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- Persona
- the "voice" of a text, often mistakenly confused with the author's own personality
- Plaint
- poem or speech expressing sorrow or "you done me wrong"
- Naturalism
- late 19th & early 20th century literary movement which represents humans as lacking free will and entirely subject to heredity, environment, biological urges and economy
- Pun
- play on words, hopefully humorous but often painful
- Motif
- main theme or subject of a work that is elaborated on and developed further throughout the piece; a repeated theme, image, or idea
- Point of view
- perspective from which material is presented; examples include 1st person narrator, stream of consciousness, omniscient narrator, limited omniscient narrator, objective narrator
- Parable
- short tale that teaches a moral; similar to but shorter than an allegory
- Oxymoron
- Figure of speech composed of seemingly contradictory words or phrases
- Objectivity
- impersonal presentation of facts, events and characters
- Myth
- a narrative that serves to explain origins, either of life itself or of religious or cultural practices
- Narrative
- one of the four modes of discourse; the telling of a story
- Personification
- anthropomorphism; the attribution of human and/or sentient qualities to a non-human or inanimate object
- Opposition
- pairs of elements that contrast sharply
- Mood
- the primary emotion attitude of a text
- Periodic sentence
- a sentence that isn't grammatically complete until its last phrase
- Paradox
- statement or situation that initially seems to contradict itself but on closer
- Metonymy
- figure of speech in which something is replaced by a thing associated with it
- Irony
- situation in which the outcome is meaningfully opposite of what is expected
- Onomatopoeia
- language that reproduces the sound of what they represent
- Loose sentence
- sentence that is grammatically complete before its end; opposite of periodic sentence
- Paraphrase
- to restate phrases and sentences in one's own words
- Interior Monologue
- record of the "conversation" inside a character's head; stream of consciousness
- Nemesis
- protagonist's arch-enemy or supreme and persistent difficulty
- Inversion
- intentional reversing of the order of elements in a sentence or phrase; often produces an unintended artificiality of language
- Parallelism
- technique of arranging words, phrases, clause or other structures by placing them side by side and making them similar in form; expected form of many grammatical structures
- Mode
- method or form of a literary work; the manner in which a work of literature is written
- Metaphor
- figure of speech in which a name or descriptive word or phrase is transferred to an object or action different from, but analogous to, that to which it is literally applicable; comparison that says one thing is another
- Persuasion
- a form of argumentation, one of the four modes of discourse; language intended to convince through appeals to reason, values or emotion
- Protagonist
- main character of a literary work