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| 10859780405 | Diction | Word choice | 0 | |
| 10859780406 | Denotation | The dictionary definition of a word | 1 | |
| 10859783550 | Connotation | the implied or associative meaning of a word | 2 | |
| 10859827789 | Shift | indicate some type of change. usually the speaker's perspective | 3 | |
| 10859829851 | tone | emotional coloring of a work. Direct reflection of the speaker's attitude. Primarily diction | 4 | |
| 10859834002 | Mood | the feeling a reader gets from a story as a result of the tone | 5 | |
| 10859839760 | Simile | comparing two things using like or as | 6 | |
| 10859839761 | Metaphor | a direct comparison of two different things *Extended metaphor | 7 | |
| 10859841571 | Personification | the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea | 8 | |
| 10859846671 | imeragy | visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work. | 9 | |
| 10859846689 | syntax | The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. | 10 | |
| 10859850370 | Inversion | maintain rhyme but also emphasize a point | 11 | |
| 10859852102 | Enjambment | (run on line) one line ends without pause and must continue into the next line to complete the meaning | 12 | |
| 10859857293 | Caesura | A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line. | 13 | |
| 10859858893 | Elegy | contemplative poem, usually for someone who died | 14 | |
| 10859862265 | Lyric | a short poem expressing the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker | 15 | |
| 10859864396 | Ode | a form of poetry used to meditate on or address a single object or condition | 16 | |
| 10859865963 | Villanelle | A 19 line form using only two rhymes and repeating two of the lines according to a set pattern (5 tercets and 1 quatrain) | 17 | |
| 10859870832 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds | 18 | |
| 10859872778 | Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds | 19 | |
| 10859872779 | Consonance | Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity. | 20 | |
| 10859874554 | Onomatopeia | formation or use of words that imitate sounds of the actions they refer to | 21 | |
| 10859876001 | Rhyme | Repetition of sounds at the end of words | 22 | |
| 10859876002 | Free verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme | 23 | |
| 10859877814 | Internal Rhyme | A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line | 24 | |
| 10859879407 | Near Rhyme (Slant rhyme) | poetic license to rhyme works that do not quite sound the same. | 25 | |
| 10859882988 | Quatrain | A four line stanza | 26 | |
| 10859882989 | Couplet | rhyme aabb | 27 | |
| 10859885240 | Oxymoron | paradoxes made up of 2 seemingly contradictiory words | 28 | |
| 10859887579 | Parallel structure | repeating words and sounds | 29 | |
| 10859889188 | conflict | A struggle between opposing forces | 30 | |
| 10859890985 | exposition | Background information presented in a literary work. | 31 | |
| 10859893016 | rising action | Events leading up to the climax | 32 | |
| 10859893017 | Climax | Most exciting moment of the story; turning point | 33 | |
| 10859894651 | Falling action | Events after the climax, leading to the resolution | 34 | |
| 10859898095 | Denouement | an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot | 35 | |
| 10859899430 | In media res | in the middle of things | 36 | |
| 10859899433 | flashback | a scene in a movie, novel, etc., set in a time earlier than the main story. | 37 | |
| 10859900590 | foreshadowing | A narrative device that hints at coming events; often builds suspense or anxiety in the reader. | 38 | |
| 10859901616 | protagonist | main character | 39 | |
| 10859901617 | antagonist | A character or force in conflict with the main character | 40 | |
| 10859904661 | Bildungsroman | A coming of age story | 41 | |
| 10859904662 | round character | A character who demonstrates some complexity and who develops or changes in the course of a work | 42 | |
| 10859906015 | flat character | A character who embodies a single quality and who does not develop in the course of a story | 43 | |
| 10859906016 | foil character | a character's whose main purpose is to highlight the strengths of another character | 44 | |
| 10859907291 | Stock character | a stereotypical character | 45 | |
| 10859909562 | Characterization | the process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character | 46 | |
| 10859909563 | Direct | straightforward and honest | 47 | |
| 10859912639 | indirect | not directly caused by or resulting from something. | 48 | |
| 10859914159 | historical context | the historical period that shapes a work of literature and allows the reader to understand important issues in a given time period | 49 | |
| 10859914160 | cultural environment | institutions and other forces that affect society's basic values, perceptions, preferences, and behaviors | 50 | |
| 10859915853 | narrative voice | the attitude, personality or character of the narrator as it is revealed through dialogue or descriptive and narrative commentary | 51 | |
| 10859915854 | first person | the narrator is a character in the story | 52 | |
| 10859917491 | unreliable narrator | a narrator whose account of events appears to be faulty, misleadingly biased, or otherwise distorted | 53 | |
| 10859919602 | third person omniscient | the narrator knows all of the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in a work | 54 | |
| 10859919604 | third person limited | Narrator sees the world through only one characters eyes and thoughts. | 55 | |
| 10859923632 | objective narrator | recounts only what characters say and do, offering no insight or judgement into their thinking or analysis of events | 56 | |
| 10859924941 | symbol | A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract. | 57 | |
| 10859926336 | allegory | A literary work in which characters, objects, or actions represent abstractions | 58 | |
| 10859928458 | Theme | 1) subject and theme are not the same 2) Avoid cliches 3) Do not ignore contradictory details 4) Theme is not a moral 5) Literary work almost always has more than one theme | 59 |
