| Term | Definition |
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| allusion | a reference in a work of literature to something outside of the book |
| attitude | a speakers, authors, or characters dispostion toward or opinion of a subject |
| details | items or parts that make up a larger picture or story |
| devices of sound | the techniques of deploying the sound of words |
| diction | word choice |
| figurative language | writings that uses figures of speech |
| imagery | the images of a literature work |
| irony | a figure of speech in which intent and actual meaning differ |
| metaphor | a comparason is expressed with the use of a comparative term |
| narrative technique | methold involved in telling a story |
| omniscient point of view | the vantage point of a sotry in which the narrarator can know see and report whatever they choose |
| point of view | any of several possible vantage points from which a story is told |
| rhetorical techniques | the devices used in effective or persuasive language |
| satire | writing that seeks to arouse a readers dissapproval of an object by ridicule |
| setting | the backround of a story |
| simile | a directly expressed comparison |
| strategy | the management of language for a specific effect |
| structure | the arrangement of materials with in a work |
| style | the mode of expression in language |
| symbol | something that is simutaneously itself and a sign of somehting else |
| syntax | the structure of a sentence |
| tone | the manner in which an author expresses his or her attitude |
| allegory | a story in which people, things, and events have another meaning |
| ambiguity | multiple meaning a literature work may communicate |
| apostrophe | direct address usually to someone or something that is not present |
| connotation | the implications of a word or phrase |
| convention | a device of style or subject so often used thay iyt becomes a recognized means of expression |
| denotation | dictionary meaning of a word |
| didactic | explicitly instructive |
| digression | use of material unrelated to the subject of a work |
| epigram | a pithy saying |
| euphenism | a figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness |
| grotesque | characterized by distortions |
| hyperbole | deliberate exaggeration |
| jargon | the special language of a group |
| literal | not figurative |
| lyrical | songlike |
| oxymoron | a combination of opposites |
| parable | a story designed to suggest a principle |
| paradox | a statement that seemms to be self contradicting but true |
| parody | a compostion that imitates the style of another compostion |
| personification | a figurative language that endows the non human with human characterisitics |
| reliability | a quality og some fictional narrarators whose word the readers can trust |
| rhetorical question | a question asked for affect |
| soliloquy | a speech in which a character who is alone speeks their thought aloud |
| sterotype | a conventional pattern |
| syllogism | a form of reasoning in which 2 statements are made and a conclusion is drawn from them |
| thesis | the theme meaning or position that a writer undertakes to prove |
| alliteration | the repitition of identical consonant sounds |
| assonance | the repitition of identical vowel sounds |
| ballad meter | a four line stanza rhymed abcb with four feet in line one and three and three feet in lines two and four |
| blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| dactyl | a metrical foot of three syllables |
| end stopped | a line with a pause at the end |
| free verse | poetry which is not wrtten in a traditional meter, but is stille rhythmical |
| heroic cuplets | two end stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, cc with the thought usually completed in a two line unit |
| iamb | a two syllable foot with an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable |
| internal rhyme | rhyme that occurs with in a line |
| anomatopoeia | the use of words whose sounds suggest their meaning |
| pentameter | a line containing five feet |
| sonnet | a fourteen line iambic pentameter poem |
| stanza | a repeated grouping of three or more lines with the same meter and rhyme scheme |
| tetrameter | a line of four feet |
| antecedent | that which goes before |
| clause | a group of words containing a subject and its verb |
| ellipsis | the ommision of a word |
| imperative | the mood of a verb that gives an order |
| modify | the restrict or limit in meaning |
| periodic sentence | a sentence grammatically complete only at the end |
Combine with other sets
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