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| 7051099250 | foreshadowing | When an author gives hints about what will occur later in a story. | 0 | |
| 7051604180 | Active Voice | The subject of the sentence performs the action. | 1 | |
| 7051604181 | Allusion | An indirect reference to something (usually a literary text, although it can be other things commonly known, such as plays, songs, historical events) with which the reader is supposed to be familiar. | 2 | |
| 7051604183 | Alter-ego | A character that is used by the author to speak the author's own thoughts; when an author speaks directly to the audience through a character. | 3 | |
| 7051604185 | Anecdote | A brief recounting of a relevant episode. Anecdotes are often inserted into fictional or nonfictional texts as a way of developing a point or injecting humor. | 4 | |
| 7051604187 | Antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. | 5 | |
| 7051604190 | Comic relief - | when a humorous scene is inserted into a serious story, in order to lighten the mood | 6 | |
| 7051604192 | Diction | Word choice, particularly as an element of style. Different types of words have significant effects on meaning. | 7 | |
| 7051604194 | Colloquial | Ordinary or familiar type of conversation. | 8 | |
| 7051604195 | Connotation | Rather than the dictionary definition (denotation), the associations suggested by a word. Implied meaning rather than literal meaning. | 9 | |
| 7051604197 | Denotation | The literal, explicit meaning of a word, without its connotations. | 10 | |
| 7051604198 | Jargon - | The diction used by a group which practices a similar profession or activity. Lawyers | 11 | |
| 7051604200 | Vernacular | 1. Language or dialect of a particular country. 2. Language or dialect of a regionalclan or group. 3. Plain everyday speech | 12 | |
| 7051604202 | Didactic | A term used to describe fiction, nonfiction or poetry that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking. | 13 | |
| 7051604203 | provides a model of correct behavior or thinking. | 14 | ||
| 7051604204 | Allegory | A story, fictional or non fictional, in which characters, things, and events represent qualities or concepts. | 15 | |
| 7051604206 | Euphemism | A more agreeable or less offensive substitute for generally unpleasant words or concepts. | 16 | |
| 7051604207 | Analogy | An analogy is a comparison of one pair of variables to a parallel set of variables. | 17 | |
| 7051604208 | Idiom | A common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally. | 18 | |
| 7051604209 | Metaphor | Making an implied comparison, not using "like," as," or other such words. " | 19 | |
| 7051604210 | Extended metaphor | when the metaphor is continued later in the written work. | 20 | |
| 7051604212 | Metonymy - | Replacing an actual word or idea, with a related word or concept. | 21 | |
| 7051604213 | Synecdoche - | A kind of metonymy when a whole is represented by naming one of its parts | 22 | |
| 7051604215 | Simile | Using words such as "like" or "as" to make a direct comparison between two very different things. | 23 | |
| 7051604217 | Synesthesia - | a description involving a "crossing of the senses | 24 | |
| 7051604218 | Foreshadowing - | When an author gives hints about what will occur later in a story. | 25 | |
| 7051604219 | Genre | The major category into which a literary work fits. | 26 | |
| 7051604220 | Imagery | Word or words that create a picture in the reader's mind. | 27 | |
| 7051604221 | Irony | When the opposite of what you expect to happen does. | 28 | |
| 7051604222 | Verbal irony | When you say something and mean the opposite/something different. | 29 | |
| 7051604223 | Dramatic irony | When the audience of a drama, play, movie, etc. knows something that the character doesn't and would be surprised to find out | 30 | |
| 7051604225 | Situational irony | Found in the plot (or story line) of a book, story, or movie. | 31 | |
| 7051604226 | Juxtaposition | Placing things side by side for the purposes of comparison | 32 | |
| 7051604227 | Mood | The atmosphere created by the literature and accomplished through word choice (diction). | 33 | |
| 7051604228 | Motif - | a recurring idea in a piece of literature. | 34 | |
| 7051604229 | Oxymoron - | When apparently contradictory terms are grouped together and suggest a paradox | 35 | |
| 7051604230 | Pacing - | The speed or tempo of an author's writing | 36 | |
| 7051604231 | Paradox | A seemingly contradictory situation which is actually true. | 37 | |
| 7051604232 | Parallelism - | Sentence construction which places equal grammatical constructions near each other, or repeats identical grammatical patterns. | 38 | |
| 7051604233 | Anaphora | Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences or clauses in a row | 39 | |
| 7051604235 | Chiasmus - | When the same words are used twice in succession, but the second time, the order othe words is reversed. | 40 | |
| 7051604237 | Antithesis | Two opposite or contrasting words, phrases, or clauses, or even ideas, with parallel structure. | 41 | |
| 7051604239 | Parenthetical Idea | Parentheses are used to set off an idea from the rest of the sentence. | 42 | |
| 7051604240 | Parody | An exaggerated imitation of a serious work for humorous purposes. | 43 | |
| 7051604241 | Persona | The fictional mask or narrator that tells a story | 44 | |
| 7051604242 | Polysyndeton - | When a writer creates a list of items which are all separated by conjunctions. Normally, a conjunction is used only before the last item in a list. | 45 | |
| 7051604244 | Pun - | When a word that has two or more meanings is used in a humorous way. | 46 | |
| 7051604245 | Rhetoric | The art of effective communication. | 47 | |
| 7051604246 | Rhetorical Question | Question not asked for information but for effect | 48 | |
| 7051604247 | Sarcasm | A generally bitter comment that is ironically or satirically worded | 49 | |
| 7051604248 | Satire | A work that reveals a critical attitude toward some element of life to a humorous effect. | 50 | |
| 7051604249 | Appositive | A word or group of words placed beside a noun or noun substitute to supplement its meaning. | 51 | |
| 7051604251 | Clause | A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb. | 52 | |
| 7051604252 | Balanced sentence - | A sentence in which two parallel elements are set off against each other like equal weights on a scale. | 53 | |
| 7051604254 | Compound sentence | Contains at least two independent clauses but no dependent clauses | 54 | |
| 7051604255 | Complex sentence | Contains only one independent clause and at least one dependent clause. | 55 | |
| 7051604257 | Periodic sentence | When the main idea is not completed until the end of the sentence. | 56 | |
| 7051604258 | Symbol | Anything that represents or stands for something else. | 57 | |
| 7051604259 | Syntax/sentence variety | Grammatical arrangement of words. | 58 | |
| 7051604260 | Tone | A writer's attitude toward his subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language and organization. | 59 | |
| 7051604262 | Ethos | means being convinced by the credibility of the author | 60 | |
| 7051604263 | Pathos | means persuading by appealing to the reader's emotions | 61 | |
| 7051604264 | Logos | means persuading by the use of reasoning, using true premises and valid arguments | 62 | |
| 7051604265 | Concession | Accepting at least part or all of an opposing viewpoint. | 63 | |
| 7051604266 | Conditional Statement | is an if-then statement and consists of two parts, an antecedent and a consequent. | 64 | |
| 7052006254 | tricolon | a rhetorical device that employs a series of three parallel words, phrases, or clauses. | 65 | |
| 7052011497 | asyndenton | the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence. | 66 | |
| 7052019592 | rhetorical question | a question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer. | 67 | |
| 7052149331 | legos | what is the other word that gets confused with logos | 68 |
