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| 3225184194 | allusion | Unacknowledged references and quotations which authors make while assuming that readers will recognize the original sources and relate their meanings to the new context. | 0 | |
| 3225184196 | devices of sound | the techniques of deploying the sound of words, especially in poetry (rhyme, alliteration, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia) | 1 | |
| 3225184714 | diction | word choice, types of words, and level of language | 2 | |
| 3225185090 | figurative language | Organized patterns of comparison that deepen, broaden, extend, illuminate, and emphasize meaning, and also that conform to particular patterns or forms such as metaphor simile and parallelism | 3 | |
| 3225185091 | details | smaller items or parts making up a larger picture or story; as when describing a character or scene | 4 | |
| 3225185092 | theme | major or central idea of a work | 5 | |
| 3225185555 | attitude | a speaker's, author's, or character's disposition toward or opinion of a subject or writing | 6 | |
| 3225185556 | imagery | images are references that trigger the mind to fuse together memories of sights, smells, tastes, sounds, and sensations of touch. | 7 | |
| 3225186210 | irony | Broadly, a means of indirection. Language that states the opposite of what is intended is verbal. The placement of characters in a state of ignorance is dramatic, while an emphasis on powerlessness is situational | 8 | |
| 3225186214 | narrative techniques | the methods that writers use to give certain artistic and emotional effects to a story. the methods involved in telling a story; asks you to discuss procedures used to tell a story; (point of view, manipulation of time, dialogue, or interior monologue) | 9 | |
| 3225186601 | symbol | A specific word, idea, or object that may stand for ideas, values, persons, or ways of life. | 10 | |
| 3225186602 | point of view | The speaker, voice, narrator, or persona of a work; the position from which details are perceived and related; a centralizing mind or intelligence. | 11 | |
| 3225186942 | metaphor | a figure of speech that describes something as though it actually were something else, thereby enhancing understanding and insight | 12 | |
| 3225186943 | tone | The techniques and modes of presentation that reveal or create attitudes. n attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience | 13 | |
| 3225187207 | structure | The arrangement and placement of materials in a work | 14 | |
| 3225187885 | rhetorical techniques | the devices used in effective or persuasive language, such as apostrophe, contrast, repetition, paradox, understatement, sarcasm, satire, and rhetorical | 15 | |
| 3225187886 | syntax | word order and sentence structure. a mark of style is a writer's syntactical patterning (regular patterns and variations), depending on the rhetorical needs of the literary work | 16 | |
| 3225188336 | style | the manipulation of language; the placement of words in the service of content | 17 | |
| 3225188337 | setting | The natural, manufactured, and cultural environment in which characters live and move, including all the artifacts they use in their lives. | 18 | |
| 3225189012 | simile | a figure of comparison, using like with nouns and as with clauses. | 19 |
