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| Assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds within nonrhyming words. |
| allusion | an indirect reference to another literary work or to a famous person, place, or event. |
| alliteration | the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words. |
| aside | dramatic device in which a character speaks his or her thoughts aloud, in words meant to be heard by the audience but not by the other characters |
| blank verse | unrhymed poetry written in iambic pentameter. That is, each line of blank verse has five pairs of syllables. |
| Boolean Search | use a word--something--then something else |
| consonance | consonants in stressed syllables are repeated but vowels are not |
| characterization | methods that a writer uses to develop characters |
| cross reference | a reference from one part of a book, catalog, index, etc. to another part |
| database | a large collection of data in a computer, organized so that it can be expanded, updated, and retrieved |
| foil | a character who provides a striking contrast to another character. |
| onomatopeia | the use of words such as pow, buzz, and crunch whose sounds suggest their meanings |
| tone | the attitude a writer takes toward a subject. if reflects the feelings of the writer. |
| soliloquy | a speech in which a character speaks thoughts aloud. |
| metaphor | a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things that are basically unlike but have something in common. Metaphors do not use like or as. |
| personification | a figure of speech in which human qualities are attributed to an object, animal, or idea. |
| pun | a joke that comes from a play on words. Puns can make use of a word's mulitple meanings or of a word's rhyme. |
| foreshadowing | a writer's use of hints or clues to indicate events and situations that will occur later in a plot |
| imagery | descriptive words and phrases that re-create sensory experiences for the reader. |
| symbol | a person, place, an activity or an object that stands for something beyond itself |
| rhyme scheme | the pattern of end rhyme in a poem. |
| meter | the regular pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in a line of poetry |
| truncation | uses an *; compute*r, rs |
| keyword search | type in one word |
| screen guides | menus |
| on-line catalogue | looking up books on the computer |
| hyperbole | a figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated for emphasis or for humorous effect |
| simile | a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things using the word like or as |
| scansion | the act of scanning, or analyzing verse into its rhythmic components |
