6386828119 | Ballad | 0 | ||
6386834693 | Analogy | a comparison between two things | ![]() | 1 |
6386838837 | Sarcasm | The use of irony to mock | ![]() | 2 |
6386842211 | Synecdoche | A part of something that refers to the whole | 3 | |
6386914232 | Oxymoron | Use of two contradictory terms | ![]() | 4 |
6386919791 | Allegory | A story where people or things have symbolic meaning | ![]() | 5 |
6386926315 | Anecdote | a short account or story | ![]() | 6 |
6386930850 | Paradox | A self-contradictory statement | ![]() | 7 |
6386937849 | Metaphor | a thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else and makes a comparison | ![]() | 8 |
6386943517 | Catharsis | The process of releasing and providing relief from emotions | ![]() | 9 |
6386946349 | Hyperbole | Overstatement | ![]() | 10 |
6386952760 | Understatement | A writer or speaker makes the situation seem less important than it really is | ![]() | 11 |
6386957935 | Situational Irony | the outcome is not what was intended | ![]() | 12 |
6386963235 | Verbal Irony / Sarcasm | someone says the opposite of what they mean | ![]() | 13 |
6386968379 | Dramatic Irony | the full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character | ![]() | 14 |
6386977284 | Pathos | convincing through use of emotion | ![]() | 15 |
6386984143 | Logos | convincing through use of reason | ![]() | 16 |
6386986139 | Ethos | convincing through use of morals/ethics | ![]() | 17 |
6387009147 | Impressionism in writing | placing more responsibility on the reader to form his or her own conclusions about events within the novel | ![]() | 18 |
6387013245 | Personification | giving human-like qualities to non-human things | ![]() | 19 |
6387016498 | Antithesis | contrast of ideas | ![]() | 20 |
6387023383 | Symbol | something that stands for something else | ![]() | 21 |
6387027221 | Duality | opposition or contrast between two aspects of something | ![]() | 22 |
6387037286 | Tactile | can be sensed with touch | ![]() | 23 |
6387041415 | Auditory | can be sensed with hearing | ![]() | 24 |
6387046267 | Allusion | an indirect reference to something | 25 | |
6387052010 | Fusion | the joining of two or more things together to form a single entity | ![]() | 26 |
6387066372 | Philosophy | the study of the nature of knowledge, reality, and existence | ![]() | 27 |
6387362281 | Extensive | great, vast | ![]() | 28 |
6387367491 | Egotism | self-importance | ![]() | 29 |
6387372704 | Superficial | surface, lack of depth | 30 | |
6387412773 | Inversion | reversal of position or relationship | ![]() | 31 |
6387475465 | Intellectual rigor | is having clarity in thinking and an ability to think carefully and deeply | ![]() | 32 |
6387489841 | Bulwark | defensive wall, fortification | ![]() | 33 |
6387497658 | Animistic | believing everything has a soul | ![]() | 34 |
6387542607 | Quasi-religious | resembling something that is religious or sacred | ![]() | 35 |
6387555190 | Pretentious | pompous, self-important | ![]() | 36 |
6387564573 | Romanticism | emphasis on innocence, nature, beauty, and imagination | ![]() | 37 |
6387582633 | Proof | a trial print of something | ![]() | 38 |
6387588410 | Endorse | to declare support of | ![]() | 39 |
6387605200 | Conventional | what is considered "normal" | ![]() | 40 |
6387622192 | Imagery | visually descriptive language | ![]() | 41 |
6388139897 | Postmodernism | characterized by reliance on narrative techniques such as fragmentation, paradox, and the unreliable narrator | ![]() | 42 |
6435705674 | Diction | word choice | ![]() | 43 |
6435707592 | Syntax | sentence structure | ![]() | 44 |
6435709789 | Detail | description | ![]() | 45 |
6435732959 | Voice | the author's style, the quality that makes his or her writing unique, and which conveys the author's attitude, personality, and character; or the characteristic speech and thought patterns of the narrator of a work of fiction. | ![]() | 46 |
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