| A | B |
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| local color | literature tied in location and topic to one section of the country |
| logos | reason or logic |
| metaphor | a comparison NOT using like or as |
| mood/tone | the feeling created by a literary work or passage |
| motif | a recurring feature in a literary work |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words that imitate sounds |
| oxymoron | a figure of speech that combines two opposing or contradictory ideas (freezing fire) |
| pathos | passions or emotions |
| personification | giving human qualities to non-living things |
| prose | ordinary form of written language |
| pun | a play on words (a baker makes dough) |
| repetition | the use, more than once, of any element of language--a sound, a word, a phrase, a clause, or a sentence |
| rhetoric | the art of using words effectively in speaking or writing |
| rhetorical question | a question not requiring an answer |
| sensory language | writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses |
| simile | a comparison using like or as |
| style | the manner and design manifesting in the distinctive voice of a writer |
| symbol | anything that stands for or represents something else |
| symbolism | representation of things by use of symbols, esp. in art or literature |
| theme | central message or insight into life in a literary work |
| tone | writer's attitude toward his or her audience and subject |
| understatement | to minimize something |
