| 4229504652 | allusion | a reference in a work of literature to something outside the work, especially to a well-konwn historical or literary event, person, or work | | 0 |
| 4229508492 | attitude | a speaker's, author's, or character's disposition toward or opinion of a subject | | 1 |
| 4229511529 | details | items or parts that make up a larger picture or story | | 2 |
| 4229514969 | devices of sound | the techniques of deploying the sound of words, especially in poetry | | 3 |
| 4229521183 | diction | word choice | | 4 |
| 4229524461 | figurative language | uses words to mean something other than their literal meaning | | 5 |
| 4229526882 | imagery | the images, sensory details, or figurative language of a work. The visual, auditory, or tactile images evoked by the words of a literary work or the images that figurative language evokes | | 6 |
| 4229533250 | irony | a figure of speech in which intent and actual meaning differ, characteristically praise for blame or blame for praise; a pattern of words that turns away from direct statement of its own obvious meaning; discrepancy | | 7 |
| 4229539390 | metaphor | a figurative use of language in which a comparison is expressed without the use of a comparative term like "as," "like," or "than" | | 8 |
| 4229542672 | narrative techniques | the methods involved in telling a story; the procedures used by a write of stories or accounts | | 9 |
| 4229545484 | omniscient point of view | the vantage point of a story in which the narrator can know, see, and report whatever he or she chooses | | 10 |
| 4229549015 | point of view | any of several possible vantage points from which a story is told | | 11 |
| 4229550442 | resources of language | a general phrase for the linguistic devices or techniques that a writer can use | | 12 |
| 4229552580 | symbol | something that is simultaneously itself and a sign of something else | | 13 |
| 4229555339 | syntax | the structure of a sentence; the arrangement of words in a sentence | | 14 |
| 4229557435 | theme | the main thought expressed by a work | | 15 |
| 4229559189 | tone | the manner in which an author expresses his or her attitude; the intonation of the voice that expresses meaning. Described by adjectives, and the possibilities are nearly endless | | 16 |
| 4229564974 | allegory | a story in which people, things, and events have another meaning | | 17 |
| 4229566975 | ambiguity | multiple meanings as a literary work may communicate, especially two meanings that are incompatible | | 18 |
| 4229569260 | apostrophe | direct adress, usually to someone or something that is not present | | 19 |
| 4229572430 | connotation | the implications of a word or phrase, as opposed to its exact meaning | | 20 |
| 4229575441 | convention | a device of style or subject matter so often used that it becomes a recognized means of expressions. (Ex. a lover observing the literary love connections cannot ear or sleep and grows pale and lean. Romeo, at the beginning of the play, is a conventional lover, while an overweight lover in Chaucer is consciously mocking the convention | | 21 |
| 4229585870 | denotation | the dictionary meaning of a word | | 22 |
| 4229587868 | didactic | explicitly instructive (can be good or bad) | | 23 |
| 4229589288 | digression | the use of material unrelated to the subject of a work | | 24 |
| 4229591015 | epigram | a pithy saying, often using contrast. The epigram is also a verse form, usually brief and pointed | | 25 |
| 4229594751 | euphemism | a figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness, such as "deceased" for "dead" | | 26 |
| 4229600570 | grotesque | characterized by distortions or incongruities | | 27 |
| 4229602626 | hyperbole | deliberate exaggeration or overstatement. As a rule, it is self-conscious without the intent of being accepted literally | | 28 |
| 4229607221 | jargon | the special language of a profession or group. Usually has pejorative associations, with the implication that jargon is evasive, tedious, and unintelligible to outsiders | | 29 |
| 4229613264 | literal | not figurative, accurate to the letter; matter of fact or concrete | | 30 |
| 4229615232 | lyrical | songlike; characterized by emotion, subjectivity, and imagination | | 31 |
| 4229617397 | oxymoron | a combination of opposites; the union of contradictory terms | | 32 |
| 4229619685 | parable | a story designed to suggest a principle, illustrate a moral, or answer a question. Allegorical stories. | | 33 |
| 4229621818 | paradox | a statement that seems to be self-contradicting but, in fact, is true | | 34 |
