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| Extended Metaphor | a sustained comparison often referred to as a conceit; extended metaphor is developed throughout a piece of writing |
| False Analogy | When two cases are not sufficiently parallel to lead readers to accept a claim of connection between them. |
| Figurative Language | language that contains figures of speech, such as similes and metaphors, in order to create associations that are imaginative rather than literal |
| Figures of Speech | expressions such as similes, metaphors, and personifications, that make imaginative, rather than literal, comparisons or associations |
| Hubris | The excessive pride of ambition that leads a tragic hero to disregard warnings of impending doom, eventually causing his or her downfall. |
| Humor | Anything that causes laughter or amusement |
| Induction | the process that moves from a given series of specifics to a generalization |
| Inference | a conclusion one can draw from the presented details |
| Interior Monologue | writing that records the conversation that occurs inside a character's head |
| Invective | a verbally abusive attack |
| Logic | the process of reasoning |
| Lyrical | songlike; characterized by emotions, subjectivity, and imagination |
| Metonymy | a figure of speech that uses the name of an object, person, or idea to represent something with which it is associated |
| Mode | the method or form of a literary work; the manner in which a work of literature is written |
| Moral | the lesson drawn from a story or a heavily didactic story |
| Motif | main theme or subject of a work that is elaborated on in the development of the piece; a repeated pattern or idea |
| Objectivity | an impersonal presentation of events and characters; the writer's attempt to remove himself from any personal involvement in the story |
| Onomatopoeia | the use of words that sound like what they mean |
| Pacing | the movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another |
| Parable | a short tale that teaches a moral; shorter than an allegory |
