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| 215388377 | Allegory | A story illustrating an idea or a moral principle in which objects take on symbolic meanings | |
| 215388378 | Antecedent | The word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun. | |
| 215388379 | Colloquial | The use of slang or informalities in speech or writing; regional dialects | |
| 215388380 | Didactic | Literature specifically designed to instruct, especially the teaching of moral or ethical principals | |
| 215388381 | Alliteration | The repetition of sounds, especially initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words | |
| 215388382 | Aphorism | A witty adage used to convey truth or insight | |
| 215388383 | Conceit | A far-fetched simile or metaphor | |
| 215388384 | Euphemism | A more agreeable or less offensive substitute for generally unpleasant words or concepts | |
| 215388385 | Allusion | A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably known such as an event, book, myth, place or work or art (can be historical, literary, mythical or biblical). | |
| 215388386 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or personified abstraction such as liberty or love | |
| 215388387 | Connotation | The non-literal, associative meaning of a word; implied, suggested | |
| 215388388 | Extended | metaphor A lengthy comparison of two different things | |
| 215388389 | Ambiguity | The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence or passage | |
| 215388390 | Atmosphere | The emotional mood created by the entirety of a literary work; frequently foreshadows events | |
| 215388391 | Denotation | The strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word, devoid of any emotion or attitude | |
| 215388392 | Figurative language | Writing or speech that is not intended to carry literal meaning and is usually meant to be imaginative and vivid | |
| 215388393 | Analogy | A similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based | |
| 215388394 | Clause | a grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb | |
| 215388395 | Diction | a writer's word choice (related to style) | |
| 215388396 | Figure of speech | A device used to produce figurative language; i.e. hyperbole and understatement | |
| 215388397 | Generic Conventions | features shown by texts that allow them to be put into a specific genre | |
| 215388398 | Genre | style or specification of a work | |
| 215388399 | Homily | A lecture/sermon to a congregation on a practical matter or moral theme. | |
| 215388400 | Hyperbole | An exaggeration for effect. | |
| 215388401 | Imagery | Language that evokes particular sensations or emotionally rich experiences in a reader. | |
| 215388402 | Inference/infer | The act or process of deriving logical conclusions from premises known or assumed to be true. | |
| 215388403 | Invective | an abusive expression or speech | |
| 215388404 | Irony/ironic | When outcome defies expectation - know all three types... | |
| 215388405 | Loose sentence | A sentence that adds modifying elements after the subject, verb, and complement. | |
| 215388406 | Metaphor | figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance | |
| 215388407 | Metonomy | An entity referred to by one of its attributes or associations. | |
| 215388408 | Mood | the atmosphere created by a text and accomplished through diction and syntax. | |
| 215388409 | Narrative | a collection of events that tells a story, which may be true or not, placed in a particular order and recounted through either telling or writing. The term is usually applied to anecdotes, exemplums, fables, fabliaux, fairy tales, incidents, legends, novels, novelettes, short stories, and tales. | |
| 215388410 | Onomatopoeia | A literary device in which the sound of a word is related to its meaning. | |
| 215388411 | Oxymoron | Juxtaposed words with seemingly contradictory meanings. | |
| 215388412 | Paradox | a seemingly contradictory statement that is actually true. An idea which embeds a contradiction. | |
| 215388413 | Parallelism | from the Greek for "beside one another;" the grammatical or rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs to give structural similarity. | |
| 215388414 | Parody | a work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule | |
| 215388415 | Pedantic | an adjective meaning overly scholarly, academic or bookish - used to describe the tone of a text. | |
| 215388416 | Periodic sentence | a sentence in which the main clause (or the main idea) comes last. | |
| 215388417 | Personification | The giving of human characteristics to inanimate objects. | |
| 215388418 | Point of view | The way a story gets told and who tells it. | |
| 215388419 | Predicate adjective | one type of subject complement and adjective, group of adjectives, or adjective clause that follows a linking verb. | |
| 215388420 | Predicate nominative | A second type of subject complement a noun, group of nouns, or noun clause that renames the subject. It, like the predicate adjective, follows a linking verb and is located in the predicate of the sentence. | |
| 215388421 | Prose | Ordinary written or spoken language without the use of meters or rhythm | |
| 215388422 | Repetition | In a text, repeated use of sounds, words, phrases, or clauses to emphasize meaning or achieve effect. | |
| 215388423 | Rhetoric | The art of effective communication, especially persuasive discourse. | |
| 215388424 | Rhetorical modes | This flexible term describes the variety, the conventions, and the purpose of the major kinds of writing. The four most common are exposition, argumentation, description, and narration. | |
| 215388425 | Sarcasm | Involves bitter,caustic language that is meant to hurt or ridicule someone of something. It may use irony as a device, when poorly done, it is simply cruel. | |
| 215388426 | Satire | A work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule. | |
| 215388427 | Semantics | the branch of linguistics that studies the meaning of words and signs, their historical and psychological development, their connotations, and their relation to one another. | |
| 215388428 | Style | The choices in diction, tone and syntax that a writer makes | |
| 215388429 | Subject complement | The word or clause that follows a linking verb and complements or completes the subject of the sentence either by renaiming it or describing it. | |
| 215388430 | Subordinate | A word group that contains both a subject and a verb but cannot stand alone; it does not represent a complete thought. Another name for it is a dependent clause. | |
| 215388431 | Syllogism | Logical reasoning from inarguable premises. | |
| 215388432 | Symbol/symbolism | Generally, anything that represents, stands for, something else. | |
| 215388433 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part of something stands for the whole thing. | |
| 215388434 | Syntax | The grammatical arrangement of words - This includes sentence length and sentence complexity. | |
| 215388435 | Theme | The message conveyed by a literary work. | |
| 215388436 | Thesis | The sentence or group of sentences that directly expresses the author's opinion, purpose, meaning or proposition | |
| 215388437 | Tone | the author's attitude toward his or her material, the audience, or both. | |
| 215388438 | Transition | a word, phrase, sentence, paragraph, or longer passage of writing that serves as a link in the writing. | |
| 215388439 | Understatement | Deliberate playing down of a situation in order to make a point. | |
| 215388440 | Wit | elements in a literary work designed to make the audience laugh or feel amused, i.e., the term is used synonymously with humor. |
