| 2676930275 | Allegory | Device using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning. An author may intend the characters to personify an abstraction like hope or freedom. | | 0 |
| 2676930276 | Alliteration | The repetition of sounds, especially initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words (as in "she sells sea shells"). | | 1 |
| 2676930277 | Allusion | A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art. | | 2 |
| 2676930278 | Ambiguity | The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage. | | 3 |
| 2676930279 | Analogy | A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them. Can explain something unfamiliar by associating it with or pointing out its similarity to something more familiar. | | 4 |
| 2676930280 | Antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause that a demonstrative pronoun replaces | | 5 |
| 2676930281 | Aphorism | A terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle. (If the authorship is unknown, the statement is generally considered to be a folk proverb.) An aphorism can be a memorable summation of the author's point | | 6 |
| 2676930282 | 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. William Wordsworth addresses John Milton as he writes, "Milton, thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need of thee." Another example is Keats' "Ode to a Grecian Urn," in which Keats addresses the urn itself: rarely on an AP exam, but important when there. ALWAYS Pathos | | 7 |
| 2676930283 | Atmosphere | The emotional nod created by the entirety of a literary work, established partly by the setting and partly by the author's choice of objects that are described. Even such elements as a description of the weather can contribute to the atmosphere. Frequently atmosphere foreshadows events. Perhaps it can create a mood. | | 8 |
| 2676930284 | Caricature | a verbal description, the purpose of which is to exaggerate or distort, for comic effect, a person's distinctive physical features or other characteristics. Example: The pupils of her eyes are small; like a pebble of sand floating atop a can of blue paint. | | 9 |
| 2676930285 | Clause | A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb. An independent, or main, clause expresses a complete thought and can stand alone as a sentence. A dependent, or subordinate clause, cannot stand alone as a sentence and must be accompanied by an independent clause. The point that you want to consider is the question of what or why the author subordinates one element should also become aware of making effective use of subordination in your own writing. | | 10 |
| 2676930286 | Colloquial/Colloquialism | The use of slang or informalities in speech or writing. Not generally acceptable for formal writing, give a work a conversational, familiar tone. | | 11 |
| 2676930287 | Literary Conceit | A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects Displays intellectual cleverness through unusual comparisons that make good sense | | 12 |
| 2676930288 | Connotation | The non-literal, associative meaning of a word; the implied, suggested meaning. May involve ideas, emotions or attitudes | | 13 |
| 2676930289 | Denotation | The strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word, devoid of any emotion, attitude, or color. | | 14 |
| 2676930290 | Diction | Related to style, the writer's word choices, especially with regard to their correctness, clearness, or effectiveness. | | 15 |
| 2676930291 | Didactic | Have the primary aim of teaching or instructing,especially the teaching of moral or ethical principles. | | 16 |
| 2676930292 | Euphemism | From the Greek for "good speech," are a more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept - POLITICALLY CORRECT | | 17 |
| 2676930293 | Extended Metaphor | A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work. | | 18 |
| 2676930294 | Figurative Language | Writing or speech that is not intended to carry literal meaning and is usually meant to be imaginative and vivid | | 19 |
| 2676930295 | Figure of speech | A device used to produce figurative language. Many compare dissimilar things. | | 20 |
| 2676930296 | Genre | The major category into which a literary work fits. | | 21 |
| 2676930297 | Homily | This term literally means "sermon," but more informally, it can include any serious talk, speech, or lecture involving moral or spiritual advice. | | 22 |
| 2676930298 | Hyperbole | A figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement. | | 23 |
| 2676930299 | Imagery | The sensory details or figurative language used to describe, arouse emotion, or represent abstractions. | | 24 |
| 2676930300 | Inference/infer | To draw a reasonable conclusion from the information presented. | | 25 |
| 2676930301 | Invective | an emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language. | | 26 |
| 2676930302 | Irony/ironic | The contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant, or the difference between what appears to be and what is actually true. | | 27 |
