1	Abstract		_____	idea or quality that makes you think beyond literal, bid-boned
2	Alliteration		_____	choice of words
3	Anecdote		_____	a sermon or speech giving spiritual advice
4	Antagonist		_____	opposes the protagonist, bad guy
5	Concrete		_____	placing an event, person, item, verbal expression in wrong historical period; historical inaccurance
6	Connotation		_____	being in accordance with, conforming to or upholding the exact or primary
7	Denotation		_____	a speech or piece of writing at funerals
8	Diction		_____	the act of comparing things, being contradictory; It was the best of times, it was the worst of times
9	Etymology		_____	study of origin and change of meaning of words through time
10	Exposition		_____	language that describes qualities perceived in 5 senses
11	Foreshadow		_____	specific information to more general
12	Imagery		_____	return of word phrase or stanza
13	Irony		_____	The certain feeling or emotion intentionally tried to evoke
14	Literal		_____	deliberate exaggeration; this weighs a ton
15	Mood		_____	existing in thoughts, but not real life
16	Onomatopoeia		_____	way of using humor to show weakness
17	Point of view		_____	repeating vowel sound
18	Simile		_____	repetition in a sentence
19	Theme		_____	1st narrated by personal point of view, 2 "you perspective point of view, 3 limited "he or she" limited to thoughts and feeling of 1 character, 3 omniscient: all seeing all knowing
20	Thesis Statement		_____	logical process in which a conclusion is drawn from a set of premises and contains no more information than given initially. General to specific
21	Voice		_____	The part of the story, where the characters are introduced, background explained and setting decribed
22	Allegory		_____	Characteristic, speech thought patterns of a first person
23	Allusion		_____	Technique that involves surprising, interesting or amusing contradictions or contrasts
24	Ambiguity		_____	extended metaphor, thought patterns of a first person
25	Anachronism		_____	appears at beginning of paper that has brief, concise statement of reasoning
26	Analogy		_____	reference to a literary work, person, place or thing
27	Assonance		_____	short story about interesting or funny event
28	Catharsis		_____	writers attitude towards material and readers
29	Cliche		_____	a question asked as a response, but not actually a reply Ex: Why me, God?
30	Colloquial / Colloquialism		_____	a quotation at the beginning of a poem or other literature
31	Consonance		_____	words or phrases that appeal to the reader's senses
32	Deus ex Machine		_____	systematic or logical connection, easy to understand
33	Ellipsis		_____	exaggerated information to convince people
34	Epigraph		_____	to draw a reasonable conclusion from information presented
35	Epitaph		_____	repetition of initial consonant sounds. Ex: Sally sells sea shells
36	Eulogy		_____	a phrase or opinion that is over used and betrays and lack of original thought
37	Euphemism		_____	a desire to go back to ta place or time: Homesickness, yearning
38	Homily		_____	statement whose meaning is unclear, double meaning or purpose
39	Hyperbole		_____	figure of speech; self-contradiction Ex: cruelly kind, jumbo shirmp
40	Inference		_____	special type of alliteration in which the repeated pattern of consonants is marked by changes in the intervening vowels Ex: bitter batter butter better
41	Juxtaposition		_____	dictioinary definition, meaning of work or phrase
42	Litotes		_____	God out of the machine, unrealistic or unexpected intervention to rescue the protagonist or resolve the conflict at of the story
43	Nostalgia		_____	purging of emotions, release of tension, good or bad
44	Oxymoron		_____	giving inanimate objects animate characteristics
45	Inductive		_____	common thread or storyline, repeated idea that author embeds in reading
46	Deductive		_____	a statement that is self-contradicting but could be the truth: I always tell lies
47	Paradox		_____	mild or indirect wording of a phrase
48	Parallelism		_____	words imitate sounds, woot boom
49	Parogy		_____	practice using an object or word to represent an abstract idea
50	Personification		_____	location and time period of story, background info
51	Propaganda		_____	looking back to the past
52	Repetition		_____	understatement (sarcastic); slaying that dragon was no big deal
53	Retrospection		_____	The act of leaving out words that are not needed
54	Rhetorical Question		_____	comparison between 2 different things, showing how they are similar
55	Satire		_____	imitation of something to deliberately make something funny
56	Symbolism		_____	word or phrase used everyday in plan and relaxed speech, but rarely found in formal writing
57	Syntax		_____	phrase or statement written on a person's tombstone
58	Tone		_____	way in which a sentence is structured
59	Coherence		_____	important hints and author drops to prepare the reader for what is to come or anticipate the outcome
60	Setting		_____	comparison by "like" or "as"