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| Question | Answer |
| allegory | device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning |
| alliteration | the repetition of sounds, especially initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words (eg "she sells sea shells") |
| allusion | a direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art |
| ambiguity | - the multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage |
| analogy | a similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them |
| aphorism | a terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or moral principle |
| apostrophe | a figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love |
| atmosphere | the emotional mood created by the entirety of a literary work, established partly by the setting and partly by the author's choice of objects that are described |
| colloquial language | the use of slang or informalities in speech or writing |
| conceit | a fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects |
| denotation | the strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word, devoid of any emotion, attitude, or color |
| diction | referring to style, diction refers to the writer's word choices, especially with regard to their correctness, clearness, or effectiveness |
| didactic text | from the Greek, literally means "teaching" |
| equivocation | falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language |
| euphemism | from the Greek for "good speech," a more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept |
| extended metaphor | a metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work |
| figurative language | category of writing or speech that is not intended to carry literary meaning and is usually meant to be imaginative and vivid |
| foil | a person or thing that makes another seem better by contrast |
| foreshadowing | to present an indication or a suggestion of beforehand; presage |
| generic conventions | refers to traditions for each genre |
| genre | the major category into which a literary work fits (eg prose, poetry, and drama) |
| homily | literally "sermon", or any serious talk, speech, or lecture providing moral or spiritual advice |
| hyperbole | a figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement |
| imagery | the sensory details or figurative language used to describe, arouse emotion, or represent abstractions |
| infer (inference) | the reader’s act of drawing a reasonable conclusion from the information presented or implied in the text |
| invective | an emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language |
| irony | the contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant |
| verbal irony | words literally state the opposite of speaker's true meaning |
| situational irony | events turn out the opposite of what was expected |
| dramatic irony | facts or events are unknown to a character but known to the reader or audience or other characters |
| juxtaposition | an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, esp. for comparison or contrast. |
| metaphor | a figure of speech using implied comparison of seemingly unlike things or the substitution of one for the other, suggesting some similarity |
| metonymy | from the Greek "changed label", the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it (eg "the White House" for the President) |
| mood | grammatically, the verbal units and a speaker's attitude (indicative, subjunctive, imperative); literarily, the prevailing atmosphere or emotional aura of a word |
| moral | the lesson to be learned from something that happens, or from a story |
| motif | a recurrent element or dominant idea in a literary work |
| narrative | the telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events |
| onomatopoeia | natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words (eg buzz, hiss) |
| oxymoron | from the Greek for "pointedly foolish," author groups apparently contradictory terms to suggest a paradox |
| paradox | a statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity |
| parallelism | from the Greek for "beside one another," the grammatical or rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs to give structural similarity |
| parody | a work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule |
| pedantic | an adjective that describes words, phrases, or general tone that is overly scholarly, academic, or bookish |
| personification | a figure of speech in which the author presents or describes concepts, animals, or inanimate objects by endowing them with human attributes or emotions |
| reification | The treatment of abstractions as concrete things |
| point of view | the perspective from which a story is told (first person, third person omniscient, or third person limited omniscient) |
| prose | genre including fiction, nonfiction, written in ordinary language |
| pun | the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words |
| repetition | the duplication, either exact or approximate, of any element of language rhetoric - from the Greek for "orator," the principles governing the art of writing effectively, eloquently, and persuasively |
| rhetorical modes | the variety, conventions, and purposes of the major kinds of writing (exposition explains and analyzes information; argumentation proves validity of an idea; description re-creates, invents, or presents a person, place, event or action; narration tells a story or recount an event) |
| simile | a comparison between two unlike things using like or as |
| style | an evaluation of the sum of the choices an author makes in blending diction, syntax, figurative language, and other literary devices; or, classification of authors to a group and comparison of an author to similar authors |
| syllogism | from the Greek for "reckoning together," a deductive system of formal logic that presents two premises (first "major," second "minor") that inevitably lead to a sound conclusion (eg All men are mortal, Socrates is a man, Socrates is mortal) |
| symbol (symbolism) | something literal (a dove) standing for an abstract idea or concept (peace) |
| synaesthesia | the mixing of senses in an image “the song had a blue (visual) note(sound)” |
| synecdoche | the use of the part for the whole |
| syntax | the way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences (intentional fragment, parallelism, rhetorical question, simple sentence, etc.) |
| theme | the generalized insight into humanity or life a work of literature presents |
| thesis | in expository writing, the thesis statement is the sentence or group of sentences that directly express the author's opinion, purpose, meaning, or proposition |
| tone | describes the author's attitude toward his material, the audience, or both |
| transition | a word or phrase that links different ideas |
| understatement | the ironic minimalizing of fact, presents something as less significant than it is |
| litotes | A figure of speech in which an affirmation is made by denying its opposite. |
| wit | intellectually amusing language that surprises and delights |
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