| 2676930303 | Litotes | a form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite. | | 28 |
| 2676930304 | Metaphor | A figure of speech using implied comparison of seemingly unlike things or the substitution of one for the other, suggesting some similarity. | | 29 |
| 2676930305 | Metonymy | a figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it. | | 30 |
| 2676930306 | Mood | The prevailing atmosphere or emotional aura of a work. Setting, tone, and events can affect the mood. Mood is similar to tone and atmosphere. | | 31 |
| 2676930307 | Narrative | The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events. | | 32 |
| 2676930308 | onomatopoeia | A figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words. | | 33 |
| 2676930309 | Oxymoron | is a figure of speech wherein the author groups apparently contradictory terms to suggest a paradox. | | 34 |
| 2676930310 | Parallelism | Also referred to as parallel construction or parallel structure, this term comes from Greek roots meaning "beside one another." | | 35 |
| 2676930311 | Parody | A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule. | | 36 |
| 2676930312 | Pedantic | An adjective that describes words, phrases, or general tone that is overly scholarly, academic, or bookish | | 37 |
| 2676930313 | Periodic sentence | The opposite of loose sentence, a sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end. | | 38 |
| 2676930314 | Personification | A figure of speech in which the author presents or describes concepts, animals, or inanimate objects by endowing them with human attributes or emotions. | | 39 |
| 2676930315 | Point of view | In literature, the perspective from which a story is told. | | 40 |
| 2676930316 | Prose | one of the major divisions of genre, refers to fiction and nonfiction, including all its forms. | | 41 |
| 2676930317 | Repetition | The duplication, either exact or approximate, of any element of language, such as a sound, word, phrase, clause, sentence, or grammatical pattern. | | 42 |
| 2676930318 | Rhetoric | the principles governing the art of writing effectively, eloquently, and persuasively. | | 43 |
| 2676930319 | Sarcasm | involves bitter, caustic language that is meant to hurt or ridicule someone or something. | | 44 |
| 2676930320 | Satire | A work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule. | | 45 |
| 2676930321 | Symbol/symbolism | Generally, anything that represents itself and stands for something else. | | 46 |
| 2676930322 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent the whole or, occasionally, the whole is used to represent a part. | | 47 |
| 2676930323 | Synesthesia | when one kind of sensory stimulus evokes the subjective experience of another. | | 48 |
| 2676930324 | Syntax | The way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences. | | 49 |
| 2676930325 | Theme | The central idea or message of a work, the insight it offers into life. | | 50 |
| 2676930326 | Tone | the author's attitude toward his material, the audience, or both. | | 51 |
| 2676930327 | Wit | in modern usage, intellectually amusing language that surprises and delights. | | 52 |
| 2676930328 | Appositive | Noun Phrase..modifies the noun set next to it., A noun or noun substitute that is placed directly next to the noun it is describing: My student, Sidney, makes me want to retire. | | 53 |
| 2676930329 | Gerund | a verb ending in 'ing' to serve as a noun - 'Stabbing (used as a noun) is what i do said the thief.' | | 54 |
| 2676930330 | Malapropism | a word humorously misused | | 55 |
| 2676930331 | Parallelism (parallel syntax) | a pattern of language that creates a rhythm of repetition often combined with some other language of repetition. | | 56 |
| 2676930332 | Active Voice | The opposite of passive voice, essentially any sentence with an active verb. | | 57 |
| 2676930333 | Epistrophe | A minor device, the ending of a series of lines, phrases, clauses, or sentences with the same word or words. When it appears in speech or essay, it is emotionally potent. | | 58 |
| 2676930334 | Etymology | The study of the origin of words and their historical uses. | | 59 |
| 2676930335 | Fallacy | A failure of logical reasoning. | | 60 |
| 2676930336 | Inductive | A form of logical argumentation that requires the use of examples. | | 61 |
| 2676930337 | Jargon | A pattern of speech and vocabulary associated with a particular group of people. | | 62 |
| 2676930338 | Logos | An appeal to reason. | | 63 |
| 2676930339 | Non Sequitur | This literally means "it does not follow" an argument by misdirection and is logically irrelevant. | | 64 |
| 2676930340 | Passive Voice | Th opposite of active voice | | 65 |
| 2676930341 | Pathos | An appeal to emotion. | | 66 |
| 2676930342 | Polysyndeton | The use of consecutive coordinating conjunctions even when they are not needed. | | 67 |
