| A | B |
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| imagery | collection of images in a literary work |
| metaphor | analogy identig one object with another |
| onomatopoeia | words tha by their sound suggest their meaning |
| personification | figure enows anima, ideas, abstractions, inanimate objects with human form |
| simile | figure in which a similarity between two objects is directly expressed |
| synthesia | concurrent response of more conjunctios than is normal |
| ethos | appeal to character or writer |
| logos | appeal to logic |
| pathos | appeal to emotion |
| alliteration | repitition of identical consonant sounds or any vwel sounds in successive or closely associated syllables |
| anaphora | same expression is repeated at the beginning of 2 or more lines |
| antithesis | contrasting words or ideas juxtapositioned |
| parallelism | such an arrangement that one element of equal importance with another is similrly developed and phrased |
| polysyneton | use of more conjunctions than is normal |
| repetition | reiteration of a wod, sound, phrase, or idea |
| allusion | literary rerence to history or literature |
| apostrophe | when an abstract quality, a nonexistant person, or someone s addressed directly |
| characterization | methods through which an author makes imaginary persons seem lifelike |
| conflict | strugglhat growf the interplay of two opposing forces |
| detail | facts, observations, and incidents sed to develop a subject and impart voice |
| diction | wrd choice |
| double entendre | statement that is deliberetly ambiguous |
| euphemism | indirectness that replaces directnessof statement |
| forshadowing | presentation of mterial in such a way that later events are prepared for |
| hyperbole | exaggeratio to heighten the effectfor humor |
| irony | broad term refrring to the ecognition of a relaitdifferent from appearence |
| mood | emotion-intellectual qatitude of the author toward the subject |
| motif | recurrent images to unify the work |
| paradox | a statement that although seemingly contradictory may be true |
| plot | pattern of events in a story |
| point of view | vantage point from which the story is presented |
| pun | play on words |
| sarcasm | bitter, jeering, made to hurt |
| satire | censorious work based on human event |
| setting | background |
| symbolism | use of one object to represent or suggest another |
| theme | central idea |
| tone | attitude toward subject or audience |
