4795801772 | Syntax | - the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language | 0 | |
4795803370 | Denotation | - the literal or primary meaning of a word | 1 | |
4795804556 | Connotation | - an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning | 2 | |
4795805176 | Allusion | - an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly | 3 | |
4795805736 | Quatrain | - a stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes | 4 | |
4795808850 | Miasma | - an oppressive or unpleasant atmosphere that surrounds or emanates from something | 5 | |
4802032454 | Authorial | - belonging or relating to the author of the book | 6 | |
4802034734 | Villanelle | - a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain | 7 | |
4802036983 | Canon | - the works of a particular author or artist that are recognized as genuine | 8 | |
4802038515 | Archetype | - a very typical example of a certain person or thing | 9 | |
4802040095 | Allegory | - a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one | 10 | |
4802063447 | Imagery | - visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work | 11 | |
4802064877 | Tone | - the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc. | 12 | |
4802064878 | Diction | - the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing | 13 | |
4802066723 | Antithesis | - meaning "opposite"; is a rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect | 14 | |
4802067612 | Apostrophe | - author detaches from the reality and addresses an imaginary character in his speech | 15 | |
4802068356 | Oxymoron | - a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction | 16 | |
4802069112 | Paradox | - a statement that, despite apparently sound reasoning from true premises, leads to a self-contradictory or a logically unacceptable conclusion | 17 | |
4802070170 | Pun | - a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings | 18 | |
4802071102 | Attitude | - perspective or tone of the writer in a certain work | 19 | |
4802071103 | Shift | - a change in a mood or attitude that is typically accompanied by a corresponding change in the focus and language of a literary scene, passage, or theme | 20 | |
4802074164 | Irony | - the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect | 21 | |
4825987932 | Encoded | - to convey symbolically | 22 |
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