| A | B |
|---|
| Inexorability | inevitability, inescapability |
| Fallibility | imperfection & unreliability |
| Rectitude | goodness, morality, integrity |
| Inhibition | restraint or suppression of behavior |
| Industry | diligent work ethic and behavior |
| Banality | mundane, dull ordinariness and predictability |
| Stealthiness | sneakiness, furtiveness |
| Ruminative | contemplative, pondering, going over in the mind |
| Menace | danger or threat |
| Paltriness | Lacking in importance or worth |
| Amorality | an absence of, indifference towards, or disregard for morality. |
| Apostrophe | speaking to something or someone that cannot respond |
| Hyperbole | exaggeration for stylistic or rhetorical effect |
| Parallelism | Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses |
| Metaphorical | figurative, non-literal language |
| Passive | grammatical construction occurs when you make the object of an action into the subject of a sentence |
| Paradox | a statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true |
| Oxymoron | figure of speech that combines contradictory terms |
| Juxtaposition | an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast |
| Anticlimax | a noticeable or ludicrous descent from lofty ideas or expressions to banalities or commonplace remarks |
| Crescendo | upsurge or buildup |
| Accretion | accumulation |
| Tone | the perspective or attitude that the author adopts with regards to a specific character, place or development. |
| Colloquial | informal, conversational, slangy language |
| Vignette | a short, concise yet complete piece of writing, which gives a snapshot of a scene, character or event. |
| Omniscience | point of view in which the narrator sees and knows everything |
| Second person | point of view in which the narrator involves the reader using references to you |
| Third-person limited | point of view in which the narrator sees everything through the perspective of one character |
| Soliloquy | a device often used in drama when a character speaks to himself or herself, relating thoughts and feelings, thereby also sharing them with the audience |
| Subjectivity | individual interpretations of experiences consisting of emotional, intellectual, and spiritual perceptions and misperceptions (opposed to objectivity). |
| Imperative | verbal command, request, or instruction |
| Symbolism | representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character |
| Antithetical | directly opposed or contrasting |
