resolution | 4 | |
7561408383 | Epiphany | Sudden life realization in an everyday moment | 5 | |
7561408384 | Foreshadowing | A warning for a future event | 6 | |
7561408385 | in medias res | starting a narrative in the middle | 7 | |
7603795337 | interior monologue | a record of a character's thought | 8 | |
7561408386 | Invocation | A prayer to a god | 9 | |
7561408387 | Irony | the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning | 10 | |
7561408388 | Verbal Irony | A statement that implies the opposite | 11 | |
7561408389 | situational irony | One understanding of a situation is in sharp contrast to another | 12 | |
7561408390 | Romantic irony | An authors persistent reminding of a presence in a work | 13 | |
7561408391 | dramtic irony | Where the audience knows something the character in a story doesn't | 14 | |
7561408392 | Cosmic irony | irony based on the power of the universe | 15 | |
7561443307 | Melodrama | Using emotion or plot twists to provoke audience | 16 | |
7561443308 | Parallelism | Similarities between elements in a narrative | 17 | |
7561443309 | Pathos | Quality in literature that appeals to emotion | 18 | |
7561443310 | Poetic diction | Use of specific words that are not common to contemporary speech | 19 | |
7561443311 | Poetic license | Creating your own rules to strengthen a passage | 20 | |
7561452197 | Archetype | A theme, motif, symbol, or stock character that that is always culturally conscious | 21 | |
7561459449 | Wit | Words that display cleverness | 22 | |
7561459450 | Emblem | An object that represents something | 23 | |
7561459451 | Imagery | visually descriptive or figurative language | 24 | |
7561470856 | Motif | A recurring theme, subject or idea | 25 | |
7561470857 | Symbol | Something that represents something else | 26 | |
7561470858 | Theme | A universal idea in a literary work | 27 | |
7561470859 | Thesis | The main argument of a work | 28 | |
7561470860 | Tone | The atmosphere presented in a story | 29 |
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