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Active voice

The subject of the sentence performs the actions

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Allusion

An indirect refrence to something like plays, literary text, songs, and historical events

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Alter-ego

A character that is used by the author to speak the authors own thoughts

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Anecdote

A brief recounting of a relative episode

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Classisim

Art or literature charactarized by a realistic view of people and the world

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Comic relief

When a humorous scene is inserted into a serious story, in order to lighten the mood somewhat

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Diction

Word choice, particularly as an element of style

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Colloquial

Ordinary or familiar type of conversation

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Connotation

Implied meaning rather than literal meaning

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Denotation

The literal, explicit meaning of a word, without its connotations

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Jargon

The diction used by a group which practices a similar profession or activity

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Vernacular

1. Language or dialect of a particular country. 2. Language or dialect of a regional clan or group. 3. Plain everyday speech

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Didactic

A term used to describe fiction, nonfiction or poetry that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking

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Adage

A folk saying with a lesson

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Allegory

A story, fictional or non fictional, in which characters, things, and events represent qualities or concepts

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Aphorism

A terse statement which expresses a general truth or moral principle

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Ellipsis

The deliberate omission of a word or phrase from prose done for effect by the author

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Euphemism

A more agreeable or less offensive substitute for generally unpleasant words or concepts

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Figurative Language

Writing that is not meant to be taken literally

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Analogy

A comparison of one pair of variables to a parallel set of variables

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Hyperbole

An exaggeration

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Idiom

A common, often used expression that doesn’t make sense if you take it literally

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Metaphor

Making an implied comparison, not using “like,” as,” or other such words

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Metonymy

Replacing an actual word or idea, with a related word or concept

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Synecdoche

A kind of metonymy when a whole is represented by naming one of its parts, or vice versa

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Simile

Using words such as “like” or “as” to make a direct comparison between two very different things

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Synesthesia

A description involving a “crossing of the senses”

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Personification

Giving human-like qualities to something that is not human

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Foreshadowing

When an author gives hints about what will occur later in a story

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Genre

The major category into which a literary work fits.

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Gothic

Writing characterized by gloom, mystery, fear and/or death

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Imagery

Word or words that create a picture in the reader's mind

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Invective

A long, emotionally violent, attack using strong, abusive language

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Irony

When the opposite of what you expect to happen doe

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Verbal irony

When you say something and mean the opposite/something different

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Dramatic irony

When the audience of a drama, play, movie, etc. knows something that the character doesn't and would be surprised to find out

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Situational irony

Found in the plot (or story line) of a book, story, or movie

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Juxtaposition

Placing things side by side for the purposes of comparison

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Mood

The atmosphere created by the literature and accomplished through word choice (diction)

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Motif

A recurring idea in a piece of literature

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Oxymoron

When apparently contradictory terms are grouped together and suggest a paradox –

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Pacing

The speed or tempo of an author’s writing

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Paradox

A seemingly contradictory situation which is actually true

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Parallelism

Sentence construction which places equal grammatical constructions near each other, or repeats identical grammatical patterns

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Anaphora

Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences or clauses in a row

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Chiasmus

When the same words are used twice in succession, but the second time, the order of the words is reversed

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Antithesis

Two opposite or contrasting words, phrases, or clauses, or even ideas, with parallel structure

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Zuegma (Syllepsis)

When a single word governs or modifies two or more other words, and the meaning of the first word must change for each of the other words it governs or modifies

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Parenthetical Idea

Parentheses are used to set off an idea from the rest of the sentence

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Parody

An exaggerated imitation of a serious work for humorous purposes

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Persona

The fictional mask or narrator that tells a story

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Poetic device

A device used in poetry to manipulate the sound of words, sentences or lines

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Alliteration

The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words

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Assonance

The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds

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Consonance

The repetition of the same consonant sound at the end of words or within words

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Onomatopoeia

The use of a word which imitates or suggests the sound that the thing makes

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Internal rhyme

When a line of poetry contains a rhyme within a single line

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Slant rhyme

When a poet creates a rhyme, but the two words do not rhyme exactly – they are merely similar

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End rhyme

When the last word of two different lines of poetry rhyme

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