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7080543390	allegory (n)	a story where the characters and settings are abstract and there is an underlying meaning to the story	0
7080543391	Alliteration	Repetition of consonant sounds	1
7080543392	Allusion	A reference to another work of literature, person, or event	2
7080543393	Anachronism (noun)	a person, thing, idea, or custom that seems to belong to a different time in history	3
7080543394	analogy (n)	a comparison between things that are alike in some ways	4
7080543395	anaphora definition	repetition of same word/phrase at the beginning of consecutive phrases/clauses	5
7080543396	Anecdote	A brief narrative that focuses on a particular incident or event.	6
7080543397	annotation (n)	a critical or explanatory note or comment, especially for a literary work	7
7080543398	antecedent	a noun that a later pronoun refers to	8
7080543399	Antimetabole	The repetition of words in an inverted order to sharpen a contrast. ( are you working hard or hardly working? )	9
7080543400	antithesis	an opposite structure used to show contrast between ideas	10
7080543401	Aphorism	A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life.	11
7080543402	Apostrophe	address to an absent or imaginary person, place, thing or personified abstraction	12
7080543403	Appeal to authority (ethos) credibility	uses an authority figure to support a position, idea, argument, or course of action	13
7080543404	appeal to emotion (pathos)	rhetorical persuasive argument where the speaker plays on the emotions of the audience	14
7080543405	appeal to logic (logos)	rhetorical persuasive argument where the speaker appeals to audiences reason by providing facts and evidence	15
7080543406	appositive	A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun	16
7080543407	archaic diction	The use of words common to an earlier time period; antiquated language.	17
7080543408	Argument by analogy	a comparison of two similar situations, implying that the outcome of one will resemble the outcome if the other	18
7080543409	Argumentation	to persuade an audience about a debatable issue using ethos, pathos, and logos supported by evidence and organization	19
7080543410	aristotellian triangle	shows rhetorical situation as the relationship of the speaker, subject, and audience	20
7080543411	Assertion	a declaration or statement	21
7080543412	assonance (n)	the repetition of similar vowel sounds in the stressed syllables of successive words	22
7080543413	assumption	A belief or statement taken for granted without proof.	23
7080543414	asyndeton	Leaving out conjunctions between words, phrases, clauses.	24
7080543415	atmosphere	The emotional mood created by a literary work (also called mood)	25
7080543416	attitude	a speakers position on a subject revealed through tone	26
7080543417	attribution	the referring of a work to a particular author or artist	27
7080543418	audience	the reader of the text; who the text is for	28
7080543419	authority	support for an argument that is based on recognized experts in the field	29
7080543420	bias	Prejudice or predisposition toward one side of a subject or issue.	30
7080543421	biblical allusion	reference to the Bible in a work of literature	31
7080543422	burlesque	a parody of an entire form/style/subject	32
7080543423	cacophony	A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds used deliberately in literature	33
7080543424	cannon	that which has been accepted as authentic such as In cannon law or the literary cannon	34
7080543425	caricature	exaggerates the traits of an idea or person to produce a ridiculous effect	35
7080543426	cause and effect (casual analysis)	explaining in a logical manner why something happened or why it could happen if if action is not taken. the point is to show an uniterrupted, convincing link between cause and effect	36
7080543427	Characterization	the process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character (direct or indirect)	37
7080543428	chiasmus	a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases ( same as antimetabole )	38
7080543429	cite	(v.) to quote; to mention; part of writing derived from a source	39
7080543430	claim	An assertion, usually supported by evidence	40
7080543431	classicism	An adherence to the principals of Greek and Roman literature such as objectivity, sensibility, restraint, and formailty	41
7080543432	clause	A structural element of a sentence, consisting of a grammatical subject and a predicate.	42
7080545513	close reading	A careful reading that is attentive to organization, figurative language, and other literary elements	43
7080546334	coherence	the quality of being logical, orderly, and clearly connected. all parts contribute to development of central idea	44
7080547530	colloquialism	informal words or expressions not usually acceptable in formal writing ( everyday speech )	45
7080549504	common ground	shared beliefs, values or positions	46
7080550060	compare-contrast	compare- similarities and differences contrast- focuses on differences	47
