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| 6557170651 | Mood | similar to tone, it is the primary emotional attitude of a work (the feeling of the work; the atmosphere). Syntax is also a determiner of this term because sentence strength, length, and complexity affect pacing. | 0 | |
| 6557170652 | Moral | The lesson drawn from a fictional or nonfictional story. It can also mean a heavily didactic story. | 1 | |
| 6557170653 | Motif | main theme or subject of a work that is elaborated on in the development of the piece; a repeated pattern or idea | 2 | |
| 6557170654 | Narration | the telling of a story in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama; one of the four modes of discourse | 3 | |
| 6557170655 | Negative-Positive | Sentence that begins by stating what is NOT true, then ending by stating what is true. | 4 | |
| 6557170656 | Non-sequitur | Latin for "it does not follow." When one statement isn't logically connected to another | 5 | |
| 6557170657 | Objectivity | an impersonal presentation of events and characters. It is a writer's attempt to remove himself or herself from any subjective, personal involvement in a story. Hard news journalism is frequently prized for its objectivity, although even fictional stories can be told without a writer rendering personal judgment. | 6 | |
| 6557170658 | Onomatopoeia | the use of words that sound like what they mean, such as "hiss," "buzz," "slam," and "boom" | 7 | |
| 6557170659 | Oversimplification | When a writer obscures or denies the complexity of the issues in an argument | 8 | |
| 6557170660 | Oxymoron | a figure of speech composed of contradictory words or phrases, such as "wise fool," bitter-sweet," "pretty ugly," "jumbo shrimp," "cold fire" | 9 | |
| 6557170661 | Pacing | the movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another | 10 | |
| 6557170662 | Parable | a short tale that teaches a moral; similar to but shorter than an allegory | 11 | |
| 6557170663 | Paradox | a statement that seems to contradict itself but that turns out to have a rational meaning, as in this quotation from Henry David Thoreau; "I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude." | 12 | |
| 6557170664 | Parallelism | the technique of arranging words, phrases, clauses, or larger structures by placing them side by side and making them similar in form. Parallel structure may be as simple as listing two or three modifiers in a row to describe the same noun or verb; it may take the form of two or more of the same type of phrases (prepositional, participial, gerund, appositive) that modify the same noun or verb; it may also take the form of two or more subordinate clauses that modify the same noun or verb. Or, parallel structure may be a complex bend of singe-word, phrase, and clause parallelism all in the same sentence.Example (from Churchill): "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields." | 13 | |
| 6557170665 | Parody | a work that ridicules the style of another work by imitating and exaggerating its elements. . It can be utterly mocking or gently humorous. It depends on allusion and exaggerates and distorts the original style and content. | 14 | |
| 6557170666 | Pathos | an element in experience or in artistic representation evoking pity or compassion. Over-emotionalism can be the result of an excess of pathos. | 15 | |
| 6557170667 | Pedantic | a term used to describe writing that borders on lecturing. It is scholarly and academic and often overly difficult and distant | 16 | |
| 6557170668 | Personification | the attribution of human qualities to a nonhuman or an inanimate object | 17 | |
| 6557170669 | Persuasion | a form of argumentation, one of the four modes of discourse; language intended to convince through appeals to reason or emotion. | 18 | |
| 6557170670 | Point of View | the perspective from which a story is presented; common points of view include the following: | 19 |
