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| 2291342239 | devices of sound | the techniques of deploying the sound of words, especially in poetry (rhyme, alliteration, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia) | 0 | |
| 2291342240 | style | the characteristic manner of expression of an author; includes diction, syntax, figurative language, imagery, selection of detail, sound effects, and tone | 1 | |
| 2291342241 | point of view | any of several possible vantage points from which a story is told | 2 | |
| 2291342242 | theme | the main thought expressed by a work; meaning of the work as a whole | 3 | |
| 2291342243 | allusion | a reference in a work of literature to something outside of the work, especially to a well-known historical or literary even, person, or work | 4 | |
| 2291342244 | symbol | something that is simultaneously itself and a sign of something else. | 5 | |
| 2291342245 | simile | a comparison; a figure of speech comparing two objects usually using "like," "as," or "than" | 6 | |
| 2291342246 | rhetorical techniques | the devices used in effective or persuasive language, such as apostrophe, contrast, repetition, paradox, understatement, sarcasm, satire, and rhetorical | 7 | |
| 2291342247 | narrative techniques | 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) | 8 | |
| 2291342248 | diction | word choice, important to the meaning and the effect of the passage | 9 | |
| 2291342249 | figurative language | writing that uses figures of speech such as metaphor, simile, and irony | 10 | |
| 2291342250 | details | smaller items or parts making up a larger picture or story; as when describing a character or scene | 11 | |
| 2291342251 | structure | the arrangement of materials within a work; the logical division of a work | 12 | |
| 2291342252 | attitude | a speaker's, author's, or character's disposition toward or opinion of a subject or writing | 13 | |
| 2291342253 | setting | the background, physical location, or time and place to a story | 14 | |
| 2291342254 | imagery | the sensory details of a work; visual, auditory, or tactile images evoked by the words of a literary work or images evoked through figurative language (metaphors, similes, diction) | 15 | |
| 2291342255 | metaphor | a figurative use of language in which a comparison is expressed without the use of a comparitive term such as "like," "as," or "than" | 16 | |
| 2291342256 | tone | the manner in which an author expresses his or her attitude, intonation of the voice that expresses meaning. | 17 | |
| 2291342257 | irony | a situation or use of language involving some kind of incongruity or discrepancy. | 18 | |
| 2291342258 | syntax | the structure of a sentence; the arrangement of words in a sentence. | 19 | |
| 2291342259 | rhetorical strategy | the management of language for a specific effect such as in sonnets when Shakespeare spends the first nine lines describing the speaker's discontent, then three lines describing the happiness... | 20 | |
| 2291342260 | satire | writing that seeks to arouse a reader's disapproval of an object through ridicule | 21 | |
| 2291342261 | omniscient point of view | the vantage point of a story in which the narrator can know, see, and report whatever he or she chooses; free to describe the thoughts of any character, skip about in time or place, or speak directly to the reader | 22 | |
| 2291342262 | alliteration | the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words close to each other, i.e., Romagnano's Rubies of Redundant Rhetoric | 23 | |
| 2291342263 | resources of language | a general phrase for the linguistic devices or techniques that a writer uses; invites students to discuss the style and rhetoric of a passage through: diction, syntax, figurative language, imagery | 24 | |
| 2291342264 | apostrophe | usually (in poetry) the device of calling out to an imaginary, dead, or personified abstraction either to begin a poem or make a dramatic break absent person, or to a place or thing. | 25 | |
| 2291342265 | denotation | the basic dictionary definition of a word | 26 | |
| 2291342266 | allegory | an extended narrative in prose or verse (poetry) in which characters, events, and settings represent abstract qualities; (many connected metaphors); writer intends a second meaning beneath the surface story; may be moral, religious, political, social, or satiric | 27 | |
| 2291342267 | connotation | a word's overtones of meaning; what a word suggests beyond its dictionary definition | 28 | |
| 2291342268 | slant rhyme | words with any kind of sound similarity | 29 | |
| 2291342269 | synethesia | presentation of one sense experience in terms usually associated with another sensation (eg. "melodious ground") | 30 | |