| 2676930343 | Red Herring | An argument that distracts the reader by raising issues irrelevant to the case. It is like being given too many suspects in a murder mystery. | | 68 |
| 2676930344 | Rhetorical Question | A question whose answer is assumed | | 69 |
| 2676930345 | Rhetorical Shift | This occurs when the author of an essay significantly alters his or hers diction, syntax, or both. | | 70 |
| 2676930346 | Smile | when what is unknown is compared to something that is known using the word "like," "as," or "than" | | 71 |
| 2676930347 | Simple Sentence | An independent clause. It has a subject and a verb, and that's pretty much it. The giant chopped down the bean tree. | | 72 |
| 2676930348 | synthesis | To unite a variety of sources to achieve a common end. | | 73 |
| 2676930349 | Thesis | The writer's statement of purpose. | | 74 |
| 2676930350 | Zeugma | A minor device in which two or more elements in a sentence are tied together by the same verb or noun. | | 75 |
| 2676930351 | ad hominem argument | An argument attacking an individual's character rather than his or her position on an issue | | 76 |
| 2676930352 | apotheosis | deification, glorification to godliness, the perfect example | | 77 |
| 2676930353 | carpe diem | "Seize the day"; a Latin phrase implying that one must live for the present moment, for tomorrow may be too late. | | 78 |
| 2676930354 | chiasmus | A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed | | 79 |
| 2676930355 | catharsis | an emotional cleansing, am emotional cleansing or purging, | | 80 |
| 2676930356 | cliche | A worn-out idea or overused expression | | 81 |
| 2676930357 | epiphany | A moment of sudden revelation or insight | | 82 |
| 2676930358 | hubris | Excessive pride or self-confidence | | 83 |
| 2676930359 | in medias res | A Latin term for a narrative that starts not at the beginning of events but at some other critical point. | | 84 |
| 2676930360 | motif | (n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design | | 85 |
| 2676930361 | stream of consciousness | a style of writing that portrays the inner (often chaotic) workings of a character's mind. | | 86 |
| 2676930362 | caesura | A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line. | | 87 |
| 2676930363 | cacophony | (n) harsh-sounding mixture of words, voices, or sounds | | 88 |
| 2676930364 | euphony | A succession of harmonious sounds used in poetry or prose; the opposite of cacophony. | | 89 |
| 2676930365 | anecdote | A short account of an interesting or humorous incident | | 90 |
| 2676930366 | anthropomorphism | attributing human characteristics to an animal or inanimate object (Personification) | | 91 |
| 2676930367 | antihero | A protagonist (main character) who is markedly unheroic: morally weak, cowardly, dishonest, or any number of other unsavory qualities. | | 92 |
| 2676930368 | archaism | A word, expression, spelling, or phrase that is out of date in the common speech of an era, but still deliberately used by a writer, poet, or playwright for artistic purposes | | 93 |
| 2676930369 | archetype | A detail, image, or character type that occurs frequently in literature and myth and is thought to appeal in a universal way to the unconscious and to evoke a response | | 94 |
| 2676930370 | burlesque | ludicrous parody or grotesque caricature; humorous and provocative stage show | | 95 |
| 2676930371 | enjambment | A line having no pause or end punctuation but having uninterrupted grammatical meaning continuing into the next line. | | 96 |
| 2676930372 | foreshadowing | A narrative device that hints at coming events; often builds suspense or anxiety in the reader. | | 97 |
| 2676930373 | simile | A comparison using like or as | | 98 |
| 2676930374 | nemesis | (Greek mythology) the goddess of divine retribution and vengeance | | 99 |
| 2676930375 | pastoral | 1. concerned with the countryside, 2. concerned with the care a pastor gives to someone | | 100 |
| 2676930376 | slant | A rhyme based on imperfect or incomplete correspondence of end syllable sounds. Synonymous with " imperfect", "off" or "near" rhyme. | | 101 |
| 2676930377 | elegy | a sorrowful poem or speech | | 102 |
| 2676930378 | Pun | play on words that sound the same but mean something different (son/sun) | | 103 |
| 2676930379 | bathos | A false or forced emotion that is often humorous. | | 104 |
| 2676930380 | assonance | Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity | | 105 |
| 2676930381 | foil | A character who is in most ways opposite to the main character (protagonist) or one who is nearly the same as the protagonist. The purpose of the foil character is to emphasize the traits of the main character by contrast only | | 106 |
| 2676930382 | implicit | (adj.) implied or understood though unexpressed; without doubts of reservations, unquestioning; potentially contained in | | 107 |
| 2676930383 | soliloquy | A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener. | | 108 |
