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Attitude

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The disposition toward or opinion of a subject by an author, speaker, or character.

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Allusion

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A reference in a work of lit. to something out side of that work, especially to a well known historical or literary event, person, work, mythology, artwork, or culture.

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Details

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Individual items or parts that make up a larger picture or story.

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Devices of sound

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The techniques of deploying the sounds of words. Include rhyme, alliteration, assonance, consonance, and onomatopoeia.

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Diction

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Word choice. The words are also details.

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Figurative language

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Writing that uses figures of speech, including metaphor, irony, and simile. It uses words to mean something other than their literal meaning.

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Imagery

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Images created by a literary work. The sensory detail of a work. The figurative language of a work.m

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Irony

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A figure of speech in which the intended and actual meaning differ.

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Metaphor

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A comparison is expressed without the use of a comparative term.

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Narrative techniques

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The methods involved in telling a story. Include point of view, manipulation of time, dialogue, or interior monologue.

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Omniscient point of view

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The narrator knows everything that is happening.

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Point of view

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Any of the vantage points from which a story is told.

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Resources of language

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A general phrase for the linguistic devices or techniques a writer can use. Includes diction, syntax, figurative language, and imagery.

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Rhetorical techniques

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Devises used in effective or persuasive language. Includes contrast, repetition, paradox, understatement, sarcasm, and rhetorical question.

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Satire

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Writing used to arose the reader’s disapproval of a subject. Uses comedy.

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Setting

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The background of a story. Includes the story’s location, time period, weather, e.c.t.

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Simile

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A directly expressed comparison. Uses the words “like,” “as,” or “than.”

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Strategy

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The a management of language for a specific effect.

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Structure

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The arrangement of materials within a work; the relationship of the parts of a work.

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Style

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The mode of expression through language.

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Symbol

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Something simultaneously itself and something else.

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Syntax

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The structure of a sentence/ the arrangement of words in a sentence. Includes length of the sentence, type of sentence, type of sentence complexity.

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Theme

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The main thought expressed throughout a work.

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Tone

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The manner in which an author expresses his or her attitude. The intonation of voice that conveys a certain meaning.

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Allegory

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A story in which the ppl, things, and events have an extended, often abstract meaning.

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Ambiguity

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Multiple meanings that a literary work may communicate.

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Apostrophe

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Direct address, usually to someone/something not present.

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Connotation

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The implication of a word or phrase or the emotions associated with it. Not its exact meaning.

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Convention

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A device of style so commonly used in the literary world that it becomes a recognized means of expression.

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Denotation

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The literal meaning of a word.

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Didactic

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Explicitly instructive.

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Digression

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The inclusion of material unrelated to the actual subject of a work.

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Epigram

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A pithy saying, often employing contrast. Can be a verse form.

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Euphemism

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A figure of speech utilizing indirection to avoid offensive bluntness.

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Grotesque

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Characterized by distortions or incongruities.

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Hyperbole

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Deliberate exaggeration or overstatement.

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Jargon

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The specialized language of a profession or group.

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Literal

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The precise, explicit meaning.

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Lyrical

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Song like, characterized by emotion,subjectivity, and imagination.

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Oxymoron

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A combination or juxtaposition of opposites.

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Parable

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A story designed to suggest a principle, illustrate a moral, or answer a question.

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Paradox

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A statement that seems to be self-contradictory but is, in fact, true.

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Parody

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A composition that imitates the style of another composition, normally done for comic effect.

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Personification

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Shows nonhuman ideas, objects, animals, or abstractions to have human characteristics.

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Reliability

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A quality of some fictional narrators in whose word the reader can never trust.

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Rhetorical questions

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Questions asked for effect, not in expectation of a reply.

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Stereotype

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A conventional pattern, expression, character, or idea.

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Syllogism

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A form of reasoning in which two statements are made and a conclusion is drawn from them.

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Thesis

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The theme, meaning, or position that a writer endeavors to prove or support.

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Alliteration

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The repetition of similar or identical sounds at the beginning of words in a sentence.

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Assonance

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The repetition of vowel sounds in the middle of words in a sentence.

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Ballad meter

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A four lined stanza. Rhymed abcb. Lines 1 and 3 have four feet and lines 2 and 4 have three feet.

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Blank verse

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Unrhymed iambic pentameter.

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Dactyl

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A metrical foot of three syllables. One accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables.n

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End stopped

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A line with a pause at the end.

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Free verse

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Poetry not written in traditional meter.

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Heroic couplet

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Two end stopped iambic pentameter lines. Rhymed aa bb cc.

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Hexameter

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A line containing six feet.

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Iamb

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A two syllable foot with an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable.

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Internal rhyme

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A rhyme within the line of poetry.

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Onomatopoeia

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Words who sound suggests their actual meaning.

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Pentameter

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A line containing five feet. The most common line used in the English language.

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Rhyme royal

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A seven line stanza of iambic pentameter. Rhymed ababbcc.

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English sonnet

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Fourteen lines of iambic pentameter. Rhymed abab cdcd efef gg.

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Shakespeare sonnet

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An English sonnet

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Italian sonnet

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Fourteen lines of iambic pentameter. Rhymed abba abba cde cde.

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Petrarchan

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An Italian sonnet

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Stanza

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A repeated grouping of three or more lines, usually with the same meter or rhyme scheme.

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Terza rims

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A three lined stanza rhymed aba bcb cdc

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Tetrameter

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A line of four feet.

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Antecedent

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That which has gone before. Especially the word, phrase, or clause a pronoun refers to.

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Clause

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A group of words containing a subject and a verb that may or may not be a complete sentence.

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Ellipsis

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A phrase that omits some words that would be necessary for a complete construction, yet which is still understandable.

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Imperative

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The mood of a verb that gives an order.

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Modify

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To restrict or limit in meaning.

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Parallel structure

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A similar grammatical structure within a sentence or within a paragraph.

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Periodic sentence

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A sentence that becomes grammatically complete only at the end.

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Syntax

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The structure of a sentence.

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