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| 6484515948 | allusion | a reference in a work of literature to something outisde the work, especially to a well-known historical or literary event, person, or work | 0 | |
| 6484515949 | attitude | a speaker's, author's, or character's disposition toward or opinion of a subject | 1 | |
| 6484515950 | details | items or parts that make up a larger picture or story | 2 | |
| 6484515951 | devices of sound | techniques of deploying the sound of words, especially in poetry (include rhyme, alliteration, assonance, consonance, and onomatopoeia) | 3 | |
| 6484515952 | diction | word choice (any word that is important to the meaning and the effect of a passage can be used as an example) | 4 | |
| 6484515953 | figurative language | writing that uses figures of speech such as metaphor, simile, and irony | 5 | |
| 6484515954 | imagery | the visual, auditory, or tactile images evoked by the words of a literary work or the images that figurative language evokes | 6 | |
| 6484515955 | irony | a figure of speech in which intent and actual meaning difer, characteristically praise for blame or blame for praise; a pattern of words that turns away from direct statement of its own obvious meaning | 7 | |
| 6484515956 | metaphor | a figurative use of language in which a comparison is expressed without the use of a comparative term like "as," "like," or "than" | 8 | |
| 6484515957 | narrative techniques | the methods involved in telling a story; the procedures used by a writer of stories or accounts (examples: point of view, manipulation of time, dialogue, or interior monologue) | 9 | |
| 6484515958 | omniscient point of view | vantage point of a story in which the narrator can know, see, and report whatever he or she chooses. The narrator is free to describe the thoughts of any of the characters, to skip about in time or place, or to speak directly to the reader | 10 | |
| 6484515959 | point of view | any of several possible vantage points from which a story is told (may be omniscient, limited to that of a single character, or limited to that of several characters) | 11 | |
| 6484515960 | resources of language | a general phrase for the linguistic devices or techniques that a writer can use (examples: style and rhetoric of a passage, diction, syntax, figurative language, and imagery) | 12 | |
| 6484515961 | rhetorical techniques | devices used in effective or persuasive language (common examples: contrast, repititions, paradox, understatement, sarcasm, and rhetorical question) | 13 | |
| 6484515962 | satire | writing that seeks to arouse a reader's disapproval of an object by ridicule. It is usually comedy that exposes errors with an eye to correct vice and folly | 14 | |
| 6484515963 | setting | the background to a story; the physical location and time of a play, story, or novel | 15 | |
| 6484515964 | simile (similes) | a directly expressed comparison; a figure of speech comparing two objects, usually with "like," "as," or "than" | 16 | |
| 6484515965 | strategy (rhetorical strategy) | the management of language for a specific effect or the planned placing of elements to achieve an effect | 17 | |
| 6484515966 | structure | the arrangement of materials within a work; the relationship of the parts of a work to the whole; the logical divisions of a work (most common principles are series, contrast, and repition, while most common units are scene, act, chapter, line, or stanza) | 18 | |
| 6484515967 | style | the mode of expression in language; the characteristic manner of expression of an author | 19 | |
| 6484515968 | symbol | something that is simultaneously itself and a sign of something else | 20 | |
| 6484515969 | syntax | the structure of a sentence; the arrangement of words in a sentence (includes the length or brevity of the sentences and the kinds of sentences like question/exclamation/declarative/ or periodic/loose/simple/complex/compound) | 21 | |
| 6484515970 | theme | the main thought expressed by a work | 22 | |
| 6484515971 | tone | the manner in which an author expresses his or her attitude; the intonation of the voice that expresses meaning (is described by adjectives with endless possibilities) | 23 | |
| 6484515972 | allegory | a story in which people, things, and events have another meaning (Orwell's Animal Farm) | 24 | |
| 6484515973 | ambiguity | multiple meanings a literary work may communicate, especially two meanings that are incompatible | 25 | |
| 6484515974 | apostrophe | direct address, usually to someone or something that is not present | 26 | |
| 6484515975 | connotation | the implications of a word or phrase as opposed to its exact meaning | 27 | |
| 6484515976 | convention | a device of style or subject matter so often used that it becomes a recognized means of expression (example: a lover cannot eat or sleep and grows pale and lean) | 28 | |
| 6484515977 | denotation | the dictionary meaning of a word as apposed to connotation | 29 | |
| 6484515978 | didactic | explicitly instructive | 30 | |
| 6484515979 | digression | the use of material unrelated to the subject of a work | 31 | |
| 6484515980 | epigram | a pithy saying, often using contrast. Also a verse form, usually brief and pointed | 32 | |
| 6484515981 | euphemism | a figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness such as "deceased" for "dead" or "remains" for "corpse" | 33 | |
