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| 19428676 | Rhetoric | the manipulation of words for a specific purpose | |
| 19428677 | Thesis | the answer to a question | |
| 19428678 | Tone | attitude the narrator wants the reader to take toward a setting, character, or idea | |
| 19428679 | Mood | emotional response of the reader | |
| 19428680 | Diction | word choice | |
| 19428681 | Denotation | dictionary definition of a word | |
| 19428682 | Connotation | emotional definition of a word | |
| 19428683 | Subtext | meaning or emotion underneath the words | |
| 19428684 | Assonance | repetition of vowel sounds | |
| 19428685 | Consonance | same ending sounds | |
| 19428686 | Alliteration | same beginning sound | |
| 19428687 | Onomatopoeia | sound words, imitative harmony | |
| 19428688 | Imagery | words that create mental pictures | |
| 19428689 | Personification | inanimate objects or abstract ideas given human characteristics | |
| 19428690 | Pathetic Fallacy | a form of personification - only it is not a character in the story | |
| 19428691 | Simile | a comparison using like or as | |
| 19428692 | Metaphor | a direct comparison | |
| 19428693 | Extended Metaphor | a metaphor which changes and grows throughout the story | |
| 19428694 | Controlling Metaphor | a metaphor around which the entire story revolves | |
| 19428695 | Metonymy | describing something indirectly by referring to things around it | |
| 19428696 | Synecdoche | a part is used to represent the whole (crown=king) | |
| 19428697 | Pathos | words which evoke sorrow | |
| 19428698 | Bathos | reaching for the sublime, the tone results in the absurd | |
| 19428699 | Allusion | literary, historical, artistic reference | |
| 19428700 | Aphorism | a short witty statement | |
| 19428701 | Apostrophe | form of personification, speaking to an absent or dead person or object as if it is there | |
| 19428702 | Motif | pattern; repeated image, symbol, idea | |
| 19428703 | Symbol | a word that represents a larger idea or concept | |
| 19500244 | Colloquial | the use of slang in writing | |
| 19500245 | Dialect | the recreation of regional spoken language | |
| 19500246 | Cliche | an overused expression | |
| 19500247 | Conceit | a particularly clever extended metaphor | |
| 19500248 | Inference | a conclusion drawn from presented details | |
| 19500249 | Epitaph | an inscription on a tombstone | |
| 19500250 | Epigraph | the use of a quotation at the beginning of the work which often hints at a theme | |
| 19500251 | Eulogy | a formal speech praising one who has died | |
| 19500252 | Homily | a sermon or moralistic lecture | |
| 19500253 | Didactic | writing whose purpose is to instruct or teach | |
| 19500254 | Pedantic | scholarly, academic writing that is difficult to understand | |
| 19500255 | Figurative Language | literary devices that enable an author to operate on levels other than the literal (simile, metaphor, etc) | |
| 19507455 | Oratory | a formal, often pompous, speech | |
| 19507456 | Jargon | technical, specialized language | |
| 21185088 | Irony | an unexpected outcome | |
| 21185089 | Verbal Irony | saying one thing but meaning the opposite | |
| 21185090 | Situational Irony | unexpected outcome in the plot | |
| 21185091 | Dramatic Irony | where the audience knows more than the character | |
| 21185092 | Oxymoron | contrasting words placed together for effect | |
| 21185093 | Paradox | statement that contradicts itself - "the more you learn the less you know" | |
| 21185094 | Pun | a play on words that are identical or similar in sounds but differ in meaning | |
| 21185095 | Hyperbole | exaggeration | |
| 21185096 | Understatement | making a situation seem less important or serious than it is | |
| 21185097 | Euphemism | making something sound nicer than it is; candy-coated words | |
| 21185098 | Antithesis | direct contrast or opposite | |
| 21185099 | Satire | a political comment through the use of humor | |
| 21185100 | Parody | a comic imitation that ridicules the original. It can be mocking or gently humorous | |
| 21185101 | Sarcasm | type of irony in which a person seems to be praising something but actually insulting | |
| 21185102 | Subtext | meaning or emotion underneath the words | |
| 21185103 | Zeugma | a type of pun where the use of a word modifies two or more words, but used for different meanings (On the fishing trip, he caught three trout and a cold.) | |
| 21185104 | Ambiguity | deliberately unclear, having multiple meanings | |
| 21185105 | Conflict | choices a character makes in relation to an obstacle (problem) | |
| 21185106 | Characterization | change and growth of the character | |
| 21185107 | Foil | character whose behavior and values contrast with those of another character | |
| 21185108 | Archetype | a detail, image, or character type that occurs frequently in myth and literature, thought to appeal to the unconscious | |
| 21185109 | Point of attack | when the story begins | |
| 21185110 | Exposition | events that take place before the story begins | |
| 21185111 | Flashback | a device that enables a writer to refer to past thoughts, events, episodes | |
| 21185112 | Epiphany | a moment of great revelation | |
| 21185113 | Foreshadowing | clues that tip the reader off as to what is to come later in the work | |
| 21185114 | Anecdote | ashort account of an interesting or humorous incident, intended to illustrate or support some point | |
| 21185115 | Climax | point of understanding or awakening (not necessarily emotional) | |
| 21185116 | Anticlimax | when the reader expects a climax to occur and it doesn't happen | |
| 21185117 | Denouement | the "unravelling" or resolution of the story, falling action | |
| 21185118 | Setting | time and place of a story | |
| 21185119 | Theme | the underlying message | |
| 21185120 | Allegory | a story that functions on the symbolic level | |
| 21185121 | Parable | a story that operates on the symbolic level and teaches a lesson or moral | |
| 24406436 | Syntax | word order or organization | |
| 24406437 | Parallelism | sentences, or parts of a sentence with similar structure | |
| 24406438 | Repetition | using the same word or phrase for emphasis | |
| 24406439 | Anaphora | repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences | |
| 24406440 | Chiasmus | a statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is reversed ("Susan walked, and in rushed Mary.") | |
| 24406441 | Deductive Reasoning | a form of logic that moves from the general to the specific | |
| 24406442 | Inductive Reasoning | a form a logic that moves from the specific to the general | |
| 24406443 | Syllogism | a formal argument that consists of a major premise, a minor one, and a conclusion | |
| 24406444 | Analogy | a comparison between two dissimilar ideas or things | |
| 24406445 | Rhetorical Question | a question that does not expect an explicit answer | |
| 24406446 | Antithesis | direct contrast or opposite | |
| 24406447 | Juxtaposition | words, phrases, ideas placed side by side for effect | |
| 24406448 | Ad Hominem | a rhetorical strategy that attacks the person rather than the idea | |
| 24406449 | Non Sequitur | an inference that does not follow logically from the premise (literally, does not follow) | |
| 24406450 | Logical Fallacy | a mistake in reasoning | |
| 24406451 | A Priori Reasoning | a conclusion that can be arrived at without any observations of the world, but relies only on logical connections between ideas | |
| 24406452 | Enumeration | a numbered list |
