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| 5801333181 | Point of View | the mode of the narration that an author employs to let readers "hear" & "see" | 0 | |
| 5801334708 | First Person POV | story told by one of its characters, using 1st person "I" | 1 | |
| 5801337623 | Third Person Objective | authors limits himself to reporting what the characters say or do, does not interpret or tell us private feelings/thoughts | 2 | |
| 5801339896 | Third Person Omniscient | author knows all (god like) and is free to tell us anything, including what people are feeling and thinking | 3 | |
| 5801341260 | Third Person Limited | authors limits himself to a complete knowledge of one character in the story and only tells us about what that character feels | 4 | |
| 5801345740 | Suspension of Disbelief | demand made of an audience to provide details with their imagination; acceptance of incidents in plot by reader | 5 | |
| 5801347325 | Symbol | anything that represents something else beyond it, usually an idea conventionally associated with it | 6 | |
| 5801350213 | Theme | abstract idea that emerges from lit. work's treatment of it's subject matter. ex, love, war, revenge, fate | 7 | |
| 5801352383 | Utopia | a desirable imaginary society | 8 | |
| 5801353977 | Allusion | an indirect reference to an event, person, place, or artistic work that author assumes reader will understand | 9 | |
| 5801355758 | Anachronism | an event, object, custom, person, or thing that is out of its natural order of time | 10 | |
| 5801357005 | Analogy | a comparison of similar things, often to explain something unfamiliar with something familiar | 11 | |
| 5801358509 | Aphorism | a terse statement of a principal or truth; a maxim | 12 | |
| 5801359492 | Apostrophe | a rhetorical device in which the speaker addresses a dead of absent person | 13 | |
| 5801362615 | Cliche` | any expression that has been used so often it has lost its freshness | 14 | |
| 5801363699 | Epigram | any terse, witty, pt. saying (she knows the cost of everything, but the value of nothing.) | 15 | |
| 5801366729 | Euphemism | substitution of a mild term for one more offensive or hurtful | 16 | |
| 5801368306 | Figurative Language | language that contains figures of speech, such as metaphor, simile, personification, etc... | 17 | |
| 5801370662 | Hyperbole | exaggeration for the sake off emphasis in figure of speech not meant literally | 18 | |
| 5801371145 | Kenning | a metaphoric compound word or phrase used as a synonym for a common noun. (whale-road for sea) | 19 | |
| 5801372832 | Litotes | a figure of speech by which an affirmation is made indirectly by saying its opposite, usually with an effect of understatement | 20 | |
| 5801375971 | Malapropism | comic substitution of one word for another similar in sound but quite different in meaning | 21 | |
| 5801376753 | Metonymy | figure of speech in which a representative term is used for a larger idea | 22 | |
| 5801379437 | Onomatopoeia | the use of words that seem to imitate the sounds they refer to (whack, crackle, etc...) | 23 | |
| 5801380569 | Oxymoron | a figure of speech in which two contradictory words or phrases combined in a single expression | 24 |
