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| 7507359501 | Allegory | Story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities. Example: Animal Farm; Dante's Inferno; Lord of the Flies. | 0 | |
| 7507386614 | Alliteration | Repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds that are close together | 1 | |
| 7507402040 | Allusion | reference to someone or something that is known from, literature, religion, politics, sports, science, or another branch of culture. An indirect reference to something (usually from literature, etc.) | 2 | |
| 7507435495 | Ambiguity | Deliberately suggesting two or more different, and sometimes conflicting, meanings in a work. An event or situation that may be interpreted on more than one way--this is done on purpose by the author, when it is not done on purpose, it is vagueness, and detracts from the work. | 3 | |
| 7507497151 | Analogy | Comparison made between two things to show how they are alike. | 4 | |
| 7507511622 | Anecdote | Brief story, told to illustrate a point or serve as an example of something, often shows character of an individual. | 5 | |
| 7507539130 | Antagonist | Opponent who struggles against or blocks he hero, or protagonist, in a story. | 6 | |
| 7507560269 | Antithesis | Balancing words, phrases, or ideas that are strongly contrasted, often by means of grammatical structure. | 7 | |
| 7507581241 | Antihero | Central character who lacks all the qualities traditionally associated with heroes. May lack courage, grace, intelligence, or moral scruples. | 8 | |
| 7507608875 | Apostrophe | Calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to a place or thing, or a personified abstract idea. If the character is asking a god or goddess for inspiration it is called an invocation. | 9 | |
| 7507680395 | Assonance | the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds especially in words that are together. | 10 | |
| 7507702257 | Balance | Contrasting a sentence so that both halves are about the same length and importance. Sentences can be unbalanced to serve a special effect as well. | 11 | |
| 7507726865 | Characterization | the process by which the writer reveals the personality of the character. | 12 | |
| 7507751755 | Indirect Characterization | the author reveals to the reader what the character is like by describing how the character looks and dresses, by letting the reader hear what the character says, by revealing the characters private thoughts and feelings, by revealing the characters effect on other people(showing how other characters feel or behavior toward the character), or by showing the character in action. | 13 | |
| 7507813045 | Direct Characterization | the author tells us directly what the character is like: sneaky, generous, mean to pets and so on. Romantic style literature relied more heavily on this form. | 14 | |
| 7507847701 | Static Character | is one who does not change much in the course of a story. | 15 | |
| 7507858420 | Dynamic Character | is one who changes in some important way as a result of the story's action. | 16 | |
| 7507867583 | Flat Character | has only one or two personality traits. They are one-dimensional, like a piece of cardboard. They can be summed up in one phrase. | 17 | |
| 7507912040 | Round Character | has more dimensions to their personalities-they are complex, just as real people are. | 18 | |
| 7507930551 | Chiasmus | In poetry, a type of rhetorical balance in which the second part is syntactically balanced against the first, but with the parts reversed. Coleridge: "Flowers are lovely, love is flowerlike" In prose this is called antimetabole. | 19 | |
| 7507987303 | Cliche | is a word or phrase, often a figure of speech, that has become lifeless because of overuse. Avoid cilches like the plague. | 20 | |
| 7508017217 | Colloquialism | a word or phrase in everyday use in conversation and informal writings but is inappropriate for formal situations. Example: "He's out of his head if he thinks i'm gonna go for such a stupid idea". | 21 | |
| 7508060825 | Connotation | the associations and emotional overtones that have become attached to a word or phrase, in addition to its strict dictionary definition. | 22 | |
| 7508084367 | Dialect | a way of speaking that is characteristic of a certain social group or of the inhabitants of a certain geographical area. | 23 | |
| 7508110294 | Diction | a speaker or writer's choice of words...everyone uses words- how does the choice of words affect the piece? | 24 | |
| 7508127516 | Didactic | form or fiction or nonfiction that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking. | 25 | |
| 7508159530 | Elegy | a poem of morning, usually about someone that has died. A Eulogy is great praise or commendation, a laudatory speech, often about someone who has died. | 26 | |
| 7508180970 | Epic | a long narrative poem, written in heightened language, which recounts the deeds of a heroic character who embodies the values of a particular society. | 27 | |
| 7508206025 | Epithet | an adjective or adjective phrase applied to a person or thing that is frequently used to emphasize a characteristic quality. " Father of our Country" and "the great Emancipator" are examples. A Homeric epithet is a compound adjective used with a person or thing: "swift-footed Achilles"; "rosy-fingered dawn". | 28 | |
| 7508261059 | Figurative Language | Words which are inaccurate if interpreted literally, but are used to describe. Similes and metaphors commonly used. | 29 |
