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100
asserted to be true or to exist
What is alleged?
100
showing or suggesting that future success is likely
What is auspicious?
100
"mental pictures" that readers experience with a passage of literature.
What is imagery?
100
Any writing in verse or prose that has a double meaning. This narrative acts as an extended metaphor in which persons, abstract ideas, or events represent not only themselves on the literal level, but they also stand for something else on the symbolic level. Typically, an it involves the interaction of multiple symbols, which together create a moral, spiritual, or even political meaning.
What is allegory?
100
The language of a particular district, class, or group of persons. This term encompasses the sounds, spelling, grammar, and diction employed by a specific people as distinguished from other persons either geographically or socially.
What is dialect?
200
walk leisurely:saunter
What is ambled?
200
disposition to do good
What is benevolence?
200
A trope in which abstractions, animals, ideas, and inanimate objects are given human character, traits, abilities, or reactions.
What is personification?
200
Repeating a consonant sound in close proximity to others, or beginning several words with the same vowel sound. Most frequently, the it involves the sounds at the beginning of words in close proximity to each other.
What is Alliteration?
200
A deviation from what speakers of a language understand as the ordinary or standard use of words in order to achieve some special meaning or effect.
What is figurative language?
300
agreeable or being friendly, sociable, and congenial
What is amiable?
300
the act or an instance of conceding (as by granting something as a right, accepting something as true, or acknowledging defeat)
What is concession?
300
analogy or comparison implied by using an adverb such as like or as
What is simile?
300
A casual reference in literature to a person, place, event, or another passage of literature, often without explicit identification. Authors often use this to establish a tone, create an implied association, contrast two objects or people, make an unusual juxtaposition of references, or bring the reader into a world of experience outside the limitations of the story itself.
What is Allusion?
300
A method of narration in which present action is temporarily interrupted so that the reader can witness past events--usually in the form of a character's memories, dreams, narration, or even authorial commentary It allows an author to fill in the reader about a place or a character, or it can be used to delay important details until just before a dramatic moment.
What is flashback?
400
extremely or utterly foolish
What is asinine?
400
1: dexterous or crafty in the use of special resources (as skill or knowledge) or in attaining an end 2 : displaying keen insight
What is cunning?
400
Frequent use of words, places, characters, or objects that mean something beyond what they are on a literal level.
What is symbolism?
400
Repeating identical or similar vowels (especially in stressed syllables) in nearby words.
What is assonance?
400
Suggesting, hinting, indicating, or showing what will occur later in a narrative.
What is foreshadowing?
500
to lessen the intensity of
What is assuaged?
500
1 : a noteworthy statement: a : a formal pronouncement of a principle, proposition, or opinion b : an observation intended or regarded as authoritative
What is Dictum?
500
informal diction or the use of vocabulary considered inconsistent with the preferred formal wording common among the educated or elite in a culture.
What is slang?
500
A word or phrase used every day in plain and relaxed speech, but rarely found in formal writing.
What is colloquialism?
500
exaggeration or overstatement.
What is hyperbole?