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100
The emotional mood created by the entirety of a literary work, established partly by the setting and partly by the author's choice of objects that are described.
What is atmosphere?
100
A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
What is an extended metaphor?
100
The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events.
What is a narrative?
100
A comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
100
The ironic minimalizing of fact.
What is understatement?
200
The use of slang or informalities in speech or writing.
What is colloquialism?
200
Writing that is not intended to be understood literally.
What is figurative language?
200
A figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words.
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200
A work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule.
What is satire?
200
The central idea or message of a work.
What is theme?
300
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
What is apostrophe?
300
Categories into which literary works are placed.
What are genres?
300
A figure of speech wherein the author groups apparently contradictory terms to suggest a paradox-- jumbo shrimp.
What is an oxymoron?
300
The characteristics of an author's writing.
What is style?
300
In expository writing, this is the sentence or group of sentences that directly express the author's opinion, purpose, meaning, or position.
What is a thesis?
400
The opposition or contrast of ideas; the direct opposite.
What is antithesis?
400
A figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement.
What is hyperbole?
400
The prevailing atmosphere or emotional aura of a work.
What is mood?
400
From the Greek meaning "to tear flesh"; involves bitter, caustic language that is meant to hurt or ridicule someone or something.
What is sarcasm?
400
An author's attitude toward his material.
What is tone?
500
A terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle.
What is aphorism?
500
Substituting an agreeable word for a generally unpleasant word or concept.
What is a euphemism?
500
A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense, but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity.
What is a paradox?
500
Persuasive writing.
What is rhetoric?
500
Intellectually amusing language that surprises and delights.
What is wit?