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- rhetorical techniques
- the devices used in effective or persuasive language
- free verse
- poetry which is not wrtten in a traditional meter, but is stille rhythmical
- sterotype
- a conventional pattern
- ambiguity
- multiple meaning a literature work may communicate
- sonnet
- a fourteen line iambic pentameter poem
- connotation
- the implications of a word or phrase
- convention
- a device of style or subject so often used thay iyt becomes a recognized means of expression
- details
- items or parts that make up a larger picture or story
- didactic
- explicitly instructive
- heroic cuplets
- two end stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, cc with the thought usually completed in a two line unit
- epigram
- a pithy saying
- setting
- the backround of a story
- jargon
- the special language of a group
- denotation
- dictionary meaning of a word
- assonance
- the repitition of identical vowel sounds
- anomatopoeia
- the use of words whose sounds suggest their meaning
- devices of sound
- the techniques of deploying the sound of words
- tone
- the manner in which an author expresses his or her attitude
- hyperbole
- deliberate exaggeration
- oxymoron
- a combination of opposites
- euphenism
- a figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness
- end stopped
- a line with a pause at the end
- paradox
- a statement that seemms to be self contradicting but true
- strategy
- the management of language for a specific effect
- dactyl
- a metrical foot of three syllables
- stanza
- a repeated grouping of three or more lines with the same meter and rhyme scheme
- structure
- the arrangement of materials with in a work
- modify
- the restrict or limit in meaning
- simile
- a directly expressed comparison
- figurative language
- writings that uses figures of speech
- thesis
- the theme meaning or position that a writer undertakes to prove
- apostrophe
- direct address usually to someone or something that is not present
- lyrical
- songlike
- alliteration
- the repitition of identical consonant sounds
- iamb
- a two syllable foot with an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable
- metaphor
- a comparason is expressed with the use of a comparative term
- tetrameter
- a line of four feet
- periodic sentence
- a sentence grammatically complete only at the end
- grotesque
- characterized by distortions
- omniscient point of view
- the vantage point of a sotry in which the narrarator can know see and report whatever they choose
- imagery
- the images of a literature work
- blank verse
- unrhymed iambic pentameter
- ellipsis
- the ommision of a word
- allegory
- a story in which people, things, and events have another meaning
- allusion
- a reference in a work of literature to something outside of the book
- rhetorical question
- a question asked for affect
- style
- the mode of expression in language
- pentameter
- a line containing five feet
- ballad meter
- a four line stanza rhymed abcb with four feet in line one and three and three feet in lines two and four
- literal
- not figurative
- soliloquy
- a speech in which a character who is alone speeks their thought aloud
- narrative technique
- methold involved in telling a story
- antecedent
- that which goes before
- personification
- a figurative language that endows the non human with human characterisitics
- point of view
- any of several possible vantage points from which a story is told
- syllogism
- a form of reasoning in which 2 statements are made and a conclusion is drawn from them
- reliability
- a quality og some fictional narrarators whose word the readers can trust
- parable
- a story designed to suggest a principle
- clause
- a group of words containing a subject and its verb
- satire
- writing that seeks to arouse a readers dissapproval of an object by ridicule
- syntax
- the structure of a sentence
- irony
- a figure of speech in which intent and actual meaning differ
- imperative
- the mood of a verb that gives an order
- symbol
- something that is simutaneously itself and a sign of somehting else
- diction
- word choice
- parody
- a compostion that imitates the style of another compostion
- internal rhyme
- rhyme that occurs with in a line
- digression
- use of material unrelated to the subject of a work
- attitude
- a speakers, authors, or characters dispostion toward or opinion of a subject