| 2291342270 | catharsis | the emotional release that an audience member experiences as a result of watching a tragedy | 31 | |
| 2291342271 | classicism | the principles and styles admired in the classics of Greek and Roman literature, such as objectivity, sensibility, restraint, and formality | 32 | |
| 2291342272 | colloquialism | a word or phrase used in everyday conversation and informal writing | 33 | |
| 2291342273 | common meter | a closed poetic quatrain, rhyming abab, in which lines of iambic tetrameter alternate with iambic trimeter | 34 | |
| 2291342274 | caesura | a speech pause occurring within a line | 35 | |
| 2291342275 | Petrarchan sonnet | a fixed form poem of 14 lines, divided between eight lines called the octave, rhyming abbaabba, and six lines called the sestet (usually rhyming cdcdcd or cdecde) | 36 | |
| 2291342276 | enjambment | a line having no end punctuation but running over to the next line | 37 | |
| 2291342277 | epigram | a concise, witty saying in poetry or prose; either stands | 38 | |
| 2291342278 | versimilitude | a characteristic whereby the setting, circumstances, characters, dialogue, actions, and outcomes in a work are designed to seem true, life-like, real, plausible, and probable | 39 | |
| 2291342279 | loose | term for a sentence in which the main point is put at the beginning | 40 | |
| 2291342280 | exposition | immediate revelation to audience of setting or other background info necessary for understanding the plot; explanation; one of the four modes of discourse | 41 | |
| 2291342281 | prompt | in writing, the cue, suggestion, or reminder given to the student as instruction for the content of an essay. | 42 | |
| 2291342282 | malapropism | the comic use of an improperly pronounced word, so that what comes out is a real but also incorrect word. The new word must be close enough to the correct word so that the resemblance is immediately recognized, along with the error | 43 | |
| 2291342283 | sarcasm | bitter or cutting speech; speech intended to give pain to the person addressed | 44 | |
| 2291342284 | foil | a character, usually minor, designed to highlight qualities of a major character | 45 | |
| 2291342285 | plot | the plan or groundwork for a story, the arrangement or order of event | 46 | |
| 2291342286 | euphemism | an inoffensive expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive | 47 | |
| 2291342287 | antagonist | the person, idea, force, or general set of circumstances opposing the protagonist | 48 | |
| 2291342288 | stream of consciousness | a literary technique which seeks to describe an individual's point of view by giving the written equivalent of the character's thought processes | 49 | |
| 2291342289 | limited omniscient | a third person narration in which the thoughts and actions of the protagonist are the focus of attention | 50 | |
| 2291342290 | foreshadowing | the use of a hint or clue to suggest a larger event that occurs later in the work | 51 | |
| 2291342291 | objective point of view | third person narration reporting speech and action, but excluding commentary on the actions and thoughts of the character; also called dramatic | 52 | |
| 2291342292 | genre | a type of literary work, such as novel or poem | 53 | |
| 2291342293 | gothic | referring to a type of novel, 18th century, using mystery, suspense, and sensational and supernatural occurrences to evoke terror | 54 | |
| 2291342294 | omniscient | a third person narration in which the speaker or narrator, with no apparent limitations, may describe intentions, actions, reactions, locations, and speeches of any or all of the characters, and may also describe their innermost thoughts | 55 | |
| 2291342295 | humor | anything that causes laughter or amusement | 56 | |
| 2291342296 | hyperbole | deliberate exaggeration in order to create humor or emphasis | 57 | |
| 2291342297 | second person narration | a narration in which a listener ("you") is the protagonist and the speaker is someone with knowledge the protagonist does not possess or understand about his or her own actions | 58 | |
| 2291342298 | first person point of view | the use of an "I" speaker or narrator who tells about things that s/he has seen, done, spoken, heard, thought | 59 | |
| 2291342299 | pastiche | a medley of various ingredients, cobbled together from different works or writers | 60 | |
| 2291342300 | bildungsroman | a coming-of-age story, concerned with the education, development and maturation of a young protagonist | 61 | |
| 2291342301 | lyric | a type of melodious, imaginative, and subjective poetry that is usually short and personal, expressing the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker rather than telling a story | 62 | |
| 2291342302 | episodic novel | a narrative composed of loosely connected incidents, each one more or less self-contained, often connected by a central character or characters | 63 | |