7080551706	complex sentence	A sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause	48
7080552679	conceit	an elaborate figure of speech where two seemingly different things are compared	49
7080559317	concession	A reluctant acknowledgment or yielding.	50
7080559933	connotation	the implied or associative meaning of a word (not denotation)	51
7080564810	consonance	Repetition of consonant sounds	52
7080567894	context	words, other evidence that help determine meaning	53
7080569090	conundrum	a riddle whose answer is or involves a pun; it may also be a paradox or difficult problem	54
7080574173	coordination	grammatical equivalence between parts of a sentence often with conjunctions ( and, or, but)	55
7080575213	counterargument	A challenge to a position; an opposing argument.	56
7080575704	credible	Able to be trusted in or believed	57
7080576672	cumulative sentence	an independent clause followed by additional detail	58
7080577679	cynicism	A tendency to doubt human goodness and to look on the negative side of things	59
7081631955	declaration sentence	Sentence that makes a statement	60
7081632172	deduction	reasoning from general to specific	61
7081633599	deductive reasoning	the method of argument in which specific statements and conclusions are drawn from established general principals	62
7081636180	definition	to illustrate through example and rational thought what something is or what something is not	63
7081639896	denotation	the literal meaning; dictionary definition	64
7081640856	description	one of four modes of discourse. Description shows rather than tells by giving sensory images and details	65
7081644505	dialect	the language and speech specific to a certain region or group	66
7081647074	dialect journal	a double column journal in which someone writes a quote in one column and reflections on the quote in the other column	67
7081649525	diction	the word choices made by a writer to convey tone, purpose, or effect	68
7081650504	discourse	spoken or written language; the four types of discourse are description, exposition, narration, and persuasion	69
7081653413	dissonance	harsh or grating sounds that do not go together	70
7081654605	documentation	bibliographic information about the sources used in a piece of writing	71
7081658526	dynamic character	a character who undergoes an important inner change in personality or attitude	72
7081659150	elegiac	Mourning that which is lost or past; sorrowful - often used to describe tone	73
7081660072	elegy	a sad or mournful poem about the death of a person(s)	74
7081661027	ellipsis	in a sentence, the omission of a word or words replaced by three periods	75
7081661494	epigram	a short, witty saying	76
7081663791	epistrope	repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses	77
7081667375	epitaph	writing in praise of a dead person (tombstone)	78
7081669154	epithet	A descriptive name or phrase used to characterize someone or something "man's best friend"	79
7081672130	eulogy	a written speech in praise of someone living or dead	80
7081674138	ethos	greek term referring to the character of a person; builds credibility	81
7081677272	euphemism	An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant "pass away" or "he died"	82
7081681779	euphony	Pleasing, harmonious sounds. opposite of cacophony	83
7081683703	example	a model; writing by example models exactly what the writer is trying to convey	84
7081686606	exemplum	a brief tale used in medieval times to teach a lesson or illustrate a moral	85
7081688584	explication of text	explanation of a text s meaning through analysis of all its parts; similar to close reading	86
7081690308	exposition	Background and setting information presented to understand the plot	87
7081692529	extended metaphor	A metaphor that is developed over several lines of writing	88
7081694194	facts	information that is true or demonstrable	89
7081696594	figurative language	the use of tropes or figures of speech to go beyond literal meaning for a greater literary effect	90
7081698934	figure of speech	expressions such as similes, metaphors, and personifications to make imaginative rather than literal comparisons or associations	91
7081702745	flashback	when an event that took place before present time is placed in the chronological order of a story	92
7081704972	flat character	A character who is not very well developed but is useful in carrying out some narrative purpose of the author	93
7081707760	foil	a secondary character whose personality/attitude is opposite of a major character	94
7081709527	folklore	traditional stories, songs, customs that are passed down orally through generations until recorded by scholars	95
7081715287	foreshadowing	the use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot	96
7081715729	fragment	A word, phrase, or clause that does not form a full sentence	97
7081716401	genre	a major category or type of literature	98
7081717295	hint of an ideal	even in the darkest satire, a hint of what the author believes to be ideal solution is given	99