| 2676930384 | requiem | A song of prayer for the dead. | | 109 |
| 2676930385 | prelude | An introductory poem to a longer work of verse | | 110 |
| 2676930386 | epigram | A concise but ingenious, witty, and thoughtful statement. | | 111 |
| 2676930387 | verisimilitude | Similar to truth; quality of realism in a work that persuades the reader that he is getting a vision of life as is. | | 112 |
| 2676930388 | melodrama | A literary form in which events are exaggerated in order to create an extreme emotional response. | | 113 |
| 2676930389 | Anachronism | something or someone out of place in terms of historical or chronological context | | 114 |
| 2676930390 | neologism | a new word, expression, or usage; the creation or use of new words or senses | | 115 |
| 2676930391 | chorus | A group of characters in Greek tragedy (and in later forms of drama), who comment on the action of a play without participation in it. | | 116 |
| 2676930392 | grotesque | Commonly used to denote aberrations from the norm of harmony, balance and proportion. Characterized by distortion, exaggeration, absurd, or the bizarre. | | 117 |
| 2676930393 | Macabre | (adj.) grisly, gruesome; horrible, distressing; having death as a subject | | 118 |
| 2676930394 | Anaphora | A rhetorical figure of repetition in which the same word or phrase is repeated in (and usually at the beginning of) successive lines, clauses, or sentences. | | 119 |
| 2676930395 | Antithesis | An opposition or contrast of ideas. Balancing words, phrases, or ideas that are strongly contrasted, often by means of grammatical structure. | | 120 |
| 2676930396 | Apotheosis | Elevation to divine status; the perfect example of something. Making a God of something or someone. | | 121 |
| 2676930397 | Asyndeton | Commas used (with no conjunction) to separate a series of words. The parts are emphasized equally when the conjunction is omitted; in addition, the use of commas with no intervening conjunction speeds up the flow of the sentence. Asyndeton takes the form of X, Y, Z as opposed to X, Y, and Z. | | 122 |
| 2676930398 | Attitude | A speaker's, author's, or character's disposition toward or opinion of a subject. | | 123 |
| 2676930399 | Cliche | A worn-out idea or overused expression. | | 124 |
| 2676930400 | coherence | Marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts. | | 125 |
| 2676930401 | concrete | Capable of being perceived by the senses. | | 126 |
| 2676930402 | Deduction | A form of reasoning that begins with a generalization, then applies the generalization to a specific case or cases. | | 127 |
| 2676930403 | Dominant Expression | Precisely and clearly expressed or readily observable. | | 128 |
| 2676930404 | Elegiac | Expressing sorrow or lamentation; a work that has a mournful quality. | | 129 |
| 2676930405 | Paradox | Seemingly contradictory but nonetheless possibly true statement. | | 130 |
| 2676930406 | Ethos | Appeals to an audience's sense of ethics/morality/trust; Achieved by projecting an image of credibility which supports the speaker's position. | | 131 |
| 2676930407 | Idiom | An expression that cannot be understood if taken literally. | | 132 |
| 2676930408 | Image | A mental image produced by the imagination. | | 133 |
| 2676930409 | Induction | A method of reasoning by which a rhetor collects a number of instances and forms a generalization that is meant to apply to all instances. | | 134 |
| 2676930410 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts. | | 135 |
| 2676930411 | Metonomy | A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated (such as crown for royalty). | | 136 |
| 2676930412 | Understatement | A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means; the opposite of exaggeration. | | 137 |
| 2676930413 | Monosyllabic | Having or characterized by or consisting of one syllable. | | 138 |
| 2676930414 | Polysyllabic | Having or characterized by words of more than three syllables. | | 139 |
| 2676930415 | Slang | Informal language consisting of words and expressions that are not considered appropriate for formal occasions | | 140 |
| 2676930416 | Slant | A biased way of looking at or presenting something. | | 141 |
| 2676930417 | Syllogism | A FORM OF DEDUCTIVE REASONING THAT HAS A MAJOR PREMISE, A MINOR PREMISE, AND A CONCLUSION. | | 142 |
| 2676930418 | Tension | A feeling of excitement and expectation the reader or audience feels because of the conflict, mood, or atmosphere of the work. | | 143 |
| 2676930419 | Macabre | Grisly, gruesome; horrible, distressing; having death as a subject. | | 144 |
| 2676930420 | Grotesque | Commonly employed to denote aberrations from the norm of harmony, balance, and proportion. Characterized by distortion, exaggeration, or striking incongruities. Also characterized as the absurd, distorted or the bizarre. | | 145 |
| 2676930421 | Absurd | Extremely ridiculous or completely lacking reason; unreasonable or foolish. | | 146 |