| 4229625525 | parody | a composition that imitates the style of another composition normally for comic effect | | 35 |
| 4229627721 | personification | a figurative use of language that endows the nonhuman (ideas, inanimate objects, animals, abstractions) with human characteristics | | 36 |
| 4229630944 | reliability | a quality of some fictional narrators whose word the reader can trust | | 37 |
| 4229634163 | rhetorical question | a question asked for effect, not in expectation of a reply. No reply is expected because the question presupposes only one possible answer | | 38 |
| 4229639977 | soliloquy | a speech in which a character who is alone speaks his or her thoughts aloud. A monologue also has a single speaker, but the monologist speaks to others who do not interrupt | | 39 |
| 4229643776 | stereotype | a conventional pattern, expression, character, or idea | | 40 |
| 4229646432 | syllogism | a form of reason in which two statements are made and a conclusion is drawn from them. Begins with a major premise ("all tragedies end unhappily"), followed by a minor premise ("Hamlet is a tragedy"), and ending with a conclusion ("Hamlet ends unhappily") | | 41 |
| 4229654346 | thesis | the theme, meaning, or position that a writer undertakes to prove or support | | 42 |
| 4229659068 | alliteration | the repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds, normally at the beginning of words | | 43 |
| 4229662263 | assonance | the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds | | 44 |
| 4229664031 | ballad meter | a four-line stanza rhymed abcb with four feet in lines on and three and three feet in lines two and four | | 45 |
| 4229667470 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | | 46 |
| 4229668675 | dactyl | a metrical foot of three syllables, an accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables | | 47 |
| 4229673381 | end-stopped | a line with a pause at the end. Lines that end with a period, comma, semicolon, exclamation point, or question mark are this | | 48 |
| 4229676846 | free verse | poetry which is not written in a traditional meter but is still rhythmical | | 49 |
| 4229679883 | heroic couplet | two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, cc with the thought usually completed in the two-line unit | | 50 |
| 4229682959 | hexameter | a line containing six feet | | 51 |
| 4229682961 | iamb | a two-syllable for with an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable. The most common foot in English poetry | | 52 |
| 4229686931 | internal rhyme | rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end | | 53 |
| 4229688779 | onomatopoeia | the use of words whose sound suggests their meaning | | 54 |
| 4229690449 | pentameter | a line containing five feet, the most common line in English verse written before 1950 | | 55 |
| 4229692185 | rhyme royal | a seven-line stanza of iambic pentameter rhymed ababbcc, used by Chaucer and other medieval poets | | 56 |
| 4229698324 | sonnet | normally a fourteen-line iambic pentameter poem | | 57 |
| 4229702386 | Italian sonnet | rhymed abba, abba, cde, cde | | 58 |
| 4229704755 | Petrachan sonnet | rhymed abba, abba, cde, cde | | 59 |
| 4229706294 | English sonnet | rhymed abab, cdcd, efef, gg | | 60 |
| 4229708657 | Shakespearean sonnet | rhymed abab, cdcd, efef, gg | | 61 |
| 4229710432 | stanza | usually a repeated grouping of there or more lines with the same meter and rhyme scheme | | 62 |
| 4229713014 | terza rima | a three-line stanza rhymed aba, abcb, cdc | | 63 |
| 4229714707 | tetrameter | a line of four feet | | 64 |
| 4229722041 | antecedent | that which goes before, especially the word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers (ex. in "the witches cast their spells," it (of their) is "witches") | | 65 |
| 4229730301 | clause | a group of words containing a subject and its verb that may or may not be a complete sentence | | 66 |
| 4229732507 | ellipsis | the omission of a word or several words necessary for a complete construction that is still understandable | | 67 |
| 4229735961 | imperative | the mood of a verb that gives an order | | 68 |
| 4229737252 | modify | to restrict or limit in meaning (ex. "large, shaggy dog;" "large" and "shaggy" do this) | | 69 |
| 4229744475 | parallel structure | a similar grammatical structure within a sentence or within a paragraph | | 70 |
| 4229748603 | periodic sentence | a sentence grammatically complete only at the end. Put the important idea at the end | | 71 |
| 4229750147 | loose sentence | a sentence grammatically complete before the period. Put the important idea first | | 72 |
| 4229756381 | syntax | the structure of a sentence | | 73 |
