Terms : Hide Images
| 8474497972 | Allegory | Using character or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning | 0 | |
| 8474497973 | Ambiguity | The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage. | 1 | |
| 8474497974 | Antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. | 2 | |
| 8474497975 | Aphorism | A terse statement of known authorship which express a general truth or a moral principle | 3 | |
| 8474497976 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech wherein the speaker speaks directly to something nonhuman | 4 | |
| 8474497977 | Chiasmus | An ABBA syntactical structure | 5 | |
| 8474497978 | colloquial | the use of slang or informalities in speech or writing | 6 | |
| 8474497979 | Conceit | A fanciful, particularly clever extended metaphor | 7 | |
| 8474497980 | Connotation | The non-literal, associative meaning of a word; the implied, suggested meaning. | 8 | |
| 8474497981 | Denotation | The strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word, devoid of any emotion, attitude, or color. | 9 | |
| 8474497982 | Diction | Related to style, refers to the writer's word choice | 10 | |
| 8474497983 | Didactic | From the Greek, didactic literally means "teaching." | 11 | |
| 8474497984 | Ellipsis | Three dots that indicate words have been left out of a quotation | 12 | |
| 8474497985 | Euphism | From the Greek for "good speech" | 13 | |
| 8474497986 | Inference | To draw a reasonable conclusion from the information presented | 14 | |
| 8474497987 | malapropism | A wonderful form of word play in which one word is mistakenly substituted for another that sounds familiar | 15 | |
| 8474497988 | Metonymy | A term from the Greek meaning "changed label" | 16 | |
| 8474497989 | Narrative | The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events. | 17 | |
| 8474497990 | non sequitur | This Latin phrase means "it does not follow"; i.e., that an argument is invalid. | 18 | |
| 8474497991 | Parentheticals | Phrases, sentences, and words inside parentheses | 19 | |
| 8474497992 | Parody | A work which imitates another in a ridiculous manner | 20 | |
| 8474497993 | Pedantic | An adjective that describes words, phrases, or general tone that is overly scholarly | 21 | |
| 8474497994 | point of view | the perspective from which a story is told | 22 | |
| 8474497995 | Rhetorical shift | This occurs when the author of an essay significantly alters his or her diction, syntax, or both. | 23 | |
| 8474497996 | Sarcasm | From the Greek meaning " to tear flesh" | 24 | |
| 8474497997 | Satire | A work that targets human vices and follies | 25 | |
| 8474497998 | Semantics | The branch of linguistics that studies the meaning on words, their historical and psychological development | 26 | |
| 8474497999 | Syllogism | From the Greek for "reckoning together" | 27 | |
| 8474498000 | Symbol | Generally, anything that represents itself and stands for something else. | 28 | |
| 8474498001 | Syntax | The way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences. | 29 | |
| 8474498002 | Theme | The central idea or message of a work, the insight it offers into life | 30 | |
| 8474498003 | Tone | Similar to mood, it describes the author's attitude toward his material, the audience, or both. | 31 | |
| 8474498004 | unreliable narrator | an untrustworthy or naive commentator on events and characters in a story | 32 | |
| 8474498005 | Zeugma | A trope, one word (usually a noun or main verb) governs two another words not related in meaning | 33 |