| 2291342303 | metonymy | a figure of speech that uses the name of an object, person, or idea to represent something with which it is associated, such as using "the crown" to refer to a monarch | 64 | |
| 2291342304 | assonance | the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words | 65 | |
| 2291342305 | dynamic character | a character who undergoes adaptation, change, or growth. A short story usually has only one, but a novel may have several | 66 | |
| 2291342306 | static character | a character who undergoes no change | 67 | |
| 2291342307 | pseudonym | a fictitious name used by an author to hide identity; also called pen name | 68 | |
| 2291342308 | oxymoron | a figure of speech composed of contradictory words or phrases, such as "wise fool" | 69 | |
| 2291342309 | parable | a short tale that teaches a moral; may be found in The Bible | 70 | |
| 2291342310 | paradox | a statement or situation containing apparently contradictory or incompatible elements but that turns out to have a rational meaning | 71 | |
| 2291342311 | parallism | the technique of arranging words, phrases, clauses, or larger structures by placing them side to side and making them similar in form | 72 | |
| 2291342312 | parody | a work that ridicules the style of another work by imitating and exaggerating its elements | 73 | |
| 2291342313 | argument | one of the four modes of discourse; language intended to convince through appeals to reason or emotion | 74 | |
| 2291342314 | Shakespearean sonnet | a fourteen line poem composed of three quatrains and a concluding couplet, rhyming abab cdcd efef gg | 75 | |
| 2291342315 | protagonist | the main character of a literary work | 76 | |
| 2291342316 | realism | a 19th century literary movement in Europe and US that stressed accuracy in the portrayal of life, thus real life; focused on characters with whom middle-class readers could easily identify; in direct contrast with romanticism | 77 | |
| 2291342317 | end rhyme | repetition of accented vowel sound and all succeeding consonants at the conclusion of a line | 78 | |
| 2291342318 | speaker | the narrator of a story or poem, the point of view | 79 | |
| 2291342319 | romanticism | a literary, artistic, and philosophical movement that began in the 18th century as a reaction against neoclassicism | 80 | |
| 2291342320 | novel | a long work of prose fiction | 81 | |
| 2291342321 | sonnet | a fourteen line lyric poem in iambic pentameter | 82 | |
| 2291342322 | argument | the development of an idea, including the introduction of a hypothesis, supporting details, and logical conclusion | 83 | |
| 2291342323 | stanza | a group of lines in the formal pattern of a poem | 84 | |
| 2291342324 | suspension of disbelief | the demand made of a theater audience to provide some details with their imagination and to accept the limitations of reality and staging | 85 | |
| 2291342325 | voice | the way a written work conveys an author's attitude | 86 | |
| 2291342326 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent a whole, such as using "boards" to mean "a stage" | 87 | |
| 2291342327 | poetry | a literary genre that is foremost characterized by the rhythmical qualities of language | 88 | |
| 2291342328 | prose | writing lacking the formal structure of meter or rhyme, often considered to be representative of the patterns of normal speech | 89 | |
| 2291342329 | assertion | a sentence putting an idea (the subject) into operation (the predicate) necessary for both developing and understanding the idea | 90 | |
| 2291342330 | anaphora | the repetition of the same word or phrase throughout a work; the effect is to lend weight or emphasis | 91 | |
| 2291342331 | meaning | that which is to be understood in a work | 92 | |
| 2291342332 | description | the exposition of scenes, actions, attitudes, and feelings | 93 | |
| 2291342333 | dialect | language characteristics involving pronunciation | 94 | |
| 2291342334 | farce | an outlandish physical comedy | 95 | |
| 2291342335 | fiction | narratives based in the imagination of the author; one of three major genres of literature | 96 | |
| 2291342336 | flashback | a method of narration in which past events are introduced into present action | 97 | |
| 2291342337 | jargon | vocabulary exclusive or particular to a specific group | 98 | |
| 2291342338 | denouement | the final stage of plot development, in which mysteries are explained, characters find their destinies, and the work is completed. | 99 | |
| 2291342339 | sestina | highly structured poem with 39 lines, iambic pentameter, and repetitino of six words from first stanza in each of six stanzas | 100 | |
| 2291342340 | consonance | the repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words | 101 |
