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| allegory | a story or description in which the characters and events symbolize a deeper meaning |
| anaphora | the repetition of an initial word or words used in succession |
| asyndeton | the omissoin of conjunctions |
| objective description | unbiased, fact based |
| subjective description | biased, uses emotion and/or individual perspective |
| dominant impression | the mood or quality that is central to a piece of writing |
| euphemism | a polite term for an unpleasant concept |
| jargon | words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or group |
| juxtaposition | two things placed closely together for contrast |
| metafiction | a form of fiction in which the test--either directly or through the characters--is "aware"that it is a form of fiction |
| mood | the feeling or atmosphere of a work |
| motif | a recurring pattern of images, words, or symbols that reveals theme |
| oxymoron | two opposite ideas used to create an effect (example: jumbo shrimp, impossibly easy) |
| paradox | a statement that seems contradictory but that actually presents a truth |
| parallelism | the presentation of equal ideas in an equal manner; one element of equal important with another is similarly developed and phrased |
| polysyndeton | the use of many conjunctions |
| stream of consciousness | the continuous flow of images, ideas, thougths and feelings of a character as they run through his or her mind |
| synecdoche | a more specific kind of metonymy where a part of something is made to represent the whole (example: wheels for a car or hands for employees) |
| tone | the author's attitude toward his or her subject |
| verisimilitude | the appearance of being true or real |
