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| 5775112715 | Theme | universal in nature, observation of life can be carried on to other stories. | 0 | |
| 5775112716 | Symbolism | noun, person, place or thing that represent something non-tangible, something with large and deeper meaning. | 1 | |
| 5775114035 | Allusion | a reference to culture, history, or population. | 2 | |
| 5775114036 | Allegory | symbols linked together to create meaning, an independent meaning | 3 | |
| 5775114037 | Motif | a reoccurring symbol in literature. | 4 | |
| 5775116485 | Suspense | uncertainty within the text, the outcome of certain events. | 5 | |
| 5775116486 | Setting | time, period, and location of a text/story. | 6 | |
| 5775116487 | Imagery | sensory detail to place an image to the readers head. | 7 | |
| 5775117714 | Foreshadowing | some event that might happen due to the sensory detail given in the text. | 8 | |
| 5775117715 | Drama | a story acted out, usually on a stage by actors and actresses who take the parts of specific characters. | 9 | |
| 5775117716 | Comedy | a literary work which is amusing and ends well. | 10 | |
| 5775119246 | Tragedy | in general, a literary work in which the central character meets an unhappy or disastrous end. | 11 | |
| 5775120342 | Tragic Hero | a literary character who makes a judgment error that inevitably leads to his/her own destruction. | 12 | |
| 5775120343 | Tragic flaw | a weakness or limitation of character resulting in the fall of the tragic hero. | 13 | |
| 5775120344 | Aside | short speech heard by the audience but not by the other characters in the play | 14 | |
| 5775121466 | Monologue | a long, uninterrupted speech (in a narrative or drama) that is spoken in the presence of an audience with the other actors stay silent. | 15 | |
| 5775121467 | Dialogue | a conversation between characters/ | 16 | |
| 5775123707 | Soliloquy | a speech, usually lengthy, in which character, along on stage, expresses his or her thoughts to themselves. | 17 | |
| 5775123708 | Stage Direction | a playwrights description or interpretive comments that provide readers and actors with information about the dialogue, setting, and action of a play. | 18 | |
| 5775124852 | Iambic Pentameter | everything is ten syllables; a common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable | 19 | |
| 5775124853 | 4th wall | imaginary wall that exist between actors on stage and the audience | 20 | |
| 5775127283 | Irony | three types | 21 | |
| 5775127284 | Verbal Irony | say one thing but another thing happens | 22 | |
| 5775128140 | Situational Irony | something different happens according to your thoughts | 23 | |
| 5775128141 | Dramatic Irony | the audience knows something that the characters don't. | 24 | |
| 5775128142 | Simile | a comparison using ''like'' or ''as'' | 25 | |
| 5775131156 | Metaphor | a comparison without using "like or ''as'' | 26 | |
| 5775131157 | Characterization | the introduction/description of a character. | 27 | |
| 5775132800 | Ambiguity | is a word, phrase, or statement which contains more than one meaning. | 28 | |
| 5775132801 | Archetype | an object that serves its prototype; is a typical character, an action or a situation that seems to represent such universal patterns of human nature; also known as universal symbol, may be a character, a theme, a symbol or even a setting. | 29 | |
| 5775133921 | Verisimilitude | how the true story is; likelihood, probability. | 30 | |
| 5775133922 | Connotation | the literal or dictionary definition creates emotions and feelings. | 31 | |
| 5775133923 | Denotation | the use of the dictionary definition or a literal meaning of the text. | 32 | |
| 5775135252 | Point Of View | the manner in which the story is being told (first person, god, or 3rd person) | 33 | |
| 5775135253 | Balance | constructing a sentence so that both half have the same structure and meaning. | 34 | |
| 5775135254 | Dialect | language used by the people of a specific area, class, district, or any other group of people. | 35 | |
| 5775136231 | Persuade | writers use this technique to prevent their idead through reasons and logic to influence the audience. | 36 | |
| 5775136232 | Casual Relationship | a form of sentences arguments in which a writer writes something due to a cause of another. (cause and effect) | 37 | |
| 5775137270 | Exposition | background info provided by the writer to enhance the readers understanding of the concept. | 38 | |
| 5775137271 | Narrative | report of related events presented to the listeners or readers in words arranged in a logical sequence. | 39 | |
| 5775137272 | Local Color | the words someone uses, the way they talk, the way they dress, etc. | 40 | |
| 5775138600 | Counter Argument | an argument or set of reasons put forward to oppose an idea or theory developed in another argument; a viewpoint that opposes your main argument. | 41 | |
| 5775138601 | Generalization | a broad statement or an idea that applies to a group or people or thing; sometimes are not entirely true. | 42 | |
| 5775138602 | Omission | something or someone that has been left out or excluded from something. | 43 | |
| 5775139751 | Call to action | advertising and marketing concept; a request to do something | 44 | |
| 5775139752 | Circular Reasoning | a use of reason in which the premises depends on or is equivalent to the conclusion; components of a circular argument are often logically valid because if the premises are true, the conclusion must be true. (often false) | 45 | |
| 5775139783 | Argument | explains what the reader will see in the text; a claim in pros (Main Idea). Glues background of what you will be reading. | 46 | |
| 5775141264 | Claim | a thesis, an opinion statement that is written by yourself that can be either true or false. | 47 | |
| 5775141265 | Thesis | one sentence that is an opinion and explains to you're audience what will happen. Something arguable and debatable | 48 | |
| 5775141266 | Assertion | A stylistic approach or technique involving a strong declaration, a forceful or confident and positive statement regarding a belief or a fact. | 49 | |
| 5775142355 | Empirical evidence | sense experience, is the knowledge or source of knowledge acquired by means of the senses particularly by observation and experimentation. | 50 | |
| 5775142356 | Exonerated | to clear, as of an accusation, free from suit, or blame; exculpate | 51 | |
| 5775145408 | Exempt | to free from an obligation or liability to which others are subject; release | 52 | |
| 5775145409 | Acquittal | discharge, release, a discharge or a release from an obligation | 53 | |
| 5775146662 | Appeal | ethos is an appeal to ethics, pathos is an appeal to emotion, logos is an appeal to logic; | 54 | |
| 5775146663 | Assertion | when someone makes a statement investing his strong belief in it, as it is true though it may not be. | 55 | |
| 5775146664 | Equivocation | is an informal logical fallacy. It is the misleading use of a term with more than one meaning or sense. | 56 | |
| 5775147947 | Red Herring | a kind of fallacy that is an irrelevant topic introduced in an argument to divert the attention of listeners or readers from the original issue. | 57 | |
| 5775153629 | Variance | the fact on quality of being different, divergent, or inconsistent, the state or fact of disagreeing or quarreling. | 58 | |
| 5775153649 | Atmosphere | feeling, emotion, or mood that a writer conveys to a reader through the description of setting and objects. | 59 | |
| 5775154679 | Amendment | change, addition, or rephrasing of something, most often with the intention of improvement | 60 | |
| 5775154680 | Epiphany | a moment in the story where a character achieves realization, awareness, or a feeling of knowledge after which events are seen through the prism of this new light in the story. | 61 | |
| 5775154681 | Fallacy | A display of faulty reasoning that makes an argument invalid or a faulty belief based on an unsound argument. | 62 | |
| 5775155939 | Satire | a writer uses this technique to expose, criticize foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society by using humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule. | 63 | |
| 5775155940 | Hubris | a typical flaw in the personality of a character who enjoys a powerful position. | 64 | |
| 5775157268 | Idiom | a set expression or a phrase comprising two or more words. | 65 |
