| Term | Definition |
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| Connotation | said to be the suggested or implied meaning of a word or phrase. |
| Consonance | the repitition of a of a constant sound within a series of words to produce a harmonious effect |
| Denotation | the strict, litteral, or factual meaning of a word or phrase |
| Details | the facts revealed by the author or speaker that support the attitude or tone in a peice of poetry or prose |
| Dialect | a socail or regional variety of a particular languages with patterns that distinguish it from other varieties |
| Dialogue | the speech of characters in any kind of narrative, story, or play. |
| Diction | word choice intended to convey a certain effect. |
| Figurative Language | Describes one thing in terms of somthing else. |
| Flashback | a scene that interrupts the action of a work to show a previous event |
| Foreshadowing | the use of hints or clues in literature to suggest future action. |
| Hyperbole | a deliberate exageration in literature. |
| Imagery | the use of words or phrases that appeal to the 5 senses to create vivid pictures in the reader's mind |
| Irony | is the difference between what is expected and what is. |
| Metaphor | a comparison of two unlike things not using like or as |
| Mood | the emotional atmosphere produced by an artistic work |
| Narrative-any | literary work that tells a story |
| Onomatopeoia | is the use of words that imitate sound |
| Oxymoron | a form of paradox that combines a pair of opposite terms into a single insightful or clarifying expression |
| Paradox | occurs when the elements of a statement contradict each other although the statement may apear illogical, imposible, or absurd it turns out to have a coherent meaning that reveals a hidden truth. |
| Personification | a figure of speech in which an animal , object, or idea is given human form or characteristics. |
| Plot | the sequence of events in a story novel or play |
| Point of veiw | the perspective from wich a narrative is told: First person "I", Third Person "He,She", Omniscient "All Knowing". |
| Propaganda | the attempt to influence a mass audience usually with the intent to deceive |
| Protagonist | the central character of a drama novel short story or narrative poem. Conversly the antagonist is the person or force that opposes the protagonist |
| Pun | a play on words or a joke based on words with several meanings or words that sound alike but have different meanings |
| Repetition | the recurrence of sounds, words phrases, lines, or stanzas in a speech |
| Rhyme | the recurrence of sound in the words that appear close to each other in a poem end rhyme accures at the end of lines. |
| Rhythm | the pattern of beats created by the arrangement if stressed and unstressed syllables particularly in poetry |
| Satire | a form of writing that ridicules or abuses for the sake of remedying them |
| Science Fiction | a form of literature set either in the future or on some imaginary world in wich settings plots characters and themes are the result of scientific or technological speculation |
| Setting | the time and place in which the short story, novel play, or narrative poem takes place. |
| Simile | a comparison of two different things. or ideas through the use of the words like or as it is a definitely stated comparison in wich the author says one thing is like another. |
| Structure | the framework. or organazation of a literary selection for example the structure of fiction is usually determined by plot and by division the structure of drama depends upon its division into acts and scenes. |
| Style | the writer's characteristic manner of employing languages |
| Suspence | the quality of a short story novel play or narative poem that makes the reader or audience uncertain or tense about the outcome of events |
| Symbol | any object person place or action that has both a meaning in itself and that stands for something larger than itself such as quality attitude belief or value |
| Syntax | the arrangement of words and the order of grammatical elements in a sentence |
| Theme | a central message of a literary work. it is not the same as a subject which can be in a word or two |
| Tone | the writer's or speakers attitude toward a subject character or audience and it is conveyed through the authors choice of words and detail tone can be serious humorous sarcastic indignant objective etc. |
| Understatement | the opposite of hyperbole it is a kind of irony that deliberatly represents something as being much less than it really is |
| Archetype | is a descriptive detail, plot pattern, charactur type, or theme that reacurs in mant different cultures: "The wicked witch", "the hero", :the quest," etc. |
| Alliteration | is the practice of beginning several consecutive, or neighboring words with the same sound: "The twisting trout twinked below." |
| Allusion | is a reference to a mythological, literary, or historical person, place or thing: "He met his Waterloo." |
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