| Question | Answer |
| style | author's unique manner of expression, the author's voice |
| satire | ridicule of a subject |
| pathos | something that evokes a feeling of pity or sympathy "pathetic" |
| pastoral | a work that deals with the lives of people in the country or in nature |
| parallelism | repetition of sounds, meanings, or structures to create a cerrtain style |
| paradox | phrase that appears to be contradictory but that actually contains some basic truth that resolves the apparent contradiction |
| parable | a story that has a moral |
| paean | an expression of joyful praise |
| onomatopoeia | word intended to simulate the actual sound of the thing or action it describes |
| narrative | literary representation of an event or a story. the text itself |
| meter | the rhythm of a poem. |
| indirect dialogue | language that communicates what was expressed in the dialoge, without using direct quotation |
| figurative language | language characterized by fugures of speech such as metaphors and similes as well as elaborate expression through imagery |
| fable | a story that has a moral, usually involving animals as the main characters |
| elegy | mournful or melancholy poem or song, usually to pay tribute to a dead person |
| diction | choice of words. |
| anthropomorphism | assigning human attributes, such as emotions or physical characteristics, to human things |
| anecdote | a short narrative, story, or tale |
| analogy | comparing something to something else |
| anachronism | person or object in an inappropriate historical situation |
| allusion | reference to something or someone, usually literary |
| alliteration | use of a repeated constant sound |
| allegory | story with underlying symbols that really represent something else. |
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