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Term used to describe literary forms, such as tragedy, comedy, novel, or essay...
What is genre?
Sensory details in a work involving usage of any or all of the five senses; the use of figurative language to evoke a feeling, call to mind an idea, or describe an object...
What is imagery?
Placing of two items side by side to create a certain effect, reveal an attitude, or accomplish some other purpose.
What is juxtaposition?
In dramatic literature, the moral element that determines a character's actions, rather than thought or emotion...
What is ethos?
Language is lofty, dignified, or impersonal...
What is formal language?
The person(s) reached by a piece of writing...
What is audience?
A feeling or ambiance resulting from the tone of a piece as well as the written/narrator's attitude and point of view; the effect is created through descriptions of feelings or objects that establish a particular feeling such as gloom, fear, or hope...
What is mood?
A figure of speech which makes brief, even casual reference to a historical or literary figure, event, or object to create a resonance in the reader or to apply a symbolic meaning to the character or object of which this device consists...
What is allusion?
Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases or clauses...
What is anaphora?
Intended for teaching or to teach a moral lesson...
What is didactic?
The ordinary form of written language (without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse)
What is prose?
The attitude a literary work takes towards its subject and theme. It reflects the narrator's attitude...
What is tone?
A satirical imitation of a work of art for purpose of ridiculing its style or subject...
What is parady?
A character's view of the situation or events in the story...
What is perspectibve?
Ordinary language, the vernacular...
What is colloquial?
Focus statement of an essay; premise statement upon which the point of view or discussion in the essay is based.
What is thesis?
The way words are put together to form phrases, clauses, and sentences; it is sentence structure and how it influences the way a reader perceives a piece of writing.
What is syntax?
A statement that seems contradictory but is actually true...
What is paradox?
The reasoning process by which a conclusion is drawn from set of premises and contains no more facts than these premises...
What is deductive?
Recurring device, formula, or situation that often serves as a signal for the appearance of a character or event...
What is motif?
The central or dominant idea or concern of a work; the main idea or meaning...
What is theme.
Recurrent syntactical similarity where several parts of a sentence or several sentences are expressed alike to show that the ideas in the parts of sentences are equal in importance. It also adds balance,rhythm and clarity to the sentence.
What is parallelism?
A figure of speech by which the order of the terms in the first of parallel clauses is reversed in the second...
What is chiasmus?
Conclusion or type of reasoning whereby observation or information about a part of a class is applied to the class as a whole. Contrast with deductive.
What is inductive?
A brief story or tale told by a character in a piece of literature...
What is anecdote?