| 6484515982 | grotesque | characterized by distortions or incongruities | 34 | |
| 6484515983 | hyperbole | deliberate exaggeration, overstatement | 35 | |
| 6484515984 | jargon | the special language of a profession or group. Usually has pejorative associations, with the implication that it is evasive, tedious, and unintelligible to outsiders | 36 | |
| 6484515985 | literal | not figurative; accurate to the letter; matter of fact or concrete | 37 | |
| 6484515986 | lyrical | songlike; characterized by emotion, subjectivitiy, and imagination | 38 | |
| 6484515987 | oxymoron | a combination of opposites; the union of contradictory terms | 39 | |
| 6484515988 | parable | a story designed to suggest a principle, illustrate a moral, or answer a question (an allegorical story) | 40 | |
| 6484515989 | paradox | a statement that seems to be self-contradicting but, in fact, is true | 41 | |
| 6484515990 | parody | a composition that imitates the style of another composition normally for comic effect | 42 | |
| 6484515991 | personification | a figurative use of language that endows the nonhuman (ideas, inanimate objects, animals, abstractions) with human characteristics | 43 | |
| 6484515992 | reliability | a quality of some fictional narrators whose word the reader can trust | 44 | |
| 6484515993 | rhetorical question | a question asked for effect, not in expectation of a reply. No reply is expected because the question presupposes only one possible answer | 45 | |
| 6484515994 | soliloquy | a speech in which a character who is alone speaks his or her thoughts aloud. A monologue also has a single speaker, but the monologuist speaks to others who do not interrupt | 46 | |
| 6484515995 | stereotype | a conventional pattern, expression, character, or idea. In literature, it could apply to the unvarying plot and characters of some works of fiction or to the stock characters and plots of many of the greatest stage comedies | 47 | |
| 6484515996 | syllogism | a form of reasoning in which two statements are made and a conclusion is drawn from them (begins with a major premise, followed by a minor premise, and a conclusion) | 48 | |
| 6484515997 | thesis | the theme, meaning, or position that a writer undertakes to prove or support | 49 | |
| 6484515998 | alliteration | the repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds, normally at the beginning of words | 50 | |
| 6484515999 | assonance | the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds | 51 | |
| 6484516000 | ballad meter | a four-line stanza rhymed abcb with four feet in lines one and three and three feet in lines two and four | 52 | |
| 6484516001 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter (most of Shakespeare's plays) | 53 | |
| 6484516002 | dactyl | a metrical foot of three syllables, an accented syllable followed by two unaccented sylables | 54 | |
| 6484516003 | end-stopped | a line with a pause at the end like those that end with a period, comma, colon, semicolon, exclamation point, or question mark | 55 | |
| 6484516004 | free verse | poetry which is not written in a traditional meter but is still rhythmical | 56 | |
| 6484516005 | heroic couplet | two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, cc with the thought usually completed in the two-line unit | 57 | |
| 6484516006 | hexameter | a line containing six feet | 58 | |
| 6484516007 | iamb | a two-syllable foot with an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable (the most common foot in English poetry) | 59 | |
| 6484516008 | internal rhyme | rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end | 60 | |
| 6484516009 | onomatopoeia | the use of words whose sound suggests their meaning (examples: buzz, hiss, or honk) | 61 | |
| 6484516010 | pentameter | a line containing five feet (the most common line in English verse written before 1950) | 62 | |
| 6484516011 | rhyme royal | a seven-line stanza of iambic pentameter rhymed ababbcc, used by Chaucer and other medieval poets | 63 | |
| 6484516012 | sonnet | normally a fourteen-line iambic pentameter poem. The conventional Italian/Petrachan version is rhymed abba, abba, cde, cde. The conventional English/Shakespearean version is rhymed abab, cdcd, efef, gg. | 64 | |
| 6484516013 | stanza | usually a repeated grouping of three or more lines with the same meter and rhyme scheme | 65 | |
| 6484516014 | terza rima | a three-line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc | 66 | |
| 6484516015 | tetrameter | a line of four feet | 67 | |
| 6484516016 | antecedent | that which goes before, especially the word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers | 68 | |
| 6484516017 | clause | a group of words containing a subject and its verb that may or may not be a complete sentence | 69 | |
| 6484516018 | ellipsis | the omission of a word or several words necessary for a complete construction that is still understandable | 70 | |
| 6484516019 | imperative | the mood of a verb that gives an order | 71 | |
| 6484516020 | modify | to restrict or limit in meaning | 72 | |
| 6484516021 | parallel structure | a similar grammatical structure within a sentence or within a paragraph (like Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech) | 73 | |
| 6484516022 | periodic sentence | a sentence grammatically complete only at the end. A loose sentence is grammatically complete before the period (contrast) | 74 | |
| 6484516023 | syntax | the structure of a sentence | 75 |
