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A reference to a well-known person, event, literary work, or work of art.
Oxymoron
Epic
Allusion
Paradox
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A figure of speech that substitutes something closely related for the thing actually meant.
Meter
Metaphor
Gothic
Metonymy
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Descriptive language used in Lit. to recreate sensory experiences.
Allusion
Legend
Plot
Imagery
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The objective of the meaning of a word.
Comedy
Climax
Connotation
Denotation
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When a writer confronts a power or mystery in nature that exceeds human understanding.
Sublime
Symbol
Style
Traditon
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A deliberate exaggeration or overstatement.
Hyperbole
Irony
Denotation
Personification
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Lit. works that make extensive use of primitive, medieval, wild, mysterious, or natural element
Gothic
Parody
Sublime
Diction
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A brief statement in prose or inverse.
Epigram
Epiphany
Tone
Plot
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An extended comparison of relationship.
Analogy
Allusion
Allegory
Character
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The writer's attitude toward the readers and toward the subject.
Tone
Satire
Parody
Gothic
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Writer's word choice.
Tone
Diction
Connotation
Regionalism
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Literary techniques that involve surprising, interesting, or amusing contractions.
Irony
Sermon
Epiphany
Archetypal
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A writer is his or her "sound" on the page.
Voice
Mood
Narration
Novel
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The tendency to confine one's writing to the presentation of the distinct culture of area.
Connotation
Voice
Imagery
Regionalism
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A speech offering religious or moral instruction.
Hyperbole
Personification
Satire
Sermon
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A figure of speech that fuses two contradictory ideas
Simile
Allusion
Oxymoron
Setting
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A long narrative poem about the adventures of gods or of a hero.
Sublime
Tone
Plot
Epic
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A humorous imitation of another work or of a type of work.
Novel
Paradox
Narration
Parody
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Patterns in literature found around the world.
Voice
Tone
Archetypal
Gothic
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Lit. movement of the late 17th & 18th centuries in which writers turned to Greek and Roman Lit.
Metonymy
Neoclassicism
Mock Epic
Oral Tradtion
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Figure of speech in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics.
Realism
Personification
Denotation
Voice
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Writing that ridicules or holds up to contempt the fault of individuals or groups.
Analogy
Satire
Hyperbole
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A word calls to mind in addition to its dictionary meaning.
Metonymy
Connotation
Gothic
Denotation
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A statement that seems to be contradictory but that actually presents a truth.
Allusion
Oxymoron
Paradox
Diction
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In which a character recognizes the truth
Paradox
Sermon
Imagery
Epiphany
