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100

a fixed and overgeneralized belief about a group of people.

Stereotype

100

the atmosphere or feeling set by the author or speaker’s word choice.

Tone

100

the reasoning behind a character’s actions or behavior.

Motivation

100

 the atmosphere of the narrative

Mood

100

 a scene that takes place before a story begins.

Flashback

200

lesson the author wants you to take from the story

Theme

200

the distinctive way that an author writes using word choice, phrases, tone, etc.

Style

200

a character, setting, or element of literature with a deeper meaning.

Symbol

200

an overused element that becomes generic from excessive use.

Cliche

200

 the anticipation of the outcome of a plot or of the solution to an uncertainty

Suspense

300

imitation with deliberate exaggeration.

Parody

300

a narrative genre in literature that involves a mysterious, adventurous, or spiritual story line

Romance

300

a figure of speech and a form of understatement in which a sentiment is expressed ironically by negating its contrary.

Litotes

300

 regional literature is fiction and poetry that focuses on the characters

Local Color

300

Branch of drama that treats in a serious and dignified style the sorrowful or terrible events

Tragedy

400

something with a meaning that is contrary to what it suggests, often for humorous effect.

Irony

400

poetry that does not follow a standard meter or rhyme scheme.

Free verse

400

a poem of serious reflection, usually towards the dead.

Elegy

400

something that plays with words with multiple meanings

Pun

400

 a literary technique that consists of a repeated element that has symbolic significance to a literary work

Motif

500

a indication of future events.

Foreshadowing

500

explains the features of something.

Description

500

sentence is made up of two segments which are equal, not only in length, grammatical structure and meaning.

Balance

500

Even lines that are only repeated once in a poem

Refrain

500

generally defined as a literary work that is written to amuse or entertain a reader

Comedy