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| word choice, an element of style; creates tone attitude and style, as well as meaning |
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| the characteristic emotion or attitude of an author toward the characters, subject, and/or audience |
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| the central idea or "message" of a literary work |
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| the use of symbols or anything that is meant to be taken both literally and as representative of a higher and more complex significance |
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| the main idea of a piece of wirting. It presents the author's assertion or claim. The effectiveness of a presentation is often based on how well the writer presents develops, and supports the thesis |
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| anything that causes laughter or amusement: up until the end of the Renaissance, humor meant a person's temperament |
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| expressions, such as similes, metaphors, and personifications, that create associations that are imaginative rather than literal; comparisons or associations |
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| language that contains figures of speech, such as similies and metaphors, in order to create association that are imaginative rater than literal |
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| the immediate revelation to the audience of the setting and other background information necessary for understanding the plot; also explanation; one of the four modes of discourse |
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| an individual instance taken to be representative of a general pattern |
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| when the reader is aware of an inconsistency between a fictional or nonfictional character's perception of a situation and the truth of that situation |
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| an author's characteristic manner of expression - his or her diction, syntax, imagery, structure, and content all contribute to style |
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| a character who represents a trait that is usually attributed to a particular social or racial group, and who lacks individuality |
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| a type of literary work, such as a novel or poem; there also subgenres, such as science-fiction or sonnet, within the larger genres |
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| when a writer bases a claim upon an isolated example or asserts that a claim is certain rather than probable |
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| a word or phrase used two or more times in close proximity |
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| the voice of a work; an author may speak as himself or herself or as a fictious persona |
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| the voice of a work; an author may speak as himself or herself or as a fictious persona |
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| the time and place of a literary work |
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| the main character of a literary work |
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| the perspective from which story is presented |
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| words or phrases that use a collection of images to appeal to one or more of the five sense in order to create a mental picture |
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| a conclusion one can draw from presented details |
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| a word or words, either figurative or literal, used to describe a sensory experience or an object percieved by the sense; is always a concrete representation |
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| the repitition of vowel sounds between different consonants, such as neigh/fade |
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| comparision of two similar but different things usually to clarify an action or a relationship such as comparing the work of a heart to that of a pump; a comparison to a directly parallel case |
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| the repitition of identical consonant sounds within two or more words in close proximity as in boost/best. It can also be seen with several compound words, such as fulfill and pingpong |
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| the quality of a piece of writing in which all the parts contribute to the development of the central idea, theme, and organizing principle |
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| the picturing in words of something or someone through detailed observation of color, motion, sound, taste, smell and touch; one of the four modes of discourse |
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| the use of a hint or clue to suggest a larger event that occurs late in the work |
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| the telling of a story in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama; one of the four modes of discourse |
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| the attribution of human qualities to a nonhuman or inanimate object |
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| deliberate exaggeration in order to create humor or emphasis |
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| a situation or statement in which the actual outcome or meaning is opposite to what was expected |
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| similar to tone, mood is the primary emotional attitude of a work(the feeling of the work; the atmosphere) |
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| a word or phrase that links one idea to the next and carries the reader from sentence to sentence or paragraph to paragraph |
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| a figure of speech that uses uses like or as to make a direct comparison between the two essentially different objects, action, or qualities |
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| a figure of speech in which one thing is referred to as another; for example, "my love is a fragile flower" |
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| the repitition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words that are close to one another |
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