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| Foreshadowing | the use of a hint or clue to suggest a larger event that occurs late in the work |
| Freight-Train | Sentence consisting of three or more very short independent clauses joined by conjunctions. |
| Generalization | When a writer bases a claim upon an isolated example or asserts that a claim is certain rather than probable. Sweeping generalizations occur when a writer asserts that a claim applies to all instances instead of some. |
| Genre | a type of literary work, such as a novel or poem; there are also subgenres, such as science fiction or sonnet, within the larger genres; the major category into which a literary work fits |
| 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; up until the end of the Renaissance, humor meant a person’s temperament |
| Hyperbole | deliberate exaggeration in order to create humor or emphasis (Example: He was so hungry he could have eaten a horse.) |
| Imagery | words or phrases that use a collection of images to appeal to one or more of the five senses in order to create a mental picture |
| Induction | the process that moves from a given series of specifics to a generalization |
| Inference | a conclusion one can draw from the presented details |
