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| autobiography | a firsthand account of one's own life |
| inversion | reversal of the normal word order in a sentence or phrase in order to accommodate the meter or rhyme |
| aphorism | a brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life |
| persuasion | a form of speech that uses logical and emotional appeals to convince another to think or act a certain way |
| inference | an educated guess based on what one already knows and what one learns from reading a text looking beyond what is being stated directly and what is being implied or hinted |
| symbolism | person, place, thing, or an event that has meaning in itself and that also stands for something more than itself |
| extended metaphor | a direct comparison that is developed over a number of lines or with several examples |
| characterization | the process by which an author reveals the personality of a character |
| analogy | a comparison made between two things to show they are alike |
| archetype | old imaginative patterns appearing in literature |
| imagery | the use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, thing, or place |
| paradox | a statement that appears self-contradictory but reveals a kind of truth |
| hyperbole | obvious, extravagant exaggeration not intended to be taken literally |
| parallelism | the repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures |
| rhetorical question | a question that is asked for effect and that does not actually require an answer |
| style | the distinctive way in which a writer uses language |
| antagonist | the opponent who struggles against or blocks the main character in a story |
| protagonist | the central character in a story, the one who initiates or drives the action |
| stiuational irony | takes place when there is a discrepancy between what is expected to happpen or what would be appropriate to happen, and what really does happen |
| plot | sequence of events that unfold in a story |
| allusions | a reference to someone/something, well known from history, literature, religion, politics, sports, science, or other branch of culture |
| epic | a long narrative poem which recounts the deeds of a heroic character who embodies the values of a particular society |
| ballad | a form of narrative poetry that presents a single dramatice episode |
| idiom | an expression particular to a certain language that means something different from the literal definition of its parts |
| soliloquy | a long speech made by a character in a play w hile no other characters are onstage |
| biography | a life story written by someone other than the subject |
| sonnet | a fourteen-line LYRIC poem written in Iambic Pentameter |
