| Term | Definition |
|---|
| devices of sound | techniques of deploying the sound of words |
| diction | word choice |
| irony | a figure of speech in which intent and actual meaning differ |
| metaphor | comparison without the use of "like" or "as" |
| narrative techniques | the methods involved in telling a story |
| omniscient point of view | vantage point of a story in which the narrator can know, see, and report whatever he or she chooses |
| point of view | any of several possible vantage points from which a story is told |
| resources of language | a general phrase for the linguistic devices or techniques that a writer can use |
| rhetorical techniques | the devices used in effective or persuasive language |
| satire | writing that seeks to arouse a reader's disapproval of an object by ridicule |
| simile | a directly expressed comparison, using "like" "as", or "than" |
| strategy | the management of language for a specific effecct |
| structure | arrangement of materials within a work |
| style | the mode of expression in language |
| symbol | something that is simultaneously itself and a sign of something else |
| syntax | the structure of a sentence |
| allegory | a story in which people, things, and events have another meaning |
| apostrophe | direct address, usually to someone or something that is not present |
| connotation | implications of a word or phrase |
| denotation | the dictionary meaning of a word |
| didactic | explicitly instructive |
| digression | the use of material unrelated to the subject of a work |
| epigram | a pithy saying, often using contrast |
| euphemism | a figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness |
| hyperbole | deliberate exaggeration |
| jargon | special language of a profession |
| parable | a story designed to suggest a principle , illustrate a moral, or answer a question |
| paradox | a statement that seems to be self-contradicting but, in fact, is true |
| parody | a composition that imitates the style of another composition for comic effect |
| syllogism | a form of reasoning in which two statements are made and a conclusion is drawn from them |
| alliteration | the repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds |
| assonance | repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds |
| ballad meter | a four-line stanza rhymed abcb with four feet in lines one and three and three feet in lines two and four |
| blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| dactyl | a metrical foot of three syllables, an accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables |
| end-stopped | a line with a pause at the end |
| free verse | poetry which is not written in a traditional meter but is still rhythmical |
| heroic couplet | two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, cc with the thought usually completed in the two-line unit |
| hexameter | a line containing six feet |
| iamb | a two-syllable foot with an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable |
| internal rhyme | rhyme that occurs within a line |
| pentameter | a line containing five feet |
| rhyme royal | a seven-line stanza of iambic pentameter rhymed ababbcc |
| sonnet | normally a fourteen-line iambic pentameter poem, rhymed abab, cdcd, efef, gg |
| terza rhyme | a three-line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc |
| tetrameter | a line of four feet |
| antecedent | that which goes before, especially the word, phrae, or clause to which a pronoun refers |
| clause | a group of words containing a subject and its verb that may or may not be a complete sentence |
| ellipsis | the omission of a word of several words necessary for a complete construction that is still understandable |
| imperative | the mood of a verb that gives an order |
| periodic sentence | a sentence grammatically complete only at the end |
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