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Main Ideas
100
Figure of Speech
What is the terms used to describe words or phrases that compare one thinkg to another, unlike thing?
100
Mood
What is the overall feeling or atmosphere?
100
Meter
What is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry?
100
Coda
What is a summing up and restatement of the themes of an entire poem?
100
Imagery
What is the use of language to evoke a picture or concrete sensation of a person, a thing, a place, or an experience?
200
Autobiography
What is a first hand account of the writer's own life?
200
Alliteration
What is a repition of similiar consonant sounds.
200
Logos
What is the term used to describe an appeal based on logic or reason?
200
Irony
What is a sescripancy between appearances and reality, between what seems suitable or appropriate and what actually happens?
200
Style
What is a distinctive way in which a writer uses language?
300
Persuasion
What is form of discourse that uses logical and emoptional appeals to convice another person to think or act in a certain way?
300
Catalog
What is a list of things, people, or events?
300
Satire
What is a type of writing that ridicules the shortcomings of people and institutions in an attempt to bring about change.
300
Pathos
What is an appeal based on the character.morals of the speaker? These types of documents would rely on the reputation of the author.
300
Parallelism
What is the repitition of grammatically similar words, phrases, clauses or sentences?
400
Inference
What is an educated guess based on clues in the text and on your own knowledge and experience?
400
Paradox
What is a statement that appears to be self-contradictory but that actually reveals a kind of truth?
400
Naturalism
What is the 19th century literary movement that claimed to portray life exactly as it is, witch detachment and objectivity.
400
Motivation
What is the reasons for a character's behavior?
400
Archetype
What is an orginal, imagiantive pattern that appears across cultures and is repeated through the ages?
500
Aphorism
What is a brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life?
500
Allegory
What is a story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for abstract ideas or moral qualities?
500
Realisim
What is the literary movement that rejected idealized heros, used everyday speech, and emphasised characters from lower class situations.
500
Exact Rhyme
What is term used when the accented syllables and all following syllables of two or more words tshare idential sounds.
500
Symbolic Meaning
What is the term that emerges from an overall interpretation of the story's individual symbols?