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Antithesis

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a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else
“The double chocolate ice cream is nutritionally deficient, but spiritually nourishing.”

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Archetype

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A statement or pattern of behavior
Caregiver, hero, villain

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Assonance

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Repetition of a vowel sound
“the rain in Spain”

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Asyndeton

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The absence of a conjunction
“I came, I saw, I conquered”

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Chiasmus

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Concepts written are repeated in reverse order
“When the going gets tough, the tough get going”

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Connotation

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idea or feeling the evokes feelings or a deeper meaning
“Red->anger, danger, bad, emergency”

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Consonance

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reoccurance of consonants
“Mike likes his new bike”

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Denotation

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literal meaning of a words
“She was RED->red in color”

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Dichotomy

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2 contrasting things
“war + peace, love + hate”

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Diction

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word choice used by an author
“smiley or happy, exhausted or tired”

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Direct Characterization

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when an author directly tells the reader what a character is like
“bill was short and fat”

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Dramatic Irony

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when the audience knows something the characters do not
ex) in Romeo and Juliet when Romeo thinks she’s dead but the audience knows she’s not

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e.g.

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“for example”

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elicit

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to evoke or draw out a response
“yelling at someone will elicit an angry response”

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ellipsis

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to leave out words that are unnecessarily repetitive

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ennui

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feeling of disinterest, boredom with life

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et al.

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“and others”, often used when listing authors

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etc.

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“and other similar things”

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euphemism

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a nicer way of putting something considered inappropriate or rude
“let go instead of fired, passed away instead of died”

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evocative

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words bringing strong emotions or memories
“cookies -> childhood”

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external conflict

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conflict between a character and outside forces
“a war between two countries”

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foil

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a character presented that is the opposite (and often better or worse than) another character
“Nathan is a foil of Clay”

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i.e.

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“that is”

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illicit

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forbidden by law or rules
“She had an illicit affair with her boss”

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indirect characterization

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literary device that reveals something about a character without explicitly stating it
“john snapped at the man without warning”

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internal conflict

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man vs self
“insecurity”

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juxaposes

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putting two different things close together in contrast or comparison to the other
“night and day”

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juxtaposition

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the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect

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melancholy

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feeling of sadness with no obvious cause

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microcosm

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a community that is a smaller version of a larger world
“the island in Lord of the Flies is a microcosm for the real world”

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mood

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the use of specific words to draw out certain emotions
“dull, grey, slow set a sad, gloomy mood”

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motif

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a repeated pattern, symbol, or image

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nostalgia

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nice memories of the past brought to mind when reminded of it
ex) seeing a childhood home gives someone nostalgia of their childhood

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omniscient

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all knowing (often a narrator to a story that knows what every character is thinking and feeling at all times)

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oxymoron

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figure of speech that puts contradictory terms in conjunction
“bittersweet, original copy, awfully good”

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paradox

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two seemingly false or different things that turn out to be true
“less is more, the only constant is change”

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parallelism

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repetition of words, phrases, or sentences

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penultimate

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second to last in a list

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polysemy

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a word that has multiple meanings
“bright could mean shining or intelligent”

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polysyndeton

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a sentencing using a lot of coordinating conjunctions
“I need apples and bananas and granola and blueberries and milk and bread from the store.”

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portmanteau

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pushing two words together to mean the same thing
“breakfast/lunch=brunch, motor hotel=motel”

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prose

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any written word that follows basic grammatical structure

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redundant

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needlessly repetitive

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rhetoric

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effective writing using good technique

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schadenfreude

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pleasure derived from someone else’s misfortune
“laughing when a friend trips in the hallway”

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situational irony

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when something happens that is the opposite of what’s expected to happen
“if the fire department drove right past a fire on the way to dunkin donuts”

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surrogate

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a subsitute or something taking the place of something else
“Afi is a surrogate for Amari’s mother”

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symbolism

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a common object that represents or has a deeper meaning
ex) the mockingbird is symbolism for innocence”

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syntax

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arrangment of words in a sentence

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tone

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the authors attitude shown by their word choice

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ubiquitous

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universal, appearing everywhere
“phones are more ubiquitous than they were 20 years ago”

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verbal irony

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sarcasm, when someone says something but means the opposite

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vignettes

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really short chapter like thing

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visceral

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something that is felt inside
“a really sad chapter gives the reader a visceral response”

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Aesthetic

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pertaining to beauty, study of what makes something beautiful

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Allusion

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reference to literature, history, pop culture, usually evoking an emotional response

57
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Anachronism

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something that doesn’t fit with it’s time
ex) Gatsby’s car in the movie is an anachronism.

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Anadiplosis

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repetition from the end of one sentence to the beginning of another
ex) I love my dogs. Dogs are my life.

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Cache

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a place to keep something valuable that’s illegal

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Cashet

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prestige
ex) Nice cars have a certain cashet to them.

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Caricature

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exaggerated picture or description of a person that overemphasizes certain characteristics

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Characterization

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process by which an author reveals the personality, traits, motivations of a character in a story through dialogue, thoughts, interactions, etc.

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Internal conflict

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conflict between a character and themselves (psychological issue)

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Connotes

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to suggest or imply something

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Cynical

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focusing mostly on self-interest b/c of skepticism of other people’s motives

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Idiosyncratic

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odd and weird but not in a creepy way

67
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Superfluous

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unnecessary, more than what is needed or required

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Zeugma

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a device where one word applies a word to others in different ways
ex) The broke his arm, but not his spirit.

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