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| 5949923181 | diction | the formality of the writer's language; considers writer's selection of words and phrases and sentence construction/syntax | 0 | |
| 5949936181 | repetition | A technique in which a sound, word, phrase, or line is repeated for emphasis or unity | 1 | |
| 5949940008 | apostrophe | A prayer like figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. It is an address to someone or something that cannot answer. The effect may add familiarity or emotional intensity. | 2 | |
| 5949949403 | pun | A play on words that wittily exploits a double meaning | 3 | |
| 5949958271 | stanza | A group of lines in a poem | 4 | |
| 5949962160 | deplore | to feel or express regret or disapproval | 5 | |
| 5949965839 | shun | to keep away from | 6 | |
| 5949969445 | perish | to die | 7 | |
| 5949969446 | hymn | A song or poem that praises God | 8 | |
| 5950003632 | subject | In rhetoric, the topic addressed in a piece of writing. | 9 | |
| 5950006280 | occasion | An aspect of context; the cause or reason for writing. | 10 | |
| 5950012199 | tone | A writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization on the sentence and global levels. | 11 | |
| 5950015558 | plot | A series of related events in a story, each connected to the next; a structure | 12 | |
| 5950015559 | character | A person in a story | 13 | |
| 5950017603 | point of view | The perspective from which a story is told | 14 | |
| 5950017604 | setting | The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs. | 15 | |
| 5950017605 | theme | A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work. | 16 | |
| 5959847129 | myopia | nearsightedness; lack of foresight | 17 | |
| 5959855969 | sharecropper | person who rents a plot of land from another person and farms it in exchange for a share of the crop | 18 | |
| 5959867370 | universal theme | A message about life that is expressed regularly in many different cultures and time periods | 19 | |
| 5978573904 | primary source | the literary work | 20 | |
| 5978583043 | secondary source | Commentary on, interpretations of, or discussions about original material | 21 |
