| Term | Definition |
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| Pathos | that element in literature that stimulates pity or sorrow |
| Periodic Sentence | a long sentence in which the main clause is not completed until the end |
| Personification | treating an abstraction or nonhuman object as if it were a person by endowing it with human features or qualities |
| Point of View | the relation in which narrator/autor stands to a subject of discourse |
| Prose | the ordinary form of written language without metrical structure in contrast to verse and poetry |
| Realism | attempting to describe nature and life without idealization and with attention to detail |
| Rebuttal/Refutation | an argument technique wherein opposing arguments are anticipated and countered |
| Rhetoric | the art of using words to persuade in writing or speeking |
| Rhetorical Queston | a question that is asked simply for the sake of stylistic effect and is not expected to be answered |
| Sarcasm | a form of verbal irony in which apparent praise is actually critical |
| Satire | a literary work that holds up human failings to ridicule and censure |
| Simile | a direct, explicit comparison of one thing to another |
| Style | the manner in which a writer combines and arranges words, shapes ideas, and utilizes syntax to draw the connection |
| Symbolism | use of a person, place, thing, event, or pattern that figuratively represnets or "stands for" something else |
| Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part signifies the whole |
| Syntax | the way words are put together to form phrases, clauses, and sentences |
| Theme | the central or dominant idea or forcus of a work |
| Tone | the attitude the narrator/writer takes toward a subject and theme; the tenor of a piece of writing based on particular stylistic devices employed by the writer |
| Voice | the acknowledged or unacknowledged source of the words of the story |
| Zeugma | a grammatically correct construction in which a word, usally a verb or adjective, is applied to two or more nouns without being repeated |
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